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Baltimore, MD (June 12, 2012) Mark Kaufman, the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation, announced the conversion of two community banks from federal to Maryland state charters. After receiving regulatory approval, Midstate Community Bank, formerly Midstate Federal Savings and Loan Association, and Liberty Bank of Maryland, formerly Liberty Federal Savings and Loan Association, converted from federal mutual thrifts to Maryland-chartered mutual savings banks.
We are very pleased to welcome Liberty Bank of Maryland and Midstate Community Bank as our newest state-chartered mutual savings banks, said Commissioner Kaufman. Like all community banks, these institutions play a vital role in our local economy and are an essential part of meeting the financial needs of the citizens and businesses of Maryland. I look forward to working with both Liberty and Midstate in the years ahead as they grow and serve our states citizens.
The conversion of Midstate Community Bank became effective June 4,
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In 1998, Flavia Hiatt's 37-year-old husband, Kerry Roy Hiatt, was diagnosed with Stage III multiple myeloma. He started chemotherapy the next day then progressed to a double autologous transplant, which helped him achieve remission. But the cancer came back in 2003, and it was very aggressive. He lost his battle with myeloma in April of 2005. Shortly after his death, Flavia found out that she was expecting the couple's first child.
Flavia is a native of Italy, and her life in California took her far away from the support of her immediate family. But with many good friends closing ranks around her, she bravely faced the new chapter in her life. Flavia's thoughts were not only of herself and her child—she was committed to helping find a cure for myeloma so that other families would not have to suffer the hearbreak she endured.
The Shop For A Cure fundraising event involved a lot of hard work and preparation but on August 13, 2005, Flavia and her friends transformed the boardroom and mezzanine of Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills into a fabulous fashion trunk show to benefit the IMF's myeloma research program. Shop For A Cure featured Flavia's own clothing line, Bellablu, as well as ten other designers from the Los Angeles area. Many motivated shoppers, including members of the local myeloma support groups, attended the event to purchase handbags, jewelry, and clothing. All of the participants had come to Shop For A Cure to support Flavia and help fund myeloma research through the IMF.
The IMF family would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Flavia Hiatt and all others who take part in the fight against myeloma. Thank you for making Shop For A Cure such a success, and for contributing to a brighter future for the entire myeloma community!

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Journalists gathered in early April for a 'Made in Germany' event at Volvo Construction Equipment's (Volvo CE) facility in Konz. The highlight of the event was the national launch of the EC250E crawler excavator, a machine that is not only new to the market but from June this year will also roll off the assembly line at the Konz factory.
Voted a top national employer in a recent Focus Magazine survey the event, which was attended by 20 leading journalists, was also used as an opportunity to offer insight into technology set to be introduced in future generations of Volvo machines. In the prototype center, journalists were able to discover future projects for intelligent machines, including THOR – Terraforming Heavy Outdoor Robot. Various joint research projects with universities were also presented, such as a high level camera system that gives a bird's eye view around the vicinity of a machine – a concept that will soon be available to Volvo customers.
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A tour of the research and development facilities was followed by visits to the service and training departments, culminating in a tour of the factory itself and its state-of-the-automotive-art Volvo Production System.
"This event offered the opportunity to show the development of the Konz site and to emphasize our Made in Germany message," commented, Christian Krauskopf, managing director of Volvo CE Germany. "Not only that," agreed Matthias Keller, head of Volvo CE's plant in Konz,: "More specifically the event also gave us the opportunity to demonstrate what 'Made in Konz' means – it's development as a production location and dedication to the Volvo core values of quality, safety and environmental care."
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The South Carolina Stingrays finished sixth in the ECHL's Eastern Conference with a 38-26-8 mark. The Stingrays made the Kelly Cup playoffs for an ECHL-record 19th time during the 2012-13 season, but were swept in the first round by Gwinnett in four games.
Stingrays head coach Spencer Carbery talks about the Stingrays' season that was with The Post and Courier's Andrew Miller:
Q: It's been two weeks since the season ended. You've had time to digest what happened. What are your overall thoughts on the year?
A: "I was very disappointed in the way the season ended against Gwinnett. But I don't want it to be negative because I'm proud of the way the guys battled all season. I feel like we got the maximum out of the guys we had in our locker room. These guys put so much effort, energy, will and determination into the season. It's not the way we wanted the season to end, but we got every ounce of ability out of them. It just didn't end well."
Q: The retirement of Matt Scherer, Pierre-Luc O'Brien and Johann Kroll didn't help with the transition for such a young team.
A: No, it didn't. You look around the league and you see teams that get off to a good start, and a lot of times it's because they've got veteran guys that have played together before. Greenville is a classic example of that. It's not true that we didn't offer those guys contracts. They were all offered contracts."
Q: Why do you think that things didn't work out here for guys like Shawn Weller, Dylan Clarke, Matt Pistilli and Mike Ullrich?
A: "I have a system when I recruit. I call a certain amount of coaches, a certain amount of players that have played with them and scouts. The more research you do, the more accurate you feel about the player.
With that being said, I haven't seen Shawn Weller play. I haven't Dylan Clarke or Matt Pistilli play. For whatever reason, Matt Pistilli and Dylan Clarke didn't fit into our locker room. They are not bad guys, they just didn't fit with the guys we had in our locker room. It happens."
Q: What happened with Weller? He was your captain and you ended up trading him?
A: "We have zero tolerance for off-the-ice incidents. You don't get second chances for stuff like that. There was an off-ice incident and we have a zero-tolerance policy, so we had to make the trade. We get Cam Brodie and we've got great futures from Stockton."
Q: Do you think your style of play is too defensive?
A: "No. Everyone wants to score goals. With the players we had, we thought we could score goals at a high level. Do we ask that players be responsible in our defensive zone? Absolutely. But the makeup of our team changed midway through the season with callups and injuries. When that happened, I had to figure out a system that would let us win games. Not how are we going to score six goals a game, but how are we going to win? That's my job. We had to change some of our systems to fit the talent we had. Since the 2007-08 season, we've been in the top five in the league in goals against. This year we were first. We were 17th and 18th the last two years in goals scored. Look at the NHL — the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup and were second in the league in goals against and 28th in goals scored. Pittsburgh and Boston were first and second in the NHL in goals scored but didn't get past the first round of the playoffs. I would love to have a team score five goals a game. We didn't have that kind of makeup this season and, ultimately, defense wins championships."
Q: What happened in the playoffs against Gwinnett?
A: "For the last two or three months of the season, we were in do-or-die games every night. It was like being in the playoffs for three straight months. We pushed this team as hard as we could push them, and I'd be lying if that didn't take a toll on the team. We were the best team in the league post-lockout. I think once we made the playoffs, we relaxed. But if we didn't push the team like we did the final three months, then we don't make the playoffs."
Q: So you guys were tired?
A: "That was certainly part of it. But there were other issues. We didn't have a playoff-tested team. We basically had two guys that had played in the ECHL playoffs — Chris Langkow and Kevin Quick. Then four defensemen basically don't play in the series against Gwinnett — Cam Brodie, Luka Vidmar, Ryan Grimshaw and Ryan McGinnis. Then we don't get Tyler McNeely, Hunter Bishop or Matt Beca back from the American League. That's a lot of talent sitting up in the stands or playing in the AHL. That's not an excuse. I'll never make excuses, but that's what happened."
Q: Do you recruit differently going into the next year?
