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Members of a bipartisan coalition that includes two Hudson Valley congressmen gathered Thursday in Washington to promote a package of non-controversial bills they said they hope will ease partisan gridlock.
Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring; Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook; and their colleagues in the No Labels group touted nine bills that both Republicans and Democrats support, including efforts to trim spending by cutting energy use in federal buildings and reducing travel by federal workers.
In a conference call before the gathering, Maloney explained that coalition members have focused on "achievable results," with the hope that passing relatively-modest measures will establish a "process of productivity" that carries over into bigger matters.
"There are large areas of life that do not need to be part of some partisan food fight," he said.
Most of the bills were introduced in the past few weeks. One, sponsored by Gibson, would speed approval of disability benefits for injured veterans by merging electronic medical records kept by federal agencies. Another would withhold the paychecks of Congress members if they don't approve a budget or spending bills on time — an expansion of a "No Budget, No Pay" law enacted earlier this year.
Maloney, who represents Orange County and areas across the Hudson, and Gibson, whose sprawling district includes Ulster and Sullivan counties, are among 73 House members and eight senators participating in No Labels. That group consists of 43 Democrats, 37 Republicans and one independent.
Gibson and Maloney found themselves on the same side of a more divisive issue this week when Maloney joined House Republicans in support of two bills that would delay key provisions of the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare. Most Democrats opposed the proposals, which passed Wednesday.
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(Draft) Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Minutes
April 13, 2010
Members Present: Berlin, Ahmed, Seebach, Kirsch, Friesen, Socha, Johnson
Excused Absent: Kastantin, Fisher
Consultants Present: Dittman, Bakkum
Members absent: Moore, Urbas, Wermedal
Consultants not present: Jax, Keller, Means
Guests: Lise Graham, Stephan Brokaw, Sue Knudson
1. Approval of March 30, 2010 minutes.
M/S/P to approve minutes
2. First readings:
A. Business
International Business Program Major changes, credit change, required courses change and elective changes.
International Business Program Minor changes, credit change, required courses change, and elective changes.
M/S/P to approve on 1st reading with change to effective date for both the major and the minor. Effective date changed to Fall 2010 for the new course requirement of ANT/ECO/GEO/HIS/POL/SOC 202 changes to the new catalog only. Lise Graham will present another LX138P for the major and minor for the changes for existing students effective Spring 2010. She will forward directly to Chris Bakkum - no need to bring it forward to UCC for approval. Committee agreed.
3. Consent agenda: None
4. Informational Items: None
5. Old Business: Faculty Senate UCC Charges for 2010-2011.
Committee reviewed draft of final report from chair. Minor edits included recognizing Brian Udderman and his team's efforts for the work they did on the online guidelines. Chair also recommended future charges to include defining what constitutes a quorum. Chair to make edits and will resend to committee to review at the next meeting.
- New Business: None
Meeting adjourned: 4:10 p.m.

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Definition of overabundant in English:
Excessive in quantity: overabundant microbial growth
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- Will arrangements be put in place to collect the over-abundant rubbish during the Christmas festivities?
- Factors like human ignition and over-abundant fuel supply resulting from years of fire suppression come into question - and even global warming on a broader scale.
- A significant number of works in the exhibition are video pieces, and several of these focus on the supposedly over-abundant wealth and consumerism in the US.
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SIKESTON - Danny Ray Stacy, 40, died at 5:22 p.m. Aug. 26, 2001, at his home following an extended illness.
Born June 7, 1961, at Sikeston, son of Jean and Gorman Hartlein of Sikeston and Reggie and Elaine Corlew of Dallas, Texas, he graduated from Sikeston High School in 1980.
Employed by Rowe Manufacturing in Morehouse for several years, he was a volunteer fireman for the Morehouse Fire Department until ill health forced him to retire.
Survivors in addition to his parents are: two brothers, Larry Miller and Kenny Hartlein of Sikeston; three sisters, Betty Staggs and Carolyn Hartlein of Sikeston and Gorma Hartlein of Nashville, Tenn.; three aunts and uncles, Jan and Junior Davis and Sonny Hodges of Sikeston and Carolyn and Charles McArnold of Arkansas; two uncles and aunts, Dean and Lynn Stroud of Jackson and Bill and Kim Humphrey of Pocahontas, Ark.; his paternal grandmother, Naomi Corlew of Morehouse; and several nieces and nephews and many cousins.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Earl Corlew; and his maternal grandparents, Clarence Stroud and Dorothy and Red Humphrey.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Matthews Cemetery with the Rev. Rodney Dunlap officiating.
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The label's lovable creative director says, "If you go too clean, you lose the dream."
"I love clean ... but I also like dirty," Lanvin creative director Alber Elbaz tells New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell in this video Q&A, featuring loads of gorgeous clothes and accessories from his spring/summer 2011 pre-collection. The duo also touch on the collection's relative morphability (dresses turn into coats, some pieces can be worn inside out, etc.), and the return of the strong woman (now with "younger boyfriends" and "great jobs"). Click through to watch.


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I opened my eyes Charles had shot Allen in the forehead first he fell to the side.
"Let's get out of here." He said helping me up.
"Good Idea."
We began jogging down the hallways looking for an exit when. My phone rang. I answered it, it was the Chief.
"Rhett Leboski is in Italy, your bags are in your hotel in Italy, there is a black car at the end of the drive the keys are in the ignition. You forty three minutes to catch your flight your ticket are in the glove box. A clean up crew is on the way."
I put down the phone and kept running.
"Who was that?"
"Cheif... Rhett's in Italy... So are our bags...there is car outside for us."
We could hear footsteps and yelling comming quickly up the highway. I looked up at Charles.
We ran up the, hallway and turned right. I saw Charles stop and look out the window ahead of me. He looking out the window at the car that was for us. He rose his arm and hit the window with his elbow.
"This isn't the movies, come on!"
I passed him and he contined to run behind me. I noticed more stairs so we went down hoping to find the exit. I slipped and almost fell but the railing caught me.
Finally we found a door out. We burst out the door and. ran across the perfectly trimmed lawn. I could barely see the black car through the darkness of the night. We ran out to the car Charles got into the driver's side of the car and I jumped over the trunk then got in the passenger side. I shut the door.
"Jumping the trunk in dress, this isn't the movies." Charles said.
I shot him a devilish smile.
"Charles! Go! We have a flight to catch!" I said while hitting the dashboard.
Charles floored the gas pedal and we zoomed down the black road and off to the airport.
"Why do you think Rhett's in Italy?"
"Probably spreading information. I mean,like, why was Allen in Paris."
