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Zion Cemetery Project
I am perhaps most proud of the progress made in my ongoing efforts to take students to Memphis, Tennessee to help restore Zion Christian Cemetery, a historically significant but long neglected African American cemetery.
I first discovered this 16-acre cemetery in 2001 when I accompanied an Honors thesis advisee to Memphis where she filmed various sites for a short documentary on Ida B. Wells, a black newspaperwoman whose anti-lynching campaign was inspired by the 1892 murder of three businessmen buried there. The next year, after connecting with individuals in Memphis who have tried to inspire clean-up efforts, I began taking student volunteers there every semester to work in the cemetery. One white student, after her first trip to Memphis, was inspired to write down her thoughts:
Walking through the overgrown brush and overturned headstones of generations of families who, by no merit except skin color, have been forgotten was a depressing and eye-opening experience. It made me question a lot of my own assumptions and challenge a lot of the "facts" I'd previously been taught. . . . After having been to Memphis to clean up the cemetery, the task seemed an even more overwhelming project.It also made me want to tackle it even more. It took some time for me, a recovering perfectionist, to realize that I may not be able to see the project through to completion but that every little bit helps. . . . As I walked away from the cemetery, I could feel the work I had put in the past two days begin to creep into my muscles. It had never felt so good to be in pain.
By the time this young woman graduated in December, she had been to Memphis with me seven times, and she even brought her mother once.
The class called "Recovering the Past: Kent to Memphis" was inspired by the positive experiences of students on these trips. My proposal for the new course included the following:
The purpose of this course is to help students see connections between the past and the present, as well as how the individual can have an impact not just on his or her local community but also on national and global levels. We will begin with a focus on local history, specifically history dealing with race in America from the middle of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. The first three weeks will focus on John Brown and will include a visit to his Akron home and other local sites, as well as a two-day trip to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, where Brown attacked the Federal Arsenal in 1859, and Charles Town, where we will visit the courtroom where he was tried and the site of his hanging.
For the next few weeks, we will investigate Frederick Loudin, whose parents were the first blacks to settle in Portage County in the 1820s. In the 1870s Loudin joined and later led the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers, credited today with introducing the world to African American music, on a six-year world tour in order to help finance Fisk College, a historically black college founded in Nashville, Tennessee immediately after the Civil War. We will visit the Portage County Historical Society in Ravenna, which owns a wealth of material on Loudin and his family, including a scrapbook from the world tour. We will also look at the house (now privately owned), which Loudin built in Ravenna in the 1890s, as well as visit the family plot in Maple Grove Cemetery.
We will then spend the weeks before spring break on the increased racism in America toward the turn of the twentieth century and specifically Ida B. Wells' national anti-lynching campaign, which she began in the wake of the 1892 lynchings of three African American businessmen in Memphis.
During spring break, students will travel first to Fisk University in Nashville to see Jubilee Hall, built in the 1870s from the choir's proceeds; then we will spend four days in Memphis, in part working to restore the black cemetery where the three lynching victims were buried but also visiting relevant sites such as the National Civil Rights Museum and the Ida B. Wells Museum in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where Wells was born and raised. After spring break, students will do presentations on potential projects in their own communities.
I hope it is clear that I consider it very important for students to see that what they learn in the classroom has real-world implications, and that holds, perhaps especially, for the cemetery project, too. Over the years we have established relationships with individuals and organizations in Memphis too numerous to list here, but the following are representative examples:
- Ms. Estelle Bland: The great-niece of Ida B. Wells, this 82-year-old woman fascinates students with her stories and her ability to work alongside them;
- The CME Church: A traditionally African American church which now holds the deed for the cemetery, its members have prepared wonderful dinners for Kent State students;
- Idlewild Presbyterian Church: Students bring sleeping bags and sleep and shower in this big, beautiful building;
- Hands On Memphis: This volunteer organization provides tools;
- Black Heritage Tours: Its owner first introduced me to community members who cared about Zion Cemetery, and she has given our students bus tours of Black Memphis (free of charge!);
- Rhodes College: Kent State students always get a free meal in the cafeteria at this private college, some of whose students frequently join us working in the cemetery; a professor of archeology and religion and I are planning to collaborate on some grants for the project;
- Sheffield High School: Ms. Margie Williams, a history teacher at this predominantly black Memphis school, always brings a group of students to work with us (see picture); she and I hope to enroll some of her better graduates in Kent State's Summer STARS Program (run by Ms. Shana Lee, Director of the KSU Student Multicultural Center).
More and more Memphis communities are getting involved in the clean-up, from church groups to Boy Scouts to medical students at the University of Tennessee, and we've now cleared over five acres. I just got $9000 in grant money from The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis for power tools and publicity. One Kent State student has begun mapping headstones using GPS. Once the growth is cleared, we intend to landscape and restore the gravestones. (My colleague at Rhodes College is working on a grant to provide funding for workshops on such restoration.) It seems that this effort has taken on a life of its own.
And, of course, the cemetery provides myriad opportunities for research. A few years ago, one student found two gravestones with Union Army insignia. She called me this past fall to report that while she was in Washington D.C. last summer, she visited the Library of Congress where she discovered that these two former slaves had joined the Union Army as boys (ages 11 and 15) when its troops came through the area; they traveled with these forces through Mississippi and Louisiana, where they witnessed some important battles, and when both died early in the twentieth century, their widows applied for veterans' benefits.
After last year's trip, two students, one black and one white, wrote the following in their final essays:
- When I arrived at the cemetery for the first time I had very mixed emotions. I was sad, mad, angry….I was angry that people could care so little that they would allow this cemetery to get so out of control. If you didn't know that this area of land was a cemetery, you would think it was an out-of-control forest. That is ridiculous. These people didn't get peace in life, but now they can't even get peace in death. Their families could not visit them at their gravesites because one could barely read the names on half the tombstones. There are family chains that have been broken and might never be reconnected. People's lineage was just disrespected, buried, and forgotten. This cemetery will always hold value in my heart and mind.
- Although my personal pragmatism almost prevented me from conceding the worth of restoring the resting place of dead people (when there are so many live victims of cruelty and circumstance who need help), this course made me believe in the value of history in its ability to inspire and affect future generations. Thus, I now believe such projects as this restoration, though meager at this point due to the vast size of the cemetery and scarce resources, reflect a much-needed modern recognition of important elements of America's past, especially the utterly neglected chapters of black history.
Ms. Estelle Bland: The great-niece of Ida B. Wells, this 82-year-old woman fascinates students with her stories and her ability to work alongside them.
Sheffield High School: Ms. Margie Williams, a history teacher at this predominantly black Memphis school, always brings a group of students to work with us.


