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It's a Classical Life Cycle of a Program.....Often called the Classical Life Cycle Or Linear Sequential Model......Bacasically these are steps or guidelines to be followed from the very Begning of Proposeing a new system and following it until it remains in use.........This is called a Waterfall because like Waterfall the Steps are one way down you start at the top and go down the ladder without coming back ( well theoricatically...but in real you have to come back )Now I have a question. What is the Waterfall?
Steps are
- Analysis -- What factor ...Establishing What is the Problem(Until you have properly Identified the Problem you cannot find a solution)....Why we need to this
- Design -- Logical Design ... The How factor .....mostly done on paper..how are we going to Correct the problem
- Coding -- implementing What we have done in the above two phases
- testing -- Preparing various test Case Plans ....and putting the moduses and the product as a whole through it
- implementation/Mantainance --Preparing Implementating Plan ..deployig it at the site and mantaining the product till it is in service
You start from the First Process that is Analysis and when you complete Analysis you go down to the next process that is design.......theroacially it sounds very good ...Complete one process and go down but most of the time dosen't work......new things creep up , requirements change.......market changes or just because the USer was shy was not pass what actually he wants in the system ........ you have to accomodate changes that why Irtrative Process models are more fesible these days as compared to Classical Life Cycle or Waterfall Model Model .
For Further explanation.....i would recommend you try giving Software Engineering A Practitioner's Approch By Roger S Pressman a Look ...
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb hysterically screamed with joy when Lena Dunham appeared on the HBO show Girls sitting naked on the toilet. Fifty years ago, the underground comics artist drew herself in the same scenario, with all her imperfections and neuroses exposed. One could argue that without Kominsky-Crumb's groundbreaking autobiographical comics, Hannah Horvath wouldn't exist.
For those unfamiliar with Kominsky-Crumb's comics alter-ego, "The Bunch," there is a new collection of her work, Love That Bunch, out with Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly. Be warned: it's messy, crude, sexually explicit and at times the honesty is painful. But it's also very funny in how it reveals the imperfect side of one woman's wild life.
The Bunch was born out of the underground culture of the 1960s, fuelled by Kominsky-Crumb's rebellion against her bourgeois upbringing. She took her first painting lessons when she was 8 and fell in love with Picasso and Matisse. After having a baby and giving him up for adoption, she dropped out of art school in New York, met her first husband and moved to Tucson where she found a home at a hippy art college. After graduating, she ran away to live with a cowboy in rural Arizona for six months before taking off for San Francisco, attracted by the city's burgeoning underground comics scene. It was there in 1971 she met her second husband, the infamous Robert Crumb, and joined a women's comics collective.
While many of the women drew themselves as feminist superheroes with a political agenda in mind, Kominsky-Crumb's dense narrative-driven stories are more creatively aligned with Jewish comedians such as Joan Rivers and Jackie Mason. "I wasn't thinking about making a statement," she says. "I was doing it because I had to."
Now a 70-year-old grandmother, Kominsky-Crumb doesn't return often to her early work. "I had a strange and unhappy childhood in many ways. It's painful to look at because I realize how much pain I was in," she says. "What I hope is that other generations have been influenced by it somewhat. I feel like, somehow either consciously or unconsciously, I gave other women permission to write about themselves." Along with Dunham, she sees glimpses of her spirit in the drug-addled adventures of the comedy duo Broad City and in cartoonist Alison Bechdel. "People who are telling really true, deep honest stories with a lot of humour, sadness and sensitivity," Kominsky-Crumb says. "Now they can let all that sloppy stuff come out and not have to think they have to hide that to be attractive."
Personal life looks a lot different these days for the Crumb family, too, who have lived in the small village of Sauve, France, for more than two decades. Kominsky-Crumb has been teaching free yoga for 24 years. She never misses a class, even last year as she recovered from "an incredible warrior battle" against cancer that nearly killed her.
She still paints and creates themed shrines assembled with old jewellery and toy parts. There are also her comics collaborations with Robert Crumb. She compares their process to an opera, in which they both draw and write dialogue, though often she is the instigator behind the ideas. Despite the fact that she is successful in her own right, Kominsky-Crumb still occasionally has to deal with sexist comments that she is the lesser contributor, or that she is suffering under Crumb's rather large and controversial identity.
"I started writing comics before I got together with Robert and he was my biggest fan otherwise I never would have stayed with him," she says. "I can see how people would look at things this way because he is very famous and I'm less well known and I'm the woman, so of course I'd feel like I'm in his shadow, but it's not true at all."
In fact, Kominsky-Crumb laughs at how established she is now, and the irony that her comics are taught at places such as Harvard University. "They were meant to be read on the toilet; they're a rejection of the art world and everything academic," she says. "But if you hang in long enough, it comes full circle."


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However, this one "missing link"—which was supposed to revolutionize mankind's understanding of bird evolution—ultimately created more problems for evolutionists than solutions. An ongoing debate as to whether or not this animal was merely a bird or a true intermediate has been continuing nonstop for over a century. And to add to the controversy, some scientists have raised questions publicly as to whether or not Archaeopteryx may even be a fraud. An examination into the history surrounding this creature provides an interesting case study in how evolutionary science works. Consider the following:
Archaeopteryx—Specimens, Features, and Feathers
According to paleontologists, the available fossils of Archaeopteryx reveal that it was a crow-sized animal that may have been able to fly, but probably not very far. Archaeopteryx had a wingspan of about 1.5 feet, was approximately 1 foot long from beak to tail, and likely weighed around 11 to 18 ounces. Compare the features of Archaeopteryx with modern-day birds (see table below).
To date, there have been 7 specimens of Archaeopteryx found (not including the single feather). The following is a chronological description of each find:
The Feather
Found in 1860 near Solnhofen, the original Archaeopteryx feather was described by von Meyer in 1861. The surprise was the exacting detail of preservation in the fossil.
The London Specimen
Found in 1861 near Langenaltheim, this fossil of Archaeopteryx was announced the same year by von Meyer. This and the Berlin specimen are the best known of all the Archaeopteryx fossils. Eventually Carl Haberlein, an amateur fossilologist and local medical doctor, sold it to the British Museum.
The Berlin Specimen
Originally uncovered in 1877 near Blumenburg, this Archaeopteryx find was described by W. Dames in 1884. This is considered a better specimen than the London specimen, principally because it had a complete (albeit badly crushed) head. Carl Haberlein's son, Ernst, eventually sold it to the Berlin Museum.
The Maxburg Specimen
Found in 1958 near Langenaltheim (like the London specimen), it was described in 1959 by Heller. The specimen is composed solely of the torso; currently, its whereabouts is unknown (it is thought to have been sold secretly after the death of its finder and owner, Eduard Opitsch).
The Haarlem or Teyler Specimen
This specimen actually was found near Reidenburg in 1855, five years prior to the feather. However it remained in a museum, classified as Pterodactylus crassipes by von Meyer. A re-examination of the fossil in 1970 by Ostrom revealed feathers and its true identity (1970, 170:537).
The Eichstatt Specimen
This specimen was found by Workerszell in 1951, and then described by Peter Wellnhofer of the Paleontological Museum of Munich in Germany. This is the smallest of the specimens, being about two-thirds the size of the others. Although it has many differences from other Archaeopteryx specimens, it still resides within A. lithographica.
The Solnhofen Specimen
Found in the 1960s near Eichstatt and described by Wellnhofer in 1988, initially this specimen was identified as Compsognathus, but later was reclassified as A. lithographica (see: Ostrom, 1975, 3:61; Gee, 1999, p. 180).
The Solnhofen-Aktein-Verein Specimen
In 1993, Wellnhofer described a new specimen, but the description is in German and the information is limited. This specimen has been classified as a new species, Archaeopteryx bavarica, and is reported to have a small, ossified sternum as well as distinct feather impressions.
|Toothed jaw
|Furcula or wishbone
|Long bony tail
|Hallow bones
|Three claws on each wing
|Pectoral girdle was similar
|Abdominal ribs (gastrula)
|Pelvis and legs like a modern bird
|Flat sternum
|Less fusion of hand bones
|Small cranium
|Comparison of Archaeopteryx features with those of modern-day birds
The Strange Case of the "Famous Forged Feathers"
Many evolutionists have regarded Archaeopteryx lithographica as one of the most important fossils ever discovered, and as a result it has been touted as the perfect example of evolution in action. However, to others the fossil is a perfect example of fraud in action, not evolution. One controversy swirls around the fact that many of the specimens do not show any feather impressions at all, and the two that have impressions both were sold to museums by the Haberlein family (who apparently also handled the single fossil feather). Karl Haberlein sold his fossil in 1861 to the British Museum for 600 pounds, and his son Ernst sold the second one to the Berlin Museum in 1877 for 36,000 gold marks. Some have suggested that this fossil find is nothing more than a small dinosaur that had feather imprints placed on it after it was discovered. In speaking of Archaeopteryx in 1975, John Ostrom wrote:
...these specimens are not particularly like modern birds at all. If feather impressions had not been preserved in the London and Berlin specimens, they [the other specimens—BH/BT] never would have been identified as birds. Instead, they would unquestionably have been labeled as coelurosaurian dinosaurs [such as Compsognathus—BH/BT]. Notice that the last three specimens to be recognized were all misidentified at first, and the Eichstatt specimen for 20 years was thought to be a small specimen of the dinosaur Compsognathus (3:61).
