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I have been fortunate enough to see 2 Goose migrations into our area here in WI over the years.
Friday morning I witnessed thousands of Sandhill Cranes POURING out of the sky on their apparent migration south.
The first time I have seen that.
I watched the Cranes riding the nor'wester down out of the Dakota's and the Canadian plains.
They poured out of the sky, one wave after another, for hours.
(no ducks, but I stayed and watched the spectacle)
Dozens or more in flight after flight.
The silence of the marsh shattered by their peculiar chattering calls.
30 mph NW winds, snow and cold.
One of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed!!!
Elvis' eyes were locked to the sky.
I tried to take pics, it just didn't work.
But it's in my heart forever.................WOW!!!
What a morning!!!
(no, I didn't fire a shot, one of the best days of the year in the marsh)
Have any of you ever seen this??
stan b & Elvis
PS...24 degrees, we are on our way to the marsh NOW!!!!


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By Gene Phelps/NEMS Daily Journal
Casey Marshall played her final home game on Tuesday for Tupelo's Lady Wave.
Well, maybe not.
If Tupelo can win next week's Division 2-6A tournament at South Panola, the Lady Wave's senior guard can play one more game on her home court in the first round of the North Mississippi tournament.
"Winning the (division) tournament is the No. 1 goal," Marshall said, after scoring 13 points in a win against New Albany on Senior Night. "I'd love to play another home game. I hope this wasn't my last one."
Of course, top-seeded Tupelo (18-9) has to defeat host South Panola in Tuesday's 2-6A semifinals game to have a shot at returning home. A loss would end the Lady Wave's season.
Tupelo lost in the division finals and had to play its first-round North state game at Jackson Murrah last season. The Lady Wave lost that game and was eliminated.
"Last year we were very young," Marshall said. "This year everybody's grown up more."
Still, Marshall's the lone senior and is joined by just two juniors.
Lady Wave coach Matt Justice believes last year's postseason experience helped his young team.
"Our girls are ready and excited to play in the division tournament this year," he said. "There are still some things we need to hammer in as we go into the playoffs, because we've got a younger group."
The primary concern first-year Tupelo boys coach Jeff Norwood has for his team headed into the postseason is consistency.
The Golden Wave, the division's top seed, plays at tournament host South Panola in Tuesday's semifinals.
"I think we can play at a high enough level to advance," Norwood said. "I don't know if I'm going to get it or not. Sometimes we don't get the focus we need.
"I think we've got a good group of guys who have a chance to accomplish something."
The Golden Wave lost to Jim Hill last season in the 6A state championship game
If the Jazmine Spears-led New Albany Lady Bulldogs (18-6) can have some success in the 2-4A tournament at North Pontotoc, they would host North state.
Spears, who averages 31 points per game, missed this week's loss to Tupelo because of an illness in her family.
"I like our chances to win one game and get back to New Albany," coach John Stroud said. "Then we'll see what happens."

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I have heard that the first ten minutes is probably the funniest in cinema history.
I have heard that the first ten minutes is probably the funniest in cinema history.
No matter how I die, even if there is a suicide note; it was murder. Cheers!
What did you hear about the movie? I thought the opening credits in "The Spy Who Shagged Me" were the best I've ever seen, really hilarious. I always think Austin Powers is great and I am looking forward to "Goldmember."
Padme wants some Jedi Juice!
Probably not quality comedy though. Just one of those pop-up things. I'm definitely not going to see this in theaters, I don't support movies with pop stars, especially ones I really really don't like.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
I have a bad feeling about this movie. Oh well, we'll see.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
I think they'll go stupidly over-the-top with this one, since they really can't make it any funnier than the last one.
Like QLD, I have a really bad feeling about this one. The trailers look as unfunny as anything in the past 3 years and the idea of crossing "Goldfinger" with "Cleopatra Jones" doesn't sound like a winning combination to me.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I am looking forward to this movie, I think it looks really funny but not quite as good as the other two. I hope it lives up to the expectation.
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
"There's a gentleness about a total Star Wars geek that is sublime."- Rick McCallum
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i will not see this movie in theaters. it does not spark my interests
HELMET: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's
former room-mate.
LONE STARR: What's that make us?
HELMET: Absolutely nothing.
I'll probably end up seeing it in the theater but live to regret it as I always seem to do.
"No one helped me so why should I help you?" - College professor circa 1999
By choosing not to decide you still have made a choice.
I'm in love with the women of Univision.
If you mean funniy as in Haha, look how horrible this is, then you're probably right.Originally posted by DeadEye
I think they'll go stupidly over-the-top with this one, since they really can't make it any funnier than the last one.
I loved the original Austin Powers, but The Spy Who Shagged Mw was cinematic excrement, and Goldmember will probably be more of the same. I just hope to god Heather Graham doesn't have a cameo in the begining like Liz Hurely did, or else I'll just leave at the first sight of her to distance myself from her "acting" abilities.
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I have one that is a little over weight and have cutt the food back, she has been loosing about a pound a week or 2 pounds a month. Its hard to say for sure how much she loses since shes been on meds for awhile.
Last vet visit she lost a pound in a week.
I am trying to get her to lose more weight, but wondering if there is a guide line to go go by(how many pounds a month to loose?)
She is not real fat and you can see some ribs. But I know Its hard to say without seeing her.
Just wondering if you have one on a diet, how quick should you expect results, a week,month?
She lost 7 or 8 ponds from her last year check up.
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Last week the USDA released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on newly developed 2,4-D resistant genetically modified corn and soybean traits. As the internet exploded with pro-biotech advocacy celebrating the move towards deregulation of yet another GMO product line, I couldn't help noticing the number of straw men participating in the debate! Just so the 'no thank you' side of the unfolding 2,4-D debacle is fairly represented, here's why some sustainability enthusiasts don't consider this potential 'alternative' even a little tiny bit preferred


