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Here is my week in cellphone fotos.
We went grocery shopping at Wally World as usual – but this caught me off guard. The toy aisle is right next to the fitness equipment aisle so I guess someone decided to be funny. It made me laugh, and quite frankly freaked me out a little, too. As I've mentioned before, dolls scare me.
Another day we ended up at Target. We went shoe shopping for the boys because all their old pairs are either out-grown or barely recognizable as footwear at this point.
Anyway, hanging from the ceiling at Target was a monster-size chancla. I said to my oldest son, "Imagine getting a chacletazo from THAT chancla!" … That inspired this photo:
On our shoe-shopping adventures, we ended up in the vicinity of a Petco, and our youngest son can not pass a pet store without asking to go and "just look." (In case you need translating, "just look" means he is going to ask us to take home every animal in the store.)
I don't need much convincing since I find the mice amusing with all their wheel-running and curious beady eyes – but this time I happened upon this ratoncito.
Is he not the most depressed ratoncito you've ever seen? Poor guy looks like he has the entire weight of the world on his furry little shoulders. (Don't feel too sad. When I last checked on him before we left the store, he had gotten out of his food bowl in the corner and looked more cheerful. Mice don't live long so they can't afford to wallow in self pity for more than a few minutes. May we learn a lesson from the ratoncito!)
More shoe shopping took us to some outlets. While we were walking around, a car drove by and a guy yelled out to us, "I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!" before speeding off. It could have been a teenager being an ass, but I chose to take it as a random act of kindness. I'm thinking about doing this myself, (telling random people I love them, not being an ass, that is.)
At the outlets there are little kiddie rides here and there. The thing I love about my 9 year old is that he's at that beautiful age where he's aware of which things are now considered "childish" – but he's still too fun-loving to care if he looks foolish.
He jumped right up on the carousel caballito and asked if we could insert some monedas. Unfortunately el cipote looks a little like the depressed ratoncito in that photo because the machine was already jammed with a stuck quarter. Carlos went to work to dislodge the coin but his fingers are kind of thick, so he wasn't having much success. All of a sudden I had an idea. I pulled the gum out of my mouth, stuck it to the quarter and ta-da! We were 25 cents richer. I remembered a Sesame Street video from my childhood about retrieving a lost jack with a magnet – and that's what inspired me. Thanks, Sesame Street!
For my last photo, I decided I wanted to show you all the "inspiration board" I have here at my desk because I want to encourage you to make one for yourself. The cork board itself costs less than $5, but you don't even need one. You can just tack stuff to the wall – but put it somewhere you'll see it often.
What do you put on your inspiration board? Anything that inspires you, reminds you of your goals/priorities, and makes you smile. I put a lot of quotes on mine, (including fortunes from Chinese take-out, but now that I'm eating healthier, I won't be adding more to my collection.) … I also have a drawing from my youngest son that says he missed me, (he drew it while at school but it reminds me to spend time with the kids.) … As you can see, I also have photos of Chicharito and Espinoza Paz. Carlos objected to their inclusion. I told him that they inspire me but he doesn't buy it. He said, "I'm going to make an inspiration board and put girls in bikinis on it."
I told Carlos he's being totally ridiculous. His comparison isn't even valid – I mean, it isn't like Espinoza and Chicharito are half-naked in the photos.
…(If anyone has photos of Espinoza or Chicharito half-naked though, you have my E-mail.)


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I have a set of 8 12-back figures, all stored in hard protective cases and displayed on my shelf. I've just noticed that, possibly due to climate/weather changes here in L.A. over the past couple of weeks, that the glue on the right side of my 12-back Chewbacca bubble has come undone. I'm very distressed over this, and I don't know what my best course of action is.
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Family: Emberizidae, New World Sparrows view all from this family
Description ADULT Has olivegreen back, wings, and tail; yellow edges to wing feathers form a striking patch. Head, neck, and underparts are largely gray, grading to pale buff on belly and undertail coverts, but note the striking head markings: chestnut crown, white patch in front of eye, and well-defined white throat and malar stripe separated by dark line. JUVENILE Brown overall, darker above than below, and heavily streaked on upperparts, head, neck, and breast. Throat markings recall those of adult.
Dimensions Length: 6 1/4-7" (16-18 cm)
Habitat Locally common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Sep) to dense chaparral- and scrub-covered slopes. Winters mainly in Mexico, but also in southwestern U.S.
Observation Tips Relative impenetrability of favored habitat makes observation challenging, but singing males are sometimes obvious in spring.
Range California, Northwest, Plains, Texas, Southwest, Rocky Mountains
Voice Song comprises a series of abrupt tchup notes followed by burst of chatters and whistles; call is a rather plaintive, upslurred mew.
Discussion Long-tailed bird. Not unduly wary, but remains within cover of scrub much of the time. Mainly terrestrial; scratches through leaf litter with both feet, feeding on insects and fallen seeds. Sexes are similar.


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Being a Grinch Isn't So Bad for Your Wallet
Sandra Williams-Herve | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada Business
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With just a few days remaining the countdown to Christmas has begun. For those of you who haven't even started shopping (you know who you are) the pressure on. So is the temptation to just give in and become a big spender. Giving has turned into a status statement and it need not become that, especially in our heavily indebted consumer era.


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Battle for the Belts: Pinca, Kem, Sagetdao, Schilling Among Winners
- Written by Rian Scalia
Battle for the Belts took place in Bangkok yesterday. Although the card was nowhere near what it looked like on paper originally, there were still some good fights that went down with some of the best in the world.
Just two weeks after his loss to Giorgio Petrosyan, Fabio Pinca fought Big Ben Chor Praram for the WBC title at 67kg and walked away with a decision win. Pinca seemed to stun Big Ben in the second round and almost scored a knockdown with low kicks in the third, with Big Ben's leg visibly being hurt. Big Ben, however, controlled the fourth and fifth rounds while Pinca was still competitive.
For the lightweight WBC title, Jomthong Chuwattana took a comfortable decision over Yetkin Ozkul, dominating the fight. Ozkul was game but he got dominated by Jomthong, who used his height and technical skills to keep Ozkul at bay the whole fight. For the super lightweight WBC title, Sagetdao Phetphayathai disposed of Sofiane Derdaga via cut stoppage in the third round.
For the super welterweight WBC title at 70kg, Kem Sitsongpeenong scored a nasty elbow KO over Alejandro Asuma Osu. Kem, predictably, looked a lot more comfortable fighting Muay Thai than he did fighting kickboxing at Glory recently.
Since Artem Levin, Simon Marcus and Artem Vakhitov all pulled out of the fight at one time or another, Joe Schilling ended up facing a Golden Glory kickboxer, Karapet Karapetyan. Schilling won most of the fight, except the third round and turned it up in rounds four and five to get a decision victory, for the interim WBC light heavyweight world title.
At super cruiserweight, 95kg, Steve McKinnon stopped Frank Munoz very quickly into the first round with a right hand that sent Munoz down and unable to beat the count. Fabiano Aoki defeated Christian Bosch for the WBC's heavyweight world title via jumping knee KO.
Fabio Pinca def. Big Ben Chor Praram by decision.
Jomthong Chuwattana def. Yetkin Ozkul by decision.
Sagetdao Phetphayathai def. Sofiane Derdaga by TKO (Cut) in Round 3.
Kem Sitsongpeenong def. Alejandro Asumu Osa by KO (Elbow) in Round 2.
Joe Schilling def. Karapet Karapetyan by decision.
Steve McKinnon def. Frank Munoz by KO (Overhand Right) in Round 1.
Fabiano Aoki def. Christian Bosch by KO (Jumping Knee) in Round 2.


