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Mia Love conceded defeat late Tuesday night, but Rep. Jim Matheson's narrow margin of victory just 2,818 votes will certainly change and could get smaller, even flip completely, with thousands of ballots waiting to be counted.
The Salt Lake County Clerk still has 43,699 provisional and mail-in ballots to be counted. More than half the votes in the county fall into the 4th Congressional District, although it is unclear exactly how many of those uncounted ballots apply to that race.
However, the Mia Love campaign doesn't believe the ballots will break significantly differently than other votes cast in Salt Lake County, which favored Matheson, which is why Love conceded defeat.
There are also provisional and mail-in ballots to be counted in Utah County, a Republican stronghold, and the portions of Sanpete and Juab counties that are in the district, but the number of those outstanding ballots is unclear.
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- You may be looking for the Fourth Doctor comic End of the Line.
End of the Road was the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. It introduced Allen Shapiro as the snark-spouting superior to Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond at the CIA. Brian Friedkin also reappeared after a five episode absence to retaliate against Torchwood, more specifically Matheson, for his painful interrogation. This ultimately failed and he attempted suicide, a choice that took down Olivia Colasanto with him.
Among the many secrets about the mysterious group behind the Miracle, more was revealed about the effects it is having on the world. The first true death to happen since the Miracle occurs in this episode, the demise of a very elderly Angelo Colasanto. Also, the Torchwood Hub is mentioned to be the place where the piece of alien technology Colasanto had was found, following its destruction in Children of Earth. Even more surprising, it shows how much more Angelo was infatuated with Jack than the immortal's previous lovers, even taking photos of him throughout the 20th century. Another important revelation would be that the Categories of Life was adopting a fourth category: Category 0. This news angered Oswald Danes and led him to become a fugitive, attacking Jilly Kitzinger for not informing him about this, who scrapped back after putting up with his repulsive behavior for so long.
Synopsis Edit
Jack Harkness faces a showdown with a man he thought long dead, but will the outcome be beneficial? Rex Matheson takes extreme action, but is it too late to prevent the collapse of society?
Plot Edit
The Torchwood team arrive at the Colasanto residence. The woman who brought Jack Harkness is Angelo Colasanto's granddaughter. She explains that since meeting Jack, Angelo has devoted his life to making immortality possible. Angelo himself is now aged and infirm, bedridden and connected to life-support machines.
His granddaughter, Olivia Colasanto, explains the three men who witnessed Jack's resurrection represented three different families who are in some way responsible for the Miracle. When Esther Drummond tried to trace them, there was no record of them.
The CIA enter the residence, having tracked Rex Matheson through a phone call he made to Vera Juarez's brother. Rex confronts Brian Friedkin, who confesses that he is working for the families, which he transmits through the contact lenses.
Allen Shapiro arrests Friedkin, but he triggers a bomb he is carrying, killing Olivia and him. Rex and Esther are once more allowed to work for the CIA.
While speaking to Angelo, Jack removes his breathing apparatus and kisses him. The life support machines to start beeping frantically and Angelo dies, leaving the CIA attempting to figure out how he died.
Esther notices the flooring under Angelo's bed is higher than the rest of the room. Jack examines it and says it is a null field, cancelling the morphic field causing the Miracle. Jack warns that any state with knowledge of this alien technology could cause a catastrophic disaster, since a null field can conceal mass weapons.
Oswald Danes begins to wear down Jilly Kitzingers last nerves inside a hotel at Dallas by tuning her out with rockabilly music when she tries to discuss the televised exposure in she has planned for him. He requests that she brings him a prostitute. Jilly is also approached by a woman who addresses herself as Shawnie Yamaguchi, with unusual eagerness to become her assistant. When the weary Jilly enters her room to take off her high heels, Yamaguchi wins her over, as Jilly does not realise she is a mole for the CIA. Meanwhile, Oswald receives his prostitute, but attempts to treat her more like a date, which irritates the woman. After her patience is exhausted, she walks off in a huff, warning Oswald he is a "Category 0".
Oswald beelines to Jilly and confronts her for not mentioning this to him. Congress has initiated a mandate that will allow a new category of life to deal with people who have earned the ovens for violating morality, such as criminals and death row convicts like him, and contrary to what Danes thinks, he is only loved on television, not in society. He then strikes Jilly across the face and gives her a bloody lip. Finally sick of putting up with Danes, Jilly's temper explodes and she grabs hold of him in retaliation, flailing and screaming. Oswald clobbers her again and charges out of the room, stealing her laptop. Kitzinger picks herself up and stands outside her room bellowing at the departing Oswald her many grievances — she'll issue a whole new set of charges on his head for the assault, that the ovens are opening up just for him, and even if he runs, his face is too famous for him to hide.