Even a modern-day dinosaur encyclopedia adds doubt as to the validity of this species. "Apart from the proportions of its wings, the skeleton of Archaeopteryx is strikingly similar to that of a small, lightly built, running dinosaur, such as the coelurosaur Compsognathus" (Dixon, et al., 1988, p. 172).
While controversy has surrounded Archaeopteryx for well over 100 years, only within the last fifteen have some scientists begun to question the actual genuineness of some of the fossil finds. Lee Spetner, a respected Israeli scientist, was one of the first to question the validity of certain Archaeopteryx fossils at a meeting of Jewish scientists held in Jerusalem in July 1980. Spetner had studied the British Museum specimen in June 1978, and had pointed out certain discrepancies to Alan Charig, chief curator of fossil amphibians, reptiles, and birds at the Museum. Dr. Spetner went on to publish a brief item titled "Is the Archaeopteryx a Fake?" (1983), and later stated: "Our contention is that the feather impressions were forged onto a fossil of a flying reptile" (1988, p. 15). In 1985, renowned British astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle joined Spetner to reiterate the allegations that the feather impressions of Archaeopteryx were, in fact, a forgery—the result of chicken feathers having been pressed into a cement matrix that then was applied to two authentic fossils of a small dinosaur. In his assessment, Hoyle suggested that "the only undeniable featherlike impressions are therefore those on the single feather of 1860, on the British Museum specimen of 1961 and the Berlin specimen of 1877," each of which had been handled by the Haberlein family (1985, p. 694). After examining the specimen in the British Museum (in addition to numerous photographs), Hoyle argued that the impressions of the feathers in the stone were fakes. The evidence of fossil forgery came from the following:
1. The "double-struck" appearance of the feather imprints, which allegedly resulted from a botched forging job rather than natural preservation.
2. The poor fit of the main slab and counterslab of the London specimen, indicating that the forger had tampered with the fossil layers after the rock had been split open in the quarry.
3. The finer-grained nature of the sediment bearing the feather impressions, in comparison to the coarser sediment embedding the bones (Krishtalka, 1989, p. 98).
Hoyle and Spetner, along with several other well-known scientists, including Hoyle's colleague N.C. Wickramasinghe, eventually published several papers and a small book documenting the evidence that they believed substantiated the fraud (see Hoyle, et al., 1985; Spetner et al., 1988; Watkins, et al., 1985). Hoyle and Spetner presented what appeared to be a strong case for the fabrication of the "Piltdown Bird," as many started calling it (a reference to the famous Piltdown Man hoax of scientific fame). But, as one writer noted:
As might be expected, however, this charge against such a key "proof" of evolution could not be allowed to stand, and evolutionists everywhere were indignant. A number of papers purportedly refuting the fraud allegation were published, and the furor has died down now, with Archaeopteryx still offered in proof of evolution by most evolutionists. Unfortunately, these fossils now have been locked away in the basement of the British Museum of Natural History, no longer accessible to public view or further research (Morris and Morris, 1996, 2:67-68).
Additionally the fossils from Archaeopteryx have fallen under suspicion as a result of reported instances in which the matching faces of the fossil (the main slab and counterslab) do not match. The feather impressions are primarily on the main slab, while in several places the counterslab has raised areas that have no corresponding indentation on the main slab. These raised areas, nicknamed "chewing gum blobs," are made of the same fine-grained material that is found only under the feather impressions. The rest of the fossil is composed of a courser-grained limestone. Some have speculated that these chewing gum blobs probably are the result of small drops of wet cement that fell on the surface but went undetected by the forger (Wickramasinghe and Hoyle, 1986). In 1986 a "definitive" test was performed on the British specimen that cast serious doubt on its authenticity. An X-ray resonance spectrograph of two samples (one from the feather region and a control sample from the non-feathered region) showed that the material containing the feather impressions differed significantly from the rest of the fossil slab. The chemistry of this "amorphous paste" also differed from the crystalline rock that normally is found in the quarry (Wickramasinghe and Hoyle, 1986). In other words, the material that composes the feathered region does not match the rest of the fossil!
The British Museum "contends that the amorphous nature of the feathered material is an artifact explainable by preservatives that they have put on the fossil" (Spetner, 1990, p. 289). However, if this excuse were correct, then the "preservatives" should have shown up on the control sample as well. The British Museum has refused further testing, which seems to some a rather shocking position for a scientific organization to take, and one that unnecessarily feeds further suspicion. Alan Charig has written a response titled "Archaeopteryx is not a Forgery," in which he and his colleagues attempted to explain these discrepancies (1986). The data in his article, however, are not sufficient to answer the questions raised above. [For additional information on both sides of the Archaeopteryx controversy, see Taylor, 1990, pp. 279-291.]
The reader may find it of interest to learn that on September 11-15, 1984, an International Archaeopteryx Conference was held in Eichstatt, Bavaria to evaluate the official status of Archaeopteryx. In describing the consensus of the evolutionary scientists who attended the conference, Peter Dodson wrote in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:
At the end of the three days of presentations, [Alan] Charig [chief curator of fossil amphibians, reptiles, and birds at the British Museum—BH/BT] orchestrated a concerted effort to summarize the ideas for which consensus exists. The general credo runs as follows: Archaeopteryx was a bird that could fly, but it was not necessarily the direct ancestor of modern birds.... A communiqué expressing the unanimous belief of all participants in the evolutionary origin and significance of Archaeopteryx was adopted, in order to forestall possible misuse by creationists of apparent discord among scientists (1985, 5:179).
It is interesting, to say the least, that the scientists at the meeting felt constrained to adopt a unanimous resolution concerning the "evolutionary origin and significance of Archaeopteryx" solely because of a desire to prevent creationists from expressing what some of their own colleagues already had pointed out—that Archaeopteryx just might not be everything it has been cracked up to be. But, after everything was said and done, the efforts of those attending the 1984 conference to save Archaeopteryx appear to have failed anyway. Read on to find out why.
Archaeopteryx—Missing Link or True Bird?
The famous American dinosaur hunter Othniel C. Marsh once said: "He is certainly a wise man who today can tell a bird from a reptile, with only the fragments of an ancient form before him" (1890). Two years after von Meyer published his description of Archaeopteryx, Sir Richard Owen, the eminent curator of the British Museum of Natural History, published his own description. As far as Owen was concerned, Archaeopteryx was unequivocally a bird—a peculiar and distinctive bird, but a bird nevertheless. So what is it about this famous fossil that has some people seeing birds and others seeing dinosaurs?
The urgency of needing to find some sort of "intermediate" caused evolutionists to concentrate on as many features of Archaeopteryx as possible in order to discover "combined" traits. According to Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History, Archaeopteryx had "advanced characteristics of birds and retained a tremendous amount of 'primitive' characteristics, like teeth" (as quoted in Sunderland, 1988, p. 78). However, some fish have teeth, some do not. Some amphibians have teeth, and some do not. How can a scientist look at the presence of teeth and simply assume that this animal evolved from something else? Some have suggested that Archaeopteryx evolved from the crocodile. However, even the main proponent of the crocodile-to-bird hypothesis, Allan Walker, has stated that the hypothesis "has become so tenuous that it is very difficult to sustain" (1985, p. 133).
Many scientists point out things like an opposable hallux (big toe), the furcula (wishbone), which is formed by two clavicles that have fused in the midline, and an elongated pubis directed backwards—and see nothing but a bird. Evolutionist Alan Feduccia stated: "Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that" (as quoted in Morell, 1993, 259:764). A more recent fossil bird from Mongolia—Mononychus—had hands and arms like those of digging animals (as well as teeth), and is dated at only half as old as Archaeopteryx. Writing for Science News, Richard Monastersky observed:
Mongolian and U.S. researchers have found a 75-million-year-old, bird-like creature with a hand so strange it has left paleontologists grasping for an explanation.... Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago notes that Mononychus had arms built much like those of digging animals. Because moles and other diggers have keeled sternums and wrists reminiscent of birds, the classification of Mononychus becomes difficult, he says (1993, 143:245).
Thus, evolutionists now are faced with the possibility that birds may have evolved from moles instead of reptiles! Consequently, many scientists are trying to discern how it is that animals which normally burrow in the ground suddenly decided to abandon their usual environment and "just fly away." [We imagine that a goodly number of farmers would be interested in learning how to get these pesky creatures to abandon their fields and "just fly away"!]
