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Even though it is not yet in production, the first retail production model of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will be auctioned off for charity this weekend. The proceeds raised from the sale of the new Stingray with the vehicle identification number, or VIN, ending in 0001 will benefit the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was unveiled at the recent North American International Auto Show in Detroit. While the 2014 car marks the return of the Stingray name, the model is all-new, sharing only two parts with the 2013 Corvette.
Chevrolet announced at the Detroit auto show that the 2014 model will be the most powerful standard model -- 450 horsepower -- as well as the most fuel-efficient, providing better fuel economy than the 26 mpg in the current model. Highlights will include an aluminum frame and other lightweight materials as well as an interior that features hand-wrapped leather with real carbon fiber and aluminum accents. It will go on sale in fall 2013.
The new Stingray will be auctioned off the evening of Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. It is 1 of 5 Chevrolet cars that will be auctioned for various charities. The auction will be televised live on the SPEED channel.
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Carl Th. Dreyer, along with Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu (the three directors are routinely linked together) are the great mystics of the cinema, dealing with issues of faith, mortality, hope, illusion, and spiritual redemption. Dreyer, a Dane, directed The Passion of Joan of Arc in France in 1928, one of the last great silent films.
Anchored by a mesmeric performance by Renée Jeanne Falconetti in the leading role, The Passion of Joan of Arc is a film stripped down to its bare essentials, just 82 minutes long, in which the faces of the performers become the real landscape of the work, and sets and props are kept to an absolute minimum. Indeed, it's really no surprise that Bresson also tackled the Joan of Arc legend in his even more minimalistic Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962).
Falconetti's Jean is absolutely convinced that her mission comes from God, and nothing that the English judges who persecute her do can persuade her otherwise. To this end, she endures countless hours of cruel interrogation, and in the end, though burned at the stake, her ultimate victory over her tormentors seems absolutely certain.
As Criterion notes of their superb DVD release of the film, the original camera negative for The Passion of Joan of Arc was thought to have been lost in a fire, until — amazingly — "the original version was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981—in a Norwegian mental institution." The film is one of those one-of-a-kind experiences that define the art of cinema, and has lost none of its impact nearly a century after its initial release.
Writing in The New York Times on March, 31, 1929, critic Mordaunt Hall commented that "as a film work of art this takes precedence over anything that has so far been produced. It makes worthy pictures of the past look like tinsel shams. It fills one with such intense admiration that other pictures appear but trivial in comparison." I couldn't agree more.

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Fair enough but this just stages the epic comeback the Colts will have to win this game in OT
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Fair enough but this just stages the epic comeback the Colts will have to win this game in OT
Call them for unsportsmanlike contact.
Nice kick poor clock management.
Luck channelling his innner Manning.
Woohoo Adam! Now just nothing crazy...
I believe in 2006 our SB year after that he really was no use to us.
I'd probably put MacAfee in as our kicker at this point.
He pretty much is our ST
Yeah Should have never been that close but I take it.
Luck looks great when he's running the 2 minute offense.
We still suck and it should never have been that close.
lucky to win it
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
He looks great when they let him throw instead of treating him like he is Tebow or something.
Great to win, great to see Luck in the clutch.
Oh gosh, New England is about to luck out against Arizona.
Figures I say this and he comes through .....
Which is a great sign when we finally go full-time no huddle.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Need to let Luck be Luck. Really disappointed in the offensive coordinator who didn't let Luck do **** for the half.
Yeah I was getting past two year flashbacks when the previous coach would play safe at all times.
But I agree they need to let Luck be luck.
When your QB is smarter than the coach you just sit back and let him run the show. That's what Tom Moore did.
I find it eerie that Vinny makes his GW FG the same time Gostowski misses his.
Interesting fact:
Adam Vinateri was in NFL Europe when Luck's dad ran it and now he's kicked Andrew to his first win as NFL QB
0-16 is out of play! Whew. We got close there, folks. Thank god that monkey is off our back.
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Brighton will host an exhibit of insect photographs as part of the CU This Summer cultural outreach program of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The exhibit, Small Wonders: Insect Photos by Fran Hall, will be shown from May 24 through Sept. 1 in the Adams County Museum, the local sponsor, at 9601 Henderson Road.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Donations are requested.
Photographer Fran Hall, now in his eighties, will give a free public talk about his work on Sunday, June 8, at 4 p.m. in the Adams County Museum.
The color and black-and-white close-ups reveal the fascinating world of insects. A photographer since the 1930s, Halls footage has been featured in a number of films distributed by Disney Studios. He was one of the first nature photographers to train his lens on animals other than birds, and his work helped establish the now-popular genre of nature films.
More than 300,000 people throughout Colorado have enjoyed CU This Summer offerings over the nine years of the popular community outreach program of art and museum exhibits and music and dance performances.
CU This Summer cultural events are sponsored by each community for the enrichment of residents and summer visitors. The host communities this year are Burlington, Cortez, Durango, Estes Park, Grand Junction, La Junta, Lamar, Montrose and Pueblo, as well as Brighton.
CU This Summer sponsorship is shared by the host communities and the Boulder Campus Outreach Council, the CU Office of Business and Community Relations, the department of theater and dance, CU Art Galleries, the University of Colorado Museum and College of Music with support from the Office of Public Relations.
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Motte's rehab assignment to wait til next month
ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals do not plan to send rehabbing right-hander Jason Motte out on a Minor League rehab assignment until next month, general manager John Mozeliak said, and until then will have him continue to make appearances in extended spring training games.
Mozeliak downplayed the urgency to have Motte, who is 11-plus months removed from Tommy John surgery, face increased competition by starting that rehab clock (maximum of 30 days) and sending him out to pitch for an affiliate. Motte is using regular appearances in extended spring training games to regain command and increase velocity.
Recently, the Cardinals have clocked Motte's fastball at 92-93 mph, with it occasionally touching 94 mph.
"Right now, just being in our extended program makes the most sense," Mozeliak said. "We can control the atmosphere and what needs to happen. I would anticipate that when the calendar turns to May, at some point we'll then contemplate a rehab assignment in a more robust environment. But at this point, just being able to pitch every couple days is probably in the best interest of him right now."
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Domestic violence is a serious issue in Fairfax County and various services are available to help victims, abusers and families touched bay domestic abuse.
- What is domestic violence?
- What types of relationships are covered under domestic violence?
- What is coercive behavior?
- What are some characteristics of a victim?
- How do I know if I am a victim of domestic violence?
- How can I tell if someone I know is a victim in an abusive relationship?
- What are some characteristics of a batterer?
- Why do abusers batter?
- What are some early warning signs that your partner may be an abuser?
- Who should I contact?
What is domestic violence?
Also known as "family abuse," it is any act committed against a family or household member involving violence, force, or threat that results in bodily injury or the fear of bodily injury.
More commonly, it is known as a pattern of abusive behaviors used by someone in an intimate, dating, or familial relationship to dominate over and control another person.
What types of relationships are covered under domestic violence?
- Current or former spouse, even if they do not live together.
- Parent or stepparent
- Children or stepchildren
- Brother, sister, half-brother, or half-sister
- Grandparent or grandchildren, even if they do not live together
- Any in-laws (father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother) who reside in the same house
- Any individuals who have a child in common, even if they have never been married or lived together
- Any individuals who have lived together within the last 12 months (even if not currently living together) and any of their children who have lived in the same house with either individual
What is coercive behavior?
Abusive conduct used to control or dominate a victim. Some tactics include:
- Physical and sexual violence against you or your children
- Direct and implied threats of violence
- Emotional and psychological intimidation
- Verbal abuse
- Isolation
- Stalking
- Economic/financial control
- Spiritual abuse
- Threat or use of weapons
- Destruction of property
- Harm to family, pets or other important people in the victim's life
What are some characteristics of a victim?
Victims generally:
- Feel guilty or responsible for being battered and accept the violence or minimize the seriousness of injuries
- Have low self-esteem
- Have severe stress reactions
- Have a history of abuse (grew up in violent home or were victims in a previous abusive relationship)
- Feel powerless and isolated
- Are emotionally and economically dependent on the batterer
- Fear they might be insane
How do I know if I am a victim of domestic violence?
