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Born in 1945, Tigran Karapetian is perhaps best known for his TV channel, ALM. The Yerevan-based station enjoys considerable popularity among pensioners and rural residents for its regular concerts and charity drives. Karapetian, who is believed to have accumulated considerable wealth in Russia during the 1990s (though doing what remains unknown), personally finances the station. Details about his professional and educational background, however, are sketchy at best.
He claims to hold a doctorate in political science, though from what university is not known. He is said to be a graduate of the Armenian Pedagogical Institute, but his activities during the Soviet period remain a blank spot.
As in the case of Artashes Geghamian, much of Karapetian's campaign focuses on reminding voters about the crisis period of the early 1990s, when rival candidate Levon Ter-Petrosian was president. However, when asked if he is campaigning against the ex-president, Karapetian asserts that "I see no difference between the former authorities and the current ones."
The existence of his television station, though, is thought an indication that he is on friendly terms with the Kocharian government.
Nonetheless, despite the station's popularity, Karepetian failed to win a seat in parliament in 2007. Nor do analysts give him serious chances for the presidency now.
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FENWICK – Liquid gold began trickling from maple trees a little over a week ago but over the weekend the sap started to run fast from the taps, forcing Don Donkin and his crew to leap into action for the 2013 season.
"We had 1,000 gallons (close to 3,800 litres) of sap on Saturday and Sunday. We had 200 gallons on Saturday and 800 gallons on Sunday," said Donkin. "That is a beautiful start…a very good run in two days."
Donkin says his earliest start on the sap season was eight years ago, on Feb. 21.
"But they've started as late as March 26," said the 63-year-old. "This year we have a March 2nd start, so we're almost half way in between."
The evaporators kicked into high gear on Monday and Donkin will start producing fresh batches of his long line of maple products, including maple barbecue sauce, just in time for the weekend rush of maple lovers.
"Sometimes we have 400 people through our camp on Saturday and Sunday," he said. "And we sometimes get a lot of people on Friday as well."
Donkin runs his sugar camp with help from three seasonal workers, plus his wife Pat and daughter Raya.
The Donkin family has been involved in maple production for almost a century.
"This sugar woods was my great grandfathers, which he started in the 1920s with his two sons," said Donkin. "They had no children but his sister, my grandmother, had seven children and most of those children helped their uncles in the sugar woods."
His grandfather had 2,200 trees.
"They would fill a bucket, walk back to the horse which pulled a 50 gallon drum, and when that was full they'd go to the camp and put it in another big tank and then go back in the woods again," said Donkin. "They would do that up to 20 days every season. That was a lot of walking."
Donkin says there was a decline in maple production in Fenwick after the Second World War.
"Seventy years ago there were 14 sugar camps in the Fenwick Hill area and 40 years ago there was only one sugar woods camp."
Donkin said most men returned from the war with skills in the trades and could make 20 times as much more money working in Amherst than they could working in the sugar woods.
"They would go to town and earn $10 a day, and farmers would pay people 50 cents a day. They couldn't get help."
The industry came back to life in the early 1970s in what Donkin calls the 'age of plastic,' making the industry less labour intensive.
"They started making plastic lines and the sugar camps went from one camp and back up to seven," he said. "There's three of us (sugar camps) on this road and four others in the area. Plastic revitalized the sugar woods."
Donkins' father, Ralph, eventually bought the sugar woods.
"He didn't have time to work in the woods because he had four children," said Donkin.
Donkin said he always had a love for the woods because of the story's his father would tell him about working in the woods.
"I came home from Alberta in 1988 and we started the sugar woods back up again," he said. "My father was retired and my father-in-law was retired, so I had a lot of free help to help build the camp."
Donkin started out with 37 acres, and then in 1998 he bought 40 more acres.
"We started out with 500 trees with buckets and sold our syrup, and then we built the camp and we went to 1,000 trees," said Donkin. "Over 22 years we've gone up to where we now own 6,000 trees, so it wasn't like, bang, everything was here."
Each tree costs $2 to run a sap line to, and he also has a $10,000 evaporator and six tanks used to hold the sap, which cost $1,000 each."
Most important, he has mature trees.
"Any one of the trees that has a sap line running to it is 150-years-old, some are 250-years-old, and some of the bigger ones could be 300-years-old but, likely, not much older than that," said Donkin." My father said the bigger the trees, the more sap they have. He said that if you went to a big tree the bucket would almost be full. The bigger trees would run longer as well."
Donkin said he still plans to run the sugar woods for a little longer yet.
"I plan to keep doing it until I'm 70," said Donkin. "Hopefully I'm healthy enough to do it. I love doing it.
What will happen to the sugar camp once he retires?
