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1. Pauline Jacobson,
Modified: Phonology, Computational Ling: Syntax/Semantics, and/or Acquisition: Visiting Assistant Professor/Visiting Instructor, Brown University, RI, USA
Message 1: Modified: Phonology, Computational Ling: Syntax/Semantics, and/or Acquisition: Visiting Assistant Professor/Visiting Instructor, Brown University, RI, USA
Pauline Jacobson <pauline_jacobson
Phonology, Computational Ling: Syntax/Semantics, and/or Acquisition: Visiting Assistant Professor/Visiting Instructor, Brown University, RI, USA
University or Organization: Brown University
Department: Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Job Rank: Visiting Instructor / Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: Phonology, Computational Ling., Syntax/Semantics, Acquisition
The Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University has
an opening for a 9-month visiting position for the academic year 2006-2007
at the rank of Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor,
beginning Sept. 1, 2006.
The successful candidate will teach Introduction to Phonological Theory in
the fall semester, and two other undergraduate/graduate courses during the
year. One can be an advanced seminar in the candidate's area of
specialization, and one will be drawn from the following list of courses:
Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Topics in Phonology, Topics in
Syntax and Semantics, or Topics in Language Acquisition.
Preference will be given to applicants who have completed the Ph.D. by
August, 2006, but advanced graduate students who have completed all
requirements except the dissertation may also apply. Full consideration
will be given to applications received by June 1; applications will be
considered from that date until the position is filled. Applicants should
send a curriculum vitae and a detailed statement of teaching interests and
qualifications in these areas, a statement of any prior teaching experience
and evidence of teaching ability if available. Applicants should also
arrange to have three letters of recommendation, at least one of which
addresses the candidate's expertise and teaching ability in phonology, sent
to the Linguistics Search Committee at the Application Address below.
Women and minorities are expecially encouraged to apply. Brown University is
an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Address for Applications:
Professor Pauline Jacobson
Dept. of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Box 1978
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Application Deadline: June 1, 2006
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Email: pauline_jacobson
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NEW TASKS, as of October 2011
|Next Action
|Clear Genie-width path to member storage
|Construct and affix dry-erase marker holders to every whiteboard
|Mount monitor on/near rack, for admin KVM usage
| Consolidate adhesives/solvents/cleaners/etc and label
each location with pointers to the other locations
|Bring blue bins down from attic and wash them all
|Matt O
|Fridge cleanout
|Matt O
|Affix QR codes to every tool with a wiki page
|Cover roof openings, consider snow-melt drainage in your design
|Level concrete near rack
|Garage-door concrete
|Winterization stuff (Bill putt suggested -- need more specifics)
|North & East Storm windows
|Get measurements and figure hardware
|Steve H
|replace flex exaust from laser cuter with solid pipe in steel, will improve air flow about 200%.
|we need a stock rack/box in machine shop, 5"x5" by 12"deep eggcrate, about 12 holes, 1/4 ply, could be laser cut, ply frame. - Ask steve H
|consolidate and shut down small black freezer
|Run air hose to bike shop
|run black air hose to new bike shop area
|clean up and organize member storage
|add dividers to member storage shelves
|use tape or paint to divide the shelves into quarters
|clean up FIRST area
|throw away junk and put all gear into bins below benches
|sweep and vacuum your butt off
|identify emergency exit routes and paint the lines
|we have floor marking paint, just need skinny rollers
|install other welding curtain
|talk to Nate B. he has vision for this
|Fix bottom seal on garage door
|use quickrete to level ground
|install safety chain on theatre lights
|get chain for said task
|make bins/shelf for welding area metal storage
|make a set of cubbies for storage of cut offs in metal shop area
|shelves should be 12-14 in deep
|finish up audio system
|get zoned audio system up and running
|hook up outdoor light outside main door
|mount and wire security cameras
|talk to Joe Bender about camera mount locations
|rebuild donation sucker
|clean out shop-vac and set up
|Nate B
|Make boxes to store assorted tools in tool area
|use box maker program to laser cut custom boxes
OLD LISTS use for inspiration but move relevant tasks to new list above, please only copy the name, and reconsider the "next action" and secure a new volunteer.
Can be tackled immediately:
|Next Action
|Change thermostat batteries
|Determine what they take
|Rewire laser exhaust on 230v
|Doublecheck SSR and PSU
|E-room pretty lights, wire to second switch.
|Install outlet, extend cord.
|Craft room: Establish Cricut-stuff box
|Find and label suitable box
|Kitchen: Label cabinets with contents
|Launder everything launderable
|Welding area: Commission P&H welder
|Print a copy of the manual
|Shop: Redundant tools and rearrange
|Identify owners of redundant tools
|Tool area: Archive dubiously-useful hardware
|Find sturdy boxes for metal thingies
|Photograph everything for insurance documentation
|Figure out where to store photos when done
|E-room: Network jacks
|Test and trace existing wire
|Nate W
|Cleaning supplies / flammables / etc
|Decide on scheme and implement, then label.
|MSDS update
|Find binder!
|Repair / upgrade selected 115V circuits
|Documentation: Breaker Panels
|Dave S
|Mount and wire additional ceiling fans
|get it done before we all melt
|Small project Storage
|Move lockers and build additional storage locker units
|E-Room shelving
|Clean space, assemble units, place units and fasten to wall
Just need supplies:
|Next action / need
|E-room fluorescent lights, fix flicker
|Note type of ballasts, and obtain replacement(s)
|E-room powerstrips
|Obtain another wall-mountable strip with switch
|Welding curtains
|Need a pile of sticks and string and sketches
|Nate B
|Cover and insulate roof-fan openings
|Needs foam, plastic, sticks, and plan.
|Nate B
|Tool area: Sort electrical parts
|Just need some boxes...
|Nate B
|Easy Button not weatherproof. Find a button that is.
|Nate B
|Craft-room bench cushion
|Craft-room table painting
|Floor gouge in FIRST area
|Garage door bottom seal
|Garage door side seals
|Identify and obtain appripriate thingies
|Safety chain for theater lights
|Identify appropriate type of chain or cable
|Lubricate Genie column
|Boe-Lube solid (MSC carries it)
|Nate B
Need approval, concept, or otherwise not immediately doable:
|Welding area: Store scrap metal
|Nate B / Karen?