Some common indicators include:
Physical abuse
- Pushing, shoving, slapping, hitting, punching, or kicking
- Holding, tying down, restraining your movement, or preventing you from leaving
- Inflicting bruises, welts, lacerations, punctures, fractures, burns, or scratches
- Assaulting or threatening you with a weapon
- Injuring your pets
Sexual abuse
- Forcing you to have sex or perform sexual acts against your will
- Attempting sexual activity with you when you are not fully conscious or are afraid to say no
- Physically hurting you during sex
- Coercing you to have sex without protection against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases
- Calling you sexually degrading names (i.e. prostitute or whore)
- Accusing you of having sex with other people or flirting with them to get attention
Emotional or psychological abuse
- Threatening to hurt you in any way
- Physical or social isolation (not allowing you to go out alone, have friends, or choose your own friends)
- Extreme jealousy or possessiveness ("I can't control my anger when I think of you with another man/woman")
- Threats of suicide ("I'll kill myself if you ever talk to another man/woman")
- Intimidation or humiliation (Displaying weapons or making you look stupid in front of others)
- Constantly insulting or criticizing you or calling you names ("You're so stupid," "You can't do anything right")
- False accusations, blaming you for everything
- Ignoring or ridiculing your needs
- Lying or breaking promises, destroying your trust
- Driving fast or recklessly just to scare you and laughing at your fear
- Leaving you in a dangerous place
- Refusing to help you when you're sick or injured
- Threatening to kill or injure your pets
- Using your children as leverage or threatening to hurt them
How can I tell if someone I know is a victim in an abusive relationship?
- Physical bruises or other marks of violence and possible attempts to cover them up
- Withdrawal from usual activities
- Sudden or increased isolation
- Use of alcohol or drugs
- Sudden changes in mood or personality, cries easily or overreacts to minor incidents
What are some characteristics of a batterer?
- Extremely jealous
- Low self-esteem
- Blames others for their actions, does not accept responsibility
- Unable to deal with stress, lack of impulse control
- Socially isolated, does not have many friends
- Denial, minimizes seriousness of violence
- Substance abuser
- History of abuse, grew up in violent home or involved in prior abusive relationships
- Believes in violence as a method to solve problems
Why do abusers batter?
Typically, abusers engage in violence to dominate and control the victim.
What are some early warning signs that your partner may be an abuser?
Your partner:
- Has hit before
- Has a history of violent relationships
- Has severe mood swings
- Physically expresses anger and is unable to express themselves clearly
- Demands strict control and blames others for mishaps
- Isolates you from your friends and family
- Is extremely jealous of your successes or anyone you talk to
Who should I contact?
If there is immediate danger call the Fairfax County Police Department emergency telephone number (911).
If there is no immediate danger contact the Fairfax County Department of Family Services. (www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs)
Fairfax County Office for Women and Domestic and Sexual Violence Services 703-360-7273
County Police Department, Victim Services
Section 703-246-2141
Child Protective Services 703-324-7400
Adult Protective Services 703-324-7450
For more information regarding abuse visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs/about/publications.htm or call Department of Family Services.


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The Beginning of POTF2
August 13, 2004, 02:38 PM »
I was curious to hear some of your opinions, stories, etc. about when the POTF2 line first started out, and when Star Wars figures were back on the pegs. I have to be honest, I wasn't really collecting right when it started, getting into it more so around 1999, about the time of Phantom Menace. I was aware that the toys existed sometime before that, since my younger brother was receiving some things as b-day gifts at that time. Anyways, just looking over the waves, figures, etc. online, I bet it was a pretty exciting time to see Star Wars on the pegs again. Sure, they were big and buff, and most of them look pretty poor compared to today's figs, but I can still imagine it was pretty neat.
How did you first know they were back? The internet community wasn't quite the same back then, was there another route (maybe commercials that I don't remember). Did you know what was coming out next, in upcoming waves, or was there a time of "ta da, new figures" like it was in the vintage days? Did you have any idea that Hasbro would continue on so far, or did it seem like it was a short limited series? Were figures tough to find? Anyways, just curious as to some of your personal stories for that period in Star Wars collecting. I kind of missed out on it, and although I have some figures from that period now, it would have been neat to be a collector during that time.
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August 13, 2004, 05:21 PM »
It started as a joke for me. Really.
I was in grad school at the time and was (apparently) really aggravating to my supervisor. He was/is an extremely intelligent man, with tastes far more advanced than mine. He listens to Opera, reads classical literature, attends the symphony, ballet, etc. Being a lifelong (thereabouts) star wars fan I thought I'd get him an Obi-wan figure as a joke and put a Vader figure on my desk. I was pretty sure he wouldn't pick up on the analogy, but he did, which impressed the heck out of me. To this day he still have the Obi figure on display in his office, which is entirely out of character.
As mentioned in the vintage section, I never collected the old figures. I did collect Marvel comic figures, Secret Wars or whatever teh current action figure series of the time was. I only ever grabbed one or two sparingly, maybe that many in a year. So I sort of knew that the figures had just appeared in the toy aisles fairly recently. Didn't have much money in grad school, so my purchases were very limited to say the least. Essentially, I just stumbled on them. I'm not now, nor was I then as critical as many here, I was just happy to have the figures, heman or not.
Initially there were about 12 figures and Leia, who was the original shortpack in this line, monkeyface and all, was one I had no difficulty finding. I picked up those 12, thinking that was about it. When more straggled out, I would pick those up as they came along, following the packaging as a guide for what was available. Eventually it became an insanity, on the retailers part. So many figures out: POTF2, cinema scenes, SOTE, vehicles, beasts, 12". I resisted the whole time, only buying main characters and that was about it. I was not initially aware of the diversity of figures. Being in Canada, in spite of all that crap on the shelves (which I own most of now) I had no idea how much I was missing.
I eventually started doing searches on the internet and found RS in its first year on the web and eventually found collectstarwars.com as well. I was a ghost at those sites for a very long time, from around 97 onward. The whole time, until late 2001 I only collected 3 3/4 figures.
No idea about promotional stuff, but I do remember one thing. I used to see more parents buying stuff at that time, probably owing to the re-release of the OT in theaters. I remember scouring pegs with a woman that was a parent of two kids. She was asking all sorts of questions about what the main characters were and whether her kids would like things like Ugnaughts. It was a fun conversation that won't be repeated these days.
I never really followed what was coming up that closely, just occasionally printed out a new check list so I could see what was missing. At the time I was a carded only guy but eventually space issues drove that out of me too.
So essentially in my case it was dumb luck, or fate, depending on your point of view.
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August 26, 2004, 01:18 PM »
I remember seeing the Toy Fair image of the first bunch of POTF2 figures in a Wizard Magazine sometime in the spring or summer of 95 and feeling my heart skip a beat.
They were real...modern...Star Wars figures!!
At the time I was collecting odds and ends of toys: Aliens stuff and X-Men stuff are what I remember mostly. Sometime that September I was at the local TRU and saw a handful of the new Star Wars toys on the pegs. My first grab consisted of Luke, Han, Chewie, Ben, Artoo, and Vader. They were all that was there. A few weeks later I found a couple of Stormtroopers and a Leia. Then a Landspeeder and an AT-ST.
I skipped out on the X-Wing and Falcon ,but eventually picked up a TIE. I liked the toys a lot...even the big EU extra weapons everyone came with. The lightsabers seemed a little long, but they were see-through colored plastic so I forgave them.
And those bios on the back of the cards...what an extra! I had been playing the RPG for a few years prior, and it was neat to see all the info from the Sourcebooks carried over to the new toys.
My Mom actually found C-3PO and Boba Fett for me not long after (half-circle Fett, that I proudly opened up and stuck on my shelf with all the others.) I had seen pictures of the New Fett on a Toy collecting magazine (no idea which one anymore) and thought--Wow!! It looks like a model or something! I had no idea it would be out so quickly. In the comic magazines they touted the return of Star Wars toys, and I learned what would be coming next.
It wasn't long before I had that next batch of figures, Yoda, Lando, Luke Pilot, TIE Pilot (the hardest one for me to find back then!) Hoth Han and Dagobah Luke all hit here that same winter. Then it was a long wait, eight months or so, till Shadows toys hit.
I collected the entire POTF2 line steadily and displayed it all, until I moved into my own place in Summer '98 and had to pack everything away. Most of that old stuff still hasn't come back out. I "took off" from collecting for a couple years then, until 2001 or so when POTJ started to heat my enthusiasm back up. By then I was online alot of the time, and found the RS/CSW communities just before the big merge. And I've been with it ever since.