A: "Yes. We need more skill up front. There's no doubt about that. We'll address that next season, no question about it. I think the nucleus of players we've got coming back for next season — Bishop, Quick, McNeely, Langkow — is exactly the kind of people and players we want. I'm excited about it."
Q: Were you guys tough enough?
A: "There are two kinds of toughness, in my opinion. You can drop the gloves, and that's one kind of toughness. Our guys asked Gwinnett to fight a dozen times during the series and it never happened. If they're not going to answer the bell, then we've got the make life for their skill guys miserable, and we didn't do that. That's the other kind of toughness. That's physical play, and we didn't do that enough. We should have been the more physical team during the series, and we were not."
Q: You had only two contract players from Providence here during the playoffs. Are you thinking about getting another affiliation?
A: "I expected to have more help from our affiliation. It's something that we'll talk about this summer. To be successful in this league, you need to have a strong affiliation and have multiple players because of the salary cap. We had 127 affiliated games this season. A year ago, we had 386 affiliated games. In 2008-09 when we won the Kelly Cup, we had 364. We're certainly looking at adding another affiliation or finding another way to add more AHL contracted players."
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Before the Texas Legislature takes action on its abortion-restriction legislation, here are some interesting poll numbers on the subject, courtesy of the Pew Research Center and Gallup:
More people identify themselves as pro-life than pro-choice: A Gallup poll found 50 percent of people call themselves pro-life and 41 percent pro-choice. The latter is a record low.
However, a strong majority of Americans do not want Roe v. Wade overturned: 63 percent say they would not like to see the court completely overturn Roe v. Wade; 29 percent would.
But the same Pew poll finds a plurality objects to abortion on moral grounds: 47 percent say it's "morally wrong," compared with 13 percent who say it's "morally acceptable." Twenty-seven percent say it's not a moral issue. Nine percent say it depends on the situation.
Support for abortion rights drops dramatically after the first trimester: A Gallup poll found 61 percent of people believe abortion generally should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy while 31 percent disagree. But only 27 percent of people believe it should be legal in the second trimester and only 14 percent believe it should be legal in the third trimester. Gallup has found that pattern each time it has asked the question since 1996.
Finally, adults' support for and opposition to abortion is remarkably similar across most age groups: A Pew poll found 55 percent of those 18-29, 54 percent of those 30-49 and 55 percent of those 50-64 said abortion should be legal in all or most cases; the one exception involved those 65 and older, among whom the percentage in favor of legal abortion dropped to 48. The poll found 42 percent of those 18-29, 41 percent of those 30-49 and 43 percent of those 65 and older said abortion should be illegal in most or all cases; the one exception involved those 50-64, among whom the percentage against legal abortion dropped to 38.
Any of those numbers or patterns surprise you? The one I wouldn't have predicted was that more people consider themselves pro-life than pro-choice.


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Yes tastes differ. One person's abandon is another person's frantic, it appears.
Both teams can get an audience to jump out of their seats, wildly applauding, in any country where they skate.
Any team or skater that can routinely get standing ovations in countries not their own is a team that has great Performance qualities, IMO.
I like them both.
Oh, absolutely, Mrs. P. I just found it interesting you singled out Chinese divers, because there is such a machine tuned feeling about their movement, and that's sorta why I can see people arguing about D/W's connection/lack thereof. I tend to agree with missysays that Meryl generates more of the emotional aspect of the dance, but that's because I find Charlie weaker in that area. I completely disagree about any sexual or mysterious aspects of their programs, though. Appears that their connection is so elusive that I tend to miss it. Oh well.
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There's the untouchable perfection of Virtue/Moir--perfect edges, perfect sync, perfect body line, everything is textbook. They're the prince and princess of any Disney movie, they look into each other's eyes and they wrap you up and sweep you away with their romance!
And then there's the unhinged, cavalier and desperate throwaway manner of Davis/White--not always in sync, not always in step but always, always bursting with heart and writhing with passion. To me, Meryl is Artur... she's not always "in love" with her partner but the way she holds him close and then pushes him away in every program tells me she "can't live with nor live without" him. She doesn't always look at Charlie and when she does, it's usually NOT with stars in her eyes as does Tessa with Scott. To me, that's more mature and telling of an actual intimate relationship (if you wanna talk about being intimate.)
If each couple were one particular dance, I would peg V/M as a waltz (smooth and flowy, perfect posture and poise throughout) and D/W as a rumba (rigid at times then dissolving into each other at times with just the right touch of laziness in each element--like you can't be bothered with something as silly as a required element, ha!).
As others have said, it just depends on what style you like. Back then, I preferred Mishkutienok/Dmitriev so Davis/White are definitely my bias. I know their technical isn't as strong as V/M but I don't even care. The whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts... same as M/D. With D/W, there's no textbook--you just go out and do what you feel in the moment. I think they do a great job of bringing a feeling of "this is the last time I'll ever skate" to almost every performance. They put everything on the ice and leave nothing.
Anyway... as regard to NHK, I'm THRILLED with the FD changes they've made. The first lift is AMAZING! That might beat their first lift in Phantom as my favorite dance lift ever. The only thing that bothers me about this FD is the order of elements--the spin at the beginning seems underwhelming (like in Phantom) and they have 3 lifts in a row at the end. I guess it's supposed to be the awesome exciting ending but they have to get through the first life quickly so the other two aren't too rushed. I must have time to ooh and ah for each lift! :D
I finally got to see D/W's free dance on TV, and I'm equally thrilled. I was a bit leery of the program beforehand, because I so loved Die Fledermaus. But this year's dance is growing on me.
I also love both couples, and I'm happy whenever I see either or both of them. I agree that D/W seem to skate with more abandon than V/M; each of these couples gleams in a slightly different way. (I think it's a credit to Zoueva and Shpilband that during the years they worked together, they managed to bring out the particular personalities of each of these couples.) I'd love to see Meryl and Charlie win the OGM just so each couple has that experience, but I'm happy to see both of them on the podium in either order.
D/W's connection is one that is very subtle and if you blink, you will miss it. There is much that goes undemonstrated but is simmering underneath. Their tango FD is the most cerebral tango I've ever seen, it's like a musical scale. The beauty is in the technicality, for pure technicality sake, rather than in visible caresses. V/M's chemistry, on the other hand, is more overt.
If you watch the end of every FD, you will see Meryl look over to Charlie with stars in her eyes. I always found it sad that he doesn't do the same, but each person probably recovers differently after skating intensely for 4 minutes.
Fascinating discussion about connection. Thank you--lots of food to chew on. I just want to add that last two years I think Charlie loosened up and learned to dance (and that means restraint can be as important as balls-to-the-wall gusto). And this year he seems to be learning that ice dancing is as much about acting as it is about correct edges, etc. I still think one or two acting classes would do him a world of good. Plus, he could get college credit for it!
Acting classes do help -- see Weaver and Poje! -- but they clearly learned a lot about expression from Alex Wong.
I will say that the greatest addition to Marlie's program for me are the interpolation of the bells. They add drama and those two sections are beautifully choreographed.
And it is fun to see Tessa get her Inner Diva ***** on. LOL!
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This is one of the best posts I've ever read on this forum! I love your perceptive insight and analysis of these two teams. And I think you're absolutely right. Few have explained so well the source of Meryl & Charlie's strength as a team.
