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There are no such things as bad negotiationsonly there are bad negotiators! Negotiate by asking for what you want. Don't be shy, put it out there! Tell them that you have to have at least a 3% salary increase each year just to keep up with inflation! Incentives don't cut it all the time! Unless they will not budge and then ask for double the incentive to allow for 50% missing.Also, Don't buddy up with your boss ever! I regreted it because their are bad back stabbers out there that will leave you or take advantage of your hospitality!
More Hours/ More Responsiblities/ More Pay
I have worked for the same company now for 6 + yrs and have moved up and being giving nothing but the highest regard. However for the past 3 yrs, my hours were cut from 40 to 30 along with other employees & now that they want me to go back F/T they want me to take it for 50 cents more. 10 more hours, 20 more hrs of work, then they will reduce the other employees hrs, so there's only 60 hrs in this whole office. Companies today know they have you by the tail & that you probably cant just go out and get another job right away becuase of the market. Your stuck between a rock and hard place with no where to go. Frustrated, proative employee living in a tourist town with no where to go from here. What does a person do?
Little White Lies for Higher Salary
I recently obtained a job at a major bank. When I received the call for the interview, I was extremely happy and went in with hopes of getting the job, and I did. I have previous banking experience and also still have Retail and Sales expierence as well. Did not negotiate any amount because I was just happy to get a job. Come to find out a girl from my current, still retail job also got a offer with the same bank, she said a little white lie and mentioned that she already had an offer with Bank of America and they offered her 12.00 there. So this current bank then offered her 12.75 with flexibilty with any schedule she wanted. I got super upset, due to the fact that I am also bilingual, like her, just with the difference that I have a college education.
Getting What You Are Worth
I have been in the healthcare field on and off since I was 15, (am now 39 with a disabled child). I definately am not getting what I am worth and never will, who does? However, in this day and age when you calculate what you are getting in terms of rate of pay consider the following, first health and wellfare: Is the company paying for your individual health care with low contribution from you? Secondly, if traveling what is the mileage rate and how many miles do you expect to travel each week? In addition is there cell phone reimbursement, shift differential and sick pay and holiday pay. Cummulatively add this up subtract actual cost and you will see what you really make. I happen to have been doing exceptionally well within this field. Also consider flexible scheduling between office and patient and the time I need to dedicate to my child when necessary. I am happy in what I do.
Told there was no money in the budget for my raise.
No associate should be surprised when it comes to their end of year review. As long as both the associate and manager are doing their part. You should be receiving regular periodic performance assessments. Including a mid year review for a detailed performance discussion. At each meeting be prepared and engage in a fact based discussion. Each session should answer questions related to your performance as outlined in your annual performance objectives with written feedback. "No raise due to budget concerns", this is a cop out answer and wrong. Budgets are just that, planned expenses. However, if this answer is provided, it fair to ask how that can happen? or Seek your next step options outside your manager. Many times it's not if there was not enough money, it a matter of how those moneys were allocated.Also evaluate your current salary to your department's market reference point (MRP) as this to can be taken into account. This becomes next assessment factor if performance ratings for associates are the same.EXAMPLE:Below is a simplistic look at a 10 associate department but represents the basic idea and order which raises could be assessed. Performance first then MRP, see that 2 associates may not be considered.(APO) 1 to 5 rating with 5 being best.LOW: 28,000MRP: 30,000HIGH:42,000Connie current salary is 30,000 and rated 5 on 1-5 scale.Eddie current salary is 29,000 and rated 4 on 1-5 scale.Juanita current salary is 31,000 and rated 4 on 1-5 scale.John current salary is 29,000 and rated 3 on 1-5 scale. Betty current salary is 41,000 and rated 3 on 1-5 scale.Not eligible due to poor performance:Janice current salary is 41,000 and rated 2 on 1-5 scale.Ralph current salary is 28,000 and rated 2 on 1-5 scale.So bottom line: Know, live and breath your annual performance expectations. If not provided, ask for periodic written performance evaluations.Keep in mind your salary in relationship to dept. MRP.If you still feel your review and associated compensation is improper express your concerns and use your company policies or contact HR.
Education and Techs.
I have graduated from an ASHP accredited Pharmacy Technology program. I work in the hospital setting and am SC State Certified. If I had not gone to school I would not be SC Certified. These certifications (SC and PTCB) have improved my salary a lot. Just by moving from GA where my education wasn't valued to SC where is qualifies me for SC Cert I saw an 18% raise in my salary. Please do your research though because techs are underpaid but I love my job in the hospital. Retail jobs do not pay well, there is no over time or shift differentials. You have more expensive benefits in retail payroll deductions also. I believe for a career you need to get into a good hospital position. I get higher pay, cheaper benefits, shift differentials, lots of overtime, and guaranteed raises each year. Plus in the hospital there is no cash register, drive thru, or customers to deal with. I worked retail part time from 2003 to 2006 and full time from 2008 to 2010. I worked hospital part time from Sept 09 to Jan 2010 then went full time in Jan 2010. I am much happier now.
Raise or new position
I had only been with the company less then a year and advanced two times. My second advancement with the company was the icing on the cake. There were no position advancement within my field but after searching for a new job within the company and sending in my transfer my manager, not wanting to loose me, created a new position with new title and new salary. It was awesome because I truly didn't want to leave my department. I came in and worked hard and asked for more work and gave extra time and my manager saw my dedication and hard work and it paid off. So don't think you can't move up if there is no position to move into if they really want to keep you they will create one. I also showed how much more I was going to be making if I transfered so they gave me more then that.
Quality Assurance Auditor
If you want to receive higher pay in this field, you need to get education in the measurement analysis field. Learn how to operate a CMM or a Romer Arm.
Initial Job Offer
Get as much as you can with the initial job offer. Upper management are reluctant to reward success in the future. VP of Manufacturing operates more politically than actual based on Performance indicators.If possible get contracts negotiated in writing.
A degree does not pay!
I have an Associates degree in pharmacy technology, it is worthless! It has no bearing on how much I make or open any doors to better pharmacy jobs at all. You can get hired into a pharmacy with no experience and be trained on the job and have your certification paid for by the company instead of paying for it yourself. Don't get scammed into the chain "colleges" that claim you need a degree or will need a degree, they are wrong!
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DALLAS (AP) - When Nick Van Exel and Raef LaFrentz went from sad-sack Denver to division-leading Dallas in February, friends around the league welcomed them back to the NBA.
While laughing at the joke, the new Mavericks couldn't help but wonder: What are we doing here?
Dallas was playing great without them, getting plenty of points from All-Stars Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash. There also was Michael Finley, an All-Star the two previous years. Dallas' Big Three weren't about to turn into the Big Five just because two new players showed up.
Seven weeks and 22 games later, Van Exel and LaFrentz have figured out their roles - just in time for the playoffs.
Raef LaFrentz: His outside shooting was needed to pull defenders and clear the lane.
