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Death and taxes are certainties in life yet, if your company successfully brings a therapeutic to market, it is also a certainty that you will outsource some or all of your supply chain. In fact, many firms base their entire business model on outsourcing. Yet, it is the ability to prudently manage the uncertainties inherent in turning over operational control to others that is critical to success.
There are many companies in the industry that have revolutionized how they track, measure, and act to maximize their contract service provider (CSP) relationships, and you should seek to emulate them. These leaders come in all shapes and sizes. What they have in common is that their supply chains are completely outsourced and managed with extreme effectiveness. How they accomplished this excellence is answered here.
Every business values well-considered, effective, and decisive actions that achieve superior results. Taking steps that create positive results, however, assumes significant data-collection tools, measurement systems, and various processes to take action. While measuring the CSP is critical, measuring and optimizing the supply chain in total is the end game.
An inherent problem with outsourcing to service providers is collecting data in their facilities. In reality, most commercial and many clinical operations have multiple CSPs. This increases the level of data-collection complexity. A typical supply chain includes purchasing the API, shipping it to a contract manufacturing organization (CMO), possibly shipping to a packaging operation, and finally transfer to a third-party logistics operation (3PL) before moving to a clinical site or to wholesalers.
Multiple therapeutics, multiple CMOs for load balancing and redundancy, and significant loss of efficiency when things go wrong add to that complexity. A shipment of material lost in transit, damaged by the errant forklift, or rejected for quality or expiration reasons can cause substantial upstream and downstream supply-chain effects if it is not managed with near real-time tracking, measurement, and decision making.
The various departments in your organization that communicate with the CMOs, and the data sources they may be using to establish contracts, schedule production, communicate material movements, perform quality reviews, and pay partners further complicate matters. In many companies, these data sources reside in phone conversations, handwritten notes, e-mails, spreadsheets, any of several databases, and the paper batch record.
The bottom line is simple—everyone has to operate from the same playbook, system of record, and measurement platform for actionable processes to continually improve performance. With all these partners and departments involved, it is unbelievable that any firm would subject itself to the risk of managing such complexity manually or in a multitude of data silos.
Numerous barriers exist to accurately measure a CMO's performance. These include the inability to collect data in facilities the outsourcer does not control and limited partners for comparison to determine baseline performance expectations. Life science companies resist sharing data with others, and too few parallels exist to establish benchmark performance ratings. So, it is up to individual firms to make these assessments.
That said, there are some truly exceptional operations in the industry that can provide guidance on how to most effectively measure performance. Specifics of their operational tactics and common practices to achieve the holy grail of a CSP scorecard include efficiency, quality, yields, response times, and data accuracy.
It is no secret that enormous benefit can be derived from making supply-chain data available to improve material planning, scheduling, and inventory optimization. Few companies, though, have made the leap to detailed data collection and measurement.
Data collection is important. Where and how the data is stored, however, is just as critical. The outsourcing company needs to commit to a single system of record with a data model that supports the complexity of the business; i.e., an expert system. Using a simple database is fine for collection, but it will not enable the decision making, optimization, and critical measurements necessary to take corrective action when things go wrong.
While some specialized supply-chain planning and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are ideal for this task, they do often lack one critical component: The ability to collect data in a high transactional volume at third-party sites. A system has to meet functional needs, addressing key biopharma requirements such as tracking, costing, and controlling for potency, controlled substances, expiry, and so forth. You need to either have the internal expertise to provide ongoing care and feeding of these systems or outsource this task to a responsible party.
When selecting the mode and means to store data in a meaningful way to track, control, and measure performance, an outsourcer must carefully consider the volume of data that needs to be collected and determine whether accurate, manual data entry is feasible. If the amount exceeds the company's ability to staff for manual data-entry requirements, then an automated data-collection solution is necessary.
Even for companies that run electronic batch records (EBRs), not all products are produced using an EBR. The same applies here—it is assumed that the highest volume providers can provide data files to automatically validate and process transactions for inventory and manufacturing, while some low-volume providers may not. Similarly, it may not be economically feasible to set up an automated feed for five inventory transactions per month from a CMO.
Deploying an automated data collection process can be compared to barcode data collection in an internally controlled facility, where the service provider sends a nightly data file detailing all transactions related to production of materials and inventory movement. Within your system, you configure virtual factories representing the service providers.
Automation is heavily dependent on the service providers' internal systems, so ask the automation question first. Asking your service providers after the contract has been signed if they have an ERP or manufacturing execution system deployed and validated in materials, quality, and manufacturing is a mistake. If they don't, you won't get the data you need in a timely or meaningful way.
A best practice is to include in every CSP agreement a clause requiring them to provide a nightly data file with all inventory receipts, movements, planned production, actual production, and shipment information. The 3PL transferring orders, shipments, receipts, master data changes, destruction, invoices issued, and cash collected in a data file nightly are also critical to reducing manual processing. Enormous benefits can also be derived from a synchronized supply-chain record of customers and orders in the event you need to change service providers or adjudicate your own chargebacks and calculate government pricing.
Collection of all this data with detailed transactions listed below will be the basis for measurements. It will also ensure the added benefit of having the ability to utilize better planning, scheduling, and inventory optimization techniques. The natural questions after an outsourcer is successful in collecting and aggregating data in a meaningful database are "What are the common measurement techniques?" and "How can you best act on the data?"
We went to experts for these answers (i.e., companies that operate in a 100% outsourced environment). They track all transactions from receipt to process to shipment, and all the data is available. From a monitoring and measurement point of view, some of the metrics being tracked include meeting commitments as well efficiency and accuracy of material and production.
To assess whether commitments have been met, the following should be considered:• scheduling jobs per production plan• starting jobs per production schedule • delivery performance to a request and commit date• scheduled orders to customer request • perfect order fulfillment (as a percent of total orders)
In determining material and production efficiency and accuracy, you should consider:• manufacturing yields• rejection ratios at incoming inspection• issuing expired lots to a production run• over-shipments: receipts against POs • total order-fulfillment lead time • release-to-ship time • bulk and finished lots nearing expiration• inventory turns • inventory days of supply (raw, WIP, finished goods) • inventory carrying cost
We asked the supply-chain operations manager of one company that deploys an outsource collaboration system, "Why make the effort versus manual operations of the past?" The answer, "Coming from a variety of disjointed systems, some automated, some manual, some paper, with no single source of data, there is no easy way to verify which set of data is accurate. Timeliness of acquiring data, missing data, and loss of visibility creates the need to increase the levels of safety stock at all levels to compensate due to lack of confidence in the supply chain. We simply cannot put ourselves in a stock-out situation. This was costing us millions more than necessary.
