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NAMM 2007: Epiphone Debuts The Les Paul Studio "Chameleon" and other great new models, including the Nick Valensi Riviera!
It's that time of year again... NAMM Time! ... and that means new and exciting models from Epiphone! The following new models for 2007 were introduced at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California this week. Check them out!
SST Classic: The chambered acoustic/electric is back with our new SST Classics. Available in both 2.0" and 1.75" nut widths, these new nylon string guitars feature the new SST preamp with active volume and EQ controls and the new Shadow NanoFlex pickup system for amazing acoustic tone. The preamp also includes a Headphone/Amp switch to allow for "silent" performance through headphones. Its unique solidbody acoustic design without a sound hole allow you the freedom to perform without fear of feedback.
SST Studio: The steel-string version of the SST, this solidbody acoustic/electric has computer-designed body cavities to ensure natural tone, while the Shadow preamp and Nanoflex pickup allow acoustic guitarists to play at high volume with no feedback. Go on… turn it up!
Performer ME: Meet our new acoustic/electric guitar that sounds as gorgeous as it looks! This beauty features a highly-figured Flame Maple top, back and sides trimmed in real hand-inlayed Abalone and accented with gold hardware and Grover tuners. A solid Mahogany neck adds warmth. Equipped with the revolutionary new Epiphone eSonic2 stereo preamp system, this acoustic/electric comes to life when plugged in. The Performer ME is truly ready to perform!
Performer SE: This solid Sitka Spruce top version of our new Performer guitar features our new state-of-the-art eSonic2 preamp system with stereo output from two unique, low-impedance pickups for amazing acoustic tone. The top is beautifully trimmed in real Abalone and its back and sides are crafted from highly-figured Flame Maple and combined with a hard Maple neck. The body is comfortably-sized without sacrificing projection and sound.
Special-II Performance Pack: They've made the best electric pack even better. The famous Les Paul Special II is now available in a Performance Pack. This new combo includes our new Studio 15R guitar amp, with more power (15 watts) an 8" inch speaker and built-in Reverb. Also included with this Humbucker equipped electric guitar is a gigbag, strap, cord, picks, quartz tuner and instructional DVD.
EB-0 Performance Pack: Like the Player Pack, the EB-0 Performance Pack features the short scale EB-0 electric bass with a sidewinder pickup in the neck position for great vintage bass tone. But, we've added the new Studio-15 Bass amp with 15 watts of power, 4-band EQ and larger 8" speaker. Also included is a bass gigbag, strap, cord, picks, quartz tuner and instructional DVD.
EM-1 Electric Guitar: Attention all shredders! The legendary EM guitar is back and better than ever with a string-through body and non-reverse headstock. This double-cutaway rocket ship combines a solid Alder body with 24 blazing frets on our new "SpeedTaper™" satin-finished hard Maple neck. It's equipped with two hot open-coil Humbucker pickups.
Nick Valensi Riviera P94: Guitarist from the acclaimed New York band, "The Strokes" lends his name and approval to this all new Riviera. Previously only available in an "Elitist" version, this new Valensi bring affordable, professional performance to all with it's classic, semi-hollow design powered by Gibson P-94 pickups. Exactly like the one Nick plays, this guitar has high-output capable of plenty of "bite" yet enough response to allow for subtle nuances for enhanced dynamics. A modern classic!
Embassy Standard Plus: If you're looking for a visually stunning and sonically powerful active bass, look no further than the new Embassy Standard-IV PLUS. With its active EQ electronics, you can fine-tune your bass sound with precision and confidence. Cut or boost bass and treble controls combined with a blend knob and master volume give you complete control. Add to that a highly-figured Quilted Maple top and there is perhaps no better looking and better sounding bass available for the money.
El Segundo-IV Acoustic/Electric Bass: Finally, a great acoustic/electric bass that is affordable! The new Epiphone El Segundo starts with an Advanced Jumbo body shape that combines a Spruce top with Mahogany back and sides for loud yet balanced acoustic tone. Add to that our passive Preamp featuring a tone and volume control for effective EQ and volume control without use of a battery and you've got a bass that sound great – plugged or unplugged. And, its medium length, 32" scale hard Maple neck is not too long and not too short. It's just right!
Les Paul Studio "Chameleons": The new "Chameleon" Les Paul Studios are the first Epiphone guitars to feature a patented "flip/flop" paint that dramatically changes color depending upon the light and the angle of viewing. Previously reserved for expensive custom-made products such as automobiles, Epiphone engineers at our factory discovered how to get Custom Shop "bling" without the Custom Shop price! The results are absolutely stunning. Since still photography cannot do justice to these Limited Editions, we recommend you get down to your authorized Epiphone dealer and check these out for yourself. In person, they are amazing. On stage, they are insane! Get one now before they're all gone.
Les Paul Studio: Epiphone announces 3 new colors for the popular Les Paul Studio electric guitars. In addition to the ever-popular Ebony color, this no-nonsense set-neck Les Paul is now available in a very cool Arctic Blue and vintage-vibe Worn Brown and Worn Cherry. Equipped with Alnico Classic Humbuckers and traditional stopbar/tunomatic bridge and tailpiece with Grover machine heads, the Les Paul Studio outperforms others costing twice as much. Experience these new colors at an authorized dealer near you.
Nikki Sixx Blackbird Bass: This bird has looks that kill and thundering bass sound as well thanks to our NEW Epiphone "DeepSixx" bass pickups for deep, powerful rock bass tone. The Nikki Sixx Blackbird has all his favorite features, including the "Opti-grab" and on/off toggle as well as his custom fingerboard inlays. Too cool.
Masterbilt AJ-500M and DR-500M: The critically acclaimed and top-selling Masterbilt line from Epiphone featuring all-solid wood construction, dovetail neck joint and other traditional features adds 2 new finishes. Previously available only in vintage satin finish, both the AJ-500M and DR-500M are now available with a gloss finish top. Amazing tone and good looks too, Masterbilts rise above other acoustics costing 2-3 times more.
Valve Junior Extension Cabinet: Whether for use with the Epiphone Valve Junior Head or an add on to your existing rig, the Valve Junior Extension Cabinet offers rugged birch plywood construction, superior audio design and cool retro looks. The Valve Junior Extension Cabinet is equipped with a Custom Designed 16 ohm Eminence Lady Luck Speaker that is rated for 70 Watts RMS.


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Friday, April 6, 2012
Two days ago, I wrote a lengthy article about how Jeff Moorad's bid to become control owner of the Padres fell apart. Here's the story. As I wrote last night, John Moores took over negotiations on the TV deal with Fox Sports San Diego and restructured the agreement. Moores shared details of the new TV pact with mlb.com in this story today. For Padres fans, the good news is the TV negotiations are done and with Moorad out of the picture, the deal has MLB's approval.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Nov. 14, 2013, Dr. Billy Joe Peyton, a West Virginia State University Associate Professor of History, will present "History of Charleston: The Modern Era" at the Thursday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Charleston has a rich history that spans 225 years, starting with the founding of Fort Lee at the mouth of Elk River in 1788. After becoming the permanent state capital in 1885, Charleston entered into a period of rapid growth and development. By 1960, it had evolved into a bustling city of 85,000 residents and was a hub of government, industry, and commerce. Over the next 50 years, socioeconomic forces dramatically redefined the capital city—population decreased to 51,000, the historic downtown has evolved, and modern multi-lane highways crisscross the region.
Much has changed in Charleston since the dawn on the 20th century, but the city retains a great deal of its history. Bringing his look at Charleston's earlier history, which he covered during a library program in March, into the modern era, Billy Joe Peyton will share glimpses of historic Charleston through words and images. He will recount extraordinary moments of the past century, and share details about some little known historical secrets of the capital city.
Peyton received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University. He has worked as a public historian at WSWP-TV in Beckley and for the National Park Service in Mississippi and West Virginia. He also served as associate director of the Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology at WVU, worked for an historic architectural firm, and taught high school history.
In 2002, Peyton joined the full-time faculty at West Virginia State University, where he is associate professor of history and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Active in local preservation efforts, he has worked as a writer and historian on several documentary films, including Ghosts of Green Bottom, winner of a 2005 Bronze Telly Award. He also may be seen in The 50 States series that airs on the History Channel. In 2010, Peyton authored a local history book titled Charleston Then and Now, and he has just completed a second book titled Charleston: The First 225 Years, scheduled for release this December.
For planning purposes, participants are encouraged to register for the lecture, but advance registration is not required to attend. To register in advance, contact Robert Taylor, library manager, by e-mail or at (304) 558-0230, ext. 163. Participants interested in registering by e-mail should send their name, telephone number and the name and date of the session.
For additional information, contact the Archives and History Library at (304) 558-0230.