In a 108-96 victory over Portland on Tuesday night, Van Exel scored 21 points, his third straight game with 20 or more. LaFrentz showed signs of breaking out of a recent slump with 15 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks.
"We were numb for a long time," LaFrentz said. "You're not happy, not disappointed, just shocked. My whole life changed. But once you get your feet down, there's no question that this was a change for the better. We're now winning games and thinking about the playoffs, about the division championship."
The Mavericks were 37-17, a .685 winning percentage, the day they sent Juwan Howard, Tim Hardaway and Donnell Harvey to the Nuggets for Van Exel, LaFrentz, Avery Johnson and Tariq Abdul-Wahad. Since they arrived, Dallas is 16-6, a .727 winning percentage, with wins in five of the last six games.
The focus now is on playoff positioning. The Mavs lead San Antonio by one game in the Midwest Division going into the Spurs' game against the Nuggets on Wednesday night. The division winner gets the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference; the runner-up probably would slip to fourth unless the Los Angeles Lakers slide in the final week.
Van Exel and LaFrentz were Denver's main scoring options, but Dallas coach-general manager Don Nelson got them to be complementary pieces.
He wanted LaFrentz to bang inside against big men on defense, and on offense to use his shooting range to pull centers such as Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan outside, clearing the lane for drives by Nash and Van Exel.
Van Exel was brought in to keep defenses away from the Big Three, while adding another clutch shooter. Nelson likes having Van Exel and Nash on the court at the same time, especially in the fourth quarter.
"Steve is a percentage shooter and Nick is a volume shooter," Nelson said. "But Nick can get to places Steve can't, so it works out real well playing them together."
Van Exel has come off the bench 20 times so far after doing so only 21 times his previous 582 games. That hasn't been as much of an adjustment as realizing that reduced minutes don't mean a change in his job description. He's still supposed to run the court, look for layups, pop open shots or set up his teammates for easy baskets, just as he did in Denver.
The message clicked a few weeks ago during a four-game road trip. The turning point came in the opener against Milwaukee, near his hometown of Kenosha, Wis., when Van Exel took over the fourth quarter of an overtime victory in a game Dallas had trailed by 17.
LaFrentz became a regular starter after three games and was a solid contributor for weeks.
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SEATTLE — Researchers at the University of Washington have assembled the first comprehensive genetic map of an unborn child — a development that could help usher in a new era of prenatal testing.
By analyzing fetal DNA circulating in the mother's blood, the scientists were able to sequence the baby's genome 18 weeks into the pregnancy. The technique also worked at eight weeks, with slightly lower sensitivity.
Because the approach requires only a blood sample from the mother and saliva from the father, it poses none of the miscarriage risk associated with invasive tests such as amniocentesis. And while most existing prenatal tests are designed to check for single disorders, including Down syndrome, a full-gene scan has the power to reveal a wide range of potential problems before birth, said lead author Jacob Kitzman, a doctoral student in genetics.
"It's much more comprehensive."
The procedure is still several years away from commercialization, project leader Jay Shendure said.
But the UW study, published in the June 6 issue of Science Translational Medicine, marks a significant step forward in technology that's been developing over the past several years — and which worries some people, said Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, Calif.
"I think it's a game-changer," she said. Cheap, safe genome sequencing could give parents the power to practice a kind of eugenics, preselecting children based on desirable traits.
"It could become a routine part of prenatal testing … which raises questions about what people will do with the information," Darnovsky said.
Shendure cautioned against expecting too much — at least in the near future. Scientists may be able to sequence the 3 billion DNA units that make up each person's genetic heritage, but they still don't understand the genetic basis of most common diseases.
"The capacity of genomics to generate data is outstripping our ability to interpret it in useful ways," he said.
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Chicago, IL (January 3, 2008) – The first of six installations of Stories of Race, Stories of Place, Stories of Grace, a program designed to explore racism's impact on individuals and institutions, will be held at 3 p.m. on January 13 at St. Gerald Parish, 9310 S. 55th Ct. in Oak Lawn.
Presented by renowned storyteller Susan O'Halloran, Stories of Race, Stories of Place, Stories of Grace is based on a series of stories that highlight the four types of racism Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, addressed in his 2001 Pastoral Letter, Dwell In My Love.
Stories of Race, Stories of Place, Stories of Grace is open to all family members 10 and older, and will include a reflective dialogue session and a free-will offering. The program is co-sponsored by the Archdiocesan Office for Racial Justice and Catholics United for Racial Justice, and is partially supported by Angel's Studio and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.


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By Sarah E. Pavlik
Long before the civil rights movement swept the South, cotton fields dominated the landscape of northeast Alabama and folks still drove a horse and buggy to Sunday meetings at Harvest Baptist Church.
While many church members may have heard stories about those times, Edna Mae Tuck, Grace Gann and Mildred Raby experienced them firsthand as members of the Madison Baptist Association church.
Nearly three-quarters of a century after those early days, the women — all in their early 90s — remain active members of the church, which is currently led by interim pastor Jere Patterson.
Lora "Crickett" Anderson, 92, the fourth member of their 90-something group, joined the church in 2000. She grew up in Paint Rock, a farming community 30 miles southeast of Harvest.
Recently the nonagenarians sat down together to reflect on the way things used to be, their beloved church and what it's like to have known Jesus longer than most people live.
Gann has been at Harvest Baptist the longest, having been saved at a church revival when she was 13.
"We used to have real good revivals back then," said Gann, the quietest one in the group. "They were a week long, and people would come from everywhere to hear the guest preacher."
In those days, the visiting pastor would preach during the morning, eat lunch at a member's home and then canvas the countryside searching for more people to invite to the evening revival.
Tuck, drawing from an anthology of memories from 77 years as a Christian, added that revivals were a big deal in their tiny community back then.
"Revival always came in August," she said. "The Methodists would have it the first week, the Church of Christ the second and then the Baptists on the third week. I guess we didn't have a lot to do back then because we were at every one of them."
Raby chuckled at the shared memory. At age 12, she became a Christian, and at 16, she married Herbert Raby. They raised five children together.
The family began attending the church in 1944 — around the same time the church was building its third sanctuary. The concrete-block structure serves as a child-care center today.
Still able to drive, Raby said of her 62 years of service that she's just been "a regular church member."
"I've sung in the choir, taught Sunday School — all those Baptist things," Raby said. "I did it until my voice gave out and I couldn't remember enough about the lesson to teach anymore."
Tuck — a choir member at Harvest Baptist since she was 14 — also stopped singing after she sang her last duet with the music minister, Hurley Hughes, in 2003.
Tuck recalled a time when her musical talents took her in a slightly different direction. During the Prohibition era, she was called on regularly to sing at the funerals of moon shiners who perished in mountain-still explosions.
"We always had trouble picking out the songs," Tuck remembered. "But we thought it proper to sing at every one of their funerals."
A smile tugged on Gann's lips as Tuck went on about the bootleggers. "I miss the days when we used to baptize people in Limestone Creek," Gann interjected.