Jilly later discusses with Shawnie her plans to sic the world against Oswald, when she encounters the same man from the Cowboys Stadium. He tips her off Shawnie is a CIA field agent, then shoots Shawnie as she stands in the hotel elevator after being excused by Kitzinger. The man tells the bewildered Jilly that she is being considered for a promotion above PhiCorp for a position in the family, to which she agrees. He whisks her away while informing someone else on his mobile phone Jilly is now in the family's hands. This person is revealed as Charlotte Wills, secretly infiltrating the CIA under her colleagues' noses. Noah Vickers asks her who was she talking to after fetching records from several Catholic churches. Wills replies, "It's just a family thing — that's all," resuming her masquerade without missing a beat.
Jack begs Rex and Esther to get him out of the Colasanto manor, claiming the alpha plate from the generator. Rex knocks out the guard by Jack and instructs him to leave Esther and himself behind so he can implement a lie that Jack escaped on his own with a stolen vehicle, since the CIA may still need their services. As they sneak out the back door, a guard spots them and shoots Jack. Rex takes out this guard but Esther knows she's been spotted. Rex sends her away to deal with the guards who will investigate the shot. He smears the blood from Jack's wound over his chest so it looks like his injury is leaking out and leaves Esther driving away with a critically wounded Jack in the back seat, listening to a radio announcement declaring total economic collapse of biblical magnitude on the horizon. Esther panics when the faintly conscious Jack does not provide any words at all that could defuse this crisis. She has no idea where to go for help. Elsewhere, the deported Gwen sits on a plane back to Wales, crying in despair.
Cast Edit
- Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
- Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
- Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
- Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
- Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman
- Claire - Megan Duffy
- Shawnie - Constance Wu
- Agent Baylor - David Desantos
- Wilson - Nayo K. Wallace
Uncredited Edit
- Olivia Colasanto - Nana Visitor
- Sarah Drummond - Candace Brown
- Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
- Charlotte Wills - Marina Benedict
- Allen Shapiro - John de Lancie
- Brian Friedkin - Wayne Knight
- Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose
- Noah Vickers - Paul James
- Blue Eyed Man - Teddy Sears
Crew Edit
Created by Russell T Davies
|Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter
|Co-executive producer(s) Vlad Wolynetz and Jane Espenson
|General production staff
|Art department
|Make-up and prosthetics
Special and visual effects
|Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
The Starz broadcast carried a final credit of "Originally Developed and Produced by BBC Cymru Wales". The BBC One broadcast says, instead, "BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC Cymru Wales and STARZ Originals".
References Edit
- Jilly gives Oswald an essay by John Maynard Keynes.
- Rhys mentions Lehman Brothers.
- Olivia mentions stem cells.
- Jack Harkness sported a moustache in the 1970s.
- Allen Shapiro blasts Jack's World War II flying-ace attire with the comment, "What is it with you, Red Baron? You got Snoopy up your ass?", a reference to a running gag in the Peanuts comic strip where Snoopy would battle the Baron.
- Charlotte Wills notes that after World War II, all the Hitlers in the phone books disappeared, some changing names to disassociate themselves with the tyrant.
- Jack mentions Ianto when he is talking to Angelo, asking him whether he saw Ianto while watching Jack. He speculates about whether the two would have liked each other or not.
- Shapiro says that since Miracle Day dying of old age could be considered a crime.
- The latin name for Jellyfish, turritopsis nutricula, is mentioned. They are also said to be immortal, making Jack less special. They're said to be able to make themselves younger and go old again on repeat.
- Furthermore, cancer cells and stem cells are also said to be immortal, making Jack even less special.
Story notes Edit
- Esther finds no record of the three families. In the past, we've also seen Torchwood, Rose Tyler, and the Doctor himself erased from various computer databases. (TV: The New World, Love & Monsters, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
- When searching for the Three Families, Esther makes reference to the "Vivaldi Inheritance," a case that she says occurred in 2004. This is likely in reference to Russell T Davies's 2004 ITV series, "Mine All Mine," in which a man called Max Vivaldi claims that the town of Swansea is his inheritance. The show starred Gareth David-Lloyd as a homosexual man called Yanto Jones.
Ratings Edit
- UK: 4.64 million [1]
Filming locations Edit
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Production errors Edit
- Esther hangs up the phone after Rex gives her the names of the Three Families, but the call somehow stays connected.
- When Brian Friedkin interrogates Rex, his voice should not be audible on the television set the Eye-5s are projecting their feed on, as the Eye-5s cannot pick up sound. Secondly, Friedkin's voice isn't turned into the generic male voice by the translation systems of the Eye-5 contact lenses.
- When Rex and Charlotte search for the Three Families' names in Catholic Church archive books, the books appear to be empty.
- The computer system on Esther's laptop that records the conversation have Olivia's words written before she says them (unless Torchwood has the technology to predict what will be said) and Gwen's words are written a bit different than what she says.
- After Jack pulls out the plug to Angelo's life-system, Angelo still breathes (however it could be his last air leaving him)
Continuity Edit
- Gwen once again gets irritated when someone calls her English. (TV: Rendition)
- The null field generator was said to have been taken from the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff after its destruction. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)
- Friedkin threatens Rex in the same way that Rex threatened him in TV: Dead of Night, using his own words against him.
