Taken from CVS Web site 12/29/2009:
CVS/pharmacy is actively working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as well as state health departments to participate as a provider of the H1N1 vaccine. All flu vaccination schedules are subject to vaccine availability. In the event of a vaccine shortage or distribution delay, we may limit the vaccine to those persons in designated priority groups, based on direction from the CDC.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Gold Coins: Out of Stock
American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins
From the U.S. Mint Web site:
Production of United States Mint American Eagle Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coins has been temporarily suspended because of unprecedented demand for American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins. Currently, all available 22-karat gold blanks are being allocated to the American Eagle Gold Bullion Coin Program, as the United States Mint is required by Public Law 99-185 to produce these coins “in quantities sufficient to meet public demand . . . .”
The United States Mint will resume the American Eagle Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coin Programs once sufficient inventories of gold bullion blanks can be acquired to meet market demand for all three American Eagle Gold Coin products. Additionally, as a result of the recent numismatic product portfolio analysis, fractional sizes of American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins will no longer be produced.
Update: Due to the continued, sustained demand for American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins, 2009-dated American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins will not be produced.
From the U.S. Mint Web site:
Production of United States Mint American Eagle Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coins has been temporarily suspended because of unprecedented demand for American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins. Currently, all available 22-karat gold blanks are being allocated to the American Eagle Gold Bullion Coin Program, as the United States Mint is required by Public Law 99-185 to produce these coins “in quantities sufficient to meet public demand . . . .”
The United States Mint will resume the American Eagle Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coin Programs once sufficient inventories of gold bullion blanks can be acquired to meet market demand for all three American Eagle Gold Coin products. Additionally, as a result of the recent numismatic product portfolio analysis, fractional sizes of American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins will no longer be produced.
Update: Due to the continued, sustained demand for American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins, 2009-dated American Eagle Gold Uncirculated Coins will not be produced.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Trittico
Puccini's Trittico, a triptych of three one-act operas, is well worth seeing at the Met this month. The opera had its world premiere at the Met in 1918. Puccini could not attend because of the war. The music is Puccini at his most mature. Gianni Schicchi features one of the best-known operas of all time; listeners may be shocked to encounter it in its cynical setting.
Vengeance
When I was a young reporter at the Daily Breeze in the industrial armpit of Torrance, California, one of our many duties was to format the TV soaps for inclusion in the paper. My late colleague Bea Nyburg and I used to laugh ourselves senseless at the Spanish-language episodes of the genre, as they all without exception featured vengeance.
Vengeance must be the most stupid of all the motives. It is self-destructive, devoid of insight, alarmingly lacking in compassion. Before my Daily Breeze days, I was briefly a police reporter in San Pedro for the smallest of the Copley Newspapers chain, the "San Pedro News-Pilot," a thrice-weekly evening newspaper known not-too-affectionately as the "Fishwrapper." I had the distinction of having the shortest-ever stay at the Fishwrapper before promotion, but I am still nostalgic about my three months there.
Among the chief delights was to peruse the morning police blotter in search of copy for the 11 a.m. deadline. I often found tales of passion, bluntly told in policese, involving the demise of a woman by a lover mad with jealousy. The tragedy of these stories have remained in my mind these 23 years. I felt sorry for the invariably lower-class victims, and also a little sadness for the perpetrators; could they not have just let it go? Moved away?
The maudlin lack of pretense, the absence of any attempt to cover up the emotions, the failure to employ self-reflection -- all this was fascinating in a depressing way. I in no way envied the players in these tales, seeing clearly their dreadful comeuppances. Landing in the police blotter was no road to glory. Even as subjects of my baroque pen, nothing could have raised their fate to more than a 5-inch mention in the Fishwrapper.
Vengeance must be the most stupid of all the motives. It is self-destructive, devoid of insight, alarmingly lacking in compassion. Before my Daily Breeze days, I was briefly a police reporter in San Pedro for the smallest of the Copley Newspapers chain, the "San Pedro News-Pilot," a thrice-weekly evening newspaper known not-too-affectionately as the "Fishwrapper." I had the distinction of having the shortest-ever stay at the Fishwrapper before promotion, but I am still nostalgic about my three months there.
Among the chief delights was to peruse the morning police blotter in search of copy for the 11 a.m. deadline. I often found tales of passion, bluntly told in policese, involving the demise of a woman by a lover mad with jealousy. The tragedy of these stories have remained in my mind these 23 years. I felt sorry for the invariably lower-class victims, and also a little sadness for the perpetrators; could they not have just let it go? Moved away?
The maudlin lack of pretense, the absence of any attempt to cover up the emotions, the failure to employ self-reflection -- all this was fascinating in a depressing way. I in no way envied the players in these tales, seeing clearly their dreadful comeuppances. Landing in the police blotter was no road to glory. Even as subjects of my baroque pen, nothing could have raised their fate to more than a 5-inch mention in the Fishwrapper.
American Art
The exhibit "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life" at the Metropolitan Art Museum is a blockbuster. The exhibit covers American art from 1765 to 1915, and encompasses too much to take in at a single viewing. What struck me was the absence of mean jokes at the audience's expense. Primitivist nor outsider art was not the focus; rather, the exhibit features artists who had mastered representational technique and were seeking to embrace their surroundings with open eyes. I was reminded of humanist 17th-century Dutch aesthetic, forged amid commercial vigor and celebrating the true and everyday.
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