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The annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may prove notable this year because of observations that in the past would hardly raise an eyebrow. It includes a thorough reiteration of the U.S. church's historical support of organized labor and an acknowledgment of the American labor movement's intricate relationship with the U.S church.
Penned by Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., "Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy" notes the long tradition of support for organized labor in Catholic social teaching. Since "Rerum Novarum" in 1891, "the Church has consistently supported efforts of workers to join together to defend their rights and protect their dignity," Bishop Blaire writes.
The tension surrounding the issue of the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers across the country was an obvious focus of the statement. Bishop Blaire notes "some efforts, as part of broader disputes over state budgets, to remove or restrict the rights of workers to collective bargaining as well as limit the role of unions in the workplace." He commends bishops in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere who outlined Catholic teaching on worker rights, "suggesting that difficult times should not lead us to ignore the legitimate rights of workers."
Although the church did not endorse "every tactic of unions or every outcome of collective bargaining," Bishop Blaire writes that it still affirms "the rights of workers in public and private employment to choose to come together to form and join unions, to bargain collectively, and to have an effective voice in the workplace."
Perhaps anticipating an outburst of criticism from certain quarters of the church that have become doubtful about the legitimacy of the social role of organized labor, Bishop Blaire adds, "This does not mean every outcome of bargaining is responsible or that all actions of particular unions—or for that matter employers—merit support. Unions, like other human institutions, can be misused or can abuse their role."
The annual message arrives at a difficult time for organized labor in the United States. The pensions, health benefits and collective bargaining rights of public sector workers are being challenged across the country during a period of continuing union decline. While they may still represent a little over 32 percent of public sector workers, unions represent just 6.9 percent of the private workforce and altogether just about 11 percent of the total U.S. workforce, far below their historic highs.
Bishop Blaire's qualified renewal of vows with organized labor will no doubt be welcomed by unionized laypeople, even if it promotes teeth-grinding elsewhere. But further along in the statement is Bishop Blaire's perhaps most poignant insight into the nation's recent dilemmas related to the economy. "Sometimes economic troubles bring out the worst in us," he wrote. "Uncertainty and fear compel us to fight for our own interests and to preserve our own advantages."
How can Catholics interrupt such dysfunctional cycles? Bishop Blaire writes: "We can understand and act like we are part of one economy, one nation, and one human family.… We can clearly respect the legitimacy and roles of others in economic life: business and labor, private enterprise and public institutions, for-profit and nonprofit, religious and academic, community and government.... We can look for common ground and seek the common good."


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The Toffees made the Spaniard their top target after missing out on Twente midfielder Leroy Fer due to a problem with the player's medical.
Moyes' side were willing to spend £9 million on Negredo on the final day of the transfer window but the forward's club were holding out for a higher fee.
|Everton are 7/2 with Bet365 to finish in the top four of the Premier League this season
"We tried [for Negredo], but it didn't work. They wanted a lot more money than we offered."
Meanwhile, Moyes also revealed his concerns with the Goodison Park pitch ahead of Saturday's match against Aston Villa.
He added: "I've not even spoken to the groundsman. The groundsman's not said anything about it.
"But it's not as if we've played loads of games at Goodison this year. It's not as if we've had loads of cup ties or lots of reserve games on it, so it's not had an awful lot of football played on it."


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…over the death of seven Palestinians in Gaza, allegedly as a result of shelling by the Israeli military. Israel says the casualties were caused by the explosion of buried ordnance; several British newspapers have attacked the Israeli account. Now, the German newspaper Sud Deutsche has analyzed footage shot by Zakaria Abu Irbad, a cameramen with the Palestinian news agency Ramattan, who was the first journalist on the scene, and whose film was distributed worldwide. Sud Deutsche finds inconsistencies in the Palestinian version, and even indications that the episode may have been staged:
The newspaper said in footage of the beach taken by an IDF drone at the time of the attack, five craters left by IDF artillery shells could be seen, but that 250 meters away people could also be seen.
The paper said it is strange that although shells exploded 250 meters away from a beach site where Palestinian families congregated, no one was seen running away or panicking.
Moreover, if Irbad was the first to get to the scene, why were most bodies covered by sheets? Who was there first to cover the bodies? The newspaper asked.
The newspaper also doubts Irbad's claim that Hadil [the ten-year-old girl whose father was killed in the explosion, and whose tearful face was broadcast world-wide] was not injured because she was in the water when the shell exploded. His footage show her dry and fully clothed.
Another question raised by the newspaper is a shot of a man carrying a rifle next to the dead body of Hadil's father. The newspaper said in earlier footage, the same man was seen lying on the beach among the injured.
This is the one that I found convincing:
The newspaper said Irbad evaded most of the questions addressed to him.
Asked why he didn't try to calm Hadil instead of filming her he said: "She asked me to film her. She wanted to be seen next to her father to show the world the crimes that Israel is committing."
Via Power Line News.
UPDATE: A surgeon who operated on one of the victims of the blast reports:
There is now incontrovertible proof that Israel did not cause the tragedy – shell fragments extracted from one bomb victim match the types of bombs made by Hamas – and not Israeli artillery shells. How do I know? I received the victim last Sunday (at 2:00 am), operated on her until 5am, and have re-operated every night since. Now she's out of danger, and will survive to rejoin her family.


