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Description ADULT Has glossy black plumage. JUVENILE Similar, but with brown wash to plumage.
Dimensions Length: 19-21" (48-53 cm)
Habitat Fairly common in deserts and dry grasslands of southwestern U.S. Mostly resident, but range expands north in summer and contracts south in winter.
Observation Tips Tail shape, neck featherbases and call separate Chihuahuan and Common Ravens.
Range Texas, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest
Voice Utters a coarse, croaking who-aak; distinctly crowlike and lacking deep resonance of Common Raven.
Discussion Arid-country corvid. Very similar to Common Raven. Smaller size is of little use in field identification. Overall, looks sleeker and with less shaggy throat than Common; bill is also subtly shorter, and its tail is more rounded and less wedge-shaped. Diagnostic white bases to neck feathers are sometimes revealed if feathers are wind-ruffled. Sexes are similar.

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text: SO who is the best? My vote goes to Rayna of Coal Chamber fame. Saw her twice and each time she just belted it out. Sean Ysaualt was pretty good. (White Zombie) but she wasnt as good as Rayna. Since i know it will come up the Bassist from Kittie really isnt too great. She was way to stoned when i saw her and she plays sloppy. I still belive Jason Newstead is a Woman so he gets honerable mention.... NOT!


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UPDATE: Written Declaration 29 was finally ">adopted by 371 members of the European Parliament. The Declaration's author backpedaled on data retention for search engines, with a disjointed explanation that it is possible to have limited — and simultaneously blanket — search engine surveillance. Unsurprisingly, members of Parliament are still confused. Stay tuned for more on the fate of data retention in Europe.
At a time when users regularly turn to search engines to find information on the Internet, search privacy is of paramount importance. The search terms you give to search engines can be used to compose a telling portrait of your interests and concerns, a fact that has led privacy advocates to call for greater protection for individual users.
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When the European Union first passed the Data Retention Directive in 2006, despite a hard-fought campaign by European activists, it seemed like the beginning of the end for Internet privacy. The directive sought to require telecommunications service providers operating in Europe to retain a detailed history of each of their customers' activity for up to 2 years for possible use by law enforcement; including phone calls made and emails sent and received.
Today is day three of the seventh round of ACTA negotiations, currently taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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I like to were a cheap I pod while brush hogging to help make it a little more interesting.
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Hey boys, whats up. Guess im the first one for our team to sign in. im happy to be part of this team with all of you and hopefully i can contribute. My season starts the 1st of may and runs till the 31st of may here in NY. Got a new property to hunt that is loaded with gobblers so hopefully i will put 2 big ones on the ground for us. Look forward to talking and getting to know you all.
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A golden afternoon at Del Valle South of Livermore California.
This is the right image of a stereo hyper pair.
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Very Beautiful 3-D Panorama! Nice colors. This image can be viewed in 3-D with its pair in a 'cross-view' viewer here: www.3dpan.org/37975-37976-10.672-. 65 and many more 3-D panoramas at www.3dpan.org
Hi John, glad to see that you use SDM for perfect synchronisation. I did never used it, just waiting for the Ixus100-SDM.. (there is a beta now..). I synchronize my rigs by soldering cables to the shutter release- and the zoom switches. Not very showy but works well enough.
This park is very close to home for me. THis makes it convienient for testing equipment or a taking a short walk. Or a very long walk up the hills seen in this shot. This stereo camera rig is about a year and a half old and does use SDM for synchronization. I have been mounting a pair of Canon 590s on one of my GigaPan units since September. But I sometimes have used a monopod when I travel light in the Sierra and want to go in a ways.
Hi John, did you use SDM (stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/index.htm&n bsp; ) to synchronize your Canon digicams?
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Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member and NARSAD Grantee, Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., led a team at Stanford in developing a new experimental method they are calling "CLARITY," that enables researchers for the first time to obtain high-resolution three-dimensional imagery of the brain. The new method, as reported today in Nature, renders the brain essentially transparent, making it possible to see in detail its complex fine wiring and essential features underpinning the functioning of the brain while also offering a global perspective of brain structure.
Prior to CLARITY, creating a 3-D image of the brain required carving its tissue into hundreds or thousands of hair-thin slices, scanning images of the slices in microscopic detail, and then painstakingly realigning the sections. Now a 3-D view of all the complex circuitry in the brain is possible while all of the important structures of the brain remain intact and in place (neurons, axons, dendrites, synapses, proteins, nucleic acids, etc.). By replacing the brain's fat with a clear gel, CLARITY turns the opaque and impenetrable brain transparent and permeable. The hydrogel also importantly holds the brain's anatomy intact and because it is permeable, the brain can be stained to localize proteins, neurotransmitters and genes at a high resolution (as in video below).
CLARITY provided this 3D view showing a thick slice of a mouse brain's memory hub, or hippocampus. It reveals a few different types of cells: projecting neurons (green), connecting interneurons (red), and layers of support cells, or glia (blue). Conventional 2D methods require that brain tissue be thinly sliced, sacrificing the ability to analyze such intact components in relation to each other. CLARITY permits such typing of molecular and cellular components to be performed repeatedly in the same brain. Source: Kwanghun Chung, Ph.D., and Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University