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Nancy Cloud
|Henry Barnard School (HBS)
Academic Background
Program Director; AdvisorM.Ed. in Teaching English as a Second Language Program
|Ed. D.
|Teachers College, Columbia University
|Special Education and Bilingualism
|University of San Francisco
|Multicultural Education
|Syracuse University
|Spanish Literature
|Lycoming College
Courses TaughtTESL 539 Language Acquisition and Learning
TESL 546 Teaching English as a Second Language
TESL 507 Teaching Reading and Writing to ESL Students
TESL 551 Curriculum Development and Language Assessment in ESL
TESL 553 Internship in English as a Second Language
BLBC 516 Methods and Materials in Bilingual Education
Professional InterestsLanguage and Literacy Development for English Language Learners (ELLs)
Curriculum Design and Development for ELLs
Assessment of ELLs
Dual Language Program Development
Dual Language Curriculum and Instruction
Research Interests
Curriculum Development and Implementation
Acculturation of ELLs
Current Research Projects
Senior Consultant; Bridges to Academic Success: Accelerating Language, Literacy and Content Learning for Emergent Bilinguals with Limited Native Language Literacy.
Providing Support in the Development and Pilot Testing of Four Interdisciplinary Units in Four NYC High Schools with Significant Concentration of Students with Interrupted Formal Schooling (SIFE); with funding from the NY Community Trust and the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, the CUNY Graduate Center, NY
|(In Preparation)
|Cloud, N., Genesee, F., Hamayn, E. Dual Language Instruction From A to Z. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
|(In Press)
|Contributor (to three chapters), Hamayan, E. V. and Freeman, R. (Eds.) English Language Learners at school: A guide for administrators: Second Edition, Philadelphia: Caslon Publishing
|Cloud, N., Lakin, J. and Leininger, E. (June 20110 "Learner-Centered Teaching: The Core of Effective Practices for Adolescent ELLs". TESOL Journal, 2.2, pp. 132-155. http://tesol.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content...
|Cloud, N., Healy, K, Paul, M., Short, D. & Winiarski, P. "Preparing Adolescents for the Academic Demands of Secondary School Classrooms." Chapter in the Listening Volume of the Classroom Practice Series, edited by Nikki Ashcraft and Anh Tran, Alexander, VA: TESOL. (Kelly Healy, Michael Paul and Pat Winiarski are teachers in Central Falls and Pawtucket; outgrowth of our AL2 Project in Secondary Schools) http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=326&DID=13554
Chapter 11
|Cloud, N., Lakin, J., Leininger, E., and Maxwell, L. Teaching adolescent English Language Learners: Essential strategies for middle and high school. Philadelphia, PA: Caslon, Inc. http://caslonpublishing.com/publication/teaching-adolescent-/
|Cloud, N., Genesee, F. & Hamayan, E. Literacy instruction for English Language Learners: From research to practice (K-8), Portsmouth: Heinemann. http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02264.aspx
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|Cloud, N. Want More ELL Success: Improve Outreach to Families. Onboard, p. 5 [Publication of the New York State School Boards Association]. Available at: http://www.nyssba.org/index.php?src=news&refno=916
|Cloud, N. Bilingual education practices. In G.B. Esquivel, E.C. Lopez & Sara Nahari (Eds) Handbook of multicultural school psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780805845624/
|Contributor (to three chapters), Hamayan, E. V. and Freeman, R. (Eds.) English Language Learners at school: A guide for administrators, Philadelphia: Caslon Publishinghttp://caslonpublishing.com/publication/english-languagelearners-school/#contents
|Cloud, N, Including children who are culturally and linguistically diverse. In D. Schwartz (Ed.) Including children with special needs: A handbook for educators and parents. Westport, CT: Greenwood. http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR3377.aspx
|Cloud, N. The dialogic process of capturing and building teacher practical knowledge in dual language programs. In D. J. Tedick (Ed.) Second language teacher education: International perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Review: http://www.readingmatrix.com/book_reviews/park/book_review.html
|Cloud, N. Culturally and linguistically responsive instructional planning. In A.J. Artiles and A.A. Ortiz (Eds). English Language Learners with special education needs: Identification, assessment, and instruction (107-132). Washington, DC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems. http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/specialed.html
Recent Statewide and National Presentations
45th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit, A model of a Successful Teen Center, presented on the RI College Community-based Preteen Writing Project, March 18, New Orleans, LA. (together with Ruth Weinstein and Virginia Jama)
Featured Speaker, 25th Iowa Culture and Language Conference, November 1, 2010, on the topic of "Research-Based Literacy Practices for English language Learners", Coralville, Iowa. Full Day Pre-Conference Institute.
Keynote speaker, 34th Annual Statewide Conference For Teachers Serving Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students, December 10, 2010. Tier I Tactics: What to Do With Struggling ELLs. Oak Brook, IL.
K-12 Dream Day Invited Preconvention Institute Presenter, Academic Language and Literacy Strand, Literacy for ELLs: 7 Essential Research-Based practices (March 24), Promises and Challenges of RTI for ELLs; A TESOL/CEC Colloquium (of which I was one of 4 presenters along with Alba Ortiz, Alfredo Artiles, Catherine Collier), TESOL 44th Annual Convention, March 24-27, 2010, Boston, MA. I also was a Team Leader for the Conference with Andres Ramirez and our role was to organize the volunteers for all the Pre- and Post-Convention Institutes.
Presenter, Quality Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners, 21st Annual Literacy for All Northeast PreK-8 Literacy Conference & Reading Recovery Institute, Providence, RI, November 15, 2010.
Professional OrganizationsTeachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Rhode Island Teachers of ELLs (Current President; Coordinating Council Member)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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by Jessi Hanson, Education Associate, ChildFund Program Quality
Editor's Note: A ChildFund team has been working in Brazil for several weeks to carry out two pilot projects with netbook technology. As with any trip to the field, there are moments of exhaustion and exhilaration, as Jessi reflects.
Why We Do the Work We Do
One of the most personally impactful moments of the trip was going into a rural village where we have sponsored and enrolled children. I walked with ChildFund Brazil's national director and several national office staff. The first house we came upon was made of adobe with a dirt floor. It had no electricity or running water. A woman greeted us near the house. She was washing her family's clothes, while standing knee deep in a filthy stream. She used a stick to help clean the sudsy clothes.
Once again, I was staring into the face of poverty.
This kind woman, who had grown up in this village with its harsh conditions, explained to us that she had enrolled her children with ChildFund so that they could receive a better education and health care. She expressed hope that her children would eventually find a better place to live, or if they remained with her, she hoped that they would have skills to find good jobs and one day improve the family home.
ChildFund Brazil will soon implement a water-treatment project in this village. We're also working with the school to make sure children are attending daily and progressing well.
A Beautiful Moment
The highlight of this trip—and probably for my job this year—was sharing in the moment when a community facilitator achieved a perfect score on her distance learning test, using one of our netbooks and the Brainhoney software.
It was amazing!
When we began working with Imilene, she had seen computers but had never been online or even used a keyboard.
Her day-to-day work is with early childhood development in one of ChildFund's small project areas just outside of Turmalina.
When Imilene completed the test, she threw her hands up in the air and began cheering! "I did it!" she said, nearly in tears. "I passed on the computer!"
It was a beautiful moment.
Coffee, Please!
During lunch one day, I was going to get coffee, and a server handed me a large unfamiliar jug that reminded me of a gasoline container. In my terrible Portuguese, I asked, "Is this coffee?" She answered, "Yes, all sweetened coffee." I almost died laughing at how wonderful this was — a huge container of wonderful coffee, but seemingly very dangerous to pour.
A Man of Many Talents
Traveling to ChildFund projects with ChildFund Brazil's National Director Gerson Pacheco, we visited a community center with a room dedicated to Creativity and Expression. It was stocked with toys, art supplies and craft items. One corner was full of musical instruments for the local children to play whenever they visit. Gerson suddenly picked up a guitar and began playing. To our wonderful surprise we discovered our national director of Brazil is a man of many talents.
Hi Jessi, thanks for sharing your experience. What is the goal of the netbooks in this intervention?
Best wishes,
For the netbook pilot in Brazil, ChildFund tested technology to achieve two primary goals: empower youth to act as agents of positive change in their communities and streamline the collection of data to monitor the well-being of our enrolled children. An example of the former is the training of youth to be facilitators of program messages to their peers through the use of distance learning software and ChildFund-developed lesson plans.