So what is the truth about Archaeopteryx? Perhaps the late Colin Patterson, while serving as senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, summed it up best when he stated that Archaeopteryx
has simply become a patsy for wishful thinking. Is Archaeopteryx the ancestor of all birds? Perhaps yes, perhaps no: there is no way of answering the question. It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such stories are not a part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test (as quoted in Sunderland, 1988, p. 102).
In an article published several years ago in Paleobiology, Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard, and Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History, wrote concerning Archaeopteryx:
Smooth intermediates between Baupläne [the German word meaning basic morphological designs or different types of creatures—BH/BT] are almost impossible to construct, even in thought experiments. There is certainly no evidence for them in the fossil record (curious mosaics like Archaeopteryx do not count)" [Gould and Eldredge, 1977, 3:147, parenthetical comment in orig.].
The story surrounding Archaeopteryx has been complicated by another paleontological discovery that has left many evolutionists scratching their heads in regard to where, exactly, the creature actually fits in the evolutionary scheme of things. The fossil remains of two crow-sized birds 75 million years older than Archaeopteryx (i.e., approximately 225 million years old according to evolutionary dating schemes) were found near Post, Texas by Sankar Chatterjee and colleagues from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas (see Beardsley, 1986). This new find, designated Protoavis, has been controversial since its announcement for several reasons. First, five years passed between its discovery and the publication of Chatterjee's scientific paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (see Chatterjee, 1991). Second, the fossils were badly crushed and jumbled, and no feathers of any kind were visible. Some paleontologists who have seen the fossils are unconvinced that they are the remains of birds. Yet as Dr. Chatterjee (who has gone on the offensive to defend his position) has pointed out, the skull of Protoavis has 23 features that are fundamentally bird-like, as are the forelimbs, the shoulders, and the hip girdle. In commenting on this, one author wrote in Science: "His [Chatterjee's—BH/BT] reconstruction also shows a flexible neck, large brain, binocular vision, and, crucially, portals running from the rear of the skull to the eye socket—a feature seen in modern birds but not dinosaurs" (Anderson, 1991, 253:35). Chatterjee has named the find Protoavis texensis (first bird from Texas). In 1997, he authored a beautifully illustrated book on the evolution of birds (The Rise of Birds), in which Protoavis was displayed prominently as being the forerunner of modern birds.
All of this, needless to say, has caused evolutionists severe problems because Protoavis appeared at the time of the earliest dinosaurs, which means that if it is accepted as genuine, then birds certainly could not have evolved from dinosaurs and Archaeopteryx could not be the ancestor of modern birds. After looking at the evidence for Protoavis, Kansas University paleontologist Larry Martin suggested: "There's going to be a lot of people with Archaeopteryx eggs on their face" (as quoted in Anderson, 1991, 253:35).
Regardless of where Archaeopteryx is placed, evolutionists still will be left with a lot of explaining to do. How is it that flying could have evolved in four different species: insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals? Did each have a transitional form? Did all flying animals evolve from one intermediate, and then continue evolving further into mammal form (e.g., bats) and/or insects? As Peter Wellnhofer, the expert on Archaeopteryx at the Paleontological Museum of Munich, pointed out: "It is unlikely that a feature as unusual as feathers evolved twice" (as quoted in Gibbons, 1996, 274:720). Unlikely indeed!
Archaeopteryx—Flying Capability
The debate concerning the flying ability of Archaeopteryx lithographica began not long after the initial fossil discovery. Scientists argued long and hard about whether the proposed body size and wing strength would permit this creature to get off the ground (see, for example, Yalden, 1971). So if it were the bird from which all modern birds descended, what does the evolutionary trail look like? In an article in Science on "The Evolution of Dinosaurs," evolutionist Paul Sereno stated that "within 10 million years after the appearance of Archaeopteryx, the body size shrank to that of a sparrow" (1999, 284:2143). The article went on to suggest that modifications in the feathers and tail structure during this interval had a significant impact on flight and perching performance. Additional studies have suggested a dramatic rise in atmospheric oxygen levels (possibly yielding concentrations reaching levels as high as 35%, compared to today's 21%) that might have "physiologically facilitated the initial evolution of insect flight metabolism" (Dudley, 2000, 62:135).
The insect-catching scenario postulates that a population of dinosaurs gradually frayed out their forelegs and tail scales, somehow getting flight feathers with a rigid central shaft and hundreds of delicate parallel barbs running down along it. These barbs contained hundreds of tiny barbules to hook them together, making an effective air seal. Modern feathers are composed of a long, tapering, central rachis, with closely spaced side barbs. The barbs on either side of the rachis form a surface called the vane. The two vanes on the feather may be symmetrical or asymmetrical (in which case the rachis appears closer to one edge of the feather than the other). The flight feathers of modern birds typically are asymmetrical, while body contour (down) feathers are symmetrical. In modern birds, remiges (wing feathers) are highly modified to sustain flight, primarily in that the rachis is shifted toward the leading edge of the feather (i.e. the leading vane is thinner than the trailing vane), resulting in a true asymmetrical feather (see McFarland, 1985). All of this—just to trap insects more efficiently!
Researchers compared the asymmetry of some of the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx with those of modern flying and flightless birds, as well as with the Solnhofen feather (see Speakman, et al., 1994). They discovered that the average asymmetry for Archaeopteryx feathers was 1.25, which was lower than that of modern flying birds but overlapping that of modern flightless birds. The isolated feather exhibited an asymmetry of 2.2—just within the range of modern flying birds. In addition, Archaeopteryx's claw was compared with the claws of more than 500 species of modern birds. The study found that the pes (hind foot) of the Archaeopteryx fell within the average range of perching birds, whereas the middle claws of the manus (front hand) fell within the upper range of the claws of the strongest perching birds and completely within the range of the claws of trunk climbers (Feduccia, 1993, 259:791). The authors of the study thus concluded that in all likelihood, Archaeopteryx was a perching bird.
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Lamb Chops with Horseradish Crust
You will need:
- 4 lamb chops, 1 leg of lamb or 1 rack of lamb (about 14 bones) trimmed
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 teaspoons olive oil, divided
- 1 tablespoon Honey Mustard Dressing
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- ¼ cup breadcrumbs
- 2 cups dry red Tennessee wine
- 2 shallots, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped\\
- 3 cups stock
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon Purity butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Season meat with salt and pepper. Heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium high heat in a very large sauté pan. Add lamb and sear it well for 2-3 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside to cool.
Place remaining olive oil, dressing, garlic, horseradish, thyme and breadcrumbs in a medium bowl and mix well. Using your fingers, press crust mixture onto lamb. Place coated meat in a roasting pan and roast for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the sauce by placing wine, shallots and garlic in a medium saucepan and reduce over high heat until about ¼ cup remains. Add stock and reduce until about ¾ cup liquid remains. Bring sauce to a boil. Put cornstarch in a small bowl and add just enough water to soften. Whisk cornstarch into boiling sauce. Add butter and season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove lamb from oven and let rest for 5 minutes before slicing. Serve warm with wine sauce spooned on bottom of plate, then top with lamb.
Yield: 6 servings
Wine Pairing
Pair with Norton from Monteagle Winery


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To The Uninitiated - a "lyricist" called Buffalax heard this thamizh song "kalloori Vaanil" featuring Prabhu Deva and wrote lyrics for it based on what he heard rather than, you know, anything that was really written. This song got named as "Benny Lava" (because thats how buffalax heard the word "vennilava"). This has also led to the rechristening of Prabhu Deva as Benny Lava. Resulting in some popular Prabhu Deva videos getting branded as 'Benny Lava'.
1. The Orginal Buffalax Video.
Here is the original video with Buffalax lyrics. Initially released in You Tube.
2. The Croatian Version.
Here are a bunch of crazy Croatian college students remaking the Benny Lava video.
3. The McCain Palin Version
Thanks to anon commentor.
4. The Benny Lava Cult
A. Here is an uplugged Version
B. The Benny Lava Project
C. De Benny Lava Guz.
D. Crazy Teenagers doing Crazy Indian Song
E. The Cult Of Benny Lava Spreads across languages and nations.
First it hits the hot chics, old chics, pillow party chics, drunken teenagers who aren't even singing the english lyrics correctly, mad children who are shouting " all nuns are gay", on radio as a brazilian ass shaker, teen girls who use words like 'like' a lot say 'its like a wierd song, a song for all occasions, from the british with love and they follow the rules of the song, they practice hard to get it right dont they?, some give up exams to get it right, more hot chics dance to benny lava, baby's day out in Benny Lava land, fred and holga do it too, these girls have achieved perfection,
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Microsoft reported largely positive earnings for its second fiscal quarter today.
Revenue for the quarter, which ended on Dec. 31, 2012, was $21.5 billion, up from $20.9 billion in the previous year's Q2 period. The company beat earnings-per-share expectations for the quarter by one cent at 0.76 earnings per share. Profit or net income was $6.4 billion, which was down compared with the $6.6 billion figure reported in last year's Q2 period. After-hours trading showed a 2.06% dip in Microsoft's stock price today, per Yahoo Finance reporting.