After a few more minutes we arrived at the airport. I quickly grabbed the tickets and ran inside.
The airport had barely any people in it. We quickly went through security and darted to our gate. We handed the woman our tickets and walked to our seats. We passed many of the rows because we were near the back of the plane. We passed the first four rows ,no one, the next three rows, no one, and this continued until we were at our seats. I sat down and asked the stewardess:
"Are we the only one on this flight?"
"Almost I believe there is one more gentle man in first class."
She smiled and left to the front of the plane.
"What now?"
"We relax and hope that the man in first class isn't Rhett."
I laughed and reached for my iPhone. I turned it on and was looking at S.O.P. 's
criminal description of Rhett.
Flight seemed to pass very quickly I might have been the fact that I fell asleep, stretched out on a row to myself.
The whole way to the hotel I couldn't stop thinking about the man that met at the gala. I wish I would have at least gotten his name. I wish I could see him again.
Our car arrived at the hotel I walked into the beautiful hotel lobby and got my key and walked into the gorgeous old style elevator with Charles. We said nothing. Charles' room was on a different floor than mine so he got off, before the door closed he turned and said.
I nodded yes as the doors closed.
I walked to my room looked up at the huge beige door on the top part of the door there was a dark brown wood with the number 678 written in gold on the door. I opened the door and noticed that my bags were on the bed along with a brand new MacBook air. I sat on my bed and started channel surfing when I heard a knock at my door. I stood up slowly and walked over to the door and looked through the peephole. It was the man I danced with at the gala
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FALL RIVER — Hilda St. Louis, 73, of Fall River, wife of Albert St. Louis, peacefully passed away Sunday 2/24/13 after a long illness at Catholic Memorial Home. Born in Fall River, daughter of the late Manuel A. & Hilda (Carvalho) Silvia, she graduated from BMC Durfee High School and attended Bridgewater State College. A homemaker for many years, she so enjoyed keeping house and raising a family; and she always had a strong faith. After the kids were grown she worked in the local garment industry for many years. Among her interests she enjoyed dancing, but mostly gained pleasure from making others happy. Besides her husband, she leaves: 4 children, Evelyn Andrade, Linda Rodriques & Paul St. Louis (wife Humberta) all of Fall River, and Donna Pimental (husband Kenneth) of Fairhaven; 2 sisters, Irene Mello of Swansea and Pauline Silvia of Fall River; 10 grandchildren, Jamie, Brittany, Courtney, Kenneth, Matthew, Tyler, Mandi, Katelyn, Victoria & Michael; several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Funeral Thursday at 8 am from Silva-Faria Funeral Home, 730 Bedford St., Fall River, with Mass in Holy Name Church, Fall River, at 9. Interment MA National Cemetery, Bourne. Calling hours Wednesday 6-9. www.silvafaria.com.
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The Matrulan people are every bit as mysterious as the Muss are secretive (and the Crool are mean-spirited).
The few Matrulas that are encountered appear as sturdy pyramids of armor and muscles. Their tall, conical helmets leave much to the bewildered imagination. What manner of head could fill out such a cavity? The only visible body parts are the relatively unprotected arms and two stocky legs. The latter are unlike those of the other peoples, and more akin to tree trunks.
Behavior and Culture
While culture is mere conjecture, their behavior is very simple; they silently (in terms of verbal sounds; their armors make quite a bit of racket) guard the great uncharted ruins of Toftrula, near the scorched seaside beaches of high Summer. A handful of "adventurers" violent enough (not brave, bravery has nothing to do with it) to fight their way deeper inside that forbidden place have seen other forms of Matrulas, with armors of different designs, but no report has ever been brought back about any specimens not clad in metal. Even the dead cling single-mindedly to the preservation of their secret, as the few and hurried attempts that have been made to pry open their steely coats have failed. They bring to mind a question what, if any, relationship they have to the Metistla. The similarities are many, but foremost is the fact that they seem to share borders. Matrulan territories are guarded securely, but they only attack those who venture too close or to defend themselves. Matrulas are slow and short of sight, however, and not particularly great in offense. Their strength lies in their resilience, being able to shrug off most attacks. Bolts tend to shatter or bounce off their thick plates, and blows might dent them at best. There are few rumors of treasure in Toftrula, so it is unattractive to adventurers, and the enigma of its sentinels remains shrouded in mystique.


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- New research suggests that as testosterone in male birds increases, so does the level of carotenoids, the chemicals that create the bright coloring on birds' feathers, beaks, and legs.
- Whether the flightless birds used their beaks to impale or bludgeon their prey is unknown, Chiappe says.
- As a trombone player pulls in the slide to make a higher frequency sound by reducing the volume of the tube, so does a bird open its beak and pull back its head to reduce the volume of its vocal tract.
bill, nib, mandible
1.1The horny projecting jaw of animals other than birds, for example a turtle or squid.
Example sentences
- Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid.
- The whalers often discovered giant squid beaks inside the stomachs of these whales.
- The upper and the lower jaws were certainly covered with horny beaks in life, like the beak in turtles and, it can be assumed, in the Triassic rhynchosaurs.
1.2 informal A person's nose, especially a hooked one: she can't wait to stick her beak in
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- The vicious girlfriends are smart enough to realize how terribly they've behaved, but their solution is simply to stick their beaks into Kate's affairs again.
- Do the inhabitants of North Korean gulags take comfort that the hegemonic monster of US imperialism is unable to stick its beak into the criminal justice system they were sentenced under.
- The whole group of servants tried to stifle their giggles but Aimée's mother turned and shot an evil glare at them over her beak of a nose.
1.3A projection at the prow of an ancient warship, typically shaped to resemble the head of a bird or other animal, used to pierce the hulls of enemy ships.
Example sentences
- 'Heads' was the name given to that part of sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak which was used by the crew as their lavatory.
- The corvus crashed downward, its beak driving into the other ship's deck, whereupon Roman infantry dashed across.
- The designs on Bronze Age metalwork and rock carvings show boats with a beak at the prow.
- [in combination]: a yellow-beaked alpine choughMore example sentences
- In the earliest known post-Tapinocephalus Zone fauna of southern Africa (where the fossil record for late Permian tetrapods is most complete), new groups of big herbivores - the beaked and toothless dicynodonts - appear.
- Of those groups only the higher Dicynodontia were to be successful, and in fact these stocky, toothless and beaked animals remained the dominant terrestrial herbivores right up until the Carnian epoch (Late Triassic period).
- Many species will specialize on certain types of seeds; small beaked sparrows eat small seeds, large beaked sparrows eat large seeds.