|Whiteboard room lights
|Find a useful plug-in PIR outlet / Wattstopper perhaps?
|Nate B
|Multizone audio
|Cohesive plan, mounting location, speaker wire?
|Is this idea still alive?
|Shower leak
|Assess problem, identify repairs needed
|Security (PIR) sensors
|Need something to wire 'em back to
|Eric M?
|Vending machine light
|Concept, wiring diagram...
|Update website static pages
|Concept, see i3detroit-web group
|Nate B
|Sign proposal
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The Little Blue Heron is a small, dark bird that ranges from 63-74 centimeters in length. It can have a wingspread of up to 1.04 meters. The sexes look similar, but the young look very different from the adults. An adult can be recognized by its purple-maroon head and neck. The rest of the plumage is slate gray. The long neck is usually held in an "S" shaped curve while the bird is at rest or in flight. The heron's long, slender bill curves slightly downward, and is also dark gray but has a black tip. The eyes are yellow and the legs and feet are dark. The young are unlike any other heron because they have all white body plumage. They have a blue bill with a black tip and dull green legs. They stay white through their first summer, fall, and into winter, but start molting in February into the dark color of an adult. (Terres 1980; Tarski 2001)


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Six to lecture at Lake Erie's Stone Lab this summer
The Columbus Dispatch - May 24, 2012 10:19 AM
Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University's island campus on Lake Erie, has announced its guest-lecture series for this summer.
Researchers will give brief summaries of their research at 7 p.m. followed by the lectures that will last from 7:45 to about 9 p.m. Guests can reach the lab on Gibraltar Island by taking a Lake Erie water taxi, at their own expense, at 6:30 or 7:15 p.m. from the Boardwalk Restaurant dock. A tour of the 6.5-acre island will precede the lectures.
The lectures also will be avalable via a live web seminar -- log-in information is available by email -- or as podcasts a few weeks after each presentation.
This year's series:
- June 14: U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, "Lake Erie, the Great Lakes, and Congress"
- June 21: Jim Zehringer, director, Ohio Department of Nautral Resources, "ODNR Update/Director's Initiatives"
- June 28: Scott Nally, director, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, "OEPA Update/40th Anniversary"
- July 12: Leon Carl, gegional executive, U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Area, "USGS Science - Partner driven Research: Huron-Erie Corridor, Asian Carp, and Harmful Algal Blooms"
- July 26: David Ulrich, executive director, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, " Great Lakes—Great Opportunities"
- Aug. 2: Cameron Davis, senior advisor to the administrator (Great Lakes), U.S. EPA, "The Day Science Saved the Great Lakes"


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Is anyone familiar with a pizzeria in Chicago named "My Pie"? Years ago there was a branch near the college I attended in Oklahoma. Best pizza I've ever eaten. If you have any knowledge of "My Pie" please let me hear your thoughts and comments.thanks,


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I called in Middleby Marshall with their traveling display ovens (tractor-trailer with various ovens used for on-site demonstrations) and with their air impingement oven of the time they were able to drive enough water from the pizza during baking that the pizza was no longer soggy and the store was able to retain their original concept.
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Skip to comments.Hurricane SANDY Public Advisory
Posted on 10/28/2012 3:07:37 PM PDT by SubMareener
(Excerpt) Read more at nhc.noaa.gov ...
I think all my friends that live on Long Island have evacuated. At least I hope they have.
I'm just a few miles away from Coney Island, and they've been evacuated.
Snows... good grief. I'm camped here in northwest Maryland, never thought I'd see that.
We have Winter Storm Warnings flashinng across the TV screen here in East Tennessee. Expecting significant wet snowfall. Went out and blew the heavy leaf covering off my driveway yesterday evening, to make it possible to get traction through the wet snow if need be. High winds are also predicted, so snow will probably be 'sticking' to even the stop signs.
Have a daughter in Hoboken ...just scared to death for her. She's oblivious to the danger, of course ...think her work, however, is going to get her out of there tonight, hopefully to a hotel somewhere north.
What is it with young people? They just NEVER think a single bad thing is ever going to happen to them! Drives me nuts with my kids!
>>What is it with young people? They just NEVER think a single bad thing is ever going to happen to them! Drives me nuts with my kids!<<
As you did with your parents.
Am under a mandatory evacuation from Flood Zone A in downtown Manhattan. We left last night and are comfortably in our BOL.
Okay, I'll admit, I haven't been following this storm, but just checked over at one of the weather sites. I expected it to be a Cat 5 the way it's being talked about. But it's a Cat 1 with rain expected in the 8 inches range. Last TS we had, we were up near 17 inches of rain.
I'm in Florida and a Cat 1 is usually a minor inconvenience, break out the generator because you'll probably lose power, but destruction from a Cat 1 isn't too much of a concern.
So somebody enlighten me...why is this storm different as I guess it is since there's so much hype surrounding it.
(and why do people think it'll affect voting, we're not voting till a week after this storm hits.)
I'm not trying to be snarky, just don't get it.
Nobody except the worry warts get this. Get a Rain Barrel.
Go get your milk and bread, Gas up your car, Buy an umbrella.
Everything is hyped to the max these days.
My favorite is watching some hyperventilating idiot on the PMSNBC Weather Channel wearing mega-storm gear doing a live report and a family dressed in shorts and t-shirts casually saunters by in the background.
All this hype, hype, hype. Why it was one year ago tomorrow that I got half a foot of slush in my yard and lost power for a week because every other tree in the whole damn state came down. Yet there were no headlines about the apocalypse back then.
I'm thinking the Obama-controlled media want to take the Benghazi thing off the front page and maybe create an opening for some election mischief that would benefit Obama.
I haven't seen the latest from Nags Head but I'm sure they are there. OMG it's gonna rain then snow, it must be global warming!
Haven't you been reading/watching the news? LOL! Here's one story:
Take your tropical storm...drop the pressure into the upper 940 MB (by landfall)...your avg TS is about 990-1005...make it about 10X larger in size wind wise...add 12' storm surges...as compared to your 2-4' in a tropical storm....and make the area impacted by damaging surge 20X larger...and now put yourself in sustained tropical storm winds for over 24 hours.
Now knock out the power.