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Chaco Culture
National Historic Park
New Mexico
The Landscape
The landscape of Chaco Canyon is hauntingly beautiful. Sunlight and shadows play on towering rock walls where petroglyphs keep secret the history of an ancient people. The canyon floor still conceals the buried remains of Pueblo dwellings. Those which have been excavated are as mysterious as they are revealing. Visitors come from all over the world to this spectacular place to enjoy the natural beauty and to marvel at the grandeur of the ancient sandstone buildings that remain.
Chaco Canyon lies near the center of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, which is near the southeastern edge of the much larger Colorado Plateau. This region has broad exposures of horizontal sedimentary layers that have eroded into plateaus, mesas, buttes, and canyons. The rocks exposed in Chaco Canyon record an interval in the Earth's history during the Late Cretaceous Period, approximately 75 to 80 million years ago. During this time, Chaco was part of the migrating coastline of an ancient inland sea.
The Cretaceous Setting
The name "Cretaceous" is derived from the Latin word for chalk (creta) which is a characteristic rock type of this period for many land masses in the northern hemisphere. Throughout much of the Cretaceous period, sea level was higher than the present, and portions of many continents were inundated by shallow seas. In the area of the southern Rocky mountains, mountain building activity also produced an adjacent broad area of subsidence known as the Western Interior Basin. This basin was flooded by seas from both the Arctic and Gulf Coast regions. By the Late Cretaceous, the Western Interior Seaway was hundreds of miles wide and had divided North America into two separate land masses. The shorelines of this epicontinental seaway were oriented generally north-south and repeatedly shifted position to east and west in response to changes in global sea level. The Cretaceous rocks visible today in both Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde were deposited in alternating marine and nonmarine environments as the Western Interior Seaway repeatedly inundated parts of the Four Corners area and then receded.
Chaco Geology
The majority of the exposed features in Chaco Canyon belong to a suite of rocks known as the Mesa Verde group. The further subdivisions of the unit are, from oldest to youngest, the Point Lookout Sandstone, the Menefee Formation, and the Cliff House Sandstone. Of these three formations, only two, the Menefee and Cliff House are visible in Chaco, while all three are exposed at Mesa Verde. An additional two younger units, the Lewis Shale and the Picture Cliffs Sandstone, are generally exposed only near the northern boundary of the park.
Menefee Formation
The Menefee Formation is the oldest exposed unit of the Mesa Verde Formation at Chaco and is composed primarily of siltstone and mudstone interbedded with sandstone as well as carbonaceous shale and thin coal beds. The Menefee Formation was formed from sediments deposited by rivers flowing north and east across New Mexico toward a retreating Interior Seaway.
Cliff House Sandstone
The Cliff House Sandstone is a complex sequence of marine sandstones with locally interbedded shales which overlies the Menefee Formation. There are three principal Cliff House units visible within Chaco Canyon. The massive lower unit forms the 80-100 foot prominent cliffs throughout the canyon. An abundance of ripple marks and a wide variety of fossils are visible in this unit. Fossils include shells and casts from clams, ammonites, snails, shark's teeth, and the knobby casts of burrows known as Ophimorpha ("dwelling place") Nodosa ("nodular"). These casts are thought to be the fossilized remains of burrows left by a small shrimp-like crustacean known as Callianasa major.
Erosion and Cliff Formation
The Menefee Formation is less resistant to erosion than the Cliff House Formation and often completely erodes from beneath the younger sandstone. The unsupported sandstone will then break away in large slabs and boulders as the undercutting reaches joints and local weaknesses. This step-wise erosion is responsible for producing both the prominent cliff faces and the debris mounds or talus slopes piled against them. When this erosional process continues, it may actually "sever" a landform into separate free standing rock masses.
One of the most dramatic examples of such erosion is the immense slab of sandstone known as "Threatening Rock". When the ancient builders were constructing Pueblo Bonito, "Threatening Rock" rested in a precarious position just behind it. Aware of the danger that it posed, the Chacoans built an earth and masonry retaining wall beneath this massive rock slab. The slab was first described in 1901 and was referred to as the "Elephant", the Navajos called it "Braced-up Cliff", and the Park Service named it "Threatening Rock". In an attempt to predict the fall of "Threatening Rock", the Park Service took on the job of monitoring its movement. However, there was very little that could be done to prevent its fall and on January 22, 1941, "Threatening Rock" collapsed taking several rooms of Pueblo Bonito with it.
It is probably safe to say the only constant, geologically and otherwise, is change. Soil and rock are always on the move through weathering, erosion, gravity, and the lateral movement of the earth's continents and ocean floors. The landscape is reshaped by these forces over hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Rapid occurrences, like rockfalls and earthquakes, also do their share of redistributing soil and rock.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A photo album for artifacts from this park can be seen here. For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
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General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:05 PM GMT on June 24, 2010
The amount and intensity of heavy thunderstorm activity associated with the tropical wave (Invest 93L) located a few hundred miles south of Jamaica has increased over the past 24 hours, but the storm remains very disorganized and is not a threat to develop into a tropical depression today. The storm has not brought heavy rains to Haiti, fortunately, but heavy rains are expected today across Jamaica, where flash flood warnings have been posted. Satellite loops show a very disorganized system, with no low-level spiral bands and limited upper-level outflow. There are no signs of a surface circulation visible on satellite imagery. Pressures at the ground station nearest to the storm (Kingston) are beginning to fall, as are pressures at buoy 42057 a few hundred miles west of the storm, a sign that 93L is more organized than yesterday. Water vapor satellite loops show that moist air surrounds 93L, and there is less dry air to the storm's southwest than there was yesterday. There is an upper-level high pressure system a few hundred miles west of 93L, and the clockwise flow air around this high is bringing upper-level winds out of the northwest of about 10 knots over 93L, contributing to the 10 knots of wind shear observed in this morning's wind shear analysis from the University of Wisconsin's CIMSS group. Sea Surface Temperatures are plenty warm, a record 29 - 30°C. The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) currently favors upward motion over the Caribbean, which will act to increase the chances of tropical storm formation this week. The main negative for 93L continues to be the lack of spin. Last night's pass of the ASCAT satellite showed little in the way of a wind shift associated with 93L, though the pass did not completely capture the storm. The University of Wisconsin 850 mb relative vorticity analysis is showing that spin at 850 mb (roughly 5,000 feet in altitude) has increased over the past two days. The Hurricane Hunters are on call to investigate 93L Friday afternoon. Today's flight was canceled, due to 93L's lack of development.
Figure 1. Morning visible satellite image of the central Caribbean disturbance 93L.
Track forecast for 93L
I expect that by tomorrow, 93L should be closer to being directly underneath the upper level high pressure system to its west, which would act to lower wind shear and provide more favorable upper-level outflow. NHC is giving 93L a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Saturday morning, which is a reasonable forecast. Given the storm's current lack of spin and relatively modest amount of heavy thunderstorms, the earliest I'd expect 93L to become a tropical depression would be Friday afternoon, with Friday night or Saturday morning more likely. Interaction with land will be a problem for 93L, as it will likely move over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula or Western Cuba on Saturday. Expect 93L to bring flooding rains of 3 - 6 inches to Jamaica and eastern Cuba today through Friday. These rains will spread to the Cayman Islands, northern Honduras, and central Cuba Friday through Saturday, and western Cuba, Belize, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday and Sunday. The current run of the SHIPS model has 93L slowing down late this week to a forward speed of just 7 knots (8 mph) from its current speed of about 10 mph, in response to a weakening in the steering currents. A trough of low pressure is expected to swing down over the Eastern U.S. on Monday. If this trough is strong enough and 93L develops significantly, the storm could get pulled northwards and make landfall along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. This is the solution of the GFS, GFDL, and HWRF models. If 93L stays weak and/or the trough is not so strong, the storm would get pushed west-northwestwards across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and towards the Texas or Mexican coast south of Texas. This is the solution of the NOGAPS, ECMWF, and Canadian models. A likely landfall location is impossible to speculate on reliably at this point, and the storm could hit virtually anywhere along the Gulf of Mexico coast given the current uncertainty in its development. A key factor will be how far north the center of 93L eventually consolidates at.
