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DEERFIELD, Ill., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) today announced record sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 1993. It is Walgreens' 19th consecutive year of record sales and earnings. Net sales for the fourth quarter ended Aug. 31 rose 10.6 percent to $2.037 billion, and for the full year increased 11.0 percent to $8.3 billion. Net earnings for the quarter, excluding the effects of the new tax bill and accounting changes, rose 21.5 percent to $62,526,000 or 50 cents per share, compared to $51,459,000 or 41 cents per share last year. The effect of the new accounting standards for post-retirement benefits and income taxes, and the new tax bill, was to reduce quarterly net earnings to $58,313,000 or 47 cents per share, an increase of 14.6 percent per share from the same quarter last year. Net earnings for the fiscal year, excluding the effects of the new tax bill and accounting changes, rose 13.9 percent to $251,392,000 or $2.03 per share. Net earnings excluding the cumulative effect of the accounting changes rose 11.2 percent to $245,289,000 or $1.98 per share. The one-time charge for the cumulative effect of the new accounting standards reduced yearly earnings for fiscal 1993 to $221,666,000 or $1.79 per share, compared with $220,628,000 or $1.78 per share last year. "We opened a record 149 new drugstores in fiscal 1993, and despite lower inflation our prescription sales rose a healthy 15.7 percent to top $3 billion," said Chairman Charles R. Walgreen III. "Since 1988 the number of prescriptions filled at Walgreens has risen 55 percent, which is significantly higher than our industry's increase. That means Walgreens share of the prescription market is growing," said Walgreen. "Pharmacy is 40 percent of our total sales today." Pharmacy sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) were up 11.3 percent for the year. While the new national healthcare legislation is still being debated, "the final outcome should be favorable to drugstores, especially if prescription coverage is extended to the 37 million uninsured people in this country," said Walgreen. "Some industry experts feel this will increase prescription usage in the U.S. by 10 to 25 percent." "The 149 new stores we opened during the year were 19 more than projected and included stores in two new markets for us -- Indianapolis, where we opened 10 full-sized stores, and Spokane, Wash., where we opened three RxPress (pharmacy-only) stores," said President L. Daniel Jorndt. "We plan to add 175 new drugstores in fiscal 1994 and to be opening 200 stores per year by 1996." At fiscal year-end Walgreens operated 1,836 drugstores in 30 states and Puerto Rico. The company expects to operate 3,000 drugstores around the country by the year 2000. Over the past five years, Walgreens has invested more than $840 million in new and remodeled stores, advanced systems and distribution centers. Capital spending is expected to reach a record level of more than $300 million for fiscal 1994, up from $185 million in 1993. This investment is targeted toward new store openings, major technology improvements, a new pharmacy mail service facility in Phoenix and a new distribution center near Sacramento, Calif. "This major investment level reflects the confidence we have in our business and in the future," said Walgreen. "I anticipate another excellent year for Walgreens in 1994." WALGREEN CO. COMPARATIVE CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF EARNINGS (Unaudited: in thousands, except per share data) QUARTER ENDED AUG. 31 Percent 1993 1992 Change Net sales $2,037,034 $1,842,246 10.6 Net earnings $ 58,313 $ 51,459 13.3 Net earnings per share (B) $ .47 $ .41 14.6 Dividends declared per share $ .15 $ .13 15.4 YEAR ENDED AUG. 31 Percent 1993 1992 Change Net sales $8,294,840 $7,474,961 11.0 Earnings $ 245,289 $ 220,628 11.2 Cumulative effect of accounting changes (A) $ (23,623) --- --- Net earnings $ 221,666 $ 220,628 0.5 Earnings per share (B) $ 1.98 $ 1.78 11.2 Cumulative effect of accounting changes (A,B) $ (0.19) --- --- Net earnings per share (B) $ 1.79 $ 1.78 0.6 Dividends declared per share $ .60 $ .52 15.4 (A) -- In the fourth quarter of fiscal 1993, the company elected the early adoption of two Financial Accounting Standards Board (FAS) pronouncements. The adoption of FAS 106 "Employers' Accounting for Post- Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions" resulted in a pretax charge of $59.1 million ($36.8 million after tax; $0.30 per share). This statement requires accrual of the present value of the expected cost of retiree medical benefits during the employees' service period. Previously, the cost was recognized on a cash basis. The adoption of FAS 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," increased net earnings $13.2 million ($0.11 per share). This statement requires the adjustment of deferred and current income tax assets and liabilities to reflect current tax rates rather than tax rates in effect at the time the assets and liabilities arose. The effective date of adoption of both standards was Sept. 1, 1992. (B) -- The weighted average number of common shares and equivalents used for calculating primary net earnings per share was 123,770,000 and 123,671,000 for the years ended Aug. 31, 1993 and 1992, respectively. 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The KM conversation has moved from internal document creation and management to creating value for the client
How is the role of the knowledge management (KM) professional changing to meet the demands of a disaggregated workplace?