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August 27, 2004, 09:22 AM »
I was not even aware that there was going to be a new SW action figure line until I happened to see a copy of a toy magazine (Lee's?) in a bookstore in July of 1995. I was just looking around for a copy of a Giger art book and on my way out, I noticed the cover proclaiming "Star Wars is back!" or something along those lines. I picked it up, flipped to the page with the photos and just about fainted. I can't put into words how excited I was about new SW toys (especially since I had lost the vast majority of my vintage toys back in the day to the evils of a yard sale) and I counted the seconds until I could look for them at retail.
The first thing I saw from POTF2 was actually the X-Wing on a top shelf at a Wal-Mart in early August of 1995. Strangely enough, it would be another three months before that Wal-Mart would get anything else from the line (and even then it was another vehicle, the AT-ST), and another month after that before they got any figures. Believe it or not, I actually found Han, Luke, Chewie, and Ben at a Woolworth's a few days after the X-Wing, and the following day I went to another Woolworth's a few miles away and found Leia, Vader, R2, and the Stormie. The fact that Threepio was missing was very confusing to me, as I still labored under the vintage-induced perception that everything came out all at once and I must have just missed him.
By the end of September, I had all nine figures (Threepio showed up at that Woolworth's about three weeks later), all five initial ships, and I was absolutely thrilled that there were new SW toys. And everything went downhill from there.
As for INTERNET, I think the first time I ever visited a SW collecting site was in October of 1996. I had just heard about the Special Editions coming out the following year and was looking for pictures of the new stuff when I stumbled across a small personal page of someone who also had photos of the upcoming toys (which at that point were the Sandtrooper, Greedo, and the DS Gunner). I did some other websearches and ran across Yakface's Realm first, then stumbled into Wiseacres.com and the SW Collector's Archive. A few weeks later I discovered Usenet and found RASSC, and the rest is history. Nine years later, I have Jebus knows how many figures, vehicles, beasts, playsets, and dolls populating a room of my home and no matter how crappy some of the stuff may be in retrospect, I still think fondly of every single piece in my collection.
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August 27, 2004, 10:19 AM »
I actually was collecting the SW Bend-ems before the POTF2, and also the SW comics by Dark Horse. I beleive the bend-ums came out around 1993 or 1994 (on vac. right now, can't remember) but I kept looking for the Fett and Luke X-wing (which I still need to complete that part of the collection) they ran about $2.99 pretty cheap, but that's when I ran across the POTF2 in stores and the rest is pretty much history.
About that same time was when I first jumped online as well. That's when I hit a few sites like collect sw, POTF2.com, and I think Gus's site were the early favs. and I started grabbing the toy mags w/SW covers as well.
(I think the first Lee's I grabbed back then had the black cover w/TIE Fighter on it) I still to this day collect mags w/SW covers on them.
Star Wars and toy Collector since 1978(age 7). currently over 6,500 SW items in my personal collection. Collect modern/vintage and everything in-between ;^)
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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August 27, 2004, 06:07 PM »
I was similar to your story Bob.
I was buying MicroMachines actually... That was my thing. I eventually started going online about the same time too and started looking at modern figures.
Before all that I bought some of the RPG books for just "good reading", some of the miniatures, and I collected/customized Vintage.
I was a G.I. Joe brat though, not a Star Wars fan till proobably the later 80's. I liked Star Wars as a kid, but didn't collect it because G.I. Joe was just a better toyline to me from a child's standpoint (more fun, more vehicles, etc.)...
Joe was my life though... Had EVERY figure. In fact the only things I didn't have were redeco exclusives, Sears Exclusives, etc... Oh, and the FLAGG which wouldn't fit in my room.
Had that all though, and hardly any Star Wars. They were good for accessories for my Joes and for use as the helpless scientist or something.
Vinty caught my eye when I was watching Empire and Jedi on NBC one night, and I wanted to collect the old toys... Before long talk of new films, re-released films, and then in 1995 a whole new action figure line. And the rest is a sad pouring of $ into Hasbro.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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September 26, 2004, 06:15 PM »
I read a blurb in Star Wars Galaxy Magazine issue #2 (still have that same ish) and I about **** my pants. I was picking up vintage figures, collecting Micro Machines, Bend-Ems, X-Men, and Playmates Star Trek stuff. Now I had a chance to get brand-new Star Wars figures! Real ones!
I got the first nine figures and the Landspeeder for Christmas 1995 (couldn't drive on my own back then) and eventually located the next waves in the early months of 1996.
I'm only missing the Snowspeeder and AT-ST from that period. I was obsessed. I let my Playmates collection slide just before the 1701 Fiasco, and I'm glad I did then. Now I'm buying what I want for a song.
I got online about 1996, and the first SW site I hit was Gus Lopez's Collector's Archive. From there I found Yakface's Realm, CSW, POFToo! (great stuff, wish he'd continued) and eventually found RS.
I thought new Star Wars toys wouldn't last long, but 500-odd Star Wars toy purchases and nine years later, I'd say it's golden.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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November 5, 2004, 02:33 PM »
Well I remember seeing the pictures in Action fgure digest and all those magaiznes and was so pumped. It was awesome.
The cooler memory is when I first found them. I was on my way to PA to visit some family and I usually stop to look for toys, there is a TRU, a Walmart, and at the time a Service Merchandise all right next to each other. I went into S.M. and to my surprise they were all just hanging there. I was flipping out, I bought the complete set and it was amazing. I was literally the first person who had them because the next day i went to a toy show and when i wnet no one had even known they wer eout yet. So I had them in my car so i brought them out to show eveyrone.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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November 5, 2004, 03:08 PM »
I didn't find out about POTF2 like you guys did. My story is a little bit different:
It was Christmas of '96. I was in the mall looking for a christmas present for one of my friends. He had told me he wanted a Star Wars toy. I went into Kay-Bee toys and went to the action figure aisle. I was 11 or 12 at the time, and really had no collecting interests at the time. Looking through all the Star Wars figures, I picked up a Han Solo in Carbonite for him. While paying for the toy, I thought to myself "These things are stupid". Isn't it interesting how one can change his or her mind quickly?
Than night, I brought the figure up to my room and put it on my dresser. I was playing a video game, but the whole time, I just kept staring at the action figure. I paused the game, picked up the action figure, and just looked at it. I read the bio on the back, and looked at the other figures that were listed on the back too. The next day I brought the figure over to my friend's house. When I dropped it off, I asked if I could borrow the Trilogy. He lent it to me, and as soon as I got home, I started watching it (I had NEVER seen Star Wars). I immediately fell in love with it. The vast amounts of unique aliens, the technology, the fights, everything appealed to me.
That Easter, my mother brought me to Kay-Bee toys and told me to pick out two things I wanted. I went right to the Star Wars toys and picked out my very first Star Wars figures: Bossk and the Jawa 2 Pack. Ever since then, I've been buying all the Star Wars figures I can.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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January 11, 2005, 10:56 PM »
In June '95, on the last day of school, I was pleading with my mom to let me stay up later when ESB came on the TV. Not knowing what it was at all, I tried to use it to help my cause. I said that I really, really wanted to watch, that it was my favorite movie. She saw right through that and sent me to bed, but not before I got my first glimpse at Chewie, all covered in snow shooting at the Probe Droid.
The next day I couldn't get that "weird, fuzzy guy" out of my mind and decided to ask my mom to rent the tape for me. She got them one at a time, and had to have watched them five times each that week.
The day that ROTJ was due back my cousin came over. I tried to get him to watch with me, but he said it stupid and boring. I finally got him to watch the final fight between Vader and Luke, and converted him there on the spot. When our grandmother (Nana
) came to pick him up, she surprised us by taking us to Toy'r'Us. He picked out Darth Vader while I searched in vain for Chewie. After going through ever single figure and not finding a single one, I decided that I wanted Vader, too. I picked one up, and he got upset because "we can't have Vader fight Vader!" I wasn't going to budge, and was beggining to cry (I was only 7!) when Nana stepped in and made him get Luke in the X-Wing gear.