Intensity forecast for 93L
The amount of wind shear in the Gulf of Mexico next week is highly uncertain. There is currently a band of high shear near 30 knots over the Gulf. The GFS model predicts that this band of high shear will lift northwards, keeping low wind shear over the Gulf next week. However, the ECMWF model keeps high shear entrenched over the Gulf of Mexico. I give 93L a 50% chance of eventually becoming Tropical Storm Alex, but the odds of it eventually becoming a hurricane have lessened to 10%. None of the computer models is calling for 93L to become a hurricane.
Elsewhere in the tropics
None of the reliable computer models is calling for tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic over the next seven days.
Figure 2. Dust storm over Iraq on June 23, 2010. Image credit: NASA.
Extreme heat wave sets all-time high temperature records in Africa and Middle East
A withering heat wave of unprecedented intensity and areal covered has smashed all-time high temperatures in five nations in the Middle East and Africa over the past week. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Chad, Kuwait, and Niger all set new records for their hottest temperatures of all time, and two other Middle East nations came within a degree of their hottest temperatures ever. The heat was the most intense in Kuwait, which recorded its hottest temperature in history on June 15 in Abdaly, according to information I received from the Kuwait Met office. The mercury hit 52.6°C (126.7°F). Kuwait's previous all-time hottest temperature was 51.9°C (125.4°F), on July 27,2007, at Abdaly. Temperatures reached 51°C (123.8°F) in the capital of Kuwait City on June 15, 2010.
Iraq had its hottest day in history on June 14, 2010, when the mercury hit 52.0°C (125.6°F) in Basra. Iraq's previous record was 51.7°C (125.1°F) set August 8, 1937, in Ash Shu'aybah.
It was also incredibly hot in Saudi Arabia, which had its hottest temperature ever on Tuesday (June 22): 52.0°C (125.6°F), measured in Jeddah, the second largest city in Saudi Arabia. The previous record was 51.7°C (125.1°F), at Abqaiq, date unknown. The record heat was accompanied by a sandstorm, which caused eight power plants to go offline, resulting in blackouts to several Saudi cities.
In Africa, Chad had its hottest day in history on Tuesday (June 22), when the temperature reached 47.6°C (117.7°F) at Faya. The previous record was 47.4°C (117.3°F) at Faya on June 3 and June 9, 1961.
Niger tied its record for hottest day in history on Tuesday (June 22), when the temperature reached 47.1°C (116.8°F) at Bilma. That record stood for just one day, as Bilma broke the record again on Wednesday (June 23), when the mercury topped out at 48.2°C (118.8°F). The previous record was 47.1°C on May 24, 1998, also at Bilma.
Two other countries came within a degree of their all time hottest temperature on record during the heat wave. Bahrain had its hottest June temperature ever, 46.9°C, on June 20, missing the all-time record of 47.5°C (117.5°F), set July 14, 2000. Temperatures in Quatar reached 48.8°C (119.8°F) on June 20. Quatar's all-time record hottest temperature was 49.6°C (121.3°F) set on July 9, 2000.
According to Essa Ramadan, a Kuwaiti meteorologist from Civil Aviation, Matrabah, Kuwait smashed this record and had Asia's hottest temperature in history on June 15 this year, when the mercury hit 54.0°C (129.2°F). However, data from this station is notoriously bad, and each year bogus record highs have to be corrected, according to an email I received from weather record researcher Maximiliano Herrera. Asia's hottest temperature in history will very likely remain the 53.5°C (128.3°F) recorded at MohenjuDaro, Pakistan on May 26 this year.
We've now had seven countries in Asia and Africa that have beaten their all-time hottest temperature record during the past two months. As I discussed in my blog about Pakistan's May 26 record, Southeast Asia also had its all-time hottest temperature in May, when the mercury hit 47°C (116.6°F) in Myinmu, Myanmar on May 12. All of these records are unofficial, and will need to be certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). According to Chris Burt, author of Extreme Weather, setting five national heat records in one month is not unprecedented--in August 2003, six countries (the UK, France, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein) all broke their all-time heat records during that year's notorious summer heat wave. Fortunately, the residents of the countries affected by this week's heat wave are more adapted to extreme high temperatures, and we are not seeing the kind of death tolls experienced during the 2003 European heat wave (30,000 killed.) This week's heat wave in Africa and the Middle East is partially a consequence of the fact that Earth has now seen three straight months with its warmest temperatures on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. It will be interesting to see if the demise of El Niño in May will keep June from becoming the globe's fourth straight warmest month on record.
Figure 3. Approximate oil spill location on June 23, 2010, and estimated by NOAA using visible satellite imagery from NASA's MODIS instrument, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from polar-orbiting satellites. Image credit: NOAA Satellite Services Division.
Wind and ocean current forecast for the BP oil disaster
East to southeast winds of 5 - 15 knots will blow in the northern Gulf of Mexico today through Monday, according to the latest marine forecast from NOAA. The resulting weak ocean currents should push the oil to the west and northwest onto portions of the Louisiana and Alabama coasts, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA and the State of Louisiana. I would expect Mississippi to have its most serious threat of oil yet early next week as these winds continue. The longer range outlook is uncertain, and will depend upon what 93L does.
Resources for the BP oil disaster
Map of oil spill location from the NOAA Satellite Services Division
My post, What a hurricane would do the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
My post on the Southwest Florida "Forbidden Zone" where surface oil will rarely go
My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
NOAA's interactive mapping tool to overlay wind and ocean current forecasts, oil locations, etc.
Gulf Oil Blog from the UGA Department of Marine Sciences
Oil Spill Academic Task Force
University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group oil spill forecasts
ROFFS Deepwater Horizon page
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the University of Miami
Jeff Masters
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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BARBARA HASKELL: O'Keeffe's first one-person exhibition at the Gallery 291, was the occasion of Stieglitz' first photographs of her. When she moved to New York in 1918, their photography sessions became more intimate, and he began to photograph her nude or partially nude.NARRATOR: Some of these photographs are traditional portraits. But in other cases Stieglitz focuses in O'Keeffe's breasts, torso, and thighs. O'Keeffe not only modeled for the photos, but helped print them in the dark room. In the process, she saw how an artist can manipulate a representational image by cropping it to create an abstraction. In some of the rooms that follow, you'll see the effect this discovery had on O'Keeffe's work.But the photographs did more than change the way O'Keeffe saw art. They also changed the way that people saw her. Stieglitz included about forty-five pictures of O'Keeffe in a 1921 retrospective of his own work. The highly sexualized nudes instantly made her into a notorious newspaper personality—in part because they verified that she was intimately involved with the much older, still married Stieglitz. When Stieglitz staged an exhibition of her work a few years later, her celebrity garnered a lot of attention—not all of it to O'Keeffe's liking. Many critics emphasized the sexuality they perceived in O'Keeffe's work to the exclusion of almost all else. The photographs convinced them that she was a sexual free spirit—and so, they reasoned, her paintings must be emblems of female sexual experience.


