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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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At least take down Shannon's dam and claim back some of the Baker River for steelhead and salmon.
|How about the Baker River dams? I wonder how many more steelhead and salmon would swim the Skagit without those two dams?
One option is to take the dam out. I realize that there are both social and economic costs with doing this but it does solve the problem as I understand it.
More and more, as our wild anadromous stocks continue their decline into extinction, dam removal becomes the only viable option to save fish. It is happening on the Elwha and at some point in the future, could well become reality on the lower Snake. The question is, can it happen in time to save the wild runs? In the case of the Snake, probably not.
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Wild Summer Run Steelhead, and Hatcheries
I think I have spoken before about why there are Summer Steelhead, if I haven't I will now. People know that there are Summer Steelhead, and that they are a very prolific game fish, aggressive, active, and spectacular fish, especially for us fly fishers on the west coast, but not many people know what created them and why they are there.
Summer Steelhead are usually (Ie about 90 plus percent of cases) found on rivers with barriers to migration that most other species of Salmonids can not surmount, or are reluctant to surmount in a time frame that will get them to Up River spawning grounds. This Barrier may be a Strong chute, a Falls, or a distance/cold barrier. Summer Steelhead are proflic migraters, not in their abilities neccessarily to migrate long distances (although they do migrate long distances, the Sustut, Thompson, and Chilcotin stocks are examples), but also more so in their ability to surmount rapids, cascades, fast water, and the like with their powerful, long, robust genetically tuned to their watershed bodies.
Steelhead are cold blooded animals. Thus their metabolism is dictated by the temperature of the water. In the Summer when the water temperatures are at their peak in warmth, Steelhead are at their peak in activity, both juveniles, and Adults. Adults, as we all know are very active at this time, and much more "fly chasing friendly." The Summer monthes also aid the Steelhead in their increased metabolism, and this their ability to challenge chutes of fast water, jump falls up to 4 metres high if neccessary, and migrate long distances in the case of Interior Summer run stocks such as the ones I mentioned earlier. This is why you don't see Winter run Steelhead that migrate far in the Skeena (Spring run fish migrate to about Terrace as far as they go from my knowledge), and it's the reason that the Thompson and Chilcotin stocks are Late Summer run stocks as if it was the winter their metabolism would be so low that they would be reluctant to migrate to their spawning grounds over 350 KM plus Up river through the Fraser Canyon and Thompson Terrors.
So now we understand the difference between Summer run and Winter run Steelhead habitat and what creates a Summer run of Steelhead. Now we have to look at the situation.
We all speak of the need to protect Wild Steelhead. Myself, being a member of the Steelhead Society of BC, am obviously all for it. But there is a case where I don't know if I can say that Wild Steelhead are an option. Rivers with Dams.
Take River A for example. Historically there was a significant falls on this river with a large amount of river habitat above. This Falls marked the barrier between Summer run and Winter run Steelhead historically. Now, there is a Dam put on this River and the Summer run Steelhead are forced to compete with Winter Steelhead which have strongly colonized this habitat below the barrier already. Now we have competition between two races of Steelhead in the same river, and from my understanding, most times the Winter Steelhead will dominate more often than not. So how do we keep this race of Summer run Steelhead alive?
IN the case of this River, the Summer Steelhead are still alive somewhat, but they are fairly hatchery dependant now. The Winter run Steelhead has taken up more residence in the Lower section of the River below the Dam, where as the Summer run has taken up residence in the River directly below the Dam for a few KM downward. However, me thinks that eventually, if hatchery enhancement is discontinued, that this Summer run race will eventually will probably end up spawning with Winter runs creating a Fall and Winter run, and then eventually a Winter run, or it will survive for a short time before the Winter run's outright outcompete the Summer runs.
So what are the options to keep the Summer run alive?
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Raymond James chip analyst Hans Mosesmann today reiterated a Strong Buy rating on shares of DRAM and NAND memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU), writing that he thinks the company can make his revenue number of $3.67 billion for the fiscal Q1 that ended in November, and although that is slightly below consensus for $3.71 billion.
Micron is scheduled to report results on January 7th, after the closing bell.
He also thinks EPS may come in at 30 cents, versus consensus of 44 cents, mostly owing to weaker-than-expected NAND pricing, and some inventory issues:
Our below-consensus estimate is partially driven by recent NAND pricing trends, where spot pricing was down in the mid-teens through November, which is worse than management's quarter-to-date projection of a high single-digit decline. This should be offset by continued favorable movements in DRAM, with the Hynix Wuxi fire disrupting industry supply starting in early September. Note that spot pricing through November remained favorable at +15 to 20% q/q depending on the form factor, which is above management's quarter-to-date indication of mid-single-digit expansion. While this should drive much higher margins (all else equal), Elpida inventory digestion (marked to market at the time of the acquisition) should have a ~310 bp impact on consolidated gross margins ($110 – $120 million total). Thus, we believe our 28% gross margin estimate is much more reasonable relative to consensus of 30.9%, although it remains unclear whether consensus estimates (which range from 23% to 41%) includes the Elpida inventory digestion. Thus, we suspect some confusion as it relates to "pro forma" EPS, but feel comfortable that the reported figure will be above our estimate of $0.30 (consensus is $0.44).
Mosesmann opines the company will forecast Q2 to see "modest q/q DRAM bit growth" and "relatively normal mid-single-digits ASP declines for NAND and modest growth in DRAM."
Although the stock is up 236% this year, "recent confusion regarding new "capacity" for Hynix has caused an 8% correction from the peak earlier this month, and offers an attractive entry point in our view," he concludes.
Micron shares today closed up 45 cents, or 2%, at $21.75.
Previously: Micron: Positive DRAM, NAND Trends, Says Drexel; TSM Order Rumors Encouraging, December 31st, 2013.

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Posted October 31, 2007; 05:18 p.m.
Historian and award-winning author Carlos Eire will present a three-lecture series on "A Brusque History of Eternity" at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Nov. 6-8, in McCosh 10.
The Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, Eire is an authority on the social, intellectual, religious and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a strong focus on the Protestant and Catholic reformations.
His lectures will trace the concept of eternity in the first 15 centuries of Christian history, specifically regarding ritual, monasticism, mysticism and church-state relations; analyze how the Protestant Reformation shifted attention to more worldly concerns; and examine the social, political and economic transformations this shift has brought about in the modern West.
Eire, who as a child fled his homeland of Cuba in 1962, is the author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy," which won the 2003 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Associate Dean Jon Dubin Receives National Award as Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Legal Education
Throughout the almost 25 years of his law teaching career, Jon C. Dubin, Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been an ardent and effective proponent of both the value of clinical legal education and the integration of clinical faculty into the legal academic community.
In recognition of his commitment to and advancement of the clinical community, the Clinical Legal Education Association has selected Dubin as the recipient of its 2014 CLEA Award for Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers. Dubin received the award on April 30 at the Association of American Law Schools' Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
"Jon Dubin has long been a national leader in the advancement of clinical legal education," said Acting Dean Ronald K. Chen, "and as our Associate Dean has led our groundbreaking clinical program to new levels of achievement. We are very proud of him."
Professor Dubin began his teaching career at St. Mary's University School of Law in 1990 and rose to the positions of tenured Professor of Law and Coordinator of Clinical Programs before his departure for Rutgers. He founded the first in-house clinic at St. Mary's and spearheaded the institutionalization of its nascent clinical program, which had expanded to five clinics, before coming to Rutgers.
When Dubin arrived at the law school in 1999, the Rutgers Clinical Program had for more than 30 years been an important part of the school's mission of public service and social justice, as well as the primary vehicle for providing professional lawyering skills instruction. Yet most clinical teachers lacked faculty status, job security, and a role in institutional governance.
After his 2002 appointment as the school's first overall clinical director, Dubin began work on remedying this situation. Dubin's efforts, in collaboration with senior, non-clinical faculty members, culminated in the creation of the Clinic Scholar Series in 2005 – essentially a clinical tenure track designed to achieve fuller participation by clinical faculty in the life and operation of the law school. The framework promotes and supports the production of scholarship; extends "for cause" job security upon satisfaction of the scholarship, teaching, clinical practice, and service criteria; and advances clinicians' participation in institutional governance by extending faculty meeting voting rights for the first time..
In addition to promoting the interests of the Rutgers–Newark Clinical Program, Dubin has served on the governing boards of nearly every national organization involved with the development and advancement of clinical legal education, including the AALS Clinical Section, the Clinical Legal Education Association, and the Clinical Law Review. He also has fostered a spirit of community among clinicians nationwide through his frequent participation in national conferences and his scholarship.
In his writings he has championed clinical education and developed poverty law doctrine that protects and promotes the rights of clients served by law school clinics. His books include Clinical Education for This Millennium: The Third Wave (Ayumi Miche Kodama and Eri Osaka trans. 2005), the Japanese book version of 7 Clin. L. Rev. 1 (2000) (co-authored with Margaret M. Barry and Peter A. Joy), and four editions of Social Security Disability Law and Procedure in Federal Court (2010-2014, Thomson Reuters/West Publishing Co.) (co-authored with Carolyn A. Kubitschek). Among his articles that focus on clinical legal education are "The Rutgers Cases and the State of the Law of State Law School Clinical Programs," 65 Rutgers L. Rev. 817 (2013); "Faculty Diversity as a Clinical Legal Education Imperative," 51 Hastings L.J. 445 (2000); and "Clinical Design for Social Justice Imperatives," 55 S.M.U.L. Rev. 1461 (1998).
Professor Dubin has won several awards for his scholarship and commitment to underserved individuals and communities. They include the 2014 National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives' Eileen W. Sweeney Award for advancing the quality and availability of advocacy for disability claimants and improving the adjudicatory process; the 2010 Oliver Randolph Award for Civil Rights Advocacy by the Garden State Bar Association; the 2007 Stanley Van Ness Leadership Award for Career Contributions to Public Interest Law by New Jersey Appleseed and the New Jersey Public Interest Law Center; and the Edgar and Jean Cahn Award from the National Equal Justice Library for published one of the most outstanding articles about equal justice for lower-income persons written during the 20th century.
Professor Dubin was named to the new position of Associate Dean for Clinical Education in 2010. In addition to directing one of the country's oldest and most extensive "live-client" clinical programs, he handles social welfare benefit cases within the Civil Justice Clinic and teaches classroom classes in Administrative Law and Poverty Law.


