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This article could really use some work. --Dwarf Lord 00:30, 22 October 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Boundaries
Further to Dwarf Lord's comment some time ago, I intend to work on this article, but can I just check something with other people.
- "Eriador was of old the name of all the lands between the Misty Mountains and the Blue; in the South it was bounded by the Greyflood and the Glanduin that flows into it above Tharbad."
- ― Appendix A, Part I (iii) "Eriador, Arnor and the Heirs of Isildur"
By my reckoning, therefore, contrary to what the article states, the Enedwaith and the Dunlendings are not in Eriador. Does anyone agree/disagree? --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 10:08, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. We can't get a more specific source than that. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 11:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] VT Ref
I'll get you the etymology VT ref this afternoon, Mith. (I'm at a university computer now). -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 07:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Ederchil! Unfortunately I don't have any VTs (it's on my to-do list - I'll probably buy the lot when 50 comes out), but I knew there was a reference in 42 from Wikipedia's talk page and the VT Index. —Unsigned comment by Mith (talk • contribs).
- Okay. The VT one is complicated. It's a note (unnamed, dated 1949-53), quoted by Hostetter in a reply to a letter by Fredrink Ström from Uppsala. Ström muses on Eriador and the Lone-lands in The Hobbit being one and the same. It's a note dealing with -dor and the disappearance of -n-. On the linguistic timetable, it can be placed near the end of Noldorin. Part of the note reads:
- "eryā 'isolated, lonely', Eriador = 'wilderness'."
- Okay. The VT one is complicated. It's a note (unnamed, dated 1949-53), quoted by Hostetter in a reply to a letter by Fredrink Ström from Uppsala. Ström muses on Eriador and the Lone-lands in The Hobbit being one and the same. It's a note dealing with -dor and the disappearance of -n-. On the linguistic timetable, it can be placed near the end of Noldorin. Part of the note reads:
- The title of this section is "Letters to VT", page 4.
- Another etymology is found in PE 17:
- "= Lonely Land. *eryā (S eir, air)."
- This is identified by Christopher Gilson as a ballpoint addition. The reference would be
- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in The Lord of the Rings" (edited by Christopher Gilson), published in Parma Eldalamberon 17 (July 2007), p. 28.
- Thanks! - I just needed a proper reference for that. There's quite a bit there to think about now. I have, myself, been toying with whether Lone-lands and Eriador are one and the same. Unfortunately not even my Annotated can help with that one - it's a very ambiguous quote, "Now they had gone far into the Lone-lands, where there were no people left, no inns, and the roads grew steadily worse." (Roast Mutton) What's your thinking on it? Would be saying they are the same count as bias editing? --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 12:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
- Actually "our" (as in "Encyclopedia of Arda"'s) article on Lone-lands says yes. I certainly think so, but I don't think we should present it as fact. Similarly, Tolkien translated Rhudaur as "troll shaws" (also PE17), does that mean the Trollshaws are Rhudaur? -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 12:06, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
- (Slowly the EOA articles are getting weeded out.) Hmm, I take your point on that, I wouldn't personally consider all of Rhudaur as Trollshaws (to me the Trollshaws are a forest between the Hoarwell and the Loudwater. I think I'll follow your lead and do similar to what you've written on Rhudaur - at least it's consistent! --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 12:51, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
File:Eriador.mp3 I'd like to add this pronunciation to this article. Grond 15:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
- There's already a pronounce on the article, and I can't really hear the difference. But correct me if I'm wrong. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 15:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
- But you're pronouncing it as 'Eriador - that is, stressing the first syllable. That is very unlikely for Sindarin. I think e-ri-A-dor is the correct way of saying it. --18.104.22.168 12:14, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
[edit] Geography
Wikipedia's article says, "Eriador extended for some 600 miles north-south and 700 miles west-east." I've used three different copies of the map, and I reckon:
- East-West: 665-680 miles (as reckoned in a straight line just above Rivendell, as the widest point, I reckon);
- North-South: 685-700 miles (as reckoned from the bottom of Minhiriath to the the upper-most edge of the hills to the west of the Mountains of Angmar - in line with the the northernmost source of the Lune);
- Northeast-southwest: 730-745 miles (from around Mount Gundabad to the bottom of Eryn Vorn);
- Northwest-southeast: 740-755 miles (from the corner of the Blue Mountains at the same lattitude as Himring to the source of the Glanduin).
See this image (Imageshack has made it grainy). Can anyone corroborate these figures? --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 13:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Recent work
Excellent job, Mith! This article will have my vote for a new Featured Article! --Morgan 23:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- You're welcome! :P -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 19:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
[edit] "Temperature"?