Irene, much poo-pooed here by ignorant Freepers...caused $15 BILLION in damage. This will cover a MUCH larger area and be much more destructive with the surge. I expect damages to top $20 Billion. Did your tropical storm do that?
Get it now?
Can you answer my question or not?
It's pretty rough on Hatteras Island to the south of Nags Head. They'll get their share I'm sure. But, water temps begin to drop pretty quickly past Hatteras. Storms usually lose steam over cold water.
I haven't been there for some time but those folks didn't go anywhere. If NY wants to shut down for rain they have truly created a populace dependent on everything GOVERNMENT!
But the National Hurricane Center steadfastly refuses to issue Hurricane Watches or Warnings for Delmarva and New Jersey:
(from the 5:00 PM "discussion")
Bottom line: People aren't going to take a "high wind warning" nearly as seriously as a watch or warning with the H-word.
One wonders what federal assistance is automatically triggered by use of the word "hurricane"?
Could this be a way to punish Chris Christie?
Sandy is all the fault of the Weather Channel for posting a video insulting to low pressure systems.
Maria Molina is a nice distraction.
I simply can't understand why the NHC seems so eager to wash its hands of hurricanes headed for the I-95 corridor.
A couple of years ago after they had similarly stopped issuing products about a downgraded storm which nevertheless caused a lot of wind damage and minor flooding in southeast PA I wrote my congresscritter...got a personal response from him but it looks like the only "change" has been for the worst.
Don't worry. Hillary will ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Those responsible will be punished by forcing them to ride out this storm on beach chairs out on the Atlantic City sidewalk. Umbrella drinks not included.
Agreed. I thought this storm was going to be pushed out into the Atlantic by the cold front coming from the west, but everybody else said it was going to hit the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. I'm always ready, but now I'm starting to worry a little because of those that aren't. I don't think we'll lose power her in No. VA, but DC could be hit bad if rain saturates the ground and we get sustained wind of 35-45+ m/h. All the trees that didn't fall down this summer from the derecho will fall this time. Add flooding to that, and you get Katrina, but with whinier people, closer to the government.
Many of the oldtime residents there descend from people washed ashore in shipwrecks. They're a tough lot. Summer OBX population might be six figures but it's a quarter of that by now, just full time residents. Normal weather is a little on the wild side, that's what makes it such a fun and beautiful place to visit, forces of nature are very evident, always. Roaring surf, pretty strong winds are normal, drifting sand. I love it. Hope there's not too much damage.
Heavily populated areas losing public utilities as well as mobility for a period of even days could be a disaster. But, I look at the hardiness of New Yorkers in the immediate wake of 9/11 and think they'll make out just fine. However, you now have the squealling, self-absorbed media hype, mandatory evacuations and a whiff of panic in the air, over what you and I know to be a moderate blow at best.
It's hard not to snark at least a little, isn't it? Maybe I finally understand what makes Californians giggle at easterners freaking out over a 5.0 tremor, or northerners giggling over southern cities shutting down over snow in the forecast, lol.
Because the NHC thinks times like this are times to teach class....instead of thinking of the population. They don't think it will technically be tropical any more...so they dodge some responsibility...but many mets think its negligence.
I jumped into that water in 1975. It beat me and my brother to a pulp. We were used to the soft waves of PCB. That was some of the most exiting coast I had ever seen.
Its worked out for her so far.
The same way that New Englanders would skoff at the reaction of Floridians getting six inches of snow.
If you can point me to a "QUESTION?"....perhaps I can answer it. I see you've made a couple of observations and cutsie comments...but I did not see a question among them. Did I miss a sentence with a ?mark in it?
Perhaps you should try it for the FIRST time...you never asked a question. Go back and look at the thread. Perhaps you posted a question on ANOTHER thread regarding this...but not this one.
But...to answer your question...you have to be wary of looking at these model plots...especially if you don't know what you are looking at.
XTRP is simple extrapolated movement. In other words...it will ALWAYS be a straight line.
CLP5 is the climo model. It looks at what storms have done in the past at that location and movement. Not useful at all for a changing situation...and really only used for comparison...not forecasting.
The green tracks are the BAM models. Very primitive and not useful outside the tropics. Ignore them.
That leaves you with every other model or value...and they point to the same area. The TVCN is a consensus model. It is like a Choir harmonizing the individual members.
NHC taking care of us stateside like the DOD took care of citizens in Benghazi, IMHO.
I might not have the degree but I've been a Skywarn spotter for over a decade...count me in on those calling "dereliction of duty."
Because the usual storm that hits florida is not anywhere near as big as this storm. This storm has hurricane force winds 175 miles out and tropical force winds 520 miles out. Unheard of I think.
Then in Irene last year Virginia had almost 2 million people without power. Add to possible Virginia, NY, NJ ect and you could see possible how many millions without power.
Plus flooding because of the way it is approaching.
It should not be a big loss of life but the power is the big problem and people need to have the right supplies because some could be 3 weeks without power. Maybe more
Is it overhyped ? possible,Still the size of this storm is really large. Im hoping the oaks outside my window are left standing if this part of Virginia gets it. Last year several neighbors with trees on houses and one missed mine by 3 or 4 feet. Big trees, It's no fun.
If the storm were closer to the coast right now places in NC and Virginia would probably have seen 20 or so inches of rain. Irene produced that I think. Also this storm is moving pretty slow and being so big that places are going to experience tropical force winds longer than the typical hurricane. 24, 48 hours of continuous wind.
Plus some places may recieve up to 50 inches of snow in the mountains. Pretty unusual and big storm.
This storm is also supposed to produce 25 foot waves in lake Michigan. We can only wait and see.
My favorite quote on the Sandy coverage today - a weatherman pointing at a map of Staten Island, and saying, "Staten Island is virtually surrounded by water..."
They say it's going to run into a cold front and then that's when it's going to get really nasty. I always thought cold fronts push the hurricane back out to sea, but I don't know why this is not the case here. It sounds like this is going to be another Nor 'Easter. Not unheard of. We had a few of these back in the 90s.
My daughter is up in New York. Her husband is deployed, and she is 5 months pregnant. I am so worried about her. Im so grateful that we have friends up there we were stationed with before. They've promised to look after her. But I hate the idea of her being that far away from us during this.
If you look at the forecast discussion you'll see that they are measuring less than hurricane force winds, yet they are still calling it a hurricane.