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Dealing with difficult customers focus of women business owners roundtable
"Dealing with difficult customers," will be the topic of the Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners Roundtable discussion from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, February 28, at the Binghamton Regency on Water Street in downtown Binghamton.
Alice Wojcio, owner of Advantage Training and Development (formerly Training Wheels), will explore the primary reasons for conflict and offer tips on how to deal with difficult people. Wojcio will discuss ways to improve communication and how others can perceive strengths as weaknesses.
Wojcio has more than 15 years experience in management, training and coaching. She is the author of Every Conversation a Success! Tips and Tools for Improving Workplace Communication. Wojcio is currently researching and writing a book on workplace trust.
The roundtable costs $7 a person and includes a continental breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards, brochures and product samples to share.
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By JB Clark/NEMS Daily Journal
Editor's Note: This is the eighth in an 18-part series about Northeast Mississippi downtowns.
By JB Clark
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SALTILLO – Downtown Saltillo isn't a place for someone in a hurry.
The pace is slow and the faces are friendly, but the business offerings aren't sparse, with everything from hardware and flowers to auto repair and tattoos.
The quaint downtown is anchored by one of Lee County's oldest continuously operated retail businesses, City Hall, Food Giant and Renasant Bank.
Jones Hardware owner Tommy Jones said the store has been in its current location somewhere in the range of 100 years, "but I wasn't alive that far back to remember."
The store originated somewhere to the north of its current location – Jones said most likely around Cedar Hill – by his great-grandfather, Roper, in the 1800s.
Jones' great-grandfather and grandfather went into business together and the store became Roper-Jones.
When Jones' father graduated from Millsaps College, he went in with Jones' grandfather and the store became J.W. Jones and Son.
The store changed names again when Jones' uncle returned from World War II, becoming J.W. Jones and Sons.
Now Jones and his son Mitchell operate Jones Hardware, and Jones said the business will one day fall to his son.
He said the community supports them pretty well and it helps that the nearest hardware stores are in Baldwyn and Tupelo.
A block west of Jones Hardware is a newer staple of Saltillo's quiet downtown, Bren's Diner.
The diner is where many of Saltillo's men gather each morning for coffee, eggs and political debate.
"They're a good group of guys," said owner Bren Stanford. "I enjoy them and I like to cut up with them, but I don't get involved when they start talking on politics."
The men were patrons of the diner before Bren took it over and gave it her name five years ago. She said Saltillo's downtown is nice because of the slow pace.
"It feels like home," she said. "I wouldn't mind a little more business through here, but the people in town support me and I have my regulars. Lately we've gotten some new faces and I like that, but you can count on the same crowd every morning and I know what they're going to have."
One of those regulars, Wayne Sprinkle, was finishing breakfast with a few other regulars on a recent Wednesday morning.
"It's a friendly crowd and sometimes we learn things, and we usually learn it two or three times in a row," he said with a laugh.
Kathy Brown, owner of the Style Shop salon in the old Saltillo Bank building, said she's seen the town grow tremendously in her 20 years of business.
Across the street and back toward City Hall, Danny Brown has been operating DB's Floral Designs N' More for nine years.
He said he enjoys the unique character of the town and the benefit having the main highway pass by his business.
While life's a little slower downtown, it's certainly not without visibility being nestled along Highway 363 east of Highway 45.


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Description Ovalipes ocellatus is a species of crab from eastern North America, known as the lady crab, calico crab or ocellated crab. It has a shell 3 in (7.6 cm) long and only slightly wider, which is covered in clusters of purple spots. It occurs from Canada to Georgia, and lives mainly on molluscs, such as the Atlantic surf clam.
The carapace of O. ocellatus is slightly wider than long, at 8.9 centimetres (3.5 in) wide, and 7.5 cm (3.0 in) long. This distinguishes it from other crabs in the family Portunidae, which often have elongated lateral spines. The carapace is yellow-grey or light purplish, with "leopardlike clusters of purple dots", and 3 to 5 spines along the edge behind each eye. O. ovalipes is almost identical to O. floridanus, which lives in the Gulf of Mexico, but can be separated from the sympatric O. stephensoni by the purple spots, which O. stephensoni lacks.
Warning This handsome crab is known for its aggressive disposition and sharp pincers. It must be handled with great caution.
Habitat Rocks, Ocean or bay shallows.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada, New England.