"If you don't have the robust demand planning tools enabled, you are at the mercy of sales and marketing in developing the forecasts. A good automation tool allows you to set up the basis for sales and operations planning and therefore drive a better monthly plan, better service levels, and tighter supply chain."
Over time, the investment becomes more important says the same manager. "This gives us better negotiating power when working out contracts for the next year. We can demand more because we can verify more."
Then news is not all bad if your company does not have the budget, capacity, or capability to deploy collaboration solutions with CSPs. While larger organizations that outsource significant operations and operate in silos or in manual mode should have initiated a collaborative outsource supply-chain tracking and optimization system already, many smaller organizations don't have the capital and/or people to implement or maintain them.
These systems are not without complexity; expert systems require significant expert input to operate your complex business. Your partner's data accuracy can be measured and used to avert miscommunication. One CSP seeing the trend moved to push data and measurements out to their customer as a value-added service.
Software services are also available to provide outsource collaboration capabilities. "The technical aspects of managing the hardware, database, code management, and availability 24x7 is simply too much to manage for a small operation," says Bob Congiusti, CEO of Vantage Systems. "By providing these outsource collaboration tools in a technically hands-off situation, companies that have the supply-chain expertise to leverage advanced systems and focus on their business can receive all the benefits without the cost of IT."
"Buying a service versus building infrastructure of both IT and supply-chain expertise can make companies nimble almost immediately," points out Keith Parent, CEO of Court Square Data Group. "IT is largely a hidden cost. Even large biopharmas spend far more on IT than companies in other industries, on average four to five percent of revenues." Third-party supply-chain experts can thus also use these collaboration tools to help emerging companies' lower costs.
Michael Webster is the director of life sciences at CDC Software, which provides custom outsource collaboration systems. Phone: (603) 763-8979. E-mail: [email protected]
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If you think that bed-wetting makes the point quite well, just wait three more minutes. That's when the young heroine of the movie � well played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead � shows us a first-grade teacher whose buzz lets her be charming and inspiring for her kids but doesn't prevent her finally from vomiting into a classroom wastebasket.
"Are you pregnant?" they ask. As good an explanation as any, she figures. So she goes along with it.
What follows is one of the distinctly lesser movies in one of the more remarkable waves in movies of the last 15-years: call it, if you want, the Cinema of Recovery, based on the conspicuously large number of people in American film and television who have straightened themselves out in anonymous 12-step recovery programs and have resulted in an ever-growing number of films about the experience.
It's no accident. Storytelling is so basic to the recovery movement � where honesty is key ("it's hard to live your life honestly" says the young alcoholic's sponsor, played by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer) that there was no way the massive number of stories heard by Hollywood addicts in recovery wouldn't somehow find their way into movies and TV programs.
And so they have. What used to be rare in the era of Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend," and only slightly less rare when Blake Edwards' "Days of Wine and Roses" came along, has become something close to commonplace.
Sometimes the result is a first-rate film and performance � Denzel Washington, for instance, in Robert Zemeckis' very recent "Flight."
"Smashed" is indie film-making on another level entirely based on a story that is the gender opposite of the one enacted so brilliantly by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in "Days of Wine and Roses" - the alcoholic young couple who have to figure out whether a life together is compatible with only one of them getting sober.
It's the school teacher heroine in "Smashed." Her stay-at-home husband has no intention of ending his alcohol consumption. She, on the other hand, scares herself to death when on one lost evening she samples crack with an addict she just met.
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Kyalin's lead product is an intranasal delivery form of carbetocin, a synthetic analog of oxytocin. Kyalin's founder and president Srinivas Rao, M.D., Ph.D., is joining Retrophin as evp, head of neuroscience as part of the deal, where he will be responsible for CNS drug development.
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KALAMAZOO, MI — The Burley Kiracofe Jr. Memorial Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament is back for another year.
The tournament, which is the longest-running tourney of its kind in the country, is scheduled to kick off Friday, July 11 at VerSluis/Dickinson diamond complex in Kalamazoo.
Once again, the Kalamazoo Amateur Athletic Foundation will host the tournament, which is named after Burley Kiracofe Jr., a Portage Northern graduate and slow-pitch player who was killed in Vietnam in 1969.
"This tournament is just a lot of fun," said Steve Wiley, the tournament director. "It's great to see all of our friends that we've made over the years at the softball diamond.
"Everyone comes to the Kiracofe and it's a really nice family event and everyone has a good time."
The 46th annual Kiracofe Memorial Tournament features 50 teams with participants from Michigan, Indiana and Kentcuky. There are 34 teams in the men's lower division, five in the men's upper division and 11 in the women's lower division.
"Slow-pitch softball is kind of dying a little bit," Wiley said, "but when you see 50 teams come together of all different types and classes it's pretty special."
Action kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday with five games and the tournament will resume 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Home Run Derby is planned for about 5 p.m. Saturday.
The brackets haven't been configured yet, but Wiley said the championship games would take place throughout the weekend.
"I haven't drawn the tournament yet so I don't know exact time yet," Wiley said. "The men's upper division will be Saturday afternoon or late evening and the men's lower and the women's lower will be on Sunday."
A few changes were made for this year's tournament. In year's past, the KAAF presented $6,000 in scholarships to recent, local high school graduates. Wiley said the scholarships would still be presented to the graduates, but at a Kalamazoo Growlers game instead of at the tournament.
To attend last year's tournament, admission was free, but a parking fee was required. Wiley said the price to register a team was slightly increased for the 2014 tournament to erase any costs.
Similar to many previous years, individual trophies will be awarded to the winning teams of each division. Last year, championship rings were presented and Wiley said the rings would make another appearance in four years at the 50th annual tournament.
Wiley, who is in his sixth year as the tournament director, first participated as a player in 1980.