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Chapter 1
An Angry Morning
Deborah's mother was in a bad mood. Deborah couldn't remember when she had seen her mother so angry and upset.
Usually, Mother woke the whole family with singing, as she roused everyone from the bed they all shared to do the morning's work. On those days, her mood spread from one family member to another until everyone began the day with a smile. Deborah's big sister Leah and her little sister Ruth - and even their brother Isaac - would sing or hum while they put on their sandals and got ready to begin the day.
Deborah's father didn't hum, of course. He was the father, and he had to at least act serious so everyone would know he was important. But sometimes Deborah saw him tap out the beat of a song on his thigh as he watched to make sure that the children were doing their morning chores.
Today, though, there was no singing. By the dim lamplight, Deborah saw her mother's face twisted into a scowl.
"Get up!" Mother scolded while everyone else was still stretching and opening their eyes. "There's too much work for you to lie in bed like rich people."
She pulled Isaac off the wooden bed by his ankle, and he fell the few inches to the floor with a whump.
"That hurt!" he said, rubbing his bottom in pain and surprise. At Isaac's next birthday he would be thirteen years old. Then he would be a man, and Mother couldn't pull him off the bed even when she was in a bad mood. But at twelve, he was still a boy. And today, no one was safe from Mother's anger.
"Then you should have gotten up when I told you to," Mother said. "You have work to do. Don't you hear the animals in the yard down below? They need to be milked and watered and fed."
"I know what to do." Now Isaac was grumpy, too. "I feed the animals every morning, don't I?" Hurriedly, he tied a girdle around the waist of his tunic, the robe that boys and girls and men and women all wore both day and night. Then he left the room before Mother could say anything else. Father scurried off behind Isaac, escaping the scene in the bedroom.
As soon as the men were gone, Mother turned her anger on the girls. "Ruth, pick your girdle off the floor!" Quickly, Ruth picked up the sash that had fallen on the floor and tied it around her waist without shaking the dirt off first.
Deborah saw her mother's face twist up in anger at Ruth. Quickly, she reached down and pulled the girdle off Ruth. She slapped it against her arm to remove the dirt from the floor. Then, tenderly, she tied it around the waist of Ruth's blue tunic.
Leaning down, Deborah saw Ruth's lower lip quiver as if she were about to cry. Ruth was only five; she was too young to know that crying would only make her mother angrier. Deborah made a face at Ruth and touched the little girl's nose with her fingertip. Ruth giggled, and the crisis was over.
But today, even helping Deborah's little sister wasn't good enough to make Mother happy. Before Deborah had even straightened up, Mother barked, "Are you going to take all day? I can't do any work until you get the water. Go! Now!"
Leah and Deborah hurried to obey their mother, stopping only to pick up an earthenware jug and the goatskin water bottle that was hanging from a peg in the kitchen wall. Deborah was old enough to remember the goat whose skin made the water bottle she was carrying. He was a black billy goat named Nubia who had been Deborah's pet until the day Father killed him for a feast day meal.
Now Deborah had a new pet goat, but she still remembered how Father had peeled off Nubia's skin in one piece and made it into a watertight bottle. Today Deborah chose the goatskin bottle because it was lighter and easier to carry than the heavy earthenware jug that Leah balanced on her head.
Leah was thirteen years old, so she would be married within a year or two. Then Deborah would learn how to balance the earthenware jug on her own head or carry it on her hip. By then, Ruth would be old enough to carry the goatskin bottle when Deborah went to the well to get water at morning and at night.
Even though Deborah hated carrying the heavy skin of water upstairs to her family's house, she was luckier than most girls her age. Most girls had to go to the town well and wait in line until everyone else ahead of them was finished filling their jugs and skins with water. Then they had to carry the heavy water home through the narrow streets of Bethlehem. Often they had to make the long trip to the well twice a day or even three times a day.
But Deborah's father was Bethlehem's innkeeper, and Deborah and her family lived in the inn. Deborah's family and the inn's guests lived upstairs, above a courtyard where all the animals were kept. Because the animals had to be fed and watered, the inn had its own well. Deborah and Leah only had to walk down the stairs to fill their jugs and skins with water. Then they had to carry the water up the stairs again.
As soon as Leah and Deborah were out of their mother's sight, Leah breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mother is being horrible today," she said to Deborah, "and I'm afraid things are only going to get worse."
"Do all women get like this when they're expecting a baby?" Deborah asked.
Leah only shook her head. "I don't think the baby is the problem," she said. "Mother has been expecting a baby for months and months, and she's never acted like this before."
Deborah nodded solemnly. Mother had never been as cross as she was today. "If it's not the baby, then, what's wrong?" she asked, shifting the goatskin bottle from one hand to the other.
"It's the Census. The Census has everyone upset. Haven't you noticed?"
Now that she thought about it, Deborah realized that everyone had been nervous and edgy lately. "I don't even know what the Census is," she said, "but if it makes everyone so mad all the time, I don't think we should have one."
"We don't have a choice," Leah said. "The Romans have ordered us to count everyone who lives in the country. That's what a Census is - when everyone is counted and their names are written down."
"Why do the Romans want that?" Deborah asked, shaking her head. The Romans were always making extra work for people. Nobody liked the Romans.
"It's because of money and taxes," Leah said. "If a person can prove what city he was born in, he'll only have to pay half the taxes that he would otherwise."
Deborah and Leah walked through the courtyard to the well. They had to watch every step, because there were animals everywhere. There were also people sleeping in blankets on the hard ground, right next to their animals. It was still dark, and most of the people and their animals were still asleep.
When she and Leah got to the well, they sat on the edge and rested for a moment. Finally Deborah said, "If people will pay less tax after a Census, why does the Census make everyone so upset?"
"I think I'd rather pay more tax money and not have the Romans know my name and where I lived," Leah said. "Nothing good ever came from the Romans."
Deborah nodded her head in agreement, but she didn't know much about the Romans. All she knew was that Father said they were bad people. Whatever Father said, Deborah believed.
"There are other reasons people don't like the Census," Leah continued. "I think the main one is that important people can be counted wherever they live. People that the Romans don't like - and that includes us Jews - have to travel to the city where they were born to be counted. Sometimes they have to travel for days and days before they get there."
"I think traveling would be fun," Deborah said.
Leah only shook her head. "That's because you've never done it. Once you get away from the city, the roads are so bad that it's easy to get lost. And the girls have to walk everywhere, too. Only the boys and men get to ride."
"That's not fair!" Deborah said.
"Maybe it isn't fair, but that's the way things have always been done," Leah said. "If there's only one donkey in a family, the husband rides it. If there are two donkeys, the oldest son rides the second one."
"Then I'll just have to marry a rich man," Deborah said stubbornly. "I won't get married unless my husband has enough money to buy a donkey for everyone in the family."
Leah laughed, but she shook her head at the same time. "Walking isn't even the worst thing about traveling," she said.
"There are worse things?" Deborah asked. Suddenly, traveling didn't seem as fun as she had thought it would be.
"There are bears and lions that can kill you if you're not careful. And at night, you can be robbed and murdered right in the inn where you're staying."
That made Deborah angry. "No one was ever robbed or killed at our inn," she said hotly.
"That's because Father is careful about who he lets stay with us. Even so - whenever we have guests, Father sleeps with one eye open."
"I guess that's true," Deborah agreed. "But you haven't explained why Mother is so upset. We were born right in Bethlehem, so we don't have to travel anywhere. And since we have more guests now, we're making lots of money."
"We have too many guests," Leah said. "The guestrooms are filled. In all my life, I've never seen people sleeping here in the courtyard, with the animals. Look at them!" she said, shaking her head in amazement. "They're all curled up on the ground with the camels and the goats."
Deborah nodded solemnly. The people were all crowded together with their animals like Noah's family on the Ark. Deborah was glad she had made it through the courtyard without stepping on a hand or a foot.
"Mother has to make sure all those people are fed, and all their animals are fed and cared for," Leah continued. "And she always has to worry about robbers. This isn't a good time for her, Deborah. The best thing we can do is help her when she needs it and stay out of her way the rest of the time. Look! The sun's coming up. It's going to be a beautiful day."
Deborah looked up toward the hills surrounding the Bethlehem walls. She saw a shepherd herding the sheep down toward the city gate, and she wondered if that shepherd was Andrew. Andrew was Isaac's best friend, so Deborah knew him well. In fact, Deborah had a secret about Andrew. Even though he was only a slave, she knew that she wanted to marry him when he earned his freedom and went home to the village of Cana.
Copyright © 1990 by Kathryn H. Kidd