I agree their connection is cerebral/soulful. Ultimately, I feel it flows directly from the music. Whatever is in the music, they distill and express outward again through movement, rather purely. The emphasis is on the expression of shared emotion, more than on the "performance" as an entity of its own, separate from the music.
Mr. P said what he likes about Meryl and Charlie is that regardless of the music Meryl and Charlie perform it in a way that is compelling. He watched the NHK FD on YouTube and he said while he did not care for the Norte Dame music, the way Meryl and Charlie danced to that music is what drove him to watch it until the end.
In my opinion, Meryl and Charlie are not good actors, in the sense that they have a hard time faking emotion. It has to feel real to them on some level. I think this is especially true for Charlie.
But the fact that these emotions are real, and not artificially heightened, shines through and elevates their performances.
Good on Mr. P!
Meryl & Charlie's Not Touching Sequences are some of their moves that initially caught my eye, starting with their Beyond The Sea exhibition.
They are always two people, but clearly connected through the invisible bonds of music. I've always found that fascinating.And like the Chinese divers, the coordination is amazing--this year's circular sequence in Giselle & the Bollywood sequence are particularly wonderful, for me.
OTOH, I've always seen Tessa & Scott's most impressive strength to be the quality of their steps in hold, two people connected so that the music is almost coincidental, a background to their personal relationship. This appearance is aided by the closeness with which they skate, and the amount of detail they add with facial expressions and arms, as well as their lovely leg extension.
I'm really enjoying this discussion, by the way.
What I love best in dance is when the skaters connect me to the music more closely, so that I perceive things in the music that I missed before.
Both couples can do that.
They used to do lifts that were suited to them and their builds. Their swan lift from Mahler was amazing and actually something they could handle with relative ease. Dance lifts do not NEED to be acrobatic to receive level 4 or high GOE. However you do have to be more creative about them, perhaps. One would think Zoueva would be up to the challenge.


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Football's Sean Baker Inks Free Agent NFL Contract
Sean Baker, a senior member of the Ball State football team in 2011, has signed a free agent contract with the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"I am looking forward to competing for a spot on the Tampa Bay roster," Baker says. "I am very appreciative of the opportunity and it has been a goal of mine to get to the National Football League. I will work my hardest and hope things work out for the best. I am thankful for all the people at Ball State that have helped me get to this point in my career. My teammates and coaches, the strength coaches, the trainers and the support staff have all been great and I owe them a lot."
Baker was invited to a tryout with Tampa Bay and was one of 11 rookies to be signed to a contract for May organized team activities, June mini-camp and training camp in July and August. Tampa Bay's OTA's will begin May 15, with mini-camp scheduled for June 12-14.
At Ball State, Baker was a 2011 All-Mid-American Conference First Team selection after being named to the second team in 2010. He was the 2008 MAC Freshman of the Year and selected to The Sporting News Freshman All-America team. Baker set the Ball State career interceptions record as a junior, and completed his four seasons with 18. He was the first player in Ball State history to return two fumbles for touchdowns in a career. Baker had four multiple interception games in his career, and was the active leader in career interceptions among all Football Bowl Subdivision players in 2011.
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As the dog days of summer continue, the big dog fish continue to bite on Lakes Marion and Moultrie and the Cooper River, according to Capt. Joe Dennis of Santee Cooper Charters.
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Plenty of residential places display how "close" they are to shopping and schools by pointing to maps or listing directions.
In Angela Chumley's case, all she has to do is swivel in her chair or walk out the front door.
Chumley is community manager of Avana at Wescott, a 290-home rental enclave set on Old Glory Lane just off Dorchester Road.
The luxury property, purchased by Greystar in November of last year, is within walking distance of the public elementary school. Lowe's home improvement center is less than a mile, And the apartment homes are across the street from a shopping plaza set to open in six months with a Harris Teeter now being built, Starbucks and Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Unveiled in 2008, Avana at Wescott has maintained a higher than 90 percent occupancy rate this year even as two new upscale complexes are gearing to open within a few miles.
"I think the location" is a big plus, she says, noting the village's proximity to retail outlets. "Fort Dorchester Elementary is right there," she says, motioning from her corner office in the clubhouse-sales center. Also close by are Fort Dorchester Middle and High.
As indicated by its name, Avana at Wescott is loosely affiliated with Wescott Plantation residential development in North Charleston.
"The (Wescott) golf club gives stuff for residents, like discounts," says Chumley, of Greystar, which also manages the property.
Avana at Wescott relies on market forces to set rates, which are adjusted weekly. The latest prices are posted on the community's website.
Spread about the campus are a dozen buildings ranging from 24 to 32 units.
There are four floor plans. The one-bedroom, one-bath version is 833 square feet and priced at $843-$851 a month depending on availability. The two-bedroom, one bath design is 1,122 square feet and rents for $853-$1,043 and a 1,164-square-foot two bedroom, two bath style is $1,059-$1,294. The three bedroom, two bath look at 1,438 square feet goes for $1,191- $1,261.
Perks vary by apartment homes but include whirlpool tubs; screened-in porches, balconies or sunrooms; and tray ceilings on the top floor units. Accent walls are also available.
Charleston-based Greystar, one of the country's largest apartment owners and managers, has gradually spiffed up the community since taking over management eight months ago, Chumley says. The latest improvement is to install new cabanas at the cloverleaf-shaped swimming pool just off the clubhouse-sales office. The community sports a playground as well as a screened-in lanai attached to the clubhouse complete with kitchen and seating areas. A large lobby, 24-hour fitness center, tanning bed, business center and TV room are in the clubhouse.
Available for rent are 68 garages, including 30 attached units; and 38 storage units.
Greystar's upgrades aren't just physical. Chumley says, "We have a 'cares' team," which helps arrange three socials a month in the lanai or by the pool.
"It's important to build a community, rather than have a complex," she says. "When you build a community, more people want to stay."
The apartment village is just north of Wescott Plantation. Heading west on Interstate 26, travel to exit 209B, which is Ashley Phosphate Road. Turn left and follow Ashley Phosphate to Dorchester Road. Steer right and go two miles. Make a right off Dorchester onto Old Glory Lane. On the right is Avana at Wescott.
For more information, visit www.avanawescottplantation.com or call 843-851-3665.
Reach Jim Parker at 937-5542 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
A spacious living room highlights the Avana at Wescott model. Greystar is the owner and manager (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
The two bedroom, two bath sales model has a dining area off the kitchen (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
Black and black appliances are spotlights in the 290 apartment homes in Avana at Wescott ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
The master bedroom in the sales model is large. Avana at Wescott is near Wescott Plantation ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
A tanning bed is overseen by the property manager: Customers can only stay in the bed for 20 minutes (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
The fitness center at Avana at Wescott is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
An outdoor lanai comes complete with kitchen and free WiFi and can be used for parties ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
A swimming pool is one of the chief amenities at Avana at Wescott, which opened in 2008 (Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×
A fireplace is one of the attractions in the clubhouse lobby ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com 6/17/2013).×


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hey any one here like .hack i love the games but still dont hav the new one and love the manga i also like the show
I love .hack! I use to watch it all the time and ending song was just A-MAZ-ING. One of the best animes I ever watched :3
.hack was awsome i have every game to it....i can't waiting for the computer version to come out.does anyone have any info on that?
whats your favorite .hack game mine was the one after rebirth i think it was redimption but i dont now its the wone with the ariena and the avitar that was so cool
whats your favorite .hack game mine was the one after rebirth i think it was redimption but i dont now its the wone with the ariena and the avitar that was so cool
mine would have to be the older series,not the GU,i thank it would be outbreak.