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Topics: "AAR to Re-Open Duluth Airplane Maintenance Facility" & "I Stand with Kids Campaign"
Description: The leading independent airplane maintenance company in the United States signed a letter of intent this week to re-open the airplane maintenance hangar at the Duluth Airport. Hundreds of jobs may follow.
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Study of Effect on Resonance Frequency of Piezoelectric Unimorph Cantilever for Energy Harvesting
G. R. Prakash[1], K. M. V. Swamy[1], S. Huddar[1], B. G. Sheeparamatti[1], Kirankumar B. B.[1]
[1]Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
The focus of this paper is to study the effect on resonance frequency and power enhancement techniques[1] of piezoelectric MEMS and modeling, design, and optimization of a piezoelectric generator based on a two-layer bending element(Figure 1) using COMSOL Multiphysics. An analytical relation was developed based on the shift in resonance frequency(Figure 2) caused by the addition of a thin film ...
Design and Analysis of MEMS Gyroscope
L. Sujatha[1], B. Preethi[1]
[1]Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India
MEMS gyroscope technology provides cost- effective method for improving directional estimation and overall accuracy in the navigation systems. This paper presents a tuning- fork gyroscope (TFG) [1] with a perforated proof mass. The perforated proof mass used in the design enables the reduction of the damping effect. This MEMS based gyroscope was designed using COMSOL Multiphysics 4.2a. This ...
Sensitivity Analysis of Different Models of Piezoresistive Micro Pressure Sensors
S. Meenatchisundaram[1], S. M. Kulkarni[2], S. Bhat
[1]Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
[2]Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, India.
Piezoresistive pressure sensors have received much attention over the years because of low cost, simple measurement techniques, etc. There is a challenge in design with respect to appropriate positioning, shape and temperature compensation. Different models of piezoresistive pressure sensors are proposed to enhance its sensitivity in terms of output voltage. This paper aims in sensitivity ...
CVD Graphene Growth Mechanism on Nickel Thin Films - new
K. Al-Shurman[1], H. Naseem[2]
[1]The Institute for Nanoscience & Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
[2]Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Chemical vapor deposition is considered a promising method for synthesis of graphene films on different types of substrate utilizing transition metals such as Ni. However, synthesizing a single-layer graphene and controlling the quality of the graphene CVD film on Ni are very challenging due to the multiplicity of the CVD growth conditions. COMSOL Multiphysics® software is used to investigate ...
Tunable MEMS Capacitor for RF Applications
H. S. Shriram[1], T. Nimje[1], D. Vakharia[1]
[1]BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Radio Frequency MEMS devices have emerged to overcome the problem of high losses associated with semiconductors at high frequencies. A tunable MEMS capacitor is a micrometre-scale electronic device whose capacitance is controlled through different actuation mechanisms which govern the moving parts. It can have electrostatic or electrothermal actuators depending on the functional complexity and ...
Optimizing the Performance of MEMS Electrostatic Comb-Drive Actuator with different Flexure Springs
S. Gupta[1], T. Pahwa[1], R. Bansal[1], V. Bansal[1], B. Prasad[1], D. Kumar[1]
[1]Electronic Science Department Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana
A new design of electrostatic comb drive actuator is presented in this paper by using different spring designs and with different folded beam lengths. An increased displacement of lateral comb drive actuator will subsequently be accomplished with the same actuation voltage. Stress distribution over different spring designs are simulated by COMSOL 3.5a using a standard comb drive with 4 movable ...
Air Damping of Oscillating MEMS Structures: Modeling and Comparison with Experiment
S. Gorelick[1], M. Leivo[1], U. Kantojärvi[1]
[1]VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
Excessive air damping can be detrimental to the performance of oscillating MEMS components. Complex systems, such as structures in pre-etched cavities or angular comb-drive scanning mirrors, typically require simulations to reliably evaluate the air damping. The simulated and experimental performance of the following systems was evaluated and compared: two types of out-of-plane cantilevers, in ...
Study of Capacitance in Electrostatic Comb-Drive Actuators
P. Hanasi [1], B. G. Sheeparamatti [1], V. Abbigeri [1], N. Meti [1],
[1] Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
Capacitor is mainly defined as two conducting plates that can hold the opposite charges on it. These plates can be used either as a sensor or an actuator. If the relative distance between the two conductors changes as result of given input, then capacitance values will change. This results in basic of capacitive or electrostatic sensing configuration. On the other hand, if a voltage or the ...
Surface Plasmon Resonance
J. Crompton[1], S. Yushanov[1], L.T. Gritter[1], K.C. Koppenhoefer[1]
[1]AltaSim Technologies, Columbus, OH, USA
The resonance conditions for surface plasmons are influenced by the type and amount of material on a surface. Full insight into surface plasmon resonance requires quantum mechanics considerations. However, it can be also described in terms of classical electromagnetic theory by considering electromagnetic wave reflection, transmission, and absorption for the multi-layer medium. The two commonly ...
Design of a MEMS Capacitive Comb-drive Accelerometer
T. Kaya[1], B. Shiari[2], K. Petsch[1], and D. Yates[2]
[1]Central Michigan University, School of Engineering and Technology, Mount Pleasant, MI
[2]University of Michigan, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI
In this work, a MEMS low-g accelerometer with three sensitive directions is designed for health monitoring applications. The accelerometer may have different sensitivity in different axes. The proof-mass of the device is suspended by four serpentine springs, and the comb drive structure is used to form the differential capacitor to measure the displacement of the proof-mass. The structure has an ...


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Immediate ban on all guns.
Guns only for military/police.
Bolt/pump/lever action ok, no semi-autos.
Gun laws are fine as they currently stand.
Select-fire weapons should be allowed.
You can have them when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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"Lucille" is my BanHammer!!!
I voted for fine as they currently stand, although I would be fine with an "assault weapons" ban.
I didn't vote because I honestly don't know. I've always had a pretty broad reading of the 2nd amendment but that's changing now. I don't know where I'll finally come down on it.
For example, I own a Ruger 10/22. It looks like this one:
It's a .22 caliber rim-fire.
Or, were you just referring to AR-15 style rifles that look like military rifles?
... Is it a question of the rifle's caliber? .22 rimfire vs. centerfires like the .223 or .556 for example?
Or, is it just the fact that the rifle chambers the next round of ammunition for you?
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When Tupelo High School teacher Brookes Mayes led a class for the first time three years ago, she found that much about her preparation at Mississippi State University had readied her to instruct THS's Apple Tech class.
But as the school year progressed, she began to discover duties she wished she was better prepared to handle, responsibilities like strategies for contacting parents.
"As a 22-year-old talking to someone possibly in their 40s, it can be intimidating talking to them about their own kids when they are looking at you like you are a kid," Mayes said. "They tell you you should communicate with parents, but it would be great to have more strategies for how do you go about doing that."
Mayes said she felt well-prepared for speaking to a large group and for preparing lesson plans, but the problem was the lesson plan format she had spent so much time developing in college was different from the one used by her school district.
She also wished she had more familiarity with finding inexpensive resources for students, especially during a time of tight budgets.
"I feel like I had multiple classes that touched on these areas, but there was never one class that just nailed it in one of these areas," she said. "They could have one class and cover all of these areas and focus on them."
In Mississippi's education reform efforts and its attempts to get the best and brightest teacher corps, one emerging question is how well is it preparing those who now go into the field. It is a question experts say carries much significance.
"If you are going to improve schools, you first have to bring teachers into the classroom who are better prepared, they've been trained by outstanding faculty, they know what to do and they have a commitment to doing it," said Tom Burnham, former state superintendent of education and former head of the University of Mississippi School of Education.
Rankin Elementary second-year teacher Krystle Scales said she wishes she learned how to understand student test data beyond just seeing who scored well and who didn't.
"One thing that should be added is teaching teachers how to interpret, analyze and use student data in order to devise a plan to move students from where they are to the next level," she said.
Also, Scales said, she would like to see teacher candidates receive more training on ways to devise tests that simulate state tests in their rigor and ways they phrase questions.
Nancy Loome, who heads the Parents Campaign, a statewide network of public education improvement advocates, agreed teachers need more help in analyzing data. Today's technology gives them access to information that educators of past years would have been thrilled to have had, she said. But teachers must know how to use it.
Loome also called for greater rigor in teacher prep programs and a greater focus on content-area knowledge and on the fundamentals of reading. Many others, including Tupelo Superintendent Gearl Loden, agreed that teachers need to know more about the subjects they are teaching, especially as the new Common Core State Standards require them to go more in-depth.
David Rock, dean of the University of Mississippi's School of Education, said Ole Miss teachers do get much subject-area knowledge, citing that math teacher candidates have the same requirements as the university's math majors with the exception of two courses.
Both he and MSU Education Dean Richard Blackbourn said one challenge they face as they try to offer more courses to students is they are not allowed to require more than 124 hours for graduation. Since students don't enter their education programs until their junior year and because there are a lot of other general class requirements, it is difficult to add more.
Rock said he would like to be able to have students begin taking education courses as sophomores and substitute them for other general electives.
Hank Bounds, the head of the state's university system and a former state superintendent of education, said he would be open to such flexibility.
"I've asked the university presidents to make teacher education a priority and to try to break down any institutional barriers, and I think the presidents are committed to that and the deans are committed to that," he said.
"From my perspective and the board's perspective, I think any proposal that was brought to us that put more emphasis on subject area content and appropriate experience-based learning would be positively received."
Bounds, who also spent about 10 years as a principal and was later a district superintendent, said content mastery is vitally important for teacher candidates. He'd also like to see them with more expertise in literacy instruction.
"If I were king for a day, if I could snap my finger and change how we prepare teachers, I think we would have a much stronger focus on literacy everywhere, in all grade levels," he said.
One of the pushes of this year's legislative session was Gov. Phil Bryant's proposal to increase the entry standards into teacher education programs, only allowing those with a 21 on the ACT and a 3.0 grade-point average to enter. That legislation was amended to require anyone licensed to teach, starting in 2015, to have either scored at the nationally recommended passing score on the Praxis, a pre-profession skills test for teachers, or have scored a 21 on the ACT. Plus, the applicant would have needed to have a 2.75 grade-point average in pre-major coursework.
Interim State Superintendent of Education Lynn House said she favors the higher standards. She'd also like to see teacher candidates to get more hands-on experiences.
"If I could pick two things that I could do to change teacher prep, one would be admission to the program, making it more selective, and the other would be more field experiences," she said. "If you learn about a reading strategy today, tomorrow you get to apply it in a classroom with real children, or tomorrow you see it being applied by a master teacher and then you get to apply it the next day."
Mississippi State University education senior Elizabeth Vaughan of Okolona is currently completing her coursework by student teaching at Saltillo Elementary School. She said such classroom experiences have been the best part of her training.
"Experiencing the actual day-to-day routines has helped me prepare," she said.
Meanwhile, other teachers, such as Saltillo High School's Janice Fleming and Thomas Street Elementary's Tritina Siddell, said teachers also would benefit from mentor programs once they are on campus.
"When I started teaching I had a very strong mentor," Fleming said. "Even though she was in biology and I was in English, she guided me and she was my sounding board, and I think that is very important."
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I was thinking about trading cards in general and the VOTC line, when I came up with a neat little idea.
Howabout giving us trading card reproductions of the original vintage card backs, in actual size. Yes, that's right, full size vintage card reproductions, marketed and sold as trading cards!
The could do a line for each movie, Star Wars, Empire and Jedi. Then they could give us repros of the Revenge prototypes and POTF cards, maybe even Droids and Ewoks.
Here's what I suggest. Topps could pack these in see through window packaging and sell 2 cards per pack. That way collectors could see which cards they are getting and with only 2 cards per pack Topps could afford to sell these at a low price.
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Marion Tuu'luq
11 Oct 2002 - 12 Jan 2002
The NGC is pleased to honour this remarkable artist's vision of the world, at once modest and sublime, presented in the exhibition Marion Tuu'luq from 11 October 2002 to 12 January 2003. Marion Tuu'luq brings together 37 fascinating works on cloth. Their vivid colours, delicate embroidery and lively appliqués are a perfect illustration of Tuu'luq's experience of life in the Canadian Arctic, before and after the massive social, economic and political changes that took place there throughout much of the 20th century. Her art is a reflection on the significance of the land and the family in Inuit life, the joys and hardships of nature and the realities of change.