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Collection on the "Novembergruppe"
The "Novembergruppe" was formed in late 1918 as a reaction to the November Revolution. Its members included artists, architects, writers and composers of various stylistic tendencies such as Rudolf Belling, Hanns Eisler, César Klein, El Lissitzky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Otto Möller, Max Pechstein, Artur Segal and Bruno Taut. Until it was banned in 1933, the group generally comprised circa 120 members, who shaped the art world in Berlin. It demanded an influence on art politics, e.g. collaboration on public building projects and involvement in the development of art legislation and the allocation of exhibition space. The members took part in the "Great Berlin Art Exhibition" and organised numerous events overlapping into fields beyond fine art, such as concerts of contemporary music or film screenings. Moriz Melzer suggested "The Triad" (Der Dreiklang) as a programmatic title for a magazine issued by the "Novembergruppe" and designed a title page which has survived.
Extensive material on the Novembergruppe can be found in the archives of Hannah Höch, Helga Kliemann and Otto Möller. In detail, this comprises correspondence between the members, designs for invitation cards or posters, exhibition catalogues, and magazines published by the group.
Moriz Melzer, The Triad (Der Dreiklang), 1920
Watercolours and pencil, 30 x 21.8 cm
Helga Kliemann Archive
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Star Ratings Program
Images that are "accepted" for inclusion in an exhibition are eligible to be used by PSA members when applying for a PSA Star Rating.
The Process
Minimum Requirements
The fee for processing each Star Rating is $12.00.
It is the preference of PSA that individual recipients of Star, Galaxy, and Diamond awards print their own certificates of award from a digital file given to them upon notice of approval. This will allow for costs to remain low for these applications and help the Star Ratings Directors in the approval of a large number of applications each quarter.
PSA Star Ratings Guidelines
» Star applications in all Divisions now use the application processes described in these documents:
Star 1-5 Application Instructions: pdf
Star Ratings Application Spreadsheet: Excel
Guidelines for Using the Star Application spreadsheet: pdf
Recognition of Photographic Achievement (ROPA)
The Process
Minimum Requirements
For all other applications, the member may choose to receive a Certificate at no extra charge OR a plaque at the following fees (which includes the $40 application fee):
PSA Journal and Website Listing
The ROPA Distinctions that are approved each quarter are listed in the PSA Journal and on the PSA website in January, April, July, and October.
ROPA Photo Galleries
To pay BuyBack fees, go to: www.psa-photo.org/index.php?new-member-stars-buy-back
PSA-member exhibitors may purchase buy-back years that will result in the establishment of a Photographic Society of America (PSA) Stars Buy Back Date which is only for the purpose of obtaining Stars, Galaxies, or Diamonds in the Star Ratings Program. The PSA member's join date will not change.
Members may purchase up to ten (10) years of Stars Buy Back time if they are an active PSA member; or they may bridge a gap of up to ten (10) years in their membership if they are an active PSA member who has dropped his or her membership in the past. The member will pay the established rate per year.
Purchasing Star Buy Back Years shall be permitted only for purposes of the PSA Star Ratings program. This may enable exhibitors to be eligible to apply for ROPA distinctions. This will be a one-time buy-back.
Purchasing Stars Buy Back Years is not for the purpose of buying the years of membership required for any other Society award or program. No printed back issues of the PSA Journal shall be provided for the Buy-Back Years' period.
New members may apply for Stars Buy Back Years within the first five years of membership and their buy-back period will apply from the date the member joined PSA. A member rejoining PSA after a break in membership may apply for Stars Buy Back Years within five years of rejoining and their buy-back period will apply from the date the member rejoined PSA.
Members who purchased Star Buy Back (SBB) under the previous rules (maximum of 5 years SBB) and who have subsequently received at least one Star Ratings award are not eligible to apply for any further SBB.
Members who purchased SBB under the previous rules (maximum of 5 years SBB) and who have NOT yet applied for a Star Rating in any Division may apply to have their SSB extended to a maximum of 10 years (and pay the relevant fee).
To pay BuyBack fees, go to: www.psa-photo.org/index.php?new-member-stars-buy-back
Contact PSA's Membership Coordinator (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you have any questions.
The Recognition of Photographic Achievement (ROPA) Awards of Distinction program was established in February 1997, for the purpose of recognizing Individual PSA member achievements in PSA-recognized international exhibitions. After receiving acceptances in international exhibitions, individual PSA members in good standing may apply for the various levels of ROPA distinctions. A scan of the latest qualifying certificate(s) from the PSA Division Star/Galaxy Directors (SRDs) granting Star or Galaxy ratings must accompany each application. (Only the highest-level certificate is required.)
There are six levels of distinction awards – Qualified (QPSA), Proficiency (PPSA), Excellence (EPSA), Master (MPSA), Master 2 (MPSA2) and Grand Master (GMPSA). The GMPSA distinction has five sub-levels. The number of acceptances required for each level is outlined below.
Acceptances Required: In order to qualify for the ROPA distinctions, the following proof of acceptances are required:
PSA Membership Required: All exhibitors applying for ROPA distinctions must be Individual PSA members in good standing. It is important that a recipient's membership does not expire before the annual PSA Conference in September or October of each year.
Photo: An electronic head-and-shoulder color photo image with a blank background (no hats or props included) is required. The image should have a vertical dimension of 1050 pixels at 300 dpi. The photo will be used for publication on the ROPA page of the PSA website.
Fees: There is a $40 USD processing fee for each ROPA application, to be paid after the application is approved. For QPSA, PPSA and EPSA applications, a Certificate will be issued at no extra charge. For all other applications, the member may choose to receive a Certificate at no extra charge OR a plaque at the following fees (which include the $40 application fee): MPSA, MPSA2 – $75; GMPSA – $100; GMPSA/B – $110; GMPSA/S – $120; GMPSA/G – $130; and GMPSA/P – $140.
Application Deadline: There is no deadline for submitting an application for a ROPA distinction. Applications are processed throughout the year. ROPA award certificates or plaques are now prepared and distributed on a quarterly basis, and in the month following each quarter, the awards are sent from PSA Headquarters. For those recipients who indicate that they will attend the PSA Conference, the ROPA award is presented at the Conference, unless the recipient chooses to have his award sent after the quarter in which it is approved.
Information on ROPA Recipients: Exhibitors are able to use their new distinction "letters" as soon as the recipient receives the distinction approval letter from the ROPA director. A list of all recent recipients of ROPA distinctions is published quarterly in the PSA Journal in March, June, September, and December of each year. In addition, photos of recent recipients are published quarterly on the PSA Website. Also, ROPA distinctions are updated on the PSA membership data base in three to five working days following approval of each distinction. All ROPA recipients are also encouraged to submit 3 to 6 images of their work and a brief biography for display on the ROPA Galleries pages of the PSA Website.
Submission of the Application:
Applications for ROPA distinctions can be submitted1. online on the PSA website OR
2. by downloading the application form from the PSA Website and emailing the completed form along with the required photo and the supporting star/galaxy/diamond certificates to
ROPA Co-Directors Contact Information:
Signe Emmerich, FPSA, EPSA
Gerald H Emmerich, Jr, HonPSA, GMPSA/b
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Deep house trio Les Professionnels sign with Nervous Records and release EP, Pure Love (Endless Love)
Philly dance music heads Drew Kramer, Christopher Schor and Daniel Reizes – AKA Les Professionnels – made a few exciting announcements this week. First, the Philly deep house trio announced via their Facebook page that they have signed with NYC-based house label, Nurvous Records. Continue reading →


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Title: The Flowers of Evil Vol 1
Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: Vertical
May Contain Spoilers
ZOMG! I feel a bit guilty for enjoying this tale of blackmail as much as I did. In a moment of complete stupidity, shy, timid Takao steals the gym clothes of the girl he is crushing on. Little does he know that this one lapse in judgment will bring about his downfall. Witnessed by Nakamura, the weirdest girl in his class, she threatens to rat him out to their classmates if he doesn't do everything she demands. As he spirals deeper in to misery, Takao is at his wit's end. How does he get Nakamura to leave him alone, without being outted as a perv in the process?
I haven't laughed this much in a long time. I couldn't help myself. Poor Takao is such a wimp. And an idiot to boot. I hope those clandestine sniffs of Saeki's t-shirt and shorts were worth the pain and embarrassment that this hapless middle-schooler is destined to suffer. Nakamura is one tough cookie, too! She is relentless, and she won't let Takao get away with anything now that he's under her power. I felt so bad for him! He's like a little puppy that keeps getting whacked with a newspaper. And darn me, but I kept laughing at all of his discomfort.
Even as his relationship with Saeki, she of the enticing gym clothes, blooms, his dealings with Nakamura keep bringing him nothing but trouble. His friends are rapidly ditching him because he's too busy dancing to Nakamura's tune to hang out with them, and his mother is fit to be tied because of his strange behavior. I fear that Takao will need serious therapy sessions if this continues much longer. I am eager to read more of this series, because I'm curious to see where it goes.
Grade: B+, leaning towards an A-
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Choristers sing tommorow
The Newport Navy Choristers, under the direction of JoAnn Loewenthal, will present the "Proudly We Sing" concert in celebration of Armed Forces Day Friday, May 12, at St. Lucy's Church on West Main Road in Middletown.
The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. and proceeds will benefit Stopover Services of Newport County, Inc.
Costing $8 for adults and $5 for children and seniors, tickets
can be purchased in advance by contacting any chorister member, or by contacting Stopover Services at 848-0758. Tickets will also be sold at the door. There is a $15 family ticket.
For more information, call Steve Larson, chorister chairman, at 848-6623.