In the Geography section it says, "Eriador was a large, inhabited temperature region" - should that word be "temperate"? Feel free to delete this if it does not apply. NativeSonKY 02:48, 12 June 2011 (UTC) "
- You're quite right, it said so correctly in the infobox — I've corrected the error. Thanks! — Mithrennaith 03:53, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Intro sentence
Perhaps "Eriador was the large region [...]" instead of "Eriador is the large region [...]"? --Morgan 22:56, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- Not sure you needed to talk page this... just change it! --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 23:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Too large artice?
Can some admin help me to insert this instead of the current etymology (I can't save the edit): There are at least two, slightly different, versions of the etymology of ''Eriador'': #''Eriador'' as [[Sindarin]] (derived from [[Noldorin]]), whose derivation is quoted by [[Carl F. Hostetter]] from an unnamed note dated 1949-53. This explains that ''Eriador'' is derived from ''eryā'', "isolated, lonely" and ''[[Dôr|dor]]'', "land", thereby translating ''Eriador'' as "wilderness".<ref name="VT42">"Letters to VT" in [[Carl F. Hostetter]] (ed.), ''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]'', [[Vinyar Tengwar 42|vol. 42]], July [[2001]], p. 4</ref> #In another manuscript, Tolkien stated that ''Eriador'' was a [[Silvan Elvish]] name, meaning "Lonely land" (deriving from *''eryā'', S ''eir'', ''air'').<ref name="PE17">{{PE|17}}, p. 28</ref> The second translation is noticeably similar to the "[[Lone-lands]]" mentioned in ''[[The Hobbit]]'';<ref name="Hob-Mutton">{{H|Mutton}}</ref> it is unknown whether the two are the same or simply coincidental.
--Morgan 09:31, 18 July 2011 (UTC)


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So wild varieties were entirely too small, entirely too tough, and nutritionally inappropriate for humans. They needed to be greatly expanded in size, greatly softened in texture, and overhauled at the molecular level, which would be an imposing challenge for modern botanists, much less Neolithic farmers. "…Lloyd Pye,.. THE LITERAL CREATION OF MANKIND AT THE HANDS OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT"
So, what is it that smart chickens know that science doesn't? If what science says is true, then smart chickens and smart humans complaining about the recent modifications to food crops would be akin to refusing to drive cars that had been mechanically modified by humans. Since cars were invented and modified over time by humans, why should one suddenly get worried and upset by the equivalent of a rear window washer blade?
Is it because smart chickens and aware humans; including scientists and the enviromentally aware seem to know intrinsically that there is something wrong with the official story?
How could "primitive" man set out to create nutritious, edible, efficient food that would continue to be inedible for hundreds or even thousands of years? How and why would they do it?
What did they eat in the mean time? Such a project would have been the biggest and most ambitious project in human history, dwarfing the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, the construction of the pyramids of Egypt and the Apollo program to place a man on the moon—and there would have had to have been separate projects each for wheat, corn, rice and barley!
Note that for corn, according to the latest research, they would have needed to manipulate 200 genes just to increase the size of the maize-never mind softening it and making it digestible for humans.
In an attempt to cement scientific opinion, "science" has been rather insistent that the parent source for maize is teosinte, an inedible grass that does not resemble maize. Not all scientists working in this area agree with that conclusion however and there are competing theories. Some scientists believe that they have evidence of corn appearing before teosinte.
Pennsylvania geneticist Nina V. Federoff states that "to get corn out of teosinte is so – you couldn't get a grant to do that now, because it would sound so crazy. Somebody who did that today would get a Nobel Prize! If their lab didn't get shut down by Greenpeace."
Indeed, maize is, in origin, genetically modified food, which is at the centre of much controversy today. Still, our ancestors seem to not only have had no such social opposition, but more importantly, were able to pull this stunt off…Maize; from the Gods? …… PhilCoppens.com
Photo, right:"Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani was the inaugural exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. It features spectacular finds from four graves excavated at Vani, a major administrative and religious center of ancient Colchis (present-day Republic of Georgia) and the setting for the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. More than 100 objects from these graves, which date from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., are on display." NYU–
If this golden necklace is sporting corn stalks, it shows that this cereal crop was in Europe way ahead of the current scientific opinion. Click for larger view
"If you believe that our ancestors domesticated crop plants, you have to start by assuming that people without any agricultural experience were brilliant enough to select and breed the best wild seed candidates to turn into major cereal crops.
It is a historical fact that in spite of 5,000 years of continuous agricultural development we have not genetically bred a new major crop from a wild species. Just how ingenious were out Stone Age predecessors who performed this agronomic feat without any agricultural or genetic knowledge?"…. from: Mysterious Origins of Crop Plants, by Will Hart; Dateline: Genesis: In the Beginning
The Bible Tells Me Sow; Then Reap!