"It was almost sacred. Wasn't it, Grace?" Raby asked from across the table. "We'd all stand on the bank and sing hymns, and the preacher would lead them through the trees and into the water."
Anderson said, "I was always sorry I never got to see a creek baptism."
While Raby, Tuck and Gann were watching cotton fields turn to subdivisions in Harvest, Anderson was working busily as a missionary with Christian Business and Professional Women in Kansas City, Mo.
For 40 years, she crisscrossed the country organizing Christian women's clubs to encourage Christian businesswomen to invite their unchurched co-workers to a luncheon during which a speaker shares the gospel.
"The Lord saved me (in my 40s) and gave me a wonderful opportunity to serve Him full time," Anderson said. "My purpose in the ministry was to tell people how they could know Jesus as their Savior."
She returned to Alabama after retiring to care for her younger sister Bessy Robinson. It was Robinson who first invited Anderson to visit Harvest Baptist.
Although so much has changed in their church and community, James Beard, a longtime deacon at Harvest Baptist and Gann's son-in-law, said the women's faithfulness to God and the church body has remained constant through the years.
"Every Sunday, they are at church," he said. "Even at their age, they're willing to put forth the effort to be there.
"Our younger members can look to these women and see what faithfulness is like, and they can follow their example."
The four say they are honored by their mentor status but are quick to defer credit to their enduring relationship with Jesus. "He taught me that He loves me and that even now, He still wants to shine through me so that others might come to know Him," Anderson said.
Always an early riser, Tuck said that she still reads her Bible every morning. "Even though I'm one of God's older girls, I still ask Him to work through me," she said. "I still want to be able to bring lost souls to Him."


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Infection is a major worry for all orthopedic surgeons and measures are taken to minimize surgical site infections. However, with the increasing complexity of orthopedic surgical techniques and the need for intraoperative imaging, there are still no standardized techniques that can ensure the sterility of the operating field while using a C-arm. We have designed a method, which is both inexpensive and user friendly for all theater staff. It involves the use of a sterile bag draped over a drip stand and allows the C-arm to enter the bag from under the operating table when lateral views are needed, thereby maintaining a sterile field.
Infection is one of the most common complications associated with orthopedic surgery. The Health Protection Agency states that risk of surgical site infections (SSI) was highest in repair of neck of femur procedures, where approximately 1 in 60 patients developed an SSI.1 In addition, approximately 1 in 70 patients undergoing reduction of a long bone fracture also developed an SSI.1
Fluoroscopy is frequently used intraoperatively, to help with trauma procedures as well as in spinal operations. There are currently several different types of image intensifiers that are collectively known as "C-arms." They enable the surgeon to attain radiographs in different positions and planes by simply moving the adjustable C-arm (Fig. 1).
It is very important to cover the portion of the C-arm closest to the sterile field with sterile drapes, to maintain the sterility of the operating field. It is also important for the surgeon to be aware of the C-arm and try not to handle the machine if its sterility is in question. The use of additional equipments in theater has been proved to increase the risk of infection.2–4 Therefore, the addition of the C-arm in any orthopedic procedure adds an extra source of bacterial infection. Appropriate measures should be taken to try and reduce this.
Biswas et al5 stated that the upper portions of C-arms exhibited the greatest rates of contamination during spinal procedures. This loss in sterility was most likely due to the movement of the undraped portions of the C-arm being rotated under the table to acquire lateral images. Biswas et al5 also state that the top portion of the C-arm drape is unsterile and a possible source of an SSI.
Currently, there are no standardized draping methods for the use of the C-arm and it is for this reason that the risk of contamination from this source has increased. The sterile field is defined as a horizontal plane level with the surgical tabletop.6,7 When the C-arm swings underneath the table, it becomes unsterile and needs to be ideally re-draped as it enters the sterile field (Fig. 2).
This causes a waste of time, resources, and if the C-arm is not properly re-draped, in addition to the increased infection risk. There are manufacturers who have tried to solve this problem. The most notable design is the C-armor drape, which is a sterile pouch and encompasses the C-arm on all 5 sides.8 However, not all theaters have this drape and have surgeons and scrub nurses who have had little experience using this technique. It is also difficult for the radiographer to see the positioning of the C-arm once under the drapes.
We propose a novel method of keeping the C-arm sterile with the use of a readily available theater equipment. By using a large, clear sterile bag draped over a drip stand with castors, we are able to provide a sterile bag, in which the contaminated C-arm can be positioned into. The top of the drip stand is wrapped with wool, to prevent the pointed hooks from piercing the bag (Fig. 3).
A sterile bag is then safely placed over the drip stand with the bottom rolled up slightly, to allow easy entry of the C-arm (Fig. 4).
After this step, the surgeon can safely maneuver the C-arm into the bottom of the sterile bag when a lateral image is needed. The C-arm enters the bag at the level of the table, thereby maintaining a sterile field (Fig. 5).
As illustrated below, the C-arm has entered the sterile field but is fully covered on 5 sides, thereby maintaining the sterile field. The radiographer is also able to easily view the positioning of the device, which will help obtain the appropriate radiographs quicker (Fig. 6).
An additional advantage of this technique is that the surgeon can handle the C-arm safely, to obtain ideal images quickly, while not jeopardizing his sterility. It is therefore important to use a drip stand with castors to help with this. He is also able to maintain the drill in a position parallel to the floor while tilting the table to help with distal interlocking (Fig. 7).
When an anteroposterior radiograph is needed, the C-arm is simply swung out of the bag and out of the sterile field.
This is a safe and inexpensive method of using easily obtainable theater equipment to maintain a sterile field while using a C-arm. It has a number of applications such as in intramedullary nailing and spinal surgery, where anteroposterior and lateral images are needed.
C-arm; sterility; infection; distal locking
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Chocolate-Mint Brownie Cookies
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 9 min
- Ready Time: 60 min
- Yield: 6 dozen cookies
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2/3 cup Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
- OR 2/3 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups (12 oz. pkg.) mint chocolate chips
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 375°F.
- COMBINE brown sugar, shortening, water, vanilla and peppermint extracts in large bowl; beat at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs; mix well.
- COMBINE flour, salt, cocoa and baking soda in medium bowl; add to shortening mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended. Stir in mint chocolate chips.
- DROP dough by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
- BAKE 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are set. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheets; transfer to cooling racks to cool completely.
- TIP Is your cocoa powder still good? Unsweetened cocoa powder can be stored in a tightly closed container in a cool, dark place for up to two years.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 cookie), Calories 70 (Calories from Fat 30), Total Fat 3.5g (Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 5mg, Sodium 25mg, Total Carbohydrate 10g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 7g), Protein 1g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 0%, Iron 2%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.


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Sandie Mullins
Sandie Mullins' life focuses on commitment to community. As Houston Community College Board Trustee for District VI, she offers a background that uniquely complements the HCC Board of Trustees. Mullins has a deep understanding of the relationship between a community and its leaders, and the needs of those who work to live and thrive in West Houston.