David Halliwell, director of knowledge, risk and legal services, Pinsent Masons: Disaggregation works if firms have identified what they do, how they do it and who is best placed to deliver it. Technical legal skills need to be supplemented by an understanding of project and change management and process mapping, and by the people and communication skills that enable proper engagement with the lawyers. The new normal is an opportunity for KM to get on the front foot and out of the back office, and to lead on what needs to be done rather than waiting to be told.
Cathy Mattis, head of process improvement, Berwin Leighton Paisner: Teams in different locations can co-ordinate their efforts and the quality and timing of their output by building platforms to share their knowledge and processes. Processes are visual pictures of each step in a transaction or a piece of litigation. They can support junior fee-earners at a granular level or more senior teams with a high-level view of their roles and their interaction both internally and externally.
As legal processes are defined collaboratively with client teams, demand for knowledge to support them grows. Opportunities for improvement are identified during mapping workshops and often rely on knowledge. The KM professional needs to listen to the legal teams' needs and negotiate a plan to prioritise tasks for maximum impact.
Sarah Vickery, head of knowledge management, TLT: Agile and flexible are how I would describe KM at TLT today. This means evolving our solutions to make sure we support the business as it transforms and grows.
We still need a strong central hub to set standards and source the right technologies, collaboration tools and knowledge sources. But delivery is now dispersed because to add real value, knowledge experts need to be closely aligned to the teams and clients they support. This can impact the location of the role. However, TLT has invested heavily in technologies such as Link, SharePoint and HighQ extranet platforms, which make working and supporting disparate national teams from any location achievable.
We are also increasingly focused on the scalability and accessibility of knowledge solutions. This means we can respond as the business transforms and support fee-earners as their work locations or patterns adapt to client needs.
What risks can you identify in relation to KM in a disaggregated workplace?
DH: A focus on process can mean people do not spot the non-standard – the quirks that make a transaction or case different. Successful firms make sure that the processes for supervision, review and quality assurance leave room for the oddities to be spotted. But as traditional pyramid leverage structures turn into diamonds or grow branches where work is being delivered by third parties, the time for junior lawyers to 'learn by doing' becomes limited. Firms need to make sure juniors still get time for apprenticeship.
SV: The risks attached to a disaggregated workplace increase the need for a strong KM function. As being at work becomes less about being in the office, the risk of losing consistent ways of working increases. People can become disconnected from the firm's strategy and approach. Getting the right knowledge infrastructure and support in place is essential. This has been a major focus for us as the firm adds new offices and people – creating a backbone of insight and knowhow that runs across the firm, wherever people are working.
CM: Building knowledge into a process is key to ensuring efficiency, quality, consistency and managing risk. These are the main benefits of using knowledge to integrate the efforts of different teams collaborating on service delivery.
However, risks could emerge if the knowledge is not 'owned' or maintained. Process teams need to adopt continuous improvement routines supported by technology and ensure ongoing senior sponsorship.
In which ways is knowhow now being used to create value for clients?
Jane Bradbury, head of knowledge and information, Slaughter and May: I would draw a distinction between value-add, which is additional services that a client receives, and knowhow that is used in the course of a transaction. KM is about extracting as much value as possible from the firm's collective knowledge to support the firm's business objectives. Document creation and management and all the knowhow processes around those activities assist fee-earners and produce efficiencies for clients.
Legal project management is a common theme at the moment and is seen as a way to secure value for clients. Standardised documents and checklists will no doubt play their part. So too will stepping back to scope out and plan a transaction and then taking time to review progress, learn from experience and adjust plans as the matter progresses.