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By Kevin Tate/Outdoors Writer
The attraction of spring turkey hunting runs deep. Beyond the give and take of calling itself, countless hunters add to their enjoyment by making the sounds of the woods with tools made of elements from the woods. For the Rev. B.F. Lee, of Tupelo, an introduction to call making complemented a passion for the outdoors that had grown during a lifetime outside.
A child of the Delta, Lee's time on family land in Carroll County began with bobwhite quail in days when the small, fast-flying birds were numerous and wild turkeys were nonexistent. As turkeys were reintroduced and thrived, and as agricultural practices led quail numbers to dwindle, he became acquainted with the bird whose springtime pursuit today captivates sportsmen continentwide.
"It's something to be out there as it's beginning to get daylight and hear that turkey yelp or cluck," Lee said. "So much of the joy of turkey hunting is in just going. It's not such a big deal whether you kill one or not, but the anticipation of getting out there in the woods and working a turkey, playing the strategy, calling and having them respond, that's the attraction."
For springtime devotees, turkey sounds produced by the hunter forge a connection with the birds and intensify the experience beyond any found elsewhere in nature. Anything that binds this close connection closer is welcome, and building unique, personal turkey calls by hand is about as endearing as it gets.
"When I was pastor at First United Methodist in Columbus, I was turkey hunting regularly with a group of hunters there," Lee said. "They gave me a call made by a local man. I got to looking at it and thought I could make that call myself."
Lee's carpentry experience was limited, and the only recreational woodwork on his resume now is confined to the scores of box scraper-style calls he went on to make, but once that first call of his own creation made the first sound that was true, he was hooked.
"I had a friend in Starkville who had a super workshop," Lee said. "He would do the milling and get the calls roughed out, then I would fine-tune them to get them ready to go. I gave away lots of them."
In these calls involving a reed, a resonating block and a striker all hewn from cedar, there is captured a magic, a series of perfect notes that bridge the gap to the language of the birds who know every facet their home woods hold. Communicating with them on their own terms with a call created by one's own hand brings something wondrous to bear.
"The key is getting that reed the right thickness and tuned to the right tension," Lee said, advice that matches the strategy of turkey hunting itself. Just the right tension in the hunt, keeping the subject's attention without overdoing it: good direction for call-making, for turkey hunting and for life.


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For her 80th birthday, Laverne Everett fulfilled a long-time wish and went skydiving. It nearly became the final item on her bucket list.
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Everett, now 81, almost slipped completely out of her harness during a tandem jump last May at the Parachute Center in Lodi, Calif. A year after her frightening fall to earth, the video of her jump has gone viral. The clip shows a hesitant Everett getting a nudge off the side of the plane by the instructor, then slipping out of her harness as her partner clings to her tightly.Video: Skydive mishap survivor, 81: 'It didn't really scare me' (on this page)
Dangling facedown, her own clothes obstructed her view. Her partner guided them safely away from the asphalt below, and they landed on a grassy spot. Everett escaped with just a few bruises and scrapes. It wasn't until she saw the video afterward that she realized the degree of peril she faced, but she remains undaunted.Story: At 93, world's oldest yoga teacher still going strong
"It didn't really scare me,'' she told Matt Lauer on TODAY Tuesday.
The same could not be said for Everett's sister, Jimmie Campora, who appeared alongside Everett on Tuesday. Campora was watching from the ground as the whole scene unfolded.
"I thought, 'This was it,''' Campora told Lauer. "I was freaking out. My daughter said she's never seen me like that."Story: Still in gear: Injuries don't stop veterans on 100-day bike trek
Everett recalled the harness slipping down to her left shoulder, but said that neither she nor her partner screamed. The videographer parachuting alongside tried to help, but there was nothing he could do as the instructor held on to Everett for dear life.
"That's about I guess all I wanted to know,'' she said. "He's telling me to hang on.''
"It scared me,'' Campora said. "And I know something's wrong because she's coming down slower.''Story: Lone plane crash survivor's father: It's 'miraculous'
In the video, Everett looks hesitant, with her knees buckling right before the instructor nudges her off the edge of the plane before the jump.
"He gave me a little boost with his feet,'' Everett told NBC News. "I needed that. He knew how bad I wanted to do it.''
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into the incident. At least eight people have died at the Parachute Center in the last 10 years, including one in April, according to a report by CBS Sacramento. In 2010, 21 fatal skydiving accidents occurred in the United States, according to the United States Parachute Association, compared to 16 in 2009.Story: 101-year-old grandmother sets paragliding record
"No one got injured and the landing was fine,'' Parachute Center owner Bill Dause told NBC News.
"I'm not sorry I did it,'' Everett told NBC News. She has been more overwhelmed by her online fame than by nearly coming unharnessed from a parachute in mid-air.
"I'm in shock,'' she said as Lauer told her more than 500,000 people have watched her video.
The incident has not deterred her daredevil ways: Next up, she might take a spin in a race car.
"I'm considering it,'' she said, giggling. "There's a chance.''
Would you go skydiving after hearing her story? Tell us on TODAY's Facebook page.
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Big Ideas are presented here through contemporary sculpture on a large scale
Governors State University's Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park provides the Chicagoland region with a premier presentation of large-scale contemporary sculpture. Programs and events present the landscape and sculpture in new and unexpected ways that are both educational and inspiring. The park is supported by volunteers and donors who believe in its mission and its primary goals of education, acquisition and conservation.
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The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University presents significant large-scale public art, inspiring visitors to experience Art and Nature in new and unexpected ways.
The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park will be recognized globally for its collection of large-scale public art. Our museum-in-the-prairie will expand the cultural horizons of our visitors with innovative exhibitions, programs, and integrated arts and nature experiences.
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Formally established by the Governors State University Board of Trustees in 1978, the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park was named for Nathan Manilow, a visionary developer who, along with Carrol Sweet and Philip Klutznick, formed American Community Builders at the conclusion of World War II. They planned and built the neighboring Village of Park Forest for returning GIs. The history of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park predates GSU in that sculptor Mark diSuvero spent the summers of 1968 and 1969 living and building sculpture on the land that was to become the university.
1968-69 - Lewis Manilow, son of Nathan Manilow, loans the use of a house on the future campus of GSU to sculptor Mark diSuvero. DiSuvero spends two summers creating sculpture. His presence attracts other artists: John Chamberlain, Richard Hunt, John Henry, Charles Ginnever and Jerry Peart, among others, to the area. DiSuvero creates at least three sculptures: "Yes! for Lady Day," "Prairie Chimes" and "The Mohican."
1969-71 - Governors State University is chartered. The campus is built and occupied.
1976 - "The Sculptor, the Campus, and the Prairie" is presented by "The Governors State University Center for Monumental Sculpture." The groundbreaking exhibition includes work by seven sculptors arrayed across the campus. Bill Engbretson, first president of GSU, retires. Dr. Leo Goodman-Malamuth is installed as president.
1971 - Nathan Manilow dies. Lewis Manilow assumes the helm of Manilow business interests. He purchases and donates Mark diSuvero's "Yes! for Lady Day" to GSU.
1978 - GSU Board of Trustees formally names the growing collection of artworks on campus "The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park."
1981 - Mary Miss is commissioned by the Park Forest South Cultural Foundation to create "Field Rotation."
1982 - Martin Puryear is commissioned by the Park Forest South Cultural Foundation to create "Bodark Arc."
1983 - Bruce Nauman is commissioned by the Park Forest South Cultural Foundation to create "House Divided."
1992 - President Goodman-Malamuth retires, Paula Wolfe named third president of GSU.
2000 - President Wolfe resigns. Dr. Stuart Fagan is installed as president of GSU. He and his wife, Dr. Ora Simcha-Fagan, begin to work with the director of the State of Illinois Capital Development Board's Percent for Art program to realize a series of commissions for the park.
2002 - GSU convenes a selection committee which selects three artists from 22 maquettes submitted for consideration to create commissioned works for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park.
2003 - The park receives "Lanleff Demeure No. 4" by Henri Etienne-Martin as a gift from The Art Institute of Chicago.
2005 - Richard Rezac completes work on "Frame," the first of three works resulting from the Percent for Art Program commissions. Christine Tarkowski installs "Working on the Failed Utopia," another Capital Development Board project.
2006 - Tony Tasset delivers "Paul," the final installation of the 2002 commissions.
2007 - President Fagan retires. Dr. Elaine P. Maimon is named fifth president of GSU. Geoffrey Bates is appointed as the first Director and Curator for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park Advisory Board is constituted and develops and approves bylaws. Dan Peterman is commissioned to create "The Granary Project," an additional CDP Percent for Art project.
2009 - "Horizons," a 12-figure installation by Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, becomes the first "Solo Exhibition Series" presentation.
2010 - The Art Institute of Chicago donates Clement Meadmore's "Spiral," on site since 1984, to the park. "Neil Goodman in the Park" is the second "Solo Exhibition Series" presentation.
2012 - Yvonne Domenge donates "Windwaves" to the park. "Solo Exhibition Series" presentation "Sophie Ryder's 'Upside Down, Kneeling" appears in the park.
Geoffrey Bates, Director and Curator
Geoffrey Bates has more than 35 years of professional
experience in the visual arts as a facility director, curator, college
professor and practicing studio artist. As Director
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presentation, conservation and acquisition for the park's collection of 29
large-scale artworks. Bates earned a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking at the
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Binghamton University hosts supernatural art show
The work of Sylvia Rabeler will be featured in an exhibit titled "The "Supernatural 21st Century Carnival of life," which entwines bio-advancements with mythological themes. Rabeler, assistant chair of Binghamton University's Art History Department, has shown her work at galleries across the nation.
An opening reception will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, January 31, in the Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Gallery, room 259 of Fine Arts building. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information, contact Sylvia Rabeler at 607-777-2111 or by email at email@example.com.