Trustee Mullins received her MBA from St. Mary's University and was elected President of the Graduate Business Student Association. Mullins is one of several other HCC alumni currently on the Board. Her institutional knowledge will play an essential role in developing a platform and creating success for HCC.
Community service has played a central role in Mullins' career, beginning with her undergraduate degree in Community Health Education from Texas A&M University. She served the largest healthcare provider in San Antonio – Baptist Memorial Hospital System – as Community Health Education Coordinator, where her duties encompassed marketing for physicians, marketing the health careers programs and being a part of the expansion of the hospital system, which had reached six hospitals upon her departure. She was a Lecturer on the nationally broadcast audio conference "Community Health Education Issues in the '90s."
Trustee Mullins has also been a civic leader. She served as President for Super Neighborhood 17. Her tenure with the Houston West Chamber of Commerce includes serving as Co-Chair of the Business and Education Committee and the West Houston Public Safety Committee. She is a member of the Chamber's Governmental Affairs, Economic and Teacher of the Year Committees. The Chamber recognized her work, naming Mullins the Committee Volunteer of the Year. She also recently sat on the West Region P-16 Education Council, which reviews and recommends curriculum alignment for area schools. Trustee Mullins sits on the West Houston Medical Center board of directors which is a three-year term.
March of Dimes Walk America, American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Humana and Texas Children's Hospitals, Collaborative for Children, West Houston Leadership Institute and Grace Presbyterian Church are several of the non-profit endeavors to which Mullins has dedicated her time.
For all Trustee Mullins' extensive commitment to her community, it is her family that is her priority. Trustee Mullins is married to Charlie Moger and they have six children. The family attends Grace Presbyterian Church and St. John Vianney Church.


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Mystical Journey, the newest exhibit at Tucson International Airport (TIA) on display through November 30 in the Upper Link Gallery, features the work of three talented Tucson painters: Sue Betanzos, Catherine Eyde, and Janet Miller.
Sue Betanzos' love of nature, especially wildlife, is expressed in her sweet portrait of Little Scout, the desert mouse, peeking through cracked glass and framed with a stained glass mosaic.
"Art is my lifestyle. Thinking about and creating art is what I do 24/7," she explains. Reverse glass painting, mosaic, and clay all figure in the work presented in this show as well as the permanent installations at the entrances to the baggage level restrooms she created for Tucson International Airport in 2008.
Ms. Betanzos is currently working on a public art commission for the Port of San Diego, a mixed media mosaic picnic art table top which can be seen at Sea Port Village. Details about her work are available at http://betanzosdesigns.blogspot.com/.
Catherine Eyde's anthropomorphic figures and wide-eyed humans decorate dreamy landscapes. "My artwork is about place - reflections on life, culture and the signs of our times," she explains.
Inspired by the art of Persia, India and Arabia, Ms. Eyde's paintings continue to evolve in eastern oriented work. Some of the paintings work without a figure as a central focus of the picture. In these paintings of idealized landscapes, she has omitted the figure to encourage the viewer to escape to her surreal places of mystery, beauty and intrigue. See samples of her work at http://www.catherineeyde.com/.
These works are rich with color, and lush landscapes surround places of comfort in the forms of tents, boats and bedding. Mountains are carved with passages, swirling clouds encircle the skies of red, yellow and blue, and trails of water flow throughout the work. Curious trees are a part of the painting, their unique forms lead the viewer through the picture, conveying a human quality by the way they are positioned within the work.
Janet Miller claims, "to be inspired by food, maps, written and spoken language; travels in Yemen, Syria and the Sinai; my vividly remembered childhood and dreams, and the stark landscapes and extreme weather of the desert where I live."
All those themes are expressed in the current exhibit at TIA, which feature a number of her reverse glass paintings including tourists, tour guides, Loyal Fatty the dog and his drooling germ laden buddy. Reverse glass painting is an obscure process involving painting backwards on the wrong side of clear glass.
Self taught, Ms. Miller encountered reverse glass painting in Senegal where it is a traditional art form known as peinture sous verre. "I was enchanted by the paintings I brought back from Senegal. I loved the luminosity and depth that the glass gave the colors. For years I thought about trying to paint on glass, and finally tried it in 1993," she says.
?I am often asked if it's tedious or frustrating working inside out and backwards, but I'm left-handed and dyslexic, and for me it feels natural and comfortable. It was very liberating to discover this technique.?
For more information visit: http://www.janetkmiller.com/.
The temporary exhibits program at TIA is open to artists living in the airport's trade area: Pima, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz Counties in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Since the Authority initiated this community outreach program in 1991, it has hosted exhibits by hundreds of artists in the region. Details about TAA's Arts & Culture Program can be found at http://www.tucsonairport.org/.
Sue Betanzos
Catherine Eyde
Janet Miller


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With a new front office and coaching staff in Kansas City, players know that a new regime means change is on the way. Some players who were on the team the previous season know that they have to show the new coaching staff they deserve a spot on the 53-man roster.
Every year, players find themselves on the edge and have to work hard in training camp to get over the hump.
In this slideshow, I will go over Chiefs players who are on the bubble and the situation that brought them to this point.


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Several leading universities including Oxford are awarding more good degrees than would be expected from their students' results at school, new figures suggest.
Oxford, Exeter, Liverpool, Newcastle and Warwick were among universities whose proportion of first class and upper second degrees did not appear to match the prior attainment of their undergraduates.
The figures, published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, may reignite debate claims of so-called grade inflation within higher education.
The awarding of top degrees has risen dramatically over the past two decades, with latest figures showing that 68 per cent of students graduated with a


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I wish I could be there in San Diego on April 30th when the PETCO Foundation honors Ellen Degeneres with their HOPE Award. The reason I'd like to be there is to thank Ellen myself for having become one of the owners of HALO Purely for Pets, which has ensured that the company gets the recognition it so richly deserves for being true to itself.
I am proud to be associated with HALO and have the privilege of adding to their always-interesting blog every week. I am proud because of the company's commitment to maintaining genuine quality in their pet food. I am proud because of Halo's decision to use what would be advertising dollars as charitable donations (through Halo Pet Foundation and Freekibble) instead. Proud because Halo has earned the trust of people who choose to feed their pets Halo (as I do my dogs) and our confidence in Halo's quality has been won fair and square.
As co-owner of pet food maker Halo, Purely for Pets, Ellen is going to be awarded the PETCO Foundation's inaugural HOPE Award–given in recognition of a life dedicated to promoting the human-animal bond–at the third annual PETCO Foundation Gala, the proceeds from which will benefit the Halo Pet Foundation, which provides for pets in need and promotes responsible pet ownership. (The PETCO Foundation is pretty terrific too! They do not brag half enough (in my opinion!) about their consistent efforts to support more than 7,000 local animal welfare groups across the nation and giving rescues and shelters space in their stores every week to help find adoptive homes for abandoned animals.)