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Classroom/Computer Lab (120)
The Bassler Hall computer lab is used for class instruction and class projects. The computer lab includes iMac computers running Mac OS X with industry-standard software.
Reserving Bassler Hall Classrooms
Bassler 120 is primarily used as a workspace for Communication & Theatre students. To schedule the room outside of this use, please contact Kim Guasco (Communication & Theatre Secretary) at (717) 872-3233 or email@example.com.


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In going through the Gospel According to John, chapter 9, I notice the evangelist uses three different aorist active indicative forms of ἀνοίγω:
ἀνέῳξεν (double augment) in 9:14
ἠνέῳξεν (triple augment) in 9:17
ἤνοιξεν (single augment) in 9:21.
It's not like Homer, where variations in declension and orthography abound in order to fit the meter. John's gospel is unmetered. What's going on here? Why would an author use three different forms of the aorist active indicative?
This might indicate that the evangelist is combining material from three independent sources? Anybody ever read anything in the various commentaries about this?


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Louisiana-Pacific(NYSE: LPX): makes wood building materials. The company is the number one seller of Oriented Strand Boards - a wood-based construction material that is similar to, but less expensive than, plywood - in the United States.[1] The company also sells siding, laminated lumber, and wooden panels that are used for the construction and repair of new homes. The company's sales are dependent on the US housing market. Since 2007, the number of housing starts has fallen dramatically as the housing bubble burst, leading to the 2007 Credit Crunch and 2008 Financial Crisis.
LPX owns 21 facilities in the U.S. and Canada, as well as two in Chile and one in Brazil.[2]
For the next 20 years, Louisiana-Pacific has the rights to selectively harvest 42 million acres of timberland, which supplies 39% of its lumber needs.[3] Because of the organic nature of wood, Louisiana-Pacific can slow down the harvest of the timber during periods of economic downturns and allow the trees to grow larger and thus more valuable.[4] Natural disasters can damage the supply of wood and raise prices of the raw materials, but they can also increase the demand for wooden construction materials to rebuild destroyed regions. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, prices for wooden structural panels, which includes OSB, rose approximately 35%.[5]
Since the burst of the housing bubble in the United States in 2006, followed by the onset of the 2007 Credit Crunch and 2008 Financial Crisis, new home sales and remodels have been suppressed. As a result, LPX's revenues have been declining steadily since 2006. In 2009, LPX earned total revenues of $1.05 billion, a decline from the previous year's revenues of $1.38 billion. However, despite this decrease in revenues, LPX was able to decrease its net loss in 2009, reducing it from $579 million in 2008 to $122 million in 2009.
LPX produces wood products through 3 different segments: i) Oriented Strand Board (OSB), ii) Siding, and iii) Engineered Wood Products.
OSB (Oriented Strand Board) is used for decking, sidewall, and floors. The board is made of wood strands arranged in layers and is significantly cheaper and easier to produce than plywood. Since the mid-1990s, the overall sale of OSB has risen to replace plywood, and it now accounts for 62% of all structural panel consumption. LPX's sale of OSB accounts for 23% of the OSB market and 14% of all structural panels in North America. In 2009, this segment earned a total of $406 million in total revenues.[6]
LPX makes standard siding and SmartSide, a product made from a similar process as OSB which is cheaper than normal siding and trim. In 2009, the Siding segment posted revenues of $373.8 million.[6]
The segment makes I-joists and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) used in residential and commercial roofing and flooring. The segment has tried to lower costs by using wood strands instead of solid lumber for I-joists. This segment had total revenues of $157.7 million in revenues in 2009.[6]
The segment produces molding and it is involved in a joint-venture that makes cellulose insulation. Cellulose insulation is used instead of fiberglass insulation in construction and does not release hazardous fibers. The segment is also manages the 42 million acres of timberlands in Canada and the U.S. that the company has the right to harvest.
Louisiana-Pacific's over 42 million acres of timber makes up 39% of the company's yearly need for lumber. The company has the right to harvest the land under long-term contracts with the Canadian government and under private ownership of land. However, the average time remaining on the rights is 20 years. Louisiana-Pacific purchases its remaining needs, 61%, on the open market.[3]
In 2009, LPX earned $117 million in total revenues from its other products segment.[6]
Since 2005, the sale of new homes has fallen dramatically, and housing starts have followed suit and dropped off significantly as well.[7] Louisiana-Pacific's products are used primarily in the construction of new homes, and as such the company's net sales have fallen each year since 2006.
There are over 80 alien pests and insects that destroy over 400,000 hectares of forest in Canada each year. This is nearly half the amount of wood that is harvested each year in Canada.[8] In British Columbia, where much of LP's timberland is located, $4.2 billion worth of timber were destroyed by beetles alone.[9] Other natural disasters often spike demand for the wood products that Louisiana-Pacific supplies. The prices of structural wooden panels rose approximately 35% after Hurricane Katrina.[5]
Louisiana-Pacific competes against a number of logging companies, sawmills, and wooden construction supplies companies. Unlike many of its competitors, LP specializes in particle and strand boards, such as OSB, which are cheaper than solid lumber materials. Louisiana-Pacific competes most closely with the following companies:


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Please access detailed information on over 250 individual film color processes via the classification system on this page, display the Timeline of Historical Film Colors in chronological order, search via the tag cloud at the end of this page or directly on the search page, or see the contributing archives' collections through the header slides (click > on the header slide's right hand side).
This database was created in 2012 and has been developed and curated by Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich to provide comprehensive information about historical film color processes invented since the end 19th century including specific still photography color technologies that were their conceptual predecessors.
Timeline of Historical Film Colors is started with Barbara Flueckiger's research at Harvard University in the framework of her project Film History Re-mastered, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011-2013.
In 2013 the University of Zurich and Swiss National Science Foundation awarded additional funding for the elaboration of this web resource. 80 financial contributors sponsored the crowdfunding campaign Database of Historical Film Colors with more than USD 11.100 in 2012. In addition, the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, Zurich University of the Arts provided a major contribution to the development of the database. Many further persons and institutions have supported the project, see acknowledgements.
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After the drug raids, Zachary police arrested two people accused of burglarizing one of the houses, McDavid said.
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Ok so my son is 7&1/2 months and I started offering solids right before he turned 7 months. I have had supply problems and I supplement with donated bm so he gets about 26 oz of bm a day (the supplement via sns) in about 10-12 feedings (I do a lot of feeding throughout the night to keep my breasts from filling up) . I feed him yogurt that I make at home, sweet potatoes, avacado, apricot puree and sometimes applesauce. I feed him in the morning and give him a late lunch and he likes his food, he reaches for the spoon, when I put the spoon to his mouth he sucks whatever is on it off. I give him avacado to play with and he eats it on his own, my sisters gave him watermelon to suck on at a party and he went to town (they didn't ask, just fed it to him) .
Anyway, I don't know if I am doing this all right...he never seems too full for nursing, but he definately seems lightweight to me. He is only 19 lbs 10oz today and he hasn't pooped much (probably the yogurt). He is very active now, rolling around and almost crawling, flailing his arms and rocking all the time. I am worried he isn't getting enough food and bm since he hasn't gained any weight in a while. At 6 months he was 19 lbs.
I guess I am really insecure that my baby isn't as big as all my sisters' babies who were breastfeed and always off the growth charts and those were probably for formula fed charts too. My husband was a big baby too though he was formula fed... I just feel like my son isn't as big as he could have been had I not had supply issues. It sucks.
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Louisville's Strategy: Hug It Out
Cardinals Guard Russ Smith Is Unafraid to Embrace Rick Pitino Mid-Rant; Naming a Horse Russdiculous
The relationship between a player and a coach in college hoops, like the height of the rims, is the same on every basketball court. The coach tells the player what to do and how to do it, and the player does it or finds himself living miserably on the bench.
That's not the way things work at Louisville, where Rick Pitino and Russ Smith have transformed the traditional player-coach relationship into a display as amusing as it is avant-garde. For the Cardinals, ranked fourth in the country before their blood feud with Kentucky on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET on CBS, the give-and-take between legendary coach and leading scorer defies the history of college hoops hierarchy.
Smith impersonates Pitino in the locker room before games. He likes to hug his coach when a hug is the last thing Pitino wants. He recently fussed with Pitino's meticulously coifed hair. Last season, in a nationally televised interview, Smith stood behind Pitino and held up two fingers, giving his coach bunny ears.
Pitino has developed coping mechanisms. He coined the term "Russdiculous" at a practice last season to explain Smith's shot selection (and everything else about him). "When you coach Russ Smith," Pitino said during Louisville's run to last year's Final Four, "you have a nervous breakdown on every possession." Pitino later added: "He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet."
As it turns out, this was a problem before it wasn't. Smith only developed into one of college basketball's premier scorers when Pitino gave him the green light to make mistakes along with magic. The coach's laissez-faire approach to his manic guard is far more common in the NBA than college basketball, and Pitino says he relaxed his approach after the stint with the Boston Celtics that preceded his arrival at Louisville.
At the same time, Smith is light years from the stereotypical star player who ignores all rules. "He understands me and what I want," Pitino said. "I understand what he needs to do to be an effective basketball player. He doesn't need handcuffs on."
Smith's take: "Coach likes things to run his way, and the way I play sometimes isn't coachable."
What makes Smith's self-assessment even more remarkable is the gravitational pull he exerts on Louisville's offense. His scoring average of 19.7 points per game, up from 11.5 as a sophomore and 2.2 as a freshman, was 25th in Division I as of Friday. When he's in the game, 33.7% of Louisville's possessions end with him, a usage rate that ranks third in the country. Smith is also responsible for 35.2% of Louisville's shots while playing. Since kenpom.com started tracking this statistic in 2005, Pitino has never had a player take more than 31% of Louisville's shots.
But Smith is capable of meeting Pitino halfway, too. As a freshman, Pitino said, Smith was a "conscientious objector" on defense. Last year, Smith set Louisville's single-season record for steals, and he's on pace to shatter it this season. "We bumped heads a lot, but now he's getting me to turn the corner," Smith said. "I'm starting to listen to him and pay attention a lot more."
Smith still does a lot of things other players don't. Louisville center Gorgui Dieng, who roomed with Smith during the NCAA tournament, recalled waking up at 2 a.m. before a postseason game to Smith doing push-ups. Cardinals guard Peyton Siva said Smith is the only Louisville player who visits friends at Kentucky, which shares a rivalry with Louisville so fierce that in March a fight broke out between a pair of geriatric fans with opposing loyalties at a dialysis center. And the Louisville blog Card Chronicle found enough examples to collect a dossier of Russdiculousness called "Top 153 Russ Smith Things of 2011-2012 Season."
Pitino, who even named one of his racehorses Russdiculous, brings out the best of Smith. And Smith brings out another side of Pitino. Manhattan coach Steve Masiello, who played for and coached with Pitino and has known Smith since he was a child, said he hasn't seen the coach share a bond with a player like this "probably ever." Before a recent game, for example, Smith suggested that Pitino call plays for him in the low post. "I'm hell inside," said Smith, who at 6-foot-1 and 165 pounds wouldn't be the biggest player in some middle-school games.
And it was a Pitino tirade during a timeout last season that really made Smith a cult hero. "He was about to lose it, so I gave him a hug to calm him down," Smith said. "Like, it's OK. You don't have to yell and have your blood pressure rise."
"He does it all the time," Pitino said. "He says, 'Give me a hug. Everything's going to be fine.'"
Smith has been a free spirit since he was a lightly recruited guard from New York. One night during Smith's postgraduate year on a team trip to Maine, South Kent School coach Kelvin Jefferson ordered his players to their rooms after a loss. Hours later, in the hotel's restaurant, Jefferson spotted Smith with a microphone in his hand and the entire team behind him. "They're supposed to be in their rooms with curfew," Jefferson said, "and Russ is singing some Diana Ross."
The karaoke performance taught Jefferson a valuable lesson about coaching Smith. "If you try to change him," he said, "it's just never going to work."
It didn't take long for Pitino to figure that out. In fact, Smith decided to play for Louisville before he was officially offered a scholarship. While in Pitino's office during a recruiting trip, Smith committed to Louisville for the first time. Pitino told him to sleep on the decision. Smith responded by committing again and again in his office, and then again from the airport. Before the end of the night, Masiello said, Smith had committed "nine or 10 times."
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Taking the fight to the living room - Valve's Steam is the most dynamic force in PC gaming in decades
do we come here to discuss gaming news or do we come here to fight fanboy fights, succumb to flamebait, and/or circle jerk?
Valve is a great company, but they cant teach people how to build and manage their computers. Consoles have their place, so I don't see the need to start a competition between the "steambox" and consoles.
Ugh, as much as people love Valve, i hate that PC gaming has a ''Champion''. -.-
Steam pretty much has a stranglehold on PC gaming, except for a few other competing sites.