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The California Institute of Abnormal Arts is a 21st-century revival of the old-timey sideshow experience, serving up stage acts with modern-day freaks like a Guinness World Record holder who once balanced a refrigerator on his teeth for 10 seconds. This "other" CIA continues to bring bigger and better acts into the fold, including Nana Sasquatch, goth metal band Black Rage and "Sid Terror's 3-D Vault of Horror," which features colorized moving images from the 1930s and '40s ... in 3-D. Under this NoHo-based makeshift big top, the CIA's demented setting is a nod to the opium dens of Old Shanghai, which only adds to its trademark blend of oddball entertainment, consistently tinged with a curious and unexplained brilliance. 11334 Burbank Blvd., N. Hlywd., 91601. (818) 221-8065, ciabnormalarts.com. —Tanja M. Laden
Ask the average American to describe the culture of Brazil and he or she may cite the bikinis of Ipanema and Copacabana, the gang violence of the favelas, the popular beauty-salon waxing trend or the off-Strip Vegas casino called Rio. Brasil Brasil Cultural Center is here to spread the rich, authentic and energizing traditions of the proud, ethnically mixed South American nation. Launched by husband and wife Amen and Nayla Eva Santo almost 25 years ago, BBCS is a spacious cultural and community center, which spreads and shares Afro-Brazilian culture through classes in capoeira (a dance/martial arts hybrid), samba, belly dance, Zumba, kickboxing, multiple musical styles and fitness and language instruction. Pra caramba! 11928 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City. (310) 397-3667, brasilbrasil.org. —Adam Gropman
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Need an activity that will entertain everyone from your mom to your 8-year-old cousin? Just love being crafty? If you answered yes, then Duff's Cakemix is your place. Located on Melrose Avenue at Sweetzer, it's not far from some of the most popular designer shops in Los Angeles. At Duff's Cakemix you're first given a "Kit Menu" from which you choose your cake size, flavor, filling and canvas (buttercream or fondant icing). Once you've decided on your foundation and gathered your decorating materials from the decorating bar, the team of trained pros at Cakemix helps you as much (or as little) as you please. With the assistance of Duff Goldman's Cakemix crew and its collection of decorating tools — which includes everything from cookie cutters to an airbrush station — even the uninitiated and untalented can create a cake that will impress. 8302 Melrose Ave., W. Hlywd. (323) 650-5555, duffscakemix.com. —Diamond Bodine-Fischer
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Need to talk about issues, such as dealing with a homophobic boss or navigating the dating scene, which only another gay man can understand? Want to connect with your gay brothers outside of the loud, sometimes intimidating bar scene? Feeling as if you're all alone in what you're going through as a gay man? Look no further: Go to Tribe, a fantastic gay men's discussion group that meets in the Community Conference Room of the West Hollywood Library. The setting is safe and friendly, with an emphasis on building the self-respect and personal power gay men already possess. Men from a broad age range — 20s to 50s — attend the meetings, held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month. So you'll hear many different generational perspectives, which will be invaluable, and not always easily accessible outside of the group. 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., W. Hlywd. (323) 848-6460, weho.org/tribe. —Patrick Range McDonald


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"I find that customers don't necessarily know what they want. Sometimes the best way to give them ideas is to build stuff, to give them ideas, to give them something to think about." But more important, this retail line will allow Yousef to pursue ideas that might require more development time than a consumer of custom work would be willing to underwrite. The idea, Yousef says, is to "push those boundaries a little more."
Making a living
Yousef has not taken the conventional approach to the acquisition of customers. He has, for example, done no wholesale or retail shows. Instead, he has embraced the power of the Internet to get the word out to potential customers, using a Web site that offers visitors a photographic review of his work, as well as a summary of his philosophy as a craftsman.
Some customers find him after first visiting his Web site (the Franklin Park Conservatory commission came to him in this way), but he sees the site "primarily as a marketing tool for my current customers. Just having a Web presence adds an air of legitimacy."
The most important component in his marketing program is word-of-mouth, one satisfied customer telling friends and neighbors about the work produced in Yousef's shop, but he recognizes that word-of-mouth alone is not enough to feed his business, that he must continue to develop a robust approach to selling.
Yousef's father, a successful college professor, was surprised when his son opted out of a career in mechanical engineering, a career for which he'd prepared during four long years at Ohio State.
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I'm also a great listener, no really, I eavesdrop everywhere, so I know what everyone is talking about.
Not big into sports unless I'm watching them. Golf has to be the most boring thing on the planet to watch. Actually golf is just boring period. But yeah, I don't really play, I think it's because I was always picked last for some reason. Fools I say!
I can't deal with people if they have no sense of humor.
I'm a nerdfighter, if you know what that is then you should message me now lol
Quoting Eddie Izzard and Lewis Black, "That'll be great, do five Hail Mary's and a side order of fries."
Cooking, I can cook anything Italian.
Wandering off in stores, (I'm usually in the watch or electronics department).
Building things out of LEGO without a plan.
Having a sarcastic wit.
Thinking outside the box.
Talking like I was pulled out of another time.
I love the Back to the Future trilogy, Original Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, The Diehard series, The Batman series, The Superman series, The Spiderman trilogy, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Basic, Eurotrip, Constantine, Boondock Saints, The Blade trilogy, The Jason movies, The Chucky movies, The Halloween series, and most any movie about Vampires, Time Travel, or Space
This list is in no way in any order, I mainly listen to Country, Evanescence, Queen, Avril Lavigne, Chameleon Circuit, Weird Al, Huey Lewis And The News, No Doubt, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Skillet, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Greenday, Jack's Mannequin, Hinder, Jimmy Eat World, Underoath, All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, The Fray, Nickelback, Maroon 5, The Killers, John Mayer, Cute is What We Aim For, Rock and Roll, Pop
I LOVE italian and chinese food. And pizza makes me drool.
As for TV I like Doctor Who, Supernatural, Sherlock, Arrow, Elementary, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Bones, Good Eats, Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, White Collar, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Bob's Burgers, Archer, Castle, Once Upon A Time, The Mentalist, Agents of SHIELD, Adventure Time, The Blacklist, Revolution, Hawaii Five-O, Continuum, Whose Line Is It Anyway?,
Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Dead Zone, G4, Alias Smith and Jones, Boomtown, West Wing, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Voyager, Enterprise, JAG, Night Court, I Love the 80's, Knight Rider, MacGyver, The Dukes of Hazzard, Sliders, Weird Science, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Gilligan's Island, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Commander in Chief, Wanted, E-Ring, Crossing Jordan, Close to Home, Charmed, Xena Warrior Princess, Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Sex in the City, The Dresden Files, Journeyman, Moonlight, Cane, Samantha Who, The Unit, Las Vegas, Flash Gordon, Shark, Monk, Boston Legal, 24, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Cold Case, Dexter, Torchwood, Leverage, The Glades, Psych, Eureka, The Law and Order's, The CSI's, The Closer, Burn Notice, House, Human Target, Warehouse 13, In Plain Sight, The IT Crowd,
Teen Titans, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Back to the Future TAS, Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist, Family Guy, Tripping the Rift, The Real Ghostbusters, Invader Zim, Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, Power Rangers
My car,
The written word (I love losing my self in my books),
My best friend,
My computer (youtube is awesome),
and some game system.