- Esther's cheek is still gashed from the violent struggle she had with Colin Maloney. (TV: The Middle Men)
- Jack gets various flashbacks of the events in 1927. (TV: Immortal Sins)
- Jack asks the dying Angelo whether he saw Ianto while watching Jack. (TV: Everything Changes et.al.)
- Rex mocks Jack by saying "the whole world got screwed because two gay guys had a hissy fit", referring to Jack and Angelo's tearful parting. (Immortal Sins)
- Esther's sister Sarah discover that it was Esther that reported her. (TV: The Categories of Life)
- When Rex get blood on his hands he plans to cover by saying that it's his heart again. It would previously bleed when he exhausted himself. (TV: Rendition)
- Rhys asks Gwen whether Jack is grumpy because he got another bruise, referring to his previous scarring on the arm. (TV: Dead of Night)
- Gwen asks whether Olivia ordered a gun at Anwen's head to get revenge on Jack. Gwen's mother later reveals that she and her father were threatened with guns in their own house. (TV: Immortal Sins)
- Rex says that he was supposed to die. (TV: The New World)
Home video releases Edit
This episode was released worldwide in a box set containing all ten episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day. In the United Kingdom, it was released on Region 2 DVD and Region Free Blu-ray on 14 November 2011.[2] In Australia, it was released in Region 4 DVD and Region B Blu-Ray on 1 December 2011.[3] In New Zealand, the same sets were released on 7 December 2011.[4] In North America, it was released on Region 1 DVD and Region Free Blu-Ray on 3 April 2012.[5]
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Kristin Hillman walked across the stage at Auburn Arena on May 6, one of 152 new graduates from Auburn University's Harrison School of Pharmacy. For her, receiving her PharmD degree is the completion of a journey that started more than 30 years ago.
In 1977, the Hillman family was returning home to Murfreesboro, Tennessee from a trip to Canada. While driving through Illinois, Kristin's older brother Jeff started to show signs of a fever. Once home, the fever was still present and, as was common then, Jeff was given a dose of baby aspirin.
The family was unaware that Illinois had an outbreak of Reye's syndrome – a mysterious and potentially fatal disease with detrimental effects on many organs, including the brain and liver – or the connection between it and aspirin.
Jeff had in fact contracted Reye's and his condition quickly worsened. Within a week, he had advanced to the fourth of five stages of the syndrome and fell into a coma with a 50/50 chance of survival.
Though he still has some physical limitations as a result of Reye's, Jeff is alive and well. His story of recovery has even been chronicled in a book by Bill Conger, "Rejoice in the Lord Always: The Jeff Hillman Story."
Kristin Hillman was just five years old at the time, but the experience stuck with her and fueled a passion to help others through medicine.
"Much of what I wanted to do by coming back for pharmacy school was to give back," she said. "Because of my brother and his experience, there is a special place in my heart when I can give back to someone medically."
While Hillman says she has always known what she wanted to do, the path to get to that stage in Auburn Arena has not been a direct one. She first came to Auburn in 1990. Pre-pharmacy was her major, but it was volleyball that brought her to the Plains.
"I had some Division II scholarship offers, but I wanted the chance to play after college and I was offered the opportunity to walk on at Auburn," she said.
Hillman was injured her first season at Auburn, but her off-season work ethic impressed new head coach Sharon Dingman enough to award her a scholarship for the 1991 season. She appeared in 31 sets that season, helping Auburn to a 22-13 record and an 8-8 mark in Southeastern Conference play, but the injuries returned prior to the 1992 season and her volleyball career was over.
In the meantime, she had changed her major to marine biology and earned her degree in 1995.
"I changed my major because of volleyball because it was so difficult to balance it and the pre-pharmacy coursework," Hillman said. "I thought marine biology would be easier, but it wasn't. I was also unsure of what I wanted to do at that time."
After graduation, she moved to Atlanta where she co-owned a landscaping business that is still thriving today, sold building materials for Georgia-Pacific, was a property manager for nine homeowners associations, and was a flight attendant for AirTran Airways.
"I took the flight attendant job because it was a good platform to figure out what was next for me," she said. "I really wanted to be able to make a solid decision instead of jumping from job to job."
The decision to make a jump to pharmacy school came while she was living in London, working as a bartender.
"I decided enough was enough and I wanted to do it. I finally decided to believe in myself that I could actually do it," Hillman said. "A lot of that was what held me back from going back sooner. The worst thing I could do is not make it and that's not so bad. I wanted to be a professional in the workplace, respected and be someone that could really make a difference."
The first step was a call to Paul Jungnickel, the pharmacy school's associate dean for academic and student affairs.
"Dr. Jungnickel was so supportive and said all the right things," Hillman said. "He helped throughout the application process. I felt like I needed to be a lawyer to get through the process; it was intense."
While some pharmacy schools require a student who is more than five years removed from undergrad to essentially go through undergrad again, Auburn looks more at the Pharmacy College Admissions Test, or PCAT. Empowered by this opportunity, Hillman embraced a key component of the Auburn Creed and went to "work, hard work."
She found a bookstore in London that sold textbooks and picked up a collection on organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biology and others.