CM: The immediate value is in cost savings through the efficiency achieved by investing in knowledge resources that support excellent service delivery. Processes can be designed with the client and other advisers so specific needs are met. Clients also benefit from the rapid integration of sector knowledge into the way we work. Processes allow this built-in knowledge to become cumulative over time and capable of building repeatable, scalable benefits.
SV: It is being used in its traditional sense, by predicting changes that will impact clients and then helping clients to manage those changes. Value is delivered in a number of other ways for clients, including: Using knowhow to re-engineer how we do business. This means capturing legal processes and learning about how we can deliver it more effectively. Quicker delivery and reduced costs are two examples of how clients can benefit. The development of knowhow resources helps to reduce duplication and removes inconsistencies in the way we approach and deliver work. Using process innovation to reduce the amount of time and level of expertise needed to create a first draft of a document and passing these savings on to our clients. Using post-transaction reviews and lessons learned to target our output more effectively to address client need.
DH: Clients have been getting value out of knowhow for years, it just has not been as apparent. The drive towards standardisation and better use of technology means clients are getting more consistent advice. More obvious value is now being delivered through taking a broader view of 'knowhow' – not just what firms know about a particular type of deal, but what they know about deals in that sector or what they know about project management to deliver the deal in a way that is transparent to the client, or being able to price effectively through properly understanding the work involved in delivering it.
What trends are you seeing in the way clients prefer to interface with firms' knowhow?
SV: It's all about collaboration. Clients expect us to co-ordinate and present knowhow in partnership with other firms. They do not want 10 bribery law updates on the same day or to have to remember 10 different extranet passwords. Providing one central knowledge hub that incorporates knowhow from different firms is a definite trend. We recently set up an extranet platform for one client to hold precedent documents, training information and knowledge updates from all its panel firms. This approach requires a much greater focus on targeted information specific to a particular client or industry segment.
JB: When I was talking to clients two years ago, there was only limited appetite for podcasts and video content and very little use of tablets for work purposes. Recent advances in IT security mean that tablets are used far more widely, so optimisation for tablet and smartphone use and delivery of knowhow by video is becoming more prevalent. Clients are very comfortable working in Outlook so we continue to send newsletters and briefings by email but we have also developed apps as an alternative method of delivering knowhow to clients.
CM: By including clients in process design they are involved directly in identifying the knowledge necessary for efficient and effective service delivery. They can often produce or contribute knowledge resources themselves, for example by designing standard forms or providing sample documents. They can also see first-hand where knowledge can be used to curb the frequency of low-level queries, for example by publishing frequently asked questions on an extranet or producing automated documentation and guidance for direct consumption by business units. This allows clients to apply their legal budgets to support more strategic work.
DH: The more-for-less agenda continues to drive the value-add offerings. We do not see as many requests these days for blanket access to precedent banks, simply because such requests have never been met by any firm in the past. Clients now want to negotiate a number of tailored precedents as part of a longer-term relationship. More exciting is the trend for clients to access firms' boardroom-level thought leadership and insight, pushing firms to focus more on what is coming down the track for clients in particular sectors.
How do you see technology changing the way knowledge is delivered internally and to clients over the next five years?
DH: We are just beginning to see the first signs of artificial intelligence (AI) making a difference. The first will be getting rid of search – we won't have to go and look for stuff, it will find us by knowing what we are working on and what we like to look at. AI is already beginning to automate certain document review activities, and from there it will push into other areas. Five years is too soon for true 'robo-lawyer' capabilities, but as AI hits all aspects of our lives – from driverless cars to online eBay dispute resolution to medical diagnosis – law will inevitably be affected.
CM: Knowledge will become more specific, commercial and accessible. A surveyor can access a standard heads of terms from their smartphone and upload the necessary details for a property to the site to drive the process forward. Technology allows clients, lawyers and other advisers to share an integrated view of how they co-ordinate their activities and communicate to deliver a project or process on time and to budget. It creates transparency.
JB: One of the challenges that KM tries to solve is that of managing information overload. On top of this, we now have the potential of big data – with so much information and data out there, how can we present it in a meaningful and digestible way, so that our lawyers have what they need in terms of both legal and business content? Software that supports aggregation of content and also personalisation will play an increasingly important part in this.