But...here is the real test...this will do MUCH more $ damage than most nor-easters if not all of them. So...pretty much unheard of. Never seen a setup like this...with a blocking hi to the NE driving the storm west. Also not seen a storm in the Atlantic with a wind field this large.
I'm referring to the MSM who will exaggerate Sandy for as long as possible in order to keep Benghazi OUT of the NEWS.
Thank you to our ALWAYS reliable MSM. BASTARDS!!! /sarc
Nope didn't have 12' storm surge, that'd be ugly. We're at about 12 feet above sea level and are 2 miles from the Gulf and 2 miles from the Bay (usually have more problems with surge in the Bay than surge from the Gulf.) But that's the explanation I was looking for...I couldn't figure out why Cat 1 was posing such danger.
Plus we live on a peninsula on a peninsula (Tampa Bay) and when water invades our peninsula and floods, it quickly drains off. That won't be happening in that area.
One of these days, once of these October storms are gonna come out of the Caribbean and hit there.
You guys are VERY susceptible to surge.
Fox News is doing them both.
I always wanted to live on Nantucket. I guess they're in for a wild ride. :(
Hurrican Ike hit Louisville with NO RAIN.. just several hours of 50-75 mph winds, and knocked out power to nearly 70% of the city. Power was out for MANY people for almost a week.
We call it, the 'rainless hurricane'.
Even if she *is* 4'11".
Alleged reporters Drama Queens.
The classic was coverage of flooding years ago when the female reporting was spouting off live while in a row boat. Right at the end of her spiel, two walked by in boots. LMAO!
I always wanted to live on Nantucket. I guess they're in for a wild ride. :(
I always wanted to live on Nantucket because they have all the best limericks.
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Would we even be having this discussion, if King George had done his duty concerning the collonies?
But there is evidences in the Scriptures for this method of politics being carried out correctly...and to the best of my knowledge there is no evidence of that being the case for a Constitution....Certainly not a Constitution that stands APART from the Governing body...and certainly not one that claims to be absolute...EXCEPT FOR...The Old Testament Law
From the Mouth of a Monarchy Two Millenia in age...and a decendant of Mad King George....comes something which shows what Monarchy is all about
""This is the time of year when we remember, that GOD sent his Only Son, to Serve, not to be Served. He Restored Love and Service to the Centre of our Lives in the person of Jesus Christ. It is my prayer this Christmas day, that his Example and Teaching may continue to bring people together, to give the best of themselves, in the service of others.""
If you want to see her full speech its in the political section.
Queen Elizabeth believes that she was born, annointed by GOD, to Serve the Nation. You may have experienced a heratage lashed with the markings of the worst a monarchy can symbolize...I hope this shows you the best of Monarchy.
Try to understand that this is the Monarch who saw her Empire distroyed, Saw her Status reduced to figurehead, and yet despite all that she could well be the best Monarch that has ever rulled over us.
I think at this stage I will bow out of this thread. I have shown you clearly, where our Cultures dissagree, and given you my theological understandings that have led me to that place. Neither of us will change our position, because we are both indoctrinated into our respective cultures. To continue will just be to spiral into ever deepening irrelevence.
But I just wanted you to know that Monarchs can be good as well as bad.
What about property rights? Is that something granted by a government? Can the government come into your house and take all of your possessions and drained your bank account? Would you willingly go along with that? If you believe that your government is the source of your property rights, then you would have to. Otherwise you would be a hypocrite.
However, I can understand your inability to understand these concepts, since you've known nothing but a monarchy your entire life. It's not your fault, you just haven't learned to think outside of your little box yet.
and since the Bible talks about God's law being written on all of our hearts, I'm not sure why you would contest this. we feel bad when we lie or steal as a result of it. the fact that we have done wrong therefore is self-evident; no law of man can change that. no government of man can draft laws which grants or represses the rights of human beings, which are God given.
I Remember telling you how when GOD had protected Saint Paul's Cathedral from Two waves of German Bombers, the third wave never turned up in the skies above London due to bad weather over the Channel.
I just wanted to tell you that it isnt the first time GOD has used Weather in the Channel to stop an Enemy of England from Triumph when for all intense and purposes they should advance.
The Other Occurance was 23rd July 1588. In Short, the King of Spain decided to avenge the execution of His Wife, Queen Mary of Scotland, whose claim to the English Throne was that she was Roman Catholic, whilst the reigning Monarch Queen Elizabeth I was Anglican.
Through excellent military strategy, which involved forcing the spanish to break the formation of their armada by sailing kamakazi warships on fire into their midst, and excellently bad weather, which the Spanish Ships couldnt cope with, but the English Ships could, the Armada never even made landfall in England...let alone attempt a full scale land invasion.
The Spanish have never faced such a tremendous defeat at sea, even to this day...and within a decade their Monarch had died in disgrace...and thats when their financial issues concerning bankruptcy began (they are STILL Bankrupt over half a Millenia later )
They should have won with ease. I Believe that GOD himself protected our Nation at that time, just like he did in the 1940s.
Queen Elizabeth I said: My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but, I do assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself, that under God I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects; and, therefore, I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of battle, to live or die amongst you all – to lay down for my God, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour and my blood even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king – and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms – I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, for your forwardness, you have deserved rewards and crowns, and, we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people
I wont bother addressing Nathan since he seems incapable of reading my replies that have already covered his points. As for Huan....Matters of Conscience differ from people to people....YOU might feel bad when you steal or lie...but some people have no problem with rape and murder...therefore its NOT a logical following, that because a majority aggree it becomes a right from GOD
I have no problem with Rights under any Law. My Problem isnt that Guns are protected by US Law...that I dont despute, and never have. My issue is with where Americans believe their law comes from. Many Diss nations like mine for having laws stemming from potentially Tyranical Governments, or monarchies....but somehow a constitution written BY A GOVERNMENT which was their own...well thats exempt because its Rights are from GOD.
You think the British are pompous? At least you dont here us pretending our Rights are Divine...Not many Brits would even say that the Right of Kingship is Devine...I would say it has a basis in scripture...but its not a GOD given Right to have a Monarch...because GOD only gave the Old Testament Law.
Outside of the Old Testament Law, all Laws are relative to their Authority, and as different laws differ under different authorities, no laws can be absolute...therefore, logic dictates that as Rights spring from the Law, so the same applies.