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K-1 World Grand Prix in Nanjing Potentially Cancelled
- Written by Dave Walsh
This week has been a rollercoaster for K-1 Final 16 news. It's Showtime's Simon Rutz set multiple deadlines for FEG to pay the money owed to It's Showtime and their fighters, with the final deadline set for Friday by end of business. LiverKick.com has been in close contact with It's Showtime officials regarding this news and as of this afternoon there was no word regarding payments. This of course was a worst case scenario for the K-1 Final 16, set to happen in just two weeks now, an event that had yet to secure any substantial sponsors and that fighters had yet to receive finalized contracts for.
There was another rumor this week about FEG offering a contract to fighters who were owed substantial sums of money that would ensure their future fighting for K-1 but would only pay 50% of the money that was owed to them, with the fighter effectively waiving the other 50% and FEG no longer liable for that.
The first word of the show "not happening" came from Anil Dubar, Daniel Ghita's coach by way of the Dutch blog of Daniel Dee. Dubar claims that the event has been cancelled, that October 29th is off.
Of course this is not final, as there has been no official word from K-1 on any of this, and there are reports coming from Japan that FEG is still in meetings with potential investors for K-1, but as the October 29th date draws closer and closer and It's Showtime possibly pulling out a majority of the promised fighters for the Final 16 things are beginning to look truly bleak.


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How do plants that evolved without any genetic interaction end up being so similar?
Organisms evolve to fit the conditions they are in. There are only so many ways to minimize the use of water, so plants in arid climates evolve very similar structures for that purpose. There are many instances of parallel evolution in widely separated organisms.
Climate Zones and Biomes
The major factors that influence climate determine the different climate zones. In general, the same type of climate zone will be found at similar latitudes and in similar positions on nearly all continents, both in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The exceptions to this pattern are the climate zones called the continental climates, which are not found at higher latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. This is because the Southern Hemisphere land masses are not wide enough to produce a continental climate.
Climate zones are classified by the Köppen classification system. This system is based on the temperature, the amount of precipitation, and the times of year when precipitation occurs. Since climate determines the type of vegetation that grows in an area, vegetation is used as an indicator of climate type.
A climate type and its plants and animals make up a biome. The organisms of a biome share certain characteristics around the world, because their environment has similar advantages and challenges. The organisms have adapted to that environment in similar ways over time. For example, different species of cactus live on different continents, but they have adapted to the harsh desert in similar ways.
Major Climate Groups
The Köppen classification system recognizes five major climate groups. Each group is divided into subcategories. Some of these subcategories are forest, monsoon, and wet/dry types, based on the amount of precipitation and season when that precipitation occurs (Figure below).
This world map of the Köppen classification system indicates where the climate zones and major biomes are located.
Tropical Moist Climates
Tropical moist climates are found in a band about 15o to 25o N and S of the Equator (Figure above).
- Temperature: Intense sunshine. Each month has an average temperature of at least 18oC (64oF).
- Rainfall: Abundant, at least 150 cm (59 inches) per year.
The main vegetation for this climate is the tropical rainforest.
Dry Climates
Dry climates have less precipitation than evaporation.
- Temperature: Abundant sunshine. Summer temperatures are high; winters are cooler and longer than in tropical moist climates.
- Rainfall: Irregular; several years of drought are often followed by a single year of abundant rainfall. Dry climates cover about 26% of the world's land area.
Low latitude deserts are found at the Ferrell cell high pressure zone. Higher latitude deserts occur within continents or in rainshadows. Vegetation is sparse but well adapted to the dry conditions.
Moist Subtropical Mid-latitude
Moist subtropical mid-latitude climates are found along the coastal areas in the United States.
- Temperature: The coldest month ranges from just below freezing to almost balmy, between -3oC and 18oC (27o to 64oF). Summers are mild, with average temperatures above 10oC (50oF). Seasons are distinct.
- Rainfall: There is plentiful annual rainfall.
Continental Climates
Continental climates are found in most of the North American interior from about 40°N to 70°N.
- Temperature: The average temperature of the warmest month is higher than 10°C (50°F) and the coldest month is below -3°C (27°F).
- Precipitation: Winters are cold and stormy (look at the latitude of this zone and see if you can figure out why). Snowfall is common and snow stays on the ground for long periods of time.
Trees grow in continental climates, even though winters are extremely cold, because the average annual temperature is fairly mild. Continental climates are not found in the Southern Hemisphere because of the absence of a continent large enough to generate this effect.
Polar Climates
Polar climates are found across the continents that border the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, and Antarctica.
- Temperature: Winters are entirely dark and bitterly cold. Summer days are long, but the Sun is low on the horizon so summers are cool. The average temperature of the warmest month is less than 10oC (50oF). The annual temperature range is large.
- Precipitation: The region is dry, with less than 25 cm (10 inches) of precipitation annually; most precipitation occurs during the summer.
When climate conditions in a small area are different from those of the surroundings, the climate of the small area is called a microclimate. The microclimate of a valley may be cool relative to its surroundings since cold air sinks. The ground surface may be hotter or colder than the air a few feet above it, because rock and soil gain and lose heat readily. Different sides of a mountain will have different microclimates. In the Northern Hemisphere, a south-facing slope receives more solar energy than a north-facing slope, so each side supports different amounts and types of vegetation.
Altitude mimics latitude in climate zones. Climates and biomes typical of higher latitudes may be found in other areas of the world at high altitudes.
- A biome is a climate zone and the plants and animals that live in it.
- The Koppen classification system divides climates into five major types and many subtypes based on temperature and humidity characteristics.
- A microclimate has different climate conditions from the surrounding regions.
- How does a biome relate to a climate zone?
- How does a region develop its own microclimate?
- Where do you think dry climates are located? Where are subtropical climates located?