The reason I'd like to be there to applaud for Ellen and her company Halo is because she herself is genuine, straightforward and good-hearted – as rare in the entertainment business as it is in the pet food industry!
You gotta love a woman who humbly said – as she learned of winning the Hope award – "I wish we lived in a world where caring for animals wasn't so rare that it deserved an award," said Ellen. "All I do is treat animals with the respect and dignity they deserve. I hope someday soon, everyone does the same. PETCO and the PETCO Foundation have made great efforts to protect animals and I commend them for going above and beyond the call of duty."
I'd make the same comment about Ellen herself – in her dealings as a star (and "star maker") she treats people with the respect and dignity they deserve – which is as special and commendable in the human world we live in as it is in the pet world!
Bravo Ellen, bravo HALO, and let's all take a minute to feel good about something positive going on in this world we live in.
Tracie Hotchner, author of The Dog Bible and The Cat Bible, guest blogs here every Thursday on healthy, natural choices for pets.


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Case Detail
Joshua Vernon Maddux
Case Details
Case Type: Missing
Height: 6' 0"
Case Status: SOLVED
Weight: 150 lbs
Identifying Marks: Missing a finger Scar left forearm Right handed Maybe bald Scar left wrist
Incident Date: 05/08/2008
Agency: Woodland Park Police Department
City: Woodland Park
Date of Birth: 03/09/1990
County: Teller
Date of Death: Unknown
Agency Case #: 08-0478
Age: 18
Judicial District: 4th Judicial District
Gender: Male
Year Solved: 2015-01-01 00:00:00.0
Race: Caucasian
NamUs Case #: 14420
Eyes: Brown
NCMEC Case #: Unknown
Hair: Blond/Strawberry
About this Case:
18 year old Joshua Maddux was last seen at his home on the morning of May 8, 2008. When his Mother returned home later that morning Joshua was gone. One year prior, Joshua's brother died and the two were very close. He may now be bald. Anyone with information is asked to please contact the Woodland Park Police Department
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It has been almost two weeks since the Toronto Maple Leafs lost winger Joffrey Lupul to a broken forearm, and life without Lupul has been a blessing and a curse. The Leafs have two wins and three losses so far without the scoring left winger, and new faces James van Riemsdyk and Matt Frattin have emerged in his absence.
The Leafs have used these two youngsters effectively to fill the offensive gap left by the absence of the All-Star winger so far. They still have another month and a half or so to go without his presence in the locker room or in the lineup, and here are five ways they can continue to deal with the loss going forward.


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The stalks in Minnesota's corn fields are close to 7 feet high. The kernels are still developing and if the weather holds up, the ears reach maturity in about a month and a half. That's when harvesting starts and there are indications of yet another bumper crop.
There is never too much corn, but the higher the yield, the lower the market price. That means the smaller the profits for the farmers.
"Every place you go in rural American, or Goodhue, or Welch, or Vasa, that's the topic of conversation," said Ryan Buck, president of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association.
Buck has been working on his wife's family farm in Welch for nearly a decade, and has seen both good times and bad times. He's expecting this year's crop to bring about $3.50 per bushel on the market. That's lower than recent years.
"There's a little bit of competition between everybody, but guys like to talk about what works for them, or what they're doing," Buck said. "But we're not going to give away too many secrets."
The fate of all farmers depends on imports, and how creative they can be in the market. Buck sells half of his corn harvest to the ethanol industry, which may start to sag.
"The EPA is proposing to slash the amount of ethanol that goes into gasoline by 10 percent. That'd be a huge nick on the corn market. There's an ethanol plant out in Luverne that was converted to bio-butenol that's put into jet fuels. That would be a huge market there," Buck said.
Minnesota's corn crop is a mixed bag, according to Buck. The eastern part of the state is expected to have solid yields. Western Minnesota had some troubles with too much rain in the spring. The west-central and northern Minnesota had a late planting season, and a cooler summer in those regions mean a less-mature crop.
Buck predicts his farm, which also produces soybeans, will do a little better than break even this year. That means the business survives for another planting season in the spring.
"Every year has its struggles, but every year has its rewards," Buck said. "It's always rewarding. It's all in how you look at it. It could be doom and gloom, but as long as we're out here doing what we love, and able to do it again next year, that's a win in my book."


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I've talked some about how important it is for us to get honest with God. But...you know....I have a whole lot more trouble being honest with myself, than I do with being honest with God. See....He already knows more about me than I will ever know about me....so, that one is not really a problem for me. My problem is me!
It is so easy for me to rationalize anything. Now, I know that none of you reading this have a problem with that.....I am just trying to be honest here about myself, because I had this thought that ran into my head that said..... "The things that I give myself to...are the things that own me." Whoa there old fella.....where did that one come from......so....I did some musing about it. You know....that statement is absolutely true. Now how do you think I know that?
The more I gave myself to the Lord....the more I discovered that He owned me. Now that is a very good thing because the more I gave myself to Him, the less I gave myself to other stuff. You are looking at a guy here who has given himself to lots of other stuff! So the things I am about to say, are not just things that Ellen told me about. :)
Maybe, it would be safer for me to just list some of the things that I have given myself too......which then owned me (use any words you like here....obsession with, possession by, slavery to......) This is why I got so good at rationalizing.
The last bastion (at least that I know of at this point) for me is food. Continue to give myself to food and I will continue to kill myself. Just the other day, it was announced that obesity is now the second leading cause of cancer in the U.S.....the leader still remains smoking.....which is another thing that once owned me. Right now though, let's think about food owning us for a minute.
I call obesity the acceptable sin in Christianity today....it is the easiest to rationalize....after all... I have to eat or I will die.....and I have this little weakness....and you just don't understand....it's my mother's fault, it's my thyroid's fault, it's my father's fault, it's in my genes, my grandmother was fat and loved to see me eat....whatever! I used all of those.....any of those.
My perfect weight is probably 210......when I hit 240 I qualified as obese and folks would say, but you look really good, Philip, you aren't fat. When I hit 230, I was considered overweight.....and folks said, what do you mean fat, you look great Philip. Now that I am finally at 220, folks tell me how trim I am and how could I possibly want to lose more weight.......the scary thing is that I may discover sometime during this next year that my perfect weight is actually 205 or 200 and not 210....it will be interesting to hear what folks say at each new level.
What people say about us is part of the rationalization, which has nothing to do with reality or the facts. I needed to agree with the Lord that my body is His temple, it is where He lives, and I needed to make a choice to stop destroying His temple.....to stop killing myself.
Just think rationally for a minute without rationalizing.....if obesity is now the second leading cause of cancer in America.....what about all the other stuff it causes...like heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes.....think quality of life here too as we huff and puff dragging that 30 pound or more sack around with us all day, as we lose body parts to the ravages of diabetes, as we get less and less fit and no longer can fight off the colds and flu that attack our immune system, as we take more and more medications to solve one problem that then create other problems...when does it stop? Let me tell you....it will stop when we die..... long before we have to die.....long before He wants us to die. Unless we make the choice to stop giving ourselves to food and allowing it to own us.