I also think we will increasingly use the type of computer learning that is used in e-disclosure software, in order to manage vast volumes of information. However, while technology gives us exciting potential, we need to check back constantly with our internal users and clients to ensure we are designing and delivering systems that integrate seamlessly within their current technology environment and are intuitive to use.
SV: The boundaries between work and home are blurring, so we need to see continued improvement in the way technology can support remote working, whether on a train, at home or at a client's office.
Knowledge needs to be accessible internally and to clients, in multiple formats and in ways and at times that suit the individual. This means mobile technology and on-the-move collaboration tools need to keep pace.
However, the key to successful knowledge management is in the culture and mindset of an organisation – technology is just the facilitator.
What role can KM play in the integration of a firm, particularly one with dispersed delivery mechanisms?
DH: Firms are getting bigger and more diverse in terms of the range, age and qualifications of the people that work for them. Enterprise social networking tools can allow people to share knowledge and insight. Opening up discussions means firms can get closer to speaking with one voice. As digital natives come to dominate law firms, the idea that you do not communicate in this way will seem as outlandish to them as using email did to us digital immigrants.
JB: KM is about knowledge sharing and connecting people. Putting systems and processes in place that enable people to find answers to the questions "Who's who?" and "Who knows what?" is just as important as standardising documents and answering the "How to" question. My guess is that the internal telephone directory search is used most frequently on firms' intranets, and a simple starting point is to make the information in that online directory as rich and useful as possible. The firms' systems hold so much more information beyond name and phone number and I would recommend exploring just how much of that information can be displayed on an individual's profile.
CM: Knowledge and process lawyers have a pivotal role in facilitating the collaborative design of process and the appropriate blend of resource for efficient and effective delivery. These professionals can integrate teams, leveraging local learning for the benefit of multiple clients. Enhanced definition of the way lawyers operate either in respect of repeat work or on a one-off project enables elements of standard practice to be identified and agreed firmwide, allowing benefits of process improvement work to be amplified. Embracing the application of knowledge within process results in both client savings and firm profitability, leading to sustainable relationships.
SV: Knowledge management is the glue that holds any law firm together, making it a critical success factor in the integration of any new office, team or individual.


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INTRODUCTION: Bronchial atresia (BA) is a rare congenital abnormality of the tracheobronchial tree. We report a case of a 47-year old female incidentally found with this condition.
CASE PRESENTATION: The patient, a non-smoker with a history of asthma, presented with difficulty breathing. She was on inhaled bronchodilators for her asthma which was not well-controlled. No history of fevers, chronic cough, hemoptysis, weight loss or environmental or occupational exposures was present. Examination was unremarkable. Lungs were clear to auscultation. Cardiac examination was normal. Chest x-ray revealed two circumscribed masses in her right upper lobe (Image 1). A Computerized Tomogram(CT)-guided needle biopsy was planned. However, on CT chest, the masses appeared to have a fluid attenuation and were peripherally distributed with localized hyperlucency distal to the mass (Image 2). The mass-like lesions represented the obstructed bronchus, dilated due to mucus impaction, with localized area of hyperinflation manifest as increased lucency distal to the lesion.Bronchial atresia (BA) was diagnosed based upon these characteristic CT findings. The patient was treated with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids, with improvement in her asthma symptoms. On follow-up 6 months later, the patient is doing well without any sequelae.
DISCUSSION: BA, a rare congenital tracheobronchial anomaly, occurs predominantly in males. A vascular insult during embryogenesis has been implicated in its causation. It is characterized by a focal narrowing of a sub-segmental, segmental or lobar bronchus, associated with mucocele formation due to mucus impaction, and hyperinflation of the distal segment of lung. The alveoli supplied by the obstructed bronchi are ventilated via collateral airways, resulting in air-trapping and localized hyperinflation.Most patients are asymptomatic with about 30% experiencing recurrent respiratory infections, cough, dyspnea or haemoptysis. At present, BA is usually diagnosed by CT. Bronchoscopy may be non-diagnostic but maybe required in cases where similar findings on CT can be found, such as lung cancer or bronchial adenoma.Tissue biopsy is not essential for diagnosis, if characteristic CT features are present. Management is conservative unless there is a superimposed infection of the mucocele. Surgical excision is generally reserved for patients with recurrent infections.