"Once I make up my mind on something, I am very dedicated and disciplined," she said. "I bought all these textbooks and tried to re-learn everything. I just went to this library in Kensington, next to Hyde Park, and studied all the time."
Once she felt up to it, Hillman registered for the PCAT and moved to Auburn. Without an acceptance letter in hand, she got an apartment and enrolled in summer school to take some of the required classes for her to start pharmacy school. Then, one day in the middle of the summer, she got the news she had been waiting for.
"I was midway through the semester when I got the letter," said Hillman. "I probably jumped 10 feet in the air when I found out. I was just at a time in my life when I knew I was ready to do it."
Pharmacy school is a challenge for anyone, but for someone that took their last college class 15 years earlier, it can be especially challenging. Still, Hillman said she looked at her experience and new perspective as a strength.
"Being older, you are more disciplined, and I felt like I had my ducks in a row," she said. "At the same time, your brain doesn't work as well as the 23-year-olds' sitting next to you, and I think I had to work harder than some of my classmates to keep up. The load of pharmacy school is so heavy and so challenging."
She credits Rajesh Amin, Lea Eiland, Kelly Hester, Kristen Helms and Susie Thomas for helping her get through the last four years. Amin, her mentor in the school's Professional Practice Experience during her first and third years, said that Hillman's maturity and people skills will make her a great representative of Auburn's pharmacy school.
"Kristin is a person who has lived a very full life and thus allowed her to get a great insight and clairvoyance toward how best to interact with people," said Amin. "She is always challenging herself to grow and become somebody better than she is now. Her people skills and sincere desire for the best patient care possible will allow her to reflect the best of what the Harrison School of Pharmacy has to offer to the community, as well as the field of pharmacy."
Now, four years later, she has her degree and is ready for the next phase in her life – a residency at Huntsville Hospital as a clinical pharmacist.
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The family that fetches together, stays together.
Emily, Jenna and Austin certainly know how to play fair.
Fantastic photo, Shirley!
Emily, Jenna and Austin certainly know how to play fair.
Fantastic photo, Shirley!
Awesome photo!Luv it!
Great picture of three beautiful shelties!
How many shelties does it take fetch a frisbee? obviously these three beauties know the answer to that! Great photo :)
What a cool shot! One sheltie in every color…
Gotta love shelties for their ability to play well with others…
So endearing!
What a wonderful trio. They look like they have tons of fun together. If I had enough space, (I live in a small studio apartment) I would have such a colorful trio, too. Lucky you Shirley. Do they get the zoomies at the same time?
What a great picture! Personality shows in each beautiful face :-) !
That is one of the best Sheltie pics ever!
What a beautiful bunch of furbabys you have Shirley and isn't it wonderful (and harmonious!) when all the kids share and play fair? Sure hope you never have to pick a favorite . . . for my money, that would be an impossible task! I wish you lots of fun and happiness with your sweet babys.


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Maybe she thought she was doing you a favor? I know that in my office, a plate of anything left on the table is automatically up for grabs as it is assumed it is something to share with the group.This is probably pretty petty but this morning I accidently brought my kiwis to work, yes the fruit (I went grocery shopping and they were in the candy bag and the candy bag came to work).
I took them out of the plastic bag and put them on a paper plate in the communal kitchen, because I didn't want to leave them in that plastic bag all day. I left it in the kitchen because, well its a kitchen and my desk is pretty messy and hell everybody leaves stuff in the kitchen.
A coworker comes in and asks if those are for everybody? I was like I guess if somebody wants a kiwi sure. So she says she's going to take one. I was in the plant most of the day and when I came back to my office my plate of kiwis were on my desk with one missing.
OK, take the damn kiwi but why put the plate on my desk. It was in the kitchen for a reason. Everybody leaves crap in the kitchen this is the first time I've ever left anything personal in the damn kitchen and it becomes a federal case.
I realize this is small potatos but damn. (or should I say kiwis)
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1948: WQXR's Halloween Nightmare
What was WQXR's worst nightmare in 1948? Was it to have their supposedly long hair* cut? No -- as it turns out, it was to be part of a big network.
In a 1948 Halloween broadcast, a "recurrent nightmare" is played out in full: What would WQXR be like if it were part of a "big, great, wonderful network," broadcasting from "WQXR City?" The broadcast features the show "Harpsichord Arpeggio", complete with sponsors (PruRex, the world's most irritating counter irritant) and rotating commentators. In the selection posted here, commentator Sebastian Bhuh shares his thoughts on Halloween.
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That's why I have a 6.5 barrel for my 1905 Ross straight-pull, and I'm setting it up for a semi-wildcat - 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Snoenauer rimless chamber reamer, shortened M-S dies, and .303 British brass. The rifle came in .303, so the bolt and magazine ought to work okay.
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The Last Temptation (original 1994; edition 2005)
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The Last Temptation by Neil Gaiman (Author) (1994)
No current Talk conversations about this book.
Clearly influenced by Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes", so not really an original plot but entertaining enough anyway."