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NEW YORK --TNT says Larry Hagman is returning to Southfork Ranch for the pilot of an updated "Dallas." Also signed for the series pilot are two fellow "Dallas" veterans, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, TNT announced Tuesday.
Hagman will reprise his role as villainous oil baron J.R. Ewing. Gray will again play J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen, and Duffy returns as his younger brother, Bobby.
The original "Dallas" ran from 1978 to 1991 as a pioneering prime-time soap on CBS.
The new story focuses on the Ewing offspring as they clash over the future of the family dynasty. Josh Henderson and Jordana Brewster also star.
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I've put together some Ikea furniture in my time, but nothing close to an entire house. I'm pretty confident I could make it through Ikea and Ideabox's Aktiv house with minimal cursing, though.
Fortunately for prospective home owners, the Aktiv doesn't arrive in a massive pile of flat-pack cardboard boxes. It's delivered in a couple of chunks by semi.
The house is a joint-effort between Ikea and Ideabox. The companies' designers integrated Ikea kitchen cabinets, appliances, flooring, bathroom appointments, and built-in closet systems into the prefab one-bedroom home.
The compact structure features no hallways and plenty of green materials such as fiber cement siding, VOC-free paint, and energy-efficient appliances. That eco-friendly approach should play well with Ideabox's home customer base in Oregon.
Ideabox is promoting the 745-square foot house as having your own personal Euro designer flat, just in case you've been pining for a Euro designer flat.
This is a sweet proposition for anyone who's ever dreamed about moving into an Ikea store--or a nightmare for anyone who's spent hours trying to assemble an Ikea dresser only to have it come out looking like a bookcase.
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10 At-Home DIY Ideas Using a Personal Electronic Cutting Machine
Die-cutting isn't just for professionals anymore. "Pro-sumer" personal electronic cutting machines, used for years by avid scrapbookers, are small, affordable, and easy to use. And when matched up with stencil paper, adhesive vinyl, or fabric, these machines can cut shapes and patterns to create impressively polished home projects and gifts for cheap.
What to Buy
Two popular brands and models that dominate the die-cut market are the Cricut Expression 2 and Silhouette Cameo. Machines from either manufacturer run between $200-$300, but each has their pros and cons. (For a great review, Brittany of 32 Turns compares the two machines).
Personal electronic cutting machines like the Cricut Expression 2 can be used to make a number of accessories, such as customized phone cases.
In a nutshell, the Cricut Expression 2 can handle larger projects (as tall as 24") but requires you to buy and use Cricut's cartridges, which are essentially disks with cutting patterns and shapes pre-loaded onto them. The Silhouette Cameo is smaller, but can cut custom shapes that users design themselves in the included software, which can import art from editing software like Adobe Illustrator. Before investing in either die-cut machine, read reviews online to discover which model is right for you and your skill level.
10 Die-Cut DIY Home Projects:
- Polka-Dot "Wallpaper" Walls, Sarah Hearts
- A Custom-Patterned Record Player (or anything else), Shrimp Salad Circus
- Geometric Placemats, Cricut
- Etched Glassware, Whimsey Box
- Bar Bottle Labels, Lovely Indeed
- West-Elm Inspired Gold Glasses, Sarah Hearts
- Vinyl House Numbers, Homebody Holly
- Numbered Stairs, House to Home
- Labeled Bathroom Dispensers, Keep Calm and Decorate
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Charles R. Lynch, Photographer
When you read our books, browse through our American Quilter magazine, or surf our Website, have you ever wondered who's behind the camera on all our quilts? It's our own studio photographer, Charley.
After an on-air career in radio broadcasting, he became one of the original AQS employees in 1984, fulfilling a number of different functions before becoming our sole photographer. He says that a good mentor, an aptitude for photography, and the chance to hone his skills eight hours a day, five days a week since 1993 have made him the professional he is today.
Charley photographs quilts for our books and magazine, the winning quilts from our four shows, the fashion show winners, functions at The National Quilt Museum, how-to demonstrations, author and staff head shots (including the one of himself), workshops and classes, and our show merchandise (for sale on our Website). In addition, he does the photography for the Collector Books side of Schroeder Publishing, shooting collections as varied as Depression glass, Barbie® dolls, Star Wars® memorabilia, duck calls, and jewelry made of human hair!
The technical side of the work has changed over the years, from film transparencies to digital photography, which allows for more natural light and pictures more clearly showing piecing and quilting detail. Charley enjoys the tangible results of his work and the fact that "I'm exposed to some of the best quilts in the world."
We think his photographs are the best, too. Thanks, Charley!
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Every Wednesday we present another show from the archives of the Grateful Dead Hour - "A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of the Grateful Dead." Since 1985, the show has featured exclusive interviews, music from the roots and branches of the band's musical family tree, and of course a generous helping of unreleased live and studio recordings.
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Comcast Corp (NASDAQ:CMCSA) said on Thursday it would buy Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) for $45.2 billion in an all-stock deal that combines the two largest U.S. cable operators.
The friendly takeover comes as a surprise after months of public pursuit of Time Warner Cable by smaller rival Charter Communications Inc, and immediately raised questions as to whether it would pass the scrutiny of anti-trust regulators.
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Comcast will pay $158.82 per share, which is roughly what Time Warner Cable demanded from Charter.
The combined company would divest 3 million subscribers, about a quarter of Time Warner's 12 million customers. Together with Comcast's 22 million video subscribers, the roughly 30 million total would represent just under 30% of the U.S. pay television video market.
The new cable giant would tower over its closest video competitor, DirecTV, which has about 20 million video customers.
If successful, the deal will be the second time in little more than a year that Comcast has helped reshape the U.S. media landscape after its $17 billion acquisition of NBC Universal was completed in 2013.
The proposed combination, which would give roughly 23% of the merged company to Time Warner Cable shareholders, is subject to approval from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission. The two companies expect to close the deal, which has no break-up fee, by the end of the year.
The new partners are concentrated in different cities. Comcast would fill in its New Jersey and Connecticut portfolio with Time Warner Cable's New York City customers, for instance, and add major markets such as Los Angeles and Dallas.
"Comcast and Time Warner Cable don't compete and Comcast can easily divest a few million subscribers," said BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield.
While the attempt to merge the two largest U.S. cable operators would face close scrutiny, a divestiture of subscribers should help its case with regulators, he added.
It was not yet clear which markets Comcast would sell.
The companies expect to create $1.5 billion in operating savings, with 50% of those savings expected in the first year.
Representatives for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice could not be reached for comment.
The proposed deal will be accretive to Comcast, which plans to expand its stock buyback program to $10 billion at the close of the transaction.
Smaller cable operator Charter went hostile this week by nominating a slate of directors to replace the entire board of Time Warner Cable. Charter offered $132.50 per share in a cash and stock deal last month that was rejected as too low.
"Charter has always maintained that our greatest opportunity to create value for our shareholders is by executing our current business plan, and that we will continue to be disciplined in this and any other M&A activity we pursue," Charter said after news of the Comcast deal broke Wednesday night.
Talks between Comcast and Time Warner Cable started about a year ago, but negotiations gathered pace in recent weeks, people familiar with the matter said. Time Warner Cable had told Comcast it considered Comcast to be its preferred buyer once Charter had approached them, the sources said.
Officials at Charter did not respond to a request for comment.
Comcast had also been in talks with Charter about the possibility of carving up Time Warner Cable markets, but opted not to participate in a hostile situation, the people said.
Comcast is interested in advertising synergies it would gain by owning the New York City market as well as the opportunity to expand its business services unit, its fastest growing cable division, to a larger footprint.
"For Comcast, adding New York and Los Angeles has advertising potential, along with Time Warner Cable's sports assets, which provides an acquisition target that is simply too compelling to ignore, especially with an (under-leveraged) balance sheet," Greenfield said.
Time Warner Cable owns two regional sports networks in Los Angeles, where it has spent billions on local TV rights for LA Lakers basketball and LA Dodgers baseball.
The deal would be a coup for Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Rob Marcus, who just ascended to the top job on Jan 1. Filings show that the former mergers and acquisitions attorney is set to pocket $50 million if Time Warner Cable is sold and he is replaced while he is CEO.
J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM), Paul J. Taubman, and Barclays Plc (NYSE:BCS) acted as financial advisors to Comcast. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Allen & Company, Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Centerview Partners are financial advisors to Time Warner Cable on the deal.