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Rutgers University sociologist Winnifred Brown-Glaude will deliver a lecture titled "Sex in the Postcolonial City" and introduce a screening of the film "Dancehall Queen" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6, in the Rocky-Mathey Film Theater, Rockefeller College.
"Dancehall Queen," a 1997 film by Rick Elgood and Don Letts, tells the story of a street vendor in Kingston, Jamaica, who embraces dancehall culture while struggling to raise her two children.
Brown-Glaude will lead a discussion following the screening. She is the director of the "Reaffirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education" project at the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers. Her research includes examining the impact of race, color, class and gender on the experiences of female entrepreneurs in Jamaica's urban economy.
The event is the last in a series exploring sexuality, gender, and modern urban life in English-language cinema. It is sponsored by the Department of English .
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"Spicy Middle Eastern Shrimp"
I'm not quite sure what to call this recipe. But since it uses a medley of spices that you'll find in most Middle Eastern dishes, I'm calling it Spicy Middle Eastern Shrimp. Or we can also call it Darn Good. Or Shrimp That Rawks. Or I Can't Believe It's Not Shrimp. Nevermind. You'll need: shrimp, fresh mint, Aleppo pepper flakes, black peppercorns, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, dried ginger root, fennel seed, […]Pin It


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NASCAR SpeedPark Spring Bash will be held for the second year on March 23! Bring the whole family out for a day of fun! Get in line early, because the first 75 people in the door will get in for a discounted price of $10.79 plus tax from 11 til 1!
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By Robbie Ward/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – More than 200 people arrived at the BancorpSouth Conference Center early Friday morning ready to hear from two men who want to run the city for the next four years.
The decision voters make on June 4 will help determine the city's priorities and policies at a time when citizens worry about deteriorating neighborhoods and retention and recruitment of middle-class families.
Jason Shelton, 36, Democrat and attorney, and Fred Pitts, 70, Republican, businessman and Ward 2 councilman, spoke to the crowd of business, community and elected leaders at the Community Development Foundation's monthly "First Friday" breakfast.
Their contrasts remained mostly in style, not substance.
Both candidates support keeping taxes low in the city and finding ways to improve public schools. They also said they wanted to improve decaying neighborhoods, with Shelton saying the focus needed to be on incentives for private investment and Pitts contending the city must use public funds wisely to "reinvest" in redevelopment.
The biggest difference between the candidates comes in style and experience.
Shelton casts himself as a more energetic candidate who can usher in the next generation of city leadership. While not directly bringing up the candidates' ages, he often discusses the need for more energy in city hall.
"We have to be able to relate with and work with the people who want to be here," Shelton told the crowd.
Pitts, the City Council president, touted his leadership and experience as strong advantages that would help his mayoral administration. He sees himself as continuing the priorities of the current council and Mayor Jack Reed Jr., who decided not to seek re-election.
Responding to questions about efforts to retain and attract middle-class residents in the city, Pitts said he has a record that shows his intentions.
"If you've paid attention to the news in the last four years, that's what we've been doing," he said.
Pitts lists the city's decision to build a new $11 million aquatics center in east Tupleo and neighborhood redevelopment along west Jackson Street as examples the city has invested in the community.
"Anyone will tell you the city is better off than it was four years ago," he said.
While the two candidates do not face opponents in the May 7 primary election, they both seem tireless in attending public events and speaking to individuals.
Many people listening to the two candidates speak had already decided who would get their vote. Some wore stickers supporting the Democrat and Republican.
Jesse Bandre said he planned to vote for Pitts, his second choice.
"I'm happy with the way things are now," he said. "I wish Jack Reed would stay in office."
Scattered in the crowd, a few people listened with an open mind. Wesley Webb, owner of Mossy Oak Properties of Tupelo, was one of them.
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The goal of eliminating every germ in your house is unrealistic," says Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping Home. "You can, however, easily limit the population of dangerous pathogens without resorting to potent antibacterials." Here's how.
Start with elbow grease: Too many of us think that spraying disinfectant will spare the need to scrub. Wrong. "Using good old-fashioned elbow grease to remove dirt and grease with ordinary detergents or soaps is the best defense against infectious sickness," Mendelson says.
Then bleach it: Disinfect only where necessary―most of the kitchen and in the bathroom. Use three-quarters cup of chlorine bleach in a gallon of water. "Chlorine bleach kills a broad range of microbes, breaks down into environmentally friendly salt and water, and is inexpensive," says Mendelson. If you want to clean and disinfect at the same time, add a tablespoon of laundry detergent.
Let air and sun work their magic: Most microorganisms need moisture to multiply. So wipe countertops, sinks, faucets, showers, and kitchen tables with a dry, clean towel or cloth. Ultraviolet radiation, the same rays from the sun that harm your skin, also eliminate. germs and dust mites. Place pillows, curtains, fabrics, children's toys, and laundry outside in the sun or let sunlight into your home. Make sure to open your windows wide―glass tends to filter out the helpful UV rays.


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Posted January 31, 2007; 04:32 p.m.
Princeton undergraduate Alexander Adam died of cancer Jan. 25 at his family's home in New York City. He was 23.
Adam entered Princeton as a member of the class of 2007 and was a resident of Rockefeller College. His academic interests focused on theater and creative writing, and he was active in the campus theater community. Adam performed in productions with the Princeton Shakespeare Company, Theatre Intime and the Program in Theater and Dance, including "Titus Andronicus," "Rumors," "Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room" and "Playing in the Dark."
Adam graduated from the Trinity School in New York, where he also starred in many plays. He was a two-time winner of the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for humor, administered by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.
Adam is survived by his father Laszlo, a 1973 Princeton graduate, and his mother Winky; and his brothers Nick, a Princeton junior, and Dash. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the Church of Heavenly Rest, 2 E. 90th St. (at Fifth Avenue), in New York. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center-Pediatric Division.
A campus memorial service is being planned. Details will be announced on the Princeton home page as they become available.
Students who would like to speak with counselors are encouraged to contact Counseling and Psychological Services. University Health Services is open 24 hours daily, and clinicians at Counseling and Psychological Services are available from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments can be made in advance by calling (609) 258-3285. Pastoral counseling is also available through the Office of Religious Life.