The Q2 earnings were affected by various deferrals associated with Microsoft's promotional sales campaigns, including the Windows and Office upgrade offers. However, Microsoft's financial results for this quarter also included earnings from early Windows 8 sales.
Unlike Microsoft's Q1 results, the Windows Division was the top money maker in this period. It brought in $5.9 billion, up 24% compared with last year's Q2 period. Server and Tools placed second, bringing in $5.2 billion revenue, up 9% vs. last year's Q2 period. The Online Services Division was up 11 percent, delivering $869 million in revenue for the quarter.
The two divisions that faltered this quarter were the Microsoft Business Division and the Entertainment and Devices Division. The Business Division pulled in $5.7 billion, down 10% compared with last year's Q2 revenue result. Microsoft's earnings statement claims that Business Division earnings were really down just 3% for the quarter, using non-GAAP accounting methods, if upgrade and presales offerings are considered. The Entertainment and Devices Division produced $3.8 billion in revenue, down 11% compared with last year's Q2 period. If that figure were adjusted with non-GAAP accounting, factoring in a video game revenue deferral, the revenue decrease for the Entertainment and Devices Division would be just 2%, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft noted some positive signs on the horizon. Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein indicated in a released statement that the company's licensing renewals across the Windows, Server and Tools and Business Divisions "grew double digits" for the quarter.
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I haven't had internet at home since a couple days after getting the pet, but this is exactly what I was going to try as my first Murkalot PvP comp.3wd wrote:Someone told me after the hotfix of the inspiration, actually it also created a monster team.
Now that the inspiration buff is not a team wide buff anymore but rather will just stick on the pet you call up, well, if you murk will use inspiration and call in a valk.
In that round which your valk will have 100% speed and 100% dmg buff, cast the haunt, your haunt will have 100% dmg enhancement for the whole duration because it basically frozen all the buff & debuff on your valk at that round.
I just can't decide whether to throw the Murk back in, or another big tanky pet like Son of Animus or Blossoming Ancient.


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Battlefield 3 is going to be a big gaming title but what platform should you choose to play it on. Check our this video comparing what you get with XBOX360, PS3 and PC.
I know which platform I'm playing BF3 on hehehe.
A group of motherboard enthusiasts working for GIGABYTE, sharing their insider knowledge and general ramblings of the motherboard business, the tech industry, latest technologies and trends, and other random odds and ends.
Battlefield 3 is going to be a big gaming title but what platform should you choose to play it on. Check our this video comparing what you get with XBOX360, PS3 and PC.
I know which platform I'm playing BF3 on hehehe.
Windows 8 is around the corner and it looks really cool. I haven't seen much of these demos until I came across this youtube video by an end user in Korea going through the menus on a GIGABYTE T1125 Touch-Notebook.
Looks nice and it seems pretty responsive. I'm thinking touchscreen LCDs might become popular soon on desktop PCs, yay TouchBIOS (dreams of The Island movie scene office desk powered by Win8 hahaha)
High-end technologies usually take some time to trickle down to mainstream products due to the slow rate at which prices come down to everyday user affordability. In the case of easy network management, it has taken a lot less time than we would have expected, and we have just announced GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer that allows you to prioritize programs accessing your Internet connection, offering more bandwidth control than has ever been available on mainstream platforms. Check out the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer press release for a full list of supporting motherboard models (at least 27 of them).
We first saw this kind of feature on the extremely high-end G1-Killer gaming motherboards from the feature-packed Killer e2100 gaming LAN solution from Big Foot Networks. GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer is a somewhat simpler, yet effective and fun solution. There are 4 modes that allow you to optimize bandwidth for gaming, video streaming or browsing, and of course there is also an auto mode that dynamically optimizes bandwidth as you go.
Check out the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer video, the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer press release or our GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer microsite the for more.
Vivi just put an interesting read on GIGABYTE G1 Sniper2 voltage regulation.
Vivi is a well known South African overclocker, well regarded in extreme overclocking circles. It's nice to see him spend time showing his readers how to understand more about hardware we use for gaming these days without taking himself too seriously.
It is not often you see a pretty straight forward and easy to read article on power delivery for a piece of hardware. No need for a degree in electrical engineering to figure this one out, check it all out at Xtreme Systems forum.
Our good friends over at Cooler Master have posted some really cool pictures of a G1.Assassin case mod on their facebook page. The original article is from PConline in China. This is without a doubt one of the most impressive military style case mods that I've seen and is a tribute to the growing talent and enthusiasm for case modding that we are seeing from China. Here are some more shots for your viewing pleasure:
Feel free to post more case mod links below. We'll post 'em if we like 'em!
Yesterday we posted an article that outlined the mechanics of how Intel's forthcoming Sand Bridge E processors will be overclocked – thanks to Bit-Tech for that one. Today we've come across an Intel slide that appears to have gotten into the hands of Taiwanese techies at TopPC.com.tw which outlines a 'theoretical' upper limit to the Sandy Bridge processor architecture. According to the slide, which offers details about base clock speeds and Turbo speeds, when you take into account the Base Clock (blck) maximum, and maximum processor multiplier, a CPU core clock ceiling of exactly 9.5GHz is apparent. Check the image below.
Clearly interesting times lie ahead for overclockers and extreme system tuners once Sandy Bridge E arrives. But let's also be realistic; a theoretical limit is exactly that, it basically means that the processors microcode will understand instructions and offer BIOS configurations that will end at 9.5GHz. It is however unlikely that anyone will ever get to that speed. Look at it this way. Previous gen Gulftown processors had a theoretical limit of approx 16GHz! However, we rarely ever saw one push 7GHz…
Interesting to note that AMD just broke the world record a week or so ago for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor" using a new Bulldozer FX processor doing at an astonishing 8.429GHz on liquid helium.
So yeah, we're living in very interesting times indeed, with two new and competing enthusiast platforms just around the corner. It's safe to say that we're more than looking forward to launching a range of motherboards that'll give you every excuse to Overclock your Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge E CPU to the limit, including one particular X79 board model which is optimized precisely for that purpose – watch this space!
News sources at Top PC.com.tw and VR-Zone.
One of the most eye-catching technical specs regarding the Intel's new Sandy-Bridge E platform revealed at IDF last week, is without doubt its quad channel memory infrastructure. While today's Sandy Bridge uses dual channel memory and the X58 Gulftown platform boasted triple channel, the forthcoming X79 platform is going all out with four channels of DDR3 . As if in celebration, Kingston had a demo at IDF that showed what you can do with four channels of RAM, demoing a GIGABYTE X79-UD5 board packing 8 x 8GB DDR3 DIMMs for a massive 64GB of system memory!
Thanks to AnandTech for the images. Check out the full article here.
Clive Webster published an interesting article last week that offers a glimpse in to how we are going to Overclock the next enthusiast processor family from the Intel. Codenamed Sandy Bridge E, Intel's new enthusiast range is understandably starting to catch the attention of the Overclocking fraternity, who will be curious to read Clive's initial analysis during the IDF show were Intel offered demonstration overclocks to media.
"All of Intel's demonstration overclocks at IDF 2011 involved System Clock, CPU divider and CPU multiplier tinkering, but we saw enough to explain how to overclock a 'locked' Sandy Bridge E processor. Intel is still recommending that you don't take the System Clock beyond 5 per cent of the nominal 100MHz, so to overclock a 'locked' Sandy Bridge E CPU you need to balance that 95-105MHz System Clock range with a gearing of 1.25x or 1.66x, and possibly by dropping the CPU multiplier.
There are a couple of other noteworthy features of Sandy Bridge E when it comes to overclocking. For example, the memory straps of a Sandy Bridge E system are still in 266MHz increments (Ivy Bridge will introduce finer control for the memory controller), and it still supports XMP for easy memory overclocking. We should also see the same voltage options in a Sandy Bridge E system as a Sandy Bridge system, as the voltage planes haven't changed. This will mean two primary voltage options - one for the cores and one for the uncore area (the System Agent, memory controller, DMI controller, PCI-E controller and everything else that isn't an execution core)."
You can expect to see many more articles focusing on how to squeeze the most out of Sandy Bridge E processors, and plenty using X79 series GIGABYTE boards. Read the full article here on Bit-Tech.net
Vito Cassisi at Aussie review house Atomic PC now joins a long and growing list of reviewers that have tasted the incredible gaming delights of our new Sandy Bridge G-Killer board, the G1. Sniper 2. Applause to Vito for asking the most important question:
"Does it kick arse?
We've met the G1.Assassin previously, and were very impressed by the board. We weren't so keen on the cost. The Sniper 2 is certainly cheaper, but does can it match the X58 variant in performance and features?
We entered the familiar blue BIOS screen and got right into tweaking. We started off by setting the core voltage to 1.45v and ramping up PWM and Over Current Protection to avoid being held back. The memory was then set to 1866MHz and the CPU multiplier to 50x for a 5GHz overclock. After confirming stability with Prime95, a 51x multiplier was used, and then 52x which didn't last too long under stress. Reducing the base clock to 99.5 MHz and increasing the voltage to 1.49v (level 7 LLC) scored us a stable overclock of 5174MHz, which is an admirable achievement. We couldn't raise the memory clock to 2133MHz without very loose timings, so we stuck to the default XMP profile throughout.