We played with those figures everyday for 4 or 5 years, and of coarse we added several dozen more along the way. Today, all I have left off my first figure is Vader's cape - with the dirt baked into it and all. I can't remember exactly what happened to him, but my money is on him being half-buried somewhere in my old backyard.
Of coarse, finding Princess Leia in a huge bin of figures at KB is my favorite memory. I was so excited, jumping up and down and screaming "I got Leia! I got Leia!" I had to return the R5-D4 I just bought to get her. Of coarse, her hand fell off later that day
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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February 6, 2005, 05:42 AM »
At the time I was collecting Playmates Star Trek line, and I can't remember if I first saw a pic of the new SW in a toy magazine or on the web. I do remember thinking they were going to be the same size as the Playmates stuff, and being surprised when I found they weren't. Weird. But they took me right back to when I was a kid, saving up ten quarters to buy one of these every month.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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February 20, 2005, 02:45 PM »
So...10 years this summer is it? My first memories are from back in late '95 being in TRU and seeing the attractive red cards. My dad recognised them as Star Wars, and I really, really, really wanted 'the gold guy'. I never got him though, eventually along the way I'd opt for something else.
Everytime we'd go there (frequently...what can I say, I was spoiled) I'd always one of them. It wasn't until the Special Editions came out that I understood. The lines were too long at the theatre to go see them, so we went to Blockbuster and bought the Trilogy.
We also stopped at the same Toys R Us that afternoon and I got the 12inch Vader and the SOTE Xizor VS Vader 2 pack. Now if I recall, Carla and Michelle (mom and sister) went to go see Evita or something that night while we watch A New Hope. By the time they got back, my fate was sealed. And thus was born my love of Star Wars.
One problem of course, was our new puppy Riley. I lost sooo many figures to him, he really had a thing for X-Wing Lukes and Vaders. Luckly that ended befour '99 when Episode I came out.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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March 24, 2005, 05:00 PM »
The last 10 years have gone by so fast. I remember seeing the pictures for the first time as many others did in Toyfare magazine. I had picked up some of the Bend-Ems and die cast Action Masters, but they weren't the same. Real Star Wars figures were coming out again. I found the Falcon first at Target, so I picked it up. The first figure I was able to find was Luke at a TRU. I was able to find the rest of the first wave at a Target shortly afterwards. They had a limit on them, but it was something like one of each per person, so I was happy with that. I was a completist with the figures until the POTJ line.
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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April 14, 2005, 02:41 AM »
When the modern line debuted, I wasn't really into Star Wars that much (I had a few vintage figures, but most of my childhood was spent with He-Man and TMNT figures). I was still collecting the X-Men, X-Force, etc. figures around '95, but I do remember buying a few of the orange-carded POTF2 figures sometime in early '96, I believe. I still have the Obi-Wan carded, which I think was my first modern SW figure bought.
It was sometime around when the Freeze Frames came into play that I ended up picking a few more up, but it wouldn't have been until the summer of '02 that I became a hardcore collector, sadly too late for most of the earlier stuff
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Re: The Beginning of POTF2
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June 2, 2005, 01:08 PM »
Quote from: Spuffy on February 6, 2005, 05:42 AM
At the time I was collecting Playmates Star Trek line,
Same here. I was also working on Star Trek at the time. Strangely, this is where I heard my first rumor of the return of the Star Wars line.
I was frequenting a store called Puzzle Zoo in Santa Monica and got to know one of the store attendants. He turned out to work as an extra and happened to work one week as a stand-in/extra Klingon. While we were chatting on set he broke the news to me. After that, I was done. I found out everything I could abou the line and haven't stopped since.
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SANTA MONICA -- The 28th running of the ASICS L.A. Marathon was full of surprises. | Photos: 2013 L.A. Marathon: From Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica
Especially for the winners. Neither men's winner Erick Mose of Kenya or women's winner Aleksandra Duliba were aiming to win the 26.2-mile race, which started at Dodger Stadium and finished along the Pacific Ocean, in Santa Monica.
"I was not planning to win this race," Mose said. "I was planning to run my best time. I'm fortunate I won the race. I was not planning on to win because most of the others run a very strong race."
On a cool Sunday morning with a field of 24,000 runners, Mose broke 2 hours, 10 minutes for the first time in his career. He ran a 2:09:44 to lead a Kenyan sweep for the second consecutive year. Fifteen of the past 16 men's race winners have been Kenyans.
Duliba, running her first marathon, set a Belarus national record with a winning time of 2:26:08.
"My ultimate goal was to be in top three and to run a fast time," she said through an interpreter.
The 27-year-old finished 2 minutes, 9 seconds ahead of Mose, earning her the $50,000 bonus for being the first runner, male or female, to cross the finish line first. The elite women had an 18:35 head start on the elite men.
Both runners broke away from their respective packs with six miles to go.
For Mose, 26, it was a six-athlete pack. Only Julius Keter went with him.
Mose, whose previous best time was a minute slower, lost Keter, the grandson of legendary Olympian Kip Keino, with two miles to go with a 4:47 mile split.
"I was thinking then I could run a 2:09, 2:10," he said. "I decided when I got to the 19th mile, I would start going very fast. It was not easy for me to win the race. Both of us are very strong. I was so happy."
Keter finished in 2:10 31 and Nicholas Chelimo, who had the fastest marathon time going into the race, was third in 2:10.43.
Mose and Keter are the best of friends and train together at altitude in Toluca, Mexico. But when Mose made his move, he did not say a word to Keter, who also ran more than a minute faster than his previous best.
"I saw that one of us had a chance to win," Mose said. "I decided to open the gap."
Duliba, trying to earn a spot on the Belarusan team for this summer's World Championships in Moscow, did not graduate to longer races until last year.
During the race, she continually was looking at her hands.
"In my hand I wrote down every split so I would not forget," she said. "I was looking at my hands so I could see the pace I was running. I'm so happy. My dream was to run this time, this pace and run a national record."
She led Zemzem Ahmed of Ethiopia with six miles to go, and despite running alone, improved her pace over the second half of the race by two minutes.
Not even a quick ting of her hamstring, with about two miles to go, slowed her. She ran a 5:09 mile split after feeling the pull.
Ahmed was second in 2:30.32 and Deena Kastor of Mammoth Lakes was third in 2:32.39.
Kastor, who grew up in Agoura Hills, is the American record-holder in the marathon and was the only Olympic medal-holder in the race. She was never a serious contender. She said she had stomach issues in the first five miles.
By the sixth mile, she was more than 12 seconds off the lead pack's pace.
"I had a sub-par day," Kastor said. "I did not feel very great. My stomach was upset for about six miles. I kept telling myself it was going to pass, it was going to pass, but there was a little too much distance. I tried to stay engaged."
There has been no American winner in either race in 19 years. Nick Arciniaga of Flagstaff, Ariz. was the top American finisher in the men's race, placing seventh in 2:17:05.
Krige Schabort of Cedartown, Ga., took his third consecutive wheelchair race, winning by more than eight minutes. The former South African bettered his own course record by 1 minute, 1 second, going 1:30:50.25. Scott Parsons of San Jose was second in 1:38.05.
The tire off of Schabort's chair came off its rim early in the run.
"I thought, I could fix it, maybe," Schabort said. "I stopped and pulled the tire back on. I was lucky."
Susannah Scaroni of Champaign, Ill won the women's wheelchair race in 1:54:38. Shirley Reilly of Tucson, Ariz. was second in 1:55.10.


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And this was the first soup in what is now a growing collection of Pressure Cooker Recipes on the blog, enjoy!
Pressure Cooker Vegetable Soup with Giant White Beans, Ham, and Bay Leaves
(Makes about 4 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
Although we created this recipe in a stovetop pressure cooker, you can definitely make it in the Instant Pot, or a Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker if that's what you have.
1 cup giant white beans, soaked for 8 hours in cold water (or use any white beans)
3 cups water
2 bay leaves
4 garlic cloves
1 onion chopped in 1 inch pieces
1 large carrot, cut in half lengthwise, then into thick half-circles
1/2 cup chopped celery, cut into pieces same size as carrots
1 cup ham cubes, about 1 inch square
ham rinds to flavor soup (or use Goya Ham Flavored Concentrate or barbecue sauce to flavor the broth)
chopped parsley for garnish (optional)
While beans cook, chop onion, carrot, celery, and ham. Add vegetables and ham to beans and cooking liquid, along with ham rinds (or one of the substitutions above.) Lock lid and turn heat back on, then cook 3 minutes at low pressure (or set for 3 minutes if you have an electric pressure cooker), turn off heat, and let pressure release slowly. Remove ham rinds, and serve hot, garnished with freshly chopped parsley if desired.