CONCLUSIONS: BA is a rare congenital tracheo-bronchial malformation. If CT chest shows characteristic findings, tissue biopsy is not required for diagnosis. Surgery is required when complications such as encroachment of normal lung tissue or recurrent infections occur.
Reference #1: Mori M et al: Bronchial Atresia: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature.Surgery Today1993. 23:449-454.
Reference #2: Ramsey BH et al: Mycocele, congenital bronchiectasis and bronchogenic cyst. J Thorac Surg 1953, 26:21-29.
Reference #3: Zylak CJ et al: Developmental Lung Anomalies. Radiographics 2002; 22:S25-43.
DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Thomas Waring, Danae Delivanis, Anat Bergner, E. Kaloudis, D. Datta
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"Lorden, shut up and do as you're told!"
Lorden was disgruntled, but he couldn't help but respect Ceridwen, even in her mooments of annoying superiority. Even in such tense times she was cool, calm and alert. She had total control of the entire operation.
The underworld was buzzing like a huge ants' nest. He had never seen so many maggots flocking in the corridors. Men carrying barricades which they were enhancing with magic as they walked; young boys practising spells for the attack in dark corners; plasma bulbs swaying in the press of people. Lorden had never seen children in the underworld before, yet now the corridors were full of them, most of them looking half-starved. He was glad that the women were leading them to safety, but at the same time furious at the King and his skivvies for forcing this fate on their people purely because of some overblown stereotype against magic.
He had headed to talk to Elenia, who he had grown close to over the past month. Their lessons with Oakstaff had got better - Elenia's unusual ability had grown beyond comparison and she was now beating Lorden in duels on a regular basis. Oakstaff had taken to Elenia rather more than Lorden, possibly because of the friction between the two at Lorden's first lesson. Oakstaff was no longer grumpy or taciturn, however - teaching magic again seemed to have brought him out of his shell, as if he was again the young man who helped the persecuted in the Purge all those years ago.
Ceridwen would have spoken to the Princess directly, but she knew Lorden had befriended her and his word would be far more influential, even as it had been on the day of her arrival. Lorden was to tell her the situation. She had to make up her mind which side she was on.
Ceridwen was headed towards the slums, and Oakstaff's house, when she first spotted the signs of Royal activity. She was speaking to Dagger on her PI, when she spotted him.
"- go and talk to Ben, we need him fighting, he may be stubborn, that's just who he is, but -"
Ceridwen closed her PI with a touch and drew her knives at once. This part of the underworld was dark and unused - it was the place of Hero's death, and people had become rather superstitious of it. Ceridwen had encouraged people to use the area more, as it was the place the King would most likely strike again - and he had.
But it wasn't the barrage of army personnel she had expected. It was a CTO. She prepared to throw her knife, but then he turned.
It was Grimwald.
Ceridwen hesitated. So did he. They stood for a whole second in silence. Then:
"You're alone?" said Ceridwen suspiciously.
"Naturally," said Grimwald smoothly. "You know how I hate working in a group."
"Why are you here?"
"Well, what I had planned to do is now impossible."
"And why's that?"
"Because I tripped over, that's why."
Ceridwen couldn't help but laugh.
"You've grown up," she said sardonically. "And you're still clumsy. I would've thought they'd've knocked that out of you before you ever went on special operations."
"So - go on then, you've got me cornered. What are you going to do?"
"What do you think? I can't let you live."
"And why not?"
"Come on Grim, don't ask stupid questions. You may be a coward and a total clutz but you aren't thick."
Grimwald's hand was slowly creeping towards his pocket. His PI was in there - his ticket to safety.
"I assume you've come for the Princess?" said Ceridwen coldly, who had already clocked the subtle hand movement.
"Even I cannot save her from the bowels of your filthy hideout alone," said Grimwald coldly. "We have prepared a large troupe of highly trained riot officers who will approach when I give the signal."
Ceridwen suddenly let loose one of her knives. It embedded itself into Grimwald's pocket, puncturing his PI. A small amount of blood started trickling down the material as the PI gave a small phut and broke apart.