Compared to the ASUS Sabertooth P67 we reviewed in June, the extra 150MHz gives the G1.Sniper 2 a clear advantage in benchmark scores, bar the Everest read test due to the lack of a memory overclock. It even gives the G1.Assassin a run for its money - the X58 platform struggles to compete.
If the previous G1.Killer range enticed you, but the price or platform held you back, we highly recommend this board. We're eager to try an Ivy Bridge processor with it!"
Great to see we won the Atomic Hot Award. Really appreciate the love guys…
Check the review in full on Atomic PC here.
Check the G1.Sniper 2 specs here.
Tech Radar, a closely related online cousin of PC Format has taken our top end AMD 900 series board to task, investigating the pros and cons of investing a full 200 notes in such a purchase. Seems like these Brits were impressed enough to award the board a 4/5 star rating and their sincerest approval.
"This high-end Gigabyte 990FX motherboard actually represents something quite new from the Taiwanese manufacturer; namely a high-price, high-performance AMD motherboard. Gigabyte has obviously long-supported the AMD side of the PC world, but until now hadn't released a serious top-end product in that market…..
Verdict So, if you've got around £200 to spend on a motherboard, and you want a high bang for buck ratio, the bucks, if you can chuck in the extra few, must go to the Gigabyte board. The Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 justifies its price tag with its performance, tons of ports and four-way SLI."
Nice to get a good old fashioned nod of approval from reviewers across the pond. Bravo. Catch the article here on Tech Radar.
Find out more on the absolute best AMD 900 board you can buy, the 990FXA-UD7 on our website here.
Shannon Rob at Bjorn3D has taken a shine to our new Sandy Bridge gaming motherboard, the G1. Sniper 2, awarding it the Silver Award. Here's a sample of what he had to say.
"The G1.Sniper 2 is an excellent board with a lot of innovative features that should make gamers rejoice. These features make excellent additions to any board and we are really surprised to see that GIGABYTE is the only manufacturer to adopt such unique features as they really do make for a great gaming board. Add to that the fact that its ready for 22nm Ivy Bridge processors and PCI-E 3, and we have a board is actually future-proofed to an extent.
Summary: The GIGABYTE G1.Sniper 2 performs well and has some exclusive and hard to beat features that makes it an excellent buy for many gamers out there. For its performance and features it earns the Bjorn3D Silver Bear Award."
Mark Azzi from Team Immunity (iM) gaming team took out the EA FIFA 12 Community Summit in Sydney and won himself a signed Tim Cahill jersey and a football. That's very cool and congrats to iM for on their great gaming performance in yet another gaming title.
If you ever wanted to dabble in the world of Hackintosh building, then tonymacx86 is the man to visit. For his 'CustoMac Mini 2011 prospective build' Tony recommends the GIGABYTE H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX board. Highlights include Intel HD 3000 graphics and working HDMI audio.
This build is all about getting good value for money in a small form factor. The basic cost of the machine in terms of chassis, motherboard, CPU and RAM is a paltry $322…
Catch the full blog here.
More on the GIGABYTE H67N-USB3-B3 board here.
Among a splattering of X79 GIGABYTE boards that made their media debut this week at IDF, one of the most eagerly anticipated must surely be the G1. Assassin 2 motherboard, which will eventually become our flagship X79 enthusiast gaming board. As you'd expect from a G1-Killer motherboard, the G1. Assassin 2 features dedicated advanced onboard networking and sound processors so you'll get the ultimate gaming experience, no holds bared – which should all look damn good packing Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E processors. Take a peek at these images and let your imagination wander!
Images reproduced courtesy of Legit Reviews and Hot Hardware.
You know the old saying, there is a first time for everything. This is precisely what Dennis from Ninjalane.com recently experienced and shared with his readers. He decided to try out LN2 overclocking and used Gigabyte's two iconic boards, X58A-OC and 990FXA-UD7 to learn on.
If you've been wondering what it's all about or wishing you could try something like this, well make it your first time too by getting some of this gear or jumping on forums and check if there are any keen overclockers near you and join in the fun!
You can follow Dennis' adventures on XtremeSystems forum, facebook and Ninjalane website.
IDF has been dominating the news columns of tech and PC websites for most of this week. For those of you out of the loop, IDF or Intel Developer Forum is held annually in San Francisco and is one of the most widely anticipated events of the year. At IDF you'll find Intel and its partners revealing a bestockinged leg or two - technologically speaking, just to get you all worked up and panting hard as we head into Q4, and the new wave of product offerings that inevitably follow.
This year the main focus from our own motherboard perspective, is of course the forthcoming Intel X79 platform launch and the new Sandy-Bridge-E processors that will form the new enthusiast DIY PC segment for some time to come. Various media at the event have published images of our new X79 offerings, here is a selection of the best for your perusal:
Hot Hardware
Our buddy Marco Chiappetta was on patrol at the show and took this beauty of the back panel IO of the X79-UD7 board.
"The UD7 also features a newer color scheme which eschews the blue and black of the other boards in favor of an orange and black color scheme. Also note, the UD7's slot configuration will allow for quad-GPU setups, whereas the other boards can "only" do 3-way SLI or CrossFire." – Hot Hardware
Tech Report
Another veteran motherboard commentator and reviewer Geoff Gasior was un hand to take this shot of our new G1-Killer board, the G1.Assassin 2. Wowser!
"Want upgraded integrated peripherals? Gigabyte also has a G1.Assasin 2 model with Bigfoot networking and Creative audio. There are still three PCIe x16 slots, but the number of DIMM slots and Serial ATA ports has been trimmed. Although it still sports a whopping dozen SATA ports….." – Tech Report.
LG Nilsson published a bunch of images including this one of the whole family sitting side by side. A mouth watering posse of X79 goodness!
"Starting at the top we have the G1.Assassin 2 X79 and the biggest surprise here really is the re-designed heatsinks which are much less in your face than the current models. That said, Gigabyte might very well change this before the board is launching, but we'll just have to wait and see if we'll get a gun themed heatsink or not on the final boards. Expected features include a Killer NIC, Creative X-Fi audio and 3-way SLI and CrossFireX support. We also spotted a Marvell controller for a pair of eSATAp (eSATA/USB combo) ports and a Fresco Logic USB 3.0 host controller on the board." – VR-Zone
Mr Lal Shimpi was of course in his element during the show, posting a whole bunch great photos, including this brilliant shot of our X79-UD5. Enough RAM slots for yer Ananand?
"Although Sandy Bridge E is still a couple of months away from launch, Intel's partners were allowed to show systems as long as they didn't divulge clock speeds or allow for anyone to play with the USB ports….Major themes? Cheaper boards have 4 DIMM slots (1 DIMM per channel) while the more expensive boards will have 8 DIMM slots (2 DIMMs per channel)." - AnandTech
Anandtech got a sneak peak at GIGABYTE's UEFI bios on X79 boards during IDF 2011.
As we mentioned in our X79 coverage yesterday, none of the motherboard manufacturers were allowed to show BIOS/UEFI screenshots out of fear of accidentally disclosing clock speeds. Gigabyte's X79 motherboards in particular are going to feature a new UEFI setup which we have a few screenshots from in the gallery below.
Our favorite reviewer and power user Sin0822 has no doubt had an exhausting day in San Francisco enjoying all things Intel-related at the Intel Developer Forum, which just closed its doors after the first day. But lucky for us Sin0822 managed to find the time to shoot some great photos of our new X79 platform boards making their debut at IDF this week. Here's a selection of a few choice specimens:
As you can see the GIGABYTE X79-UD7 sports our uniquely eye-catching orange coloring, perhaps alluding to it's potential overclocking supremacy.
Here's a glimpse of the latest GIGABYTE G1-Killer series gaming board, the GIGABYTE X79 Assassin. Of course sporting our devilishly attractive green thermal design.
You can catch more images of our X79 range at Sin0822's new website, Sin Hardware. Cheers Sin!
Hey guys,
I had a quick play with GIGABYTE G1 SNIPER2 motherboard today with 3 different high speed RAM kits from Kingston, G.Skill & Corsair to show you how to quickly get them up and running at optimal settings.
I've done a couple of different videos with RAM setups (with 2 and 4 stick setups)
4GB G.Skill Ripjaw Blue 2133MHz kit
4GB and 8GB Kingston HyperX 2133MHz kit KHX2133C9BD3T1K2/4GX
8GB and 16GB Corsair GTX7 2400MHz kit
Our old pal Linus from Linus Tech Tips is back at it again, this time taking on our beautifully high-end bulldozing motherboard, the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 board. Just as you expect, Linus takes us on a swift moving tour of the board, its packaging and key features. Some would call it good old fashioned motherboard porn, but for most of us, it'll be something much more intimate and fulfilling; i.e. a damn good look at perhaps the most attractive AMD board we've ever done, Cheers Linus. Enjoy!