Heaven help us if we took everything the Europeans claims are Human Rights as GOD Given...Would the United States of America, halt the extradition of a Terrorist, because it is a GOD given right for someone to have a family...and he's written down his pooch as his sole dependant? I mean FFS!! THATS what happens when you start down the Human Rights road.
I accept that not all Laws are Just...I personally dont think its Just to hang people just because they are homosexual...but in some countries, by following the law, that is exactly what they do. Its not rocket science what I would do if that rule ever came to England....obviously, I'd run and hide, or leave the country, and from afar I would lobby for change...but I certainly wouldnt deny that the authority of those particular lands have the jurisdiction to make those rules....In England you see in our past what happens when people dont like a law thats made...they try to do something to change the law. If you have a problem with a Monarch...you dont declair that GOD hates all Monarchs...No...You assassinate the Monarch and replace him with one that you like or you aid the attempts of a perfered candidate to overthrow the Government you dont like...thats what Queen Mary was trying to do when she got executed for High Treason...and thats the risk you run...and ironically, for all that some of the loud mouthed americans on this forum go on...the one thing that George Washington is said to have understood completely, is the gravity of what he was doing. He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was committing High Treason, and he knew very well what would happen if he was unsuccessful in his bid for Freedom.
The total Irony is that George Washington actually had deeply held respect for the Monarchy, for its position, for its power...AND for what it was worth...which is why he was challenging in the first place. He felt mis treated by the institution that should have been supporting him, and he felt the credibility divide was too much for reconcilliation. But what he never advocated was any kind of abolition.
He didnt want to free England from Tyrany...Just the collonial outposts. The Venom with which one of you has spoken against a Reigning Monarch who has given nothing but the most exemplory of service to her subjects, is sickening...and would be sickening to any 1700 American or English. Before Elizabeth is spoken against, perhaps one should look at the American Government....A Federal Government, that has enslaved fifty soverign American States, with a bogus Supreme Court only capable of rulling in favour of its Federal Financial Supply line, a Bi-Partisan Government that play silly beggers whilst their people are stuck in the midst of a recession...and a President, who doesnt even get ellected on the basis of a simple democratic popular vote.
If You ask me...even with your blasted firearms...your more in bondage then I...you just dont know it.
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Broll, who's ranked second at 184 pounds, improves to 100-22 in his career. (photo by Mike Smith/Matshots Media)
Buena Vista senior 184-pounder Brian Broll picked up a third period pin on Wednesday night to secure his 100th career victory, but it wasn't quite enough as Dakota Wesleyan picked up pins in the final two matches to help secure a 33-18 win over the Beavers.
Broll becomes the 13th wrestler in BVU history to reach the milestone and the first to do so since Andy Krueger did so during the 1999-00 campaign.
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The Xbox One generated a lot of concerns during the months leading up to its release when news of heavy DRM (Digital Rights Management) restraints and requirements of constant internet connectivity were planned to be implemented in the console. Microsoft suffered negative backlash as outraged industry experts and consumers believed the incessant DRM and online monitoring processes were unnecessary and invasive. Microsoft responded by relenting its draconian DRM policies.
Many consumers had put the DRM fiasco behind them as the Xbox One console launched one week after the PS4 on Nov 22, 2013. The number of units sold totaled over a million, which was comparable to the PS4 launch. Sales continued to do well over the holiday season as the number of units sold reached 3.2 million to date. In light of the Playstation Now news, Marc Whitten (Xbox Chief Product Officer) reiterated Microsoft's dedication to the game-streaming functionality with Xbox Live to produce a truly interactive gaming and multimedia experience.
The Wii U was announced in 2011 following the success of its predecessor, known plainly as the Wii. In reaction to the announcement, some consumers had their doubts as they expressed their skepticism about the new touch screen controller. Some felt the innovation (or lack of) in the Wii U would not live up to the bar the original Wii had set.
In November 2012, the Wii U launched worldwide and received a tepid response. After its first week of release, only 400,000 units were sold compared to 600,000 for the original Wii. The sales trend did not improve during 2013 and left many analysts proclaiming the Wii U a dud considering the wild success of the original Wii. After the 2013 holiday season, the number of units sold totaled 5.2 million. Despite launching a year earlier, the Wii U had only sold 1 million more units than the PS4.
Many people believe the Wii U's disappointing sales numbers were due to the lack of good games and third party support. Popular game franchises like Super Smash Bros. and Zelda have planned release dates in 2014 and 2015. Meanwhile, third party support has been abysmal as many game developers and publishers don't believe the Wii U platform will be lucrative enough to justify making games for. Another issue associated with the Wii U comes from a branding perspective. Many casual gamers believe the Wii U is just an extension of the Wii as Nintendo has not branded the Wii U as a whole new console. In effect, casual gamers think that they are paying $299 for a new touch screen controller instead of a new console.
With the 2013 season holiday season over, the PS4 has the advantage moving forward. Sony's focus on harnessing and utilizing the capabilities of the PS4's hardware seems to resonate with consumers. Given the fact that everything is moving towards cloud-based networks, the Playstation Now game streaming service will surely drive more unit sales in the future. The Xbox One isn't far behind. Microsoft made some mistakes early with rigid DRM measures, but fans of their Xbox Live online platform seem to be enjoying the service more than ever as it has become a focal point in their gaming experience. For Nintendo, the Wii U appears to be more of a fad than a resilient competitor as the lack of software support has disinterested consumers and misguided product differentiation has confused others. If the Wii U doesn't turn it around in 2014, it will be relegated to the console graveyard sooner than later.
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Rahul Sood, the founder of boutique PC maker Voodoo, said in an interview with X-bit labs that the personal computer makers need to rethink their strategies and try to concentrate on things that are different from pure technology. The competition for the lowest price or highest performance on the market of commodities inevitably leads to lost identities, poor user experience and lack of personalization.
"The fundamental problem most PC companies face is they try to lead with technology – in a market where technology is easily duplicated and commoditized. They end up fighting a raging battle to the bottom, and in the process they risk losing their identity. I am a big believer that if you focus on things that matter, like your brand identity, the soul of your company, your organizational culture, and most importantly your customers – you can be forever successful in a market full of commodities," said Rahul Sood, the general manager for system experience in the interactive entertainment business at Microsoft, in an interview with X-bit labs.