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I have a 8 yr. old yellow lab that was diagnosed a few months ago with Laryngeal Paralysis. Does anyone know of a excellent vet surgeon to correct this problem? I live in North Carolina. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It's heart breaking to watch this once vivacious dog have such limited activity because of his breathing and coughing.
Thanks in advance.
Surgery is not an option because of other health issues my dog has including cancer. He is on meds for his lungs but now that its hot he is gagging/coughing alot due to the LP. We keep him inside and as calm as possible. There is a good LP group on yahoo just google it.
I recommend Dr. Kieri Jermyn at the soft tissue service at NC State Vet school. We interviewed two surgeons at the Vet school and based on those interviews, and the input of a friend who is a graduate of the vet school we chose Dr. Jermyn to perform the surgery on our 12 y.o. Diesel. His surgery was a complete success and allowed him to have a good quality of life for several years before succumbing due to other illnesses.
I think it is important to find a surgeon who sees LP cases all of the time and has performed the corrective surgery many, many times.
Such is the case with Dr. Jermyn. Here is a link to her contact info
With warm weather on the way, it becomes more likely that a breathing crisis will occur. Now is the time to get a consultation IMO.
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Some last minute Tea Party info from the Nodak Caucus. UB
Guest Post: Tea Partiers Should Vote To Defeat Obama
Written By:
Perry Schumacher
Oct 25, 2012
Two weeks remain before the most important election in our lifetime. As tea party members we have much at stake. Recently while on a talk show I was asked how I would respond to the statement that Mitt Romney is not conservative enough. I responded that I believe tea party members dont live in the world of theory but rather facts and logic.
Some of the facts are:
- In 2010 the tea party had a direct effect on the rejection of the Obama agenda. It was because of the energy of the tea party that Republicans won a historical election in the House of Representatives. Most of the newly elected Republicans ran on the principles of the tea party. Allen West is one of many who have become a favorite of tea party members This tsunami of an election removed Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House.
- Republicans also picked up seats in the Senate with strong tea party favorites Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, and Mike Crapo in Idaho winning.
- We have been told since 2010 that Republican control of the House is only 1/3 of the Government and therefore very little can be done fiscally while control of the Senate and the Executive branch is in the hands of Democrats.
- While there may exist some Democrats who believe in fiscal responsibility (there must be one somewhere), it is absolutely certain this wont happen under the current leadership of the Democratic Party. Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are not your grandfathers Democrats. Only if a new generation of Democrats comes to the forefront will fiscal restraint and limited government be part of their platform. Currently a continued slide towards socialism is the preference of Democrats at a national level.
- The choice of Paul Ryan as Romneys VP candidate was a bold choice and hopefully a signal to tea party members that Romney is serious about the fiscal challenges facing our country. Ryan says often on the campaign that the Romney administration will not duck the tough issues but instead will lead, that they will reapply constitutional principles to the scope of government.
Together, we have worked for 3 years to reach the point where President Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi are defeated and repudiated. I ask, have you done absolutely all you can do over the past few months to make this happen? Will you put in extra effort over these last 13 days to assure the results we all know are necessary to have any chance to save America as we know it? Will you be able to look in the mirror the morning after the election and tell yourself regardless of result that you did everything you possibly could to give America a fighting chance to once again achieve its intended destiny?
We all know from history politicians rhetoric does not always lead to the promised activity. President Obama promised to fundamentally change the United States of America and is in the process of doing so. He must be defeated, Harry Reids leadership in the Senate must be defeated, and we must give Romney/Ryan the keys to the car.
When we started this journey our goal was to elect people to federal and state offices who recognize the seriousness of our fiscal situation and were willing to solve these problems rather than continue to kick the can down the road. We wanted people who are more concerned with the future of America than their reelection. The defeat of this administration and its fellow comrades is a must to continue that journey.
As Winston Churchill might have said, The defeat of President Obama is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. We must all do everything possible in the time remaining to give America and our children a chance at a new beginning. Let us do what we can to make sure Obama and his fellow Democrats lose every county in our state on November 6th. Then we will turn our focus to those newly in charge and say to themno excuses.
Perry Schumacher is the executive director of the North Dakota Tea Party Caucus.


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How the interaction occurs:
Multiple live vaccines may be given on the same day; however, if they are not given on the same day they should be given at least 4 weeks apart. Giving them sooner may prevent your immune system from reacting to the vaccine.
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Make sure your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know about any vaccinations you have recently received. Discuss the timing of your vaccines with your healthcare provider. You may need to reschedule your vaccination or repeat a vaccination in order to make sure it is effective.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.Reference:1.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. General Recommendations on Immunization. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR January 28, 2011;60(RR No.2):1-64.