The 990FXA-UD7 is one of the very first ever motherboards to feature both 4-way SLI and Crossfire X making it the most multi-GPU prepped AMD boards out there. With AMD's Bulldozer launch coming soon…this baby will be the ideal companion. Check out the specs and more at the GB site here.
The GIGABYTE E-Sports Championships (GESC) team are proud to announce our first foray into Starcraft 2. With over $6,500 in cash prizes up for grabs the event will be held in Melbourne at Respawn LAN on the 24th of September. This will be the second GESC event of 2011 and will feature thirty-two of Australia's top StarCraft 2 players competing in a double-elimination format for their share in cash and prizes.
All matches will be played out on over $30,000 worth of Gigabyte, Intel and GeIL powered gaming machines featuring Intel Core i7 processors, Gigabyte Motherboards and GeIL DDR3 Memory. Stay tuned for updates and information on the chance to obtain a wild card invite!
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Jonathon Fitzgerald from TeamAU, also known as "2for40" Uncle Fester, decided it was time to make a new online magazine called Hardware Leaks to rival the well established The Overclocker it seems. It's great to see another Australian serve up a nice read for us extreme overclockers. The Overclocker, for the uninformed, was originally formed by a couple of Aussies, Nick Ross and Josh Collins and taken over by Neo Sibeko from South Africa a while ago. Well done to both mags, keep them coming boys!
"SERVING UP HARDWARE AT -196C" << I like!
It looks like a healthy battle for extreme overclocking readership is about to get under way just like an epic battle between GIGABYTE X58A-OC vs ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme, "last hurrah for overclockers of the X58 platform" according to the author of the article in the first issue of the mag.
Click on the image to read the full article.
The quest to find the best APU overclocker is now complete, or at least it is for the time bieng. Running for the duration of August, the A75 OC Challenge was GIGABYTE's first ever overclocking competition based around AMD's new high powered, graphics toting A-Series APUs, or Accelerated Processor Units. Involving a series of benchmarks, the A75 OC Challenge asked the question…who is the best APU overclocker out there today? Who can push these integrated graphics chips further than they ever been pushed before? Now we can reveal all….
A75 OC Challenge Winners
#1. El Gappo– 44 points - Team Bench Tec UK – United Kingdom
#2. Iron – 41 points - Team HwProject.net - Italy
#3. bennylodewijk – 33 points – Team I.D. – Indonesia
Congrats to El Gappo who takes home a GIGABYTE 990FX-UD5 motherboard. Second and third place winners will each receive a GIGABYTE E350N-USB3 motherboard.
You can find the full competition page on HWBot here.
The full press release is posted here.


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Approved by ACRL Board, June 2007. Revised October 2011.
Prepared by the ACRL Committee on the Status of Academic Librarians
In order to recognize formally the importance of faculty status for academic librarians, ACRL endorses these standards. Institutions of higher education and their governing bodies are urged to adopt these standards.
To implement these standards, ACRL shall:
- publicize these standards to college and university administrators and governing bodies, academic libraries, library education programs, library organizations, and agencies that accredit institutions, and
- seek to have these standards formally adopted or endorsed by the appropriate groups listed above.
The academic librarian makes unique contributions to the academic community and to higher education itself. These contributions include developing collections, providing bibliographic access to all library materials, and interpreting these materials to members of the college and university community.
Specific services include instruction in the use of print and online library resources and the creation of new tools to enhance access to information available locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally.
Librarians contribute to the sum of knowledge through their research into the information process and other areas of study. Service improvements and other advances in the field result from their participation in library and other scholarly organizations.
1. Professional responsibilities
Librarians must be able to exercise independent judgment in the performance of professional duties. There must be a regular and rigorous review of their performance based on a stated set of institutional criteria. A necessary element of this review is appraisal by a committee of peers who have evidence pertaining to the performance, service, and scholarship of those being evaluated, subject to appropriate institutional policy.
2. Library governance
College and university librarians should adopt an academic form of governance similar in manner and structure to other faculties on the campus.
3. College and university governance
Librarians should be eligible for membership in the faculty senate or equivalent governing body. They should have the same degree of representation as other academic units on all college or university governing bodies.
4. Compensation
Salaries and fringe benefits should be comparable to and within the range of those paid to faculty of equivalent rank. Salary scales should be adjusted in an equitable manner to contract period. All librarians should have written contracts or agreements consistent with institutional policy.
5. Tenure
Librarians should be covered by a stated tenure policy.
6. Promotion
Librarians should be promoted in rank based on their professional proficiency and effectiveness (performance, service, and scholarship) consistent with stated campus standards. The peer review system should be an integral part of procedures for promotion.
7. Leaves and research funds
Sabbatical and other research leaves should be available to librarians consistent with campus standards. Librarians should have access to funding for research projects and professional development consistent with campus standards.
8. Academic freedom
Librarians must have the same protection of academic freedom as all other faculty. Censorship of any type is unacceptable whether individual or organizational. All librarians must be free to provide access to information regardless of content.
9. Grievance
Librarians should have access to the same grievance process as other faculty which include a list of grievable issues, procedures to be completed within specified timeframes, safeguards against repercussions by the institution, and abuse of the policy by the grievant. The process must be consistent with institutional regulations and contracts.
10. Dismissal
Termination of an appointment may be made for adequate cause and through academic due process. The process for the dismissal of librarians should be consistent with university policy for other faculty dismissals.


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The Daily Word in Bun Stabbers, Monkey Smugglers and baby turtles.
It's September 11.
Wrestler Jerry Lawler collapses.
Attack of the Bun Stabber.
Scientology is mad at Vanity Fair.
Night of the Monkey Smuggler.
Iran unveils the Meshkat missile.
Everybody loves funny pictures.
I repeat, everybody loves funny pictures.
These are real sci fi children's books. Not really.
Here's a gentleman they say chased some kids with a chainsaw right here in town.
I'm a big fan of little turtles and promise not to touch my mouth.
Happy Birthday Virginia Madsen.


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Philadelphia, Pa. (December 10, 2012) - As surgical teams gain experience with facial transplantation, a careful approach to planning based on the principles of craniofacial surgery can help to maximize patient outcomes in terms of facial form and function, according to an article in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. The journal, under the editorship of Mutaz B. Habal, MD, is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part ofWolters Kluwer Health.
In patients with extensive facial defects including loss of the normal bone and soft tissue landmarks, a "reverse craniofacial planning" approach can restore normal facial relationships, the report suggests. The lead author was Dr. Edward J. Caterson, a member of the facial transplant team at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Craniofacial Principles Applied to Facial Transplantation
Dr. Caterson and colleagues apply some basic principles of craniofacial surgery to the planning and performance of facial transplants. Although still a rare and relatively new procedure, facial transplantation now offers a reconstructive option for patients with severe facial deficits. Most patients who are candidates for facial transplant have loss of soft tissues only (such as skin, muscle, blood vessels, and nerves).
However, some patients also have defects of the underlying facial bones. In these cases, the challenge for the facial transplant team is nothing less than "the complete restoration of the structural anatomy of the craniofacial skeleton," the authors write.
Through their experience with reconstructive surgery in patients with severe congenital deformities, craniofacial surgeons have developed an understanding of the "intimate functional relationship" between the facial soft tissue and supporting bone. In the traditional craniofacial procedure, the surgeon carefully plans and designs "bone movements that will translate into a desired change of the attached soft tissues."
But in facial transplantation, the situation is essentially reversed: the degree of injury and the subsequent transplantation of facial soft tissues dictate the "osteosynthesis" of the craniofacial skeleton. Dr. Caterson and colleagues describe a simple but practical technique for surgical planning to promote proper positioning of the facial transplant. The technique applies "normative" data on facial landmarks and relationships and then transposes them onto the recipient.
Understanding the relationships of facial structure allows surgeons to compensate for missing bony or soft tissue landmarks. The authors provide a straightforward approach to establishing a plane of reference, allowing the facial transplant to be positioned in a proper relationship with the skull base and occlusal plane (teeth and lower face).
Optimal positioning of the facial transplant is essential not only to achieve the most normal-appearing result, but also to maximize function--particularly in eating and breathing. Dr. Caterson and colleagues emphasize that "proper positioning of the hard tissues of the allograft is the fundamental starting point for functional and aesthetic restoration." As long as the bony structure is right, any cosmetic soft tissue problems that remain after surgery are relatively easy to correct.
The authors believe that such craniofacial principles are likely to become an increasingly important consideration--"especially with the trend toward full face transplantation." In early experience, donor selection for face transplantation has focused mainly on immunological factors--similar to those used in organ transplantation.
In the future, transplant teams may become more sophisticated in donor selection--including assessment of the degree of "craniofacial match" between donors and recipients. In the meantime, Dr. Caterson and coauthors conclude, "[C]areful attention to the soft tissue relationships with the skeletal anatomy requires that face transplantation include 'reverse craniofacial planning' to optimize the form and function of the recipient's new face."