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A former cycling teammate of Lance Armstrong said he is not surprised Armstrong continues to deny doping allegations, because he used to do the same thing.
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When questioned about cheating, "I denied it for years,'' Tyler Hamilton told Matt Lauer on Wednesday. "After a while you get pretty good at it. I've lied to you before, straight to your face. For me, it's a huge weight off my back. Today I feel fantastic.''
Hamilton appeared on TODAY alongside Daniel Coyle, his co-author on the new book "The Secret Race – Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs.'' The book comes out shortly after Armstrong's Aug. 23 announcement that he will no longer fight charges of performance-enhancing drug use by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which led to the USADA erasing his seven Tour de France titles from the record books and banning him from the sport for life.
Armstrong maintains that he never used PEDs and became weary of battling the USADA.
'I lied for a long, long time'
Hamilton was a teammate of Armstrong's on the U.S. Postal Service cycling team from 1998 to 2001. He tested positive for PEDs three times in his career, which has brought his credibility under attack by Armstrong and others. Armstrong is labeling Hamilton an opportunist, pointing to the fact that the book is coming out shortly after Armstrong's announcement even though the allegations in it are more than 10 years old.
"Tyler Hamilton was a teammate of Lance's more than a decade ago,'' Armstrong said in a statement. "Writing a book today about events that allegedly took place more than ten years ago is not about setting the record straight or righting a wrong; it is greedy, opportunistic and self-serving.''
"This was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life,'' Hamilton told Lauer Wednesday. "I lied for a long, long time. There was sort of an omerta. People really encouraged me not to speak. I planned to take this secret to the grave. There was a federal investigation, and I sat up there in front of the grand jury and told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.''Video: Teammate: Lance Armstrong failed drug tests (on this page)
In light of the fact that Hamilton admits he lied in the past, Coyle demanded certain assurances before he co-wrote the book in order to ensure its accuracy.
"No subject was off limits, I had access to all of (Hamilton's) materials and everything would be independently confirmed,'' Coyle told Lauer. "I spent two years talking to former teammates, wives, girlfriends, and staffers, so this thing rests on a foundation of independent reporting.''
Claims of cover-up
Armstrong was tested more than 500 times in his career, but claims he never tested positive.
"First of all, I passed hundreds of tests when I probably shouldn't have,'' Hamilton said. "The United States doping association, they've been doing a fantastic job in improving their tests, but back in the day at the time I was riding, we had doctors that were one step ahead of the testers.''
Hamilton also disputes Armstrong's claim that he never tested positive, saying that Armstrong confided to Hamilton in 2001 that he failed a doping test before the Tour de Suisse in Switzerland. Hamilton alleges that there was then a cover-up of the results by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's international governing body. The UCI has denied that there was any cover-up.
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"What happened next was a call was made from cycling's body, UCI, that this test should go no further, this matter should end here,'' Coyle said. "There was a meeting between Armstrong, his coach and the lab and then there was also a $125,000 donation from Armstrong to the UCI.''
Hamilton does not have any physical proof that Armstrong was cheating, although the book details instances of Hamilton being with Armstrong when Armstrong allegedly had vials of EPO, a blood-doping agent, in his refrigerator. Hamilton also writes about how EPO was allegedly delivered to them during races.Story: 'The Secret Race' explores doping in professional cycling
"We have 300 pages of a smoking gun — an avalanche of evidence,'' Coyle said. "People have a right to know the truth about this. He's an icon for millions of people, and he's an icon because he inspired people through his winning. Now there's some truth coming out about exactly how he won. Now people can make up their own minds.''
Hamilton still calls Armstrong "one of the best athletes I've ever met,'' and feels that his book has credibility despite his admission of lying in the past.
"It's the truth,'' Hamilton said. "I denied for such a long time. There are other people still denying. It's hard to come to terms with it, to tell the truth. For me, telling my parents for the first time, my friends, it was just brutal.''
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Sawdust Dragons, $18 each
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When we found out how these dragons were made, we knew we had to include them in our gift guide. Each figure is hand-sculpted out of a blend of sawdust and wood glue. Cool, huh? Crafted by a cottage industry in northern Thailand, they vary in size from teeny-tiny to giant. Perfect for the dragon-lover in your family (we've all got one).
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Indian Bloodstone Orb, $30
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It sure would be nice to have the money to fork out for a $500 dragonfly fossil. That thing is cool. But this bloodstone sphere from India is more in our price range. If this orb were a planet, we would hop in the Alibi space jalopy and zip over for a long visit. Whaddya say, Earthlings? Should we migrate?
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Enchantmints Music Box, $24.95
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Nature is cool. Since we were kids, we've been fascinated by these crystal-concealing rocks. How do they form? We have no idea. But what we do know is these amethyst-laced agate geode bookends would make a great gift for your friend the nature-lover, your sister the amateur geologist, your boss the avid book-reader or anyone who agrees that nature is cool.
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JACKSON – The nine-member state Board of Education will be functioning minus one member after this week's meetings unless Speaker Philip Gunn acts to fill the vacancy.
The Board's meetings Thursday and today will mark the end of Martha "Jackie" Murphy's tenure. Murphy, a Rienzi resident, was appointed in 2008 to the Board, which sets policy for the state's public school districts, by former Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi.
Gunn, R-Clinton, had nominated Joel Bomgar of Jackson, owner of a Ridgeland-based computer software company to replace Murphy, but he was rejected during the 2013 session by the Senate Education Committee.
Bomgar ran into difficulty on a number of fronts in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Education Committee. He was questioned by some because of his connection with groups that staunchly opposed pre-K programs and supported vouchers and because of his decision to home-school his children.
Nathan Wells, chief of staff for Gunn, said the speaker hopes to fill the spot with "a recess appointment" that could serve until the Legislature meets in 2014. At that time, it would be up to the Senate to confirm or reject the speaker's nomination.
Wells said the speaker "has been looking at resumes, hoping to find the right person to serve."
It is not clear whether the speaker will have the vacancy filled on the Board in time for the July meeting. It is a crucial time for the state Board as it works to hire a new state superintendent and to enact laws passed by the 2013 Legislature, such as a limited pre-kindergarten program and "a third-grade reading gate" that would prevent students from being promoted past the third grade in some instances unless they are reading on grade level.
Murphy will be honored today by the state Board during this week's meetings.
Her replacement will be slated for a nine-year term on the Board that is made up of five appointments by the governor, two by the lieutenant governor and two by the speaker. With the end of Murphy's tenure, only one woman – Kami Bumgarner of Madison – remains on the state Board.
Wells said the speaker will be concerned with finding a board member "eager" to work to improve public education and "with his vision" for public education more so than finding a replacement of a specific gender or ethnicity.