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#11 Tue 27 Feb 07 4:21am
- Forum champ Occupation Registered nurse
- From Australia
- Member since Thu 24 Jun 04
Re: Improve my stew!!
DB27 wrote:
My top tip for stew is pearl barley... They go all chewey and pop in your mouth, they add great texture to the dish...
They take about 45 mins on a gentle simmer to cook, so just add them to your stew 45 mins before the end of your cooking time.
Also, for exrta flavour, add a glass of red wine and a dash of Worcestershire sauce...
I have found some brilliant old fashioned mushroom ketchup that gives the stew real depth and flavour, but dont add that and worcestershire sauce because it makes the stew salty...
If you cant find the mushroom ketchup you could soak some porchini mushrooms and add those plus the soaking water... that adds good flavour too...
Stir in a big handfull of roughly chopped flat leaf parsley just as you are ready to serve for a realy fresh flavour hit...
Dave B
I looooove pearl barley in stew, adds a nice texture. I also add a tiny bit of worcestershire sauce. Never heard of mushroom ketchup before, sounds interesting!!
If I make a thick and chunky beef stew, I put the finished product into a casserole dish and I make cheese and herb scone scrolls to go on the top. Pop in the oven until they are golden. Beautiful!
#12 Tue 27 Feb 07 7:19am
Dave Barker
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- From At the stove...
- Member since Tue 29 Jun 04
Re: Improve my stew!!
This is the mushroom ketchup that I use... I use it for all sorts of things, anything that requires a nice mushroomy "beef-up".
It's made by Geo. Watkins, and you can get hold of it in some Sainsburys stores...
#13 Tue 27 Feb 07 10:16pm
Michele C
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- From Hampshire
- Member since Sun 30 Jul 06
Re: Improve my stew!!
Hiya thank you all again. Have my pearl barley, bacon, herbs and beef plus will keep looking out for the ketchup. Cooking tmw with all your ideas. Mx
#14 Wed 28 Feb 07 2:43pm
Dave Barker
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Re: Improve my stew!!
Let us now how it all turns out for you mate...
Happy eating!
#15 Sun 04 Mar 07 2:55pm
Michele C
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- From Hampshire
- Member since Sun 30 Jul 06
Re: Improve my stew!!
Hi All
The stews are going very well. I use marmite instead of vegimite - yes I know but I prefer marmite despite my Oz Cousins trying to convert me!!
Pearl barley is good but the one I brought takes about one and half hours to cook. However it is worth the wait!!
I am not to keen on a lot of meat so have been using a wider range of vegetables specified in some of the receipes which is working well.
However love the bacon with beef. I am a bit of a dumpling addict so any other ideas to chirp them up would be great!!!.
Thank you all again.
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like i said, the doc ock looks like butt, but the movie goblin figure looks pretty good, and i didn't get one the first time around. i'll probably pick it up. i'm not saying i'm in love with them, but they're not horrible, and i'm holding out hope for future collections being better. i was totally unimpressed with the first line of marvel legends, and thought they'd never last - but they upped the ante and made some great product, thus maintaining the line.
there's a sandman figure on the card back.And I saw these on the spawn boards today: spidey 3 figures on the e-bay! no sandman, just spidey, symbiote spidey and venom. Hard to say at this point, but they look pretty much like the other movie figure spideys. Venom is alright at best, but i'll have to see these things in person before i can make any calls on them.
i've heard the movie figures are actually going to be 5" instead of 6" like the spider-man 2 figs. they might have reduced the molds or something, but i'd imagine that since they didn't change much about the way the costume looks (save for the darker colors at certain points...) that it would stand to reason that they look similar to the previous movie's figures.
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Had to remove the links but Slinger can just cut and paste. Thanks for the info.
I like you tend to fish shallow for the stripes but not always the case with the hardtails. I have had a lot of success marking and following bait to locate them in the rips. Two years ago at Montauk I was in the middle of a great bite but you might not have known it if it wasn't for the big red ball of bait marked on the sounder. Only a few fish were showing on top. Hit the MOB button as I marked the schools of bait and kept returning to hook ups for a few hours until the tide changed and the bait moved. I still have some work to fully maximise the features of my finder and would love to have a glassed in ducer and a digital sounder but for our purposes I think I am better off spending the coin on other gear.
Check out the www.humminbird.com/productlines_wide.asp?ID=616" Matrix series by Humminbird. I've had great luck with mine. I think it's a 17, but they change the number every year. It's a dual beam 20 + 60 cones. When I fish the Mackerel schools in ~60' of water you can see the school of macks and the Bass in it. Fish in the 60 degree cone show lighter and fish in the 20 cone show solid. You can also set it to return the actual arches and it's got a decent interface with enough filters to get it tweaked out and working without returning many false readings.
Sometimes I use it to find fish but mostly I use it to find structure and basically keep from hitting structure.
Hmmm. seems the units listed on humminbird's site don't really match up to the 17, although that 3d unit looks cool. Here's another link showing the 17 maybe it's discontinued. www.davesmarineelectronics.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=5394" I've had great luck with Broken leg Dave Not to be confused with broken leg daves.com
I have never had much luck "seeing" fish on the finder. I use mine for checking out the bottom trends, structure and compsition. So I use the 20hz single. In 20' of water, the cone is like 3' in dia. Not a very big picture, but if I want to see the fish, I could probably just look over the side. I usually fish in water under 30' deep.
If I were jigging to fish suspended off the bottom, a fish finder could be a handy spotting tool. I am usually casting to structure that I can't motor over. Lately I have been turning the finger off if I am fishing in an especially "quiet" or pressured spot. I wonder if the fish can feel the pulses and associate that with a threat. Probably doesn't make any difference.
How do others use their fishfinders?
|I don't like that it has to be manually switched. With the 200/50 units you can run both simultaneously.
Here we go!
"Our new Dual Beam sonar units are optimized to show the greatest bottom definition using a narrow (20°) beam yet can still indicate fish found in the wide (45°) beam when manually switched. Dual Beam is ideal for a wide range of conditions - from shallow to very deep water in both fresh and salt water. Please note that boat speed, wave action, bottom hardness, water conditions and transducer installation can all affect depth capability. "
I found the one reference above that may clear up the extremely fuzzy Garmin speak about fresh/salt when improperly used to mean deep and not as deep as applied to dual beams and dual freq beams..
Note that in this answer to a FAQ, the Garmin folks say that the dual beam is fresh and salt water capable...
I`m sort ofsettled on the Garmin 340C seeing the 250 is no longer available. The thing is I`m usually inshore and I don`t need 1500 ft of penetration, what I want is the bigger cone of the dual beam (45 degrees). I`ve never been happy with only seeing a spot the size of a hula hoop when in 25 ft of water, the dual beam would show a circle 11 ft in diameter at the same depth. But it`s the discription of fresh vs salt that concerns me. Perhaps if the two are the same the discription should differentiate between shallow and deep water. If the dual beam is compatable with saltwater thats the way I would want to go. Sorta like those fancy sideways looking sonars.
Can you give us a bit more information like what make and model for your unit and the ducers you are considering? The dual frequency ducers are usually 50/200 with the 50hz giving you a wider angle cone and less definition with the 200 hz providing the opposite. For our fishing I would probably go with the dual frequency but would want to know more about the dual beam model and what it offers.
OK I`m ready to lay down some cash for a new FF. After picking out a model I need to decide which transducer to get with it. One says dual freq. for maximum saltwater preformance the other says dual beam for max coverage. I don`t need a ducer that penetrates 1500ft. I want to have as big a cone as I can get to see more bottom in the under 50 ft depths I usually fish. Will I be able to get away with the dual beam which says ideal for freshwater or do I have to get the narrow beam dual freq ducer because I`m putting it in the salt?
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A sunday came to pass. Nothing much happened. Went and took care of some stuff at the bank.
Had to coordinate some requirement that had come up at work. Been on the phone all morning with the team. Managed to sneak out to the bank in the middle of that.