Yeh the show was really cool
does anyone play the games??
Rickii have .hack//G.U. part three and it is pretty good.i also like the show but it isnt on where i live
if you want to watch it go to anime6.org or voeh...there some good sitesglad i could help,your friend mike."people do not need violence to solve there problems."
But I haven't really played it... you see my teen son took it over and I haven't seen it since ... LOL!!!!Actually I tried playing it and he was in the living room with me, I stayed up till 1AM and ended up dying before I finished the first quest with that huge dog thing..can't remember what it was called. Dewa Mata,Niji-Hana OTAKU NINJA"If you listen to the world, you'll hear all kinds of false claims about morality. But the gospel offers an unchanging standard of truth."
That's a good manga to read, legend of the twilight, is the best. I have never read the two new ones: G.U. and .hack/xxxxx. ^__^
I've played the first four games, but only compleated the first three, halve way through the fourth one. With my games I got an anime/manga cd with each of them as part of the game. But they are actually nothing to do with the games, well, I fail to see that if they are. I haven't watched them for a while, and we don't get .hack on the box in my house, dad dosen't like me watching manga/anime, becouse it, apparantly isn't suitible for the cusins. The night is undyingThe stars ablazeWhat will become of youWhen they are all but dust
the hack game are great vol1,2,3 the gan e is stratigey
I love the anime but i have never played the game.


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LEWISTOWN - Out of all the different kinds of love that someone can fall into, the love that lasts is the most valued and most sought after. This is a type of love that goes beyond the honeymoon stage, makes it through the ups and downs of marriage and keeps the romance true with age.
Paul and Joy Woodring, together for 62 years, Linda and Sam Himes, together for 48 years, and Jim and Ellen Miller, together for 61 years, found their lasting love here in the Juniata Valley.
Though each couple has their own story, all three agree that it takes faith, love and laughter for a marriage to last.
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Linda and Sam Himes
Jim and Ellen Miller
Paul and Joy Woodring
A Story of Faith
One evening, Joy and a group of her girlfriends arrived at their pastor's house in Altoona for a youth Bible study. As the teens came together, one of her friends pulled over two "fellas" to join their group. Joy's friend was sweet on one of them and the other was Paul Woodring.
"Paul and I were introduced and I knew right away," Joy said. "The first night I saw him I thought 'I'm really gonna like this guy.'" The other couple didn't end up together, but Paul called Joy a few times and then finally asked her to the movies. After going steady for a year, Paul proposed with a diamond ring during their senior year in high school and they were married the next February.
"I like to tease that she was just
another pick-up, but she knows that she's the love of my life," Paul said.
The couple remained active in their church as Paul took a job at Penelec and Joy stayed at home with a growing family.
"We never had a lot, but we always had faith and we were always happy," Joy said. "God never gave us anything that we couldn't handle."
Paul and Joy ended up with four children - two boys and two girls. The family often went camping together, and with each new addition, an upgrade was needed from sleeping in the car, to a tent, then a pop-up and finally a camper.
"We were very lucky and had them boy, girl, boy, girl," Paul said. "You gotta put your order in early with the guy upstairs for that to work out."
Paul stayed at Penelec for 42 years, working his way up the ladder from a meter reader, to an assistant manger and retiring as a division credit manager. To help pay the bills, Joy took jobs at the local Town and Country store, A&P and KB Toys.
"Nobody can tell me we have a perfect marriage, no one will ever make me believe it," Joy said. "You laugh, but you also have words and cry sometimes. I think our Heavenly Father has helped us the most."
After 62 years of marriage, the Woodrings still enjoy their time together and play a game of cards every night, even though Paul thinks Joy cheats.
"I keep thinking where did the years go," Joy said. "But I like him and, after all these years, I think he likes me. He's the love of my life."
A Story of Love
It was July 4 at Kish Park and fireworks were lighting up the night sky as Linda and Sam saw each other for the first time. Unlike most love stories, however, this was not love at first sight.
"One of my friends was begging me to go with Sam so she could hang out with his friend," Linda said. "I just remember saying that I didn't want to go out with him, but I guess I did it for her. He was so much shorter than me."
A year later, though, feelings were a little warmer, Sam and Linda were certainly no where near official, when he joined the military. For the next 19 months, all the couple had were the letters they sent to each other while Sam was stationed in Germany.
"That's really where it all began," Linda said. "All those months, all we had were the letters and we slowly got to know each other in a different way. We fell in love through those letters."
When Sam came back to Linda almost a year-and-a-half later, all thoughts of a big, expensive and drawn-out wedding were thrown to the wind as the couple ran away to Virginia and eloped. At that time, it was quite the scandal.
"All that mattered was that we were together," Sam said. "We didn't care too much about the actual wedding."
The courthouse was like an assembly line, Sam said. You kept running into the same people and following each other around the building, he added.
Another couple even asked if Sam and Linda would be witnesses to their on-a-whim wedding. They said yes, but only if the other couple would be their witnesses as well.
"It was cheap and it was great," Linda said. "Sam's family had the biggest fling-ding when we got back. But that's how we did it and it has lasted this long."
After 48 years of marriage, the Himes are still complete opposites, but love each other just as much as the day they ran away together.
"We're different as night and day, but we always work things out together," Linda said. "We fell into a burning ring of fire and the flames got higher ... and it burns."
Their favorite song is "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash. They are often found singing it together.
A Story of Laughter
Jim and Ellen were childhood sweethearts, meeting for the first time at the elementary school that now houses Country Crossroads Senior Center. They started dating in fifth grade, making the relationship official in notes passed while the teacher wasn't looking.
"We grew up together," Ellen said. "He lived a mile or two down the street from me. You could say I went over the ridge to get my man or maybe he went over the ridge to get me. Depends how you look at it."
The couple dated through middle school and high school, often going to the drive-in or square dancing during the weekends.
"We love spending time together," Jim said. "We're happy together and it has always been that way. I think I'll keep her."
Jim and Ellen got married in 1952. Shortly after, they formed the Polka Dots, a square dancing and polka band that performed at venues across Juniata and Mifflin counties.
"My sister made us white scarves and hats with red polka dots," Ellen said. "Jim would play the guitar and call out the dances and I would play the bass guitar. One of our friends was the fiddle player."
The darkest period of the couple's relationship occurred in 1958 when they lost a baby. Only their love for each other helped them through it.
"We've had our ups-and-downs like everyone does," Ellen said. "It's important that you stay a team, give and take, be kind to one another, be honest and stay true. Does that sound too mushy?"
They bought a small farm on Big Greenbriar Road where they'd have picnics and work the field. Their children have since bought the farm and Jim and Ellen's only responsibility is to entertain the grandchildren, which they do with speeding golf cart rides through the woods.
After 61 years of marriage, the Millers still tease each other and act like high school sweethearts.
"We don't know yet if we're made for one another," Jim said. "But we think we're going to make it."


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I've been looking for new drinking glasses for a while now, and finally just bought the ones I'd really been wanting at Target. Ivy of coursed dibbed Wonder Woman right away, then the boys grabbed the one they wanted and miraculously they each wanted a character that no one else claimed. Happy happy.
Also- a look at last October.
I'm also chatting about my little fourth month photo tradition at 4 Kids or More today. How do you keep track? Do share!