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When you're on a motorcycle, there's no steel body around you, and you don't have bumpers seat belts or air bags. Even relatively low speed impacts can result in severe injuries like:
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Motorcyclists are also far more likely to die in a collision than drivers or occupants of other motor vehicles. Your Texas motorcycle accident attorney knows that most accidents involving drivers of cars or trucks and motorcycles occur because drivers just don't see or recognize motorcycles in traffic. Those crashes involve:
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Severe injuries usually result in some type of permanent disability and staggering medical bills. If the accident results in a death, other great losses are suffered. If somebody else caused that motorcycle accident, your focus should be on protecting your right to compensation from that person who just wasn't paying attention.
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by Kelsey Vala
Start your Halloween weekend with Alie and Georgia's post-apocalyptic boozy punch that will "liven"-up your cocktail hour for the undead. This sinfully sweet elixir is a real no-brainer: just squeeze the fleshy, pulpy insides of a blood orange and mix with orange-scented triple sec, fizzy black cherry soda, fragrant bitters and a generous amount of vodka. Rim the punch glasses with dripping red grenadine and you've got yourself a terrifying brew that will make mortals run (ahem, good luck).
Boo-ttoms up, folks.
Zombie Gut Punch Cocktail
Recipe courtesy Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark
10 ounces vodka
5 ounces triple sec
2 ounces bitters
1 cup fresh squeezed blood orange juice
2 cups black cherry soda
Grenadine, for rim
In a large punch bowl filled with ice, pour vodka, triple sec, bitters, blood orange juice and black cherry soda. Laugh as though you are an evil zombie and stir. Rim each glass with grenadine before filling with punch mixture, and serve. Stagger around menacingly, and threaten to eat strangers' brains.


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by Samantha LealApril 10, 2014
These fun beauty holders will stash all your essentials and add some whimsy to your vanity.
1. Orla Kiely
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2. wink
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This cosmetic bag comes pre-filled with all-natural lip balm, solid perfume and a hand cream, but the best part is that every purchase gets a toiletry bag with basic toiletries donated to the Ronald McDonald House Family Rooms. That's truly a beautiful purchase!
$30, winkbags.com
3. Kate Spade
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This bright and cheery bag will hold all your essentials – and with its nylon lining is super easy to clean.
$148, katespade.com
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Add some cheer to your routine with this printed bag in cool colors.
$16, Sephora.com
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These punchy floral bags are a matching set, and will organize everything you need – for travel or home!
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How fun is this tribal print? This bag will be easily spotted at the bottom of your purse – and features 3 compartments to get everything in gear. Plus, can you beat the price?
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NEW YORK (AP) — A man jailed nearly four decades in the death of an 8-year-old New York City girl is a free man after a judge found his trial attorney provided a poor defense.
David Bryant was released Thursday afternoon, not long after a Bronx judge determined his defense in the 1975 killing had been flawed.
The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/Ys8QIa ) reports the judge found the failure of Bryant's attorney to consult with a blood and semen testing expert deprived him of a fair trial.
The then-18-year-old Bryant was arrested less than a day after the discovery of Karen Smith's body in the stairwell of an apartment house. She'd been raped, beaten and stabbed.
A spokesman for the Bronx district attorney's office says no decision has been made on appealing the judge's ruling.
Information from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com


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Review: Stephen Carter, "What of the Night? Personal Essays"
Title: What of the Night? Personal Essays
Author: Stephen Carter
Publisher: Zarahemla Books
Genre: Personal Essay
Year: 2010
Pages: 168
Binding: Paperback
Price: $14.95 (Kindle, $2.99)
Having grown up Mormon I can't remember a time when I didn't know what a "testimony" was. Like breath, sleep, and family, testimony's a natural part of my life. The genesis is lost to me, but I can remember instances when my conception of "testimony" was sharpened. As a kid in Primary I learned that a testimony ought to be a list of things I know are "true," and these things were all things I'd learned about at Church. Usually us Primary kids would also sneak a few extra things onto the end of our testimony lists, like the fact that we loved our brothers and sisters and dads and moms. As I got a little older I learned we could include a personal experience or two in our testimonies. I usually enjoyed listening to these ones a little more, but the list still came at the end as it should; the general thrust of testimony remained the same.
This changed a little when a seminary teacher parsed different ways we "bear" our testimony. He said we bear it by speaking it out loud, but he mentioned a few new things for me to consider. First, "bearing" testimony can also simply refer to the way we are, the way others see us. Jesus said to be the light of the world, so we bear our testimonies by loving and serving others, he said. Then he said sometimes we have to "bear testimony" as a burden—we have to bear the weight of it, bear up under the everyday struggles of life in faith. Jesus said to take up our crosses and follow.
Several years later this latter sense of "bearing testimony" came to mind as I read a personal essay by Eugene England called "The Mormon Cross."[1] It was written prior to 1978, before the LDS priesthood was finally extended again to blacks, and England bore witness in this last sense, and said the Church itself bore the weight of a cross he hoped would someday be lifted. And in some ways that particular cross has been lifted, but when England wrote it he was still bearing up under great weight. That seems to me to be the predominant characteristic of current Mormon personal essays, which can be found in practically every LDS-themed publication—Dialogue, Sunstone, Segullah, even BYU Studies. Such essays, like England's, relate personal stories including personal reflection, but not necessarily ultimate resolution as we typically read in official church publications like the Ensign. "Essay," which I'm told comes from the French essayer, means an attempt.[2] Swimming deep in the perplexity rather than floating high above in the omniscient cloud, is the object. This is another way Mormons testify, and I'm happy we have independent publishers like Zarahemla Books to provide more outlets for testimony. (Minor complaint: I thought the font—large and typewriterish—distracts from the feeling the pieces are meant to evoke. The cover design is cool, though.)
The roots of this latter-day way of bearing testimony are said to run deep. In the Encyclopedia of Mormonism Donlu DeWitt Thayer points out that the current literary form of LDS personal essay was absent in the early days of the Church, despite the proliferation of written diaries and sermons. "By the middle of the twentieth century, however," she writes, "the Church was essentially at peace with its external surroundings, and a few LDS writers opened the era of the Mormon personal essay."[3] It's interesting to think of such personal essays as fruits of the environment in which they grow, with all the influence that entails. Today's best Mormon personal essays, according to Eugene England, are "rooted in the extremes of honestly revealed feeling and experience, from doubt and inadequacy and anguish to exalted faith and love and encounters with divinity."[4]
It's been about a decade since England passed away, but his description of the personal essay still holds up, even in a personal essay written about him, as found in Stephen Carter's recent collection of personal essays, What of the Night? In "My Brief Tour of England: My Year With Gene," Carter gives his first-hand account of being England's office assistant (11-25). Constant phone calls and busy work under Gene's command are offset by hugs and prayers, and later, cancer, confusion and death. Inspired by England, Carter has become a powerful personal essayist in his own right. In addition to completing an MFA and PhD from the University of Alaska—Fairbanks, Carter, current Sunstone editor, has won multiple awards from the Eugene England Personal Essay Competition.[5] His work was included among the "Best American Spiritual Writing" in 2006.
In this collection Carter seems to dwell slightly more often on the "doubt and inadequacy" side of England's description as opposed to the "exalted faith and love" side, although his main aim is to "dwell in the tensions" (29). "The Weight of Priesthood" is a masterful rumination on his shifting understanding of the power of the priesthood (33-62). Several essays, in addition to the one about England, deal with death. In "Last Supper" (91-96) he tells the story of a couple killed by a drunk driver, and his prose sings: "Outside, the snow was frozen to the ground; the streets black and slick with ice, reflecting the glow of the streetlamps. Wayne and Elaine have left a centuries-old station wagon, a house with bread and milk still in the fridge, credit-card offers in the mailbox, and maybe no will" (93).
Negotiating relationships between those who leave the church and those who remain is another recurring theme. "The Departed" (115-130) laments for promising members who leave the Church, "Writing As Repentance" includes responses from friends who wonder how Carter can write what he writes and still care to remain Mormon (159-168). But "Smoke and Mirrors" pulled me in more than any other essay on this theme, from the first sentence, too: "Sometimes revelation works through a void. Like the day I realized that I knew next to nothing about my little brother" (62). I can't relate the strength of this essay in a review, and I can't spoil the ending, but it really resonated with me. Anyone who knows close family members or friends who have left the Church will find much to identify with here.
Back in 2008 Carter popped up in an online discussion about personal essays. He described his overall reason for writing. I'll close the review with his description because I think it captures quite well what Carter tries to do in What of the Night? These are essays without many neat endings. Plenty of reflection without much ultimate resolution. But Carter bears his testimony throughout the collection, his testimony of the plan of salvation; the messiness and the hope:
"The essays I've published have taken months of my life. Ernest Hemingway's quote: 'Writing is easy. You just sit at the typewriter and bleed' sums up my experience well…The reason to put writing in front of a lot of people is to say, "Here's something I've thought a lot about. I've followed a line of thought (or an experience) through difficult territory. I've questioned myself; I've made false starts and hit dead ends. It's taken me some time to find a way out the back of conventional wisdom and maxims to find something that resonates deeply with me. I know that you haven't had my experience or followed this path, so I'm going to do my utmost to communicate it to you."[6]It's clear that Carter is doing a little more than just communicating his own experiences, though. This is where Mormon testimony bearing is most obvious in his approach. The fact that the essays most often include a message, a take-away, however implicit, indicates that he hopes his stories demand something of the reader, too. He doesn't always pull this off successfully, and I wasn't always convinced that a given point was true to my own experience in Mormonism. But that's because much of the time Carter is trying to figure out, even while expressing, his own place in Mormonism. And the bearing of such testimony seems very Mormon to me. I'm glad Stephen's still here.
[1] Eugene England, "The Mormon Cross," Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 8:1 (Spring 1973), 78-86. England's book Making Peace has some great stuff too. It's available for free at Signature's online library.
[2] Kris Wright, "An Eye For an I: Looking at the Personal Essay in Mormon Literature," bycommonconsent.com, 6 February 2006.
[3] "Literature, Mormon Writers of: Personal Essays," in Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 5 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992).
[4] Wright, ibid.
[5] I believe this contest has since been renamed as the Charlotte and Eugene England Personal Essay contest through Irreantum.
[6] Comments section of Kristine Haglund, "Goldilocks and the Art of the Personal Essay," theredbrickstore.com, 18 December 2008.