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"Man and machine: John Maeda talks about technology — and his quest to understand RISD," by Ian Donnis
So the $34 million, five-story, 43,000 square foot Chace Center fronts North Main Street, faces downtown, and has the school's name written in big silver letters across the facade. "We've occupied so many borrowed and reused buildings. We've never been in a place that you know is RISD," James Hall, assistant director of the RISD Museum, tells me. "This is the front door of RISD . . . . For the first time in our history, we're saying, 'This is where we are. Please come in.' "
The building is just the start. You can hear the message of engagement when new RISD president John Maeda says, "A priority as I enter my first year at RISD is to make communications more open." And then he blogs at our.risd.edu, begun in January in one of his first public moves as president.
You can see it in the handsome new RISD Museum Web site launched on September 17 to coincide with Chace's opening. The former Web site was a decade-old, confusing, and visually constipated branch from risd.edu. Now it's a crisp, clear, beautiful virtual experience, standing alone at risdmuseum.org.
RISD Museum director Hope Alswang is talking about engagement — in the form of growing the museum's audience — when she says the Chace Center will help the museum continue to offer rigorous scholarly exhibits, but also more "very popular" exhibits like the splashy Dale Chihuly glass show, the first one in the new building.
Am I reaching too far when I wonder if the message is even in the Chace Center's orange brick? The color recalls the Home Depot logo, maybe possibly suggesting that the "Design" in RISD is not just high-end stuff, but "You can do it, we can help" home improvement.
Some have long seen RISD as a snooty East Side enclave — even as it has expanded and reached across the river into downtown — happily inwardly focused, aloof from the city. RISD's effort at engagement, Halls says, reflects "a gradual process. I think artists are becoming again very socially aware, engaged in environmental issues, political issues."
Maeda and Roger Mandle, who left this summer after 15 years as RISD's president, have argued, Hall says, that "if design is a strategic national resource, if the US is going to lead by being a creative economy, you can't do it behind closed doors. . . . We want to play a leading role in bringing creativity to the public and to the boardroom. And that's what you can't do behind closed doors. You have to be open. You have to be welcoming."A new hub in Providence
The start of the RISD Museum is dated to the founding of the school in 1877. The original bylaws call for "the general advancement of public art education by the collection and exhibition of works of art and by lectures and by other means of instruction in the fine arts."
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Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide.
An Ounce Of What?
It's been said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Very true words, especially when it comes to a man's prostate.
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- What distinguishes advanced prostate cancer from prostate cancer? Does this distinction surprise you? Why or why not?
- What is hormone therapy? How is it used to treat prostate cancer?
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- http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20040406/frequent-ejaculation-prostate
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I was too impatient to wait for this wave to start showing up in stores (especially after getting delayed 10 months for no reason at all), so I ordered one loose and one carded set off of Ebay.
For the most part, they all look really good. I'm not too interested in Nom Anor, so I'll probably be looking to trade or sell him off pretty soon here. I have both a loose and a carded version of him.
Anyways, after such a long wait, I can happily say that Kithaba, Dr. Evazan and Aayla Secura were worth every minute of it:
Aayla wasn't even one of the figures that I was really excited about, but she still turned out amazing. She's really tall, though, when you compare her up to a figure like Leia or most of the other female action figures in the line. In fact, Slave Leia barely comes up to the bottom of Aayla's chin.
After so many years of campaigning for a Kithaba figure, it's a little weird to actually hold him in my hands. My loose figure doesn't have a painted neck, but I'm not sure if that's a problem with all of them. It's hard to tell if the neck on my carded Kithaba is painted. Either way, it's not a big problem, because his head casts enough of a shadow that you barely even notice the lack of paint on his neck and it's something I can fix pretty easily later on. Regardless, he turned out perfect. 10 years of campaigning feels like it totally paid off. I also don't even mind the cardback image so much now that I have it in hand. I still wouldn't mind it being replaced with an actual photo of Kithaba, though.
Dr. Evazan is pretty awesome as well. Although he felt like more of a dutiful purchase than anything else; but I have no complaints whatsoever with how the figure turned out.
The 501st Clonetrooper actually looks pretty good if you lift his helmet off of his neck a bit. I also turned his head around so you don't see his chin poking out from under the helmet. I'll probably use some blu-tac to get the helmet to stay where I want it.
BTW, I looked but didn't see a dedicated thread for this wave, so I took the liberty of starting one. If a thread already exists, then please merge them together.


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The term benefits counselor can be applied to either a
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In simple terms, a benefits counselor is someone who
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someone may be eligible or changes in existing benefits
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The Older American Act authorizes benefits counselors to
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Not only paid staff can work as benefits counselors.
Many states have training programs for volunteers who
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Throw in supplemental insurance policies and you have a
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Don, I'll surely be praying for David. It's odd but as parents we are just as concerned (if not more) when they are grown as when they were children. As they get older, they're no longer under our immediate care but their place is more secure than ever in our hearts. How far does David live from you?
My son Tim has another custody hearing tomorrow. Please pray that God's will will prevail in the courtroom. So much is at stake.


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The Arles Contemporary Book Award for 2009 goes to JH Engström and Anders Petersen's collaborative book From Back Home, edited and designed by Greger Ulf Nilson and published by Max Ström. The Rencontres d'Arles Book Award is one of the most prestigious awards in contemporary photography.
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What in particular strikes you as being difficult in drawing or creating 2D assets? What techniques do you see people using that are beyond your comprehension?
So far I'm addressing the following issues in my article (feedback appreciated on these as well):
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For this one I'm not really focusing on software ("what is the best software????!!") or technical particulars, those are hopefully things that will be addressed in future articles.


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Holocaust literature lecture at Binghamton University
Poet Carolyn Forché will deliver the Unger Lecture on Holocaust literature at 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 15, in room 133 of the Binghamton University Union. Her topic will be "Poetry in the Aftermath."
Forché is director of creative writing at Skidmore College and her works include The Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, A Gathering of Tribes and an anthology titled Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Howard and Mindy Unger and the Judaic Studies Program. For more information, contact Paul-William Burch or Beth Burch at 607-777-4697.