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The State Owned Enterprises are clearly still the battlefield at the moment for parliamentary politics - especially the almost-bankrupt Solid Energy, and the almost partially-privatised Mighty River Power. So which parties are winning? Who's scoring the points, and how are the battles setting up the parties for election year? And what about the public - how well is it being served by current SOE debates?
Every opposition politician should read Lew Stoddart's blogpost, The left's lose-lose SOE strategy. He strongly argues that the 'left has lost the argument about asset sales' and that the Opposition parties - especially Labour and the Greens - are causing more damage to themselves by continuing - 'time to move on'. Despite the unpopularity of the asset sales, Stoddart says that they'll 'go ahead and will probably be a net vote winner for the government'. This is reinforced from the political right by Matthew Hooton, who laments the poor arguments and logic being put forward by Labour - see: Labour flogs dead asset-sale horse.
National, by contrast, is now getting a lot of favourable coverage on the issue - for example, the Herald says the whole episode shows that Power sale proves the unpopular can prevail. The newspaper says, 'Key deserves credit for pursuing an unpopular policy in the face of sustained opposition. Having risked political capital on this one and lost none, he might be encouraged to do more'.
Of course, the last time that National privatised an energy company - Contact Energy in 1999 - it was thrown out of government in the same year. Such risks for National are well examined in Adam Bennett's Investors in for the long haul?, in which it is pointed out that the current SOE minister, Tony Ryall, was also the minister during the Contact Energy float. Ryall claims to have learnt the lessons from this unpopular privatisation, and various business voices argue why the Government's Mixed-Ownership-Model will work better than the privatisations of the past. Brian Gaynor predicts a very politically successful float: 'I think the amount of shareholders will actually exceed the amount of people who sign the petition opposing it'.
National still faces some potential stumbling blocks in the MRP float - especially on deciding the price of the share issues. Financial adviser Martin Hawes puts this clearly: 'the Government will not want to sell it too cheaply (the public would be up in arms about flogging off stuff cheaply) but nor will it want to sell it too dear (it will want to see this share sale successful: plenty of demand and a bit in it for buyers). In finding that balance, the Government will have some very delicate pricing to do - a very thin line that it will have to walk' - see: Caution needed on Mighty River Power.
Plenty of advice is being offered to potential MRP investors. Martin Hawes says that the MRP is not 'bullet-proof', and that Solid Energy should be a reminder that 'businesses are run by people and people make mistakes'. He reckons that people with mortgages are better off putting their money into those repayments - see: Caution needed on Mighty River Power.
Could MRP fail like Solid Energy? Unlikely, but it's still worth pointing to John Key's visit in the weekend to MRP's Chilean investment, where the SOE has just written off $89m - see Brook Sabin's Key struggles to push Chilean investments and Claire Trevett's Mighty River admits risk. The Standard also has a blog post arguing that purchases will be vulnerable to increased regulation of the electricity market in the future - see: You pays your money & you takes your chances. And other detailed investment advice is offered in Jason Krupp's Taking the plunge in Mighty River, Terry Hall's Will anyone make a killing on Mighty River?, and Liam Dann's Much to weigh up on Mighty River. But, Bernard Hickey thinks 'There's a whiff of greed and intoxication in the air' - see: Wise warning from the past.
If National is now winning on the general issue of asset sales, Labour has the upper-hand on the debate about accountability of SOE bosses. In last week's SOE select committee hearings, Clayton Cosgrove gave it his best shot, and made a few SOE bosses squirm in their seats according to Pattrick Smellie's In the Court of Clayton: a rare day of select committee drama. Labour even had Jenny Shipley's voice 'quavering' during the Genesis Power hearings.
National is in a very dangerous position on this issue argues John Armstrong in his excellent column, Mighty River's trickle of answers insulting. He berates the management of MRP for its behaviour at last week's select committee hearing and ridicules its excuses for not answering questions. He says Labour's pursuit of Don Elder and Solid Energy is a political winner for the party - it has the possibility of embarrassing National on many different levels. The whole episode goes to highlight the farce of select committee hearings where the reality is 'that Cabinet ministers call the shots as to what happens', and that it's a pretence that SOEs are accountable to Parliament.
Chris Trotter argues that the SOE corporate leaders still have New Zealanders over a barrel. They treat Parliament and the public with contempt and arrogance, and they can simply get away with it. Why? Because, says Trotter, 'The tiny elite of obscenely remunerated business executives that run our economy have been presented with nothing even remotely resembling a threat to their ideological certainty'. Despite increasing public despair with golden handshakes and huge CEO salaries, there's no real challenge to their existence and MPs 'can criticise and question SOE board (bored?) chairs and chief executives all day, but until they present alternatives which pose an existential threat to the ideological hegemony of neoliberal capitalism why should corporate New Zealand respond?' - see Two Fingered Salutes.
For a detailed look at the ex-Solid Energy CEO's career see Lloyd Burr's Who is Don Elder?. Elder's current $675 an hour 'gardening leave' doesn't impress former freezing works gardener Simon Cunliffe - see: The might and power of those in control.
Other recent important or interesting items include the following:
* The best single account of the last few days of Key's South American trip can be found in Claire Trevett's PM's Chilean guard of honour - cows. Not only did Key learn how to milk a cow, but gave a notable response to his Minister of Primary Industries, Nathan Guy, clutching an electric fence: 'I just want to apologise to the New Zealand public.... This is all I've got to work with'.
* The Opposition and political commentators are always on the outlook for signs that the Government is finally coming unstuck. Tracy Watkins has found a 'political weather vane' that is pointing to possible political death: Peter Dunne, who last week made some severe criticisms of his own Government. Watkins also points to a 'bunker mentality' arising in ministers' offices, with spin doctors becoming more dominant and aggressive - see: Acting fast and loose not a Dunne deal.
* Environment Minister Amy Adams is taken to task by Rod Oram over a discussion paper on the Government's plans to reform the RMA: 'The paper, though, is very long on public opinions gathered through surveys; and it is irresponsibly short on facts captured by analysis.' Oram responds with some actual data as to how minimal the real impact of the RMA is on development - see: A naked power grab.
* Dunedin Labour MP David Clark will have to watch out for the curse of being labelled a 'future leader' in light of all the profiling being done on him. The latest is from Vernon Small: The sharp-suitor, and my own blogpost, David Clark: The political rise of 'a nice guy'.
* 'Great that we're the best, sad that this is the best'. That is one response to New Zealand topping an international survey on the best places for working women - see Nicholas Jones' It's a start - NZ women get ahead.
* Why do citizens of former pacific colonies have fewer rights as visitors and migrants than Australians asks John Minto in Pasifika, Polyfest and our racially-biased immigration policy.
* Is the Government doing enough about job creation and economic growth? Businesspeople apparently think not. According to one survey, over two-thirds of employers rate the Government's performance on these two issues as being less than five out of ten - see Greg Ninness' How well is New Zealand working?.
* Is another blog war brewing? 'Some social media experts speculate that when future generations look back on the blogosphere and the reasons for its demise, they will find millions of Pete George comments and conclude that it died of boredom'. That's Scott Yorke taking a poke at the determinedly centrist 'Your NZ' blogger in Internet hero just trying to make world a greyer place.
* Finally, what sort of young people join political parties? You can find out via Toby Manhire's excellent collation of images of MPs visiting their fan clubs on university campuses - see: Down with the kids: NZ politicians with the next generation.