Maybe it really is time to stop letting food or anything else own us. So many things have owned me. My work has owned me, religion has owned me, sex has owned me, porn has owned me, alcohol has owned me, tobacco has owned me.....by His grace, they no longer do. That makes me nothing except honest. But by being honest about myself, I can tell you that giving myself to Jesus has changed everything forever.....because He owns me and these other things no longer do. Even my acceptable sin of obesity.


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Wyoming Meth Project Campaign 2013We've all seen those graphic meth commercials and lets face it, in today's society those gruesome images are effective with young adults. For that reason this year Wyoming Meth Project is focusing even more so on young adults.
They believe this year's slightly redirected focal point will lower the state's meth rate even more so than in recent years. To do so the organization is holding a statewide anti-meth art contest with an $18,000 worth of prize money.


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Fayetteville Council considers lowering development fees
Fayetteville for the past several years has decreased a variety of fees associated with the attempt to attract economic development to the city. That effort will continue Aug. 2 when the council will hear the first reading of a proposal for restructuring the impact fee schedule designed to lower fees and reduce the number of land use categories.
City Director of Planning and Economic Development Brian Wismer in a July 25 letter said it is evident that the proposed revisions will result in a cost savings to new development in the city.
Examples of the new fee structure showed the current charge of $1,858 for a single-family detached home dropping to $1,623, a decrease of approximately $234, and the impact fee for a quality restaurant such as Applebee's decreasing more than $5,100, from $24,800 to $19,648.
Other examples showed the impact fee for a retail store such as Office Depot decreasing from $39,744 to $35,386 and the fee for a medical office building dropping to $33,360 from the current $42,446 charge.
Wismer said the proposal also includes consolidating similar land use categories into 29 categories. The city currently has 68 land use categories. Wismer said the proposal eliminates various partial exemptions that have accumulated into the code over time and reduces the overall impact fee rates for all land use categories.
The study was performed by consultant Ross and Associates in conjunction with city staff.


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Jewett joins Family Dollar
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Family Dollar Stores Inc. has named Joshua Jewett to the position of senior vp, chief information officer.
Jewett most recently served as senior director for Answerthink Inc., a management consulting firm with offices in North America and Europe. He has extensive retail information systems consulting experience
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"Baffled" Bob Costas To Call Own Minute of Silence During Olympic Broadcast
Latest update: July 25th, 2012
"I said to myself, if this is the place where Andre and his friends spent the last hours of their life, I cannot shut up, I have to talk about it, I have to tell the world what happened in the Olympic village, the symbol of peace and brotherhood and good will and fair play, that this could happen in front of the eyes of billions of people and that nobody is even talking about it anymore. So this is my mission." Ankie has been at the head of the mission ever since. All the while, she has raised the daughter she shares with Andre – Anuk, who was only 2 months old when Andre was killed – and the three children she had with her new husband, who she married a decade after the murder.
"My life goes on," Ankie told Fleisher. "The only reason for this is to make sure that this will never happen again. That is the mission."
In a rare display of solidarity with Israel, leaders from around the world have urged the Olympic committee to grant Israel the short moment of silence. US National Security Council spokesman Tommmy Vietor has said that President Barack Obama's position is that "We absolutely support the campaign for a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich". The statement of support followed a condolence call President Obama placed on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following the murder of 5 Israeli tourists in Bulgaria
Last week, some 140 Italian parliamentarians signed a letter to Rogge calling for the memorial minute. Australian President Julia Gillard, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, and Flemish Sport Minister Philippe Muyters have also come out publicly in support of the memorial at the opening ceremony. In June, Canada's House of Commons unanimously adopted a measure to remember the "tragic terrorist events of the 1972 Munich Olympics wherein 11 Israeli athletes were murdered."
Though Rogge said "We also pay big attention to recommendations coming either from the political world, or cultural world, or world of enterprise," the option of taking 60 seconds to memorialize the Israeli team was again rejected.
Yet organizers on behalf of the effort press on. Philanthropist, businessman, and staunch Jewish Republican Stanley Tate has initiated a campaign to place print ads in US and European newspapers in a last-ditch effort to force the memorial.
Already appearing in the Wall Street Journal, the ads will also be printed in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, London Times, LA newspapers, and elsewhere. According to NewsMax, Tate is quoted a saying that "one newspaper told me, 'Don't send money — we're publishing for free.'"
Jewish organizations are also taking up the banner of the "Munich 11", and throwing their weight behind the campaign for a moment of silence at the Olympic opening ceremonies. United With Israel, an organization highlighting a wide array of multimedia meant to showcase the greatness and positive spirit of Israel – with over 1.1 million "Likes" on Facebook – has executed the "Minute for Munich" campaign during which participants will stop for a moment of silence at 11:00 am on July 27, the morning of the opening ceremonies. Nu T-shirts, which makes T-shirts for charitable causes and donates 20% of all proceeds to the registered non-profit behind each cause, is selling a special "Just One Minute" T-shirt, made in Israel.
During the Games, Rogge said the IOC will investigate any claims of athletes who claim to pull out of competitions with Israelis because of alleged injuries. In the past, Iranian athletes have used this tactic to avoid competing with Israelis without facing Olympic sanctions. Plain refusal to compete against a particular competitor is "totally forbidden by the Olympic Charter," according to Rogge, and subject to punishment.
In an interview by the Jewish Chronicle publicized by Huffington Post, Israeli International Olympics Committee member Alex Gilady said that the real reason the Olympic committee refuses to hold a memorial at the opening ceremonies is because officials thought a minute's silence "may harm the unity of the Olympics" and "could cause some countries to boycott the Games."
That theory was backed up by Ankie, who told Fleisher than when she and Ilana Romano attended the 1976 Montreal Olympics – the first Olympics following the fateful games in Munich – they were told by Olympic officials that "look, there are 21 Arab delegations, and if we are going to have a minute of silence, they will all get up and go, and I said…. let them go. If they don't understand what the Olympics are about, they shouldn't be here at all."
"Now, just recently, when I travelled to Lausanne in Switzerland to be at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, [they said] then in Montreal there were 21 Arab delegations, today there are 46 Arab delegations. Our hands are tied, and there's nothing we can do at this moment, it's too early yet."Malkah Fleisher
About the Author: Malkah Fleisher is a graduate of Cardozo Law School in New York City. She is an editor/staff writer at JewishPress.com and co-hosts a weekly Israeli FM radio show. Malkah lives with her husband and two children on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
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How about proofreading the article next time before you publish. The number of errors in diction and typography is astounding.
This is a very important article. Thanks for bringing the subject to our attention.
I had no problem understanding it.
that's what our astute crack readers are for – to correct our typos! For the record, though, isn't diction a matter of pronunciation and delivery?