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What Will Central Banking Look Like in 2014?
The world's central banks face a diverse set of challenges in 2014.
Inflation is slowing in the developed world but not clearly tamed in developing economies. Growth is highly uneven across the globe and the next big shift in capital flows unknown. Against that backdrop, central banks are charting different courses.
In the U.S., amid an improving economic outlook, the Federal Reserve is trying to time an exit from much-discussed bond-buying programs that in 2013 pumped more than $1 trillion into the financial system. In Frankfurt, however, the European Central Bank is struggling to come up with solutions for economic torpor that looks increasingly like Japan.
And in China, People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan embarks on a third term with one of the most difficult challenges of all: Opening the world's second largest economy to the tempestuous global flows of capital while managing an escalating domestic debt boom.
Need a map? Here's a guide to the outlook for central banks, large and small around the world. Follow the links for more:
The Federal Reserve — The Fed enters a year of leadership transition and debates over how to wind down some of its easy money policies as the economy strengthens in 2014. If all goes according to policy makers' plans, Janet Yellen will soon succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed leader and quickly face multiple challenges, including guiding Fed policy, forging consensus within a fractious policy committee and honing her public communication skills.
European Central Bank — The ECB has shown it can conduct crisis management with the best of them, using a verbal commitment to buy government bonds of stressed countries to stabilize southern European debt markets and preserve the euro.
Bank of England — The BOE enters 2014 looking out over an economy finally picking up speed after several years in the slow lane. With unemployment falling faster than the central bank predicted, the item at the top of officials' agenda will be whether to tweak BOE Gov. Mark Carney's flagship "forward guidance" policy.
Bank of Japan — For BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, 2013 was a good year. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked him in the spring to lead the central bank in its mission to turn around falling prices. Eight months later, there's mild inflation and business sentiment is at a six-year high, thanks to the aggressive easy money policy he orchestrated.
People's Bank of China — China's central bank needs to get a mix of offense and defense right in 2014. People's Bank of China Governor Zhou's mission: to put in place a reform agenda that stalled under China's former leaders.
Bank of Canada — The key question for the Bank of Canada in 2014 is whether it will cut interest rates to counter low inflation.
Reserve Bank of Australia — Australia's central bank governor Glenn Stevens heads into 2014 with few tools left to spur the resource-rich economy as a long mining boom fades, other than jaw-boning the local currency.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand — New Zealand's central bank has held interest rates steady for nearly three years. Now, rising costs of housing and a swiftly improving economy could prompt it to raise rates as soon as January.
Reserve Bank of India — Raghuram Rajan's big challenge in 2014 will be building on the gains he's scored since taking the helm of India's central bank last fall.
Bank of Korea — South Korea's central bank expects its export-dependent economy to do better in 2014 as global growth strengthens. But there's one major concern: a weaker yen.
Bank of Indonesia — Indonesia's central bank is facing a dilemma: whether to raise rates further — slowing the economy — or allow its currency to fall further.
Swiss National Bank — The Swiss National Bank will likely hold interest rates near zero for a third consecutive year as the central bank tries to mute demand for the country's currency without stoking a real estate bubble.
Sweden's Riksbank — The coming year will be another one in which the world's oldest central bank, must balance its concerns about high levels of household borrowing and low inflation.
Norges Bank — Norway's central bank has spent the last 18 months delaying the timing of future interest rate hikes. There is little to suggest that 2014 is going to be radically different.
National Bank of Denmark — Denmark's central bank is an anomaly in the central bank world in that its mandate is simply to keep the Danish currency, the krone, trading within a specified band against the euro, even though Denmark has no intention of joining the euro currency union.
Bank of Russia — The Bank of Russia has shown surprising resistance to calls for easier monetary policies to bolster waning economic growth, and is expected to keep doing so as it focuses on fighting inflation and combating money laundering and tax evasion.
Hungarian National Bank — Hungary will sustain its easy money policies in 2014 as long as financial markets permit, aiming to juice a feeble recovery and help the government's economic policy.
National Bank of Poland — Poland's monetary policy council will watch for the right moment in 2014 to begin tightening credit to prevent faster growth from stoking higher inflation.
Central Bank of Brazil — Brazil's central bank may be nearing the end of a series of interest rate increases aimed at combating high inflation.
Bank of Israel — After the Bank of Israel's 2013 was dominated by the departure of Gov. Stanley Fischer and the drawn-out search for a replacement, 2014 will be the year in which his successor Karnit Flug will have to make her own mark.
South African Reserve Bank — South Africa's central bank spent the last 18 months stuck between a rock and a hard place, and it doesn't look likely to budge any time soon.
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey — Turkey's central bank faces mounting challenges in 2014 as policy makers try to slow inflation, bolster economic growth and plug external funding gaps.


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Dear EarthTalk: I understand that, despite the popularity of organic foods, clothing and other products, organic agriculture is still only practiced on a tiny percentage of land worldwide. What's getting in the way?
- Larry McFarlane, Boston
Organic production may still represent only a small fraction of agricultural sales in the U.S. and worldwide, but it as been growing rapidly over the last two decades. According to the latest global census of farming practices, the area of land certified as organic makes up less than one percent of global agricultural land—but it has grown more than threefold since 1999, with upwards of 37 million hectares of land worldwide now under organic cultivation. The Organic Trade Association forecasts steady growth of nine percent or more annually for organic agriculture in the foreseeable future.
But despite this growth, no one expects organic agriculture to top conventional techniques any time soon. The biggest hurdle for organics is the added cost of sustainable practices. "The cost of organic food is higher than that of conventional food because the organic price tag more closely reflects the true cost of growing the food," reports the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF). "The intensive management and labor used in organic production are frequently (though not always) more expensive than the chemicals routinely used on conventional farms." However, there is evidence that if the indirect costs of conventional food production were factored in, non-organic foods would cost the same or as much as organic foods.
Other problems for organic foods include changing perceptions about just how much healthier they are than non-organics. "Many devotees of organic foods purchase them in order to avoid exposure to harmful levels of pesticides," writes Henry I. Miller in Forbes. "But that's a poor rationale: Non-organic fruits and vegetables had more pesticide residue, to be sure, but more than 99 percent of the time the levels were below the permissible, very conservative safety limits set by regulators - limits that are established by the Environmental Protection Agency and enforced by the Food and Drug Administration."
Just because a farm is organic doesn't mean the food it produces will be free of potentially toxic elements. While organic standards may preclude the use of synthetic inputs, organic farms often utilize so-called "natural" pesticides and what Miller calls "pathogen-laden animal excreta as fertilizer" that can also end up making consumers sick and have been linked to cancers and other serious illnesses. Miller believes that as more consumers become aware of these problems, the percentage of the agriculture market taken up by organics will begin to shrink.
Organic agriculture is sure to keep growing for years to come. And even if the health benefits of eating organic aren't significant, the environmental advantages of organic agriculture - which are, of course, also public health advantages - make the practice well worth supporting.