This marks the 20th anniversary of this comic collection. It is the story of Stephen and his encounter with a Alice-Copper character and his mysterious theatre. It is a horror story about resisting evil and confronting life
The artwork is quite good and certainly very colourful, the faces reminding me of the work of Barry Windsor-Smith.
The second part of the collection includes the original scripts, letters to Alice Cooper and pitch. Of interest to real devotees.
Recommended to lovers of horror comics.
I just couldn't get into this. In the first portion, I was intrigued with the set up. Introduction of anniversary edition by Gaiman was better than the entire portion of the book I read (I'm guessing the rest too, but I don't know).
I'm a fan of Gaiman. Not die hard, or anything, but I like his books. I like Sandman a lot, haven't finished it yet having been introduced to the series only a year or so ago. Anyway, I was hoping for something like that. Instead, I got a great idea and set up but it didn't follow through. I feel like the graphic novel didn't execute exactly what it aimed to fast enough. See, I lost interest. And I feel I'm a pretty patient reader but with graphic novels I think you need to grab the readers imagination and attention fully, and faster than with novels because of the visual element. It ups the anty (for me, anyway).
I wouldn't recommend this for those who want a super engaging and fast moving plot of a read. Graphics are good, but not great. I've seen better from Gaiman, even Gaiman twenty years ago. I'm not a big Alice Cooper buff, but I've heard better from Cooper then too.
To sum it up for a short DNF review: ambitious but not quite realized the expectations given with an anniversary release and fantastical (braggy) introduction. I was let down.
*I was provided a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.
This collection contains not only the graphic novel, but also letters between the author and Alice Cooper, pre-coloured artwork, the outline and rough draft scripts for the project.
I knew nothing of the original when I agreed to review this arc.
It is an engaging tale, Steven is an ordinary young boy who is not quite sure of his place but leads a fairly unremarkable life. One day on the way home from school, he and his friends come across a mysterious theatre, the 'Theatre of the Real' and the strangely flamboyant Showman - this is where Copper comes in.
The story itself is quite a short one, but the extras make up for that and turn it into a big bumper pack of delight for both long term fans and newbies.
Recommended for fans of the very prolific Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, and Alice Cooper, in particular, but suitable for all graphic novel lovers.
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Halloween is almost upon them when Steven and his friends discover an alley that wasn't there before that leads to a theatre that wasn't there before. The Theatre de Grand Guignol is for the more, shall we say, discerning patron and the showman (the only name he is ever given in the story), who bears a striking resemblance to Alice Cooper, is offering one ticket to any boy brave enough to enter. As much as he is terrified by the prospect, Steven is shamed by his friends into accepting the offer.
The manager offers Steven a deal - he can give up all of his fears and live forever as a child among the ghosts and spirits in this traveling show but there is a down-side, of course – he must also give up all of his potential. Steven is tempted by Mercy, the beautiful and seductive ticket seller, but, when he finally refuses, he finds that the showman isn't one to take no for an answer and, as they say, our dreams are the portals to our soul.
The Last Temptation was a collaborative effort between Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper originally designed as a tie-in to Alice Cooper's album by the same name released in 1994. It was re-released by Dynamite to mark its 20th anniversary. This is a marvelously dark and macabre comiing-of-age tale and is great fun to read. However, what really makes this graphic novel worth revisiting after all this time is the visually stunning artwork by Michael Zuli.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 159307414X, Hardcover)Steven is afraid. Afraid of ghost stories, afraid of growing up... just afraid. That is, until he meets the mysterious Showman and his Theatre of the Real. Steven takes a ticket and watches the show on a dare, but getting out of the performance will be harder than he ever imagined. And then Steven learns what it is to be truly afraid. Neil Gaiman, internationally acclaimed and bestselling writer of both prose fiction (Neverwhere, Stardust) and graphic novels (The Sandman, Signal to Noise) teams with veteran artist Michael Zulli (The Sandman, Creatures of the Night) to create this dark and brooding morality tale. The Last Temptation is the latest addition to Dark Horse's proud and growing library of Neil Gaiman hardcovers. Originally published as part of the short-lived Marvel Music line of the early '90s, Zulli's lush and beautiful duoshade artwork is now showcased in a new format for this stunning second edition.
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Woodland Park Zoo continues unethical elephant breeding
By Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants
Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) artificially inseminated Chai, a female Asian elephant, for the 59th time on December 5, 2011. The previous 58 artificial inseminations over 20 years have all failed to produce a live birth.
Hansa, the only calf born at WPZ, was conceived when Chai was shipped to Missouri to be bred with a bull. Hansa died of Endotheliotropic Herpes Virus (EEHV) which is almost always fatal to young Asian elephants and horrifically painful. The zoo industry's own expert, Dr. Laura Richman, a pathologist with the Smithsonian National Zoo, said that Hansa would have gotten it from one of the zoo's other elephants and that Chai could transmit the virus through the birthing process. There is no cure for EEHV and WPZ has no infection control in place.