"You and what army?" she said, a gleeful smile upon her face.
Grimwald's face blanched. The command button hadn't even been for the riot team ...
"Fine. You got me," Grimwald conceded, holding his hands apart. "There's nothing I can do - well -"
Suddenly, there was a cascade of rock, and the opening above Grimwald's head, before unseen, was suddenly visible. A CTO's head poked through the hole as he dropped a taser into Grimwald's waiting hand.
Ceridwen cursed. She gathered her first reserves of energy and blasted the CTO's head off. It rolled pathetically at Grimwald's feet, charred and mutilated, the body still jammed in the tiny tunnel the CTOs had clearly dug.
"Don't cross me, Grim," snarled Ceridwen. "You cannot beat me, and I'm not about to surrender this place."
"Surely you wouldn't kill me? Your old schoolfriend?"
"School was a long time ago, Grim," said Ceridwen sharply. "Times have changed."
"No, they haven't. You left school ten years ago, it's been quite a while since -"
"Yeah! And why did I leave school? Remind me of that, why don't you!"
Grimwald fell silent.
"I thought that would shut you up," snapped Ceridwen. "Come on, out with it! Why did I leave school?"
"You already know."
"Say it! Admit you did wrong for once!"
Grimwald's face was tortured, almost twisted. He'd hoped the conversation wouldn't turn to this.
"I betrayed you."
"Exactly! You took your cowardly arse off to the master as soon as you saw the posters go up. I wasn't your friend any more, I was your burden - a criminal burden you wanted gone before any yellowcoats caught up with you."
"I knew you'd never understand. They were finding maggots everywhere, I was doing you a favour, they would have found you eventually -"
"Doing me a favour? Do you have any idea what they do to maggots? It's a long and painful death, Grim, that's what you condemned me to. And you cared more for your own hide than mine, scared they'd give you that punishment because you were my friend. And to think you used to love me? Yeah, I know that, too! You were a rubbish liar, you know that? A coward and a liar. You didn't think I had a right to be part of society because of what I am. You disgust me."
She spat on the floor at his feet.
"There is nothing between us, not anymore. Not now I know where your loyalties lie."
"I had no choice, Ceridwen, they were -"
"Don't give me that rubbish. You chose the biggest bully in the playground to hide behind. Well - there's no-one here to defend you now -"
- and Ceridwen lost her temper. Grimwald was forced to dive to the ground as she began to bombard him with everything she had. Grimwald barely dodged the blade of her other knife while letting loose several salvos aimed at her face. She ducked and used her free hand to send a Stun slamming towards his head. He lifted the taser to block the attack and Ceridwen pressed forward again -
- and Ceridwen knew she had the advantage. Grimwald had always been rubbish at fighting - and he wouldn't ever hurt her. Not now she knew that the soft spot he'd had for her in their youth had grown into something a lot more serious ...
... but then, Ceridwen's body froze, as did Grimwald's. Ceridwen's knife was poised in midair, inches from Grimwald's head. It caught the insubstantial light from a rusty plasma.
It was the longest moment of his life, the indecision that pounded through him at that instant. It was like looking at a set of scales. Ceridwen was one pan, and Grimwald was the other.
Dagger was not stupid.
Ceridwen had never treated him like an equal, as she should have done. She might have saved him from a few tricky spots in the past, but he was easily as powerful as her, and at the moment he had more powerful assets ... he'd never received the respect he deserved.
Grimwald had lured him with the promise of money, and freedom - despite his own criminal burden. He had shown Dagger the deserving respect ... he had promised Dagger would not be persecuted for being a magic user.
Dagger didn't know who to trust. It was all too easy to leave things as they were ... would he ever benefit from joining the Compliance Team? There was no way of knowing that he wouldn't end up dying slowly like the other maggots who'd been caught ... and from what he'd heard, Grimwald was about as trustworthy as a paper bridge ...


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Joe, based on a novel by Larry Brown, is corn-fried Southern shtick. Director David Gordon Green has done good work in the past. Most of it came, sadly, at his career's start (George Washington, All the Real Girls). Since then we have had Pineapple Express, Your Highness, Prince Avalanche . . .