Why everything we buy is made in a different country.
What direction I should take the book I'm writing in.
What I would do with a time machine.
How cool it would be to have a spaceship. (funny story there)
Sci Fi, writing, silly shows.
Taking care of my mom.
You like going for walks in the rain.
You wonder who started the first blog and why it got named that. (Don't ask though, I don't have a clue.)
You like LEGO.


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On Paradise Island, the Cloisters offer a unique photographic opportunity. These columns and structures, standing above a beautiful formal garden, are the remains of a 14th-century French monastery brought to the island by William Randolph Hearst. The stones were disassembled in France, brought over by ship, and then reassembled in their current location. They present an attractive, though somewhat incongruous, spectacle. The stone remains were imported to the US in the 1920s, but they remained just random pieces of a giant puzzle until, Huntington Hartford a grocery chain magnate, purchased them in the 1960s and had them reassembled (without plans) on his oceanfront Ocean Club estate. These grounds of the One & Only Ocean Club resort are a popular location for weddings.
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I guess the other question would be... Do you guys think it might be a problem if I hook the camera to constant power instead of the reverse light? that way the camera could be on all the time. I'm not saying I would really need it, but hey, it might be kinda nice to have it. Then, all I would need to do is hook the trigger wire to the reverse light's positive and I would trigger the camera whenever I go in reverse...
My camera is on whenever the key is on. I did not like the idea of powering off the reverse lights, so I took the trigger "ON" wire from the factory amp to turn on a relay which provides power to the camera. I then have taken the reverse signal from the wires leading into the trunk lid and ran that to my Dynavin. Doing this, my camera being on whenever key is on, I can manually go into "Camera" view from the main menu, and it also automatically goes into camera view when I go into reverse
It's all very basic electronics stuff really.
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Synthetic surfaces still have the lowest number of catastrophic breakdowns per 1,000 starts, but overall fatalities for all surfaces didn't change much from 2009 to 2011, according to Equine Injury Database statistics.
Dr. Tim Parkin of the University of Glasgow presented updated information on the EID Oct. 16 during the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit held at Keeneland in Lexington. Parkin has been involved in the EID since it was launched in July 2008.
The EID now gets information from 94 racetracks representing 92% of all flat racing days and 100% of steeplechase meets in North America. The database has accumulated more than 42,000 records, Parkin said.
For calendar year 2011, the catastrophic injury rate was 1.9 per 1,000 starts on all surfaces, according to the EID. The rate was the lowest for synthetic surfaces at 1.3 per 1,000, a bit higher for turf courses at 1.6 per 1,000, and the highest for dirt tracks at more than 2 breakdowns per 1,000 starts.
Parkin said there was an overall slight drop in the breakdown rate from 2009, but that it wasn't "statistically significant."
Parkin said the most recent research has focused on the claiming race subset in the database. The stats were compiled using multiple factors including horse age, sex, purse-to-claiming-price ratio, and frequency of starts.
Parkin said the data showed the breakdown rate for races with a purse-to-claiming-pricing ratio of 1.8 or higher was 2.4 times higher than the rate for races with a purse-to-price ratio of zero to 1.3. Horses taking a claiming price drop of $12,000 or less were 2.5 times more likely to suffer a lower limb fracture than those that maintained their price; the breakdown rate was 3 times higher of the drop in claiming price was more than $12,000.
The idea is to identify risk factors that can also assist in pre-race examinations, Parkin said of the EID research and future models for the data.


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deponent answered that he was very little acquainted with any body, but thought Mr. Monroe a most virtuous and respectable man.
Does not the law require that every accuser or deponent should have been a witness of the crime?
And the principle probably extends to cases where the deponent is insane, or kept away by the person accused.
Where they belong in the absence of these, deponent sayeth not.
But, to be serious, has my critic done as much in journalism or the literary world as your deponent?
That deponent is informed, and believes that the said clerk's name is John Hallet.
The deponent might be influenced by rancour against his late employer.
Farther than that, this deponent saith not, and will not say.
All that the deponent could understand was the word Barrabast.
Accordingly he did so, which writing is in possession of the deponent.
1520s, originally grammatical (of verbs passive in form but active in sense), from Latin deponentem "putting down or aside," present participle of deponere (see deposit (v.)). Noun meaning "one who makes a deposition" is from 1540s.


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Among those penalized the most by the actions of the city fathers have been those employed by the City. Over the course of the last several months, City workers have been asked to step up and pay a greater percentage of their health insurance, wages have been frozen and in many cases workers have been asked to do their job and assume some of the duties of other workers.
These are and remain to be challenging times. The mayor, because of encouraging numbers over the past four months with respect to an increase in revenues for the City and the prospect of this trend continuing through December, is asking the council to reinstate this year a Christmas bonus plan for City employees.
These are not large Wall Street-like bonuses but instead rather small tokens. They in no way will replace or nearly replace the financial losses that have been sustained by each employee for the past two years.
It's just, as the mayor puts it, a way to say "thanks."


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Washington: FBI director James Comey said on Thursday that the bureau would dispatch several dozen agents to Russia to help tighten security at the Winter Olympics.
The announcement came after Russia began a counter-terrorism operation in a southern province that borders the Krasnodar region, where the Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi in less than a month, after six bodies were found in abandoned cars.
The Russian security swoop started today at midnight in two districts of the Stavropol region and will include "special measures and temporary restrictions," the local government said in a website statement.
Six bodies riddled with bullets were found yesterday in parked cars, state-run RIA Novosti reported. An explosive device planted near one of the vehicles blew up without causing any injuries as police examined the scene, the regional branch of the Interior Ministry said on its website.