As a result of Adam and Eve's sin, God told them that they would have to sustain themselves from the sweat of their brows:
To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." …Genesis 3
Genesis 4 tells us that Cain worked the soil. Cain therefore was a farmer and presented "fruits of the soil" to God. It's clear from Genesis that from the very beginning man planted domesticated crops and tilled the soil too obtain them. Wild grain was inedible.
It is clear from Genesis that the creator of domesticated crops was the Creator Himself; the only one with the ability to 'modify" food crops which are nearly as genetically complex as human beings.
Hewing to the Biblical narrative; all cultures appeared suddenly, fully developed and without precursors. Along with that, domesticated grains were found associated with all early civilizations.
Man Could Not Have Survived without Maize, Rice, Wheat and Barley from the Beginning
Chart: A-maizing-chart. This chart shows the amazing amount of energy and protein available from the consumption of these cereal crops. Click for higher resolution table.
"Maize, wheat and rice, between them, accounted for 87% of all grain production, worldwide, and 43% of all food calories in 2003"…. Wikipedia
"Cereals are grains produced by plants belonging to the grass family. They account for over fifty per cent of human energy and protein needs, and cereal plants occupy two-thirds of all cultivated land. Cereals were the earliest cultivated plants and for over ten thousand years have been the staple food for many human societies.
Their importance is related to a number of features. They are relatively easy to grow, store and transport and they have a high nutritive value. The table below shows the food values of some important cereals compared with those for some other plant foods. The figures show the amount of energy that can be obtained from and the total amount of protein and lipid present in 100 g."…..AQA, Longbenton Community College.
The point of the chart is to indicate how well these important food crops were designed. They are highly nutritious and produce tremendous energy by weight compared to other foods. They make up a huge percentage of the human diet.
Can you imagine the human race surviving several thousand years without them? And if it could have done so, what would have been the impetus to "create" these cereals when for generation after generation they would have continued to be inedible?
These grains, supposedly developed by our distant ancestors, are still the primary food sources which support modern day civilization. In poorer areas of the world they are the primary subsistence food-and they have been basically unimproved in over 5,000 years. One would think that if they, the uneducated, uncivilized, primitive, knuckle dragging unsophisticates could create (genetically engineer) rice, wheat corn and barley, that in the last 5,000 years we could have come up with at least one additional domesticated grain?
Smart chickens say no!
Science Too Chicken to Examine Alternatives; Cluck and Peck Those Who Object
Photo:From Gunnar Thompson Phd's Press Release Re: Ancient Egyptian corn. Click to view larger version.
When Darwin formulated his evolution theory, he assumed that the single cell was very simple—something that one could imagine could possibly arise by chance. It turned out, that the single cell is more complex than any artifact of man.
When science formulated its theories concerning the origins of the major cereals, it was likewise assumed that the projects to turn an inedible grass into a major food crops were fairly straightforward and conceivable. In June of 2009, in an article by Thomas H. Maugh II, the Los Angeles times reported that sophisticated granaries were found near the Dead Sea which were 11,300 years old as science recons time.
This might have pushed the origin of domesticated crops back 1,300 years more and upset their carefully plotted just-so cereal history-so they claimed that the sophisticated storage facilities were built to store inedible, wild, barley 1,000 years before actual cereal domestication! Science will stretch and pull and ignore facts to fit its theories.
Recent scientific discoveries concerning the dna of plants like corn make the 'created by ancestors" theory even more unpalatable—but no matter how unlikely science's version of cereal origin is—they have no choice but to cling to it—or admit that they were created by God.
The Bible establishes the creation of domesticated plants in the beginning by God. Consequently, from the beginning all cultures would have had access to the various cereals. Science on the other hand says that the various cereal grains were domesticated by man in various parts of the world at various times over the last 5,000 to 10,000 years. In accordance with that, they have timelines and locations for the various grains.
Corn for example is supposed to have been first domesticated in South America and then spread to other parts of the world after being brought back to Europe by Columbus. Other scientists and researchers however have shown that corn existed in ancient Egypt, China, India and even old Europe way before Columbus landed on American shores.
Which is more diificult to believe; the random undirected evolution of living, breathing creatures or the directed creation of the most imortant food crops known to man by "primitive" ancestors over hundreds and thousands of years? Cluck, cluck, cluck….
Draft 2;Citations and links
Genetic Manipulation (Domestication) of Plants and Animals.
Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
Corn: Egyptian Queen beat Columbus—by 3000 Years!
Pre Columbian Maize North of the Old World Equator


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Beer...and BallsPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 12:33 AM
Wow...Hump day already! I guess Ric's wife let him live yesterday. He probably didn't show her the joke...LOL!
Try this one for size! No husbands or wives were hurt in the writing of this joke!