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...and some sad tidings for the post WW II generation, via the musings of Mr. Bonner.
After getting my ears filled by some bimbo on cable explaning like she is someone we can trust and believe in about how well the economy is rebounding, and it's time to empty the 'matress storage' and send it off to her favorite broker for huge gains. Funny how the MSP and their followers make it sound so easy and rosey.
Do what ever you like, but puhleez...don't bet the farm. UB
The Boomers are Out of Time - and Out of Money
by Bill Bonner
London, England
Clowns to the left of us...jokers to the right...
The Simpleton's Analysis:
Consumers cut back. The economy sank.
Now, government must take action. It must help people out and take up the slack.
The downturn took $12 trillion off Americans' net worth. The feds have pledged about $12 trillion to fix the problem.
But wait, where does government get any money?
Hey, they borrow it, just like consumers did. And besides, it's ultimately the same money - taxpayers' money. So what's the big diff?
The big diff is the subject of today's Daily Reckoning.
The first big diff is that the feds don't spend your money the way you would. Private citizens spend money they don't have on things they want but don't need. The feds spend money that doesn't belong to them on things that the rightful owners don't even want.
At least as practiced by the leading macroeconomists of our time - such as Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. It's just a show-off sport...the idea is to impress the world with some fancy data-heavy formula...win the Nobel Prize and save the world. That way, you get what all men crave...money and power.. Why do men (and women) want money and power? Aww, c'mon...we explained it already. Because it improves their chances of survival and procreation. In a DNA study, for example, they found that Genghis Khan, today, has something like 6 million male descendants. Is that success or what?
The great Khans of today are no longer the steppe warriors on horseback. They're basketball players, rock 'n' roll stars, actors, and hedge fund managers...and, oh yes, occasionally - economists.
The link between economic theory and procreation is probably very weak; but that doesn't stop economists from wanting to strut around and show off. And the way for an economist to show off is to get himself appointed to the President's Council of Economic Advisors...or to the central bank...or get a professorial post at Princeton...etc. etc. This you do by producing tomes, formulae and hypotheses. And, don't forget to write a piece for The Wall Street Journal from time to time.
Another important hint: your work has to suggest that you can manipulate the business cycle, control the credit cycle, or generally make things turn out the way people want.
If you are a Daily Reckoning-type economist, you can forget fame and fortune completely. Who wants to hear from a macroeconomist who tells people to leave well enough alone...and to let the forces of natural economics sort out their own problems? No one...at least no one who is running for public office. Instead, they want someone who will promise to "Save the World."
Save the world from what? Why...from the damage done by other economists!
Two generations of American economists thought the way to bring prosperity was to encourage consumption. On the face of it, the idea is absurd. Classical economists...and Daily Reckoning commentators...laugh at the idea. You don't really get rich by consuming; you get rich by saving and investing.
But they had their charts and graphs...their theories and their jobs teaching economics at prestigious universities. Naturally, they had the feds' ears too - since every politician wants to promise more consumption. The feds favored home ownership, for example...even by people who were bad credit risks. They set up Fannie and Freddie to make it easy for people to buy houses. They even passed a law requiring banks to lend to people who weren't likely to pay them back; that was the origin of the sub-prime mortgage market! They kept interest rates low, too, so people could borrow at affordable rates. And they inflated the currency, so consumers would want to spend their money rather than save it. They also opened the world to free trade, so Americans could buy more, cheaper stuff made by foreigners. For 50 years, they cultivated consumption and let production go to seed.
And now...wouldn't you know it...Americans have over-consumed. Personal expenditures per capital rose 25% between 2003-2005. Personal debt soared to over $13 trillion...about $124,000 per household. Total debt/GDP tripled since 1980.
And now, it's payback time. The private sector has cut back. Consumers need to under-consume to make up for the over-consumption of the bubble years. Savings rates are rising. Spending is falling...
And so what do the simpletons do? Private citizens are unwilling to consume...so they push the government to consume their money for them!Gold futures tapped the $1,000-an-ounce mark, a level the precious metal hadn't reached since February."As long as the Federal Reserve and the US government take actions that debase the dollar, the dollar price of gold will rise," says GoldMoney.com's James Turk. "Similarly, as long as the Bank of England and the UK government take actions that debase the pound, the Sterling price of silver will rise. It is a certainty, just like night follows day."Years from now we will look back at today's action with amazement at how low the price of gold and silver were, just like I can today look back to my college years when gold was only $35 and an ounce of silver could be had for 46 pence. It is a distant memory - and those prices will never again be seen. Eventually a three-digit dollar gold price and single-digit Sterling silver will never again be seen, as long as those currencies continue to be mismanaged and continue on the path to the fiat currency graveyard.
"...the dollar and pound are being debased, and in the absence of any policy advocating sound money in the US and the UK, inevitably gold will hurdle $1,000 and silver will clear £10.""Frugality is the new normal," says an Associated Press report. One study suggests that consumer will spend 14% less - even AFTER the recession is over.Boomers are out of time. Out of money.. And they'll be out of luck unless they trim expenses and begin saving.They've figured it out. Personal spending has fallen in 4 of the last 6 quarters. It hasn't done that since 1947 - when they first began tracking it.Consumers' net worth has taken a big hit - down $13 trillion, from $62 trillion to $50 trillion.And so, the simpletons think the government has to rush in where fools foundered...that is, they rush in with more money.But where do the feds get any money? They have to borrow it...or print it. There's a big difference between federal borrowing and private borrowing. When the private sector borrows the risk is that people won't be able to pay back their loans. That is a risk that lenders live with. They know the risk; they factor it into their decision-making. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes - such as when economists mislead them with a lot of gibberish numbers - they're wrong. And when they're wrong, borrowers default...and lenders lose money.The feds, on the other hand, can't default. At least, not when their debts are calibrated in money they control. But there's the risk right there. And it is a different kind of risk. It's the risk that the feds may choose to pay back the loan in much cheaper currency. Or merely make a mistake that results in much cheaper currency.Imagine a private borrower who could print up a few extra bills in his basement to pay his monthly mortgage. He may not do so...perhaps his sense of honor would prevent him. Or maybe he would fear that he wouldn't be allowed to borrow again. But if his back were to the wall, there is little doubt that he'd soon be in the print shop.The feds are in the print shop already. They're printing up more dollars intentionally - to try to get inflation rates up....and to finance federal borrowing. It will be a miraculous thing if their new dollars don't eventually cause inflation. But the macroeconomists who run the print shop tell us not to worry. They've got it all under control. They're already talking about when and how to withdraw the dollars they so helpfully provided during the crisis period.The simpletons - who had no idea that the crisis would come...and then thought it could be easily contained...and then mistook it for a monetary, banking crisis...and then judged it over before it had really started......these same simpletons still do not understand that the problem is not a lack of money, it's a surplus of debt.....they now reassure us that they know just how much money to put into the system...and just when to take it out.If you believe them...you might want to stay in stocks and US bonds. If not, you should head for cover.The country is being run "by a gang of clueless bozos," says Lee Iacocca, in his new book.Until tomorrow,Bill BonnerThe Daily Reckoning