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When it comes to implementing sustainability options, suppliers say cost is a factor, but it isn't the only one.
"I think a lot of companies share the viewpoint that if it's not cost effective, it's not sustainable," said Kathleen Phillips, supply chain sustainability manager at Pro*Act, Monterey, Calif.
"If the cost is too high, no one will pursue it," she said.
Phillips also oversees Pro*Act's Greener Fields Together program.
"For sustainability, the message you hear again and again is to target the low-hanging fruit first," she said.
Companies can look into options that will improve their sustainability without requiring significant investments up front.
"When you target those opportunities with little to no cost, you can recoup those savings and then maybe make those larger investments," Phillips said.
Efforts can move on from there.
"After you target that low-hanging fruit, you can investigate those other opportunities and see what other options are out there using the savings you've already seen," she said.
Jim Gallant, vice president of operations and engineering for Remasco, Kingsville, Ontario, says implementing sustainability initiatives usually makes business sense as well.
Remasco is a Mucci-controlled corporation.
"Sustainability is very important, but not just as a stand-alone idealistic objective. It also just makes business sense from many perspectives," Gallant said.
Sometimes, those cost savings or other benefits are harder to find, and creativity plays a role.
"You have to be somewhat innovative and imaginative in order to seek out ways of taking what might otherwise be viewed as troublesome and use it instead to drive operating efficiencies and thereby get a payback," Gallant said.
Other times, the cost-saving benefits of sustainability efforts is at the forefront.
"The thermal energy curtain will significantly reduce our heating costs, so there is a short payback on that," Gallant said.
However, Gallant says lower natural gas prices mean cost savings aren't the biggest factor in deciding to reduce energy consumption, since it's not the company's biggest expense.
Still, the benefits are there.
"Although we do find that many of the projects that are beneficial for sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint also have a good payback," Gallant said, "we're also motivated to be good corporate citizens and environmental stewards for the sake of our customers."
Companies have to do extensive studies before selecting sustainability options that suit their needs.
Mayra Velazquez de Leon, president, Organics Unlimited, San Diego, says cost is something to be considered and researched.
Organics Unlimited is looking into some solar energy options, Velazquez de Leon said.
"We know it will be a big investment, but it's something that will give you a return at some point. We'll not only be saving on energy costs, we will become a more sustainable warehouse," she said.
In addition, longevity is something to consider.
"Once you make the upgrade, it's something that will be in place for a long time," Velazquez de Leon said.


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History of the Department
On the following page is a brief history of the department, along with a video entitled "The First 48 Years of the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania". On the subsequent page there are four additional videos: "The Billingham Chairmanship and Transplantation Immunology" (Clyde Barker and David Gasser), "The Mellman Chairmanship and Cytogenetics" (Beverly Emanuel and David Gasser), "The Mellman Chairmanship and Maternal/Fetal Medicine" (Michael Mennuti and David Gasser), and "The Kazazian Chairmanship" (Haig Kazazian and David Gasser). Read and view more about the department...
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Seminar Series
The Department of Genetics hosts a different speaker every Monday of the academic year, with invitees ranging from postdoctoral researchers to prominent scientists presenting a broad array of current, genetics-related research. Our series is cosponsored with the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, the Epigenetics Program, and the Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Click here to view the schedule.
Department Highlights
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Yoseph Barash
In silico to in vivo splicing analysis using splicing code models.
Gazzara MR, Vaquero-Garcia J, Lynch KW, Barash Y.
Methods. S1046-2023(13)00444-1, 2013.
AVISPA: a web tool for the prediction and analysis of alternative splicing.
Barash Y, Vaquero-Garcia J, González-Vallinas J, Xiong HY, Gao W, Lee LJ, Frey BJ.
Genome Biol. 14(10):R114, 2013.
Maja Bucan
From Mouse to Human: Evolutionary Genomics Analysis of Human Orthologs of Essential Genes.
Georgi B, Voight BF, Bucan M PLoS Genet. 2013. 9(5): e1003484.
Genomic View of Bipolar Disorder Revealed by Whole Genome Sequencing in a Genetic Isolate
Georgi B, Craig D, Kember RL, Liu W, Lindquist I, Nasser S, Brown C, Egeland JA, Paul SM, Bucan M
PLoS Genet 10(3): e1004229. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004229, 2014.
Doug Epstein
Divergent roles for Wnt/β-catenin signaling in epithelial maintenance and breakdown during semicircular canal formation.
Rakowiecki S, Epstein DJ.
Development 140(8):1730-9, 2013.
Inhibition of Sox2-dependent activation of Shh in the ventral diencephalon by Tbx3 is required for formation of the neurohypophysis.
Trowe MO, Zhao L, Weiss AC, Christoffels V, Epstein DJ, Kispert A.
Development 140(11):2299-309, 2013.
Arupa Ganguly
Parental nutrient intake and risk of retinoblastoma resulting from new germline RB1 mutation.
Bunin GR, Li Y, Ganguly A, Meadows AT, Tseng M.
Cancer Causes Control. 2013 Feb;24(2):343-55. doi: 10.1007/s10552-012-0120-x. Epub 2012 Dec 8.
A case-control study of paternal occupational exposures and the risk of childhood sporadic bilateral retinoblastoma.
Abdolahi A, van Wijngaarden E, McClean MD, Herrick RF, Allen JG, Ganguly A, Bunin GR.
Occup Environ Med. 2013 Jun;70(6):372-9. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101062. Epub 2013 Mar 16.
Genomic profile of 320 uveal melanoma cases: chromosome 8p-loss and metastatic outcome.
Ewens KG, Kanetsky PA, Richards-Yutz J, Al-Dahmash S, De Luca MC, Bianciotto CG, Shields CL, Ganguly A.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013 Aug 23;54(8):5721-9. doi: 10.1167/iovs.13-12195.
Dominant form of congenital hyperinsulinism maps to HK1 region on 10q.
Pinney SE, Ganapathy K, Bradfield J, Stokes D, Sasson A, Mackiewicz K, Boodhansingh K, Hughes N, Becker S, Givler S, Macmullen C, Monos D, Ganguly A, Hakonarson H, Stanley CA.
Horm Res Paediatr. 2013;80(1):18-27. doi: 10.1159/000351943. Epub 2013 Jul 13.
Enhanced Sensitivity for Detection of Low-Level Germline Mosaic RB1 Mutations in Sporadic Retinoblastoma Cases Using Deep Semiconductor Sequencing.
Chen Z, Moran K, Richards-Yutz J, Toorens E, Gerhart D, Ganguly T, Shields CL, Ganguly A.
Hum Mutat. 2013 Nov 26. doi: 10.1002/humu.22488. [Epub ahead of print]
David Gasser
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is associated with a PDSS2 haplotype and, independently, with a decreased content of coenzyme Q10.
Gasser DL, Winkler CA, Peng M, An P, McKenzie LM, Kirk GD, Shi Y, Xie LX, Marbois BN, Clarke CF and Kopp JB.
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 305(8): F1228-F1238, 2013.
Yugong Ho
An -regulatory pathway establishes the definitive chromatin conformation at the Pit-1 locus
Ho Y, Cooke NE, Liebhaber SA.
Mol Cell Biol. 2015 May;35(9):1523-32. doi: 10.1128/MCB.01283-14
Thomas J. Jongens
Insulin signaling misregulation underlies circadian and cognitive deficits in a Drosophila fragile X model
Monyak RE, Emerson D, Schoenfeld BP, Zheng X, Chambers DB, Rosenfelt C, Langer S, Hinchey P, Choi CH, McDonald TV, Bolduc FV, Sehgal A, McBride SM, Jongens TA.
Mol Psychiatry. 2016 Apr 19. doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.51
Deciphering discord: How Drosophila research has enhanced our understanding of the importance of FMRP in different spatial and temporal contexts.
Weisz ED, Monyak RE, Jongens TA.
Exp Neurol. 2015 Dec;274(Pt A):14-24. Review.
PDE-4 inhibition rescues aberrant synaptic plasticity in Drosophila and mouse models of fragile X syndrome.