Mr. Sood was talking about the PC industry in general and about HP's PC business unit (which once acquired Voodoo only to disband it several years later) in particular. High-ranking executives from large PC makers, including HP and Dell, brag that they can sell personal computers in unbelievable volumes, but at the same time they complain about thin profit margins and commoditization of the PC in general.
Mr. Sood, whose Voodoo was always known for perfect engineering, reckons that is relatively easy to build a high-quality computer and even develop high-quality software. However, it is not enough to be achieve comprehensive, all-round success. Manufacturers of PCs and other devices should think beyond just their devices, think about services, usability, design, customer experience and many other aspects that are associated with purchased and usage of their products.
"I believe PC makers need to think beyond the devices they sell in order to be immensely successful. Sure they can sell devices all day long, but everyone is doing that - why not go back to the basics of building a soulful business," asks Mr. Sood.


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text: New research from market-analysis firm IHS iSuppli anticipates worldwide PC sales in 2012 will drop for the first time in 11 years. The firm expects PC sales to drop 1.2 percent to 348.7 million units. Sales in 2011 were 352.8 million. "There was great hope through the first half [of this year] that 2012 would prove to be a rebound year for the PC market," stated Craig Stice, IHS's senior principal analyst for computer systems. "Now three quarters through the year, the usual boost from the back-to-school season appears to be a bust, and both AMD and Intel's third-quarter outlooks appear to be flat to down. Optimism has vanished and turned to doubt, and the industry is now training its sights on 2013 to deliver the hoped-for rebound." Tablet sales and smartphone adoption are eroding PC sales. Some market watchers predict sales of tablets will overtake those of PCs by 2016, if not earlier. Stice claimed there is some possibility the market could rebound on the coattails of Windows 8 adoptions in 2013. (PhysOrg)(CNET)(iSuppli)


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The archetypal prisoner of the last century wore stripes and carried a ball and chain. In the early part of the 21st century, he wore an orange jumpsuit.
The typical 2012 inmate may instead look like Dawn Pearson.
Pearson is a 42-year-old mother of four who is serving more than two years at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for spending $342 with a stolen credit card at Walmart, Shell, Tobaccoville USA, Ross Dress for Less, Fred Meyer, Dollar Tree and Dairy Queen.
Pearson's daughter was initially blamed for the stolen credit card because it was lifted from her middle-school principal.
"She was so humiliated," Pearson says, crying. "My children have probably paid the biggest price for my coming to prison."
Taxpayers are paying a high price as well. Pearson is part of a largely unnoticed but expensive trend in Oregon—the increase in the incarceration of nonviolent criminals. And this development has sent women to prison much faster than men.
In the past 10 years, the number of men in Oregon's prison system increased by 28 percent.
During that same period, the number of female inmates grew by 86 percent.
Last year, Gov. John Kitzhaber formed the Oregon Commission on Public Safety to study how to rein in corrections costs. The commission found the prison population had increased much faster than Oregon's population during the past 30 years.
What the Commission has yet to confront is how females are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, and that imprisoning women, when you consider all the costs, is more expensive than imprisoning men.
Females require more staff, medicine, programs and time—with counselors, visitors and caseworkers—than men.
In addition, more than 75 percent of Oregon's female prisoners are mothers, which often means the state has to take care of their kids. Sometimes, it means the state pays to deliver their babies.
Starting this month, this trend will only accelerate. Measure 57, which went into effect Jan. 1, lengthens sentences for repeat property and drug offenders. The more likely transgressors: women.
Craig Prins, who heads the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission and serves on Kitzhaber's committee, says no one realized it was happening until after the fact.
"It really makes us think about, 'What are we sending people to prison for?'" Prins says. "If we're not thinking about these issues, we're dealing with a stereotype in our minds, and the stereotype is not always what's going on. If you say 'ex-con' or 'criminal' to someone, their mental image isn't a woman. But that's changing."
In Oregon, if you are a woman and sent to state prison, you go to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, which fully opened in 2002 and sits on 108 wooded acres outside of Wilsonville. Between 1,100 and 1,200 inmates are housed there, including one who waits on death row in a modified confinement cell. (See more information here.) In 2004, the population at Coffee Creek was smaller by 350.
From the outside, Coffee Creek looks like a bland office park, except for the coils of barbed wire along the tops of the chain-link fences. Several low-slung buildings make up the campus, and in between it's all parking lots, beige paint, big doors, sidewalks and manicured shrubs.
It looks like a place where people might be doing your taxes. (In fact, about a dozen women are answering your DMV questions.)
Inside, it feels more like a community college. Colorful posters hang on the walls. A yellow one offers ideas about parenting. A purple one lists ways to eat healthier. In a cubicle in the fingerprinting room, a photo of Justin Bieber looks down.
Classes include quilting, small-business ownership, barista training, cosmetology, parenting, GED classes, yoga and nutrition.
An organic garden takes up most of the courtyard in the minimum-security complex. Soft, green shoots poke out of the tilled soil.
The high ceilings create odd acoustics. Doors slide and slam so loud they disrupt regular conversation. A woman walks by with a brown paper sack; its crinkling sound carries for yards.
Even smells are stronger. The odor of lemon-scented cleaner is overpowering. Rover and Omaha, two of the puppies in the service-dog training program who go everywhere with their inmate trainers, can be detected before they come around a corner.
In the cafeteria, inmates eat on trays like the ones in elementary school, divided into sections for different foods. They can have only a plastic spork utensil. Normal cutlery is banned.
Interestingly, although they can't have forks, they can have razors for shaving.
Some female inmates sport heavy eyeliner and glossy lipstick, while others opt for no makeup at all. Every woman wears jeans and athletic sneakers. They wear dark blue T-shirts; some wear sweatshirts or jean jackets. If they've misbehaved and lost privileges, they wear neon green shirts.
Inmates at Coffee Creek can't touch each other. There are three exceptions to this rule: when grieving (with permission), for congratulations (with permission) and when they braid each other's hair at the beauty bar.
Heidi Steward, one of three assistant superintendents at the facility, says a womenâs prison presents different challenges than a menâs prison.
Steward is tall, lanky and energetic, and wears a small nose stud. Along with Coffee Creek's superintendent, Nancy Howton, she is among several women who run the prison, although a few men can be found in the administration.