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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT In breeding season is gray-brown overall, but heavily streaked on head and neck, and with dark scallops on lower neck, chest, and flanks. In winter, looks rather uniformly pale gray-brown, palest on underparts. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult, but back and upper wing coverts are washed and spotted yellow-buff with pale spots.
Dimensions Length: 15" (38 cm)
Habitat Locally common, nesting beside marshes and wintering on coastal beaches. Represented in eastern North America by ssp. semipalmatus, which is darker (notably in breeding season) than its western counterpart.
Observation Tips Easy to find on coasts in winter.
Range Western Canada, Texas, Southeast, Southwest, Eastern Canada, Northwest, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, California, Great Lakes, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains
Voice Utters a sharp klip in alarm; song is a ringing peel-will-willet.
Discussion Plump-bodied shorebird with a stout, straight, pale-based bill and longish blue-gray legs. Plumage appears undistinguished when feeding but transforms in flight to striking black and white markings on wings. Typically tolerant of observers. Sexes are similar.


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The legendary American fighter pilot (and icon of strategy) Col. John Boyd famously divided the world into two kinds of people: either you are someone who wants to be somebody or you are someone who wants to do something. My pals Matthew Milan and Chris Finlay are both big Boyd fans and have each shared this idea with me independently. Their implication is always clear: as innovators, malady "we" are all squarely on the "do something" side of things.
More recently I have had a thought about innovation that I think may well be illuminated by Boyd's dictum.
It has lately occurred to me that the shift in the growth in demand for innovation (better ways to create value which result in top line growth) is not primarily a result of competitive pressure, drug but of forces that may lead to a fundamental overthrow of the economic model of competition.
This is something I will be doing more thinking about and writing more about, too, I expect. For now, let me put it as a suggestive hypothesis:
Innovation is not a behavior motivated by competition, but is an alternative to competition.
Brand-driven businesses are of necessity mired in the competitive trap of trying to be somebody. To be the biggest, loudest, bestest somebody on the block. Innovation-driven businesses are trying to do something: they win by making better, doing better and being better.
The brand-driven business is defined by the concept of rivalry. The innovation-driven business is rooted in the drive towards progress.
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Pick your fabrics and let's get started. The downloadable PDF pattern will guide you through the piecing process and our instructional video will walk you through any unfamiliar techniques. Kimberly will show a few key techniques needed to construct this block, like half square triangle blocks, corner squares and straight 1/4 inch seams. The process will be a breeze!
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2Movie:Foreign Correspondent (1940), (Alfred Hitchcock)Target: The Dutch Minister Van MeerAssassin: A spy ring disguised as pacifistsDefender: The working pressConspiracy?: So that's how World War II started.Weapon of Choice: Flash camera.Code word: "Keep those lights burning!"Do or Die Moment: What's up with that windmill?Hit or Miss: "No one but Hitchcock would dare to whip up a picture like this and for those who can take their sensationalism without batting a skeptical eye it should be high-geared entertainment."- Bosley Crowther, New York Times
3Movie:The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (Hitchcock)Target: Ambassador MacGuffinAssassin: The man behind the curtain..Defender: Doris Day?Codeword: "Qué será, será."Conspiracy?: What else would he know too much about?Weapon of Choice: Clashing symbols.Do or Die Moment: Let's just say you might get a little tired of "Storm Cloud Cantata."Hit or Miss: "Doris Day is as wholesome as a bowl of corn flakes and at least as sexy." Dwight MacDonald
4Movie:The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (John Frankenheimer)Target: Anyone who gets in Angela Lansbury's wayAssassin: There's nothing like a mother's loveDefender: Old Blue EyesConspiracy?: Try a communist takeover. Or is that a Republican takeover?Weapon of Choice: A deck of cards.Codeword: "Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?"Do or Die Moment: The political rallyHit or Miss: Rotten Tomatoes rates it as "100% Fresh."
5Movie:The Day of the Jackal (1973) (Fred Zinnemann)Target: Charles de GaulleAssassin: They don't call him "the jackal" for nothingDefender: Inspector Closeau comes to mind.Conspiracy?: You can't get rid of de Gaulle without oneWeapon of Choice: The handmade sniper rifleCodeword: "Considering you expect to get France in return, I consider it a reasonable price."Do or Die Moment: The lifesaving kiss on the cheekHit or Miss: "Good trash."- Pauline Kael
Movie:Taxi Driver (1976) (Martin Scorsese)Target: Senator Charles PalantineAssassin: Travis BickleDefender: The secret service.Conspiracy?: No conspiracy, just insanity.Weapon of Choice: The .44? The .38? The .25? I'll take 'em all!Codeword: "You talking to me?"Do or Die Moment: Bickle at the Palantine rally inconspicuouus with his fatigue jacket, arsenal and mohawk. Unless you prefer real life, in which case it's David Hinckley taking aim at Reagan in 1981.Hit or Miss: "One of the Best and most powerful of all films." Roger Ebert"
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Donna's Cranberry Nut Cake
This dessert has a just a hint of sweetness, balanced by the tartness of the cranberries. The nuts add the crunch. The almond flavoring adds the final touch.
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups fresh cranberries, chopped
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine, cool to room temperature
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
Butter a 7 x 11 inch pan or a 9" deep pie pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt. In a small food processor, coarsely chop cranberries. Add cranberries and nuts to the flour mixture. Stir to mix.
In a small bowl, combine melted butter, beaten eggs, and almond extract. Add to flour and cranberries. Stir with a spoon to mix well. Spread the thick batter into the prepared pan.
Bake for 40 - 45 minutes or just until beginning to brown and set in the middle.
Serve with whipped cream or ice cream if desired.
Nutritional information per serving (serves 10):
Calories: 235
Fat, gm.: 11
Protein, gm.: 3
Carbs, gm.: 32
Cholesterol, mg.: 60
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Spice up ordinary pound cake with the fresh taste of three kinds of ginger.
Candied, or crystallized, ginger is fresh gingerroot that has been boiled in a sugar syrup and coated with sugar crystals. Besides starring in this comforting pound cake, it makes a great after-dinner breath freshener. Look for it in the baking aisle or produce area of your supermarket.
Peeling fresh gingerroot is easy; just scrape the skin off using the rounded tip of a spoon.
Add an easy glaze instead of making the pineapple cream. Place 1/4 cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting in small microwavable bowl. Microwave uncovered on Medium (50%) about 15 seconds; stir. Drizzle over cooled cake. Sprinkle Betty Crocker® colored sugar over the glaze.
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So use the 5V 1A switching regulator, will be a very stable 5V source for your 25mA plus the arduino's 30mA.Use the analog devices SPI ADC that's been posted previously with 6 sample & hold inputs & get 6 conversions at the same time.
Why not just get a switching 5V regulator? Then you won't see any variation.http://www.dipmicro.com/store/DCA-0510http://www.dipmicro.com/store/DCA-0520Or get 6V, 7.5V if you want to regulate it down yourself. Maybe use an LM317 with a trimming resistor (10 turn potentiometer) to get it right at 5v.
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The world's longest-running play has come to Charleston. Experience the mystery and mayhem of this Agatha Christie tale. This classic story about four strangers snowed into a manor takes a turn for the worse when one of them shows up dead. Join The Threshold Repertory Theater to find out "whodunit," but don't tell, it's a secret! Threshold Repertory Theatre, 84½ Society St. Thursday-Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 3pm. $20; $15 senior; $10 student. (843)277-2172, www.charlestontheater.com