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10 Northern Michigan Pumpkin Patches (& Corn Mazes, too!)
Northern Michigan: With October and Halloween near, it's time to head out to a Northern Michigan pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect jack-o-lantern pumpkin. We've compiled ten Northern Michigan farms offering barrels of activities to turn your pumpkin patch trip into a full-day of fall fun! Get lost in a Northern Michigan corn maze, ride a tractor or horse-drawn wagon, sip hot cider and leave with a bright round pumpkin in your arms and memories of a perfect October day spent in Northern Michigan.
Friske Orchards Farm Market
Friske's offers a cafe, bakery and old fashioned general store featuring farm fresh products for the adults, and pumpkins, an orchard playland and barnyard animals for the kids! For even more fun, attend a Fall Fun Saturday October 12th, 19th or 26th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for beautiful fall colors, apple picking, wagon rides, pumpkins, hot cider, freshly made donuts, seasonal shopping and much more! Open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday, year round.
Royal Farms Inc.
Ellsworth/ Atwood
Royal Farms has pumpkins galore! Choose from a pre-picked pumpkin from the field or pick your own in the pumpkin patch! They also offer pick-your-own apples, a corn maze—including a haunted corn maze—tractor-pulled hay rides, gift shop, and a snacks and refreshment stand. Royal Farms also has an in-house pastry chef, with lots of pastries, pies and goodies to choose from. Open Sunday to Wednesday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. until October 31st.
Coveyou Scenic Farm Market
Coveyou uses natural growing practices and offers pumpkins for sale in the shop or farmstand, and pumpkin patch-pick in the field. They also have pie pumpkins, "Northern Michigan's most beautiful" tractor-pulled hay rides along US 131, honey from hives on the farm and fresh eggs. Hayrides are available every Saturday and Sunday in October leaving on the hour from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Barn Hours, Monday to Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sundays 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Pond Hill Farm
Harbor Springs
Enjoy a lovely fall day in beautiful Harbor Springs! At Pond Hill Farm your family will find a u-pick pumpkin patch, pumpkins already gathered from the field, tractor-pulled hay rides, a squash rocket (fun for Dad, too!) prepicked produce, a gift shop featuring homemade canned goods, a snacks and refreshment stand, picnic area, petting zoo and farm animals. Open every day year round 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Fall Festival Weekends every Saturday and Sunday beginning September 28th through October 27th, 11 a.m.-4p.m.
Gallagher's Farm Market
Traverse City
Each autumn, Gallaghers opens their family-owned and operated wholesome farm to families and school groups seeking fall fun with a corn maze, pumpkin patch, farm animals and petting zoo. While there, check out their expanded offerings which include a full line of pies, breads and pastries, homemade cherry jams, salsa, mustards, cheese, dried cherries, chocolate covered cherries, cherry juice and cherry concentrate as well as local wines, cheese, maple syrup, and honey. Open 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. until October 31st.
Hoxsie's Orchard Hill Farm Market
Hoxsie's Farm Market is proud to offer guests the highest quality apples, pumpkins, squash and fall decorating items. They enjoy sharing the "Farm Experience" with families of all ages by offering u-pick apples from the orchard and pumpkins from our patch, educational school class and group tours, farm wagon rides, fun on the haystack in the big red barn, and challenges in their giant corn maze. Open daily through October 31 from 9 am to 6 pm.
Jacob's Corn Maze
Traverse City
Take your kids, friends and family to Jacob's for the ultimate Northern Michigan corn maze experience! In addition to three corn mazes, including a kiddie corn maze, haunted corn maze and Bronco Bustin corn maze, Jacob's fruit/vegetable market and u-pick farm offers pumpkins for sale in the shop or farmstand, pumpkin patch-pick in the field, pumpkin patch-already gathered from the field, pick-your-own apples, horse-drawn hay rides, a concessions and refreshment stand and picnic area. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 am to 6 pm, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 9 pm and Sunday 12 pm to 7 pm until November 3.
Pahl's Pumpkin Patch
Pahl's is proud to use minimal chemicals and pesticides at their farm. Take your kids to pick their own pumpkins at the field pumpkin patch, corn maze, child-sized haybale maze, tractor-pulled hay rides, snacks and refreshment stand, picnic area and farm animals. Best part? All mazes and animal viewings are free! Pahl's is open every day in October from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Geers Farms
Pumpkins, wagon rides, harvest decorations, and more await your family at Geers Farm! Try not to get lost in the straw bale maze, choose from a pre-picked pumpkin or pick your own in the pumpkin patch. You can walk out to the patch or ride the horse and wagon and get dropped off! Pumpkins are weighed on an old fashioned scale and charged by the pound. There are also fun picture opportunities, farm animals to pet, a balloon bounce for kids, and you can watch Geers hand-make fresh donuts in the activity room. Open 11 am to 6 pm with wagon rides 12 pm to 5 pm every weekend in October.
Clark's Family Farm
Lake Ann
Have fun picking out your own pumpkin, squash or gourd at this laid back and fun family farm! Purchase straw bales and bundled corn stalks to outfit your home and take the kids through a haunted house and a corn maze that are both suitable for all ages! During the holiday season, Clark's also sells Christmas trees.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Stetson men's basketball team ended regular season play with an 83-76 loss on the road to Lipscomb Saturday morning. The Hatters finished 5-13 in Atlantic Sun Conference play and will play as the number eight seed against top seeded Florida Gulf Coast on Tuesday.
"Offensively we did a good job," Stetson head coach Corey Williams said after the game. "Defensively we couldn't come up with enough stops. When we had to make stops we didn't do it. We needed guys to step up and fight through screens. Anytime you're on the road you need to make plays. You have to go out and take it."
After taking the lead at 9-8 on a jumper by senior Hunter Miller with 14:32 to play in the first half, Stetson continued to lead throughout the first period. The Hatters extended their advantage to as many as eight points when freshman B.J. Glasford converted at traditional three-point play to make it 26-18 with just 5:57 left in the first frame.
Glasford helped lead the Stetson charge in the first half, scoring a team high eight points off the bench as the Hatters led 38-26 at the break. Stetson was in foul trouble throughout the half, as six Hatters had two fouls, and senior Raymone Andrews picked up three.
A 7-0 run by the Bisons early in the second put Lipscomb up 45-40 just two minutes in. The Hatters fell behind by seven points, at 64-57, before fighting back to cut the Lipscomb lead to just one point, at 73-72. Three-pointers by Andrews and Miller highlighted the run that ended with 4:47 to play in the game.
Lipscomb's Martin Smith countered with a triple, and the Bisons went on to win by the final score of 83-76.
Stetson played well offensively, shooting 54.5 percent from the floor, but struggled to keep Lipscomb off the line. The Bisons went 31-of-40 from the charity stripe, which included a 10-for-12 effort by Malcolm Smith.
Four Hatters finished in double figures for the game, led by Miller's career high 17 points. Senior Willie Green totaled 15 points, while junior Kentwan Smith and Glasford chipped in with 11 points in the defeat.
Josh Williams led all players with 23 points and 13 rebounds in the victory for Lipscomb. Martin Smith added 20 points, while Malcolm totaled 18.
Stetson will continue the 2013-14 season on Tuesday, playing the A-Sun Quarterfinals at Florida Gulf Coast. The eighth seeded Hatters and the top seeded Eagles will tip-off at 7:00 p.m. from Fort Myers on ESPN3.