Steward, 37, has spent most of her career with the Department of Corrections. She's prepared with pie charts and statistics, but she talks about Coffee Creek's inmates with compassion. She knows as much about their before-prison lives as she does about their crimes.
"A lot of the pathways that lead to prison are connected," she says. "More women than men are victimized, and you just see them in a vicious cycle."
According to DOC statistics, about a third of female prisoners have not completed high school. More strikingly, the vast majority are diagnosed at their medical evaluation as having mental-health issues. Sixty-four percent of the inmates at Coffee Creek have "serious and persistent mental health diagnoses," such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and chronic depression, according to the DOC. And 89 percent of the inmate population entered prison addicted to drugs or alcohol.
All of those numbers are higher for women in prison than for men. In fact, prison is the only sector of American society where women have earned lower levels of education on average than men.
Jana Russell, the state administrator for behavioral health services, says this kind of population—disproportionately mentally ill, addicted and undereducated—is difficult and expensive to help.
"We're a prison, so the focus isn't mental health care," she says.
But Russell says it should be more so at Coffee Creek, where the prison staff has learned to pay attention to inmates' mental health. Being in prison can cause some women to show signs of mental illness for the first time.
"If you're on the edge, this may push you over," Russell says. "Or where they were masking symptoms with drugs or alcohol, we begin to actually see the symptoms."
Last year, 52 inmates at Coffee Creek tried to kill themselves. One succeeded.
Among the entire population at Oregon's 12 male prisons—which comprises about 13,000 inmates—72 tried to kill themselves in 2011. That's about 5.5 attempts per 1,000 inmates—one-tenth as many as the women.
Running a female prison has costs that male prisons don't have. Coffee Creek has to pay for more mental health medication, according to Russell. Inmates also need counseling for those problems.
Steward says women require more time with caseworkers and counselors. Coffee Creek has one counselor per 150 inmates. Two Rivers Correctional Institution, a similar men's prison in Umatilla, has one for every 300 inmates.
"Males function in a hierarchical structure, but women are communicative," Russell says. "We want to talk and we need to talk. Women share every aspect of their lives. Men keep secrets."
Violence is less a way of life in a women's prison (although the DOC says Coffee Creek inmates did something violent almost every other day in 2011), but sex plays a large role.
Rape and sexual assault are not common at Coffee Creek, but sexual liaisons are—even though consensual sex is forbidden.
According to DOC statistics, inmates at Coffee Creek had nearly three times as many unpermitted but consensual sexual acts as their male counterparts at Two Rivers did in 2011.
"Women have the need to be close to somebody," Steward says. "It's not uncommon for our women to have girlfriends."
She says the relationships often lead to fights—breakups and jealousy hurt in prison, too. But because Coffee Creek is the only women's prison in the state, it's a problem.
"If there's a conflict in a male facility, we can separate them by sending one of them somewhere else," Steward says. "But with Coffee Creek, there's no way to move them elsewhere."
Instead, it's because the Oregon Legislature passed a number of laws over the past 15 years focusing on nonviolent crimes.


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Taijuan Walker was the latest to take his turn rendering an opponent punchless, blanking Tennessee on six hits and a walk while striking out five over six innings Friday in the Generals' 3-0 win.
The outing dropped Walker's ERA to 1.64, putting him out front in a rotation that includes Danny Hultzen (2-2, 2.08), Andrew Carraway (3-0, 2.63) and James Paxton (2-0, 3.09).
"Our rotation is really good. We have a lot of good pitchers, even our bullpen is really good," said the 19-year-old right-hander. "We just keep feeding off each other and it's one of those things where we just keep building off one another. It's great we can do that."
The Mariners' No. 3 prospect improved to 3-0 in four starts this season. In all four outings, he's struck out at least five batters while allowing no more than two runs. Walker is second in the Southern League in ERA and has 26 strikeouts over 22 innings against six walks.
Walker said he worked without the best control of his fastball Friday but compensated with a greater emphasis on his off-speed pitches, particularly his changeup and curveball.
"I felt like I was pretty good," he said. "I actually had to mix my pitches today. Our defense played really well behind me and we got runs in the sixth. I just want to keep commanding my fastball and mixing my pitches well, and the rest will take care of itself."
With the way the four starters are performing, it's hard to imagine they'll be clustered together for too long. Walker, MLB.com's No. 18 overall prospect, said there isn't any competition to be the first to earn a promotion, but it's something that's difficult to completely put out of one's mind.
"You know you try not to think about [getting called up], but it's always in the back of your mind," he said. "You obviously want to pitch good so you can get that callup, but when it happens, it happens, and we're just going to keep going out there and trying to pitch well."
Walker was locked in a scoreless duel until the sixth, when Joe Dunigan, Rich Poythress and Denny Almonte delivered consecutive run-scoring hits.
Moises Hernandez, Bobby LaFromboise and Carter Capps combined to keep the Smokies off the board in relief, allowing two hits and striking out three over the final three innings. Capps earned his second save.
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The shell is rather small for a bathymodioline mussel, only 40-56 mm long, rather light but strong. The outline of the shell is quite variable, rather elongae-modioliform and straight to slightly curved dorsoventrally. The shell is moderately inflated, most so just in front of the middle. The valves have a length/height ratio of 2.3-2.6 and the shell is equivalve. The valves gradually become higher posteriorly, with the highest point being between the second and third third of the shell or somewhat more anterior. The beaks are slightly subterminal to almost terminal, and in adult specimens there is only a very short anterior part of about 1-4 mm in front of the umbones. The anetrior margin is narrow but evenly rounded. The ventral margin is almost straight to more or less concave in the anterior half. The posterior margin is evenly rounded in its ventral part and convex dorsally. The postero-dorsal angulation is rounded to indistinct, and is situated above the posterior part of the posterior retractor scar.
The ligament plate is slightly convex, often more so in its anterior part. The shell exterior has well-marked irregular growth lines and very fine and faint radial striae or vermiculations that are only visible under a lens and are slightly visible on the interior. The umbo is very broad and flattened.
The periostracum is thick, hard, dark brown to almost black in colour, smooth and glossy to somewhat dull. There are sometimes irregular co-marginal folds that are not reflected on the chalky surface, often eroded in the umbonal region. The surface is frequently covered with the byssal endplates of other specimens.