A criminal case was opened into the incidents, with the Federal Security Service joining the probe, the Investigative Committee said.
The killings have heightened concerns about security in the region days after more than 30 people died in two bomb attacks in Volgograd in southern Russia and a blast in the Stavropol regional city of Pyatigorsk killed three on December 27. The authorities sealed off Sochi by deploying 30,000 soldiers and police officers around the Black Sea resort, where the games are set to kick off on February 7.
The FBI is working with Russian intelligence services, Mr Comey said. About two dozen agents and other personnel are being sent to Moscow, while more than a dozen others will be assigned to Sochi, the site of the main venues at the Games.
"Securing any Olympics is an enormous task," Mr Comey said. "I think it's particularly challenging in Sochi because of its proximity to areas of unrest and sources of a terrorist threat."
The threat of violence at the Games has been a persistent concern of security officials. Russia has been engaged in a long struggle with extremists, many of whom have vowed to target the Olympics, which begin on February 7.
The regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol border North Caucasus republics, where Russian forces face almost daily attacks by Muslim extremists after two separatist wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
An alleged female suicide bomber was detained on a passenger bus today in the Stavropol region, NTV television broadcaster reported, without saying where it got the information.
Meanwhile, more than 400 Cossack volunteers arrived in Sochi on Wednesday to assist with security at the games, London's Telegraph reported. The Kuban Cossack Army, the main authority that oversees the Cossack population in southern Russia, said the volunteers would guarantee the safety of both athletes and tourists.
The Cossacks, part of a militaristic community that for centuries supplied cavalry to the armies of the Russian tsars, will serve in uniform and alongside regular police officers, a spokesman said.
The fiercely anti-Bolshevik Cossack communities of southern Russia all but disappeared after being ruthlessly repressed under the Soviet Union, but have undergone something of a revival since the perestroika era. Today there are modern Cossack "armies" in the Krasnodar region and the neighbouring republics of Adigeya and Karachayevo Chekessia, as well as the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia, though there are also Cossack communities in other regions.
Moscow has once again begun to turn to the deeply conservative Cossacks as a source of loyal manpower to back up overstretched police and soldiers.
While the Cossacks, who wear a distinctive uniform of riding boots, grey military tunics and Astrakhan hats, will have a highly visible presence at the games, they will not be allowed to carry firearms and will not have full police powers to make arrests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already called for increased security across the country in the aftermath of the Volgograd bombings, calling the attacks "inhuman" in his New Year's Eve address. Russia is spending at least $US48 billion to stage the games, more than any other previous organiser.
Washington Post, Bloomberg, Telegraph, London


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Everyone talks about how pink is the new black. Black was the new blue. So forth and such. Fashion, the need to compare everything to something. Well, they have done it again. Now green is the new pink. While everything used to be pink, now it is green both in color and in materials. The fashion industry has decided to take on a cause, one that goes beyond just pretty people in pretty clothing. The fashion industry has decided to change the world, one shirt at a time. They are pushing the green movement forward in a way that is unprecedented and unexpected. They are able to hit and affect those people that normal pushing of the green movement could not reach.
Instead of the hard to find materials of the old fashion industry, and the harsh realities of real fur, the newest fashions include easy finding and producing materials and faux furs. Instead of nylon which requires oil to make, there are a lot of cotton and bamboo fabrics going on the market. This is because cotton grows on trees and bamboo is a fast growing grass that makes for a very soft material. While wool and other products from animals will never go out of style because of their warmth, the methods of obtaining these materials no longer include the killing of the animals or the huge amounts of stress that they once felt. Now if the animals are not treated with kindness and respect, and the public hears of it, the products from those animals are not purchased, where before this would not have mattered.
While pink is still a popular color, many fashion designers are using a green pallet with their clothing. Good thing green and pink can look really good together. This shift to a green pallet is part of the green world movement. The use of the green pallet enables the fashion designers to push their green world ideas in a manner that it has not been pushed before. Instead of using words to get their point across, these fashion designers are using the green color to ensure that everyone thinks of the green movement as they pass. This manner has greatly been able to affect those individuals who do not normally think of the clothing or the issues in the world, beyond their own. This is fashion and everyone knows and respects fashion, especially fashion with a cause.
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|From: Stephen Bloch (sbloch at adelphi.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 5 10:25:07 EST 2011
On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: > I'm wondering if there is something in the now very rich set of Racket libraries that already does this. Let's say I have 5 points {A,B,C,D,E}. I want to interconnect all of them: > > {AB,AC,AD,AE,AF,BC,BD,BE,BF,CD,CE,CF,DE,DF,EF} > > That's 15 edges rather than the 5x5=25 that a dumb interconnect would do. I presume you mean 6 points {A,B,C,D,E,F}, and 15 edges rather than the 6x6=36 that a dumb interconnect would do. As it happens, I ran into a similar problem in helping a student last week. He's working in Java, so he's probably out of luck :-) Anyway, I had pointed out to him the Java "for-each" loop, he got the idea, and he wanted to loop over all the distinct 2-element subsets of a given list. He had two nested for-loops with integer indices, and wanted to know if there was a slicker way. We concluded that Java for-each-loops by themselves don't do the job, but one could write a subsetsOfSize function and then say for (Pair p : myList.subsetsOfSize(2)) { ... } or in Racket (for (p (subsets-of-size myList 2)) ...) Of course, many scripting languages would allow you to extract the elements of p at the same time, e.g. Ruby myList.subsetsOfSize(2).each { |x,y| ...} which would take a bit of macro-wrangling in Racket. Stephen Bloch sbloch at adelphi.edu
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Dermatology Q&A
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I've had my cheeks pierced for about 6 months now, last month I got hit on my left cheek, swelled bad and developed a hard lump surrounding the... READ MORE
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First off,I have NEVER had an issue with piercings. I got my cheeks pierced Oct09. I had no problems initially but, in dec09, my left cheek started to... READ MORE
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They are mainly on the cheek area and they are leaving scars what can be done about it? thanks READ MORE
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I have brown spots (hyperpigmentation) on my nose and some on my chin. My cheeks are a bit patchy. I'm currently doing 3 chemical peels but I don't... READ MORE
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This bump has been on my face for at least a few months now. It's soft like my normal skin texture but a bit raised and a bit pink. I've had some... READ MORE
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I used a benzoyl peroxide wash that contained 5% and it was burning my face when i applied it for some reason even though i've been using it for... READ MORE
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In November 2009 I was prescribed a 4% hydroquinone and 1% hydrocortisone cream. After using this cream for a couple of weeks I noticed spontaneous... READ MORE
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Hello Doctor, I have small bubbles (boils) spread across forehead skin as well as on cheek. My face is always oily type. Im also losing hair in the... READ MORE
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Around nose and cheeks is rough and bumpy texture that I've had for years. I would like to what can be done about it? (photo)
I've had textured bumps on cheeks and nose. I would like to get rid of them READ MORE
What are these on my face ?! (photos)
Are these pores and if so what type ? Like are they enlarged - are they enflamed ? Or are they tiny, pitted holes in my cheeks ? Please ,what can I do ?!? READ MORE
Help with skin, clogged pores on cheeks and chin area. (photos)
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Why is my Face Tender at the Touch?