Elephants have evolved over 40 million years to become the animal they are today: highly intelligent, highly social, and genetically wired to move great distances. WPZ's elephant display, designed in 1986, is woefully inadequate resulting in the elephants' worsening physical and psychological conditions. The elephants are locked in a 2,500 sq. ft. barn for 16-17 hours every day for about 7 months of the year. Incompatilbility forces one of them to be in solitary confinement. The tiny, 1 acre yard is subdivided into 5 pens in order to keep the incompatible elephants separated.
WPZ claims having a calf aids the conservation of elephants. No calf born at WPZ will ever be released into the wild—the accepted measure of ex-situ wildlife conservation.
Furthermore, if a fraction of the $400,000.00 it costs to keep elephants in Seattle each year was used to fund anti-poaching teams or fund organizations working to control habitat loss, real elephant conservation would be advanced.
Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants continues to appeal to WPZ and the Seattle City Council to allow the elephants retire to the 2,700 acre Elephant Sanctuary in TN; it's a win all the way around:
- Seattle gets out of a law suit.
- WPZ saves about $400,000.000 annually.
- Our children learn a valuable lesson in science and compassion.
- Chai, Bamboo, and Watoto can heal from the traumas of zoo captivity.
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Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain Bill Mann (TMF Otter)
January 5, 2000
A PaineWebber analyst named Walter Piecyk caused quite a stir last week when he made a buy recommendation and set a 12-month price target of $1000 on Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM). This was quite an audacious prediction, standing out for its call for a 100% appreciation on top of an already spectacularly performing stock, and the high number itself. Now, $1000 in and of itself doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot, because depending on how a company chooses to divide itself up, theoretically most any company could have shares worth $1000. And to note, Qualcomm did split at the end of last week, pushing that target down to the more reasonable-sounding level of $250. But there again, that is mere window dressing in the scheme of Foolishly valuing a company.
(A note of disclosure on personal preference. There is a general derision here at The Motley Fool about the importance some people put on splits. And clearly, a split does nothing to increase the overall value of a company, because it has the effect of just dividing the market capitalization of a company into smaller pieces. But you know what? I like splits. I like it when a stock I own splits. It is a nice validation that the management is confident that the share value appreciation is justified. There. I said it. I like splits. Are those hounds I hear barking here at Fool HQ?)
Anyhow, I detailed my opinion on this particular analyst's work in yesterday's Rule Maker report, so I'll give my friends at Qualcomm a rest for today. I do wish Qualcomm shareholders the best, and I congratulate them on their Foolish selection of a great company in which to trust their investment dollars. Instead, let's look into the conflicted world of analysts, and why we here at the Fool tend to treat their opinions the same way a baby treats a diaper.
The truth is that there is almost no way for the individual investor to see inside the tangled, conflicted world of the sell-side equity analyst. The average stock analyst has almost as much independence of thought as a North Korean journalist. His primary, secondary, or even tertiary concern is not giving the retail customer a valid and objective analysis of the fundamentals of a company. Rather, there are several overlapping influences that override any objectivity he would otherwise show. First and foremost is the need to earn revenues for his company. PaineWebber, for example, makes a market in Qualcomm stock. In most other fields, this type of conflict of interest would seriously limit the level of credence an analysis would be given. For example, not even the most die-hard Boston Celtics fan would have given Johnny Most high marks for his objective analysis of the course of action on the court. ("He fiddles and diddles. He diddles and fiddles. Oh my God! Did you see Magic Johnson attack Larry Bird's fist with his face?!?") Great radio, yes. Objective? The Russian judge gives a 4.
So analysts cover companies not so much for the benefit of the investing customer, but for their employers. And the employer's interest is clearly on the side of not antagonizing potential corporate customers. This isn't so much a bad thing; it would just be better if the veneer of objectivity were pulled back a bit more firmly.
Investment banks make their biggest profits from underwriting bond and equity offerings by their clients. Therefore, these banks are highly unmotivated to provide a negative report on a company for fear that this would damage its ability to be kept on the A-list for future offerings. Given the choice between an honest analysis and a gravy train of future revenues, they're hopping on that train. This tendency is borne out in the fact that a rating of "sell" is almost unheard of on Wall Street. And the ones that do turn up tend to use polite euphemisms like "Source of Funds."
But there is something more than just the conflict of interest that makes the Foolish investor look at analysts' ratings with emotions ranging from mild disdain to passive bemusement to, on occasion, contempt. It is this -- analysts are not really very good at what they do. And that's got to be frustrating, because these are some highly educated, intelligent people. Burton Malkiel, an academic at Princeton who has made a career of pointing out the inability of analysts to actually analyze, tells an apocryphal story in A Random Walk Down Wall Street. An analyst put a price target on a company calling for a certain amount of growth based on the pricing of raw copper. The analyst is then notified that he has put a decimal in the wrong place, thus meaning that the basis of his analysis is wrong by a factor of 10. He lets the buy report stand, saying it sounded more convincing that way.