Middle English: from Old French bec, from Latin beccus, of Celtic origin.
Words that rhyme with beakantique, batik, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak
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Entry from British & World English dictionary
nounBritish informal
A magistrate or a schoolmaster.
Example sentences
- In order to help out I moved from the fines court to the Magistrates Court next door and went up before the beak, or beakess on this occasion.
- But the union beaks decreed that because the league regulations were drawn up under English legal guidelines, they had the right to 'prosecute' the player under their own procedure.
- That seems a good point to me, particularly in views of recent court cases where greengrocers were up before the beaks just because they sold fruit and veg in pounds when legislation now rules that goods must be sold in metric units.
Late 18th century: probably from criminals' slang.
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If Gators freshman mid-fielder, Liz Slattery, kicks the seams off the soccer ball like she did in high school, her college career could be fantastic.
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, she attended Indian Hill High School, but it wasn't until the University of Florida reached out to her that she became interested in the school.
"I had actually never even considered the state of Florida or even the school until they reached out to me for soccer and I came down and visited and absolutely loved it!" Slattery said.
Slattery finished her high school career with 66 goals and 36 assists, but putting up those numbers weren't her biggest high school achievement.
"I would say my biggest accomplishment was being named an NSCAA High School All-American two times, my junior and senior year."
These weren't her only awards, she also won Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by the Southwest Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association Girls Division II, ESPN High School fall girls soccer all-star selection in 2011, and was the recipient of the 2013 Indian Hill H.S.'s Outstanding Female Athlete Award.
In her first season as a Gator, Slattery, appeared in all but one match and started one at holding midfield. She recorded two goals and one assist. Her first collegiate goal came off a beautiful header in a 3-0 victory over Alabama on September 20th.
Soccer never stops for the Cincinnati native even during the offseason.
"During the offseason, I play for my club team back home in Ohio and then I train with a personal trainer to work on lifting, agility, speed work stuff to try and get me as fit and as cut as possible."
The Gators mid-fielder has the freshmen jitters out of her system after completing her first season so now she can look forward to achieving new goals next season.
"Individually, I would like to start and get a lot of minutes on the field and I want to be a big contributor to our team and the way we play this year" said Slattery, "As far as our team, I want to win the SEC, a National Championship, and I hope that we can be more united as a team than we were last year."


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POLISCI In 60 Seconds
Putnam Navigates Delegate Rules
Josh Putnam, a lecturer in the political science department, has been all over the news lately. His most recent interview aired on February 6, 2016 on PBS Newshour. His blog, Frontloading HQ, is featured in the story as he uses the platform to help decipher the often-complicated delegate rules that vary from state to state. For more information about the blog, click here. To watch the full interview, click here.
Faculty News
Haire Wins AwardJun 2016 The Political Science Department is very pleased to report that Susan Haire has won the "Teaching and Mentoring Award" bestowed by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Congratulations Dr. Haire on this well deserved national honor.
Faculty News
Dr. Maltese in the Cook Political ReportFeb 2016 In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, President Barack Obama announced his intention to fulfill his constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor to Scalia. Obama did so despite calls by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders for him to withhold a nomination and leave the choice to his successor.
Republican presidential nominees Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio joined the call for the president to forego nominating a successor to Scalia, although Cruz dodged a question at Saturday's debate about whether he would likewise pledge to withhold Supreme Court nominations late in his own term if elected president. Cruz also erroneously claimed that there is "80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year." In fact, the Democrat-controlled opposition Senate resoundingly confirmed Ronald Reagan's nomination of Anthony Kennedy in 1988 by a vote of 97-0.
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Political Science 75th Anniversary Kickoff Reception
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
We invite you to join faculty, staff, alumni, and friends for an evening reception on Wednesday, September 14 on the terrace of Nelson Mullins law firm in Atlantic Station.
This kickoff reception is the first of many events to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Department of Political Science. For information about the other upcoming events, visit the Political Science 75th Anniversary Facebook page.
The event is free, but registration is required by September 7. Register Here.
We look forward to celebrating with you soon!
Constitution Day
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Jon Elster, Columbia University, "The Political Psychology of Constitution Making"
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This day each year encourages people to take just five minutes out of their day to hold a conversation about mental health with friends, family, colleagues, or anyone else you can think of. Participants can log their five minutes on the Time To Change website in the hope of gaining an idea how how much time was spent on this day talking about mental health.
Should mental health stigma still have an impact of those suffering? Statistics show that almost everyone dealing with mental health has been, and still is, impacted negatively by the stigma surrounding it. Is it right that already vulnerable and isolated members of society should be made to feel more alone?
Recently I started thinking more and more that I needed to expand my efforts to something even broader. I wasn't sure what it might be, but I knew I was developing an itch to take a step up and undertake a project something that would not only meet my interests, but also to make a difference to folks far beyond my direct reach.


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AUSTELL, Ga. - James Hall, 49, formerly of New Madrid, Mo., died Sept. 18, 2002, in Austell.
Born Feb. 10, 1953, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., he was the son of the late Arnold Elmo and Mary Alice McGill Hall.
Survivors include: four sisters and two brothers-in-law, Mary and Robert Smith of Hattiesburg, Miss., Jerri and Terry Theofrastou of St. George, Vt., Judy Dykes of England, Ark., and Alice Hall of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; and four brothers and two sisters-in-law, Tommy Hall of Savannah, Richard and Lee Hall of New Madrid and George and Cindy Hall and Joe Hall of Poplar Bluff.
Graveside services were conducted at 11 a.m. today at the Evergreen Cemetery in New Madrid. Monsignor Michael Swalina, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of New Madrid, officiated.
Richards Funeral Home of New Madrid was in charge of arrangements.


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MySpace drops sex offender profiles, provides info to authorities
MySpace, the hugely popular social networking website, is quickly becoming a decidedly unfriendly place for lurking sex offenders.
In the first two weeks of May, MySpace eliminated the profiles of about 7,000 registered sex offenders, according to a USA Today report. The same article quoted Mike Angus, chief counsel for MySpace and its parent company, Fox Interactive Media, stating more registered offenders have been purged since then. However, Angus declined to say how many more have had their profiles withdrawn.
There are about 600,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. The 7,000 or so initially identified represent slightly more than one per cent of the total, a TechNewsWorld report states. However, the identities and ages of MySpace users are not verified so there could be more offenders using the site. MySpace has about 175 million users, according to TechNewsWorld. Many of its users are in their teens and are drawn to it by the large number of bands posting profiles and its social networking component. Lawmakers and law enforcement have realized sites like MySpace can be dangerous for young people.