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The Target exclusive Imaginext single packed figures are on clearance right now at $2.70 something.
Picked up Bats, Two Face and Mr. Freeze today.
The Target exclusive Imaginext single packed figures are on clearance right now at $2.70 something.
Picked up Bats, Two Face and Mr. Freeze today.
Anyone reporting anything on the Brave and the Bold Action League front from Comic-Con yet?
I'm hoping for a Music Meister/Black Canary set. If no announcement, I have a use for a ROC Destro vs Cover Girl two-pack....
That's my jacket!
Hot Wheels Batboat and Penguin Batmobile have turned up near me. Haven't opened the Penguinmobile up yet, but the Batboat is actually OK. Seems to be made from plastic and this other harder material that Hot Wheels rarely uses anymore.
In a weird twist of fate, my local Fred Meyer has started putting wave 11 DCUC out again, so I picked up Cyborg Superman. Scored the re-released version of Power Girl also.
I just preordered GL Classics wave 1 from Amazon for $14.99 per figure and with free shipping.
I take it from the lack of discussion about it that I'm the only one that got DCUC Plastic Man?
I got one too! He's wicked dope! How cool is it that you can actually wear the Plastic Man goggles that are part of the packaging?
Thanks for the heads up on the GL Classics preorders! Less than $90 shipped is quite a deal. If only we could get the Walmart wave preordered...
I also got Plastic Man, but have yet to remove him from the package.
I have the DCUC Plastic man (sdcc one) !! I'm hoping to find the Green Lantern 5 pack @ walmart and wave 14 DCUC also @ walmart but I know it wont be easy !!
A friend of mine picked up the WM GL 5-pack today, so those are out.
I think I'll pass on that GL pack as I don't want the Hal or the John Stewart. I can't imagine that Guy Gardner and Tomar wouldn't be repacked in GL Classics?


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Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and Flow MRI
por Denis Hoa
Objetivos de aprendizaje
After reading this chapter, you should be able:
- To describe the different flow phenomena in MRI
- Explain the principle of flow compensation gradients
- Present non-contrast magnetic resonance angiography methods (technique, results, advantages and disadvantages:
- Time-of-flight (TOF) MRA
- Phase contrast (PCA) MRA
- 3D MRA with ultrafast spin echo and ECG synchronization (FBI)
- Describe the Contrast-enhanced MRA technique, its constraints related to the injection of a contrast agent, and its advantages
Puntos clave
Flow and MRI
Phenomena associated with flow in MRI
- The inflow effect: flow of nonsaturated blood into the explored zone (vascular hypersignal)
- The outflow effect: the excited blood flows out of the explored zone (loss of vascular signal)
- Dephasing of moving spins in a gradient
This last phenomenon, used in phase contrast MRA, produces artifacts in the other imaging methods. The artifacts caused by flows at constant velocity can be overcome by means of flow compensation gradients.
Time of Flight
- Saturation of stationary spins
- Maximization of inflow effect and minimization of outflow effect
- GE, TR and TE
- Orientation of slices perpendicular to flow
- Slow flow: 2D;
- Fast flow: 3D, MOTSA, TONE
- Magnetization transfer, Fat suppression, Saturation band
- Good visualization of fast flow, Less good for in-plane or turbulent slow flow
- Poor suppression of background signal if short T1 (fat, hematoma, thrombus)
Phase Contrast
- Velocity phase encoding gradient in 3 directions
- Subtraction from a non- encoding gradient acquisition
- Choice of encoding speed +++
- 2D: fast, encoding speed test
- 3D: reduction in the number of phase encoding steps to accelerate the sequence
- Data on flow velocity and direction
- Poor visualization of complex or turbulent flows
- Slow in 3D
- 3D half Fourier fast spin echo
- Prospective ECG synchronization
- STIR preparation
- Short TE, coronal plane, phase encoding in the direction of the vessels
- Calibration of time interval between R wave and acquisition ++
- Double acquisition to subtract the venous signal
- Coronal
- Possible for thorax/abdomen
- Fast
- Loss of signal for fast flows (alternative: diastolic acquisition)
Contrast-enhanced MRA
- Fast 3D GE, short TR and TE, T1 weighted with destruction of residual magnetization
- Gadolinium bolus injection
- Filling of center of k-space when vasculair contrast is at it's peak +++: bolus test, real-time tracking, 4D angioMR
- Fat suppression
- Increase of vascular signal. Exploration of large volumes, Turbulent flow imaging
- Risks and drawbacks of injection
- Ozsarlak, Van Goethem. MR angiography of the intracranial vessels: technical aspects and clinical applications. Neuroradiology. 2004 Dec;46(12):955-72.
- Miyazaki, Sugiura. Non-contrast-enhanced MR angiography using 3D ECG-synchronized half-Fourier fast spin echo. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2000 Nov;12(5):776-83.
- Zhang, Maki. 3D contrast-enhanced MR angiography. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Jan;25(1):13-25.
- Gauvrit, Trystram. [Advanced vascular imaging techniques of supra-aortic, encephalic and medullary vessels.]. Journal de radiologie. 2007 Mar;88(3 Pt 2):472-82.
- Wilson, Hoogeveen. Parallel imaging in MR angiography. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Jun;15(3):169-85.
- Foo, Polzin. MR angiography physics: an update. Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America. 2005 Feb;13(1):1-22, v.
- Madhuranthakam, Hu. Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the peripheral vasculature with a continuously moving table and modified elliptical centric acquisition. Radiology. 2006 Jul;240(1):222-9.
- Ersoy, Zhang. Peripheral MR angiography. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2006;8(3):517-28.