Two Arabs boarded a flight out of London. One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat. Just before takeoff, an American sat down in the aisle seat.
After takeoff, the American kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, "I need to get up and get a beer."
"Don't get up," said the American, "I'm in the aisle seat. I'll get it for you."
As soon as he left, one of the Arabs picked up the American's shoe and spat in it.
When he returned with the beer, the other Arab said, "That looks good, I'd really like one, too." Again, the American obligingly went to fetch it.
While he was gone the other Arab picked up his other shoe and spat in it too. When the American returned, they all sat back and enjoyed the flight.
As the plane was landing, the American slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.
"Why does it have to be this way?" he asked. "How long must this go on? This fighting between our nations? This hatred? This animosity? This spitting in shoes and peeing in beers?"
8 Comments:
- David Meigs said...2:09 AMYikes!
- Live, Love, Laugh said...2:16 AMHA HA, I never expected that!
- Sandra Ruttan said...6:38 AMCute picture Bonnie. And thanks for the...you know.
- Denise McDonald said...9:32 AMthe title alone threw me for a minute! lol!
- Erik Ivan James said...12:25 PMGreat funny, Bonnie.
At our house, the picture is reversed. The small dog is the bully.
- Ballpoint Wren said...10:08 PMThis is why I HATE beer. It tastes just like somebody peed in it. Bleah!
- M. C. Pearson said...12:23 AMI'm with Bonnie Wren...they couldn't tell! Too funny...so, are you trying to get internet traffic with your title? Hmmmm?????
- Bonnie S. Calhoun said...12:34 AMM.C....you'd be surprised!
Ballpoint...LOL...I hesistate to ask you how you could possibly know what pee tastes like..LOL!
Everyone else...LOL...it's such a hoot to find ones that make me snort!
Sandra...more coming your way!


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text: 'John Carter' Debacle: Inside the Fallout for Disney (Analysis) 5:00 AM PDT 3/15/2012 by Kim Masters FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Frank Connor/Disney Paul Frommer, the linguist who created the Na'vi language for "Avatar," will return to the big screen March 9 with another alien tongue: Barsoomian, the dialect spoken on Mars in Disney's $200 million-plus sci-fi epic "John Carter," starring Taylor Kitsch. The sci-fi debacle opens up new questions about the studio's weak pipeline and overall movie strategy. This story originally appeared in the March 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Now that John Carter has landed with a resounding thud, Hollywood is trying to decipher whether Disney will conclude that it needs to change the guard or at least tweak its strategy when it comes to homegrown live-action films. Since chairman Rich Ross, 50, arrived in October 2009 and set out to remake the film studio, competitors and others have been watching to see whether the former cable television executive could find his legs in the movie business. Some in the industry -- pointing to marketing missteps and a sputtering pipeline -- had turned thumbs down even before Carter failed, bringing an expected write-down of more than $150 million. Others believe that Ross, perceived as a favorite of Disney chief executive Robert Iger, will escape blame and be judged instead on next year's slate. PHOTOS: 'John Carter' Red Carpet Premiere Arrivals From the start, Ross' plan of attack was clear: He would get live-action movies from key suppliers -- Marvel, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and DreamWorks (which pays Disney a fee to distribute its films). Pixar and Disney's animation unit were to provide a reliable stream of cartoon hits. The studio's limited live-action slate would be based on branded, marketable concepts that would flow through the Disney machine -- from consumer products to theme parks. Ross did not rely on experience, letting go staffers including distribution chief Mark Zoradi and marketing chief Jim Gallagher and bringing in producer Sean Bailey as his production head and outsider MT Carney to run marketing. (Carney left the studio in January.) Ross' makeover has yet to produce strong results. Although Ross' predecessor, Dick Cook, put Carter into production at a budget just under $200 million, the head of a rival studio says Ross bears responsibility for the ultimate, significantly higher cost as well as the weak opening ($30.2 million domestically plus $69.1 million worldwide) because he oversaw the production and marketing. Disney's only other in-house live-action movie for the year is The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a small film with Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton that's set for release in August. "They've greenlighted one movie [for 2012]," says this competitor. "How is that possible?" At the same time, this executive notes, movies from Disney's other live-action suppliers have fallen short for the year. Ross' fight to dial back the budget on Bruckheimer's Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp, pushed the release to May 2013. (The budget was trimmed from $250 million to $215 million.) And DreamWorks, facing money woes, has only two movies: Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and a small drama, Welcome to People. FILM REVIEW: John Carter By far the brightest spot in live-action this year is Avengers, Disney's first release from Marvel, opening May 4. That film should do big box office, and Disney hopes the Marvel investment will begin to show results. (Disney paid more than $4 billion to acquire Marvel and an additional $115 million to Paramount for rights to Avengers and Iron Man 3, set for