46 "Arab" delegations? Let's call this what it is, the real reason for this denial; the "Islamic supremacist delegations." This reflects the predominant attitude of appeasement in the West, disguised as a concern for "Islamophobia," a term invented by Muslim activists to suppress freedom of speech. The West wrings its hands, gets on its knees and whines before its god of political correctness that has it wallowing in self imposed and entirely undeserved guilt. What are they afraid of? The violence sure to ensue from those who perpetually claim to be the victims of it with absolutely no evidence to support the claim. The West needs to take a stand. This is yet another opportunity that will be ignored, in essence, dhimmitude. Look it up.
Yay, Bob Costas — Good for you!
Good man, Bob! You have more character than the IOC. It is an ongoing disgrace that these slain men are so dishonored time and again by the cowards who refuse to face the truth nd do the right thing. For myself, I will watch the opening ceremony now that Bob Costas is doing the honorable thing, but not one more minute of he olympics.
Thanks Bob for standing up for the delegates that lost their lives. We cannot forget them or the injustice. djdacosta, I agree with you comments as well as Frank Champagne. Bob Costas, I salute you. Bless you!
to AA: Really! That is what you got from this article Jews were slaughtered for being Jews….and you are in a twist about typing.
Kol Ha'kavod Bob Costas!
I generally see Bob Costas a liberal weenie, but this…this is excellent. Echoing Penny Uliss' Kol Ha'Kavod!
Excellent article..good for costas bucking the big boys on his own!
and written by a Cardozo grad!!
Thank you Bob Costas for doing the right &
decent thing. It's unfortunate that you have to show the world what the Olympic committee should be showing the world. May you merit only good things in your life from doing this special good deed.
Go to FB page for NBC Sports and post a thank you. I couldn't find a page for Mr. Costas.
Gracias Bob Costas por tan excelente artículo!
Bob Costas, Thanks for showing integrity in this political correct world of ours.


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just wondering is tobi tryna make more senju Hashiramas too???
Black Zetsu is defiantly Tobi's DNA if white Zetsu is created from Hashirama. That's how Tobi is able to regenerate missing limbs and recover from injuries. He claimed that injuries sustained from his battle with Hashirama left him weaken, so he created a back up plain so he wont sustain even more injuries in the future.
Also Proves my theory as Tobi isn't the real Madara if Zetsu, what seems to be his creation still calls him Tobi. I'm starting to think Tobi is a clone Madara so hints he is a shell of his former self. Tobi seems to be a great scientist to create something as great as Zetsu so creating a clone of his self seems plausible, he's a great biologist.
Lastly Kabuto brought something to my attention, he wants some of the Senju powers too. Looking at Naruto and tsunade the I can see why only the Senju were a match for Uchiha.
What I seriously don't get is Hashirama was the purest Senju and Mito was the purest Uzumaki their child or children would have the purest Senju blood since the younger Rikudou son. They would have both the body and life energy of the Rikudou. Hashirama only has the body. Why wouldn't Tobi want their cells, hell Tsunade would have more Senju purity in her than her father. The Uzumaki has the Rikudou's life energy (hints their longevity) so the regular Senju would have the body or physical strength.
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It's over nine thousaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!!! O.O
I was freaking out when i say the 100000 Zetsus..that's just amazing but also ridiculous! And that Kabuto would use Edo Tensei to use the poor Deidara is a little bit tricky - so now we are sure that Kabuto will face the others because he has the ability to find the Island (he can fly and you can only find the island by flying). I guess that Tsuchikage and Gaara will heading together to the Island and we'll se a nice and badass fight.
I'm pleased to see Kabuto raped, and also the one thing that he revived with Edo Tensei which was the cause of madara freaking out.
Originally Posted by Floydical
Hmmm, I'm not sure about this exactly but clearly there is something different about Madara this chapter. If we look at the last panel of 511 and a 512 panel:
we see that Madara's voice changes when he gets serious, like you mentioned. However, we clearly see that that much is not true in this panel of his conversation with Kisame:
Here he is seems he becomes serious after Kisame expresses disgust at seeing Tobi, but his voice (i.e. the text used) does not change. In the anime, his voice clearly changes in this transition but again, no change in the manga text.
I do believe, however, that there is definitely something more to Madara. I really don't think he's a full on half black half white version of zetsu, but maybe half his head is one of the zetsu halves, or his body has become melded with zetsu kind of like how Kabuto basically is melded with oro at this point. The voice is still a bit troubling though, but maybe he has so much control that he can turn off/on his Zetsu 'side' if you will.
You my friend have helped me solve the mystery.I will make a thread of my findings now.and I thank you for helping my make the connection
The tsuchikage will get there but he'll prolly die while trying to defend the jinchuuriki's and then we'll learn bout he's past and so on.......
Originally Posted by Jinchuuriki of Juubi
You my friend have helped me solve the mystery.I will make a thread of my findings now.and I thank you for helping my make the connection
Cool, I'm glad I could help you out.
Please post the link when you have it ready, I'd like to read it.
What a great manga! They have given us a surplus of ammo for future speculation and discussion! Can't wait for the next one. Craps about to hit the fan again!
Kabuto and Deidara vs. Gaara
Kabuto and Deidara vs. Killer Bee + Naruto + The other dudes on the island
Oh and most likely Killer Bee will die. But I don't think Naruto will get the nine tails taken from him. He'll most definitely survive and fight Sasuke. He wouldn't stand a chance against Sasuke without the Nine tails chakra.
Oh and if the nine tails was taken from Naruto than the whole "body of the 6 paths" and "eyes of the six paths" symbology theory thingy would be thrown all outta whack!!!
Tobi is Tobi. Kabuto showed Madara's body to Tobi with Edo Tensei.
Originally Posted by CasualMisfit
I think the turtle island is actually a Japanese legend.. * researches*
It's actually based off the Native American's Creation Legend; before the world existed, there was only sea. A woman fell from the sky and a swan caught her. The swan had no place to put the woman down so couple of animals came to a conclusion that they needed land. A turtle told the animals to bring mud from the ocean and put it on his back. The mud or Earth as we call it, only existed deep beneath the sea. Several animals attempted to bring this land and only the muskrat was successful. Once the mud was placed on the back of the turtle, it expanded until it became an island, a continent and soon the whole word. Yay for Gr. 12 Canadian History.
I really hope Zetsu isn't some lab rat of Tobi that he created. That would just destroy his character in my opinion.
Kabuto seems confident but is he really on Tobi's side? And what of him wanting to experiment on Yamato? Does he want Izanagi?
Killerbee is probably going to die in the coming chapters. His role is over and has accomplished what his character was made to do. I don't see him going down so easily though, he has Samahada and that's one hell of a sword (:. I wonder who the next owner of Samahada will be if Bee is to get captured. Will Suigestu make a return?
Here is a link to a thread I created a while back. I think Zetsu are two different beings. The black half of Zetsu seems to have a much closer bond with Tobi whereas the white half doesn't know what's going on half the time.