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This is an excerpt from my new book, Organizational Psychology for Managers
When there�s a problem, perhaps a critical deadline was missed or you lost an important client, what could be more fair and just than finding and punishing the person responsible? Surely fixing blame is the best way to make sure such problems don�t happen again! Blame is, after all, a natural response when something goes wrong. It�s what we do in our larger societal culture: after all, if you get a speeding ticket, it�s clearly your fault, right? You did something wrong. You were to blame for going too fast. Or maybe the real blame lies with the unfairly and ridiculously low speed limit, or the cop who just happened to pick you even though other people were obviously going much faster. In any case, though, you�ve learned an important lesson: pay more attention to whether there�s a police car on the road and maybe invest in a good radar detector. What about the speeding? Well, that behavior may change for a short time, but rarely does the occasional ticket produce permanent, lasting change.
This is the problem with blame: it may fix responsibility, but it does not fix the problem. While it can be very satisfying to identify the perpetrator of the disaster that lost the sale or crashed the server, actually solving the problem that led to the lost sale or crashed server is considerably more useful. This requires returning to the concepts we introduced in chapter one, looking at the organization as a system, and understanding how the system is failing. Failure is feedback. If you listen to that feedback and learn to understand what it is telling you, you will identify a weak point in your organizational systems.
At Koloth (once again, the names have been changed), an internet startup, website malfunctions were a regular event. Each time a problem occurred, the person responsible for making the mistake was identified and punished. The problems didn�t go away. Even firing repeat offenders failed to stop the website problems.
What was really going on? Upon investigation, it turned out that several factors were contributing to the problem. First, the company had a very aggressive, eight week development cycle. The aggressiveness of the cycle meant that serious design decisions were constantly put off in favor of short-term, �temporary,� solutions.
Next, the database engineers were chronically overworked, so developers were instructed to not bother them unless it was really important. As a result, developers would roll their own database code, usually copying it from somewhere else. This created numerous subtle problems which the database engineers had to spend their time tracking down, further reducing their availability.
Finally, a particular senior engineering manager was infamous for his last minute demands on his team. It was not unusual for him to walk into someone�s office as they were leaving for lunch, or at 7pm as they were getting ready to go home, and announce that �this component must be completed right now!� When the component failed or was not completed on time, said manager was quick to blame the team member to whom he�d assigned it. Of course, obvious a problem as this may be, it didn�t come out until we investigated to see why there were so many failures. Once we got past the blame, and saw the outlines of the system it became possible to address the actual problems and change the outcome. Along the way, it turned out that the manager in question was secretly running a web-design business out of his office at Koloth: his clever use of blame prevented anyone from noticing for quite some time.
Now, one might argue that Koloth involved actual dishonesty, and that blame is an effective tool when dishonesty is not present. Unfortunately, when people are given an incentive to be dishonest, dishonesty emerges: this is our self-fulfilling prophecy at work. At Double Coil Systems, a bioinformatics company, when someone was found responsible for costing the company a major client, that person was disciplined or fired outright. As shocking as this may sound, it wasn�t long before no one was ever responsible for anything. Each person involved in any problem had some explanation for why it wasn�t their fault. The problem was always due to some other event. When someone did end up taking the blame, it was usually some hapless member of the IT staff. Apparently, the most junior member of the IT department at Double Coil ran the whole business and had complete control of every laptop at all times. Employees at Double Coil had mastered the art of CYA, and so the actual problems were never addressed. Even worse, when employees did notice a problem, they concealed the information lest they be blamed for it (particularly if they had made the mistake!).
The difference between Double Coil and a world class organization is that at the latter they take the time to understand all the components of why they are losing sales, identify the real bottlenecks, and fix them. Blame isn�t the goal; solving the problem is the goal.
In the end, affixing blame only encourages people to conceal problems or pass the buck. No one wants to be the one to take the hit, so they try to avoid it altogether. When the problem finally does come out, it�s far bigger and much uglier than it would have been had it been addressed early. Even worse, your employees are going to be too busy trying to dodge the blame to really concentrate on fixing things.
If you actually want to solve your problems, focus on the organizational system and understand how it may be inadvertently contributing to the problems you are observing.
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The business of outsourcing pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production has evolved during the past decade. When experts were warning of a manufacturing capacity crunch, outsourcing was viewed as a potential necessity to keep pipelines flowing. Today, farming out production and development has taken on more of a strategic flavor. GEN asked experts from top CMOs two questions: How has the CMO business changed, and what kinds of services are sponsors looking for?
The experts we interviewed are Kenneth F. Ball, senior manager, Pfizer CentreSource; Denis Geffroy, vp for business development, Almac; Darren Head, president and CEO, Cytovance Biologics; John McGrath, senior vp for biological operations, Lonza Biologics; Friedrich Nachtmann, Ph.D., head of biotech cooperations, Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals; Kent Payne, Ph.D., vp and GM, biologics, Catalent Pharma Solutions; Kai Pohlmeyer, Ph.D., head of business development, Richter-Helm BioTec; Michael Voss, Ph.D., director competitive intelligence, Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals; and Alexander R. Wessels, president and CEO, DSM Pharmaceutical Products.
Mr. Ball: Even as recently as the last decade, many firms wanted complete control over the manufacturing process of a bio-new chemical entity (NCE). This equates to risk because of the long lead time and capital commitment required for facility build-out and the uncertainty of clinical and commercial success of a molecule.
Biocontract manufacturing organizations have taken much of that capital risk away since the CMO has the infrastructure already in place. But in exchange for this decreased financial risk, the client does lose some control. I believe CMOs have helped mitigate client companies' concerns over loss of control with more customized approaches and by engaging in longer-term strategic partnerships across a variety of projects with a client rather than a "one-and-done" approach.
Mr. Geffroy: One fundamental difference over the past 10 years is integrated services. A decade ago, the CMO market was much more fragmented than today, made up of many more companies that were smaller in size and specialized in niche areas.
As the pharma and biotech industry strived for continuous improvements in terms of efficiency and cost, the CMO market has consolidated and fewer players are offering a much broader range of services in an integrated fashion. The benefits are multiple: less time to manage CMOs, fewer audits and contracts, less travel, and above all a faster and leaner way to conduct drug development with a much clearer communication channel.
Mr. Head: A shift in corporate financing has contributed to changes in the CMO space. Ten years ago the venture capitalist markets supported many new startup drug discovery businesses. Now I see the money coming from licensing deals and government-supported grants.
In my opinion, this shift has made it difficult for companies to get started and has increased the challenges of how they handle projects. Venture capitalists, who at one time financed pre-IND companies, now require an IND to be filed and have a positive Phase I trial before they invest.
A paradigm shift is also occurring within large pharma, where we are seeing cuts in internal R&D efforts and a desire for strategic partnerships with small and mid-sized biotechs. Usually these biotech companies have to have at least proof of concept and often early clinical phase data before large pharma will invest.
I also see a much larger shift with biotech companies opting to outsource instead of making products in-house. As patents expire, a large number of pharmas have closed their pilot facilities in an effort to manage their budgets and offset the revenue streams that no longer exist.
Mr. McGrath: We have seen many changes and fluctuations in the CMO market. Most notably, under the increased cost pressures, large pharmaceutical companies have reduced their R&D investments, and outsourcing has now become a strategic aspect of their supply chain. The current shift in the R&D landscape also includes an increase in small biotechnology startups and increased funding from venture capitalists.