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Traditional Maryland-Style Crab Cakes
Traditional crab cakes are always a favorite. Golden brown and filled with succulent crab the make great appetizers or entrees.
1 lb. crab meat
1 egg
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. dry mustard
2 tbsp. mayonnaise
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. mustard
1 tbsp. melted butter
1 tsp. parsley flakes
1 tsp. seafood seasoning
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except for crab meat. Gently fold in the crab meat, being careful not to break up the lumps. Shape into cakes.
- Pan fry or bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until evenly brown on each side and reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees.


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Week of January 26, 2004
Grading Deadlines and Class Ranks
All grades for the Fall semester are due to the Registrar's
Office no later than Saturday, January 24, 2004. We will
publish final grades as soon as they are submitted to us.
Please continue to check your webmail account for updated
Once we have received all Fall grades, we will calculate
and release fall class ranks for all upper level students.
First-year students are not ranked until the end of the
Spring semester. Transcripts and other official correspondence
relating to the Fall term will also be available at that
If you have any questions regarding your grades, academic
status, or the like, please contact the Registrar's Office.
July Bar Examination Application Deadline
The regular filing deadline for the July exam is a postmark
of February 1. After a postmark of February 1, but on or
before the late filing deadline of April 1, applications
will be accepted with a filing fee of $500 in addition to
the applicable registration fees. After a postmark of April
1, but on or before the final late filing deadline of May
31, applications will be accepted with a filing fee of $1000
in addition to the applicable registration fees.
The Dean's Certificate of completion will be automatically
generated and sent to the Illinois Bar Examiner for all
students who complete a graduation application and successfully
complete all graduation requirements. If you intend on graduating
in the Spring semester, you must file a graduation application
with the Registrar's office no later than January 30, 2004.
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An application for Graduation must be filed by every student
no later than 2 weeks in to the semester in which they intend
to graduate. The deadline for the Spring semester is January
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You will receive a confirmation email once a graduation
audit has been performed. Please note that any changes you
make to your schedule after the audit may affect your graduation
requirements. You should check with the Registrar's Office
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Pass Fail elections for the Spring semester must be made
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In order to make your election you should;
The Registrar's Office will review your request, determine
your eligibility and notify you of the status.
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If you plan on making up an Incomplete grade in a course
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of tuition charges on your account. Instead, please notify
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The Registrar's Office will add you to the exam and course
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SurModics Inc. (SRDX) has had a storied history since its founding in 1979. The stock's price has certainly seen it peaks and troughs; its saw considerable runups before the Internet bubble burst and the financial crisis hit (approaching $60 a share each time). More recently, it has been recovering since bottoming in price in 2010, benefiting from a broad and diverse portfolio of offerings.
SurModics was initially named BioMetrics Systems, Inc or BSI. In 1987, it moved into the surface modification and immobilization business with its PhotoLink brand. Ten years later, it switched to its current name to reflect its new focus. The company made an initial public offering of its shares in 1998, raising $15.5 million by issuing 4.6 million common shares. In 2007, the company broadened the portfolio of its second-biggest segment, In Vitro Diagnostics, with the purchase of BioFX Laboratories, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of substrates and reagants.
How does SurModics make money? Royalties are the biggest source of revenues, which are generated when a customer sells products incorporating certain of SurModics' technologies. This is also a potential threat, as the company is heavily reliant on third parties.
The company's reliance on third-party products can be a considerable detriment to business. In 2011, medical device maker Cordis announced the cessation of the manufacture of its trademark Cypher stents, which hurt business results at SurModics considerably. Since then, however, the company's profits have recovered thanks to other products.
SurModics' largest segment, Medical Devices, primarily offers surface modification and drug delivery technologies for use with medical devices. Surface modification entails changing the exteriors of medical devices to more desirable states. For example, surfaces can be made hydrophilic (attracted to water) or hydrophobic (repelled by water). SurModics' Medical Devices segment offers lubricious, hemocompatible, and drug delivery coatings. Two of the lubricious coatings are branded PhotoLink and Serene.
As we mentioned earlier, PhotoLink technology began to be used by the company in 1987 and is still utilized to modify the surfaces of medical devices by covalently coupling lubricious coatings with device substrates. The bond is activated by light, and the technology is flexible and works on nearly on all substrates.
In 2013, the company launched its next-generation hydrophilic coating platform under the trade name Serene, previously called Gen 5. Serene delivers a low-friction coating and will be used in a wide variety of substrates. These include substrates with coronary, peripheral, neurovascular and structural heart applications.
Meanwhile, In Vitro Diagnostics offerings are primarily for testing and research. The company provides a wide variety of products, including protein stabilizers and blockers, reagants, antigens and antibodies.SurModics recently launched a new line of In Vitro Diagnostic products, StabiliZyme, which are protein-free stabilizers. The company asserts that these products are designed to preserve the conformation of proteins (like enzymes, antibodies, and antigens) in their native folded state while in solution.
Both segments are doing well, and SurModics continues to invest in new offerings. Another target of ongoing investment is drug-coated balloon technology. SurModics increased investment here by $600,000 in the first quarter of 2014. Apparently, the addressable market for the product, estimated at over one billion dollars, has considerable potential.
This is currently a small-cap stock, valued at over $400 million of late. The price-to-earnings ratio was recently reported at about 22x. Share net in 2013 totaled almost a dollar, about 70% higher from the prior-year level. For more information, investors should reference our quarterly reports on SurModics in the Value Line Investment Survey.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.