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I've often been frustrated by the lack of prior attention to Castoriadis' thought in anthropology: good work has been begun by Alain Touraine (sociology) and Nancy Munn and David Graeber (anthropology), but nothing really systematic and explicit has been done.[1] That's not a criticism, just a complaint that the work's not already done.
Here are some thoughts I'm working through today, from Castoriadis' foundational The Imaginary Institution of Society, all from Chapter Three: "The Institution and the Imaginary. A First Approach" (Castoriadis 1975, 114ff.)
If you're not familiar with Cornelius Castoriadis, I highly recommend becoming familiar. He was a founder of the journal Socialisme ou Barbarie in France, a Greek Communist who fled Greece chased by both the Stalinists (for his then-Trotskyism) and the Fascists, and who was one of the very first marxists to mount a critique of the USSR, a critique he made by criticizing its bureaucratization and its alienation from the revolutionary social groups that attempted to institute it. Often called either the "Philosopher of the Imagination," or the "Philosopher of Autonomy," his influence has been deep in some fields (radical political thought, psychoanalysis) but negligible in its reception in other fields and disciplines, including my own. He is sometimes credited with inspiring the 1968 worldwide rebellion, though it is certainly both more accurate and more modest to say rather that his writings influenced some of those revolutionaries in way that significantly altered their approach. Here's a Wikipedia article, and here's a link to the Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Webpage.
A first word of introduction: Castoriadis' use of the word 'institution' refers to any shared object created by society, ranging from concepts, gestures, and symbols, to organizations and governments, those things which we more commonly use the word to refer to in everyday American English. These institutions are created by groups of people – that is, they are instituted, and, in a way that replicates much of Weber's analysis of routinization and the creation of bureaucracies, become alienated from these groups, an alienation that signals the institution's autonomy from society: the institution has gained its own life, its own force in the social world. One might almost call this the creation of a form of social agency, or as David Graeber wrote of the concept of the fetish in an essay that references Castoriadis, "Gods in the process of construction" (Graeber 2005)
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What new 12" firures would you like to see? I would like to see Zuckuss and a new Boba Fett since they made the other bounty hunters.
What new 12" firures would you like to see? I would like to see Zuckuss and a new Boba Fett since they made the other bounty hunters.
12" Skiff Guards and Sail Barge passengers!
Plus a 12" scale Jabba with Salacious Crumb and a new more articulated Slave Leia.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
I'm all for more 12" figures. I have all of the vintage crowd except for IG-88 and didn't think I would buy the new ones. But Admiral Ackbar and Lando changed my mind about that. Now I have about 30 of the new ones and counting. I can't wait for the Death Star Droid and Death Star Trooper, as well as the projected Zuckuss, Dengar, Leia as Boussh, Oola, and Gamorrean Guard.
Who still demands the 12" treatment?
1. Momaw Nadon - Often forgotten in the world of the 12" figures are the cantina denizens, and "Hammerhead" would make on incredible figure!
2. Nute Gunray - All of the sudden Episode 1 has been forgotten in the realm of the 12" figures. We must have this great figure.
3. Klaatu (Jabba's Palace version) - I like this costume and the look of the alien. There's all kinds of things going on with the costume, lots of layers and such.
4. Nein Nunb - Come on, we have got to have a large size version of this guy. He's too cool to do without any longer.
5. Weequay - I once started a custom 12" Weequay then, sadly, discovered I was allergic to the two-part resin I was going to use to cast the head from a sculpt I made. Needless to say I never finished it (or the 12" Ree Yees I had also started), so perhaps Hasbro could pick up where I left off. I just thought it would be cool to have the braided hair and a big version of his force pike.
6. Mas Ameeda - I can't get enough of this guy with those great horns. A 12" scale version would be too cool for words, and logical since he returns in Episode II.
7. K-3PO - Yes, I know this invites what is effectively a repaint, but I love the droids and want more of them. And leave off the stupid dark splotch this time, Hasbro. There were more shots of this droid clean than mussed up! A pointer device on a coil (like the coil on Watto's accessory) would be an ideal pack-in.
8. Gonk - Come on, admit it. We all want a 12" scale Gonk droid! It could come with interchangeable accessories that can be snapped onto the top to replicate the various pieces seen on Gonks throughout the series.
9. Destroyer Droid - A Destroyer in this scale would certainly make up for the lack of availablity of the Action Force version.
10. Princess Leia (Bespin Gown) - This is a costume of Leia's that really needs to see the large scale treatment.
Well, there's a good 10 to start with.
Ok, one more escaped me:
11. Rebel Fleet Trooper - I can't believe this one slipped my mind! I don't think I have to explain the appeal of having one of these guys in a 12" scale.
And while we are at it, since these guys come out in threes, here's #12.
12. Endor Rebel Soldier - Imagine that great costume, a removeable helmet and backpack featuring cloth and plastic components. Plus a great Rebel blaster rifle.
But wait, a 12" scale Destroyer would be too big to fit in the regular packages, so we need another regular figure, #13.
13. Hoth Rebel Soldier - And why not, we have every variaton of Imperial soldier in a 12" scale, or will shortly!
Giff, Zuckess actually was slated to be release this Christmas together with Dengar and Leia Boussh. But Hasbro has released a statement saying the trio will be delayed "till further notice" claiming they have to consolidate their resources on EPII.
I think I'll like to have some Cantina Aliens. We have Ponda Baba & Greedo, maybe Momaw Nadon or Lak Sivrak or Dr Evazan will be great additions?
Nute Gunray, Senator Palpatine and an E1 C-3PO would round out the !@' E1 line. As for classic characters I would like to see More Cantina Aliens,like Duros and Hammerhead, and Maybe Mufftuk who's big and furry like chewie and the wampa, He could come in a two pack with Kabe.Also a 12" expanded universe line would be cool, It could include Mara Jade, Dark Jedi Luke and Grand Admiral Thrawn.
1. Amanaman
2. Yak Face
3. Gammorrean Guard
4. Klaatu
5. Barada
6. Niktu
7. Dengar
8. Zuckass
9. Jabba the Hutt
10. Yarna D'al Gargan
11. Momaw Nadon
12. Dr. Evazan
13. Max Rebo
14. Droopy McCool
15. Sy Snootles
16. Jon Yowzah
17. Rappurtine
18. Ak-rev
19. Destroyer Droid
20. Yareal Poof
21. Oppo Ranscisic
22. Even Piell
23. Eeth koth
24. Plo Koon
25. Yaddle
26. Ki-Adi-Mundi
27. Adi Gallia
28. Depa Billaba
29. Saesee Tiin
30. Bantha
31. Rancor
I won't even touch Expanded Universe.
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Scathing report of some of the things that led up to Geno's fall on draft day, and E.J. Manuel going ahead of him.
Scathing report of some of the things that led up to Geno's fall on draft day, and E.J. Manuel going ahead of him.
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This could be fun to watch.
Wow NYC is going to eat that kid alive.
I think some guys believe a lot of the hype and surround themselves with hanger-ons (posses) and family members who tell them they are the greatest thing since sliced bread, and they believe it. Then when they go on visits to other teams, they feel they are special and entitled. You can tell the hard workers from the slackers. Why do you think Jerry Jones is getting on Tony Romo, and telling him he needs to "spend more time at the office," instead of playing golf. I think this is what separates guys like Manning from most other QB's...he works at it and is a true professional.
Sounds like he treated his trips to team facilities like college recruiting visits instead of like professional job interviews (which they really were) like he should have. Far from impossible for him to learn from his intransigence. Firing his agents instead of looking in the mirror isn't a step in the right direction though.
Dude blows.
Deshaun Watson is the TRUTH!
if it's a matter of him just listening to the wrong people, he can get around it. Problem is, that could take a LONG time. Some guys can separate themselves fairly quickly from bad influences, others can't.
Now if this is just him being a ********... well that's gonna be another issue entirely
In five years he could be the next Aaron Rodgers and we'll all look back and say it was silly to doubt him based on something like this. But for now, it's fun to trash on the Jets' new quarterback.
I think the Gruden Quarterback Camp videos are an invaluable resource, and often a tip toward whether a player will be drafted higher or lower than expected. Not necessarily how well he'll play, but when he'll be picked. I can't remember being fooled more than a couple of times. I guarantee the franchises are fixated on those programs.
Gruden identified that Geno Smith was emotional. That was one of his themes, and he only uses a handful in each episode. As soon as I saw that, I doubted he would be picked anywhere close to the high end projections. Not a valued trait in a quarterback. It certainly aligns with the article linked here, and everything Smith has done since the first day of the draft.
Smith wasn't bad on the show. Not aloof or arrogant. He paid attention and was decent on the chalkboard. But I can't remember another quarterback who Gruden labeled as emotional. Smith didn't try to dispute it.
E.J. Manuel dominated the chalkboard and overall was far more impressive than I expected. I knew he'd go earlier than estimated. I like to tape all the programs and watch them back to back, as opposed to spread out.
Mike Glennon was the second standout on Gruden this year. He makes some awful throws. He reminds me of a Kerry Collins type, awkward stationary type capable of wild sways in performance from game to game, or within the same game. Glennon has more touch than Collins but probably not as tough. I think he's an interesting prospect because at times he really stands out and takes over a game, which can't be said about most of these guys. Glennon sounded like a mature pro quarterback alongside Gruden, and he extended the session by asking Gruden what he needs to work on toward the NFL. Something like that will earn points.
Tyler Bray should have declined. That was sad to watch. Other guys simply didn't have much energy, like Landry Jones, Tyler Wilson, and Ryan Nassib. Even Barkley was less animated than I expected. He seemed to think it was amusing.
My favorite segment this year was Gruden mocking all the weaknesses of empty sets in the Zac Dysert program.