While he has been a part of "four or five" championship teams, Wiley admitted the Kiracofe is always a memorable weekend regardless the result and one he looks forward to.
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The late Hank Gathers would have smiled and clapped in appreciation had he caught Ashley Hamilton's "Dunk of the Year" nomination on Thursday night.
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Terry Crews is going in for Cedric The Entertainer as new host of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire."
Crews, an actor, former NFL player and Old Spice pitchman, will join the weekday game show starting this fall, according to its studio, Disney-ABC Domestic Television.
He replaces comedian Cedric The Entertainer, who's hosting the show in its 12th season in national syndication.
Crews has been a regular this season on the freshman Fox sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." His films include Tyler Perry's "The Single Moms Club" and Ivan Reitman's "Draft Day." His first book, "Manhood," will be out this month.
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Television executive and personality Andy Cohen has more to spill about the glamorous life.
Publisher Henry Holt and Company announced Wednesday that Cohen has a deal for "The Andy Cohen Diaries." According to Holt, his book is scheduled for release in the fall and will be a gossipy feast, featuring A-list stars, reality stars, family members and cab drivers.
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The 45-year-old Cohen is a popular talk show guest, the executive producer of Bravo Media's "Watch What Happens Live" and an executive producer of "The Real Housewives" shows. His previous book, "Most Talkative," came out in 2012.
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Bruce Springsteen wasn't thinking about Wendy when he wrote a first draft of his 1975 classic "Born to Run." Instead, he's got a gold Chevy 6 on his mind, according to the original lyrics, which make their public debut this week at Duke University.
The 30 lines of lyrics, written in pen on a piece of 8.5.-by-11-inch lined paper, were purchased last December at a Sotheby's auction by Floyd Bradley, a California man whose daughter graduates this weekend from Duke, as does Springsteen's daughter.
Bradley, 62, a retired computer software marketer who spent much of his life in London, paid $160,000 plus a commission, bringing the total to $197,000. "It was a lot. I was embarrassed to tell my children," he said. "But they were very supportive after I told them."
He bought them as an investment, he said. "It's a piece of Americana, I think."
The original lyrics, written in 1974, in Long Branch, New Jersey, bear little resemblance to the anthem that Springsteen typically plays each concert with the house lights on and the audience on its feet. But that familiar chorus of "tramps like us/baby we were born to run" is there as is a part that ended up much like the final version: "this town'll rip the bones from your back/it's A suicide trap/your dead unless you get out while your young."
The "everlasting kiss" is there: "I was headin for the place where wild Angels die in An everlasting (or) neverending kiss."
But there's no mention of dying with Wendy during that kiss or of guarding Wendy's dreams and visions. Instead, Springsteen "looked out cross my hood + saw the highway buckle neath the wheels of A gold Chevy 6." The car got a second mention a few lines down: "Baby out there heroes are crushed to death behind the wheels of a gold Chevy 6."


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Exploring Personal Finance Concepts Through Simulation Role Play
Nancy Sardone
Georgian Court University - School of Education
December 29, 2011
Given the current economic crisis, the question is not if we should educate students in matters of personal finance but rather where such teaching should occur and what instructional methods should be used. This paper discusses the status of secondary financial education programs in the U.S., the lack of financial knowledge among teens, and the learning preferences of today's 'millennial' students. Using an interview protocol, a teacher-created curriculum using a group simulation role-play employed at a New Jersey independent high school is described, integrating basic personal financial education in a driver's education course. Post-test results reveal students (n=45) learned basic personal finance concepts through this instructional method.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 18
Keywords: integrated curriculum, pre-college students, personal finance, group simulation role-play
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Banking Deregulation, Local Credit Supply, and Small Business Growth
Prasad Krishnamurthy
U.C. Berkeley School of Law; University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy; University of California, Berkeley
August 15, 2013
I show that the deregulation of bank branching in the United States lowered the sensitivity of small business growth to local credit supply. In urban markets, within-state deregulation of branching resulted in an 80% decrease in the effect of local deposit growth on the growth of establishments with 20-99 employees. Across-state deregulation had an effect of comparable size in county markets. I fi nd effects of similar magnitude using employment growth and payroll growth as measures of business growth. Using the history of litigation over the scope of state bank regulation, I show these results continue to hold for states that deregulated branching for reasons that were unrelated to economic conditions. These fi ndings suggest that bank deregulation played an important role in insuring small businesses against local shocks to credit supply.
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We have the pleasure to announce the publishing of an Anthology of Texts regarding to political programs and political thought of Central-Eastern European Peoples in the 19th Century, entitled "Democratic Traditions and Options among Central-Eastern European Peoples in the 19th Century". This is a selection from the most representative programs of Central-Eastern European political movements in the 19th Century, first such synthesis published in Romanian language, which include texts from all peoples of the former Habsburg Empire, useful in the same measure for students and for historians.
We are intending now to publish a second volume (400-500 p), regarding to this subject that will contain case studies and other analyzed sources (political, economical and social aspects) regarding to subject . In this context, we invite all historians concerned with 19th Century Central European history, to submit their papers.
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Garth Brooks has a new career: Mr. Mom.
While on CBS's Early Show Thursday to promote her new album, Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, Brooks's wife, Trisha Yearwood, addressed Brooks's latest endeavor.
"He's a great dad, you know. He loves his girls and he realizes that it's important to be there every day," said Yearwood, 43, referring to the 46-year-old Brooks's children from his first marriage: Taylor, 15; August, 14; and Allie, 11. "And so that's what he's doing, and I'm proud of him for it."
Twice-divorced Yearwood wed Brooks in 2005, and said that the title of her 10th album refers to the journeys people take in their personal lives.
"It's about kind of going through the fire and the good stuff and you end up in a place where you accept all the parts of your life [and] things that happen to you," she said.
Looking back, the singer (who has partnered with Coldwater Creek to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure) said she is happy with her own journey. "It's kind of like if it ends up this way, I'm good with everything I went through to get here, 'cause life is good."
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Lions have nothing to play for.
Detroit owns a disappointing 4-10 record entering tonight's game against the Atlanta Falcons (12-2). The Lions have been out of playoff contention for weeks. They are on a six-game losing streak. Many of Detroit's current players will be forced to find jobs
elsewhere next season. This season has been full of disappointments.