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Family: Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies view all from this family
Dimensions Caterpillar, to 2" (51 mm).
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Cities, suburbs & towns, Meadows & fields.
Range Northwest, California, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, Southwest, Texas, Alaska, Florida, Eastern Canada, Mid-Atlantic, New England.


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Today I got an email from Linus saying that he pulled my mutex lock patches into the main branch.
A big thanks goes to willy for his help and pushing this trough.. as well as his framework that my patches build on. There is still work to be done to totally fix such things as NFS mounts, but we'll get there.


text: I would like to talk to him first. I would make ity understood what we do and how it works. I would not allow it to be a publicity stunt. I dont believe that dogs really lie and that he would be invited back if he truely was trying to train. Those guys in the black coats and dark glasses look like they could really throw a duck. They might get hot all day. Sadley I dont think that guy has it in him or ever will nor does he get it. Besides the training grounds at his house are pretty boring


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You may end up wanting to merge this with the questions thread, but I wanted people to see this as well.
Anyway, we got to do a dedicated 10-minute interview, the transcript of which will be up sometime soon. Since that only covered nine of our questions - albeit the most important ones - I went back to the booth later and spoke with Derryl, who was very generous with his time and his answers. I didn't record or transcribe on this part, but the answers are mostly straightforward.
*Jeff mentioned at SDCC that the MTT's performance will dictate whether future big vehicles get made, and I asked Derryl about that, given its seemingly limited appeal. They were showing it loose to people as they came to the booth, and Derryl said they were still trying to "sell" it here and they hope that fans get it, but unless it's a complete disaster, it's not the end of the big vehicles. It's sometimes possible to sneak figures or small items into the line but Hasbro the company keeps a close watch on the big vehicles. There are still a few he wants to get to, but seemed tired of hearing about the Sail Barge so much. (He spoke on this a bit in the Curto-Burns podcast released yesterday, saying that it's a miracle that this is even getting a release given TPM's performance.)
*The figures not ringing up at Walmarts is an issue Derryl has seen a few times himself, but as we thought, it's a Walmart issue with just not getting them in the system before they get to the pegs. Hasbro doesn't get paid for those figures, so it's problematic for them as well. (I didn't ask about people using other figures to scan instead or whether this inflated old figures' sales numbers - they seem pretty clear on what's selling and what's not.)
*Star Wars hasn't seen any Dollar General exclusives a la the other Hasbro lines because Lucasfilm doesn't want them to go that route.
*There are no plans to release an AOTC Anakin with his unique robe, though a few people had asked and Derryl said it would be a good version to release at some point.
*The goal is to release Coleman Kcaj though there are no plans right now. Derryl thought for a minute when I mentioned he was the last Jedi Council member left, but we both said we wanted a new Depa Billaba that could sit in the chair, and I mentioned maybe a new Eeth Koth who doesn't look so angry.
*Derryl wrote notes on a few things, but really seemed to think that the KOTOR re-release pack (Revan, Malak, Bastila, HK-47) was a very good idea. He asked if I, as a fan, would be bothered by them re-releasing a build-a-droid since I previously bought multiple figures
to make HK-47, possibly going through difficulty to do so, and I said no since there is still a lot of demand for that figure and BG-J38, and that the precedent is actually there with the silver Death Star Droid being re-released in the Target pack. Based on his reaction, he was very receptive to it.
*I asked about additional articulation on a Clone Wars Battle Droid. He wasn't sure if the upcoming one had the wrist articulation, and it wasn't out on display. I mentioned how tooling already exists for articulated knees but this one didn't really get that great of a response.
*Lucasfilm was indeed behind the change to Kithaba. Derryl would prefer to not see variations like this at all but sometimes Lucasfilm puts in additional notes later in the process. I asked why they didn't then change deleted scene Luke's inaccurate robe, and he didn't know; he said that was the first he had heard that Luke's robe was wrong, which I'm not sure about.
*Hoth Luke won't be getting a scarf-down alternate head anytime soon.
*He was disappointed that Tarkin was so green and wasn't sure why the design team made that choice, but it seemed like a conscious decision since the fabric and the paint had to be sourced separately. There aren't plans for a gray one. He wrote it down to ask the design team.
*He also wrote down about the ROTS clone helmets looking big and awkward on the skinny new clone body, as he didn't have an answer. Same on removable helmet Vader getting the accurate damaged hand from Emperor's Wrath Vader.
*We won't be seeing more expressive Jar Jar faces anytime soon and probably not ever.
*I asked about R5-D4's red panels on his back and Derryl thought I was getting too specific - which is typically pretty much everyone else's reaction as well. :P They'd rather focus on other droids instead.
*More figures haven't had the wires in their capes purely due to cost, though Derryl really likes them.
*The plastic clasp with fabric cloaks hasn't been done more due to different designers going in and out and using different methods, but it's something they can look at for the future.
*The Neimoidian Shuttle will absolutely not be released.
There were a few points that weren't tied to questions per se:
*We both still see new unmade characters and vehicles when we watch the films. I mentioned the Battle Droid carrier from TPM and he wasn't aware of it - I didn't have the exact name but I told him where it was in the film. He said there were some bigger items from TPM planned for this year that were cut since they couldn't get them done in time - I probably shouldn't mention them specifically as it seemed off the record. (Separately, he mentioned on the podcast that Kitster/Wald and the Gella twins had gotten pretty far along before being cancelled for now.)
* Daultay Dofine has been such a terrible seller - as with all Neimoidians - that Tey How seems unlikely, even though Derryl personally really wants to see her.
*A passerby asked why Savage didn't have his lightsaber in the Target set, and Derryl directed him off to Brian Merten. I know this was a question they didn't follow up on from SDCC, but it seems like nothing has changed, even if I don't know why.
I'm probably forgetting some stuff, and as I mentioned, the bigger questions are coming soon. I really had a great time talking with Derryl, and if anyone wants me to ask clarifying questions or anything, feel free to post them.


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Thats right! I want one last resculpt of this lil' bugger.
I want him to come with a removable podracer helmet, the helmet itself would have raisable visor. His face should have the exhaust deco that he has after the race. Give hm a tool box or something for an accessorie. His force file could say "Anakin Skywalker podrace champion"
And then no more lil' Annies!