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12 Wildly Offensive Arabic Cartoons About Obama, Romney, And Israel
The Anti-Defamation League has compiled newspaper cartoons depicting what they describe as "the Arab media's demonization of the 2012 presidential election and the US-Israeli relationship."
Sept. 10 cartoon from Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan paper.
Oct. 10 cartoon from an Oman paper. The cartoon's headline: "American Presidential Debates."
Aug. 3 cartoon from Al-'Arab, a paper in Qatar. Written in Arabic: "Israel."
Aug. 1 cartoon from The Alghad, an Arabic daily national newspaper in Jordan. The cartoon's headline: "'Romeo' of the US Elections!"
Sept. 19 cartoon from Al-Watan, a newspaper in Qatar. Headline: "US Elections."
Aug. 1 cartoon from Al-'Arab. Written on the ballot box: "US Elections."
Aug. 3 cartoon from Tishrin, a Syria paper. The arms in the picture are labeled Obama and Romney.
July 12 cartoon from Tishrin. The cartoon's headline: "The US Elections".
Oct. 13 cartoon from Gulf News of the United Arab Emirates.
Sept. 25 cartoon from Al-IttihadAl-Ittihad of the United Arab Emirates. The cartoon's headline: "Romney."
Aug. 4 cartoon from Al-Ittihad. The cartoon's headline: "Election Campaigns…"
Aug. 2 cartoon from Al-Hayat. The cartoon's headline: "US Election Fever."
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He seems to be going wild on the talk interview things.
He seems to be a dork of epic proportion.
He seems to want more than 2 mil an episode if 2 ½ continues.
I admit, I have seen the program. Old episodes are rerun all over the dial.
I am entertained.
Should I care about his personal life?
Wont all that crack make his teeth fall out?