Hi, Specifically my right cheek, it is tender and sore when I touch it or press on it. It has been like that for years now, especially around the... READ MORE
Rough Texture on Cheeks? (photo)
I also have this horrible rough texture on my cheeks. I'm so oily yet so dry and my face is so tight it hurts when I smile. Moisturizers don't make... READ MORE
Mild red, itchy, rough-ish cheeks, can someone tell me whats up? (photos)
Recently my skin had been itchy and theres a burning sensation to the touch. At first i thought it was just me breaking out,so i washed my face with... READ MORE
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Tried to figure this out a couple of years ago Jeff.....and came to the same conclusion as Tony. The objects would be too small to resolve. I have manged to see transits of leo craft down to 2 arcseconds with an 8 inch scope , but 0.25 arcseconds , even with a much larger aperture would be near impossible....the target being lost in the "noise". I did wonder at one stage if it might just be feasible using a large telescope and a projection of the Sun's disk onto a large screen. However , just for fun , and as here in Europe we have the seven bird Astra fleet to look at , back in 2003 I did a composite of what such an image might look like....mainly to see how much of the disk the co-located birds would cover. The result can be seen here..... http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk/astrasunout.jpg Regards, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Beresford" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "Jeff Umbarger" <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <email@example.com> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:08 AM Subject: Re: Geosat Solar Transit? > At 14:21 5/03/06, Jeff Umbarger wrote: >>Hey All, >> With the declination of the sun between -10 and 0 >>degrees declination for the next few weeks, would this >>not mean that if we were monitoring the disk of the >>sun, we would see geosats transiting the sun for the >>northern hemisphere? At my latitude (+33.0 deg) the >>geosats appear at around -5.25 deg declination and >>that is where the sun will be next Tuesday. Has anyone >>ever seen this before? That is, is worth watching for? > Jeff, > The problem is the extremely angular size of even the > largest geosat solar panel span. > A back of the envelope calculation says a 30meter span > at 36 megameters is about a 1/4 arcsecond. > so we are talking about a 20 inch telescope > to resolve it theoretically. However the killer is the > irradiance from the photosphere which will fill in > any dark patch of airy disk size , let alone something > much smaller. > > Tony Beresford > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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My Wife is working here at the moment, on a "Sponsored Working Visa" which runs out in April. We are hoping to submit a "Spouse Visa" application by the end of February 2013 followed by "Citizenship" in about another 3 years (if allowed) - ( I am London - British Born - 1949, and my wife - Philippines - born 1962). So ... As I said .. I would be grateful for any information your willing to give me... Thank You in advance
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Mann Capital Company is one such capital investment firm hungry for an economic rebound. Established in 1992, and formed for the sole purpose of diversifying the Mann family holdings away from traditional real estate and publicly traded securities into alternative investments, their investment strategies focus on added crafted solutions for private company shareholders.
Originally handling investment-grade triple-net leased investment and industrial properties for corporate clients, Robert Mann, CEO of Mann Capital Company, now takes on projects that specialize in re-capitalization of private companies to provide shareholder liquidity events as well as growth capital.
"In essence, we're second stage investors," says Mann. "So a marquee deal for us is a company with a three-year track record of growing revenues and stable profitability. Typically, those companies operate with a 30% gross profit margin and 10% EBITDA. Revenues will range anywhere from $20 million to $500 million. That being said, we have a lot of flexibility. We can make pure growth investments in companies where all we need is break-even profitability. We can invest in under-performing companies. We even have access to certified minority capital. We also like MBOs (Management Buyouts) and pre-IPO liquidity events."
Exit strategies are critical for Mann Capital, explains Mann. "We need to have some horizon on when we'll be able to exit and provide our investors with a return on their capital. We have more flexibility than most. Our capital is a little bit longer term, and we have an advantage from the traditional investment banker in that we provide a very quiet transaction where entrepreneurs can get something done seamlessly, so that their employees aren't upset."
During the economic downturn, Mann Capital focused much more on efficiency. "If you look at the average company we talk to, they were down 20-30% of their revenues and that obviously affected their bottom line. So, that had a huge impact on values in the market. Business really slowed down for us. That's kind of the bread and butter of the business. If valuations are down, revenues are down and there are not very many people who need our services and our capital. So we got much more efficient, and took that opportunity to look at all of our processes from the ground up, to retool everything," says Mann.
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Some Premier League clubs are not holding back in bidding big money for their transfer targets this summer, and news on Friday night that Swansea have bid £13.7M (€16M) for supposed Newcastle target Wilfried Bony.