In Connecticut, a convicted sex offender was arrested for allegedly violating his parole by posting a MySpace profile. In fact, Christopher Montefusco, 31, had two different profiles of himself on the site, according to the website of WTNH TV. The conditions of Montefusco's parole state he cannot use a computer, the Internet or access social networking sites without first receiving permission from his parole officer. He has served two and a half years in prison for first-degree sexual assault for a 1996 crime and has two years of what is described as special parole remaining.
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry recently signed into law a bill that restricts the Internet activity of registered sex offenders, according to an Associated Press report. The new law allows a judge to prohibit offenders from accessing social networking sites and gives the courts the power to mandate the registering of email address and other Internet identification information.
The desire to stop sexual predators has caused MySpace to straddle the line between assuring users of their privacy and protecting young people. On May 14, eight state attorney generals requested information about the sex offenders who had profiles pulled. Some of these offenders are on parole. MySpace spokespersons stated it could not provide that information unless required to by law. Subpoenas were drawn up and such information as names and addresses have been provided. However, the company, according to a June 5 report from the Reuters news service, has not yet sent along email correspondence to the attorney generals. This is because of its concern about a federal law that prevents Internet service providers from providing this without a search warrant. The Reuters article states obtaining a search warrant can be difficult when dealing with an offender who is not under investigation.
MySpace has filed a request in Pennsylvania state court seeking guidance on how it can legally provide these addresses.
"The resolution is seen as a test case for how U.S. authorities and New Corp's MySpace can co-operate in sharing information without violating federal law," the Reuters article read.
Last year MySpace contracted background verification company Sentinel Tech Holdings to create a national database of registered sex offenders. That database, called Sentinel SAFE, then was used to locate registered offenders among MySpace users and weed them out.
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A Southern Gothic tale of alcohol, violence, sin and redemption, this film from Richardson's David Gordon Green gives Cage his finest showcase in years. A harbinger of better things to come, now that he's hit 50? Probably not. But it's good to see he still has his curveball.
Joe in the film is damaged, resigned to the violent streak he knows he must restrain, even at 48. His love of cheap bourbon means he's never without a bottle. He drinks alone. But he's willing to make his living by extending a job and a friendly hand to impoverished men, some alcoholics, like himself, men clinging to the bottom rung of the ladder in the corner of rural Texas they all share.
Joe runs a day-labor work crew that clears brush and poisons commercially undesirable trees for a big timber company. He loads up his battered pickup with machetes, "juice hatchet" poison dispensers and eight or so African-American down-and-outers every morning that the sun is shining, and they do what the rules-bending timber company wants them to do.
Joe is tough, a man who knows his way around a knife, a bottle, a brothel and a pistol. He minds his own business and keeps a pit bull chained up in front of his tumbledown house to make sure others let him. He has a history, which the movie only hints at — a life he couldn't hang on to that must have involved a family, trouble with the law and local troublemakers who still hate his guts.
Maybe that's why he takes pity on Gary. The kid (Tye Sheridan of Mud) is only 15, but he's got it rough. His old man, Wade (Gary Poulter), is a brutish, aged drunk who keeps his drifting family around him even though he has no intention of supporting them. They're there, living in squalor, for him to steal from when they have money and to beat when they don't fork it over.
Joe gives Gary work. And the kid comes to treat this violent, short-fused alcoholic as a role model, a straight shooter who insists only that he look him in the eye and consider him a friend.
Green, an Arkansas native and Richardson High School graduate, made Undertow and All the Real Girls before Hollywood turned him loose on Pineapple Express and The Sitter. He has an eye for worn Southern faces, and he fills this film with nonactors who have the potbellies, tortured grammar and bad teeth of rural Southern poverty. There's rage here, bottled up until, like their latest liquor purchase, it is uncorked. At this level of society, race takes a back seat to focusing on your own daily struggle.
Cage, playing Joe close to the vest, gets across a character and a code that he and we know will be tested by Gary and Gary's family. Cage lets us see the struggle and envision the reckoning to come as only a man with Joe's mysterious history can.
Directed by David Gordon Green. R (violence, disturbing material, language and some strong sexual content). 117 mins. At the Dallas and Plano Angelikas.


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Being at the right place at the right time
By DaveLevy on Jan 17, 2008
I have been very busy over the last couple of months, and my diary management has been poor, so since New Year I have been making more effort to do better.
I got a new laptop PC last week, a Toshiba Tecra M5 and propose to write up my build; it will have a dual windows/solaris boot partition utilising Nevada, aka opensolaris and windows XP. I rapidly discovered the new windows build comes with Thunderbird 2 and an uptodate version of Lightning, with the wcaps calendar plugin for Thunderbird. This turns Thunderbird into a calendar client for the ical compliant calendar server, which I use as my business diary.
At first, I thought that's the last thing I need, I already use Java Calender Express, an internal http browser hosted reader and Evolution, and my phone, do I really need a fifth, however today I discovered that this client permits some very slick inter-calendar invitations. One of my Mac using colleagues issued a meeting invite from their ical client to my mail box, which I received, pressed accept, and the software wrote the invite into my calendar. What's cute is that this is client to client invitations.
I can now sync this with my phone, a Sony Ericsson K610i. The connection parameters are what you would expect, but the syncml URL is site specific, so you need to find it out. I also am not sure if the 'database names' are mandatory or configurable. Anyway, its changed my life. Now I only have double entry, once electronically, and once to my Filofax.
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So, we wern't going to do player packs for this event. But thanks to huk lab and PIAS it looks like we'll have a few small things for the players. Including huk lab stickers!
$20 per player: $6 to hornings day use-$1 to admin costs- $13 to payouts. Plus 25% added to scrip!
Camping is now just $2 per night.
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02/08/2013: Rules and PoliciesWith exception to those lucky southerners, many of us will be denned up for another month or two, so this might be a good time to brush up on some rules and policies before the hunts are back in full swing.
01/02/2013: A Refresher Course on Rule 6(q)After all those years that we struggled with the cumbersome interpretation of how to handle the situations where dogs were treeing and the handlers had no intentions of declaring them treed, Rule 6(q) is a basic and necessary requirement in accurately scoring hounds for their work on a nite hunt cast.