Now, this is an extreme case, but Malkiel then points out that his review of analyst recommendations show that over one- and five-year periods analysts have an uncanny ability to be wrong. Their margin of error for all types of companies is 31.3%, and that includes such low-hanging fruit as measuring the earnings growth of electric utilities. For high-flying stocks, the margin of error is much higher. While there is still a raging debate on the subject, there is something that should be fairly clear -- the investor who puts blind faith in the recommendations and price targets of analysts is setting herself up for disappointment.
What other issues hinder forecasters? How about the random nature of events? Can an analyst really predict them any better than you can? What if a key manager quits, dies, or retires? What if the regulatory climate changes? How can an analyst possibly know whether a category-killing technology is going to be released sometime in the next 10 years? Even competent analysts, the ones unclouded by conflict or personal frailty, cannot see through the crystal ball to predict these inflection points.
Fortunately, even though the past performance of individual analysts is somewhat difficult to track, they are closely linked to a group of investment specialists whose returns are much more traceable: mutual fund portfolio managers. Often, the most competent analysts are rewarded with the management of a mutual fund port. I don't suppose it would surprise the patient Foolish reader that the average mutual fund portfolio manager's performance has trailed the S&P 500 over the last 20 years by a measure of 2% per annum, before expenses. As a Fool you don't trust a mutual fund manager, the best and most highly compensated analysts in the business, to determine the value of a company for you, so why would you give the analysts from the same company any more credence?
All of these points are why Warren Buffett always talks about the importance of a margin of safety for his investments. This simply states that he would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong in his growth forecasts. The reason is simple -- the intrinsic value of the future earnings of a company is a bashful beast. It cannot be predicted exactly. The best the prudent investor can hope to do is develop a best- and worst-case scenario for growth and see if the current price is above, within, or below that range.
The fact is, analysts are out to provide a superior product to their best clients, and some of them are very good at doing so. But the retail investor, even one with a seven-figure portfolio, should not forget that, in this line of work, he is not the client. Other companies are; many times, the very companies that the analysts are "covering" are the ones they are trying to attract for other business. Every time the retail stock market gets into a lather over some new coverage, we have the unfortunate effect of reinforcing the wisdom of these actions. Caveat emptor, dear Fools.
Fool on.
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In an interview with the media relations department of his alma mater (Alabama-Birmingham), Webb said he has remained busy during the lockout, including working out with Favre in Hattiesburg, Miss.
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"It's great to have a person like that as my contact," Webb said. "He can still sling it."
The fact that Favre has voluntarily take on a mentor's role with Webb, a player who was a teammate for just one season but a very engaging and likeable person, is a testament to both – Favre in his willingness to help a young player viewed as a professional long shot at quarterback and Webb to travel on his own dime to learn from one of the masters.
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A curious variety of the chausson and chausses is found in the figure of a knight from Roy.
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Finally, the sleeves of the jacket were carried over the fingers, and a continuation of the chausses protected the toes.
The gambeson appearing below the chausses, but covering the chaussons of mail, forming an extra protection to the knee.
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Hosen wiute vampez, stockings without feet; the chausses were usually footed.
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Now I don't have to drive six hours to get a garbage plate. The sauce is awesome. I have ordered three times now and each time it is perfect. I highly recommend it.
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text: Blood TransfusionsWhat is a blood transfusion?A blood transfusion is a procedure in which you receive blood or parts of blood through an IV (intravenous) line. The blood may be from a donor. Or you may receive your own blood that has been stored for you. There are several parts of blood that can be transfused into an adult. Red blood cells are the most common type of blood product transfusion.There are many reasons you may need a transfusion. Your healthcare provider will explain the reasons for your transfusion.Why might I need a blood transfusion?There are several reasons why you may need a blood transfusion, such as:A sudden loss of blood due to an accident or injuryBlood loss as a result of surgeryA low hemoglobin level before, during, or after surgery (hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen)Severe heart, lung, liver, or kidney diseaseBone marrow failureModerate to severe anemia (decreased red blood cells)The parts of bloodHuman blood is made of a fluid called plasma. Plasma carries red and white blood cells and platelets. Each part of blood has a special function. These parts can be separated from each other. Bone marrow, the soft, spongy material in the center of the bones, makes most of the body's blood cells. Here is a look at each part of the blood, and why it might be transfused:Red blood cells. These cells carry oxygen from your lungs to other body organs. They also carry carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be breathed out (exhaled). The body needs a certain number of these cells to work well. Bleeding due to injury, surgery, or disease may cause a low red blood cell count. This is the most common type of transfusion.White blood cells. These cells fight infections by destroying bacteria, viruses, and other germs. White blood cells are rarely transfused. They are often set aside as a short-term (temporary) treatment for people with a low white cell count and severe infection that has not responded to antibiotics.Platelets. These little pieces of blood cells help blood to clot. Your body may not make enough platelets. This might be due to bone marrow disorders, increased destruction of platelets, or medicines such as chemotherapy. Platelets may be transfused before a procedure that may cause a person with a low platelet count to bleed.Plasma. This fluid carries the blood cells all over the body. It contains proteins, vitamins, and minerals. Some of the proteins also help blood to clot. Plasma or fresh frozen plasma can be transfused in people who severely lack certain parts of the blood that help with clotting.What are the risks of a blood transfusion?Most hospitals use blood from volunteer donors. These donors are not paid for giving blood or blood products. Each blood donor must answer medical history questions and have a limited physical exam before being accepted as a donor. Donated blood is carefully tested, which lowers the chances of transfusion-related infections. Donated blood is tested for:Hepatitis viruses B and CHIVHuman T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) I and IISyphilisChagas diseaseWest Nile virusMost transfusions are done without any problems. Mild side effects can often be treated with medicine if you need more transfusions. 