Wilfried Bony – Swansea bid €16M for Vitesse striker
It was thought that Swansea had agreed a deal for the Vitesse striker last week when they bid £10.2M, but that bid seems to have been turned down by his Dutch club, and while the bid has certainly been tabled by the Welsh club, it has not been accepted by Vitesse.
Bony's representative is Francis Kacou, and this is what he had to say about the proposed Swansea deal
"Swansea wanted to pay and Bony has seen that, but Vitesse wanted more. Now there is an offer of €14M plus €2M in bonuses." "Why is Bony still in Arnhem? We do not know what they want."
Kacou also said that Swansea have been interested in the striker for the last six months, and the Ivory Coast International had a great season in Holland, and scored 31 goals in 30 games last season for Vitesse.
Newcastle have been linked with this striker since January, but it's hard to think Newcastle can still be interested in the player, if we have not put in any bid for the 24 year-old.
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Please note that ColaLUG is no longer
able to provide this program. This is
due to several factors, including:
* Lack of a usable workspace
* Significant decline in suitable donations
Donations FAQ
Below are some commonly asked questions about donating hardware to the ColaLUG. If you don't see your question here, please contact us.
I would like to donate my old computer. What do you need to know?
My computer fits your requirements for re-purposing. How can I get it to you?
What about the data on my computer? I am concerned about my personal information.
My computer is too broken/too old to be re-purposed. Where can I safely dispose of them?
I/my organization would like a re-purposed Linux system. What do I need to do?
Q: What do these donated computers get used for?
A: We concentrate on charitable uses in the Midlands of S.C. area. The majority of the computers we re-purpose are donated to one of two purposes:
- Community centers in economically depressed areas. These computers are set up for public access by people in the community that are served by that community center.
Sistercare, a Midlands organization offering protection for domestic abuse victims and their children. The computers are used by the Sistercare clients for furthering their education, or for on-line job training. Also they are used by the clients' children for school work.
We load a suite of educational software on the computers which covers topics from pre-school through college. We also load an office suite of software so that the users can work with documents, spreadsheets or presentations.
The reason we concentrate on the Midlands area is two-fold. First off, there is the matter of distance. We are a volunteer group and any travel expenses come out of the pocket of our members, and also there are other groups similar to ours that work with the upstate and the lowcountry areas of S.C.
Q: I would like to donate my old computer. What do you need to know?
A: We are forced to be a bit picky about the computers we accept because it just costs us time, money and wasted effort to receive a computer that we are unable to use, and then end up with something that we have to properly dispose of. And because we are a volunteer group, any such expenses are out-of-pocket for whoever handles it.
First-off, except in unusual cases, we must have computers that are mechanically and electrically working when given to us. (Many that aren't working have problems that make it impractical to repair them.) Note that if your computer has a software problem that prevents it from working (such as a virus or spyware), then that is not a problem for us, since we will be wiping out all information on the computer, the virus or spyware will be wiped out along with everything else.
- In general, if the computer originally had Windows XP or later on it, then we almost certainly can use it. Higher-end (usually commercial) Windows-2000 computers will usually work fine. Lower-end Windows-2000 and anything prior to that such as Windows-98 or Windows ME, will likely not be usable for our program. But if you know the specifications of your computer and feel that it would be useful to us, please feel free to contact us about it.
Because we sometimes receive computers that have no hard drive, even if the other specifications of your computer are below what we ask for, but it has a large enough hard drive (minimum 10 GB, 20 GB preferred), we may accept it to get the hard drive out of it (or you can donate just the drive if you like.)
- Ideally, we would like computers that have 2 GHz or faster processors, 512 MB RAM, and a 20GB or larger hard drive. That is our ideal donation, but we can make good use of a computer that has a slower processor and less RAM (we usually have to add RAM to these).
Q: My computer fits your requirements for re-purposing. How can I get it to you?
A: We have several options for getting your donated computer to us.
First, why not come to a ColaLUG meeting?! Bring the computer you would like to donate and stay for the meeting. We meet the second Thursday of every month. Check the Frontpage for more dates and the location.
If you can't make it to a meeting, please contact us at donations (at) colalug.org. We can either arrange for you to drop it off or we can have a member who is nearby come and pick it up.
Q: What about the data on my computer? I am concerned about my personal information.
A: For every computer we receive, we will completely erase the hard drive using a military-class data-wiping software. This completely erases everything on the hard drive. There is nothing remaining after this, not Windows, not the recycle bin, not even the left-over bits of erased files you sometimes hear about. And after the hard drive is erased, we will install an entirely different operating system on it (Linux), which will over-write the hard disk yet again. If this assurance is still not enough to make you comfortable, we will accept computers that have the hard drives removed, but, of course, we prefer to have the hard drive included. If you arrange a pick-up or drop-off, we can even coordinate with you to remove the hard drive in your presence and hand it to you.
Q: Do you want/will you accept old printers?
A: We will accept printers if they are in working condition. But even if the printer only needs toner/ink in order to work, we have no budget to purchase that.
Q: My computer is too broken/too old to be re-purposed. Where can I safely dispose of them?
A: Many recycling centers around the Midlands area accepts all sorts of electronics for recycling. A good place to start is Keep The Midlands Beautiful or SC DHEC E-cycle website
Q: I/my organization would like a re-purposed Linux system. What do I need to do?
A: We will be happy to assist you. There's no point in us collecting and re-purposing these computers without someone to give them to! The computers get the Linux operating system loaded on them rather than Windows. If you are not familiar with Linux, many people find it to be similar to the Apple Mac operating software. We will include a complete office suite of software (Open Office) which is compatible with Microsoft Office. We can also load educational software appropriate to your needs. When we bring the computer to you, we can spend a bit of time to get you up and running, but because we are a volunteer organization, we don't have the manpower or resources to continue offering technical support afterwards, although we will try to help answer questions or at least point you to online resources where you can find answers. If you have a need for a donated computer, please contact us at donations (at) colalug.org.