Now Lions coaches and executives will find out if their players are full of desire.
Will players quit on the season or keep fighting? Will guys continue to show up early and stay late? Will players who did extra work after practice continue to put in the extra work? Will players point fingers or rally together?
"You can learn a lot," Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said. "You can just watch people. Actions speak louder than words right now. That's part of being a professional. Seeing how people prepare this week, and honestly, I have no qualms about it.
"I know our guys are going to be preparing as hard as they can be. We have a short week to learn an opponent that's not in the NFC north."
Detroit has learned how hard it is to make back-to-back playoff appearances.
The Lions were expected to compete for a playoff spot this season after finishing 10-6 and earning a postseason berth in 2011. Stafford was expected to become an elite quarterback, while Detroit's defensive line was supposed to become one of the NFL's most premier units.
Instead, Stafford has thrown 17 touchdowns, 15 interceptions, and owns a 78.9 passer rating. Detroit has 31 sacks this season, ranked 18th in the NFL, compared to 41 last season (10th overall). The Lions' defense scored six times last season, but has not scored a touchdown this year. Detroit has allowed the fifth most points in the NFL season (380 points for 27.1 average).
The only thing left to play for is pride.
"No question," Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said. "I mean, pride and really you just always want to have something positive going into the next season. I mean, I'm not saying we're going to look ahead because we still have two important games in my opinion. We're going to definitely see Chicago twice next year. We're going to possibly see Atlanta maybe hopefully next year in the playoffs or some situation like that.
"So, you want to play as best as possible and get used to these teams. This is not the first time we've played Atlanta. We didn't come out as well as we did last year so I hope to, in essence, I guess spoil their season a little bit even though they're going to the playoffs."
Detroit entered this season believing it would make the playoffs.
There is now nothing left to play for.
Tonight's game will show how much desire remains.
"People are evaluated every single day in just about everything they do," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. "We talk about training camp, it's not just what they do on the field. It's how they are in the meetings, their ability to grasp stuff. I've heard it said that football doesn't build character, it reveals character.
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Michal Zachowicz grew up on Buffalo's East Side just off Sycamore Street. He worked a variety of jobs while a student at the University at Buffalo before he started to play the church organ in 1992. His first church job, he said, was at a small Hungarian reform church in North Buffalo, where he was paid $30 for each Sunday.
Today Zachowicz is 43 and lives in Cheektowaga, where he has served as organist and cantor at Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church for more than 10 years. He also plays at Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel, where the Tridentine Latin Mass is celebrated at 1:30 p.m. each Sunday, and he is evening host of a classical music program on WNED-FM 94.5.
People Talk: Can you make a living as a church organist?
Michal Zachowicz: As a single guy in suburban Buffalo, yes. As someone who plays six Masses on the weekends, and weddings and funerals for the week as well as various occasions and holy days, certainly it satisfies both my musical interest and helps pays the bills, and then some.
PT: I've never interviewed a church organist.
MZ: I think of myself as someone who happens to play the organ and who sings as well, rather than someone who went to school and formally studied music. I bought a keyboard when I was 17. I saw the mathematical relationships in music. I read a little bit about music theory. Music is very logical.
PT: What did you study?
MZ: I earned a bachelor's degree in international studies, and I studied language, some Polish and Russian.
PT: You seem to have a strong religious base.
MZ: Being a product of St. Luke's grammar school on the East Side of Buffalo, and a couple of years each attending Bishop Turner and Bishop Timon [high schools], I was instilled with good values.
PT: What's your audition hymn?
MZ: I don't know if I've ever had one, but I'd probably play something like "For All the Saints." It's rousing.
PT: Why is there a rear-view mirror on most church organs?
MZ: To help the organist keep pace with the service. During the offertory, the priest wants continuous music during the collections – until the offertory is complete, essentially. Four o'clock Mass is often standing room only, so I will try and have interludes between each verse. I may even have to repeat a verse or so. My rear view mirror is essential. My role is not to put on a recital, it is to accompany the congregation.
PT: Do you do bar mitzvahs?
MZ: I haven't. I'm not familiar with that. Essentially I do Catholic Masses. I'm most familiar with that liturgy.
PT: Are you a devout Catholic?
MZ: I would like to say that I am faithful to church teachings, and I like to submit to the legitimate authority of the church. There is nothing wrong with questioning authority as long as you are open for the right answers, open for the truth. As the pope said, we're living in a tyranny of tolerance.
PT: How do you unwind?
MZ: A cold glass of Zwiec [beer] and watching replays of Yankees World Series victories while having a chessboard to my right and a little Chopin in the background. It shows my proud blue-collar roots and the Renaissance man wannabe.
PT: Is there a local organ that takes your breath away?
MZ: St. Stan's.
PT: You also work at WNED-FM 94.5.
MZ: A few nights a week from 6 to 10 p.m. on "Evening Classics" playing various pieces of music. I play the piece, talk about the composer, the work, the historical context. I'm talking about music that spans centuries and that represents many different cultures. We're not DJs. We're program hosts, so we're not just cranking out Top 40 music.
PT: You discovered classical music as a child?
MZ: As a teenager. I have siblings who are 12 and 14 years older than me, so I was exposed to music from the '70s, a healthy dose of Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin. I remember specifically at Bishop Turner, what led to classical music. It was Father Joe Janaczek, who taught history. He would introduce us to great painters, writers, composers. That helped fuel the interest. So I would ride my bike to the Fronczak Library on Broadway, which is now closed. I would borrow records and record them. That's how I built my library.
PT: What have you held close about your Polish roots?
MZ: It's more of a raising of consciousness. My approach is to celebrate the real diversity in the world. I can't possibly learn about every culture in the world. But by learning about my own – its thousand-year glorious and tragic history of being defenders of Western civilization and its great contributions to arts and sciences – I have an appreciation of all cultures. Having an appreciation for your heritage enhances your life.
PT: What has been a main influence in your life?
MZ: The new evangelization of John Paul II, which entails the understanding that faith and reason are "two wings of the same bird" leading us to truth, as well as appreciation for the church's intellectual tradition. This is the stuff that makes me tick.