About The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery serves as a forum of communication for all those involved in craniofacial and maxillofacial surgery. Coverage ranges from practical aspects of craniofacial surgery to the basic science that underlies surgical practice. Affiliates include 14 major specialty societies around the world, including the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, the American Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Argentine Society of Plastic Surgery Section of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, the Asian Pacific Craniofacial Association, the Association of Military Plastic Surgeons of the U.S., the Brazilian Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery, the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, the Japanese Society of Craniofacial Surgery, the Korean Society of Craniofacial Surgery, the
Thai Cleft and Craniofacial Association, and the World Craniofacial Foundation.
About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of trusted content delivered in innovative ways to practitioners, professionals and students to learn new skills, stay current on their practice, and make important decisions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2011 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.7 billion).


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Basically you'll find two versions of ito's lemma in the literature: an integral and a differential form. The integral form is based on an Riemann-Stieltjes-integral approach, the differential form is said to be the chain rule for stochastic processes.
My questions: Some purists tell you that only the integral form is valid and the differential form is a shortcut to that at most. Why do they think so? Others tell you that both forms are ok and are just two sides of the same coin. What is true now and why?


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News: The Graphic novel 'Lore' is (finally) being adapted for big screen. Look forward to it.
News: Sci-fi author puts artwork on show
45 Incredible Futuristic Scifi 3D City Illustrations
Daft Punk's Tron Legacy Score Leaked Online Youtube user alexdaft26 has uploaded the entire soundtrack in nine films on Youtube. Get it while you can.
Fifteen Visually Stunning Architectural Delights
From Cavemen to Manga and Beyond: Expressing Ourselves Through Comics
Friday, July 30, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 30, 2010
Short Film: Face
Faces, a short animation by Lei Lei (雷磊), an independent Chinese animator and designer. He's put most of his works on Vimeo, including a short TEDxShanghai talk he gave several months ago.
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Labels: animation, short film, video
Humor: Fishing for Nerds
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Labels: humor, super mario
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Mash-Up: Sub-Zero vs Daffy Duck
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Labels: mortal kombat
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 27, 2010
Robot Rampage! by Jamie F. Martin
The CRAB Robot is a bit of futuristic conceptual design created by Jamie Martin, the designed behind the Cobra Venom V8, SHC hatchback concept, and the award winning London Navigator bus concept.
Interview: Tor.com interviews the cover artist and model from the Mercy Thompson series.
Video: Mortal Kombat Fatalities
Mortal Kombat fatalities are not what we could actually call "kid-friendly", but these from Youtube user Eric Power almost make the whole thing look cute. Almost.
Labels: mortal kombat, video, video games
Infographic: Inception Infographic
This Inception Infographic by ~Dehahs is so excellent that I thought it merited its own post. If you haven't seen the movie yet, it won't make a lot of sense, but it's a great recap for those of us who loved it.
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Labels: infographics, movie posters, movies, skulls
Fresh Take: 360 Escher Panorama
Labels: fresh take, interactive
Monday, July 26, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 26, 2010
As seen in Season 4, Episode 3 of The Guild.
The an 18" x 24" poster by Greg Aronowitz debuted at Comic-Con 2010
Knit yourself a Firefly class spaceship. [PDF]
AICN Exclusive: Check out Drew Struzan's WALKING DEAD Comic-Con poster!
Here's the Firefly cast as arigumi dolls.
Let the parade of Lego Inception creations begin.
You should be reading Spacegirl Comic by Travis Charest kind of kicks ass.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 23, 2010
11 Cool Garbage Cans
Lawrence Person has posted a gallery of Awesomely Wrong Watchmen
Lazy Palace has posted a gallery of photos of fire juggling.
Mark Grambau has created a gallery of Comic Posters.
The Web Urbanist has posted a gallery of Steampunk-themed Guitars
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 22, 2010
Interview: Onion AV Club's interview with Kick-Ass' Mark Millar is worth a read.
News: Comic-Con protesters get owned by Comic-Con fans.
News: Frank Frazetta Conan Painting Sells For $1.5 Million At San Diego Comic Con.
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Music Video: Gnarcade
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Labels: music, video, video games
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Video: Iron Man iPad Speed Sketch
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Labels: Illustration, iron man, sketches, video
Crafts: Unlimited Urban Woods
Fan of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? Now you too can have your very own magical closet-sized forest. Get a tree and four mirrors and make your own Unlimited Urban Woods. This temporary pavilion is currently on display in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam.
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Labels: architecture, crafts
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 20, 2010
An Australian Furniture site taps into the popularity of World of Warcraft.
Fans attending Celebration V Collecting Panels will receive Star Wars-themed mini cereal boxes. [Via Geeks are Sexy]
Geek Art Gallery points the way to a bit of graphic designer humor.
If my grandmother owned a game console, this is probably what it would look like.
Scott Pilgrim Goes from Indie Comic to Media Phenomenon
Tor.com show you how to Build your own Stubby paper rocket!
When mathematicians scrawl graffiti on a bathroom stall.
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Humor: Graphic Designer Humor
Labels: graphic design, humor
Link Round-Up: July 20, 2010
Under the Sand is a vintage Cthulhu postcard
This chart explains Inception Math based on statistics from the movie.
Falarsimons has posted some amazing Tron 2 concept art.
Geek Syndicate offers this preview of the new Tron Legacy Billboards.
Idiot Duck has a gallery of the Most Amazing Sand Sculptures in the World
Jeff Nishinaka creates amazing 3D paper sculptures.
Minimalist Boba Fett design by Daniel Buechter.
Space Project from photographer Vincent Fournier. "Playing on the stylised notion of a sci-fi utopia, Fournier's otherworldly photographs of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile – alongside a series of surprisingly stringy trainee astronauts - offer an alternative view of the world, unseen by many and known by few."
Merchandise: Star Wars Propaganda
Empire Before All from the Big Bad Toy Store
Price: $157.99
Labels: merchandise, propaganda, star wars
Friday, July 16, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 16, 2010
Build a Life-Size Paper Clone of Yourself for Under $40
"No matter how old you are, an empty wrapping paper tube is still a light saber."
This Plush Boba Fett was made by Leeanna Butcher
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Merchandise: Tardis iPhone Case
This Doctor Who inspired Tardis phone case is made from durable, scratch-free felt with a thin fade-resistant coating. Each Crank case is hand-made from start to finish from the best sustainable materials available and will ensure a good fit for iPhone, iPod Touch or any other smartphone of the similar size. Price: $4.00
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Labels: doctor who, merchandise
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 15, 2010
Star Wars Iwo Jima by OtisFrampton
Blastr has a gallery of The 10 most gorgeous blasters and ray guns in science fiction.
Cliff Chiang has releases a set of Star Wars propaganda posters that will be available at Comicon and Acme this week.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 14, 2010
Andrew McDonald has stuck upon a novel method of getting his digital camera returned when lost.
Gizmodo asked their readers to submit wallpaper-sized pictures of bugs. Today, 294 colorful images of creepy crawlies were posted to galleries on their site [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], as well as to Flickr, where high-resolution versions can be downloaded. This project is part of their weekly "Shooting Challenge". Each week's results can be seen in individual sets on their Flickr account.
Slash Film shares this shot of China's Life-Size Optimus Prime.
Weta Artists Offer Up Custom Painted Rayguns
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 13, 2010
"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" by Peter Ferk
11 Points shares 11 Things You Didn't Know About Comic Sans
Check out the Firefly Sculptures. They look like action figures, but they're actually hand-made.
The Many faces of Dr. Sheldon Cooper
There's no definitive source for this photo, but this may well be the single greatest cosplay costume ever.
Crafts: Mega Man Mosaic
Mega Man Art Project by jarosh
Jarosh of the NeoGAF forum created this Mega Man mosaic out of 1,500 mega man screenshots of the classic NES Mega Man 1 - 6. The mosaic is printed on a 120 x 109 cm canvas with a wooden frame. Check out the thread for close-up shots of the mosaic.
Labels: crafts, mega man, mosaic, video games
Monday, July 12, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 12, 2010
Cylon Centurion by ~SovietSpencer
Interview: Suvudu interviews cover artist John Jude Palencar.
This Amazing Fire Animation uses candles and stop-motion to create scrolling marquee effects. [YouTube]
Bite offers this map of the The Geek Galaxy.
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Merchandise: Space Invaders Sleeve
The iPad Space Invaders Sleeve by Antjes on Etsy
Labels: crafts, invaders, merchandise
Friday, July 9, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 9, 2010
These 8-Bit photos come from the gallery of CrazyEM. Check out more of his work at Deviant Art or at the EM-Time BlopSpot.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 8, 2010
Star Wars Icons by ~JoepGerrits
Lego Creations: Lego Mech
In the News: Verdant Art-Tech Contraption Descends Upon France
La Machine, which has been startling Europeans with giant robots for more than a decade. Before the "flying greenhouse," there was the 50-foot-tall spider on the side of a building in Liverpool. And, of course, there was the 50-ton wooden elephant that roamed the streets of Nantes in 2005.