12/03/2012: Q & AQ: Four dogs on a cast are treed. After scoring the tree, the dogs are led a little distance away and released again. One dog opens and is declared struck in the vicinity of the tree that had previously been scored. The handler says he thinks the dog is on the same tree. The judge says he is not sure if it's the same tree, so he starts the stationary rule. Five minutes elapse. The handler has not declared the dog treed. The cast finds the dog is in fact on the same tree that had been scored previously. How should the dog be scored? MS/IN
11/08/2012: Tracking/Controlling Combo SystemsAfter the unveiling of the new Alpha™ tracking and controlling combo unit at Autumn Oaks, they have been the hot topic of discussion. These discussions include whether or not they can even be used during the course of a UKC nite hunt. Although the UKC has always strictly stood by their written rules and avoided waiver of such until or unless changed, we can quickly find ourselves behind the eight-ball when considering some of the newest gadgets that have become available to hunters for their dogs.
10/11/2012: World ChampionshipWith the World Championship Zone Semifinals right around the corner, the following notes may serve to clarify any concerns, questions or misconceptions relative to the event. Bench Show – There will not be a bench show at any zone locations. Those dogs entered in the World Show Championship will go directly to the Finals and confirm their entry on Saturday prior to the posted deadline for the...
09/06/2012: Only One Entry in the CategoryQ: In a situation where only one dog is entered in the hunt or category, may the dog still be hunted and receive Championship Points according to UKC's policies? A: This question still comes up every now and again, believe it or not. Or even the theory suggesting the only dog entered is "an automatic shoe-in for the win. No competition to decide who's the best on this night."
08/06/2012: RemindersTracking Device Rules Reminder: Recently the UKC made a change in their Hunt Test (HTX) rules to allow the use of locating devices during hunt time. Somewhere along the way, wires are getting crossed in that this policy includes Licensed Nite Hunts. It does not!
07/13/2012: Q & ACurs in UKC Nite Hunts Q: Because we have several guys in the area hunting Cur dogs we are entertaining the idea of scheduling a hunt for them at our club; however, this subject has brought on some heated debates. Some are saying they would hunt right along with the coonhounds, and others say they can't hunt at all. Please cover this topic in your advisor. JC/KY
06/04/2012: Puppy Papers ReminderFor some reason, we continue to receive event reports where the dog is not yet permanently registered. Not many, but some. Usually, we find the owners think because they can now enter the dog as Conditional that they can also enter a dog that is not yet permanently registered. That is not the case at all.
05/01/2012: A Lesson On Strike PositionsThis month we've gone back to the archives and dug up five different topics. While each topic is different, they all have one similarity in common. Consider it a lesson on "strike positions".


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by Tom Stoppard
Thomasina Coverly
Character Analysis
Thomasina speaks the very first line of the play, a line that tells us from the start that Arcadia may be set in Regency England, but it's no Jane Austen novel:
THOMASINA: Septimus, what is carnal embrace? (1.1)
First, while this question begins the play on a humorous and slightly shocking note, it also neatly demonstrates that Thomasina is embarked on the transition from childhood to adulthood, in the limbo of adolescence. She's obviously picked up the term "carnal embrace," which shows some exposure to sexual knowledge, from somewhere, but she doesn't know enough to know what it means, so she has to ask. She can ask this question only because she's on this border: if she knew more, she wouldn't need to ask the question, and if she knew less, she wouldn't know there was a question to ask.
And sex isn't the only thing Thomasina has questions about. There's also Newtonian physics:
THOMASINA: When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? (1.1)
This passage gives us an idea of how Thomasina thinks: she puts abstract ideas in the context of familiar objects (the laws of physics as rice pudding) and she's able to make connections between the very small and the very large (pudding and meteors). In the scientific context as well as the sexual one, her almost-but-not-quite knowledge means that she asks questions neither a child nor an adult would think to ask.
The play uses Thomasina's questions about sex and physics to portray her in that stage between ignorance and knowledge, innocence and experience. How does she go about gaining knowledge? How does her in-the-middle-ness – her remaining childhood imagination and innocence – help her to see more than the adults around her?
Geometry Stinks, But Not For The Reasons You Think It Does
The more knowledge Thomasina gains, the more she hates its limitations. Geometry is a particular target of her wrath:
THOMASINA: Each week I plot your equations dot for dot, xs against ys in all manner of algebraical relation, and every week they draw themselves as commonplace geometry, as if the world of forms were nothing but arcs and angles. God's truth, Septimus, if there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose? (1.3)
While Septimus is content to have two worlds – geometry and nature – divided up like girls and boys at a middle school dance, Thomasina wants the two mixed. What drives Thomasina's assertion that an equation "must" exist? Is she pulling a Bernard and saying that she just knows, or is she using the powers of reason? And does that borderline position discussed above affect how she's thinking about these questions? How?
Waltzing: It's All Innocent, Right?
While the sixteen-year-old Thomasina who appears later in the play is still interested in "the action of bodies in heat" (2.7; we'll leave it as an exercise for the reader whether that's a question of sex or science), it's waltzing that's first and foremost in her mind. Her concern with learning the latest dance craze develops her character's borderline status between innocence and experience in a new direction.
When Thomasina comes downstairs late at night to claim her promised waltz lesson from Septimus, she's surprised that her tutor doesn't immediately understand that her kiss means "teach me to waltz now" – as opposed to "I want to have sex with you." She tells him, "Do not act the innocent! Tomorrow I will be seventeen!" (2.7). Her words are unintentionally funny: she's thinking about dancing in the vertical, while his thoughts are more of the horizontal variety. Yet he's the one being accused of "acting the innocent." It's a funny turn of phrase – but it also suggests that innocence is more complicated than it seems.
Things only get more complicated when there's more kissing, instigated by Septimus this time, and Thomasina invites Septimus up to her room. This all happens so quickly, and so close to the end of the play, that it's uncertain what Thomasina's motives are. Has she been harboring a secret crush on Septimus? Is she hoping he'll be an adequate stand-in for her Byron fantasy? Thomasina's abrupt death, and the end of the play, mean that we'll never know – and that, as a character, Thomasina is forever poised on that boundary between innocence and experience.


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TULARE, CALIF., February 9, 1999 -- Energy choice can play an important role in the economical and efficient management of agricultural operations. While gasoline, diesel and electricity can satisfy some highly specific needs, farmers using propane as their primary energy source have found that the fuel meets a wide range of agri-business demands as a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly and versatile energy source.
'Energy needs and issues vary greatly in the agricultural industry and can be dictated by a broad range of factors, from the specialty nature of some agri-businesses to the location and actual layout of the farm itself,' said Rita Pecilunas, the National Propane Gas Association's vice president for marketing and member services. 'Over the years, propane has become recognized as the fuel of choice in the agricultural industry because it provides farmers with a cost-effective option that offers tremendous versatility and control in where and when it is used.'