release in 2013.) But competitors say one Marvel movie is not enough to offset the lack of product in the pipeline. "What should have happened is Rich should have stepped up and filled in the gaps," one says. Disney declined comment. Certainly a company of Disney's heft can absorb the Carter loss; the film's failure has not made the smallest dent in its stock price. "A big write-down in a single movie … should not impact next year's earnings," says analyst Alan Gould of Evercore. (At Disney's annual meeting March 13, CFO Jay Rasulo said it was too early to analyze the financials of the film.) But even if Carter inflicts no lasting damage, several executives say Disney cannot afford to let live-action production languish. For one thing, says a competitor, the film studio does not have enough movies flowing through its pipeline to justify its overhead (4,000 employees, including Pixar and animation). Another top exec says the shortfall creates longer-term problems. "The movie business is a brand-building business," he says. "They need fresh intellectual property to help drive the machine, and that comes primarily from the movie business." Another says Disney's top executives -- including Iger -- are paying a price for their inexperience in movies and for focusing too heavily on brands and products. "If the first thing discussed in a meeting is merchandise and sequels, you're probably going to lose money because you're not talking about the movie," he says. As to how Disney will react to its issues in live action, industry observers are split. Some believe Iger might be forced to make a management change in the wake of Carter, after some interval. ("You don't do it so close to the event," says one. "It's too obvious.") Some sources also say that the influential John Lasseter, head of Pixar and chief of Disney animation, has expressed concern to Iger about the lack of experience at the studio. (A rep says Lasseter "remains supportive of the team at Disney.") Most doubt that Iger will make changes, despite studio operating profit being down 20 percent in fiscal 2011, to $656 million. They believe he likes Ross and dislikes the movie business and will continue to limit the studio's role in generating live-action films. If so, they say that decision is baffling. "You have the Disney machine," says a competitor. "They could, a few times a year, turn out $15 million, $20 million movies that they could pop out on a weekend." Others believe Ross will be judged on results from 2013, when he will have a fuller pipeline including two significant bets: Lone Ranger and Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz directed by Sam Raimi. (Maleficent, with Angelina Jolie, is shooting this summer but is not dated.) And other Disney suppliers will contribute potential hits: Pixar will add the prequel Monsters University, and DreamWorks will bring the Spielberg-directed sci-fi movie Robopocalypse. Marvel will contribute Iron Man 3 and Thor 2. But once again, the two home-grown Disney films -- Lone Ranger and Oz -- are expensive $200 million-plus bets. And the head of a rival studio says that puts Disney in the position of taking on big risk with too few smaller movies to hedge the bet. "A good analogy is Moneyball," he says. "You can't just have home-run hitters. You've got to have a few movies where you just try to get on base." ♦♦♦♦♦ THE DISNEY BLAME GAME: Despite Disney CEO Robert Iger's reported wish that there be no finger-pointing over the failure of the $275 million movie, this is Hollywood -- fingers started to point before it was released. The dreaded digits are aimed at one or more of these candidates. Andrew Stanton: The brilliant Pixar talent behind Finding Nemo and WALL-E, Stanton had never worked in live action before. Not only were there pricey reshoots, but sources say he had a heavy hand in marketing decisions. Rich Ross: With Carter in motion when he took over as studio chairman in October 2009, could Ross have taken on Stanton and Pixar by pulling the plug or slashing the budget? Maybe not -- and the rest is history. MT Carney: The Disney marketing chief was an outsider whose inexperience in the movie world showed. But on this one, Stanton overruled her -- and she's been gone since January. Dick Cook: The former Disney studio chairman agreed to make the film at just under $200 million (it went up due to reshoots). When he was ousted in September '09, the script wasn't final and the movie was still being cast. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kim Masters email@example.com @thr


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text: 1. Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Helen Laufer Dwork Berle and Maurice Berle Date: 2/9/1998 Description: Helen Laufer Dwork Berle describes growing up in her native city, Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s and 30s. She discusses in detail Jewish merchants and the St. Philip Street neighborhood. Her parents, Harry and Tillie Hufeizen Laufer, who immigrated from Mogelnitsa, Poland, owned a mens clothing store on King Street before opening a restaurant. Laufers was Charlestons first kosher restaurant and served as a social hub during World War II.


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From private helicopter rides to twilight 'Sip and Sail' cruises, to the self-guided snorkel trails off Magnetic Island, there are plenty of ways to explore the Great Barrier Reef when you base yourself in Townsville. Affectionately known as 'the island' to locals, Magnetic Island is the laidback home of around 2500 happy residents and an epically diverse natural landscape. But to truly appreciate her in all her forms, you've got to go beyond the bitumen and explore via land, sea and sky.