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When diamonds were first discovered here, in the true old South African manner, the find was considered as one for the people at large. For years there flocked to the Diamondfields colonists from every part of the country, and the wealth discovered went back to the homes of the people. That wealth rebuilt many a Colonial homestead; it educated many a Colonial child; it enabled landowners to carry out improvements otherwise impos- impossible page: 32 sible; it saved from insolvency many a Colonial firm which had sent members to dig; it spread throughout the country a glow of well-being, owing to the general diffusion in small sums of the wealth made by South Africa from the diamonds. Something analogous took place in the early days at the Transvaal gold-fields; and gold-digging has never yet become quite so complete a monopoly in the hands of a few as the diamond industry.
Time forbids that I should enter into a detailed account of the way in which these industries passed from their early and healthy condition; the page: 33 facts are well known to you all. There were in South Africa certain men from Europe, of great shrewdness, and with large abilities for speculation, who saw at once the possibilities our natural industries opened out before them. The many small original possessors of the wealth of South Africa were not men of vast means, and were rather hard workers than sharp financial speculators; and the keen-sighted strangers quickly discerned that, could they buy out the small interests one by one and then amalgamate among themselves, slowly but surely the wealth of the country would pass into their hands.page: 34
It needed no vast capital to buy out the original possessors.
To-day a small, resolute, and keen body of men, amalgamated into Rings and Trusts, are quickly and surely setting their hands round the mineral wealth of South Africa. Our diamonds are already a complete monopoly in their hands; our gold, our coal, the richest portions of our soil, and even our public works, are tending to fall into the grasp of our great amalgamators. Not only are these men not South Africans by birth, which would in itself matter nothing, but in the majority of cases they are men who regard South Africa merely page: 35 as a field for the making of wealth and the furthering of their own designs. When they have attained their end they do not feel themselves bound to the spot which has enriched them, but in most cases retire to Europe to expend the wealth of South Africa in the purchase of social distinction and in the luxuries of old-world life, or in further increasing their command over South African resources.
And South Africa grows poorer!
Yet, were this all, we should be inclined to say, What ground have we for complaint? These men are but taking advantage page: 36 of that competitive system which we to-day still uphold. If the men of South Africa are not skilled enough in the methods of gathering together the wealth of a people; and if they have not that fellow-feeling to be able to defeat them, which would enable them to combine, and so retain the land for the people at large; can we blame the men who take advantage of our ignorance and disunion? They are but carrying out their operations on the most approved financial principles! In truth, were this all, we should merely be suffering in a most exaggerated degree from a disease common to many other countries.


text: Golf ball R&D Lighthouse Trek June 6, 2012 By Lighthouse Trek I received two sleeves of golf balls each with two golf balls in them. Titleist NXT Tour S and Titleist NXT Tour. I was to test them on a coarse and submit my evaluation of them. However, the paper that contained the web address to submit the results I must have lost. Does anyone know how I can obtain that information? Quote Reply


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After 3 attempts, I finally hit paydirt this morning with Angus. The turkeys have been there, but they have not been all that vocal.
No, we didn't shoot anything. It is still several weeks until season starts. However, Angus and I went out with the trusty umbrella mike and managed to record a gobbler. . . and then a deer . . . and then. . .
Yikes! You'll hear them. Folks say there is no such thing as a honey hole in turkey hunting. Phooey. Just as we were leaving to go in a whole herd of turkeys showed up in the field next to the Honey Hole and started doing that Spring Thang all over the field. The funny thing is that we had left the Honey Hole over an hour earlier, so we could not see see them. That was probably a good thing. They were so close to where we usually sit, we would have been busted for sure. As it was, we were hidden behind a curtain of cedar trees-- perfect for recording audio.
So here it is, the first shamanic podcast of 2014,
Gobblers at the Honey Hole


text: The Konitsa Mountain Hotel is located at the highest point in Konitsa, which is said to be the town of "Extreme Sports". Our hotel offers a captivating view of the mountainous regions of Nemertsika and Tymfi (Gamila) and looks down on the unique beauty of the Aoos River Valley. All the exquisite rooms and suites at the Konitsa Mountain Hotel are traditionally furnished, with wooden floors and carved wooden ceilings. The Konitsa Mountain Hotel offers room service, free Wi-Fi Internet in the communal areas and a parking lot. Our customers will enjoy a rich, traditional "Epirotiko" breakfast every morning. Our gym room has exercise /training equipment, a sauna, a steam room, a professional table –tennis and a mini soccer game board. There is free access to all of the above. In our cozy lounge which overlooks the Aoos River, one can sit by the fireplace, relax with a good book or play board games with friends. Why not try our homemade wine or tsipouro accompanies by our home cooked delicacies? Konitsa is 60 km from Ioannina Airport and is an ideal base for further exploration of the area. It is only 3 km from the Aoos Gorge, 12km from "Zagoroxoria" and Vikos Gorge, 14 km. from the "Petrina Choria"and only 20 minutes from the "Mastorochoria". The Konitsa Mountain Hotel which overlooks Konitsa is only a three minute drive from the town center.


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After buying our tickets ($20 each- rip off) we stopped to take some photos with some monkeys, suddenly, one sunk its teeth into our guide and drew blood. We got back in the mini van and headed off to the first temple (Angkor Thom) which was impressive but unfortunately there's not much point doing detailed description of each temple as the photos speak for themselves.
We ended the day climbing up to a top of a temple on a hill with thousands of other people which gave us a panoramic view of thick jungle, the sunset, Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. There were so many people that we thought we'd head down before the sun actually set.
I arrived back at the hotel exhausted, went for a meal for $1.50 and finished my blog. THAILAND TOMORROW!


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Ironbuds from Acoustic Forge - under $50 ecobuds
" I am tired of: throwing away earphones, wasting money, and destroying the environment. Ironbuds promised to be an answer to all three - imho they've cracked it. What is surprising is how good they sound. Been waiting a year for Acoustic Forge to release these. I posted in the forums about 8 months ago about them - but Thomas (the CEO) announced they were having some difficulties..." --intelegant
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I'd probably be feeling Springer more is he was less than $25, or if I hadn't just bought one about six months ago who works nicely. I am sorta regretting passing on Soundblaster a few times, though.
I think the Jazz mold works better on Wheelie, particularly if you mistransform the legs and make him a little shorter. (Though the speakers on Wheelie are a tad bizarre.)