In fact, many of the molecules on the market today come from small companies, where the majority originated with large pharmaceutical companies a decade ago. However, the fierce competition for VC funding will continue to grow over the next 10 years with a focus being paid to late-phase development. In addition, there has been an increase in complexity to the standard outsourcing model due to tighter regulations from the FDA and increased cost pressures from governmental bodies.
Dr. Nachtmann: The CMO industry for recombinant proteins, for example, has experienced various changes in the last 10 years. It has grown, with an average CAGR of more than 10% due to an increasing number of molecules entering clinical trials and the increased need for outsourcing of process development and GMP manufacturing.
The industry has also experienced consolidation due to the high financial requirements for investments for the commercial manufacture of recombinant products, especially for mammalian cell culture. While this was occurring, new players have entered the market. Several originator companies such as Sanofi, GSK, and Baxter began offering their excess capacity for contract production. In addition, we saw the entry of the first Korean company, Celltrion, into contract manufacturing.
Dr. Payne: Innovators have recognized that there is value in working with integrated solutions providers that can solve complex development and formulation challenges. They are looking for more sophistication than the traditional contract manufacturer can provide. They are less interested in managing multiple narrowly focused providers who lack the financial staying power to inspire the confidence that they will be around for the long haul.
Much of the talent that used to be part of vertically integrated large pharma/biopharma companies are now applying their skills within contract solution providers. In many instances they are now supporting the same companies they used to work for from the outside along with the many small emerging companies who are the driving force for much of the innovation within the industry.
Some larger companies have begun to overcome the "not invented here" bias, and are actively looking to partner with integrated solution providers who can more cost effectively perform development activities and bring to bear a wide array of technologies to address drug delivery challenges.
Dr. Pohlmeyer: During the past decade CMOs experienced on the one hand significant improvements of the manufacturing technology and on the other the maturation and consolidation of the biotech industry.
The achievements in manufacturing technology, for example increases in expression yields, new optimized downstream technologies, and availability of a large variety of disposable equipment, have significantly improved production efficiency. In addition to increasing manufacturing yields we observed an increasing number of niche products (e.g., orphan drugs) and the reduction of dosages. In conclusion, production scales went down for clinical trial supply as well as for commercial manufacturing.
To keep up the optimization pace, CMOs need to constantly invest in the development and implementation of new manufacturing technologies and the corresponding equipment. Additionally, CMOs have to deal with the pressure on the costs of goods and prices as well as an increasing competitive environment, all the while achieving a high level of flexibility and regulatory compliance.
Dr. Voss: The biopharmaceuticals CMO business has been and still is a project-based business with high fixed cost base that is sensitive to changing utilization, especially in large-scale manufacturing. Historically, the high capital expenditure level has presented a significant entry barrier.
Today—with increasing yields and the use of disposable technologies—the CMO landscape is more competitive than 10 years ago. We have addressed these market changes by, for example, establishing new business models intended to build long-term relationships with customers rather than being a pure manufacturing partner.
Mr. Wessels: In the mammalian cell culture CMO space, the last 10 years have been marked by expansion. Participating CMOs have added capacity or capabilities and new players have entered the field. This aligns with the growth of the industry and the increase in number of products in R&D.
Mammalian cell culture processes themselves have improved over the last 10 years, gaining in efficiency and consistency starting from a very poor performance level overall. However, the manufacture of biologic compounds still represents a high-cost, high-capital expenditure, high scale-up risk proposition compared to small molecule chemical synthesis. One of the key changes occurring in the industry is a new view to reducing the costs of mammalian cell culture manufacturing.
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For years, it was a repressed memory.
It was a day when Altoona native Karen Davis was just a child, walking to a friend's house near 58th street in the Eldorado neighborhood.
"I don't recall knowing that my friend's father kept chickens; this would have been back in the early 1950s," she said. "But I clearly remember him taking a brown hen out of a shed, laying her on a platform or a wooden chopping block, and using a hatchet to cut her head off. I can still picture her head lying there, clucking on the right side of me, and on the grass on the left side was her body still running around the yard."
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Karen Davis (second from left) walks with other members of United Poultry Concerns at the Veggie Pride Parade in New York City in May 2012.
It took Davis years of her life to extract this memory from subconscious, but this and many other experiences contributed to her current work in animal advocacy, especially for chickens.
After earning a Ph.D in literature from the University of Maryland in College Park, Davis founded the animal advocacy group United Poultry Concerns in 1990. The group aims to promote the respectful treatment of domestic foul and teach people the truths of the egg and chicken meat industry.
Davis also runs a small chicken sanctuary in Machipongo, Va., and has relayed her personal experience keeping chickens in the numerous books she has written and talks she has given.
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Davis timeline
March 1974 - Davis' first official act of animal activism was joining a tour to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, to see newborn harp seals.
April 1983 - Pledged to be an animal rights activist after seeing a PETA demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Oct. 3, 1990 - Founded United Poultry Concerns as a nonprofit organization addressing the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment and human companionship situations.
1991 - Published her vegan cookbook "Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless 'Poultry' Potpourri."
1996 - Published "Prisoned Chick-ens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry." It was the first book published in the U.S. to provide a fully documented account of the development and conditions of industrial poultry.
2001 - Published "More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality," a book about turkeys that provides a comprehensive history and analysis of these birds.
July 2, 2002 - Was inducted into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame for "Outstanding Contributions to Animal Liberation."
2005 - UPC's quarterly magazine, "Poultry Press" was chosen one of the BEST Nonprofit Publications in North America by UTNE magazine.
April 20, 2007 - Media celebrity Ira Glass told David Letterman that he became a vegetarian as a result of visiting Davis' sanctuary and meeting her rescued chickens.
June 2010 - UPC launched the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos in New York City.
Karen Davis file
Born Feb. 4, 1944
Graduated from Hollidaysburg Area High School in 1962
Husband was Dr. George Allan Cate, who is deceased
Parents were Amos and Mary Elizabeth Davis. Amos was the Blair County District attorney from 1966 to 1975
Siblings are Tim Davis of Palo Alto, Calif., Amos of Baton Rouge, La. and Andrew of Shippensburg, Pa.
"I've had a life-long affinity for animals," she said. "From the time of my earliest consciousness, I was always deeply drawn to dogs and birds. When a bird would fall out of a tree when I was a child, I would have sleepless nights. I liked animals. I always cared about animals. I could never stand to see an animal hurt, and most especially see an animal being deliberately mistreated."
Long before she started UPC, Davis became involved with environmental and social injustices. This includes fighting for the equal treatment of black students at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., where she studied for her undergraduate degree, and going on to work for the Poor People's campaign and partake in the March on Washington. She also visited Canada around 1974 to protest the slaughter of harp seals for sport.
"I've never been able to tolerate injustice, whether it was humans ... animals or whoever it may be," Davis said. "I have that strong instinctual disgust with and abhorrence against watching it [take place.]"
Davis became more heavily involved with the animal rights movement in the late 1980s, and remembers when supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a demonstration near her home in Washington, D.C., and showed pictures and posters of animals who had been hurt or mutilated during laboratory experiments.
"As I looked at those animals, I said to myself right then and there that never again would I abandon these animals to the inequity of our species, because I can't bear their suffering," Davis said. "That was it for me. I made that pledge and I never looked backward after that. ... From that moment on, I was an animal activist."