The hinge is toothless, and the anterior hinge margin is almost not broadened towards ventrally. The ligament is opisthodetic, strong and extends over half the length of the posterior part of the shell and ends abruptly posteriorly. The ligamental plate in gerontic specimens is often 'secondarily' thickened. The subligamental shell ridge is very thin to indistinct. The anterior adductor scar is small, somewhat circular and is situated just under the umbo. The posterior adductor scar is rather large and is united with the posterior-most part of the posterior pedal and byssus retractor muscle complex. The anterior scar of the same complex is usually separated from it, and it is elongated and situated under the posterior-most part of the ligament. Occasionally, both retractor scars appear united, forming one long scar. The anterior byssus retractor muscle scar is situated in the posterior part of the umbonal cavity and is visible only from the ventral perspective. The pallial line is parallel to the ventral margin, and is straight or nearly concave.
The shell beneath the periostracum is dull-white in colour, internally nacerous, and has a pinkish hue on the dorsal part.
The animal has long fleshy ctenidia. The outer and inner demibranchs are of equal length. The ascending lamellae of the outer branch are anteriorly fused to the mantle for a very short distance. Those of the inner demibranch are fused to the visceral mass. The food-groove is very shallow and narrow.
The inner mantle folds separate along the entire length of the ventral margin from in front of the anterior adductor to the posterior margin. The edges are extremely frilled and undulate on the posterior part under the posterior adductor for a length of about 12 mm in a 50 mm specimen, but are only slightly frilled towards the anterior. At the anterior, the inner mantle folds terminate over the anterior adductor and fold back directly onto the muscle, but do not visibly continue transversally over it to meet the mantle fold of the opposite side. The valvular siphonal membrane is short and thin, without a median papilla, although some specimens a vestige of a papilla is visible.
The foot is slender and more or less pointed. The foot-byssus retractor muscle complex is somewhat variable, and is moderately elongated when compared to other bathymodioline mussels. The anterior retractor is long, and is attached to the shell in the posterior part of the long umbonal cavity, with the anterior-most part in or just behind the middle of the cavity. The posterior pedal retractor is thin to rather thick, with a few slight transversal grooves anteriorly. The posterior byssus retractor comprises of several diverging muscle bundles with a common base at the base of the byssus. The anterior part is attached to a long scar at about the middle of the valves, sometimes at almost a right angle (anterior-most bundle) and at about 80° and 70° to the longitudinal shell axis (second and third bundle). The posterior part is about the same length as the anterior retractor or only slightly longer, and passes towards one long attachment point directly in front of the attachment point of the posterior adductor. The posterior pedal retractor muscle is rather thin, and arises from the anterior side of the foot base behind the base of the anterior retractor muscles, passing towards the anterior bundle of the posterior byssus retractor, reaching the shell inside closely appressed to the bundle for a short part of its length only.
The labial palps are strong. The palps of the anterior pair are narrow-triangular, 2 mm long in a 50 mm specimen, whilst the palps of the posterior pair are long and narrow-triangular, measuring 5mm long in the same specimen.
The stomach is situated just behind the middle of the anterior half of the shell length and is rather large, with thick walls and a distinguishable anterior chamber. The posterior chamber is longer and broader. No entrances of digestive diverticula were detected on the inner surface, presumably an artefact of preservation). On the posterior left side there is a shallow depression that corresponds to the left pouch. The stomachs observed were filled with some mucus and sediment grains. The midgut runs posteriorly straight and medially from the stomach to under the ventricle, bending upwards and entering the ventricle in a vertical S-curve. Behind the heart, the intestine passes over the posterior adductor and towards ventrally on its posterior side, anus at mid-diameter of the posterior adductor.
The heart is small and narrow, situated in the posterior half of the shell, with the anterior extremity of the ventricle just behind the mid-shell/mantle. The auricles are long and fused posteriorly in front of the posterior adductor and extend forward in narrow lobes to the middle of the anterior part of the posterior foot byssus retractor.
(Cosel, 2008)
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Without government or international support after the coup, little could be done to stop rampant logging.his political power to further his sprawling business interests, and signing controversial deals, including one that reportedly would have turned over half of Madagascar's arable land to Daewoo, a South Korean conglomerate, for export-only crop production. After a series of demonstrations turned violent under questionable circumstances, a faction of army officers allied with Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of the capital city of Antananarivo, overthrew Ravalomanana, who fled to South Africa.
The downturn in tourism has made some Malagasy aware of how important visitors are to their well-being.manually cut the trees, but receive little profit, and a criminal network of exporters, domestic transporters, and corrupt officials who initiate the process and reap most of the enormous profits," said Erik Patel, a researcher from Cornell University who studies the Silky Sifaka in Marojejy. "Local people benefit very little from rosewood logging. In most cases, rosewood logging is harmful to local people because of loss of tourism and violation of local taboos."
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Topic: Foreign Key fields not addressed in views
Hi. I am definitely a newbee to RoR. I'm looking at porting a Web application from Java (using JDeveloper and Oracle's lightweight ADF data connections. I'm having a very basic problem in understanding table relationships under RoR (using MySQL).
The app is an HR system, allowing multiple client companies, with each company having numerous employees, and each employee having several sub-tables of various data (i.e. dependents, benefits, payroll deductions, training courses, jobs etc).
I set up the client (against "clients" table with an 'id') model with "has_many :employees:. I set up the employee model (against "employees" table with and 'id' and a fk 'client_id') as
"belongs_to :client".
I initially used controllers with dynamic "scaffolding". I then restarted after "generating" scaffolds in order to actually see more of what was going on. I've tried it both with and without the foreign keys defined in the database tables.
The views resulting from scaffolding do NOT reflect the foreign key fields.
To create a new employee, how do I assign the client_id? The model, unlike my Java and other experience, does not reflect what fields are there. Is the foreign key field there? Included in the model at runtime? Is is editable?
If I wanted a master-detail form (i.e. a listing of the top-level table of the several client companies and, upon selection, a detail listing of all employees of that company) how can I get one readily?
I know this is probably a VERY base issue and I'm sorry to seem soooo stupid. I'm sure it's a factor of my prior experience and vantage point and I just can't readily grasp the RoR view. But I sure would like to. I'm already loving RoR.