PT: Are you always this intense?
MZ: I'm not sure there is an answer to that, but during any conversation I like to get to the crux of the issue. I don't like superficiality. You might say I have a disdain for mediocrity, but we are all works in progress. I spend a lot of time in church. As the saying goes, church is not a museum for saints. It's a hospital for sinners. I think passionate would be a more accurate word to describe me.
PT: What is your aim for the future?
MZ: A general aim, I guess, would be to self-actualize, to fulfill my potential: to pursue a degree in mathematics and to become a more proficient musician. I think the pipe organ is the king of instruments and has a prominent place in church music. Up until the Industrial Revolution, the pipe organ was the most complex instrument. It still fascinates me that I can flip a switch and 50 feet away a whole rank of pipes is activated.
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Skip to comments.Michelle Obama, 2 daughters visit Eiffel Tower
Posted on 06/05/2009 3:36:33 PM PDT by combat_boots
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Well, luckily for her, those beautiful daughters resemble their father. Neither of them looks like she's inherited her mother's scowl.
Did those two get on the phone and discuss the "uniform" of the day? White dress and dark belt?
Same question I asked when I learned she was there. Had she been in Egypt or Germany she would surely have made her presence known.
I've been having the same symptoms, and another friend on Facebook was reporting the same thing. I can usually handle it during the day but at night I just feel sick to my stomach... so helpless to stop this juggernaut.
Yet, nothing of this is inevitable... the only thing that makes it seem inevitable is the non-stop barrage of propaganda from the govt and the state-run media.
Carla is SOoOo good looking. I didn't think she was so hot when they married, but every pic I've been seeing of her lately, she just looks fine. The hottest first lady ever. OTOH, she's been up agains the horse from Chicago, so that might make her look better by comparison.
Is it my imagination, or are neither of those "ladies" wearing hosiery?
Oh, my Lord! Attack of the Boob Belt! Poor Carla Sarkozy had to spend the day stifling her laughter.
I mean... what a great looking outfit. Soggy armpits are the new black!
He may wish he were instead of living to see this a$$clown speaking on hallowed ground.
Or thanking God for sending Michelle Obama to walk beside her and make her look so very much better by comparison.
It reminds me of a TV show I once saw in which AnnMargaret dared to sing Tina Turner's most famous signature song, "Proud Mary", right beside Tina Turner. When A-M's ghastly performance was over, Tina stepped to one side and applauded AnnMargaret graciously. It was one of the most generous acts one woman has ever done for another. Same with Carla -- she is keeping a straight face.
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World Directory, North America, United States, Alabama, Mobile County
Dauphin Island is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, located on a barrier island also named Dauphin Island. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. It was named after Louis XIV's great-grandson and heir, the Dauphin.
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St George Island is the largest of four barrier islands that sits five miles out into the Gulf of Mexico off the northwest coast of Florida. It is situated across the Bay from the town of Apalachicola and offers visitors 28 miles of secluded white beaches, as well as fishing opportunities.
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The 4,400 square mile island of Jamaica is completely ringed by the Caribbean Sea. Lying 90 miles south of Cuba it is the third largest island in the Caribbean. Each area of this vast island is completely different...from the dramatic Blue Mountains in the eastern interior to the limestone caves on the west coast.
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Located 20 km north of Cape Portland (north east tip of Tasmania) by sea and 151 km from Launceston by air, Flinders Island is the largest of the Furneaux group of islands which lie at the eastern end of Bass Strait separating Tasmania from Victoria. It is about 29 km wide at its widest point and 64 km long. The island was probably part of the land bridge which joined Tasmania to the mainland. Bass strait was formed as a result of the melting of ice after the last ice age and consequently Flinders and Cape Barren became islands and the Aborigines of Tasmania were cut off from their mainland counterparts.
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Visit the famouse fairy Penguin Parade at sunset. Lovely beaches and Island walks. Only 2 hour drive from Melbourne
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May 4, 2011, ST. LOUIS, (Coal Geology) – Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) has received the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative award, presented today by the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources during annual Arbor Day events. The award was presented for the reclamation of a former surface mine in western Ohio County, near the communities of Rockport and Echols.
"In this project, the entire area was reclaimed into fish and wildlife post-mining land use. Substantial amounts of native and western grasses were incorporated into the re-vegetation plans, and over 200,000 trees and shrubs were planted to establish wildlife food and shelter areas," stated Patriot Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Charles A. Ebetino, Jr. "The reclaimed area is used by hunters, fishermen and outdoor enthusiasts, and has also been visited by academic groups to observe and study the success of native grasses, reforestation and the repopulation of wildlife species. By thoughtfully incorporating grasses and wildlife that are native to this area, we have furthered our Company's mission to be a good steward of the land in the communities where we operate."
About Patriot Coal
Patriot Coal Corporation is a leading producer and marketer of coal in the eastern United States, with 14 active mining complexes in Appalachia and the Illinois Basin. The Company ships to domestic and international electricity generators, industrial users and metallurgical coal customers, and controls approximately 1.9 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. The Company's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PCX.
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Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility\, Objects of Art
celebrates Louis Comfort Tiffany's revolutionary contributions to modern d
ecorative lighting. Organized by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass
in New York City\, this exhibition presents the first in-depth look at the
Tiffany Studios' deliberate efforts to produce lamps that balance artistr
y with utility and profitability. Over 40 stunning objects in an array of
colors\, sizes and decorative styles are featured in five sections explori
ng the themes of fabrication\, design inspiration\, and changing lighting
technologies. The show also includes tools\, materials and period photogra
phs to enhance the viewer's appreciation of the objects by demonstrating h
ow they were made and what influenced the designs.
Tiffany's lamps are an innovative and successful combination of usefulness and beaut y. As articles of utility\, reading lamps\, floor lamps\, and hanging shad es come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes to regulate and direct light . As objects of art\, the lamps\, with their interplay of colored glass an d richly sculpted bronze\, bring beauty into the home. Whether understated minimal accents of color\, or showy\, elaborate design statements\, Tiffa ny lamps compliment a diversity of decorative schemes. This exhibition goe s beyond the general appreciation of the beauty of Tiffany lamps by exami ning the artistry and social context of these iconic objects. By creating lamps as objects of both utility and art\, Louis Comfort Tiffany realized his goal of making beautiful objects accessible to the public.