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Originally Posted by gizmoekun
The chapter is boring
Yea there wasn't a lot of action and it was mostly talking but really boring....personally I think flashbacks are more boring than a ton of new info.....if you think this is boring you might as well take a break from the manga and come back after the next big fight....Don't wanna b too harsh just saying that you gotta expect some of these kind of chapters..
just a bit confused about this part
what does Kabuto mean by "If not, this Zetsu's body will do just fine for now, if you're willing to 'share the wealth' as they say. It wouldn't even delay the Ten-Tail's revival at all."
And how exactly is Kabuto going to make Zetsu stronger? I thought Tobi said his clones were weaker than the people he copies and are not created for combat. Is this a manga mistake? I also want to know if the copies that fought Negi, Lee, Tenten and Gai were created by Zetsu and not Pain.
and lol at the part Tobi says, "i'll give you one zetsu". I am really hoping that Kishi doesn't "destroy" Zetsu's character. By "destroy", I mean "f**k up".
One question answered, 3 new opened up.
The best part of this awesome chapter was when naruto was poking gai ... lmfao
What is that black line (or cut) in demon statue's stomach ? The upper left panel seems focus on that. Looks like a surgery cut, is something taken or put inside of it ?
Originally Posted by JiraiyaSensei
Deidara is one of Kaubuto's summonings.
Like Orochimaru summoned the First and Second Hokage when he fought the Sandaime
Well that explains it thanks a lot dude
Originally Posted by maldoror
What is that black line (or cut) in demon statue's stomach ? The upper left panel seems focus on that. Looks like a surgery cut, is something taken or put inside of it ?
That black line is actually a metal rod... The exact one all the Pains had in the body and Nagato on the back..
If you watch the flashback where Yahiko dies and Nagato fights Hanzou, you can see he summons it, and black rod come out of the summonings stomach and branches come out of that rod and stab nagato in the back.
The chapter is a very good one.
madara replenishing his troops.
zetsus were scary enough.
the heretical demon statue shown is somehow telling us that madara indeed had a hand over nagato.
then, kabuto saying he could make zetsu stronger...wicked
but deidara summon will face an improved gaara...gaara will get his revenge.
kabuto will measure up Naruto's new powers...will engage in a dialogue...will have an evil proposal only him would benefit...will play a bit with naruto..then retreats.
bee will be safe..for now
4/5 chapter...nice one
*looks at all the people who said the spoilers were fake*
Now this solves two things which have been bugging me for a while:
1) How was Madara planning to fight an entire army of Shinobi?
Answer: Breeding 100k Zetsu's
2) How could he actually use the 7 tailed beasts he caught? I mean he made it appear like it would give him godlike powers if he would revive the Juubi, but if he doesn't have the 8 and 9-tails he can't do that so those beasts seemed pretty useless.
Answer: He can drain it from chakra.
Though it's a pity as I really wanted to see Madara trying to get Bee and Naruto.
I really liked the scene of the Shinobi Alliance HQ :p
i would say total disgrace of the great first hokage ,"the man , from whom all ninja feared most" .kishi make the first hokage weeker than choji akimichi
lovely chapter overall but please kishi don't kill killer bee my buddy otherwise i'll cry
Good chapter but i was expecting more ... next chapter will be great i mean kabuto will summon 6 or 8 great ninjas to fight naruto be yamato the 2 weaker ninjas and 2 hokages.
but it cant be that deidara can beat all of them ... be and naruto both build on speed they are pretty strong , and sumonings are not that strong as real ninjas if we remember the fight orochimaru vs 3th hokage.
well using deidara just to flly LOL why not
Deidara/Kabuto VS. Onoki/Gaara
sounds exiciting :D
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Have you ever had an interest in working in the film industry? The West Virginia Film Office in Charleston is trying to make that a possibility and one local woman is taking them up on it.
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Pam Haynes, director of the West Virginia Film Office, said the master class is a key component for building upon the state's film industry labor pool.
"Through hands-on instruction and interactive scouting demonstrations and activities, participants in the master class will learn the basic fundamentals of location scouting as well as an overview of location management," she said. "The added impact for our state is, when a region has a skilled labor pool with a strong understanding of the unique needs of the film industry, it becomes a built-in financial incentive for companies filming on location because it reduces the burden of having to hire specialized workers from out of state."
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The past couple of weeks I have been irritated by a problem, which was created by my own good nature.
I've been feeding a cat named Scruffy who calls my front porch home. That's right, I feed a stray, although I think of him more as a friend.
Everything was going all right. I'd leave him food and water out in the morning, a small refill at lunch and dinner as well.
From time to time I'd sit on the front porch talking to him as we watched the cars and people passing along the block.
As it began to warm up, I started to notice the food was disappearing a lot quicker than usual. I began to wonder if another cat or perhaps a dog was getting into the yard and eating the food.
One afternoon I was watching TV with the front door open enjoying the warm afternoon breeze when I witnessed the culprit or should I say one of the culprits responsible for the foods disappearance.
It seems that the birds, which frequent the tree in front of my house, have developed a taste for 9 Lives cat food.
At first I laughed and thought this could be a win-win scenario for Scruffy. He could enjoy a tasty bird that was stuffed with his favorite cat food.
However, that laughter quickly passed as I began to notice there were eight birds, and they were picking Scruffy's dish dry.
I'd find him sitting next to his bowl hungry because what I had left him was long gone due to the birds.
It got to the point where I would only set the bowl out when I saw Scruffy or I was home able to keep the birds from the food. Though, that arrangement was not working out because I worried that Scruffy was going without food because I was not home.
So I decided to set the food out again as I had in the past, thinking a few birds eating it wouldn't hurt my wallet and I'd just make sure there was enough for Scruffy.
This of course turned out to be a bad idea, as the birds must have put the 411 out about the cat food buffet on my porch.
In one afternoon I counted eight to 10 birds of varying size sitting on my fence, pecking away at the food or knocking over the water bowl.
As you all know with birds come, well you know their gifts of love, which they deposit, on your car windshield every so often.
The birds are a problem. They are eating my friend's food, leaving a mess and their numbers are growing.
When you shoo away a cat or dog they tend to stay away for the most part, but with birds they simply fly away until you go back inside.
There is not much I can do as I refuse to kill or poison the birds that are just acting out of instinct. I won't try to convert Scruffy into an inside cat as he is older and pretty much set in his ways.
While this situation annoyed me at first and probably seems outright foolish to others, it has served me as a reminder.
With any action or decision I make, there is a reaction. And I have to live with the consequences.
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So, I'm sending the love back to Zhella and showing you one of my favorites from his shop. It's a black, silver and red polymer clay pendant. He's rather new to Etsy, not too much in his shop yet, but I look forward to seeing more!
Here's another treasury by thebeadedlily called "the BAO Welcomes Spring Sale". Here, she featured 12 of our members that are featuring some sort of sale this week. You can read about it here and get your entries in to win some beautiful giveaways!
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And this last treasury was a complete surprise. One - because I never knew it existed and two - because it made the front page!!! It was curated by a member of the Etsy admin team. Who knew?
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