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Interesting opinion from the WSJ, over the weekend.....any merit?
An ominous comment from a giddy Madam Speaker about a "very robust trigger" being included. An almost "payback" type of scenario.
"President Obama has decided that another oration will rejuvenate his health-care agenda—despite having given 27 speeches entirely on health care, and another 92 in which it figured prominently. We'll see how tomorrow night's Congressional appeal works out, but the important maneuvers are taking place in the cloak rooms, as the White House tries to staple together a majority.
The latest political gimmick is the notion of a "trigger" for the public option: A new government program for the middle class would only come on line if private insurance companies fail to meet certain benchmarks, such as lowering overall health spending or shrinking the number of the uninsured. This is supposed to appeal to Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, who could end up as ObamaCare's 60th Senator, while still appeasing the single-payer left.
Liberals should love the idea because a trigger isn't a substantive concession; it merely ensures that the public option will arrive eventually, instead of immediately. Democrats will goose the tests so that private insurers can't possibly meet them, mainly by imposing new regulations and other costly burdens.
Keep in mind that every version of ObamaCare now under consideration essentially turns all private insurers into subsidiaries of Congress. All coverage will be strictly regulated down to the fine print, and politics will dictate the level of benefits as well as premiums, deductibles and copays. Under the House bill, a "health choices commissioner" will have the final say, no doubt with Democrats Henry Waxman and Pete Stark at his elbow, if not another part of his anatomy.
The same bill also rewrites the 1974 federal law known as Erisa that lets large and mid-sized employers offer insurance with little regulation. Many businesses—including Safeway, General Mills and Marriott—are finding innovative ways to drive down spending, largely with worker incentives to live healthier and be more sensitive to the costs of care. Many Democrats call this discriminatory.
In the individual insurance market, Democrats intend to outlaw medical underwriting: Everyone must be charged the same rate or close to it for the same policies, regardless of health status or history. But this "community rating" tends to price younger and low-risk consumers out of the market. In a 2006 NBER paper, Bradley Herring of John Hopkins and Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania found that community rating results in an overall increase in the uninsured in the individual market, maybe as high as 7.4%. For that reason, 35 states have no community rating at all, and another six allow very wide variations.
The larger reality is that private insurance won't be less expensive until overall health-care costs go down. Democrats may be confused on this point because government, which paid nearly 47 cents of every medical dollar in 2007, simply sets lower prices when Congress feels like it. On average, doctors and hospitals are forced to accept 20% to 30% less for their services in Medicare. That's another reason insurers wouldn't meet a trigger's thresholds, given that providers shift costs onto private under-65 patients to make up government shortfalls.
Conceivably insurers could make their products more affordable by cracking down on treatments and refusing payment more often, much as HMOs held down spending in the 1990s. But both patients and doctors hated this "managed care"—and in any case, Democrats would find a new rationale for the public option in the inevitable voter outcry about private "rationing."
It's true that there was a trigger in the Medicare prescription drug benefit and the world didn't end. But recall the dynamics in 2003: The GOP decided that private stand-alone or Medicare Advantage plans should manage the benefit. As a concession to Democrats, they agreed to trigger a "public option" for drugs—in which the government would have bought them directly, with its typical "negotiating" tactics—if seniors didn't have more than two plans in a given region.
Today, there are 1,689 stand-alone and 2,099 Advantage plans, and on average seniors have 50 to choose from—and costs in 2007 were $26 billion lower than expected. For all its problems, the Medicare drug plan created more choice for seniors and more competition among providers to offer packages that they found most attractive, holding down costs. In short, it created the incentives for multiple "private options."
ObamaCare doesn't bother with incentives, instead merely increasing government command and control of private insurance while making it more expensive in the process. That's why a trigger will inevitably lead to the public option, and also why ObamaCare will make all of our current health problems worse. "


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The EPA Press Officer staffing the office provides the connection Hawaii and Pacific area news media uses to link with EPA staff in Pacific Southwest Regional Office and EPA Headquarters. Services provided include, issuing press releases, providing interviews, arranging interviews with San Francisco and other EPA staff, providing background information for environmental news stories and responding to press inquiries.
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In tort, there are two broad categories of activities for which a plaintiff may be held strictly liable - possession of certain animals and abnormally dangerous activities. Additionally, in the area of torts known as products liability, there is a sub-category known as strict products liability which applies when a defective product for which an appropriate defendant holds responsibility causes injury to an appropriate plaintiff.
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The Cumberland hotel - Bonfire Night
5 november 2010
Remember, remember the fifth of November... Make sure you celebrate Bonfire Night in style at a spectacular London display. We'll have details of 2010 Bonfire Night Fireworks displays in London here closer to the time.
Bonfire Night is also known as Fireworks Night or Guy Fawkes Night. It's a British tradition dating back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Catholic conspiritor Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I.
Stay at The Cumberland hotel in London and experience the Bonfire Night!
The Cumberland
Highlight: Sitting at the Marble Arch end of Oxford street The Cumberland hotel is ideally located for exploring Mayfair. Home to the Rhodes W1 brasserie, Rhodes W1 Michelin star restaurant and Carbon bar its a great place to both relax and entertain.


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Tip: Keravision exhibition at Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach
The Keravision exhibition in the old Benedictine Abbey traces the development of Villeroy & Boch as well as the history of ceramics itself. Exhibits on display from the company's archive range from rococo and art deco items to contemporary designs.
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Spokane cracking down on homeless 'tent city'
SPOKANE, Wash. - The City of Spokane will begin cracking down on the homeless in the "tent city" under I-90 this week.
The city says it will offer social services to the residents there, or give them 24 hours notice to vacate.
There's a number of reasons why the people under the I-90 freeway stay there. Some are passing through, many tell us they have addictions. In a way, so do Wayne and Virginia Crone.Spokane cracking down on homeless 'tent city'
"Because I can't separate from her. I've got separation disorder, haha," Wayne said.
The couple's been married for 16 years, and has lived under the freeway for two months. At this point, they even share a pair of shoes.
They're hoping to get bus tickets to Olympia to stay with one of their three kids. In the meantime they say they can't get into shelters together.
"It's getting worse out here. They want to move us but where are we going to go," Virginia said.
This week, they may not have a choice. The city is moving in with social services and police officers to give people the help they need. If they refuse, officers will give them 24 hours notice to leave. If they don't, a ticket or trip to jail could be next. Crone thinks they should be allowed to stay.
"Why can't they do that instead of giving us tickets knowing that we can't pay it, so we end up in jail, so taxpayers pay for us to be in jail," Virginia added.
The city has said during this process a tent city is not a viable long-term solution. Virginia Crone admits, it's a scary place.
"You hear a lot of fighting, you don't sleep really at all because you hear the traffic constantly."
Now the couple is hoping to make it west, before it comes time for them to leave their tent.
"We've been through everything together, this is why we stay out here together," they said.
The city has given out just 13 tickets classified as "occupying a transient shelter" in the past six months. That number may go up this week, as the tent city is expected to be dissolved by the end of the week.
- Community helps SPD find hit and run suspect
- Several rallies, marches fill Spokane
- Woman arrested for South Hill hit and run
- Give 4 Kids raises over $58k for Children's Miracle Network
- Man who lost leg in motorcycle crash reunites with dentist who saved him
- 3D printing technology helps cardiologists save lives