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Looking for recommendations on women's A/T boards
Alright, here's the deal, its been a long, long time since I've been all caught up on the latest and greatest snowboard tech, and I need help, and suggestions looking for my next board. I'm currently on a 2010 Never Summer Infinity, and I really like it for what it is. With that being said, I've beat on it quite a fair beat, and this is probably the last season I will ride it since it's on its last legs.
My stats are:
size 6.5 US boot
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I would ideally like to stick with a stiff(er) true twin board with a centered stance. I do spend most of my time teaching, but do make the occasional trips to the mountains as well.
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I'm hoping to demo a Launch board or two this season, heard good things and the men's deck I saw in person looked solid. Might want to look into them.
Also, check out the reviews on Angry Snowboarder; you might find something that fits the bill of what was reviewed (women's options are noted within brand listing) 2014 Snowboard Review Recap « (Both profile options of the Launch Vice were demoed iirc.)
I also have no idea if I want full or hybrid camber. I haven't had a chance to ride/demo other boards in a good 3-4 years. What I do know is that I like the rocker on my Infinity, and want to stay within that sort of feeling, if you will.
Thanks for the heads up on Angrysnowboarder's site as well. Shame on me for forgetting to check that out.
Haha, you're welcome!
I have the C2 version of the B Pro. There may have been a thread or post somewhat recently about the difference between C2/C3 B Pros...maybe it was from wrath or Fewdfreak? Can't remember. But I know you know how to find it hehe :D
If you like the rocker on your current board plus considering you longboard, perhaps that skatier feel might be what you're after? Try to demo the B Pro. I don't skate but noticed the C2 crc has that playful, looser feeling when you want it to, but locks in solidly more like a full camber would, when you want it to. But again I don't skate, so.
Zara does a nice, solid review for Angry Snowboarder, so you'll get a good run down of the decks she reviewed.
Good luck and keep us (killz and I...?) posted!
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Venus Williams was on a roll after advancing to the final of the Rogers Cup last week in Montreal, knocking off her sister, top-ranked Serena, in the process.
But her comeback was at least temporarily derailed Tuesday when she lost in the first round to 16th -ranked Lucie Safarova of Czechoslovakia, 7-6, 3-6, 4-6, in the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason. The match took 2 hours and 29 minutes.
Williams said she did not view the loss as a setback.
"This is one tournament out of many," she said. "That's pretty much how I see it. I didn't think I played badly. I just think my opponent played better and I wasn't able to capitalize on my opportunities when I had them."
It was the first time Williams has lost in the first round of the W&S Open. She was making her fourth appearance here.
"I think she just played so well," Williams said of Safarova. "No matter what shot I hit, she hit a winner, or if I hit it really deep she somehow managed to control it down the line. I think it was just her. I think she got a little tight at 5-1. So I had some chances to come back, but it's a deep hole."
Williams, 34, broke Safarova's serve to force a first-set tiebreaker that she won, but was unable to sustain the momentum. After dropping the second set, she broke Safarova - a Wimbledon semifinalist this year- at 3-5. The match had appeared to be over when Safarova's shot was ruled to have caught the back line, but Williams challenged and the call was overturned, with replays showing the ball clearly landed beyond the line.
Williams extended the match by holding serve at 4-5, but lost the next game on an unforced error to end the match.
"It's a terrible feeling," Safarova said of the Williams challenge, "because you think you've won the match. You have all the emotions already and then suddenly the picture shows that you are back in the match with a great player and you have to compete again hard. I got kind of tense afterwards and she broke me."
Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam winner, is attempting to rejuvenate her career after being diagnosed in 2011 with Sjogren's syndrome, a debilitating auto-immune disease. She entered this tournament with a No. 20 ranking, the first time she had been in the Top 20 since March 2013.
"I definitely would have liked to play more matches here," Williams said. "You know, maybe it's easier to get a little bit easier draw, too…I think I just got impatient trying to go for a little too much instead of just taking my time until I got some opportunities. I think that was just a tactical error in the third set. I have to just learn from that."


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Salisbury, MD - Five Delmarva Shorebirds pitchers held the Salisbury University Sea Gulls to just three hits in a 3-0 exhibition game win on Tuesday night at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in front of 2,096 fans.
The Shorebirds struck early in the first inning. Adrian Marin was hit by a pitch. After stealing second base, he advanced to third on a groundout by Christian Walker. Then, Nik Balog hit a hard grounder through the left side of the infield to score Marin.
Brady Wager tossed two scoreless innings to begin the game. He struck out two batters in the second to maneuver around a lead off double by Quinn Griffith, who was stranded at second.
Josh Hader entered in the third for the Shorebirds and pitched two scoreless innings. He induced four groundouts and struck out one.
In the fourth inning, the Shorebirds added to their lead. Joel Hutter hit a lead off double. Then, Torsten Boss ripped a single to right field to build the lead to 2-0. With two outs, Wynston Sawyer drilled a double to deep left field to give the Shorebirds a 3-0 lead.
Mychal Givens took the mound in the sixth inning and polished off the Sea Gulls in order. He struck out Ken O'Neill to end the frame. Matt Price finished the game with a scoreless seventh inning.
Part of the ticket proceeds from the exhibition game will go to the Brooke Mulford Foundation.
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I had the same reaction to this film that I had to the GRE: too damn much math. Really, if I'm going into graduate work in the social sciences, the only math I really need to know is how many secretaries it takes to file away my papers. Otherwise, math is pretty much useless. The same could be said for this Canadian film, in which several people are stuck inside a cube and must use math to get out.
The math knowledge is supplied by Leaven (Nicole deBoer), one of six people to appear inside a square room at the beginning of the film. There's also Rennes (Wayne Robson), an escape artist, Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), a cop, Worth (David Hewlett), a loser engineer, and Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), a doctor. Later on, Rain Man appears in the form of Kazan (Andrew Miller), an autistic guy.