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Artist: Katsushika HOKUSAI
Birth/Death: 1760–1849
Title: Under the wave off Kanagawa
Date Made: c.1830-5
Lender: Trustees of The British Museum, London
In this well-known work Hokusai depicts man's vulnerability when faced with the power of nature. The scene shows three cargo boats whose fearful oarsmen huddle together, turning away in horror from the huge wave about to engulf them. To emphasise his vision, Hokusai has the viewer looking up into the menacing hollow of the giant wave – a view that the oarsmen are too terrified to face.
In contrast to the fury of the ocean, Mt Fuji stands motionless and serene in the distance. Even though dwarfed by the wave that frames it, the snow-capped mountain remains a focal point of the work.
In the Japanese tradition, brushwork was considered the essence of painting and calligraphy. The more accomplished the brushstrokes the greater the work. One of the most striking aspects of the 'Great Wave', is Hokusai's use of line to create both movement and space. The apparent spontaneity of his brushwork is a contributing factor. In the creation of this print, the block cutter has faithfully reproduced this sense of spontaneous brushwork.
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I really thank them for what they do and all the BS they put up with travel time.etc.etc.
At least if Im shooting no birds and hiding behind the blind I dont have to listen to whining.
They sit in the sun all day and cant take breaks like everyone else.
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"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
My figures came today: Kirk, double-cross Kirk, Terrel, Khan.
I like the double-cross Kirk the best.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
I finally got my set this week... I'm quite impressed with them... the aztec-ing on the hulls is great. JL's paintjobs are unbelievably detailed, if not always correct.
The 1701-A was involved in a freakish mishap... that SP-TE came right the frack off during an ion storm. Nice job, though.
Luckily, my Voyager doesn't suffer from nacelle erectile dysfunction but the landing struts are a little underwhelming.
The Marmalade Majestic is now being phasered by the Defiant on my shelf... they line up nicely. Shame about the font on the Defiant, though... bad like Furuta's Enterprise A.
The Nacho Enterprise looks ok if they're separated... the stardrive's pretty kewl and the cheesy part isn't quite as bad as it looked in the pic. My Romando Enterprise E's also in sep mode so it works for me.
The Borg Cube/Sphere is good but I wish they'd chosen another colour for this wave. How about a Tactical Sphere instead? The WL borg cube went for $79 US on eBay... just nutz.
I think JL does put a lot of thought into these ships... they're quite well-made if not heavy on actual diecast metal.
BTW, I saw the new BSG "Razor" episode at a friend's place last night... great! Ensign Ro/Admiral Cain blows her first officer's head off... now why didn't Riker, Kira, and Chakotay meet the same fate?
McCoy: What do those super sensitive ears make of that, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Wood. Rubbing on some kind of leather.
How did you get the SP-TE off the 1701-A without breaking it DT?
How did you watch the Battlestar Razor? I thought it doesn't debut for a couple of weeks?
Question, questions.
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
Blue2th, I just held the end of the SP-TE tightly and slowly corkscrewed the 1701-A back and forth and it came off clean... left the tiniest microscopic hole. Looks great without the whale penis attached... I'm leaving it as-is and won't bother to touch it up, methinks.
BSG Razor was leaked onto Bittorrent about 10 days ago, apparently... it's an 87 minute screening copy of the full episode that'll be broadcast on the 24th... decent quality, too. It has no station logos or bumpers but has all of the opening flashbacks, titles, and end credits. That's all I know... but it looked fine on my friend's jumbotron tv.
My friend got it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from a friend who got it from Bittorrent. I saw a DVD copy at my friend's place, who didn't tell me what we were going to watch beforehand... a very nice surprise for me. Whoo-hoo!
You should be able to find it on many file-sharing sites... the real McCoy is out there. You're in for a few surprises, especially if you're a fan of the original 70's show.
Plus, Cain makes Picard and Adama look like pansy-arsed boy scouts... No "Suggestions, Number One?" from her... good times. The Vader School of Management.
There's also an extended version of the episode which will be released on DVD on the 4th of December that runs 101 minutes. I'll be buying it.
Apparently, the extra material focuses on the first Cylon War, young Bill Adama in a viper (mk II?), and some horrific moments in Cain's childhood. Some more extra stuff is already on SciFi's website as mini-episodes cut into 2 minute chunks, apparently. Most of this stuff is not in the 87 minute version that I saw, I think.
I'm dying to say more but I don't want to cough up spoilers for anyone... Cain's execution of her first officer was already talked about on the show. I will say no more.
It's such a frack-off that the show doesn't resume until April and we don't know whether we're getting 10 or 20 episodes next year. They may drag it out to 2 years.
The effects and ships look top-notch... feature film quality. I can live with 2 years if the rest of the episodes will be this good.
It bodes well for the Star Wars live-action tv show, if this kind of quality can be created on a tv budget.
Outstanding science fiction.
McCoy: What do those super sensitive ears make of that, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Wood. Rubbing on some kind of leather.
Well maybe I will try to open another one and see what happens. Though i think I will wait till I find one on the pegs. Nobody has seen hide nor hair of the JL Star Treks around here except for mail order.
Cain (Ensign Roe was it?) is a bad-a**! I'm glad we get to see more of her story and the Pegasus. I want to see Cain make those black and white tough ruthless decisions a military leader sometimes has to make.
I saw the previews on TV and caught a glimps of a vintage Cylon Raider.
I love BSG, and even sat in the audience last year at Comic-con for their Q&A. Of course that's all old news now.
I'm going to wait for the 24th, and will definitely buy that DVD. I have all of the previous season sets.
I also have all the Titaniums, even the Ultra BSG, and the Centurion.
They can drag this thing out as long as they want, as long as they keep it alive.
Maybe they will make a movie to end it like Firefly. That would be choice.
Rick McCallum said the live-action Star Wars TV series would be more grittier "like Battlestar Galactica" so it's good that the series has been noticed by the Lucasfilm boys.
There's a BSG thread around here somewhere, but it's been kinda dormant.
Probably get a little life back in it after the 24th.
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
Cain is played by Michelle Forbes who yes played Ensign Ro in TNG.
Saw a WL Voyager from the new set on eBay, and a closeup of the sphere from the WL Borg cube which went for $79 on eBay. The WL Voyager looks armoured, almost.
I've got all the BSG Titaniums and Ultra BSG (except the Cylon figure- I don't do figures but I'd buy that one) too... looking forward to the Titanium classic BSG the wave after next. They're all great. Would love an Ultra Pegasus.
Didn't get to go to Comicon but I got the Titanium set from it... my CC Mk II viper has no red stripe on part of one wing... variant/error I guess.
Got the Konami BSG set and a painted resin Ultra-sized classic BSG too. Working on the rag-tag fleet, though.
Here's a pic of the new $100+ Viper coming out next year. Looks great... a little larger than Action Fleet... horrible price though.
McCoy: What do those super sensitive ears make of that, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Wood. Rubbing on some kind of leather.
My Deep Space Nine figures arrived yesterday. They're in my apartment complex office and I'll update everyone when I go and pick them up.
Whoo-hoo! DS9 rocks!
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.


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calling bs on what?
Im in. I have some customers that have a house in New Mexico they say I can use it any time. Let me know when and where
I need a vacation
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It's navajo rez.
Season starts tomorrow, and ends in January.
Ya need a navajo small game license with bird stamp, which allows you to hunt on the rez in 4 states, and the 400 buck NAPI permit.
Their limit is 7 ducks and 4 geese.
Ours is 7 and 3.
So the way I understand it, I could legally kill 14 and 7 a day!
Google waterfowl hunting on NAPI, and see what you find.
If anyone is serious, fly into Durango, Co., I can pick you up and put you ul!
Permit comes with maps and legal!
Im gonna meet up with Eric in the safety department next week and get mine.
Im interested. I cant get PM to work. I have been thinking about goining to NM for a while and need a vacation.
Moved to realestate over asking if others would pay that amount of monetary to hunt?
Brad throws out an interest in doing it, I offer to pick him up and put him up, and it gets moved?
Never started as an ad, just a reality check question to see if I was goofy.
Is this a per person fee?
Moving my son to Cannon AFB in Clovis next week. Will stay in NM thru Oct 28.
yeah a per person, for the 3 month long season, fee.
Brad, sent you a pm. Can you open it?
Heck, Mark, it was only $300 two years ago. I didn't hunt last year with the knees, but I've bought that tag a couple of times. Lot and lots of geese. Good ducks till the ponds freeze.
Its not a hunt club, or any business, or anything like that (except for maybe the Navajo). Its a trespass permit to the Navajo Agricultural Products area just south of Farmington, where there are lots of center pivot corn fields. Like Mark says, you also need the Navajo Nation hunting license. They also sell an upland trespass pass, but I've never seen may pheasants or chukars up there.
This is no real estate ad - its just hunting on a reservation. Done it for years off of NAPI were you don't have to pay the trespass fee, and several times up on NAPI.
Morning Chuck.
Trap and I are getting ready for duck today!
The price went up a hunert bucks this year.
After moving frac tanks thru NAPI all last week and seeing all the corn fields and such, I decided, what the neck.
Its gonna be tough setting up in those huge fields by myself, but I guess Ill just have to start earlier!
Too many birds coming up off Bolacks to not try.


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This monday, August 4th, will likely be the last "full band" BB show for a while. It will be at Vertigo Records with Nat Baldwin and Breathe Owl Breathe. I am going to be traveling to New Zealand for a little bit. I have found an opportunity there that I feel I need to explore.
Please, come out and wish our raggidy bunch a safe ride through life. We're all going through changes...becoming new...or old depending on how you look at it.


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For those of you that might be thinking about trying for a Merriams gobbler, and have considered coming to New Mexico:
2009 spring hunt was excellent. Lots of gobblers and lots of public land to hunt. Many mature birds and jakes left over at the end of the season. I'm predicting that 2010 might be the best ever here.