Read the rest of the story at Wired >>
Read the rest of the story at Wired >>
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 7, 2010
Ghost Buster Steampunk by Aleksandr Nikonov
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Artist: Chiara "Milk" Bautista
Licking the Dust by Chiara "Milk" Bautista
Her website is currently down for construction, but she's posted her rather impressive gallery on her MySpace account.
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Labels: artist
Lego Creations: Lego Neuschwanstein
Neuschwanstein by Bob CarneyBob Carney showed his model of Neuschwanstein Castle at this year's Brickworld. The model is massive. According to Carney's website, Neuschwanstein is one hundred inches long, and it took six months to complete. You can see how he built it, step by step on his website, along with side-by-side comparisons of the actual castle. It's really worth a look if you're a lego fan.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Link Round-Up: July 6, 2010
Summoner Library by Asuka111
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Fresh Take: Ceci n'est pas une raquette
A parody of Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Source: The Art History of Games
Source: The Art History of Games
Labels: fresh take, video games
Monday, July 5, 2010
Fresh Take: Under Cover
Labels: fresh take, humor, pac-man, video games
Link Round-Up: July 5, 2010
Planet Express by ~Belldandies
Poster: Sea of Tranquility
Sea of Tranquility travel poster by Andy Helms on sale at Etsy
Labels: minimalist, posters, space
In the News: Tetris On A 3D Display Made Of Water
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have created three-dimensional Tetris using a projector and layers of water that falls in curtains, creating actual 3D figures. Resolution? "Each screen is formed by water droplets falling from 50 stainless-steel needles. The needles release their droplets in unison, with 60 such lines created every second."
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Labels: news, technology, tetris, video games
Quick Pic: Midsummer Meeting
Midsummer Meeting by Björn Hurri
Alright, in all fairness, this pic isn't exactly "geeky," but I smile every time I see it. Make sure you visit the site and leave a comment, Gorilla Artfare is a brilliant blog.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Fan Art: Wonder Woman
Wonders by ~pangketepang
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Labels: comics
Link Round-up: July 2, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Crafts: Artifical Hearts
"Ventricle Vessel" blown glass
Created by Eva Milinkovic of Tsunami Glassworks
Created by Eva Milinkovic of Tsunami Glassworks
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Flash: Haaretz Reports At Least 10 Activists on Gaza Mercy Flotilla Have Been Killed by Israeli Gunfire
Haaretz Report: At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla Over 60 pro-Palestinian campaigners wounded after aid convoy sailing for Gaza Strip ignored Israel's order to turn back, Turkish news reports. IDF confirms two commandos also wounded. At least three activists from the East Bay, including Dr. Paul Larudee of El Cerrito, have been taking part in the mission to bring relief to Gaza. -more-


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police searched Sunday for a man suspected of throwing a flammable liquid at his girlfriend and severely burning her.
Officer Carlos Manfredi said witnesses in the city's Bayview District reported hearing the woman screaming. She was taken to a hospital burn unit with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators believe her attacker was 22-year-old Dexter Oliver.
Manfredi said Oliver had a "dating relationship" with the woman, but he did not know the circumstances that led to the attack.
The victim's sister told KGO-TV that Oliver doused his girlfriend with gasoline and lit her on fire during an argument at a nearby Laundromat.
Precious Craig said most of her sister's face was burnt, and that the family expects her to recover.
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Tony-winning director John Rando (Urinetown) and Tony-nominated choreographer Warren Carlyle (Chaplin, Follies, An Evening With Hugh Jackman) staged the production that began previews Nov. 7 and opened to warm critical notices Nov. 19.
Richard Rodgers Award-winning Dogfight songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul penned the score to the musical that captures the dysfunction and joy of a 1940's American holiday. Joseph Robinette authored the book.
Click here to read the Playbill Magazine feature on the songwriters.
The score includes such songs as "Red Ryder," "Ralphie to the Rescue," "A Major Award" and "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out." An 18-track cast album is available from Masterworks Broadway.
A Christmas Story also broke box-office records at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, raking in $1,491,488 in the week leading up to Christmas. The previous record holder was The Addams Family, which grossed $1,456,119 during the final week of December 2011. Young actor Johnny Rabe makes his Broadway debut in the central role of Ralphie, the youngster who pines away for an "Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!" Peter Billingsley, who originated the role in the 1983 film, is among the producers of the musical. At certain performances, Joe West played the role of Ralphie.
Read Playbill.com's Brief Encounter with Billingsley.
The cast also features Dan Lauria (Lombardi, "The Wonder Years") as Jean Shepherd, with John Bolton (Spamalot, Contact, Titanic) as The Old Man, Tony Award nominee Erin Dilly (Nice Work if You Can Get It, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as Mother, Zac Ballard as little brother Randy, Caroline O'Connor (Chicago, "Moulin Rouge") as school teacher Miss Shields and Eddie Korbich (The Little Mermaid, The Drowsy Chaperone, Wicked) as Santa Claus.
|photo by Carol Rosegg
The ensemble features Tia Altinay, John Babbo, Charissa Bertels, Grace Capeless, Zoe Considine, Andrew Cristi, Mathew deGuzman, Thay Floyd, George Franklin, Nick Gaswirth, Mark Ledbetter, Jose Luaces, Jack Mastrianni, Mara Newbery, Lindsay O'Neil, Sarah Min-Kyung Park, J.D. Rodriguez, Analise Scarpaci, Lara Seibert, Jeremy Shinder, Luke Spring, Beatrice Tulchin and Kirsten Wyatt.
Two bloodhounds named Pete and Lily wreak havoc and snag a turkey as the "Bumpus Hounds," the pooches who take part in the infamous scene in the Christmas-set classic, where a holiday dinner is interrupted when they run off with the family's turkey dinner.
According to producers, "In 1940's Indiana, a bespectacled boy named Ralphie has a big imagination and one wish for Christmas—a Red Ryder BB Gun. A kooky leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a cranky department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the obstacles that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas dream. A Christmas Story, The Musical is holiday entertainment that captures a simpler time in America with delicious wit and a heart of gold."
The production had scenic design by Walt Spangler; costume design by Elizabeth Hope Clancy; lighting design by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley; sound design by Ken Travis; wig design by Tom Watson; orchestrations by 2011 Tony nominee Larry Blank; musical supervision by Ian Eisendrath; dance arrangements by Glen Kelly; and vocal arrangements by composer Justin Paul.
The musical was produced by Gerald Goehring, Roy Miller, Michael F. Mitri, Pat Flicker Addiss, Peter Billingsley, Timothy Laczynski, Mariano Tolentino, Louise H. Beard, Michael Filerman, Scott Hart, Alison Eckert, Bob Bartner, Michael Jenkins, Angela Milonas and Bradford W. Smith.
Visit AChristmasStorytheMusical.com.


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If you visit the Pre-Pub page, you'll see that there are more than a dozen individual titles and collections scheduled to ship in the next few weeks.
There's something there for everyone.
Pastoral Ministry
- Holiness to the Lord: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus by Allen P. Ross
- The Book of Isaiah (3 Vols.)
- Holman New Testament Commentary (12 Vols.)
- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (Ellicott)
- St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians (Ellicott)
- Lexham Greek-English Interlinear New Testament
- Learning Biblical Hebrew: A New Approach Using Discourse Analysis by B. M. Rocine
- Collins Latin Dictionary and Grammar
- Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms by Richard A. Muller
Church History
- Norman L. Geisler's Systematic Theology (4 Vols.)
- Christian Theology (Erickson), 2nd ed.
- Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms by Richard A. Muller
If you see something here that interests but haven't placed your preorder yet, you may still be able to get in at the discounted Pre-Pub price.
Update: The Early Church History Collection (7 Vols.) is now shipping and is no longer available at the Pre-Pub price.


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- Accession
- 1991-2001
Part of Karen Mulhallen Papers
1999 Accession:
A collection of draft manuscripts, notes and correspondence pertaining to her book, In The Era of Acid Rain, Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press, 1993. Also includes correspondence with Virgil Burnett, a draft of Simon Louvich's "Cosmic Follies", and galleys and rejected submissions for Descant.
2000 Accession: Materials relating to the editing and publication of Descant, the literary journal edited by Karen Mulhallen. Includes author correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, proofs, cover proofs, promotional materials, and financial and administrative documents (1989-2000). Also included are material pertaining to other editing work Mulhallen has done, manuscripts, proofs, notes and correspondence pertaining to her book The Grace of Private Passage. Windsor, Ont.: Black Moss Press, 2000, and gifts to her.
2001 Accession:
Materials relating to the editing and publication of Descant, 1987-2001. Includes author correspondence, manuscripts, manuscripts on diskettes, proofs, production and research notes, and office, subscription and distribution documents.
Mulhallen, Karen