By using propane as a primary energy source, farmers have the freedom to select locations for storage-tank placement to ensure accessibility for each specific need, whether that be home heating or to power irrigation pumps. In addition, propane's portability gives farmers the flexibility to power equipment in the most remote areas of the farm, as can be required with weed and pest control applications.
The cost savings associated with propane usage are also a factor in its popularity as an agricultural fuel. While actual fuel costs vary based on regional market conditions, propane costs per Btu are generally a third of that of electricity, a common alternative for major heating uses.
Farmers concerned with crop, livestock and groundwater contamination problems (frequently caused by fuel leakage) have confidence in the numerous environmental advantages propane offers over other fuel supplies. Propane is clean-burning, nontoxic and insoluble in water, which means that it produces no hazardous emissions, and, if spilled, presents minimal risk to aquifers or ground water supplies.
Propane gas is quickly becoming the agricultural fuel of choice, with a wide range of uses:
Crop drying and ripening. Propane is the nation's number one energy source for drying and ripening a wide range of crops. It is also used for curing tobacco and preparing peanuts and cotton for market. A primary benefit of using propane is that it will not leak into or contaminate crops. Additionally, because approximately 90 percent of the fuel drawn from the propane tank is converted to energy, the crop-drying process is efficient and cost-effective.
Powering irrigation pumps. Peace of mind and good health are benefits that farmers realize when using propane because of its environmentally-friendly nature. Propane-powered engines produce the same amount of power as gasoline or diesel engines, with lower emissions and without the residue or danger associated with liquid fuels. Irrigation pumps and engines can easily be converted to run on propane.
Controlling weeds and pests. Propane flamers are an environmentally-friendly alternative to chemical herbicides and pesticides. They apply a direct, intense heat to the weeds, forcing their cell walls to rupture, and insects to die on contact. Flaming can be applied as often as necessary, either before or after the crop emerges.
Heating livestock shelters. Propane infrared poultry brooders are one of the most efficient methods of keeping chicks warm and healthy. Infrared brooders provide more even heat and a larger circle of warmth, which means it takes fewer infrared brooders to properly warm a poultry house, a significant cost savings to the farmer. Additionally, propane-powered space heaters, furnaces and poultry brooders are very reliable, even during electric power outages.
Propane produces significantly lower emission levels than kerosene and fuel oil, and is more efficient and less expensive than electricity.
Propane-powered vehicles. Propane gas can be used to fuel many farm vehicles, including tractors and trucks. Similar to gasoline in power and performance, its affordability, low emissions and longer engine-life offer distinct advantages over other alternative fuels. With an octane rating of 104, propane engines are clean-burning and do not leave the harmful deposits that necessitate the frequent engine tune-ups required by diesel and gasoline engines.
Most conventional farm vehicles can be converted to run on propane, while one U.S. manufacturer, Ford Motor Company, currently offers factory-built propane vehicles.
Propane in the home. Propane gas meets all household needs safely and comfortably. As a frequent choice for homes beyond the natural gas mains, propane fuels appliances and heating systems, offering greater comfort and economy than electricity in a number of areas, such as home and water heating. According to the Federal Energy Information Administration, more than 8.1 million homes in America use propane as an energy source.
Other agricultural applications. Versatile propane gas is used in many other agricultural applications, including the following:
'While propane is used in a vast number of applications to power everything from homes to fleets of city buses, it has always been recognized in the agricultural communityas a farming fuel,' said Roy Willis, president of the Propane Education & Research Council.
Working together to enhance safety, spread knowledgeThe Propane Education & Research Council works on behalf of the propane industry to improve safety, workforce training, efficiency and consumer education. The Council was authorized by the Propane Education and Research Act of 1996 (PERA) and created through an industry referendum in 1997. Funds are collected through an assessment process by which the industry pays a percentage of money on every gallon of odorized propane. The current assessment rate is 1/10 of a cent on each gallon sold. The resulting funds are funneled back to the customer through Council programs.
NPGA is the national trade association for the U.S. propane gas industry. With a membership of more than 3,700 in all 50 states, 37 affiliated state or regional associations, and members in 30 foreign countries, NPGA represents every segment of the propane industry. Over 90 percent of the United States' propane supply is produced domestically, and 60 million Americans choose propane, 'The Energy for the New Millennium,' as their energy source.
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Testing Talent: Interns, Volunteers and Consultants
ANGELA BENTON: Recruiting talent with little to no money is probably one of the biggest issues as a startup founder. It can be one of the first few sobering moments after you've decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship with your new game-changing idea — especially if you aren't a founder that can execute on it technically. What many founders fail to realize is you aren't just selling and pitching your idea to get funding; you're also selling and pitching to recruit supporters, advocates, partners, and employees. It's one of the many reasons why you'll hear people say that it's lonely being a founder and/or CEO.
Now that we've established that your chief role is to execute and become the H.E.I.C. (Head Evangelist in Charge) for your product, the next step is to figure out exactly how to recruit with this new bravado in tow. Here are a couple of ways to start:
See what other startup mentors have to say about recruiting talent.
If you've done your job right you should have people interested in getting involved in what you are building and just as excited about your game-changing idea as you are. Getting people to volunteer initially is a great way to get the work that you need done (on a project-by-project basis) under your management, test the waters to see if they'd be a good hire later, get a better feel on if they'd be a good cultural fit for the company you are building, and finally testing their loyalty and dedication without exploitation. Utilizing volunteers is a free way to develop and early team and should eventually lead to compensation (equity or cash) at some point if they are a good fit.
Interns are another good way to recruit. Most interns are hungry and ready to learn. Many of them don't have too much experience in corporate America yet, which means they'll transition into the startup lifestyle easier. Similar to volunteers, they are a good way to test out potential hires while getting the work done. Some internships are for college credit, which means in exchange for a certain number of hours worked they'll receive credit towards their degree. Others require a minimum hourly rate that you must pay. In some cases there is a combination of the two. In almost all cases there is a maximum number of hours you can use your intern as a resource. Remember, their full-time commitment is still school.
The least favorite among the options you have are to use consultants. Consultants tend to get a bad rap in the startup community mainly because they are notorious for being expensive and most startups have no money. However, there is a rising trend among many consultancies to work with select start-ups for equity. If a firm finds your business/product interesting enough and if you decide to go this route, it's important to consider what that means for your business. For instance, if you plan on raising money later could this hurt you in the long run? Additionally, if you decide to issue equity for work it's important to be conservative since you're at such an early stage.