Choi CH, Schoenfeld BP, Weisz ED, Bell AJ, Chambers DB, Hinchey J, Choi RJ, Hinchey P, Kollaros M, Gertner MJ, Ferrick NJ, Terlizzi AM, Yohn N, Koenigsberg E, Liebelt DA, Zukin RS, Woo NH, Tranfaglia MR, Louneva N, Arnold SE, Siegel SJ, Bolduc FV, McDonald TV, McBride SM, Jongens TA.
J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 7;35(1):396-408.
Klaus Kaestner
Integration of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq Identifies Human Alpha Cell and Beta Cell Signature Genes.
Amanda M Ackermann, Zhiping Wang, Jonathan Schug, Ali Naji, Klaus H Kaestner.
Molecular Metabolism. 2016.
Foxl1-expressing mesenchymal cells constitute the intestinal stem cell niche.
Reina Aoki, Michal Shoshkes-Carmel, Nan Gao, Soona Shin, Catherine L May, Maria L Golson, Adam M Zahm, Michael Ray, Caroline L Wiser, Christopher VE Wright, Klaus H Kaestner.
CMGH Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2015.
The 'de novo' DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3b compensates the Dnmt1-deficient intestinal epithelium.
Elliott EN, Sheaffer KL, Kaestner KH.
Elife. 2016 Jan 25;5.
Stephen Liebhaber
An -regulatory pathway establishes the definitive chromatin conformation at the Pit-1 locus
Ho Y, Cooke NE, Liebhaber SA.
Mol Cell Biol. In Press.
Tissue Specific CTCF Occupancy and Boundary Function at the Human Growth Hormone Locus
Tsai, Y-C, Cooke, NE, and Liebhaber, SA
Nucleic Acids Research. 42: 4906-21., 2014.
Specific enrichment of the RNA-binding proteins PCBP1 and PCBP2 in chief cells of the murine gastric mucosa
Ghanem, LR, Chatterji, P, and Liebhaber, SA
Gene Expression Patterns. 14:78-87, 2014.
Autonomous Actions of the Human Growth Hormone Long-Range Enhancer
Yoo, EJ, Brown, CD., Tsai, Y-C, Cooke, NE, and Liebhaber, SA
Nucleic Acids Research. 2015.
Julia I-Ju Leu
Structural basis for the inhibition of HSP70 and DnaK chaperones by small-molecule targeting of a C-terminal allosteric pocket.
Leu JI, Zhang P, Murphy ME, Marmorstein R, George DL
ACS Chem Biol. 9(11): 2508-16, 2014.
Crystal structure of the stress-inducible human heat shock protein 70
substrate-binding domain in complex with peptide substrate.
Zhang P, Leu JI, Murphy ME, George DL, Marmorstein R
PLoS One. 9(7): e103518, 2014.
Meera Sundaram
A cell non-autonomous role for Ras signaling in C. elegans neuroblast delamination
Parry, J. M. and Sundaram, M. V.
Development 141: 4279-4284, 2014.
Sarah Tishkoff
Higher frequency of genetic variants conferring increased risk for ADRs for commonly used drugs treating cancer, AIDS and tuberculosis in persons of African descent.
Aminkeng F, Ross CJ, Rassekh SR, Brunham LR, Sistonen J, Dube MP, Ibrahim M, Nyambo TB, Omar SA, Froment A, Bodo JM, Tishkoff S, Carleton BC, Hayden MR.
The Pharmacogenomics Journal J. doi: 10.1038/tpj. 2013.
Comparison Between Southern Blots and qPCR Analysis of Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health ABC Study.
Elbers CC, Garcia ME, Kimura M, Cummings SR, Nalls MA, Newman AB, Park V, Sanders JL, Tranah GJ, Tishkoff SA, Harris TB, Aviv A.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, published online ahead of print, 2013.
Patterns of nucleotide and haplotype diversity at ICAM-1 across global human populations with varying levels of malaria exposure.
Gomez F, Tomas G, Ko WY, Ranciaro A, Froment A, Ibrahim M, Lema G, Nyambo TB, Omar SA, Wambebe C, Hirbo JB, Rocha J, Tishkoff SA.
Human Genetics 132(9): 987-99, 2013.
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Great ape genetic diversity and population history.
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I mentioned this in an article I just finished on the main board, but wanted to isolate it here for discussion in the trade forum:
Pacers see an opportunity in the next couple of days, and decide to move up in the draft for Jordan Hill. (or someone else perhaps)
Pacers trade Jeff Foster, and pick #13 to Golden State
Golden State trades Ronny Turiaf and pick #7 to Indiana.
Why for Indiana: They consider this if there is a player at 7 they really covet, in this scenario I am using Jordan Hill as an example. Indiana adds the consensus second best power forward in the draft, plus a role player big man in Turiaf. Indiana saves a little money in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 from the difference in Foster and Turiafs contracts.
Why not for Indiana: Turiaf's contract runs one year longer than Foster's. Foster is a career Pacer and glue guy. Hill may not be worth trading up for, who knows?
Why for Golden State: Foster is a bigger and cheaper version of Turiaf, and gives them a more veteran leadership type guy. Nellie can get the guy he wants at #13 anyway perhaps, and they have no need for Hill with Wright and Randolph already in Golden State. Fosters contract is one year shorter than Turiaf's, and moving back six draft spots saves them a bit of money as well.
Why not for Golden State: Maybe the 7th pick has more value than this. Then again, maybe not this year.


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I firmly believe that Christmas is for children. All the traditions, and that too short of time they believe in a little man who dresses in red, hops in a sleigh and comes to their house bringing gifts is precious. When our first grandchild was born, I found this site that would sent him a letter from Santa and a small tiny piece of land at the North Pole. We did the same thing when his younger sister came along. This year, we are anticipating the arrival of grandchild #3 after Christmas or soon after the first of the year. I may not order a letter for her this year, but I intend to do so next year for her first Christmas. What could be more fun than getting a letter from the North Pole from Santa?
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Surgery completed on Casilla's right leg
OAKLAND -- Right-hander Santiago Casilla had successful surgery to remove a cyst from his right tibia Tuesday.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he'll have a better idea of how much time Casilla will miss when he talks to the medical staff.
Casilla said Monday that his knee has been sore for more than a year and he's been able to pitch through it.
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A RETIRING RAF mountaineer will tackle a solo 900-mile trek from Land's End to John O'Groats in just 30 days this summer in memory of his best friend and in a bid to raise £20,000 for the Wroughton hospice which cared for him in his last days.
Al Sylvester, 48, will pay homage to Dean Singleton, who passed away at Prospect Hospice in June 2011 at the age of 43, after battling lymphoma for a decade as well as liver cancer. He embarks on the strenuous walk on August 16, without any support, to back the Adver's 160 Appeal in aid of the charity.
The pair met in 1992 in Stafford, where they were both part of the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue.
"Dean and I covered lots of big rescues," said Al. "We put our lives on the line together. I think Dean would have loved to do it with me. He was brilliant and if you wanted to have somebody cheer you up after a bad call out he would be the person to pick everybody up. The way he was looked after by Prospect was phenomenal. It is an opportunity to raise money for the hospice.
"I originally looked to raise £5,000, which I thought would just about be achievable through all the people I have known over 31 years in the RAF. It has staggered me that my donors have doubled that amount with their generosity as the total currently stands close to £13,000, so I have now reset my target to £20,000.
"So many people from the RAF and Wiltshire Constabu-lary remember what a remarkable person Dean was, and they also recognised the outstanding care Dean received from the Prospect Hospice, and what a great charity this is."
After leaving the Mountain Rescue, Dean joined Wiltshire Constabulary and moved to Swindon while Al, who is about to retire after 31 years, remained with the RAF in Shrivenham.
Al has led more than 15 expeditions around the world over the years, including the RAF's first ever 677-mile unsupported attempt to reach the Geographic South Pole, an experience which saw him lose his thumbs to frostbite in the minus 35-degree conditions.
But he expects this latest trek will be his most difficult to date.
"I won't be the first person to walk the full length of this wonderful island, and I'm sure there will be others who will be attempting the walk this summer, but what's different about my challenge is that I will be completely unaided," he added. "So I won't be afforded the luxury of sleeping in a comfortable bed or have the extravagance of electricity and hot showers each night.