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If the person does not use this donated blood, it may be made available for someone else.Donating blood for yourself (autologous donation). This is your blood that you donate for your own use. It is set aside and can be transfused back into your own body if needed for a later, planned surgery. This type of donation requires a prescription from your provider and is scheduled in advance. It does not go through the same testing as other blood donations. If you don't use the blood, it is thrown away.How do I get ready for a blood transfusion?No special preparation is needed before a blood transfusion.What happens during a blood transfusion?A blood transfusion may occur as part of your hospitalization. Or it may be done as an outpatient. This means you go home the same day.Blood is collected and stored in germ-free (sterile) bags. 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Publication Acceptance Date: 3/1/2013
Publication Date: 6/1/2013
Citation: Wei, Z., Jang, B., Zhang, Y., Jia, Y. 2013. Parallelizing alternating direction implicit solver on GPUs. Procedia Computer Science. 18:389-398. Available http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science/ Interpretive Summary: In this paper, we presented an improved parallel alternating direction implicit (ADI) solver that harnesses modern graphics process units (GPUs) for solving the two-dimensional heat conduction equation. Our improvements include 1) new thread mappings which address the hardware resource constraints, 2) reduced shared memory usage which helps launch more threads, 3) two memory optimization techniques which improve the efficiency of off-chip memory accesses. With these improvements, our proposed parallel ADI solver demonstrates a significant speedup across large computation domain sizes. Our future work includes developing more advanced GPU optimization techniques and applying our improved ADI solver to more complex systems.
Technical Abstract: We present a parallel Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) solver on GPUs. Our implementation significantly improves existing implementations in two aspects. First, we address the scalability issue of existing Parallel Cyclic Reduction (PCR) implementations by eliminating their hardware resource constraints. As a result, our parallel ADI, which is based on PCR, no longer has the maximum domain size limitation. Second, we optimize inefficient data accesses of parallel ADI solver by leveraging hardware texture memory and matrix transpose techniques. These memory optimizations further make already parallelized ADI solver twice faster, achieving overall more than 100 times speedup over a highly optimized CPU version. We also present the analysis of numerical accuracy of the proposed parallel ADI solver.


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Congratulations on cotm and nice job all together, as a moderator, elantra modder, etc. IMO, You're one of the few "greats" of the community.
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Sadie Robertson says that she and Trevor Knight have broken up. Knight, the Texas A&M quarterback, began dating the "Duck Dynasty" dynamo during the summer after first talking earlier this year. But their relationship was short-lived as Robertson told Fox 411 that they just broke up. "Me and Trevor actually just broke up," Robertson told FOX411. "It's okay, it�...
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Back in October of 2012, former Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel made headlines for wearing an incredible Scooby Doo costume (and hanging with very some very attractive ladies) on Halloween. Friday, the school paid homage to its former star, dressing up live mascot Reveille in his honor. Reveille was actually just one part of a team that dressed up as the show's characters. ...
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Before the Alabama-Texas A&M game got started there were many that thought this game was going to be close. It did not take long for the Crimson Tide to put those thoughts to rest as Alabama could do no wrong and the Aggies could do nothing right.It got so bad at one point in during the second quarter that Texas A&M's favorite son (who could have stopped this mess by staying...
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Sumlin names Texas A&M's starting quarterback
Texas A&M has a starting quarterback. This afternoon, coach Kevin Sumlin formally announced that Kenny Hill, a sophomore with 183 career passing yards and one touchdown, will be the Aggies' starter behind center. Hill beat out true freshman Kyle Allen, a five-star recruit, in the competition. Texas A&M opens its season Aug. 28 in Columbia against South Carolina.
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With mere moments remaining before all the hype, speculation, bloviating, hearsay, over-analysis and all that other annoying stuff is finally put behind us and the 2014 NFL Draft officially gets underway at Radio City Music Hall in New York, we're afforded a heartwarming story about one of the most compelling players and talked-out personalities heading […] The post Johnny Manziel...
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With a new logo above and a brief six-second video tagged with #JustAKidFromKerrville acknowledging his small town Texas roots, Johnny Manziel has at long last launched his official Facebook page on Thursday. Of course, the foray into Facebookery coincides perfectly with arguably the most monumental day in his 21 years: The day he learns where […] The post Johnny Manziel at long...
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That was a senseless act! I would agree that he will be convicted of some kind of an asault!
That's as bad as shooting your wife in the middle of the night while on her way back to bed from a bathroom trip! Know your target before you pull that trigger! You certinly do not get that bullet back that leaves the muzzle of your firearm.