Early Employees that work for equity
Last but not least, and likely the most popular option among startups, is hiring early employees for equity. This means you've found the right person for your team (see utilizing volunteers or interns above) and want to move forward with making them a member of your team. You'll extend an offer to them but will issue an agreed-upon percentage of equity in lieu of cash compensation until the company has money to pay its employees, which typically happens when a funding round is closed. The equity that is issued typically vests over a set period of time (two to four years) depending on the situation and can vary in amount depending on the role and day-to-day involvement. So that you make the best decision for your business it's always good to consult attorneys for advice and guidance in matters like this. They should understand your long-term goals and short-term needs and be able to give you the best options for your situation.
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Grace Lutheran hosting new Bible study
"Parables: Stories for Life in God's World" is a Bible study for men and women of all ages and will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesdays from July 15 through Aug. 12 at Grace Lutheran Church, 124 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville.
Open to the community, this summer pastor-led study is an in-depth exploration of the parables of Jesus and their varied meanings and points out applications for one's life of faith today. The class will explore parables of growth, reversal, preparedness, decision and treasure.
There is no cost for the class, and registration will be accepted until the first class begins on July 15. To register, visit www.GraceLutheranNC.com and clicking on the Parables of Jesus link.
For more information, call 693-4890.
Grace youth set for mission trip
Grace Lutheran Church will be sending 24 youth and seven adult guides on a mission work trip to a Youthworks site in Indianapolis from July 12 to 19.
Youthworks is an organization whose purpose is to connect teenagers to God, each other and communities through life-changing Christ-centered mission trips. Grace sends it youth on mission work trips every summer.
The students and guides will be housed in classrooms at St. John's United Church of Christ on the south end of Indianapolis and will participate in varied service experiences together with local volunteers and organizations.
The Grace Lutheran team will provide services at three Eastside Indianapolis community outreach centers which offer shelter, tutoring, mentoring and Christ-centered support to local neighborhoods; help a Westminster Mission beautification effort; work at two local church thrift stores, a soup kitchen and three food banks. The goal of the mission trip is to provide the students with life-changing Christ-centered experiences that will broaden their perspectives, ignite passions, expose possibilities and inspire pursuits.
For more information, call 693-4890.
Men's Bible study open to new members
A Christian Men's Breakfast Bible Study is currently open for new members. This ecumenical group meets at 7:30 a.m. each Wednesday beginning July 9 at the Dixie Diner, 1724 Brevard Road, Hendersonville.
Every week, four Scriptures are chosen per the weekly lectionary used in most Christian liturgical churches. The four Scripture lessons include an Old Testament writing, a Psalm, an Epistle and a Gospel.
Participants should bring their Bible of choice, and no homework is required. During the breakfast meeting, each assigned Scripture is read and discussed regarding the context and the meaning for people today.
Those who attend order breakfast from the menu and are responsible for the cost.
For more information, call Bob Andersen, study facilitator, at 697-0464.
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The 2011-2012 NHL season seems primed and ready to surprise. If the playoffs started today odds-on Cup favorites such as the Boston Bruins, San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks wouldn't make the cut while the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders would.
While we are only a small percentage of games into the year, it seems that rebuilds are finally starting to pay off around the NHL, while hangovers and sudden expectations are plaguing squads like the Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Scattered among the 30 teams are a few dark horses to make the push toward the Stanley Cup playoffs. Don't look now, but these teams may be ready to emerge to make some noise over the course of the season.


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By Billy BirdwellJuly 2, 2013
SAVANNAH, Ga. - On July 10 and 11 the Corps of Engineers will conduct required tests of the spillway gates at its three dams on the upper Savannah River.
The tests will ensure the gates work properly and can be activated in the event of an emergency to protect the dam plus people and property downstream.
Tests will be conducted at Hartwell Dam, Russell Dam, and Thurmond Dam.
During the tests the spillway gates will be opened 1 to 2 feet to give safety experts the opportunity to evaluate the gates' readiness. These checks must be performed periodically in keeping with the Corps of Engineers' Dam Safety Program.
Savannah District officials chose this time to conduct the inspections because spring and summer rains filled each reservoir into the flood-storage area putting each above "full pool."
The test, while visually dramatic, will have only a minimal impact on reservoir levels. In order to conserve water, safety officials will begin the test at Hartwell Dam, the uppermost of the three. By doing so, the same water can be used to test Russell Dam and then Thurmond Dam.
The test will lower Hartwell Lake only about three inches and will have little net impact on the other reservoirs. Hartwell Lake was almost two feet above full pool on July 1.
Due to the rapid increase in water flow during the test, swimmers and boaters should avoid the area immediately downstream from the dams.
Here's the testing schedule and the designated public viewing locations at each dam:
Hartwell Dam: Wednesday July 10 from 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Visitors can observe the test from the fishing pier below the dam on the Georgia-side of the river. Rangers will direct traffic. (Visitors with valid handicapped parking stickers should call 888-893-0678 in advance for instructions.) No parking, stopping or pedestrians will be allowed on the Highway 29 bridge.
Russell Dam: Thursday July 11 from 8:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Visitors can watch the test from the South Carolina overlook and the Georgia fishing pier area. For questions, contact the Visitors Center at 800-944-7207.
Thurmond Dam: Thursday July 11 from 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Visitors can watch the test from Below Dam S.C. Park on the South Carolina side of the river. For questions, contact the Visitors Center at 800-533-3478.
The Savannah District last tested Thurmond Dam and Russell Dam in March 2007. They last tested Hartwell Dam in January 2010. Through its series of dams the Savannah District of the Army Corps of Engineers has provided flood risk reduction, hydropower production, recreation, clean water, navigation control, and environmental protection for the Savannah River since the early 1950s.


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Kindle, Nook or iPad? Making the switch to an e-reader
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In case you hadn't noticed, e-readers are taking the world by storm. But if you're a hardcore book-lover, don't get the wrong idea. Neither the Kindle, the Nook, or the iPad are out to spell an end to books as we know them. They're just serving to make them an awful lot easier to bring along with us wherever we wander. Here are a few tips to help you figure out which one is the better option for you if you're considering making the switch to an e-reader.
Amazon Kindle
Undoubtedly the heavyweight champion of all e-readers, the Amazon Kindle is the product of years of refining and remains the top choice among the e-book reading public. The reason for this is not only its incredible ease of use, simple interface, and comparatively low cost--it's also the technology behind the device, eInk, which delivers a surface that most closely resembles ink on paper. The Kindle is also capable of surfing the Internet, although the black and white screen of its earlier incarnations might not deliver the same experience you're used to on your desktop PC. However, a brand new generation of Kindles led by the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire has turned everything on its head, offering touchscreen technology, vibrant color viewing of web content and movies (on the Kindle Fire) and consequently driving down the cost of the standard, "no frills" version of the world's most popular e-reader.