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Gov. Barbour's federal-stimulus-money summit last week in Jackson provided additional details about the $2.7 billion allocated to Mississippi for recovery from the recession.
Tough economic times are adversely affecting state revenue, programs, policies, plans and expectations.
In sum, the $787 billion program passed by Congress is complex and requires adherence to many rules and mandates, including safeguards to ensure honest spending, contracting and application of the funds to needs ranging from education to road construction.
State agency leaders participating in the summit didn't sugarcoat difficulties, and none of them stuttered about the necessity of receiving every entitled dime and putting it to work.
The whole of state government programs is subject to reduction because Mississippi tax collections not only aren't meeting original projections, they're running behind the last budget year's revenue. Our situation is worse than anyone expected, and the governor, as required, has made cuts.
No one likes budget cuts. They dash hope and stall expectations. The federal funds won't make everything whole, but they will help immensely if not wasted or misused.
We Mississippians – Republicans, Democrats and independents – often bash the federal government and its myriad rules and laws even as money pours into our coffers in good times and bad.
The seldom-stated fact is that our state couldn't make it without federal money – in good times and bad.
First, there's every category of entitlement payment: Social Security, other government retirements plans, program money used in the state's budget context, Medicaid, and, of course those infamous earmarks so many criticize and which none refuse.
Some leaders in other states last week decried the federal role and its rules, even as those particular states spent the recovery funds due them.
Disagree politically with the Obama administration's approach to recovery, but remember that without the federal investment the pain surely would be worse than now. Free speech allows us to condemn and bite the hand that feeds us, but without largesse from Washington we'd be further up the proverbial creek.
Remember Katria aid
We Mississippians didn't complain in 2005 – and continuing today – as federal funds underwrote the recovery and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Most of us believed that we were entitled to Washington's generosity in the aftermath of natural catastrophe.
In the sense of being an equal partner in the Union of states, we are entitled. We had no massive resources to rebuild. Bipartisan work crafted what was directed to us and equally hard-hit Louisiana: More than $150 billion is expected to have been spent on hurricane recovery by the end of 2009.
That funding also drove up the deficit and the debt, and almost everyone agrees it is justified, even if in disagreement about administrative particulars.
Our federal government is designed to respond as it did to Katrina – and as it is responding to the recession, banking and credit crisis, and the mortgage fiasco.
Yes, free politics plays a role, but politics goes beyond partisanship when it seeks or wishes for a program to fail because it violates a particular ideology.
If the recovery fails, the ultimate outcome will be additional deficit spending, debt – and unemployment.
Bipartisan shoes
Put the shoes on both kinds of political feet. Mississippi Republicans, during the Senate campaign in 2008, endlessly blasted Democratic former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove for statewide job losses during the administration.
Will Republican Gov. Haley Barbour take the blame for the job losses in Mississippi during his second term in this recession, to date?
We doubt it, and he doesn't deserve it. Barbour didn't cause the economy to tank any more than Ronnie Musgrove caused economic problems during his administration.
Recovery in Mississippi
Many people in both parties refuse to see that we're in this leaking boat together.
Bipartisan recovery efforts aren't likely in Washington, the most politically toxic city in the world.
Bipartisan recovery could happen in Mississippi – if decision makers forget about the next election and worry about people without jobs and declining nesteggs, and focus on making the most of opportunities we can create together.
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This DVD starts with performances by Masahiro and Keiko. Keiko was the top demonstrator of the Ninja Rings at Wizards Inn, Inc., Masahiro's stores. Shoot Ogawa performs the routine before a live audience, then explains each technique in excruciating detail. Nothing is left out.
After each technique has been learned, Shoot does the entire routine again, but this time very slowly. This clearly puts the entire routine into the correct order for the student. At every step of the way, Shoot explains every facet in precise detail and includes many tips for proper performance.
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The Spain House will be on the move Thursday morning.
The historic home is moving off the lot at the corner of West Main and Madison streets to the corner of Carnation and S. Church streets.
From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Magazine Street will be closed from South Madison to Church Street, and South Church Street will be closed from Magazine Street to Carnation Street.
Emergency personnel and residents will be allowed to travel through the area, but delays should be expected.
About 10 homes and two businesses, including the Family Resource Center will be without power for three to four hours during the move.