"Instead I will be sourcing my food en route and setting up my camp at the end of each day, and cooking my meal on a stove, which I will have carried."
To sponsor Al go to virginmoneygiving.com/AlSylvester.


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Are your company's meal break practices lawful? If not, here is a hypothetical example of what it could cost you for employees earning $10 per hour who fail to receive an uninterrupted 30-minute meal break on 60 separate days:
- 30 minutes x 60 days (during two‑year period) = 30 hours x $15 (overtime rate) = $450
- $450 x 2 (liquidated damages) = $900
- $900 x 200 employees = $180,000 back pay liability
Wage and hour lawsuits and collective actions have spiked during the last several years with complaints of off-the-clock work leading the way. In the Northeast, a number of Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits have been filed targeting the health care industry for allegedly using automatic meal break deductions in violation of federal law. Moreover, earlier this year, the California Court of Appeals validated a state meal break law statute which provides non‑exempt employees an additional hour of pay each day as a penalty for employers who fail to provide a proper meal break under state law. See UPS, Inc. v. Superior Court, 196 Cal. App. 4th 57 (Cal. App. 2 Dist. 2011).
Employers in the retail, service and health care industries are particularly susceptible to off-the-clock work claims involving meal breaks. An employer is not required to give meal breaks under federal law and meal breaks are not required under most state laws. However, under the FLSA:
- If an employer does not wish to pay for a meal break for non‑exempt employees, the non‑exempt employees must be provided a meal break of at least 30 minutes
- The employee must be completely relieved of all duties during the meal break.
Violations of federal and state meal break laws occur when employees are interrupted and required to perform compensable work during their meal break. The potential penalties for failing to provide an uninterrupted 30‑minute meal break are significant.
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, which enforces the FLSA, takes the enforcement position that any employee's meal break is compensable when the employee does not receive an uninterrupted meal break of at least 30 minutes in duration. Thus, even if an employee is interrupted 20 minutes into their meal break to perform a minute or two of compensable work, the DOL will take the position that the employee did not receive a full, uninterrupted 30‑minute meal break and therefore the entire meal break time is compensable. As a result, the employer either owes the employee a new uninterrupted 30‑minute meal break, or the employee must be compensated for the meal break that was taken.
There is significant room for error with meal breaks for employers who automatically deduct the meal break from an employee's pay. If an employer automatically deducts a 30‑minute meal break but the employee does not take the full meal break or their meal break is interrupted, the employer must ensure that it has proper procedures in place to either provide the non‑exempt employee another meal break or pay the non‑exempt employee for the interrupted meal break. Otherwise, the non‑exempt employee has not been compensated for all hours worked.
Automatic deductions for meal breaks from non‑exempt employees' hours worked are lawful under the FLSA only if an employer ensures that an employee takes a full half‑hour meal break. Although automatic deductions may make sense in certain settings – an assembly line that shuts down for half an hour; a receptionist leaves for an hour and another receptionist takes his or her place – the majority of non‑exempt employees work in job settings that are more difficult to track.
Because of the growing number of lawsuits involving meal breaks as well as an increased emphasis by the Obama administration on wage and hour enforcement, employers should carefully review their meal break policies and practices, following these steps:
- Employers who require non‑exempt employees to clock in and out for meal should ensure that employees are clocking out for a full 30‑minute meal break.
- Employers who use automatic meal break deductions should have written policies and practices in place that allow a supervisor or manager to override the automatic deduction in those situations where a non‑exempt employee does not receive an uninterrupted 30‑minute meal break.
Although some non‑exempt employees may view clocking in and out for meal breaks as micromanagement, it is the employer's burden under the FLSA to accurately record all hours worked for its non‑exempt employees.
It is also critical for employers to have sound written policies and practices concerning meal breaks to help reduce the risk of a potential collective action. Because most employers' meal break policies and practices are consistent throughout the company, failure to properly provide non‑exempt employees with full 30‑minute uninterrupted meal breaks are ripe for collective actions. Employers in retail and service industries are particularly susceptible to meal break violations. Best practices include prohibiting non‑exempt employees from taking a meal break at their work location, especially employees who have access to the public or who are particularly susceptible to being interrupted during a meal break.
Because the DOL takes the position that an employer is obligated to pay an employee for the entire meal break if they are interrupted, back pay liability can add up quickly. Assuming employees worked a 40‑hour week, an employer could be liable for 30 minutes of back pay at time and a half for each employee, for each violation. Moreover, the back pay liability can be liquidated under the FLSA's liquidated damages provisions. 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). Take steps to avoid facing wage and hour lawsuits and collective actions. The time is ripe for all employers to review their meal break policies to ensure compliance with federal and applicable state laws.


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AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Larson felt fine the day after his terrifying crash Feb. 23 at Daytona International Speedway. While he walked away from his car's shattered hulk, but the accident left at least 30 fans injured by debris.
Larson, a Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver who is driving for Turner Scott Motorsports this year, looked back on his first Nationwide race excited about the fact that he ran well and had a chance to win.
He also remains concerned about fans who still have a long recovery.
As of Saturday morning, a man with broken ribs and his 14-year-old brother with a collapsed long were in a Florida hospital. Twelve others taken to area hospitals had been released by Thursday.
MORE: Injured fans say they're 'lucky to be alive'
For Larson, 20, it was initially hard to comprehend the extent of the fan injuries.
One of the top prospects in NASCAR, Larson won 30 races last year across stock cars and various USAC Sprint, Midget and Silver Crown divisions.
Larson is now focused on his next Nationwide race, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET today at Phoenix International Raceway.
"Sprint cars crash all the time but luckily fans don't normally get hurt," Larson said Friday at PIR. "That's where it was different and more shocking for me. There have been lots of times when drivers get hauled off in ambulances.
"That doesn't scare me. But when the fans get involved, it was different than I'm used to."
Crash aftermath | Crash photos | Drivers' reaction
Larson felt well enough after the crash that he could have raced later that night at a nearby dirt track. However, he decided that would have been insensitive.
"It wouldn't be right for me to go have fun when they were hurting and suffering in the hospital," he said.
Daytona's Nationwide race capped a crazy week for Larson, who had finished second in the ARCA race, he won in his Midget at New Smyrna Speedway on Sunday and scored a controversial win Monday as he punted the leader in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model race on a makeshift track on the Daytona backstretch.
He also drove a modified for the first time and had an OK race in the K&N Pro Series East race Tuesday at Daytona.
Larson said he was "not at all" rattled by the Nationwide accident.
"I've watched the wreck a lot," Larson said. "I was really nervous the day after the wreck just hoping that nobody would end up dying."
COMMENTARY: Time for NASCAR to take drastic measures
While not having been able to look at the car since the accident, Larson thinks he caught one of the poles in the crossover gate and it shredded the front half of the car.
His engine and one of his wheels ended up on the spectator side just inside the catchfence. Another wheel, with suspension pieces attached, flew into the crowd, and those injured describe debris flying by them and raining down on them.
For Larson, who was T-boned by Justin Allgaier and Brian Scott to get airborne, it wasn't as scary.
"It looked a lot worse than the way it felt," Larson said. "It hurt but it didn't hurt as bad as the wreck looked. The car is really safe. I was barely sore the next day.
"During the wreck, I didn't know I had gotten in the fence. I knew I took a couple of hard shots and I saw the ground at one point."
And then he unhooked his belts and got out of his car. It felt good to get back in a racecar this weekend.
"I've been waiting all week to get back in the car," Larson said. "I spent a couple of days playing with my go-kart, but it's not like running competitively out here. … I didn't think about the wreck or anything when I got strapped in the car, so I think that's good."


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WINCHESTER schoolchildren made a splash at the 14th annual Primary Schools Swimming Gala.
Over 300 children from 26 different schools descended on River Park Leisure Centre on Friday, June 6, with new mayor Cllr Eileen Berry, as well as hundreds of parents, watching from the sidelines.
It was hosted by Winchester City Penguins Swimming Club, and sponsored by The University of Winchester, Bulthaup, Round Table and Sainsbury's Badger Farm and Town.
The Penguins Alison Crompton said: "It gives lots of children an opportunity to swim competitively, and is their first experience of that in a fun environment. It's a really popular community event and all the schools love coming."