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CHICAGO -- In an interim analysis, a new MRI contrast agent, gadobutrol, was well-tolerated and safe according to results in more than 15,000 patients, researchers said here.
Less than 1% of the patients in a prospective trial (0.53%) experienced any adverse event related to gadobutrol (Gadovist or Gadavist), said Martin Prince, MD, PhD, from Cornell and Columbia Universities in New York City, and colleagues at the Radiological Society of North America meeting.
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- This study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- In an interim analysis, researchers said the MRI contrast agent gadobutrol was well-tolerated and safe according to results in more than 15,000 patients.
- Gadobutrol is a non-ionic macrocyclic 1.0 molar gadolinium-based contrast agent, and in this study the most frequent adverse event was nausea, followed by dizziness, nonspecified adverse events, vomiting, and injection site reactions.
The most frequent adverse event was nausea (0.17%), followed by dizziness, nonspecified adverse events, vomiting, and injection site reactions. Urticaria, evidence of an allergic reaction, was seen in 0.01% of the patients, Prince reported.
Gadobutrol is a non-ionic macrocyclic 1.0 molar gadolinium-based contrast agent. The agent's maker, Bayer Healthcare, received FDA approval for gadobutrol in 2011 for intravenous use in diagnostic MRI in adults and children, ages 2 and up, to detect and visualize areas with disrupted blood brain barrier and/or abnormal vascularity of the central nervous system (CNS), according to the company.
After receiving approval in Europe, Bayer committed to performing a postmarketing adverse reaction study in at least 20,000 individuals, including pediatric patients between the ages of 2 and 7.
Prince said the Gadovist in Routine Diagnostic MRI – Administration in Non-Selection Patients (GARDIAN) study will eventually recruit 25,000 patients. Canada will serve as the only recruiting site in North America; among the patients in the interim analysis, more than 10,000 patients came from China and Korea.
The current patient population consisted of 15,508 patients, almost half of whom were male. The mean patient age was 51 years. Pediatric patients made up 2.2% of the analysis group.
The majority of the contrast-enhanced MR studies were CNS scans (62.9%), followed by contrast-enhanced MR angiography (33.1%). The mean dose of contrast was 0.13 mmol/kg body weight.
A little more than 3% of patients had at least one documented risk factor for an anaphylactoid contrast media reaction, including allergies, asthma, and a history of contrast media reaction.
Prince said half the adverse reactions were reported within 5 minutes of infusion, and 85% occurred within 30 minutes.
There was one case of epilepsy in a patient with a CNS tumor that was considered a serious drug-related adverse event, according to the RSNA abstract. But during his presentation, Prince said the patient "had a history of convulsion so this event was not considered to be related to the study medication."
The authors reported that patients with a contrast media risk factor experienced a higher number of adverse events (3.2% versus 0.45% in patients without a contrast media risk factor).
The highest rate was reported for female patients who had at least one contrast media risk factor (4.6% versus 0.6% in females without).
However, no adverse drug reactions were observed among the 340 individuals under the age of 18 included in the study, they added.
Prince said that 80% of the adverse events occurred with gadobutrol doses between 0.1 mmol/kg and ≤0.2 mmol/kg. He said 13.4% of reactions were observed at a dose of less than 0.1 mmol/kg.
While the number of patients included in this study was impressive, it was an interim analysis, cautioned Brian Herts, MD, from the Cleveland Clinic. Herts co-moderated the RSNA session where the study was presented.
"Major adverse events with contrast agents are very rare events, and I think this study is underpowered to find those events," Herts told MedPage Today.
The study was sponsored by Bayer.
Prince disclosed commercial interests with GE Healthcare, Hitachi, Siemens AG, Toshiba Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, Nemoto Kyorindo, Bayer AG, Lantheus Medical Imaging, Bracco Group, Covidien AG, and Topspins. A co-author is a Bayer employee.
Herts disclosed commercial interests with Siemens.
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Source Reference: Prince M, et al, "Safety of gadobutrol in 15,508 Patients, Data from the interim analysis of the GARDIAN study, a global multicenter prospective non-interventional study" RSNA 2012; Abstract SSQ08-04.