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LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska offensive line coach Barney Cotton has been a college football coach for 23 years. He can tell when players are buckling down and have a goal.
"There is a hunger in their eyes. They want to play. This is the last time this team is going to play together and I can tell by the way they are working, they want to get that 11th win," said Cotton. "We are going to have to go out and earn it, because Georgia is a really good opponent.
"We didn't earn it that night (Big Ten Championship). But what do you do? You correct your mistakes, you move on, you put a new stake in the ground and you chase after a bowl win."
Cotton told reporters the majority of practices leading up to this week were concentrated on fixing their own mistakes, with no game planning for Georgia.
"Everything has been good on good. Ones versus ones. Twos versus twos. And three and fours against three and fours," Cotton said Friday. "It's been split up pretty evenly. They have been physical and fast pace practices. We haven't been out for a long time, only scripting about 85 to 90 plays in an hour, so the guys have been really getting after it."
When Cotton watches tape on Georgia, the offensive line coach sees a defense similar to the one they faced in South Carolina last year in the Capital One Bowl.
"They are very quick on the outside edges upfront and they are large inside," said Cotton. "Their linebackers can run and they have very physical safeties and good cover guys. They are fast, physical, and very upper-level South East Conference defense."
Georgia ranks No. 17 in scoring defense, allowing opponents to only score 18.8 points per game – nearly 17 points a game less than Nebraska's current scoring average.
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Web Stories
Rapp, Tilghman to speak on 'genetic citizens,' March 29
Posted March 29, 2004; 12:58 a.m.
Rayna Rapp, professor of anthropology at New York University, will deliver a lecture titled "Genetic Citizens on the Biological Horizon" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 29, in Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building. Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman will act as discussant following the lecture.
Rapp conducts research on new reproductive technologies, the social impact of genome research, and kinship and disabilities. She is the author of the prize-winning book, "Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America."
Tilghman is a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology. A member of the National Research Council's committee that set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project, she also was one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project Initiative for the National Institutes of Health.
The lecture is part of a colloquium series on "Life Technologies: Medicine, Culture and Ethics," intended to examine the moral, medical and political workings of life technologies in today's world. It is organized by Joao Biehl, assistant professor of anthropology.
The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion , Department of Anthropology, Center for Health and Wellbeing and Center for Human Values.
Contact: Ruth Stevens (609) 258-3601


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Stars are the most important objects in the Universe. Even though they make up less than 3% of the matter they make up 100% of the visible matter. They are a major apparatus for studying the universe and its evolution. This includes the remnants left from their deaths and the discarded material from stellar winds during their life. The evolution of a star is qualitatively understood. It begins on the main sequence, burning hydrogen to helium. There it spends the largest fraction of its lifetime. Once a helium core has formed, hydrogen continues to burn in a shell around the core and the stellar radius swells and the star becomes a red giant or supergiant. In the centre of the core helium burning then ignites forming a carbon and oxygen.
Stars with initial masses less than about 8 times the mass of the sun eventually form a carbon-oxygen core is and become asymptotic-giant branch stars. No further nuclear reactions occur in the centre of the star but the two burning shells of hydrogen and helium continue to burn by a series of thermal pulses in which a large amount of nucleosynthesis of heavy elements occurs. Eventually these stars lose their hydrogen envelopes by stellar winds and the carbon-oxygen core is exposed and becomes a white dwarf.
For stars with initial masses greater than 8 times the mass of the sun later burning stages occur. After the formation of a carbon-oxygen core progressively heavier elements burn preventing stellar collapse until an iron core is formed. With no further energy source to prevent the core from collapsing, a neutron star or a black hole is formed and the star explodes as a supernova or long gamma-ray burst. These events, and the strong stellar winds these stars have, make them the an important source of energy and nucleosynthesis products in the interstellar medium. Thus massive stars are important to understand to understand the structure and evolution of galaxies.
In addition the evolution of any star can be strongly affected if it is in a binary system. The evolution of a binary only differs from that of single stars if the size of the stars is similar to that of the orbit. If this occurs stars can lose mass, possibly transferring some to a companion. Mass-transfer can have dramatic consequences for both stars.
The research into stellar evolution at the IoA encompasses all aspects of stellar evolution but the main themes currently are binary stars, magnetic fields, stellar winds, supernova progenitors, progenitors of gamma-ray bursts, spectral synthesis of resolved and unresolved stellar populations and asymptotic-giant branch stars. The research is primarily theoretical in nature. Our main code is the novel and versatile Cambridge STARS code to produce stellar models to study the above phenomena. In addition we also have strong links with observational groups around the world for which we provide theoretical input.
Sverre Aarseth's research into numerical simulations of many-body (N-body) gravitational interactions has developed into a set of FORTRAN codes which describe the dynamics very closely, and freely downloadable.
The STARS code was originally developed in the 1970's by Peter Eggleton. Over the years, the code has been gradually updated to it's current form.


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Welcome and thank you for your interest in the University of New Haven!
Since 1920, the University of New Haven has been providing unique opportunities for our students. Today, we offer over 100 distinct bachelor's degree programs and concentrations to its 4,600 full-time undergraduate students.
This site is filled with information about our academic programs and campus life. You can also request more information, register for one of our numerous campus visit opportunities, take our virtual campus tour and even start your online application for admission.
Our admissions staff is committed to helping you find the programs and opportunities that are right for you and we are looking forward to helping you through the application process. We hope you will become a part of this truly exceptional institution!
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That's the question. I am only looking for "affirmatives" on this thread. Please do not answer if you are not going and do not post any discussions here as you can post that in the Celebration III thread. I guess I am trying to get a head count as to how many SSG'ers will be in Indy next year. I think this may help us organise some sort of function on one of the evenings of the convention. You can always have your name removed from the list in the event you cannot attend.
I will do a periodic check on the thread and make a list of the most recent postings. Thanks for your cooperation!!!


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Nile Albert Mason was born Jan. 13, 1941, in Del Norte, the son of Lloyd and Landa (Madonna) Mason. Nile was raised in Denver and graduated from Regis High School. After high school, Nile served in the U.S. Navy.
He married Beverly Ann McConkey on March 21, 1965, in Denver. They became the parents of three children and lived in various communities including Denver, Fort Collins and Green Mountain before moving to Steamboat Springs in 1976. Nile spent 25 years with Safeway, ending his career as a store manager. He then opened his own insulation business in Steamboat.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, baseball, playing poker and watching sports on TV. Nile was a big supporter of the Routt County 4-H program and served on the Routt County Fair board.
Nile died March 19, 2013, at Yampa Valley Medical Center following a brief illness. He was 72.
Nile is survived by his daughters Brandi and husband, Nathan Citron, of Yampa, and Shani and husband, Otto Mihalich Jr., of Fruita; son Brett and wife, Stephanie, of Oak Creek; grandchildren Robert Lloyd Mason, Jephery Donaldson, Danielle Jones, Ashley Nicole Mason, Tiana Mihalich, Jade Ann Citron and Craig Nathaniel Citron; great-grandchildren Alexis Kay Donaldson and Elizabeth May Jones; sisters Terry Hale and husband, Vernon, of Denver, and Anita Mason, of Twin Lakes; brother Dale Mason and wife, Sandy, of Phoenix; and sister-in-law Peggy Mason, of Broken Arrow, Okla.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Beverly, his parents and his brother Grant Joseph.
Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service is at 1 p.m. today at The Steamboat Grand.
Memorial donations may be made to the Mason Family 4-H Livestock Sale Fund, in care of Grant Mortuary.