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Nobody hates Republicans more than other Republicans.
Ron Paul's supporters in Maine hate Mitt Romney's backers, and the sentiment is returned in kind.
Tea Party members hate the state's "establishment" Republicans (defined as anybody holding a position of authority, no matter how inconsequential, for more than half an hour). Actual establishment Republicans are much too refined to stoop to hating, instead holding the Tea Partiers in moderate disdain.
Newly elected members of the GOP state committee hate its chairman, Charlie Webster, for referring to them as "wingnuts." Webster claims he doesn't hate his detractors, although he does support rule changes that would require them to be bound and gagged during meetings. The chairman would also be allowed to prod them with a sharp stick.
Republican US Senator Olympia Snowe is thoroughly miffed at GOP US Senate candidate Charlie Summers for failing to support her last year, when she was under assault by the Tea Party kooks. Summers hasn't displayed that sort of animosity toward Snowe, but that could be because he avoids taking strong stands on much of anything.
And moderate members of the GOP aren't fond of Republican Governor Paul LePage, fearful his frequent outbursts over inconsequential matters will cost the party legislative seats in November. LePage, who thinks moderation is a gateway drug leading to socialism, keeps on talking just to annoy them.
All this raises an important question: If Republicans detest each other, who do they like? The answer:
Cynthia Dill.
Wait. That can't be right. Dill, the Democratic nominee for US Senate, is an extreme leftist and a dingbat (could somebody please turn off the redundancy alarm). She holds liberal positions that are totally at odds with virtually everything in the GOP platform (although, she and Ron Paul both want to legalize marijuana). Dill is so far out of step with mainstream Mainers that polls show even most Democrats aren't going to vote for her.
Why then would a group of influential Republicans in Washington, DC, spend almost $72,000 on TV ads trying to convince voters in this state that Dill would make a terrific US senator? Why would that GOP group or another much like it be squandering additional thousands of dollars on message-testing polling to see if there are any issues that might make Dill palatable to the electorate? (OK, how about if I held a gun to your puppy's head? Would you support her then?)
The answer to these questions is sort of complicated, so pay close attention.
The one thing most Republicans hate more than their fellow Republicans is the likelihood that independent Angus King will become Maine's next US senator. Under normal circumstances, GOP strategists would attempt to thwart King's ambitions by promoting their own candidate. Except their own candidate is Summers, who's already run three unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in the state's 1st District, while compiling percentages of the vote that look like the average female bust measurement at a Zumba class.
The theory Republicans are operating under is that the only chance they have of defeating King is if they can convince at least 10 percent of his current supporters to defect to Dill. That would put her in the high teens and reduce him to around 40 percent. Then, if by some miracle, Summers could attract an additional 10 percent from out of thin air (maybe if he got down on his knees and begged Snowe; rolled Ron Paul's people some quality joints; promised the Tea Party that if he ever took any firm positions, they'd be irrational ones), he'd still lose to King by a couple of percentage points.
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Elevator pitch competition tests student business ideas
Posted November 13, 2008; 06:25 p.m.
Princeton students will compete to see who can best pitch a business plan in 90 seconds during the 2008 Elevator Pitch Competition at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in 101 Friend Center.
During the competition, which is sponsored by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, students will have to quickly explain a business plan to a panel of judges composed of venture capitalists and a successful entrepreneur. The winner takes home $1,000.
"The idea is that if you're in an elevator and you happen to be with a venture capitalist, you pitch that person for however long you're in the elevator," said Nikhil Trivedi, a sophomore who is vice president of the entrepreneurship club.
The pitch competition serves as a prelude to the TigerLaunch Business Plan Competition, which culminates Feb. 21 and offers thousands of dollars in prize money for students who present the best business plans.
The event is open to the public. Students interested in participating in the competition should visit the online registration page. The deadline for registration is Nov. 14.


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Magis Yuyu Stacking Stool, Set of 4
Since its beginning, Magis has crossed boundaries through their partnerships with leading designers and novel twists on contemporary furniture design. Founded in 1976, Italian designer Eugenio Perazza began the first steps towards building an international design laboratory. In Latin, Magis means "more than" and that is exactly what Magis delivers while focusing on using less materials and energy. Always perched on the cutting edge, Perazza was named as "one of ten who will change the way we live."
In 1984, Magis experienced enormous success with their product Step. This ladder was snubbed upon initial release because it was not an item considered "worthy" of the furniture store circuit. However, the product met with tremendous success, especially in furniture stores, and Magis' fire was lit.
In 2004, Magis introduced their venture into the realm of children. Inspired by his granddaughter's propensity for drawing and a lack of appropriate children's desks, Eugenio Perazza conceived the Me Too Collection. He began by searching out designers who could think like a child and all the products in the collection earned Perazza's granddaugter's approval before going into production. The Me Too Collection features bright and innovative pieces that stimulate and engage children's perceptions. Me Too is about: "I'm here too and I deserve my place in the world."
By embracing the creativity of leading global designers and incorporating leading technology into the mass production of unique objects and furniture, Magis has garnered many awards and their Bottle project has earned a place in the permanent collections of many contemporary art museums. Offering product choices that range from indoor, outdoor and children's rooms, Magis changes the way we live.
Born in La Spezia, 1954, Stefano Giovannoni graduated in Architecture in Florence in 1978 and lives and works in Milan. Since 1979 he has taught and done research at the Florence Faculty of Architecture; he is master-professor at Domus Academy in Milan and at the Università del Progetto in Reggio Emilia. He has been invited for workshops at the Royal College of Art in London, at the Academy O. Kochoska in Wien, at the Hochschule der Bildenden Kunst in Saarbrücken and at the Design Quest in Osaka. Giovannoni works as an industrial and interior designer and architect and has worked with companies including Alessi, Flos, Magis, Seiko, Pulsar, Cappellini, Kankyo, and Saab. In 1991 he designed the Italian Pavillon at the exhibition Les Capitales Europeennes du nouveau design at the Centre Georges Pompidou.View other products by Stefano Giovannoni


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check them out, very cool stuff:
check them out, very cool stuff:
The AT-TE is pretty cool!! -- The Tie Boomber is not a bad job either. Jabba Palace doesn't need my praise -- it gets it all on its own!!
Thanks for the PICs.
JediBoulton --
Collecting SW Since 1978. -- Still going strong......
Those are awesome, I love the look of the Geonosians!
That AT-TE is awesome, I'm can't wait to get my hands on one. Heck, I'll try to get two. One for each of the Gunships I have. All these sets are cool and there is no doubt I'm getting them. But, I thought the clue said the Battle Droids are sand red? Those look like rose colored droids.
And, thats only 7 sets I was told there were going to be 11. What are the other 4 sets?
"I'm a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango Fett
I think FBTB.net is claiming there are other sets but they're the mini-sets and will be announced later.
Unforunately that website seems to have taken that big picture down.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
Lego should do a couple figure sets. Like they used to. They could do Storm Troopers, Clone Troopers, Jedi Knights, Battle Droids, Rebel Troops. Put 5 or 6 figs together, well the Battle Droids set you could add more to that one. They would fly off the selves.
"I'm a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango Fett
Looks like an awesome assortment this year, FBTB has pics of the TIE Bomber, Geonosian Fighter, and AT-TE today - these all look like winners. I can't believe Lego is putting one of those Technic missile-launchers in the TIE Bomber though, I can't stand those things.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
i'm not really feelin the tie bomber actually, i'll think twice about buying it. ok, maybe not..... but the bomber section looks hokey.
so far i'm only really interested in the jabba sets and the bomber. the AT-TE is cool, but way too expensive. are they ever going to give us a cheap way to get clone troopers?
i need an ephant mon, who wants to help? :D
AT-TE, Geonosian fighter and the Jabba sets are what interests me. Finally could do a real Geonosis battle diorama since I've got the TF covered!
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Anybody still have that pictures of those loose versions from the German site?
Rebelscum just posted boxed and "loose" pictures of the sets, although you can tell they're from the German picture just rearranged to look unique, except for the Geonosian Fighter set, which they photoshopped from the box (very badly I might add) and then stuck their Rebelscum logo on the images.
The boxed pics look exactly likw FBTB.net's pics, which is reasonable cause they could've just asked to use those pics but the thing is, they still slapped their Rebelscum logo on them. Sad...
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"


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Qyot27 wrote:BasharOfTheAges wrote:The footage in question, for me at least, is Soul Eater, which was aired in HD, but hasn't even been released in BRD in Japan yet - I assume because they backed HD-DVD and they legally can't as part of some contract.
Actually, I found the following:
It would appear that it is going to be released on Blu-ray, although not until early next year. I suspected something like that because it's getting rebroadcast this season (not that rebroadcasting is at all uncommon, but with a Blu-ray release looming it looks more like the rebroadcast is a primer).
Unless of course that 'yet' had the above two sets in mind, rather than being a hypothetical 'yet'. In that case, ignore this post.
Of course... As soon as i drop the money on the DVDs... o.o;; Oh well, I helped a friend out by buying them from his store - sure i can give them away as prizes at some point too. Those prices are retarded though. I'm sure as hell not dropping over $600 for a single show on BRD.
@ngsilver - they're doing it that way to respect your wishes in showing it at the resolution you sent it in as. If you had wanted it upscaled, you'd have done it yourself.