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by Otmar Elsaeßer, Ulrike Leiter, Petra G. Buettner, Thomas K. Eigentler, Friedegund Meier, Benjamin Weide, Gisela Metzler, Helmut Breuninger, Claus Garbe
This study investigated survival probabilities and prognostic factors in sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) staged patients with cutaneous melanoma (CM) with the aim of defining subgroups of patients who are at higher risk for recurrences and who should be considered for adjuvant clinical trials.
Patients with primary CM who underwent SLNB in the Department of Dermatology, University of Tuebingen, Germany, between 1996 and 2009 were included into this study. Survival probabilities and prognostic factors were evaluated by Kaplan-Meier and multivariate Cox proportional hazard models.
1909 SLNB staged patients were evaluated. Median follow-up time was 44 months. Median tumor thickness was 1.8 mm, ulceration was present in 31.8% of cases. The 5-year Overall Survival (OS) was 90.3% in SLNB negative patients (IB 96.2%, IIA 87.0%, IIB 78.1%, IIC 72.6%). Patients with micrometastases (stage IIIA/B) had a 5-year OS rate of 70.9% which was clearly less favorable than for stages I–II. Multivariate analysis revealed tumor thickness, ulceration, body site, histopathologic subtype and SLNB status as independent significant prognostic factors.
Survival rates of patients with primary CM in stages I–II were shown to be much more favorable than previously reported from non sentinel node staged collectives. For future clinical trials, sample size calculations should be adapted using survival probabilities based on sentinel node staging.


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Wrath Of The Titans
(12A) 99mins
SET a decade after the events of Clash Of The Titans, a lot has changed for
Sam Worthington's demi-god Perseus.
He's packed away his sword and assumed the simple life of a fisherman, has a
ten-year-old son and he's grown a mullet.
But when dad Zeus (Liam Neeson) is kidnapped by his nefarious brother Hades
(Ralph Fiennes) as part of yet another diabolical scheme – this time to free
their evil dad Kronos from his prison of lava – it's up to Perseus to save
the day. Again.
Director Jonathan Liebesman (Battle Los Angeles) follows the the original to a
Perseus assembles a team – Toby Kebbell as Poseidon's son Agenor, while
Rosamund Pike takes over the role of Queen Andromeda – and they embark on a
quest that involves fighting various and often impressive special effects.
Almost immediately after one beast is seen off, we're into the next.
The film is better than the first (not a difficult achievement), especially
the 3D. But flashy visuals do not a good movie make and the script is
Why set a film around the great Greek myths then not actually use those
stories? Instead this mess of clunky dialogue and half-baked ideas has been
Streetdance 2 3D
(PG) 85mins
THE follow-up to 2010's Streetdance 3D relocates from London to Paris, loses
Diversity but keeps Flawless and George Sampson while adding plenty of new
Ash (Falk Hentschel), after embarrassing himself at a dance-off, teams up with
Eddie (Sampson) to put together a crew to try to beat Invincible, the
reigning street dance world champions.
The pair enlist dancers with names such as Bam Bam, Killa and Terrabyte but
things fall into place when they discover Latin dancer Eva (Sofia Boutella).
Deciding a fusion of salsa and breakdancing will win the event, the duo just
need to convince everyone else, while Ash and Eva become romantically
About 65 minutes of the film's 85-minute running time is devoted to throwing
shapes – thankfully those shapes are pretty impressive and the 3D's great
Tom Conti adds some charm as Eva's uncle, and while the story is pure cheese,
it's enjoyable cheese.
If streetdance is your thing, this will go down a treat.
Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life
(12A) 107mins
NO one wants to know the date of their death. But Michael Perry knew he was
going to die on July 1, 2010.
The reason was triple murderer Perry had been on death row in Texas.
His passing is neatly counterbalanced in Werner Herzog's documentary by the
survival of his co-killer Jason Burkett, who was given a 40-year life
Veteran director Herzog is honest enough to state his opposition to the death
Yet it doesn't mean he portrays the unforgiveably brutal Burkett and Perry in
a sympathetic light.
The film trawls the bottomless depth of hopeless criminals as much as it
examines the "correctional" system.
And in that abyss there are, frustratingly, as many questions as there are
The Island President
(PG) 101mins
THIS documentary has been overtaken by recent events – Mohamed Nasheed is now
The Ex-Island President.
Nasheed, the first democratically elected President of the Maldives, was
ousted in a coup last month.
The early part of the film deals with his struggle for fair elections in a
nation which had been ruled by dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom for three
Paradise, it turns out, can be hell.
Sadly, this interesting history is skimmed over to get to the main point of
the documentary – global warming.
The Maldives is the world's "lowest" country – averaging less than 5ft above
sea level – and the 1,200 islands that make up the nation could be awash by
the end of the century.
Nasheed is persuasive about the need to tackle climate change, thanks to some
neat stunts.
But director Jon Shenk would have been better off spending time with the
people at risk of flooding rather than filming the diplomats in their suits
at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.


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Rihanna & Jennifer Nettles Perform at 2011 ACMs (VIDEO)
Rihanna has gone country!
The "What's My Name" songbird took the stage at the 2011 Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night to perform with Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles.
Decked out in a fringed white dress and class red pixie cut, RiRi and a purple pantsuit-wearing Jennifer sang a rousing rendition of the Barbadian singer's "California King Bed." Watch the performance after the jump.
Rihanna wasn't the only surprise non-country act at Sunday night's awards – American Idol judge Steven Tyler performed with Carrie Underwood using a medley of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and Carrie's "Undo It."
Check out more photos from the performance and share your thoughts on RiRi turning country in the comments.