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"Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2013 Academy Awards" Kicks Off Network's Multi-Platform Oscar Coverage On Sunday, February 24th at 10:30am PT/1:30pm ET That Includes Eonline's Award Show Page And "Livestream From the Red Carpet" To Provide Unsurpassed 360 Digital Experience
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Los Angeles, CA - February 22, 2013 - On Sunday, February 24th at 10:30amPT/1:30pm ET, E! kicks off its unparalleled coverage for this year's Oscars as Hollywood tops off the 2013 awards season with one of the most hotly-contested Oscars races in recent memory. With pundits predicting upsets in major categories, all eyes will be on Hollywood, and E! will have an entire army of cameras to capture each moment of the star-studded action from the very first limo arrival to the last of the night's big after-parties. The stars, the gowns, the shoes and even the manicures are getting that up-close-and-personal E! treatment, and in addition to the 20+ cameras that will be focused on those attending this year's big show, the network is adding another new camera which will capture each star for one last glance as they ascend the grand staircase at Hollywood & Highland towards the Dolby Theater entrance. E!'s seasoned on-camera team, led by anchor and executive producer Ryan Seacrest and host Giuliana Rancic, will ensure viewers miss none of the action, glamour and excitement of the day. Complete on-air coverage will be complemented by Eonline's livestream show hosted by Terrence Jenkins and Catt Sadler. And with updated "Live from the Red Carpet" and "Fashion Police" apps, E! viewers will be armed for Monday conversations with TV's most expansive coverage of everything Oscar.
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Monster Responds To "Monster Cables, Monster Ripoff"
The Monster Cables Public Relations department sent in a two-page response to our post, "Monster Cables, Monster Ripoff. Without a shadow of a doubt, this is one issue that they are definitely taking seriously. Read their official company rebuttal statement, inside…
Response from Monster Cable on Article in the Consumerist
Monster would like to acknowledge and respond to the publishing of the Monster pricing from an employee at RadioShack in the article titled "Monster Cables, Monster Ripoff: 80% markups."
The article can be misread that consumers are paying inappropriate prices charged by our retailers for Monster Cable products. The article misleads the reader in citing retailer markups of 80% as if the retailer makes 80% profit margin on products that they sell. Anyone in retail knows that one does not calculate profit by markups, but by profit margins made on the sale as a ratio of what they paid for it. So in the example of the 19ft. HDMI-DVI cable that was highlighted as Retail $179.95, wholesale of $99.40, that's a profit margin of 44%, which is totally in line with what retailers choose to sell accessory items like Monster Cable. Also the DVI and the S-Video cable cited are both discontinued products using old cable technology. Most of the products listed in the article are 37% to 39% profit margins. This is much less than profit margins on other consumer products like clothing, jewelry, furniture, and accessories to other consumer products.
It's also misleading when the tone of the article alludes to Monster Cable ripping off consumers, when Monster cannot legally set retail pricing. This is clearly up to the retailer. However in defense of retailers of consumer electronics, it is typical that small items warrant higher profit margins, while large items like TV's have small profit margins. The consumer clearly wins in the electronics category.
We would also like to point out that Monster makes the highest quality cables in the world, but always with a variety of price points for the consumer to choose from. For example, with today's most popular digital connection, HDMI, the consumer has a wide range of performance choices with four models of Monster Advanced Speed Rated HDMI Cables, ranging from $49.95 to $99.95. The performance of each of these Speed Rated cables is independently verified by Simplay Labs http://www.simplayhd.com, so our customers know exactly the performance they are paying for. In addition, these prices are in line or lower than other high performance cables offered by Monster's competitors at retail locations throughout the country.
There is also a comment about digital cables not making a difference and that the only difference in digital cables is the price. This is simply not the case. HDMI Licensing, LLC, the group that develops the HDMI specification, has published two different cable speeds for the current 1.3 specification: Standard Speed at 2.23 Gbps, and High Speed at 4.95 Gbps, which is known as HDMI 1.3 Category 2. For more information, go to http://www.hdmi.org.
In fact, Steve Venuti, Vice President of Marketing for HDMI Licensing, LLC, stated in a recent Widescreen Review article:
"…HDMI evolves as it continues to react to the demands of the marketplace. With the introduction of HDMI 1.3 in 2006, HDMI doubled the bandwidth of the specification, and with that, gave manufacturers the ability to design products that can output and receive signals at unprecedented levels…And where there is increased bandwidth, there is increased demand on the cable to deliver the HDMI signal."
This clearly states that not all HDMI digital cables are the same. Buying the best cables possible will insure that one always gets the best possible digital picture for the components they own.
For those who want to get the real facts on HDMI, please visit http://www.monstercable.com/HDMI/advancedhdmi.asp for the following videos:
1. The Constant Evolution of HDMI with Steve Venuti, Vice President of Marketing, HDMI Licensing, LLC
2. Certified HDMI Cable Performance with Joseph Lias, President of Simplay Labs, LLC
For those who want technical information on why there are different levels of HDMI Cables, one can reference the white paper on HDMI at http://www.monstercable.com/HDMI/whitepaper.asp, where you will learn about why different HDMI cables are needed.
For those who want to get an inside look on the testing of Monster's HDMI cables, visit http://www.monstercable.com/HDMI/advancedhdmi.asp for an eye opening video of Monster's quality R&D and testing.