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Eastern Eagles fall to Toledo, 33-21
TOLEDO, Ohio - Another fast start gave the Eastern Washington University a fighting chance against its second NCAA Football Bowl Division foe of the 2013 season.
But the 530-377 advantage in total offense by the Rockets and two EWU turnovers helped Toledo subdue the second-ranked Eagles by a 33-21 score Saturday (Sept. 14) at the Glass Bowl in Toledo, Ohio.
The Eagles, a member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, pulled to within 23-21 on the first play of the fourth quarter, but the Rockets scored on an 88-yard drive to regain a nine-point advantage. A field goal with 32 seconds left provided the final margin.
"We are definitely going to find some things we can do better, but I'm also proud that we found a way to fight in a game like this too," said Eastern head coach Beau Baldwin. "You have to find different games to be in it, and ultimately to win it. We obviously didn't make enough plays that way and they did."
Sophomore quarterback Vernon Adams had 164 yards and two touchdowns passing in the first quarter to stake EWU to a 14-6 lead. He finished the game 21-of-41 for 326 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. However, in the second and third quarters, Eastern's offense was stagnant and had a pair of turnovers and punted five times.
"We got a little bit out of rhythm offensively," Baldwin explained. "But you have to give credit to Toledo too – they are a very good football team. There is a reason they played Florida and Missouri really tough – both on the road. Toledo is a very well-coached football team."
Senior wide receiver Ashton Clark had six catches for 119 yards and a touchdown, and finished with his third career performance of at least 100 yards receiving. Freshman redshirt Cooper Kupp added five catches for 70 yards and a score.
Defensively, senior linebacker Ronnie Hamlin had 14 tackles to lead the Eagles – the 10th time in his career the Buck Buchanan Award candidate has finished in double figures in tackles. True freshman linebacker Albert Havili added 13 stops, and senior safety Allen Brown had 10.
"We are definitely going to find some things we can do better, but I'm also proud that we found a way to fight in a game like this too," Baldwin said. "You have to find different games to be in it, and ultimately to win it. We obviously didn't make enough plays that way and they did."
Eastern was trying to join a select group of what is believed to be just four FCS teams that have knocked off two FBS teams in the same season. The Eagles are now 2-1, having upset 25th-ranked Oregon State from the Pac-12 Conference 49-46 on Aug. 31 and then scoring 29 first-quarter points in a 43-14 romp over NCAA Division II Western Oregon on Sept. 7.
Toledo is now 1-2 after suffering a 24-6 loss to Florida to open the season and then falling 38-23 to Missouri on Sept. 7. A year ago, UT advanced to its third-straight bowl game, falling to Utah State 41-15 in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, Idaho. The Rockets finished 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the Western Division of the MAC.
The Eagles scored the first two times they had the ball on drives of 70 and 75 yards and took an early 14-6 lead. Adams passed 23 yards to Ashton Clark for a TD on the first possession of the game, then found Ryan Seto for 22-yard score just 6:48 into the game.
But Toledo scored the first three times it had the ball, and regained a 16-14 advantage in the second quarter. The Eagles had a 161-155 advantage after the first quarter, but in the second period Toledo had 98 yards to just 54 for the Eagles. Eastern also had two turnovers in the quarter.
On its first possession of the third quarter, Eastern had its longest two rushes of the day – 7 yards by Adams and 12 yards by Jalen Moore – but were forced to punt. Later in the quarter, the Rockets took a 23-14 lead on an 81-yard TD pass.
Eastern finally put together a drive late in the third quarter, and pulled within 23-21 on the first play of the fourth quarter on a 19-yard strike from Adams to Kupp. But the Rockets responded with an 88-yard drive of its own, and regained a 30-21 lead.
"Both offenses came out strong, then our defense was playing great – and so was theirs," said Baldwin. "We missed on some opportunities. It was one of those games that had a strange feel to it, but that's football. It's okay to be in those kind of games, but you have to find ways to win them."
After a bye week, Eastern plays at Sam Houston State in a rematch of last year's 45-42 loss in the semifinals of the FCS Playoffs on Dec. 15, 2012, at Roos Field in Cheney, Wash. In that game, Eastern scored 42 second-half points to rally from a 35-0 deficit and nearly pull off the improbable comeback.
The Bearkats have now lost the last two title games in FCS. Currently 2-1 after beating Texas Southern 55-17, trouncing Houston Baptist 74-0 and falling to Texas A&M 65-28, Sam Houston State finished the 2012 season 11-4 overall and 6-1 in the Southland. The Bearkats, ranked fifth in FCS, host Incarnate Word (Sept. 21) before entertaining the Eagles in Huntsville, Texas.
"Our team fought," added Baldwin of the Toledo loss. "We are going to have to keep cleaning up some things and move forward."
Not surprisingly, this was the first-ever meeting between Eastern and Toledo. In fact, it's Eastern's first trip East of the Mississippi River since 2007 and only its fourth game ever in the Eastern time zone.
Since the early 1980's when it began the move to become a member of FCS (in 1984), Eastern is now 9-21 all-time versus FBS teams. A 20-3 win at Idaho to open the 2012 season snapped a 10-game skid, and the victory earlier this season against Oregon State was Eastern's first victory in 10 tries against a current member of the Pac-12.
Eastern was ranked second in this week's Sports Network top-25 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision poll. The Eagles and are also second by the coaches for the second-straight week after ranking fourth (Sports Network) and third (coaches) in the preseason polls. North Dakota State remains ranked No. 1.


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Cobra CB Radios
Cobra is one of the most well known brands of CB radios. Their line includes trusted, traditional radios like the 29 LTD Classic as well as new models with cutting edge innovations like the 29 LX BT. This brand has long been a trusted favorite among novice CB users, professional drivers, and CB enthusiasts.
The 75WXST is our most popular CB radio. Its small size makes it easy to install and use in all types of vehicles. Despite its size, it still boasts an impressive set of features including weather, channel scan and SoundTracker technology.
Cobra offers some of the most popular handheld CB radios available today. Both the HHROADTRIP and HH38WXST are excellent radios that offer weather, channel scan and AA battery operation. The HHROADTRIP also includes an external antenna.
The 18 WX ST is the only current model CB radio with a front facing speaker. Most CB radios have a bottom facing speaker. This comes in handy for dash mounting by eliminating the need to install an external speaker.
Cobra is also currently the only CB radio manufacturer that offers radios with a themed chassis. These include Camo, Chrome, Harley Davidson, and Racing themes. We have the only new Dale Earnhardt themed Cobra 29 radios available for sale!
All Cobra products are backed by a manufacturer's warranty. If you need help installing your radio, we recommend reading our CB radio installation guide.