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About the Book
Using only my iPhone 4 to capture and process one image a day for a whole year.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
112 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 21, 2011
- Tags iPhoneography, Photography, Project365
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About the Creator
Jayne O'Keefe
Yorkshire, UK
I'm a graphic designer with a love for anything design... print, architecture, photography, interiors... even staircases!!! I also love to run!! I have two marathons under my belt and had the best day of my life last year running the New York marathon for Weston Park Cancer Hospital and in total raising £5000 for the charity. Project 365 takes you on a journey of a pretty amazing year for me. I hope you enjoy my book.
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New 'Green Lantern' Posters Released (PHOTOS)
Moviegoers might have almost a year to wait until Green Lantern hits the big screen (in theaters June 17, 2011), but The Powers That Be have decided to give fans a taste of what fans can expect when it finally gets here.
New posters have just been released for the movie, featuring hottie Ryan Reynolds in the title role, Gossip Girl beauty Blake Lively as his childhood sweetheart/sidekick Carol Ferris, Peter Sarsgaard as the evil Hector Hammond, and Mark Strong as Green Lantern's mentor-turned-arch nemesis, Sinestro.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section. And make sure to check out Celebuzz's Comic-Con page for coverage of this year's convention.


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- Biker
- Pack member
Unknown Mother - Mother
- All human abilities
- Able to shift into werewolf form
- All werewolf abilities
Nate was a werewolf on the HBO original series True Blood. Played by American co-starring actor Brendan McCarthy, Nate makes his debut on the episode "Cold Grey Light of Dawn" in the series' fourth season. A werewolf in the pack from Shreveport, Louisiana, Nate was a loyal supporter to his packmaster, Marcus Bozeman. When Marcus dies, Nate hoped to become an Alpha Male, but is led astray by his new packmaster, JD Carson, who is working for vampire Russell Edgington in exchange for his blood. Playing a recurring role through the series' fourth and fifth seasons, Nate is killed fighting the vampire Bill Compton on Russell's behalf, and meets an untimely demise in the Season 5 episode "Hopeless".
Nate was a werewolf from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Season 4Edit
"Cold Grey Light of Dawn"Edit
Nate attends Alcide and Debbie's initiation into the Shreveport pack, where he greets them along with the other weres. ("Cold Grey Light of Dawn")
Packmaster Marcus Bozeman summons the pack to forbid them to get involved in the war between vampires and witches. Nate is stood beside Chuck during the meeting. Chuck belligerently calls for the pack to be involved but Marcus quickly puts him in his place. ("Spellbound")
"Let's Get Out of Here"Edit
Marcus is enraged when his ex Luna starts seeing a new man, shapeshifter Sam Merlotte. He invites Sam to the bike shop, plotting to attack him. Alcide has decided to step up in the ranks of the pack, and like Nate is there to provide muscle for Marcus. Nate and Marcus bet on whether Sam has the "balls" to show up. Sam's brother Tommy uses his ability as a skinwalker to take Sam's likeness and goes to see Marcus. Nate believes he has lost the bet because Sam has arrived. Tommy upsets Marcus when he says that he hasn't slept with Luna but his brother has. The pack beat Tommy, only stopping when Alcide forces them to. Tommy shifts back into himself while unconscious; Marcus and the others are horrified that they beat down a teenage boy. Alcide quickly carries him away. ("Let's Get Out of Here")
"Burning Down the House"Edit
Tommy dies from his injuries. Sam comes into Marcus' garage with Alcide looking for revenge. Sam threatens Nate with a gun but doesn't kill him because it is Marcus he wants. ("Burning Down the House")
"Soul of Fire"Edit
Sam continues to threaten Nate and asks about Marcus' whereabouts. Nate won't say and provokes Sam instead. Nate tells Alcide that in Shreveport they do not sell their packmaster out. Alcide counters that Marcus is a sociopath. Luna comes in distraught about Marcus kidnapping Emma and pushes Nate. Sam gets her to calm down and she tells him that Marcus snatched Emma from school. Nate then admits that he doesn't know where Marcus is.
Sam is able to find Marcus anyway and a violent confrontation ensues. Ultimately Marcus tries to shoot Sam and Alcide kills him to protect Sam. ("Soul of Fire")
Season 5Edit
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"Edit
Rikki tracks Sam down to find out what happened to Marcus. She brings Sam to the pack and Nate tortures Sam to find out what happened. Sam claims to have murdered him and buried him in a shallow grave. The pack takes Sam to the burial site. Alcide intervenes and admits that he killed Marcus. The pack refuses to bow to him and they mourn Marcus as a group by eating his corpse. ("Turn! Turn! Turn!")
"Authority Always Wins"Edit
Alcide refuses to join in and they let him leave. Luna takes Sam home. ("Authority Always Wins")
JD Carson becomes packmaster but cedes control of the pack to the vampire Russell Edgington in exchange for his blood. The pack have been helping Russell to recover from being buried underground, capturing humans for him to feed on while he recuperates in an abandoned asylum. Nate, Woody and other members of the pack are involved in the alliance.
Alcide Herveaux learns of Russell's escape and helps the Vampire Authority to track him to the asylum. JD has his pack attack Alcide's party just as they find Russell. Nate assumes his wolf form and attacks the vampire Bill Compton. They are unsuccessful in defending Russell; Nate and Woody are killed and Russell is captured. JD escapes from his fight with Alcide without difficulty. ("Hopeless")
|Season four appearances
|"She's Not There"
|"You Smell Like Dinner"
|"If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?"
|"I'm Alive and on Fire"
|"Me and the Devil"
|"I Wish I Was the Moon"
|"Cold Grey Light of Dawn"
|"Let's Get Out of Here"
|"Burning Down the House"
|"Soul of Fire"
|"And When I Die"
|Season five appearances
|"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
|"Authority Always Wins"
|"Whatever I Am, You Made Me"
|"We'll Meet Again"
|"Let's Boot and Rally"
|"In the Beginning"
|"Somebody That I Used to Know"
|"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
|"Gone, Gone, Gone"
|"Save Yourself"


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