The digital TV revolution is moving fast, as one sees from the introduction of 240Hz displays from TI and Ultra High Definition Displays from Samsung at CES this year. These advanced displays paves the way for vastly improved high definition components that will need even higher speed HDMI cables, all of which are available today from Monster's Advanced Speed Rated cables.
For those who want to know more about higher definition, Monster and Disney have partnered together on a DVD that educates customers on the various levels of higher definition and how to buy and set up for higher definition TV. The DVD is called The Higher Definition Home Theater Experience, and we would like to offer it at no charge to everyone who is visiting this site by sending your shipping address to the following email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Monster has always made the highest quality products at reasonable prices. We stand behind the retailers that offer great service and advice to our customers at a fair profit and we hope that this additional information clarifies some of the confusion that the article might have generated.
Response from Consumerist on Monster Cable Response on Article in the Consumerist
1. As decided in Leegin v. PSKS, this statement, "Monster cannot legally set retail pricing. This is clearly up to the retailer…" is patently false. See "Supreme Court Allows Manufacturers To Dictate Minimum Prices, Screws Consumers"
2. Their response neatly sidesteps a giant section of the original post, so I'll reproduce it here:
The worst part isn't really the markup. Stereo equipment routinely has markups of 80 to 100 to 200% by the time it hits the shelves. It's the initial inflated price, and how gadget stores try to push the cables so hard, telling people that Monster cables offer superior picture and sound then what you would get with another cable. But that simply isn't the case. Our sister site Gizmodo ran a battery of tests and found Monster cables are for the most part, completely unnecessary. (see The Truth About Monster Cable – Grand Finale (Part III), HDMI Cable Battlemodo Resumes, The Truth About Monster Cable, Part 2 (Verdict: Cheap Cables Keep Up…Usually), and The Truth About Monster Cable).
3. So the paragons of the truth about HDMI cables are a Vice President of Marketing, and the Disney corporation?
4. Monoprice.com.
PREVIOUSLY: Monster Cables, Monster Ripoff: 80% Markups
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I have just spotted these results of a recent photoshoot by Charlie Waite at Prior Park, Bath. They show how the garden at Prior Park nestles in a little valley with expansive views over the city.
Ralph Allen, who developed the garden in the 1740s and 1750s, was an entrepreneur who supplied the 'Bath stone' that was being used to build the elegant terraces and crescents of the burgeoning spa resort. He constructed an early railway right next to Prior Park that allowed blocks of stone to be brought down into the city from the quarry at Combe Down.
The Palladian Bridge was built in 1755, elegantly hiding an otherwise pedestrian dam between two different water levels. This type of bridge – loosely based on designs by Andrea Palladio – was popular in England at that time, and other examples were built at Wilton House (1735) and Stowe (1738).
Allen was acquainted with Viscount Cobham, the owner of Stowe, and his circle, and one of them, Thomas Pitt, seems to have had a hand in the design of the Prior Park bridge – yet another example of the 'liquid networks' I have written about previously.
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Gahhhhh!!! This picture was so HARD! It has all of my fav BCB characters
Very Nice ^^
http://bases-4-you.deviantart.com/art/Group-Base-156646353?q=boost%3Apopular%20a nime%20group%20base&qo=0 alright then.
Very nice! It's a bit confusing how some eyes are just outlined on the hair and some are in front of the hair... but it's still awesome! Great job! :3
Waaah! Love your style
It's not their's, they used this base and drew hair and clothes over it :3
So, it's a base. She just wanted to make something. Don't diss my sister for making something for you all to see
There have been edited bases on bases on candybooru before so shush you guys.
WHERE IS McCAIN!!!!!!!
Should it have base in the tags?
@Wisp: Ohh. Well, it's still cute. Thanks for the info ^^U
Nice try
But not as gay as twilight
I never said that it was BAD that it was a base, I wasn't "dissing" anyone! Someone said they liked the style so I just felt like I should inform them that it's NOT the artist's style and that it was a base.
HOW DA FLUFF IS IT HARD TO DRAW EYES AND HAIr AND A SHIRT U WERNT TESTING IT OUT U WERE JUST TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK UR GOOD AT IT UR A FRAUD <
HOW DA FLUFF IS IT HARD TO DRAW EYES AND HAIr AND A SHIRT U WERNT TESTING IT OUT U WERE JUST TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK UR GOOD AT IT UR A FRAUD < -ero387
Teashi says it's okay to draw bases as long as you give credit.
Next time, post a link to the original artist, okay?
@Anonymous #7-- How is she a fraud? She gave credit!
Not a fan of bases, but not bad. You should seriously put more effort into it, though. The hair looks reallyy half-assed and the clothes are plain.