The cube is made up of 17,576 different rooms and thus the cube is twenty-six by twenty-six rooms across, down, and deep. In between each room are doors. Some rooms are booby-trapped. Others aren't. As they crawl between rooms, Leaven figures out that the numbers in between each room have something to do with figuring out how to get out. There's some blithering about prime numbers and Cartesian coordinates, and I was pretty much lost and pissed off after that.
All I know is that it takes Leaven more than one second to figure out that 645 isn't a prime number, which meant that if I were one of the other characters, I wouldn't have followed the chick anywhere (which actually would have proven to be a good course of action). Monkeys know that 645 isn't a prime number. Pay attention to how noisy the doors are when they open, because in the end, somebody gets into a room without anybody noticing. Had the filmmakers explained that all that math made the characters go deaf, I might have bought it. Apparently, however, they just chalk it up to the characters getting bored by the script and dozing off, just as I did.
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Since January, when her rep announced Mariska Hargitay had suffered a partially collapsed lung, information about the nature of the Law & Order: SVU's star condition has been scant, until now.
During a dinner in Manhattan for the American Ballet Theater on Monday, Hargitay, 45, told PEOPLE: "I've been doing my own stunts on the show for 10 years. I fell wrong, basically. I collapsed my lung doing a stunt."
Hargitay underwent surgery in January, then returned to work on her NBC series soon after – only to check back into the hospital on March 3, at which time her rep said: "She is undergoing routine tests and expects to be feeling better soon."
A March 9 statement said, "Mariska is recovering well and is expected to return to SVU in the next couple of weeks." On March 23, PEOPLE reported she was back on the set.
And now? "I'm 100 percent," a spectacular-looking Hargitay, in a long gown by Caroline Herrera (who helped sponsor the event), told PEOPLE at the dinner, where Caroline Kennedy introduced Michelle Obama, who in turn introduced the young performers of the ABT's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
Added Hargitay: "I'm back to my old self."
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None of that's particularly exceptional. What is, though, is that Worrall's handle on Twitch and Twitter, "No Hands Ken," is a bit of self-ascribed dark humor. Worrall was injured in a construction accident 20 years ago that paralyzed him from the neck down. In the midst of a deep depression following his accident, he was introduced to Diablo by one of his nurses, who showed him a gadget that lets him control the game with just his mouth.
Worrall began playing the game quite a bit, and he has since achieved a measure of popularity on Twitch – the service recently made him a partner, which means that he'll now receive a chunk of the revenue from the ads that play before his videos. Worrall is in the middle of a fundraising pledge to get him to Blizzcon, an annual games conference held by Blizzard, the makers of Diablo and Warcraft.
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More on Nokia (NOK) Q3: net cash from operating activities -€429M vs. €852M a year earlier. Achieves operating profit (non-IFRS) of €78M vs. loss of €327M a year earlier. Gross cash of €8.8B and net cash of €3.6B. Lumia volumes fall Q/Q to 2.9M ahead of launch of W8 devices. Overall mobile volumes increase to 76.6M from 73.5M, boosted by Asha phones. (PR)
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http://bit.ly/T1kZeD here is the interim report
I think from here on out the stock will just skyrocket after releasing the new Lumia 920/820/810 and lets not forget that tiny jewel the Asha line for feature phones..The Lumia 920 is already in high demand in Europe and sold out pre-orders. Qt4 will be very exciting!
Why are people pushing the markets to a monopoly or a duopoly? Do you really want to come to a store and choose between an iPhone or a Samsung, an iOs or an Android? The more different software we have and the more phone makers we will have on the market, the better we will feel! A monopoly doesn't think about its customers, a healthy concurrent market does! A monopoly won't bring any innovation (the perfect example of it is Apple's new policy), while concurrence will bread the innovation, we didn't get for the last 4 years!
My comment was about the decision by Nokia leadership to go with Microsoft and wait for Microsoft. Samsung, HTC and others can and will produce Windows phones. What advantage was gained by Nokia waiting? It has been a tremendous destruction of value, jobs and margins. I was just asking, for what benefit?
Well if you were using a Windows Phone, or at leat testing one, you wouldn't be asking that. The experience of use is tremendous, not even comparable with Android. I would say that it's even much more innovative than iOS, but it might be arguable, and WP offers almost as much freedom as Android, which was the main argument against iOS. So for me, it's obvious that waiting is highly compensated. I should also make you notice that unlike Android, WP offers the same level of synchronization between PC and tablets, as Apple. So it's going to push people having a Windows 7/8 PC and a Windows tablet to buy a WP. The only negative point is that WP is also used by HTC and is probably going to be used by Microsoft itself. However, Android is also used by many phone makers, while Symbian showed us that programing OS isn't Nokia's strongest point.
It is a question of expectations. Since many investors believe Nokia is headed into bankruptcy because it will soon run out of cash, any evidence to the contrary is bullish.
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LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday he protected Britain's national interest by refusing to join 26 other nations in a European Union-wide treaty to rescue the euro last week.
Defending his blocking of the accord to lawmakers in London, Cameron said he'd sought "modest and reasonable" safeguards for Britain's finance industry and the EU's single market in the talks in Brussels and had no choice but to oppose a treaty when he couldn't secure them. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who has criticized Cameron's decision, was absent from the House of Commons as the premier explained his actions.
"I went to Brussels with one objective, to protect Britain's national interest, and that is what I did," Cameron said. "It wasn't the easy thing to do, but it was the right thing to do."
By refusing to join the fiscal accord, Cameron, who was cheered by lawmakers from his Conservative Party as he arrived in the chamber, strengthened the Tory faction that wants Britain to leave the EU. He also caused the biggest divide in his coalition with Clegg's pro-Europe Liberal Democrats since the parties campaigned on opposite sides in a May voting-system overhaul.
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Doubts rebounded Monday over Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis and rescue the imperiled euro, as investors worried that plans for closer fiscal unity will bring little immediate relief and exposed the continent's deep political divisions.
As the rift between Britain, which has its own currency, and the 17 nations that use the euro created uncertainty about the deal's future, ratings agencies Moody's and Fitch warned the plan did not even properly address the problem of lowering existing European debt.