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If you've been wondering when Rhode Island was going to get its very own nighttime, cable-news-inspired, Hannity- or Hardball-style talk show, the wait is over.
"Welcome in to State of Mind," Dan Yorke told viewers Monday at 7:30 pm on myRITV. The longtime WPRO talk radio host sat at a desk in front of a computer-generated backdrop featuring a photo of the Providence skyline at dusk.
"Now, listen, if you're tuning in for the first time," he continued, "no matter how high or far this program goes, you can say that you saw the first one." Then after a few more brief opening remarks, he said, "I'm looking forward to this project, but I have no time for small talk. We've got a lot going on."
With that, he dove into the show's kickoff segment, called "The Rundown," where he rapidly led viewers through the increasingly tangled situation in Syria ("So, it's hard to follow the propaganda, isn't it?"); a recent Providence Journal story about a bloated, $6.7 million-over-budget computer upgrade at the DMV; and a plea to the blond-haired country singer Faith Hill, whom NBC has swapped out of this year's Sunday Night Football opening sequence for the younger blond-haired country singer Carrie Underwood. "Please come back," Yorke said.
Dan Yorke State of Mind, which is filmed in a green-screen studio at WPRI and WNAC's East Providence headquarters on the afternoon of the day it airs, is part of a broader effort by the station to ratchet up its Rhody-based programming. In addition to weekday news broadcasts running at various times between 4:30 am and 11 pm, State joins the daily lifestyle-based Rhode Show, which premiered in 2008, and the weekly business interview, Executive Suite, which began in 2011.
"Local programming. . . is king to all screens at this point, whether it's [a] digital screen, whether it's your phone, whether it's an on-air screen," says WPRI and WNAC president and GM Patrick Wholey, who proudly trumpets the stations' 57 hours of original programming (WJAR, their closest competitor, produces 37).
And while Rhode Islanders are most familiar with hearing Yorke over the radio airwaves — he's "pretty much an institution here," Wholey says — State is far from his first foray into television. Dig deep enough on the Internet and you'll find photos of a mustachioed, suspenders-wearing Yorke barking at the camera in the early-mid 1990s, when his Dan Yorke Show ran at midnight after Nightline on WGGB in Springfield, Massachusetts. "You could pick out weeks or months when this data isn't perfect," says Yorke of the show, which ran for seven years, " but by in large, the ratings performance was: 'Leno, Yorke, Letterman.' "
While he's grown "a little mellower" since then, Yorke says that his approach to hosting really hasn't changed. "I want people to know who the good guys and bad guys are," he says. "I want people to get a little bit of insight over what's really going on."
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Diehard shoppers brave the elements for Black Friday bargains
SPOKANE, Wash. - Some diehard shoppers skipped the Thanksgiving feast altogether to get the best Black Friday deals.
Starting at 11 p.m. Wednesday, the line started forming at Best Buy in North Spokane and continued to grow. The shoppers here like family, reconnecting every year over their love for saving money this holiday season.
Sleeping on the sidewalk in the freezing cold requires more coffee than Tracy Gallant can carry.Black Friday
"It was cold, it was cold, but the nice thing was we knew we had a heater," Gallant said.
Gallant and her husband William set up shop at 4 a.m. "If you want to save money you've got to be out early," she explained, adding that with seven kids and three grandkids she had an organized list of everything she wanted to get for everyone on her list.
For some Black Friday has become the Super Bowl of shopping, requiring strategy, dedication and snacks to stay on top of the game.
"We had like four sleeping bags, a few blankets … we have two things full of Taco Bell, chips, donuts and four this morning," Calem Morris said.
Morris and his friends secured the second spot in line. He's taking the day shift while his friends enjoy Thanksgiving.
"I got a few more hours here and then I get to go," Morris, who's hoping to snag eight flat screen TVs, said.
Haily Smith wants one too. She's wearing four jackets to make it until midnight, when Best Buy will open the doors.
More stores than ever before are starting Black Friday early, trying to cash in on shoppers looking for a good deal.
"Not too happy about it because we're missing out on the whole family Thanksgiving," Gallant said.
Maybe their neighbors will share.
"Our aunt is going to bring us turkey and potatoes and hot cocoa, stuffing, eating in our chairs," Haily Smith laughed.
Thankfully, with doors opening at Best Buy at midnight, these shoppers don't have much longer to wait.
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Been a while since I posted here, but I _have_ been posting at my personal blog.
I launched The Library Infrastructure Project home page recently with a detailed proposal on how it should all be implemented. I've gotten some good feedback and am trying to move forward with the packaging system, which I see as the first priority.
Just about to upload a new version of xppaut to unstable. It's an easy package to take care of, but it is a little frustrating because upstream does not post an announcement to the software's mailing list when new versions come out, and the filename on the server never changes (xppaut_latest.tgz or something). I never know when a new version needs to be packaged.
Still not an official debian maintainer, but things are moving along.
I finally got a wireless card that works for me (see last entry) but now I'm having trouble getting a new cell phone / PDA. Just look at my story about trying to get a wireless card, transfer the pain in the ass to customer service and the post office (instead of linux drivers), make it cost $630 and take over two weeks so far. Thanks T-Mobile! (I shutter to think that I've been recommending them to friends.)


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By Teresa Rivas
Stocks built on this morning's optimism to reach new record intraday highs at the open.
At recent check, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 129.17 points, or 0.8% to 15,628.71, surpassing its record close last week.
The Nasdaq gained 34.18 points, or 0.9%, to 3,660.55.
The S&P 500 crossed the 1,700 mark for the first time in history, climbing 15.65 points, or 0.9% to 1,701.38.
"Since current data won't likely accelerate the tapering timetable, we think U.S. equity prices will opt for maintaining their upward bias for the time being," wrote Sam Stovall, S&P Capital IQ's chief equity strategist after the close yesterday, reflecting on the Federal Reserve's statement. He also noted that the "psychological resistance will be taken out," once the S&P crossed 1,700 mark "triggering a small rally to the 1735 to 1765 area."


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The OpenStreetMap crew met here in Victoria tonight. We had a pretty good turn out. Aside from Sam and myself, who have been meeting for mapping fairly regularly now, we also had Tobias, Jason, Justine and Ryan. Of them, only Jason had any mapping experience and the weather didn't help:
Ironically, the weather report says it will clear tomorrow.
Regardless, we still went out mapping, Sam braving it on foot, Justine, Ryan & I in Ryan's car and Tobias & Jason in Jason's. After just over two hours of driving and walking, pretty colours were made:
Sam's tracks in blue, Tobias & Jason in orange and Justine, Ryan and I in yellow.
Better yet, we agreed on the next mapping party. We are meeting on August 13th at 6pm at Little Thai Place. We will be meeting for dinner, followed by some mapping, rain or shine. For the forgetful, the Victoria mapping party event on Upcoming.