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I think im half way to 50 posts
a phin fan in buffalo...that must be tough....i'm a phin fan in CT which is pretty much torn between Jets and Pats country.
Of course!!!!! I was going to depict marino on a cross like Jesus but I don't know if I would piss anyone of different religions off...so It's just to be funnt really, not to offend anyone...but he was God on the football field wasn't he???
that is a little out there, prolly should be removed.
Welcome and jump on into the conversations.
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Hot Springs
National Park
Hot Springs National Park (HOSP) lies within and adjacent to the city of Hot Springs (population about 33,000) in central Arkansas (fig. 1, fig. 2). HOSP has an area of about 5,450 acres (Stephen Rudd, National Park Service, oral commun., 2000). The Park is in a physiographic area known as the Ouachita Mountains, an area typified by intensely folded and faulted shales and sandstones that produce many east-west trending mountain ridges (Fenneman, 1938). HOSP was set aside as a federal reservation in 1832, and was established as a National Park in 1921. Several hot springs are the primary natural resource of HOSP, but unlike thermal features in other national parks such as Yellowstone National Park, they have not been preserved in their unaltered state. Instead, the springs have been managed to conserve the production of uncontaminated hot water for public use (National Park Service, 1986). From the early years of the reservation, pipes, flumes, and tanks were developed to collect, cool, and transport water from the springs. A thermal water distribution system (described more fully and diagrammed in National Park Service, 1986) consisting of covered concrete basins around the orifices of most of the hot springs and collection and distribution lines has been in place for many years. A group of bathhouses, built between 1892 and 1923 and currently known as the Historic Landmark District of Bathhouse Row, is the primary cultural resource of the park. This group of bathhouses is one of the few collections of historic bathhouses remaining in the United States (National Park Service, 1997). Bathhouse Row lies along the east side of Central Avenue (Arkansas Highway 7) and immediately west or southwest of the hot springs.
The rocks cropping out in the vicinity of the hot springs at HOSP are sedimentary rocks, although intruded igneous rocks are exposed in the region (Purdue and Miser, 1923; Bedinger and others, 1979). The sedimentary rocks are relatively old (Paleozoic) and consist of shale, chert, novaculite, and sandstone. The most areally extensive formations with outcrops near HOSP are the Stanley Shale, Hot Springs Sandstone Member of the Stanley Shale, Arkansas Novaculite, and Bigfork Chert (fig. 3). The beds of sedimentary rocks generally are steeply inclined because of mountain building forces in late Paleozoic time. The flow system that yields thermal water to the hot springs of HOSP is not fully understood. Bedinger and others (1979) present data and conceptual and mathematical models based on geologic and geochemical data that describe the hot-springs flow system (fig. 4). They provide evidence that almost all of the hot-springs water is of local, meteoric (i.e., atmospheric) origin from recharge of the Bigfork Chert and the Arkansas Novaculite. They suggest that the water slowly percolates to depth, resides in the heated part of the system for a relatively short time (no more than a few hundred years), and then travels rapidly to the surface. Based on carbon-14 dating, Bedinger and others (1979) estimate that the age of much of the water exceeds 4,000 years. The hot springs emerge along a line about 1,500 feet long, from the plunging crestline of a large overturned anticline (a fold of rock with the stratigraphically older rock at its core) along the southern margins of the Ouachita anticlinorium in the Zigzag Mountains (Bedinger and others, 1979). The springs emerge from the Hot Springs Sandstone Member of the Stanley Shale. Some geophysical and geological data suggest a somewhat different scenario (Bergfelder, 1976) -that the hot springs are located above the western edge of a large pluton (an igneous intrusion) with an upper surface about 4,000 feet below land surface that extends eastward from an igneous outcrop near Magnet Cove (fig. 1). Bergfelder suggests that the meteoric water percolates through a fracture zone (location unspecified) associated with the margin of the pluton and then (because the heat source is unknown) either takes in heat from the pluton, percolates below the pluton to depths of about 8,000 to 12,500 feet and takes in heat, or percolates below the pluton to a lesser depth and takes in heat from underlying magma. The Bigfork Chert and the Arkansas Novaculite outcrop areas, which may serve as recharge areas, primarily lie north and northeast of the hot springs (Bedinger and others, 1979). Outcrop area of the Bigfork Chert is about 36 square miles; outcrop area of the Arkansas Novaculite is about 13 square miles. Many of the cold springs in the area issue from the Bigfork Chert at contacts of the Bigfork Chert with less permeable formations (Bedinger and others, 1979). This association was noted by Purdue and Miser (1923). More detailed descriptions of the geology are found in Purdue and Miser (1923), Arndt and Stroud (1953), Bedinger and others (1974), Bedinger and others (1979), and Bedinger (1994).
Source National Park Service, Water Resource Division
Bedinger, M.S., Pearson, F.J., Jr., Reed, J.E., Sniegocki, R.T., and Stone, G.G., 1974, The waters of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas-their origin, nature and management: U.S. Geological Survey open-file report, 102 p.
Bedinger, M.S., Pearson, F.J., Jr., Reed, J.E., Sniegocki, R.T., and Stone, G.G., 1979, The waters of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas-their nature and origin: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1044-C, 33 p.
Fenneman , N.M. , 1938, Physiography of eastern United States : McGraw-Hill , New York . 690 p.
National Park Service, 1986, General management plan /development concept plan, Hot Springs National Park : National Park Service, 105 p.
National Park Service, 1997, Resources management plan: Hot Springs National Park: National Park Service, 48 p.
Purdue and Miser, 1923, Description of the Hot Springs District [ Arkansas ]: U.S. Geological Survey Atlas, Folio 215.
That's what attracts people to Hot Springs. In fact they have been coming here since the first person stumbled across these hot springs perhaps 10,000 years ago. Stone artifacts found in the park give evidence that lndians knew about and used the hot springs. For them the area was a neutral ground where different tribes came to hunt, trade, and bathe in peace. Surely they drank the spring waters, too, for they found the waters, with its minerals and gases to have a pleasant taste and smell. These traces of minerals, combined with a temperature of 143°F, are credited with giving the waters whatever therapeutic properties they may have. Waters from the cold springs, which have different chemical components and properties, are also used for drinking. Besides determining the chemical composition and origins of the waters, scientists have determined that the waters gushing from hot springs are more than 4,000 years old. And the waters gush at an average rate of 850,000 gallons a day.
What's Special about this Water
The most important thing about Hot Springs' thermal water is that it is naturally sterile. For this reason the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chose this water, among, others, in which to hold moon rocks while looking for signs of life. Even during the many early years that the springs were uncovered, the absence of bacteria in the water helped prevent the spread of disease. Today most of the springs have been covered to prevent contamination. Various open springs and a spring cascade on the Arlington Lawn give an idea of what the area would be like if all the springs were open with the water pouring down the hillside into the creek.
What Makes this Water Hot ?
In an arc from the northwest around to the east, outcroppings of Bigfork Chert and Arkansas Novaculite absorb rainfall. The pores and fractures in the rock conduct the water deep into the Earth. As the water percolates downward, the increasingly warmer rock heats it, and filters out the impurities. In the process the water dissolves minerals in the rocks. Eventually the water meets the faults and joints in the Hot Springs Sandstone leading up to the lower west side of Hot Springs Mountain where it flows to the surface.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album has not been prepared for this park.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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Sea to Summit Pocket Shower
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High quality, waterproof fabric
Compact shower head with easy twist operation
Black fabric soaks up the sun to warm water
Can also be used as a regular dry bag
Sea to Summit Pocket Shower
The Sea to Summit Pocket Shower is made of high-quality, wear-resistant, waterproof fabric and features a roll-top closure. Built into the base is a compact showerhead that operates with an easy-to-use on/off twist mechanism. Twist spout serves to adjust the flow of water, delivering an efficient trickle to a free-flowing shower. Fill the 10L (2.6 gallon) Pocket Shower, roll it to close at the top and hang it from two tough Delrin D rings with the 20' of lightweight cord provided. The black fabric soaks up sun during the day at basecamp for a warm shower or fill it at the end of the day for a cool rinse.
• Zips into a pouch that measures only 3" x 6" and weighs just 4.25 ounces
• Gives about an 8 and a half minute shower with shower head fully open
• Contoured shower head with graduated apertures for equal spray dispersion
• Simple and easy-to-use twist mechanism for turning on/off and for flow adjustment
• Bar tack attached Delrin D rings
• 20' cord included
• Can also be used as a regular dry sack to transport clothes or sleeping bag