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Keep your trash, newspapers, or magazines hidden from sight and out of reach for dogs and babies in this sturdy and attractive rustic pine trash container. This piece of rustic southwestern furniture will go in any room of your home and it blends well with any casual decor. This trash container has a distressed finish and has been made by hand by skilled Mexican craftsmen.
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This charming rustic furniture piece has been produced with care using new, kiln-dried ponderosa pine. It is finished with a rich, honey-colored furniture wax to bring the wood grain to life. All iron and hardware is hand-forged with a distressed, rust-colored finish. Every piece is 100% solid wood (no laminates, particle board, or veneers), carries a one-year warranty, and unlike other on-line stores we try to keep all items in constant stock for delivery to your home or office in just 2-3 weeks.
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Roland XV-5050
Roland's XV-5050 is a 64-voice synthesizer packed with their XV-5080 synth engine in a small 1-unit rack-module. It features four stereo tones per patch, expressive Matrix Control and over a thousand inspiring presets-expandable via high-quality SRX-Series Wave Expansion Boards. There are also three independent effects processors, digital outputs, plus a USB port for easy connection to computers.
Front panel controls are at a minimum, as you might expect from such a small rack module. You can select and edit patches from the front, but this module is really at home in a computer/MIDI studio set-up. You get all of Roland's XV-5080 sounds plus a selection of sounds from the newer Fantom-X series of synthesizers. The three effects processors offer 24-bit reverb and chorus, plus 90 multi-effects including COSM Guitar Amp Modeling.
For connectivity, the XV-5050 has superb features. They include four analog outputs, 24-bit D/A converters and S/PDIF digital outputs, a front panel USB port for simplified MIDI connections with a Mac or PC (drivers included on a CD-ROM), and two SRX expansion ports for adding more sounds (up to 192 MB total) from the SRX-Series Wave Expansion Boards. Each expansion contains 64MB of new sounds and patches, and can be user-installed in seconds.
Cost effective, simple, compact, computer savvy, superior sound quality. These are the means by which the XV-5050 was designed to provide users with the sounds of Roland's flagship XV-series sound engine.
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Are you looking to buy or sell a Roland XV-5050? Post an ad in Gear For Sale or a request in Gear Wanted. For spare parts and repair services check out Gear Services & Other Goods. Our forums also has a Buyer's Guide section where you can ask for advice on buying synthesizers.
- Demos & Media
Audio Clip 1 - Hear some XV-5050 sounds, from Future Music issue 119.
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 voices (16-part multitimbral)
- Oscillators - 64MB Wave Memory (16-bit linear equivalent). 1,083 Waveforms
- Sampler - None
- Effects - Multi Effects (MFX) : 90 Types *Three different Multi-Effects (50 Types) can be used simultaneously in Performance Mode. Chorus: 3 Types, Reverb: 5 Types, System EQ: 2-band per each 4 outputs
- Memory - Preset Patches: 1,024 (128 x 8 Banks) + 256 (GM2) Rhythm Sets: 16 (2 x 8 Banks) + 9 (GM2) Performances: 64 (32 x 2 Banks)
User Patches: 128, Rhythm Sets: 4, Performances: 64
- Keyboard - None
- Control - MINI (In/Out/Thru), USB
- Date Produced - 2001
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In 20 minutes you were able to read the citations of the 98 surviving Medal of Honor receipients let alone some of the 3,000 plus who have passed on?
Since President Obama has such serious security issues I guess we won't be seeing much of him in public.
The issue here is character, these men showed it. It is humbling to stand in their shadows. No matter how much paint you put on this "issue" it is still ugly. As I mentioned in 4 years we can hope for a Commander In Chief with more honor and character. The 98 surviving heroes deserve better than he has shown.


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Good morning, iwas watching atl your page and I*m glad to type, I*ve been trying to get in touch with someone who knew about OVNIS*s topics and has been almost impossible I*m from guatemala and I*ve been investigating my own case aproximatly since 1999. all of this started with voices comin from no no where they were commands ones, at the beginning they were simple things which however they were commands, sometimes later they were increasing , this is the moment I decided to investigate what was gonin on ,i made filed RESEARCH .
In the decade of the *90s I requested for an scholarship to study abroad mathematics, phisics, astronomy and other topics related witn the area, I comment this due to the obvious.
I know i have some kind of technology inseide my body NANO I don*t think so,,,,,,, something more advanced PROBABLY.
I know I*m mentay stablished, even thoug when it could seem to any kind of ill.
This thing also has an association program on me 24 hour a day literality.
this thing told me about the nothamercan female HANLEY DANNING *S DEATH before it hapened
she worked at www.safepassage.org in guatemala. a none profile organization , with poor families, this thig also told me about things that other people were / are / will do / make which I COMFIRMED ,
I know this thing ( techonology ) can cure ills such as cancer and make / do other things.
***This thing can intersept, bloq,modify, erase information,and even thoug when my case is not related with 1944-1946 experiments in guatemala * jet*, could be related in another form.
***I made brain exams such as BRAIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE, and verything is perfect, I hope you get in touch with me.
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Family: Soricidae, Shrews view all from this family
Description Conspicuous ears extend beyond the silvery to brownish-gray fur. Tail short (less than one third of total length) and unicolored. The belly is paler. This is the only shrew in most of the arid and semiarid habitats of the southwestern United States.
Dimensions 77-98mm, 24-32mm, 3-6g
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Deserts, Scrub, shrub & brushlands
Range Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas, California
Discussion It builds golf-ball-sized nests of fine fibers inside woodrat houses. Ranges widely in arid environments from southern California eastward to Arkansas.