Harry Day of Prince's Mead came first in the Year 4 boys race, with Christopher Davies, St Bede, in second, and Sherborne House's Jamie Hickman in third.
Alicia Peinado of Harestock Primary came first in the Year 4 girls race, and Olivia Busher and Eleanor Jones, both of St Swithun's, came in second and third.
Pilgrims came first in Boys' Freestyle Relays, with Bishop's Waltham in second and Twyford Prep in third.
St Swithun's Junior scooped first in the Girls' Freestyle Relays, with Bishop's Waltham taking second, and Prince's Mead third.
Pilgrims were victorious in the Boys' Mixed Stroke Relays, in second was Bishop's Waltham and third, Otterbourne.
In the Girls' Mixed Stroke Relays Bishop's Waltham took home the trophy, with St Swithun's Junior in second, and Twyford Prep coming third.
Compton won the Boys' Invitational Relay, South Wonston came second, and Scantabout third.
The Girls Invitational Relay saw All Saints finish first, Otterbourne take second and St Peter's third.
The competing schools were All Saints; Ampfield and John Keble; Bishop's Waltham; Colden Common; Compton; Harestock; Micheldever; Oliver's Battery; Otterbourne; Owslebury; Pilgrims; Prince's Mead; Scantabout; Sherborne House; South Wonston; Sparsholt; St Bede; St Peter's; St Swithun's; Stanmore; Sun Hill; Twyford Prep; Twyford St Mary's; Weeke; Western; and Winnall.


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Jim Dugan
RE: Lucy jones
Please send her findagrave memorial number. There are several Lucy Jones and I am not sure which one you are discussing.
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RE: Lucy jones
? Lucy Gray Adams Jones, #29397583, death date is 2004. I sent an edit for her parents.
Is this the Lucy Jones you are asking about?
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Birdie L. HARDESTY
Birth year for Birdie L. HARDESTY STOWELL is 1918 (not 1908). See North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000.
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Laura Marland Harlow
Robert Vance Taylor
Hi Shirlee,
Robert Vance Taylor is my Great-Grandfather. I submitted an edit to correct the birth and death dates of his record -- my corrections match the headstone image you attached to the memorial, and are also supported by other sources... including the Social Security Applications and Claims index, and the North Carolina Birth Index
Name: Robert V Taylor
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 19 Jul 1878
Birth County: Jones
Parent1 Name: Joseph S Taylor
Roll number: NCVR_B_C057_66001
Volume: D 1
Page: 265
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Nancy Prescott Potter
Daniels Goodwin Family Cemetery
The correct GPS coordinates for Daniels Goodwin Family Cemetery, Cedar Island, Carteret County, NC are:
35.008063, -76.314132
Please correct for this cemetery to appear in Find-A-Grave mobile.
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No offense. I don't go on the site very often. I noticed this because my family is from Otway back to early 1700's. Even after leaving I always went "home" every year until recently when I had my parents returned for burial. Went home a few years after that but not the same now. Will always be "home". My mama was oldest of 8 & daddy next to youngest of 9 & they all have passed now. Diane
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Alton Gillikin
Shirlee, Could you add this person's Parents?
Father-85823100 James Wilson Wilson
Mother-85823181 Anne Davis Wilson
I was asked to do this and as you know the only ones who can make changes are the ones who placed them in Find A Grave.
Grand Daughter is Ruth Ann Geer-LLoyd.
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Wondering if Marcus Lafate Wood & his wife Ida Hudson Wood are related to you? If not then could you transfer both of their memorials to me? This is my husbands GGrandparents thru Alma Wood Griffin. If they are related to you, I would like some help identifying the people in some old photographs. Thanks, Sandra
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Thanks for your help. This is a sensitive issue for me as I was not sure if family placed this memorial. Am not sure how to mention but it seems this gentleman was responsible (according to initial information) for the beating death of a lady relative of mine. This was in 1957--I have news articles. I was a very young lad but remember it somewhat. I was always curious about what the outcome was (did he stand trial, was he convicted, etc). Not sure where to begin looking. But as an adult now my curiosity has been stirred and Yet I don't want to create any6 discomfort so many years later. So I shall endeavor to continue looking. Would be interested in know how it worked out. Thanks much for your help. Arizona Kid 46520230
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Thomas Jefferson Palmer, Davis, OK
I thought you might be interested in this item that I found online:
Palmer, Thomas Jefferson
Field Worker: John F. Daugherty
Date: July 19, 1937
Interview # 4890
Address: Davis, OK
Born: February 16, 1871
Place of Birth: Boone County Arkansas
Father: G. W. Palmer, born in Georgia, Farmer
Mother: Margaret Chambers, born in Georgia
My parents were G .W. Palmer and Margaret E. Chambers Palmer, both born in Georgia. (Dates unknown). Father was a farmer. There were six children in our family. I was born on February 16, 1871, in Boone County, Arkansas. I had friends living in Webbers Falls, Indian Territory, in the Cherokee Nation and I came to see them in 1887. I liked this new country so well that I stayed.
I got a job on a ranch belonging to Frank Vore and rode after cattle for a year.
One very cold night, John Brown, a United States Marshal, came to the place where I was living and arrested me. I was just a lad, and they had a warrant for Tom Palmer for introducing liquor unlawfully into the Indian Territory. I knew they had the wrong Tom, but I went with them. When daylight came they gave me a good looking over and turned me loose. It was my uncle they were looking for.
He had a small log hut built in the cane breaks at the junction of the Arkansas River and Dirdy Creek. There were portholes all around his little log hut, through which they shot at anybody trying to molest them.
Each day a small steamer called the Winnie Mae came by. As it went west, it was loaded with freight, dry goods, groceries, etc., for the towns in the Territory. As it came back east it carried cotton, prairie hay, wheat and oats to Fort Smith. There was whiskey on this boat each day for my uncle who was a bootlegger. They always rolled it off down a gangplank and away they went. Then uncle and his partner would carry it into their hut and sell it during the night.
I went to a dance south of Webbers Falls one night and Belle and Sam Starr were there. Sam had decided to kill another Cherokee Indian* across the log heap fire built in the yard. Belle was to tell Sam when to shoot. When the time came the other Indian was ready for him and they both shot about the same time, both dying soon after. That stopped the dance.
I was acquainted with Tom Starr. I've heard him tell of his narrow escapes many times. He often evade officers by hiding in a thicket and turning his horse's shoes with the conks to the front. when the officers got on his trail they went in the opposite direction from what he was traveling. I heard him tell once of being in Texas. He became a friend of a merchant and one day they went on a fishing trip. The merchant had taken some newspapers along, and during the time they were fishing he was reading. He suddenly stopped and looked Tom over from head to foot. Then he read some more and looked at Tom again. Finally he said, "Here's a large reward offered for Tom Starr, and you are just like this description of him. Are you he?' Tom replied that he was not and knew nothing about Tom Starr. At last he asked, "What if I were Tom Starr? What would you do?" The man replied, "I'd try to help you to get away. I wouldn't arrest you." Tom would have killed him right there and taken the buggy and team and escaped into another section of the country, had he not answered as he did.
One evening about dusk, a man rode up to Tom's house and he was sitting on his porch with a Winchester, ready to shoot. He said, "Go back. Get on your horse and leave here." The man replied that he wanted to stay all night. Tom told him he'd kill him if he didn't get away. The man ran back to his horse, and Tom said, "Now you can come back and spend the night." He took no chances on keeping someone who would try to arrest him, but he decided when one ran, he was not an officer.
There were many Indians near Webbers Falls. All the merchants kept at least one Indian clerk to wait on their Indian trade.
I married Minnie Fowler in 1893 and moved to Sorghum Flat, south of Davis in 1898. I have lived near Davis since that time. We have six children.
*(Ed. Note - Just before Christmas, 1885, people from a large area gathered for a dance at Aunt Lucy Surratt's in the edge of the Choctaw Nation. The dancers were inside the cabin with the overflow squatting around a fire outside. Sam came up with six shooter in hand to Frank West, his cousin, with whom he had been feuding and asked him why he shot a horse from under him a time back. Frank arose with Winchester in hand and fired. Sam shot as he fell, and when the smoke cleared both were dead. Observers said Belle let out a few hoops, shot in the air a few times and continued to dance.)
Transcribed by Brenda Choate and Dennis Muncrief, March, 2001
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