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Computing is undergoing the most substantial transformation since the foundations of the field were laid by Alan Turing some eight decades ago. Ahead of the 2016 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, Microsoft researcher Chris Bishop answers the question: Is this excitement about AI just hype, or is there substance, too?
Over the last decade, crowdsourcing has helped solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone. Jennifer Wortman Vaughan shares more about this relationship and how it's advancing knowledge of machine learning.
Join a first-rate researcher network at the forefront of creative solutions to critical technological challenges. Working in research at Microsoft, you'll have the opportunity, resources and support to work on meaningful projects within and across disciplines.
Learn more about Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation.
Quantum Computing 101: An introduction to the mind-bending world of quantum computing.
Station Q represents Microsoft's global effort to bring together the world's mathematicians, computer scientists, quantum physicists, and engineers to build a scalable, fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer.
LIQUi|> is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators. LIQUi|> can be used to translate a quantum algorithm written in the form of a high-level program into the low-level machine instructions for a quantum device.
Jasmin Fisher doesn't want to cure cancer. She wants to solve it - and she believes it's possible in her lifetime.
If scientists can understand cancer and the immune systems as well as they understand how to make Microsoft Word run on a PC, they might be able to equip the immune system to mount a powerful response to cancer on its own.
A team of researchers has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR.
Machine learning is helping doctors automatically sort fragmented patient information to find the most relevant pieces of data to define the best treatment plan for their patients.
Today, we are changing how companies approach automatic translation by leveraging our artificial intelligence expertise to enable anyone to quickly and easily customize translation systems, even without large amounts of previously translated sentences.
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iRhythms A-9800 Passive Noise Reducing Ear Bud Headphones
Passive noise reducing ear bud headphones for iPod, white with acrylic finish, 3 sets of custom fit ear sleeves, 1 set of foam fitted ear sleeves, in-line volume control, travel pouch, 9mm neodymium drivers
Sunrise Audio Xcited
" (This is my first review ever so, if you see something you don't agree with, it's a free country. Voice your opinions. But this is only one person's thoughts. Take it with a grain of salt.) I've been hearing about this IEM for the past year now. I was most intrigued by the reviews. It was hard to see a review about the Xcited (and its older brother, the Xcape IE, which our brother Spica,..." --amzies01
Sunrise Xcape Impressive Edition
The SW-Xcape is a more balanced IEM with a sweet midrange and nice bass, yet never compromises detail anywhere in the spectrum, notably the highs. Highs are neither in the forefront or in the background; they are balanced with the rest of the spectrum and are present as the recording dictates. There is a slight emphasis on the midrange, which is great for strings, vocals, and rock, but is still...
" Impressed with the sound overall, balanced throughout the frequency range (bass is tight, medium to high frequencies not bad but I still think my Shures are better in the mid to high). That being said, the build is very worrisome - the right shell came apart exposing the tiny speaker and had to be glued. The cord is very flimsy and appears it won't take much of a yank to break the cord...." --jlopes89


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Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
New Force finally sent my cases of waves 1 & 2, but I won't open them until after Lent is over since I yet again gave up buying toys. I preordered these months ago, so technically they don't count.
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
The 2008 Wave 2 Revision "S" (S is for Snags) case I ordered from amazon just showed up at Blue Snag HQ. For $115 shipped I got the following:
1x Battle Damaged Vader
1x Shadow Guard
5x Jump Trooper
5x Evo Trooper
Good times.
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I have seen no less than 30-35 Star Wars battlepacks, comic packs and GI Joe 2-figure packs with swapped "The Corps" figures instead at Baldwin Park Walmart and Baldwin Park Target. "The Corps" are those crappy Wal-Mart figures you can buy real cheap.
I have pointed this out to employees on no less than three occassions. Friggin' swappers.
I have not seen a single Kashyyk trooper, but I haven't been looking too hard. Did find a Gree, and I only wanted one Gree so I'm cool there.
Galactic Barn Burner
Target GHETTO Long Beach = 1 2-1b and 1 po nudo? Plus a bunch of saga figs with the FU stuff on them, picked up the 2-1B
Walmart Partly Ghetto Long Beach = effing nothing as usual, why do I bother??
Target Fancy Seal Beach = 2 of all of wave 1 08 - Got myself another 2-1b and picked the rest up for a friend...remember I want no one thinking I collect prequel toys
Target Middle Class Long Beach = nothing new but they did have the entire wave 5 TAC and Jedi Evolutions.
GIGANTA: A robot that automatically produces fun!


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I am going to buy a EU Kyle Katarn for his head to make a custom Kyle Katarn Jedi. However, I would like to just put his head on a body without so I don't have to paint it.
So my question is: which Ep 1, Ep 2, POTF2 or POTJ body best represents his Jedi outfit?


text: This is my first poast, I have a chocolate lab that is 5 1/2months old. This hole week he has seemed to be going backward in his want to fetch. I was throwing for him last night and hit him in the head on when I was throwing the dummie "he ran in front of my throw"!He heels and comes ok I think for his age. I am not sure why he has been so hard to deel with this week any thoughts?


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Moving right along....
Today I was released from my work duties, which isn't all that bad of a deal. I now have more time to work on my own dreams, instead of someone elses. More on that in the future.
Currently I'm attempting to think up of a good dot com name... always a tough thing to do. need to attract a few more investors and get a few HARDWARE CLUEFULL people... I hope I can find a few. Probably a difficult thing.
I ofcourse am not going to divulge in what it is, but I will say that the primary target market WILL be Linux. Windows? Who gives a fuck about that. However once developed it will be open sourced drivers and firmware, mainly because I'm absolutly disgusted with so-called corporations. Thier evil greedy bastards and they suck. So if some Doze (L)user really wants to use it, they can just figgure it out, but I'm not going to support it. I can also say is it is finally my turn to create a kick ass company to work for. It's time to start a new trend in business, one that doesn't suck. I'd also like to have everyone retire early. The trick is balancing everyting, and I now know the formula to pull it off.
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GloryQuestor wrote:Kitsuner wrote:Anime Nations of the World should not be eligible for Best MEP. It's a collab. The very nature of those categories mean that there can be no shared nominations between them.
Based on the definition of the collaborative video by the , it is a collaboration as it is two or more editors working together with a video on a single song track. MEP is where you have two or more editors working with a video project that has more than one song track featured. We also linked examples of the difference between the two, and looking at "Anime Nations of the World", it is definitely more like "I Walk Alone" and less like "AMV Hell".
Isn't that Kitsuner's point? It shouldn't be on the semifinalist list for the "AMV Hell" group (Best MEP), just for Best Collaborative Video.