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On Sunday, Aug 12, Managing Editor Emily Willingham, Chemistry Editor Adrienne Roehrich, and Contributor Raychelle Burks spoke on bringing science to you. Here's a summary of our panel.
|Photo by Ryan Roehrich and used with permission.
|Photo by Ryan Roehrich and used with permission.
All 3 have PhDs in their respective fields – Emily is a developmental biologist, Ray is an analytical chemist, and Adrienne is a physical chemist. Emily and Ray are prolific writers. You can find their articles all over the internet and in print. Ray is a staff member for GeekGirlCon and Adrienne is a Special Agent volunteer. All 3 are active on social media and welcome live-tweeting and suggest the #DXS hashtag along with the #GGC12. And you can use the @DoubleXSci for the panel.
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|Photo by Adrienne Roehrich and used with permission.
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Embrace mistakes in your artwork.
Wade Guyton created Untitled with the help of an Epson inkjet printer, similar to but larger than printers you may have in your classroom or home. Guyton used black ink to print the large rectangles onto linen, and although the large black and white spaces dominate the painting, there are also faint lines that are a result of Guyton folding or feeding the fabric through the printer. Guyton embraces these mistakes, considering them to be integral parts of his work.
In preparation for this project, have your students save all the artwork they make in your class, including the ones upon which they feel that they've made mistakes. After discussing Guyton's work as a class, ask your students to pull out their collection of work. What kind of mistakes did they think they made? Thinking about Guyton's strategy of embracing mistakes, have your students embrace a mistake in one of their works. How can that mistake become an important part of the work? How does it change the work?


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Research projects @ Zurich
Tape storage
I/O link technology
Probe technologies
Server technologies
System software
Storage systems
Accelerator technologies
Computational scaling
Compressive sampling
Memory technologies
Storage techniques for Big Data
100 Gb/s ethernet for backplane and cable
Energy management & sensor systems
Secondary storage (or "storage" for short) is an indispensable constituent of any computer system, from the smallest mobile PC all the way up to the biggest server system. Its purpose is to keep system and user data and programs safely, even when the computer is powered down. For several decades, hard disks have been the secondary storage devices of choice and will continue to play that role in the foreseeable future, even though in certain segments alternative non-volatile storage technologies such as flash memory are becoming serious competitors from a cost/performance point of view.
Enterprises depend critically on the 24/7 availability and security of their critical business data. This dictates ultrahigh availability and reliability of redundant storage systems backed up by a powerful, highly reliable third storage hierarchy level ("tertiary storage"), which in most of today's commercial installations continues to be in the form of a tape library. It also requires state-of-the-art security technology and management to protect critical data from unauthorized access, loss, corruption, and other damages.
IBM Research – Zurich has played a pioneering role in the introduction of innovative digital signal processing and coding techniques into hard disk drives, based on partial response shaping, maximum likelihood sequence and noise-predictive detection. These advances were instrumental to the dramatic increases of the storage density and data rates of hard disk drives throughout the past decades.
Today, IBM Research – Zurich's storage research focuses on the integrity, reliability, and security of data stored across the entire storage hierarchy, on technologies that are critical to sustain the storage density and performance growth of tape systems, and on research to explore the potential of novel technologies such as solid-state storage, probe storage, and phase-change memory.
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Listening to your iPod on the go is even more convenient with this stereo headset. This headset features great sound quality and bass response as well as enhanced sound. The sleek caps ensure the headphones fit comfortably and securely in your ear. It supports all other players with a headphone port. iBud makes you relax and enjoy your music easier than ever.
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This guy is a real tool sometimes. Usually its Craig that has diarrhea coming out of his mouth, not this time.
This guy is a real tool sometimes. Usually its Craig that has diarrhea coming out of his mouth, not this time.
giants will win division
Yeah, it's definitely getting close to Thanksgiving again.....the doubters are coming out of the woodwork.
can anyone seriously blame him?
Well, this division is rarely won back-to-back by the same team. It's really not that illogical of a thought.
Why do you guys view this as such a ridiculous statement? We are 6-4 and the rest of our schedule is the Packers, Redskins, Saints (who are as good as anyone in the NFL right now), Falcons, Ravens, and finally Eagles. The two "bad" teams on the schedule are a team that already beat us once, and another that almost beat us and is always a tough matchup.
The Cowboys mean while have the Browns and Bengals while we have the Packers and Falcons.
So again, why do you guys think that it's such a lock we make the playoffs?
Edit:The only thing we really have going for us right now is that 8-8 might be enough to win the division this year. and the Cowboys probably don't have enough time to catch up
if i'm a dolphins fan asked about the giants ability to make the playoffs, i'd say the cowboys defense is WAY WAY ahead of the Giants, and they're offense is playing better right now too.
no brainer if you're not a fan. if you are, you know how quickly this team can turn things around.
but i don't blame anyone for questioning our ability to make the post season right now.


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Temporarily off the market. If you think you would be interested in buying in a couple years, contact me. I can put you on a list for potential in future if you wish. Contact me to stop by winter 2013-14 or 2014-15 to see if you like it. Not available for rent. Pricing to be determined based on current market value at time of sale. Estimated to be around $79 to $86,000. Currently adding new features. Expected to be available 2015-16 season.
Two bedroom; possible third bedroom now used for storage; large bath with shower and tub w/two vanities; living room plus separate large family room; spacious kitchen with mobile serving/storage island and dining area;washer/dryer; heat and A/C; fully furnished; newly remodeled; large rear deck; covered and screened front porch; fully fenced with two separate dog areas; storage shed; azalea bushes and other landscaping.
Yard is big enough for some basics such as three-handed casting, wagon wheel, and no-no pile/jump drill. Quiet street with nice neighbors. Close to stores and restaurants. Near highways to local training and competitions.
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Panel to address income inequality
Posted January 30, 2008; 10:49 p.m.
Three Princeton scholars will participate in a panel discussion titled "Diminishing Returns: Income Inequality in the United States" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The panelists are: Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, who focuses on labor economics, education, industrial relations, economics of terrorism and social insurance; Douglas Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, who studies international migration, race and housing, discrimination, education, urban poverty and Latin America, especially Mexico; and Viviana Zelizer, the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, who focuses the relationship between interpersonal connections and economic activity.
The discussion will be presented in conjunction with an exhibit titled "Diminishing Returns" by photographer Larry Fink, which runs through Feb. 15 in the Bernstein Gallery at Robertson Hall.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is sponsoring the discussion.