Nicolas Cage is a tree poisoner for a forest-clearing lumber company. He has a short temper, a beard and a turn-me-over-I'm-smoking look as the plot griddles its right-on themes. Deforestation; social deprivation; child abuse; alcohol abuse . . . It's a long menu and the food isn't any good. Best scene: the one where Cage picks up a moccasin snake with his bare hands. (One creature you wouldn't wish on another, and I'm not saying which.) Worst scene: each one in which the central kid appears, played by Tye Sheridan (so good in Mud) with a mission to represent shining youth in a tarnished world.


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Hidden inside the pretty cottages and perfumed gardens are the Hoxne Phoenix Club ( ex Women's Institute) members. These over 70s have formed their own independent branch of the WI because they refuse to 'be dictated to' and pay the obligatory additional £3 a month subscription fee for the WI magazine. They are not to be messed with.
You can usually find the Phoenix Club outside the post office with their deceased husband's hunting rifles concealed in their shopping baskets and down the sides of their Zimmer frames, waiting for council house residents (their prey) to walk past.
Hoxne's other main group meets at the Swan Pub. They selected this as a suitable meeting place because they felt that as it was built in 1480 by the Bishop of Norwich, it gives it a certain impression of prestige required of anything to be associated with them. To be a member you must be male, totally Tory, over 50, own at least 10 vintage cars and wear a brightly coloured blazer with beige cords. They meet every evening to drink gin (only Gordon's] and tonic, discuss whether snake skin or specially imported Japanese calf leather is a better car seat cover and take photos of their cars from different angles.


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Another part of the rainbow
Green is the color of the marijuana that she rolls up with her manicured nails, and its perfect every time. Its the color of the flecks in her eyes when she's blinded by the sun. Green is the color of the paper she uses to support her mother and younger brothers. Green is the color of her favorite animal, the turtle and turtles of any kind. Green is the color of her little brother's eyes who she would do anything for. Green is the color of the envy I feel for her lover that I know she's been with for 5 years and I know she would never part from.
Purple is the color of her bedspread that we have shared countless nights. Purple is the color of the lean in her cup and the lean in her blunts. Purple is the color we both dyed our hair when we were in seventh grade. Purple is the color of my face when we were young and dumb, when we played the choking game for the first time in seventh grade in the girls bathroom during lunch. She is purple to me because the color represents extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, pride, mystery, independence, and magic. And she is all of this to me.
Yellow is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Being with her brings me joy. She is my happiness. She is so full of intellect and her energy is so strong that I can't stay away. Yellow produces a warming effect, kind of like the warmth of the space heater she keeps by her bed all year round, claiming she's addicted to heat. Yellow arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. She is so yellow because I can never not be cheerful when I have her. It reminds me of the long talks we would have until four in the morning until both of us were feeling okay again, and when we would work out weekly, we had so much fun. Yellow is the color of the sun that pours through her bedroom window in the morning that woke us up in the morning. But tell the sun it was unnecisary, because she is my sunshine.


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After moving up to draft wide receiver Sammy Watkins last night, the Buffalo Bills have traded their former number one receiver Stevie Johnson.
The trade was for a conditional 2015 fourth round pick which can turn into a third depending on record.
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Pronunciation of name?[edit]
Is it like the element? —Keenan Pepper 20:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Here in Austria we use the same pronounciation of his family name and of the chemical element, so yes, the pronunciation is the same as the German pronounciation of the chemical element. In particular, the "a" is like in "park", not like in "ray". --NeoUrfahraner 09:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Image available - needs help of German translator[edit]
There is an Image of Radon used in the German wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Johann_Radon.png. Would someone with the skills be kind enough to transfer, translate the German, confirm the license and add to the English wikipedia? We could then link to this article. Asperal 10:19, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
- As I understand, the corresponding license is {{Attribution}}. I just asked at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage_Diskussion:Bild-by#nur_zur_Notiz to verify this. --NeoUrfahraner 12:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
- FYI: it seems that http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Johann_Radon.png is not properly licensed and will be deleted soon. --18.104.22.168 06:06, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- I added a picture recently made by Arved. --NeoUrfahraner 09:19, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
- A (long belated) thank you. --Asperal 23:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
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