Davis said she was told that a group advocating just for chickens and turkeys would never get off the ground. Now, UPC has more than 15,000 members, with in-person and online support continuing to grow.
The group has led several successful campaigns, including working to get poultry tycoon Frank Perdue off of the University of Maryland's Board of Regents, and recently protesting the public slaughter of thousands of chickens in New York City in conjunction with Orthodox Jewish Kapparot practice on the Eve of Yom Kippur.
"Even if I didn't think we would ever get people to care about chickens, I would still do exactly the work that I do because I believe it's the right thing to do," Davis said. "The world is a better place because I am doing this. I believe we have a responsibility to make a better world even if we know in advance that we're never going to get people to change. I still think we do the right thing because we've decided this is the right thing to do, and we care enough to do it."
Davis' biggest supporters say she not only cares enough, but works hard and demonstrates the right tactics to make others care about her cause.
Michael Tucker of Altoona met Davis 15 years ago through the North American Vegetarian Society. He is the president of the Nalith Foundation, which gives grants to nonprofits that support the education of the public on issues of farming, the ethical treatment of animals and the benefits of plant-based diets. The foundation gives an annual grant to UPC, and Tucker said that gift has a lot to do with Davis' personal passion for what she does.
"It means a lot to her, I think, and she really truly cares to help these animals," Tucker said. "She's a very compassionate person. ... She's not in it for the money or the fame at all; she's in it because she really cares about these animals."
Though Davis isn't in it for the fame, she does have a slight claim for it. Ira Glass, host of the popular podcast "This American Life" on National Public Radio, announced on the "Late Show with David Letterman" that speaking with Davis and taking a trip to her chicken sanctuary caused him to become a vegetarian. He did so after she organized several UPC members to write in complaints about a segment on the show which glorified eating chicken and turkey during the holidays.
"Things we thought couldn't happen happened," Davis said about this feat.
Davis views the sanctuary as one of the most important initiatives of UPC. It houses more than 100 roosters and hens.
Debbie Alekna of Chesapeake, Va., drives an hour and a half on weekends to help run the sanctuary when Davis is away on speaking engagements.
"I call it paradise, I absolutely love it here," Alekna said. "Those birds get exquisite care."
Alekna has raised chickens all her life, and supports the UPC's initiative to get birds "into our hearts and off our plates" because they are animals with such great personalities.
"They're very whimsical, very animated and wonderful companions," she said.
Davis said the biggest thing that people can do to help chickens and combat industrial farming is take up a healthy vegan lifestyle.
"There is so much going on with chickens and other animals that we don't begin to understand, and we may never understand" she said. "That's one of the things we want people to know, that these animals have their own family lives and their own feelings - their own social lives, sensibilities, relationships and communications."
Visit www.upc-online.org/ for more information on United Poultry Concerns.
Mirror Staff Writer Beth Ann Downey is at 946-7520.


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Is it just us? It's a question never far from the forefront of our minds here at The Mambo and one often inevitably answered with a resounding 'yes' yet there remain circumstances and scenarios thrown up where such a conclusion is just too surreal, too absurd to reconcile. Naturally, given our unshakable devotion to reason and neglect for the obtuse and wilfully contrary, when opinion wavers so dramatically the general consensus must be denounced for the drivel it represents. One such instance is the reaction to last night's soporific spectacle between Real Madrid and Manchester United. Understandably the tie was greeted with frenzied excitement given the storied histories of its participants whilst the actual game itself proved an emphatic damp squib; suffering an almost total privation of fluency, fantasy and for large swathes football. Not that those fortunate enough to have missed the match would know.
Celebrated with an aftermath befitting its expectant preview, many observers were quick to praise the tension, drama and quality endemic, with several central figures attracting widespread acclaim. For United, the hitherto unfairly-maligned David De Gea's reflexes were greeted with understandable awe, although less warranted accolades awaited the more prosaic offerings of Phil Jones, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney. Bizarrely, the latter was singled-out for his selflessness and willingness to affect an alien role in order to serve the team rather than for the merit of his actual performance. Of course, this is nothing new for Rooney, who for considerable periods of his career has been absent from his favoured position, which may play to his laudable enthusiasm but has largely dimmed the inherent excitement of his game, as artistry has gradually and lamentably been devoured by efficiency.
Nonetheless, there is little doubt that Alex Ferguson will leave the Spanish capital pleased with his charges' efforts. Despite occasional defensive naivety enveloping their domestic displays, Ferguson's latter-career continental caution underpinned a showing founded far more upon fortitude rather than flamboyance. True, his team ostensibly lined-up with 3 forwards but Rooney and Welbeck were employed primarily for their energy and endeavour rather than any great intent in supporting the often-isolated Robin van Persie. The success of the ploy however remained evident in the fact that had the Dutchman not fell foul of uncharacteristic profligacy, then his team could approach the return fixture from a winning position.
Still, as it stands Ferguson should still enter that fixture at greater ease than his counterpart, José Mourinho. With typical bravado, the Portuguese has insisted that the tie remains in the balance with the first leg draw favouring neither side. In spite of such conceit, in reality he surely appreciates his adversary's advantage, even if such acceptance would signify acknowledgement of his own failures and moments of self-effacing grace and candour are an utterly foreign concept to Mourinho. Although in the midst of a league campaign mired in mutiny and mediocrity, Madrid's opulent squad ensured their status as most neutral's favourites to progress. Predictably, they dominated both territory and possession yet their lack of comfort in breaching deep defences was gauchely prominent, a typical Mourinho deficiency, with this Madrid set-up to play counter-attacking football, which when allowed space is frequently devastating but against massed defences, their lack of comfort can be alarming, even negligent considering the lavish gifts of those at the coach's disposal.
Given the technical class of the likes of Xabi Alonso, Angel Di Maria, Karim Benzema and particularly the gloriously inventive Mesut Ozil, Madrid's unease in creating was startling, with a graphic appearing around the 70 minute mark illustrating that neither side, for all their talent, could boast a pass completion rate of above 65%. Consequently, the home team were frequently forced into resorting to speculative long-range efforts with the ever-eager, impatient Cristiano Ronaldo forever happy to be indulged, as their lack of passing fluency bordered on the embarrassing. Still, Ronaldo's lust for recognition was satisfied by his thunderous header which would level the scores on the night. Whilst his leap was impressive, such a finish is the sort that has habitually led excitable cretins to label the forward the game's most 'complete' player, as though jumping and heading in conjunction with running and shooting are the only attributes required of an elite footballer. That aside however, Ronaldo's performace was standard fare with flashy tricks interspersed with the usual frustrations from a player who although not anonymous was far from ominous. Oddly, the usually-excellent Sid Lowe of The Guardian saw such a fitful threat as sufficient to post a piece praising the Portuguese's big game prominence, even in failing to facilitate a home victory for the favourites.
Ultimately, as the inferior set of individuals, Utd's pragmatism was perhaps as necessary as it was probable, which was likely to prevent Wednesday's match from entering the pantheon of iconic encounters between 2 of Europe's most illustrious clubs. Still, few would have predicted the ensuing skull-creaking tedium to rank closer to the infamous entertainment-vacuum of the Liverpool vs Chelsea 'shit on a stick' games of a few years previous (little surprise that Mourinho was then Chelsea's manager) and offer such an insipid, uninspiring advert for the upper-echelons of European competition, even if it did provide an excellent advert for the concurrent Shakhtar Donetsk vs Borussia Dortmund fixture.