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For the last two years Beyoncé has owned our hearts and minds – for me, Life Is But A Dream marked a real turning point in the marketing of Queen B, but as far back as 2008 she was telling us that she was going to run the world. Beyoncé married Jay Z in 2008, her parents split in 2009 (it took them a few years to hammer out the divorce), and in 2011 she dropped her father as her manager. Full Story
As IF Terrence Howard
This b-tch. Terrence Howard played Rhodey, Tony Stark's best friend, in the first Iron Man movie. He was good in the role. I enjoyed their chemistry. I enjoyed his exasperation every time Tony behaved like, well, Tony. Clearly Howard enjoyed himself too. Because he wanted more money to come back for the sequel(s). Full Story
Amber Heard covers FLARE but won't talk about Johnny Depp
The cover is soft and pink – reminds me of Diane Kruger's FLARE cover a few months ago (click here for a refresher – but the subject seems intent on being as UN-girly as possible. As Amber Heard tells the magazine, she's more into muscle cars than heels. Full Story
Scarjo looks hot but needs to sit DOWN
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Scarlett Johansson presented at the Tony Awards last night. She looked great. Love the cut of this tuxedo jacket. Love the lip colour so much. It's a scary lip colour to try. I tried it a few months ago -- even darker than this -- and was put off initially because the lips were drawn exactly on the lip line. Full Story
Sit DOWN, Reese Witherspoon
For years I have been telling you she's not the sweetness she's been selling you. And still people are surprised. At a recent Faculty of Celebrity Studies event, I told a story about Reese being a dick and some people were surprised, like they couldn't believe it. Because she goes to church and has a nice smile. Full Story
Pippy's best week ever
After 3 consecutive Dudes We Like posts, let's bring it all down with a douchebag. Clearly I'm in the minority with the Justin Timberlake fatigue. His relentless assault over the last couple of months totally worked. The 20/20 Experience is expected to exceed 800,000 copies in first week sales, making it his best ever, over FutureSex/LoveSounds which, frankly, we can all agree on this right?, is the better album. Full Story
Why don't you make it more obvious?
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Worst Globes Letdown: Anne Hathaway
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I don't know why it has to be so hard. Anne Hathaway started the night off so strong: white dress, as is often her wont, cute hair, and the key to everything – Amy and Tina on her side with a joke early on. For a girl like me, someone who tries to like Anne Hathaway very much, and often feels like she gets a bad rap for being earnest, instead of the insufferable most people paint her as, there starts to be a little bit of hope. Full Story
Twilight's two future Oscar winners
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Don't be ridiculous. This is not about Anna Kendrick and Kristen Stewart -- why would you think that? The title tells you everything you need to know. Obviously the title refers to Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz. Last month Lutz declared during a magazine interview that he would win an Oscar one day. Full Story
The Tree-Reader says he'll win an Oscar
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Anne Hathaway: pimples and eye-rolls
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Gifts We Receive from the Girls
This season is a time for reflection, and often during the holidays our thoughts turn to giving. All of us at The Elephant Sanctuary are here because of a calling. We are here for the Girls. Because we believe in The Elephant Sanctuary, some of us have moved across the country or across the world, left friends and loved ones behind, to give to the Girls and their Sanctuary our gifts of love and hard work and determination and dedication. The holidays are poignant – sometimes our families come to us in Hohenwald. They come because of their love for us, and because they are willing to travel to be with us during this special season of hope. Sometimes we are able to travel to them. Some of the Caregivers will ring in the holidays and New Year without the family they were born into, they'll be with a family they've chosen – the Girls. As you'll see in the words of our Caregivers, though, it's really the Girls who give to us. Every day at The Elephant Sanctuary, we are reminded that the Girls are the most incredible, beautiful gifts of all.
The first gift: a window. The Elephants at The Sanctuary give those who care for them a unique window into their unimaginable intelligence, their compassionate social demeanor, and, in spite of their massive size and power, their gentle, inquisitive nature.
The second gift: proximity. I am often in awe of their willingness to allow us proximity, to allow us to care for them in ways that sometimes involve contact, with a trust and gentleness that defies the memories they must have of the abuses they experienced prior to coming to the Sanctuary.
The third gift: understanding. When eight or ten thousand pounds worth of elephant stands, free to leave if it chooses, and allows you to do a pedicure, allows you to take a blood sample to check it's health, allows you to toss medicines into its mouth, when it does all this and shows no signs of fear or defensiveness, that is an unparalleled gift from an incredible animal.
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Search for dark matter signals with Fermi-LAT observation of globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15
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The globular clusters are probably good targets for dark matter (DM) searches in $\gamma$-rays due to the possible adiabatic contraction of DM by baryons. In this work we analyse the three-year data collected by {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope of globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 to search for possible DM signals. For NGC 6388 the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission was reported by {\it Fermi} collaboration, which is consistent with the emission of a population of millisecond pulsars. The spectral shape of NGC 6388 is also shown to be consistent with a DM contribution if assuming the annihilation final state is $b\bar{b}$. No significant $\gamma$-ray emission from M 15 is observed. We give the upper limits of DM contribution to $\gamma$-ray emission in both NGC 6388 and M 15, for annihilation final states $b\bar{b}$, $W^+W^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, $\tau^+\tau^-$ and monochromatic line. The constraints are stronger than that derived from observation of dwarf galaxies by {\it Fermi}.


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Let me get this straight...
1) I say the factual statement that Burish is a scrub compared to Pronger, and would most probably lose in a fight against him, despite Burris's bravado.
It is irrelevant considering the fact that I could say that about any poster on this board when they give another player s***.
2) You call me out and accuse me of hypocrisy through means of sarcasm
More like irony.
3) I respond that if we can't critique players, there is no point to this forum, as we are doing exactly what you previously chastised.
You are critiquing players for exactly what I could critique you for. Ergo, ironic.
That's how I see it, if I'm somehow missing something please take the time to elaborate, instead of making another account as a sockpuppet to argue this fact. There is a reason why you have a resounding -6 on your post.
Invictus is no sock of mine. Go ask a mod for our IPs and I will guarantee that they aren't the same. But if you would please like to start some more theories as to why someone may agree with such a "silly" statement of mine, go ahead. Doesn't help your argument any.
And go ahead and neg me all you want. I have 230 meaningless points anyway so I have plenty to spend on posts that apparently LGW doesn't like, which in itself is pretty meaningless as well.
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