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The gamma-ray sky is dynamic with sources transient or variable on time scales from seconds to months. These include gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and black hole accretors, all characterized by bursts and flares. We are in a rich period of time domain astronomy with Swift and Fermi operating. The X-ray through high energy gamma-ray skies are being monitored at sensitivities more than an order of magnitude better than previous experiments. The talk will highlight exciting and often surprising recent discoveries, such as tidal disruption events with stars torn apart by the gravitational shear of a massive black hole and short gamma-ray bursts that are caused by the compact object mergers that will likely dominate future gravitational wave detections.

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