Barnes and Noble Nook
Nook, which is the Kindle's biggest competition, was put forth by bookseller colossus Barnes and Noble and has become the e-reader of choice among those who prefer the color-enabled LED screen of its more high-end version. Lately, the Nook's continued evolution has turned it into more of a tablet PC-style device complete with a touch screen that can display high resolution video, loads of games and applications, email, Internet, and social networking features.
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The preeminent tablet PC that stands out above all imitators, the iPad is where you go if you want the convenience of an entire computer with the comparable weight of a slender magazine. Not solely an e-reader, the iPad's incredible versatility at performing high level functions makes it by far the most expensive of all three options. Whether you decide to migrate from your stack of paperbacks to an iPad is solely dependent on what you want your e-reader to do. If you relish the idea of being able to tab from the book you're currently reading to pull up a video of you and the grandkids frolicking around, the iPad is probably the best choice for you.
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There are horror stories all over the internet about more or less expensive watches with Seagull movements that run fast/slow by minutes per day or don't run at all or only for a few days.
Well, here's a different version of that story:
My G.Gerlach diver has the Seagull ST 25 (picture G.Gerlach)
This is a 39 Jewel automatic with 40 - 45 hours power reserve (not tested by me) and a 21600 beat rate.
Straight out of the box it ran 15 - 20 seconds fast per day. I wasn't very impressed with that, but not overly concerned either. I have worn the watch on and off for four months now and it seems to be "bedding in" as far as accuracy is concerned with continously improving values.
As it has a hacking feature, keeping track of the timing is very easily done.
I'm wearing it continously now since Thursday evening and since then (it's now Sunday afternoon) it has gained the grand total of three seconds (in comparison with time.is)
During checks inbetween, it has varied from 0 to +5 and currently stands at +3
Now if that isn't good ...then I don't know.
As I understand it from their mile long thread on WUS, G.Gerlach buy grade 1 movements directly from the Seagull factory (none of the dreaded subcontractor rubbish) and also whip it over a timegrapher during assembly ...but still ...not everything from China is necessarily rubbish.
My only criticism of the movement would be that the rotor is rather noisy, you can clearly hear it even over the (normal) "chatter" of a steel bracelet when shaking your wrist.


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The Centrality of Brown
Paul Finkelman
Albany Law School - Government Law Center
CHOOSING EQUALITY: ESSAYS AND NARRATIVES ON THE DESEGREGATION EXPERIENCE, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., Leland Ware, eds., pp. 224-245, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009
This article is an examination of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown decision is considered by many to be one of the most important and influential decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. However, fifty years after Brown was decided, some scholars consider the decision to have been a failure because of its unassertive nature and failed implementation. It has been suggested that the court may have been better off enforcing the 'equal' portion of Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal doctrine.'
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Bernanke: The Wizard of Ease
In a grand room in a grand building in Washington, D.C., there stands behind a velvet curtain a bald man with a beard who spends his hours pulling levers. The levers of monetary illusion.
This is Ben Bernanke, the Wizard of Ease.
Having wrought the tornado of financial crisis by pumping up the fantasy of false wealth with cheap money, he's pulling the same levers to undo the damage now.
Let's see, turn the asset valuation crank here, and voila, the prices of equities and commodities explode and yes, even house prices seem to stabilize.
Throw in the extra measure of allowing them to make up their own values for nonmarket assets and, presto, banks that had flimsy balance sheets suddenly look rock solid.
A rash of bonuses all round.
A flash of the Wizard's pen, and suddenly all those brainless regulators who stood abjectly by as the mess took form are smart enough to prevent the disaster from recurring.
And here, a medal to give central bankers courage to make difficult decisions. Like taking the punch bowl away when the party gets going and not blowing bubbles in order to stave off economic pain in the short term.
And there, a heart for Wall Street. No…it's all too absurd.
So investors are left wondering. The same guy is operating the same levers to effect the same solution that led us to the catastrophe in the first place.
For many, it's too much. Some expect the Wicked Witch of the West to rain down on the flying monkeys of inflation on the Land of Ease. And everywhere else, for that matter. Commodity prices are just the leading indicator of a wider price explosion, just look at how much a pair of ruby slippers has already gone up.
But in this movie, a bucket of water isn't going to douse this vicious inflation. It'll take a lot more, but not the sort of policy the Wizard Bernanke will be willing to deliver.
For these investors, the road out of the perdition of the Wizard's making is paved with gold bricks. So they're stacking them up as defensive positions.
And it's not just investors who are worried. So too are some members of the Fed, like Thomas Hoenig, who's been calling for a gradual withdrawal of Bernanke's monetary illusion.
But, as Dorothy might have said, "Tom, Tom, I've a feeling we're not at the Kansas City Fed now and you're losing the fight."


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No. 48 WT Drops Match to No. 38 UC Irvine, 4-0
Feb. 7, 2014
SAN DIEGO - The 48th-ranked San Diego State women's tennis team came up short to UC Irvine, 4-0, on Friday. The match was originally scheduled for Thursday but inclement weather forced the match to be postponed until today at 3 pm. With the loss the Aztecs drop to 3-2 on the season.
Thursday afternoon saw doubles play finish as UC Irvine took the early lead by claiming the point. In first doubles, Laura Antonaña Iriarte and Kristin Buth could not keep up with Ali Facey and Franziska Goettsching, 6-4. On the third court, Tami Nguyen and Kennedy Davis were outpaced by Brooke Schweyer and Sarah Stadfelt, 6-4. The match on court No. 2 between Hailey Johnson and Dora Somoracz and Marivick Mamiit and Sarah Gong did not finish as the point was already decided.
Singles play was stopped on Thursday but resumed on Friday afternoon. In fifth singles, Johnson was defeated by Kat Facey, 6-1, 6-3. Gong would put the Anteaters within one point of victory as she took the decision in third singles over Nguyen, 7-5, 6-3. In sixth singles, Stadfelt clinched the win for UC Irvine as she got past Somoracz, 6-3, 6-3. The remaining singles matches were left unfinished due to the outcome having been decided. Antonaña Iriarte was down in first singles, 5-7, 1-2, to Mamiit when the match was stopped. In second singles, Buth had taken the first set and was attempting a rally in the second, 6-3, 1-3, when her match against Goettsching was halted. Davis was on top on court No. 4, 7-6 (4), 2-0, over Ali Facey before the match was decided.
SDSU will travel to Malibu, Calif., tomorrow to take on Pepperdine at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center at 1 pm.
No. 38 UC Irvine 4, No. 48 San Diego State 0


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