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Easy Grammar Grade 5 Student Workbook
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Travel Screening
The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers.
Many of us now have private information on our computers: personal records, business data, e-mails, web history, or information we have about our friends, family, or colleagues. Encryption is a great way to ensure that your data will remain safe when you travel or if your laptop is lost or stolen. Best of all, it's free. So don't put off taking security steps that can help protect your private data. Join EFF in resolving to encrypt your disks 2012.
EFF has long been committed to helping international travelers protect their electronic devices and digital data at the U.S. border. We're continuing to push for some legal limits on the government's sweeping authority to search electronic devices at the border with an amicus brief we recently filed along with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear and reverse its disturbing decision in United States v. Cotterman (pdf).
EFF activist Eva Galperin interviews EFF criminal defense attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, on the newest edition of Line Noise, the EFF podcast. Whether law enforcement wants to search your home computer, tries to browse through your smart phone at a traffic stop, or seeks to thumb through your camera at customs, you should know your rights.
Learn more about your privacy rights by reading our Know Your Rights guide, or test your skills with our quiz.
This edition of Line Noise was recorded on-site from the San Francisco studio of Bamm.tv
Common Sense and Security: Body Scanners, Accountability, and $2.4 Billion Worth of Security Theater
The Transportation Security Administration is feeling public heat these days over its combination of whole-body-image scanners and heavy-handed pat-down searches, and deservedly so.
There's no question that reform is needed to curtail TSA's excesses. We especially applaud the Electronic Privacy Information Center's efforts to increase public awareness about the body scanners. But will the heat now being generated produce the kind of light we really need?
Amid recent reports that security researchers have experienced difficulties at the United States border after traveling abroad, we realized that it's been awhile since we last discussed how to safeguard electronic devices and digital information during border searches. So just in time for holiday travel and the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, here's EFF's guide for protecting your devices and sensitive data at the United States border.
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By Tiernan Ray
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Another monday, another up day for Google (GOOG) and down day for Apple (AAPL)
Google shares are going higher by $3.78, or half a percent, at $835.30, after the company received a duo of price target increases, with RBC Capital's Mark Mahaney reiterating an Outperform rating and raising his price target to $950 from $840 after determining the "bear thesis" about mobile monetization is "weakened" and that YouTube is gaining people's confidence as an ad medium.
And Pacific Crest's Evan Wilson also reiterates an Outperform, and raises his price target to $980 from $820, writing that the perception that it has "uninspired management and was unable to find success outside its core due to regulatory issues" has lessened and the company is now perceived as a tech leader.
Apple, on the other hand, is down $5.77, or 1.3%, at $425.95, after a trio of cautious notes this morning. CLSA's Avi Silver cut his rating on the stock to Outperform from Buy, and cut his price target to $505 from $575, after lowering June-quarter iPhone sales projections and arguing the iPad mini will make up a greater mix of the total iPad haul that quarter.
And Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets writes that his "barometer" of Apple sales, collection of Asia-based manufacturers and suppliers that he uses as a proxy for Cupertino, showed a 31% drop in activity in February compared to January, way worse than the typical 8% drop. Writes White, who has a Buy rating on Apple and an $888 price target, though he notes that the Chinese New Year may have hampered things.
And R.W. Baird's Will Power, who has a Neutral rating on Apple and a $465 price target, writes "Checks by Baird's semiconductor team suggest iPhone 5 and total iPad procurement orders near our shipment forecasts, but below consensus."
"This appears to be consistent with our growing demand concerns exiting Mobile World Congress and already below-the-Street estimates."
Shares of Dell (DELL) are are up 14 cents, or 1%, at $14.30, after Carl Icahn this morning announced he'd entered into a confidentiality agreement with the company, allowing him to review its books.
Note that over the weekend, my colleague Andrew Bary wrote in Barron's print edition that it may be time for CEO Michael Dell to withdraw his LBO plans, as it's looking very difficult for him to get the necessary votes to pursue the deal.
Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are higher by $1.32, or 10%, at $14.40, after AT&T (T) this morning said it will offer the company's recently released Z10 handset starting March 22nd in the U.S., and that it will start taking pre-sales tomorrow.
Shares are also being helped by rumors, once again, of buyout interest, including by Lenovo (0992HK)
Shares of Nokia (NOK) are off 12 cents, or 3%, at $3.56, after data from research firm Strategy Analytics was leaked to a variety of sites this weekend stating that the company fell to seventh place from first place in smartphone sales in China. The same data had Samsung Electronics (005930KS) in first place, Lenovo in second place, and Apple in fourth place, though some of the sites reporting leaked data mis-represented the data and claimed Apple was in third place. Also today, Goldman Sach's Simon Schafer cut estimates for Nokia.


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Transform three ingredients into a delectable dessert. Prepare it and pop it in the freezer!
Soften ice cream in the refrigerator 20 minutes. Ice cream left at room temperature melts on the outside before the inside is sufficiently softened.
For easy drizzling, heat the topping in the microwave for just 5 to 10 seconds as directed on the recipe - be careful not to overheat it; the hot topping will melt the ice cream.
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Without management of an account like that, who is to say a bank will even be accruing that much interest in that time? Who is to say that value isn't wiped out by a currency change like the French New Franc or the Mexican New Peso? How could a bank even pay out on an account like that? Who ensures that bank even stays in business?
And what happens to operating capital, or is this a "rainy day fund"?
But to get even more out there, how do we believe that the Sith have $20 a week to spend back then? Inflation has that showing up as 23x its value only 100 years ago, today's $20 is 1913's $469.02 based on the Consumer Price Index, that same $20 1000 years ago could be perceived as a fortune all to itself. Ah for the heady days of living on Coruscant a millennium ago, when you could buy an airspeeder for $20.
Perhaps you'd be more excited if Disney got Alan Greenspan to act as a script consultant? Although the way things have been looking lately, they'd probably screw that up and get Ben Stein or Ben Bernanke instead.Now I can't wait for the new trilogy...


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I'm considering getting a few of the Classic adventures (and have already submitted a Classic to Reloaded conversion that I wrote for one of them to Pinnacle), but aside from that, I really don't know what's worth getting. Basically I'm wondering if I should get:
- Hell on Earth (Core book)
- The Wasted West
- Monsters, Muties, and Misfits
- Any of the location books (e.g. Denver, Iron Oasis)
- Any of the archetype books (e.g. Children of the Atom, Spirit Warrior, Waste Warriors)
Basically, what stuff is of more use to a Reloaded player and what's not?


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Universal Fit
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Westone 3 True-Fit Earphones
" I don't like to buy headphones solely based on people's recommendations without auditioning them first, but the reality is, you often have to because you just don't have the opportunity to audition exactly the models you are interested in due to where you live. The Westone 3 is one such case where I had to rely on internet reviews, and I regret the purchase. The problem with trusting online..." --Lunatique
High quality universal stereo earphone. Connection: 3.5mm plug. Cord length: approx. 1.2 meters. This stereo earphone offers good feeling with vogue and pleasure. Delivers great stereo sound and super comfortable ear-fitting. With answer button and microphone.