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First comes H&V wave 2.Originally Posted by UKWildcat
First comes H&V wave 2.Originally Posted by UKWildcat
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
I thought they were being released around the same time? Oh well, if the H&V wave 2 is first that is fine with me because I only plan on getting a few of those (Tactical Ops Trooper, At-te Gunner, Royal Guard). I may also get Fisto and Dooku depending on the card backs.
"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
I want to get some of them too, just hope they can clear out all the Vaders and Derlins soon. These warmers are piling up.
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
Here it's Vaders, Ki adi Mundi hologram, and Lushos dofine that are pegwarming. Gee, a Neimoidian pegwarming, who would have ever thought
Same when I made my rounds today in Glen Burnie after work. Nothing but both Vaders, Neo. guys & Holo Ki. I hit up TRU in search of battlepacks...nada.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Went to TRU today and saw the new lego star destroyer. No battlepacks yet though. According to E-bay, they've hit Illinois so maybe by early next week...
I've been away for quite a long time. I use to live in MD then moved to PA and now I am way down in VA! Does anyone here live close to Va Beach/Norfolk/Chesapeake? Just seeing if anyone lives down this way.
"The Negotiator, General Kenobi."
There are a couple of us that live down here. I live in Virginia Beach itself (about 6 miles from NAS Oceana) and UKWildcat also lives in this area.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
I know of two other collectors down here but have only met one of them. He is a member of the PSWCC as was I when I moved down here form PA. Do you think there is any interest in starting a "club" and/or meeting? I'm currently at the Ollies store right on Laskin. Have you been yet? I am helping them out until we get our building down by JANAF in mid July. Glad to meet someone else in the AO.
"The Negotiator, General Kenobi."
Our community in this area isn't big at all on here but over at RS they have alot more people. I've met a couple of the RS members and they're not your typical RS types. We have a good base of good people here so you could possibly try to start a club here.
I've never been to Ollie's. What is it?
Laskin is a couple of blocks from where I live.
Don't know how well you know the area but I live in Linkhorn Bay apartments which is about 3 blocks or so from Laskin.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!


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Date & Time
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -
11:00am to 5:00pm
Daniel Island Club
Event Details
Presented by the Family Circle Cup and the South Carolina Aquarium, the first ever golf tournament put on by the Aquarium will benefit the Sea Turtle Rescue Program to aid and save the endangered species. Daniel Island Club, 600 Island Park Dr. Tuesday, 11am-5pm. (843)579-8450, www.scaquarium.org


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Deeplinks Blog posts about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
Unintended Consequences, European-Style: How the New EU Data Protection Regulation will be Misused to Censor Speech
Europe is very close to the finishing line of an extraordinary project: the adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single, comprehensive replacement for the 28 different laws that implement Europe's existing 1995 Data Protection Directive. More than any other instrument, the original Directive has created a high global standard for personal data protection, and led many other countries to follow Europe's approach. Over the years, Europe has grown ever more committed to the idea of data protection as a core value. In the Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, legally binding on all the EU states since 2009, lists the "right to the protection of personal data" as a separate and equal right to privacy. The GDPR is intended to update and maintain that high standard of protection, while modernising and streamlining its enforcement.
EFF, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case of Backpage.com v. Dart.
Backpage.com sued Thomas Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, arguing that the sheriff's successful campaign to get Visa and MasterCard to cease providing financial services to the website amounted to informal government censorship in violation of the First Amendment.
We agree.
As we've noted before, online harassment is a pressing problem—and a problem that, thankfully and finally, many are currently working on together to mitigate and resolve. Part of the long road to creating effective tools and policies to help users combat harassment is drawing attention to just how bad it can be, and using that spotlight to propose fixes that might work for everyone affected.
But not all of the solutions now being considered will work. In fact, some of them will not only fail to fix harassment, but they will actually place drastic limitations on the abilities of ordinary users to work together, using the Net, to build and agitate real, collective solutions.
The Washington State Supreme Court delivered a disappointing decision last week, allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Backpage.com for the use of its classified ads service by sex traffickers. Three minor trafficking victims brought the suit against Backpage, alleging that the website played a "substantial role" in developing the content of the advertisements posted by the traffickers who abused them.
If you operate your own website, be glad that you don't host it in South Korea (or if you do, you might want to rethink that). Whereas in the United States, an important law called CDA 230 protects you from liability for comments contributed by users to your website, South Korea has some of the toughest liability rules in the world that can leave intermediaries such as website owners carrying the can for content they didn't even know about.
First, they are required to remove content for a minimum of 30 days on receipt of a complaint, without it being assessed by a court or judge—under the U.S. DMCA a similar obligation applies only to complaints of copyright infringement, but in South Korea it applies to other speech such as alleged defamation, and the takedown obligation is imposed independently, rather than merely as a method of gaining safe harbor from potential liability.
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Speaking Events: Preserving San Francisco's Natural Areas
Margo Bors, Ruth Gravanis, and Damien Raffa, members of the newly formed Friends of Natural Areas, will explore the value, beauty and diversity of San Francisco's remaining indigenous habitats. They'll talk about how these biotic communities are threatened and what is being done to protect and restore them.
Free and open to everyone.


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Le PSU est mort, vive le PSU!
One Sunday you wake up, have some breakfast, do some house keeping work with your significant other's help, and then, just before the lunch, decide to check the mail. But, curious thing, the computer seems off, and you don't remember to have switched it off. The UPS LEDs bright green as usually, but the usual LEDs on the computer box are all off. First reaction after this quick check is, of course, pressing the button to switch it on. And, as expected, nothing happens. Then a couple of neurons inside your brain decide to collaborate and you remember about that burnt smell your significant other talked precisely to you an hour ago (more or less). Seems I'm not going to check mail in this computer for a while.
I watched some videos on the TV of the infinite channels and learned that just by putting the green and black cables of the 20/24 pin connector in short-circuit you can check whether the power supply is working. This makes me wonder how my knowledge about the hardware I own decreases exponentially as I grow older, but I rapidly forget this too ;-). That test failed so I had a culprit, it only remained to know if it was just the PSU or some other components had been affected.
Three days later I found a co-worker and Asturlinux fellow which kindly lent me a PSU for testing (well, in fact lent me two, but one had lower wattage than mine, so avoided to do experiments with it). My initial hopes were that nothing else had been damaged, so simply replacing the PSU would fix the problem. Of course, not.
First test, nothing boots, BIOS reports no hard disks and the orange LED of disk activity blinks regularly. Disconnected all of them (two SATA and one ATA) and removed the ATA disk (it's the booting one) from its plastic removable enclosure, attaching it to directly to the board instead.
Second test, the GRUB prompt appears! It fails to boot anything because the operating system is in the SATA disks, but at least the disk is OK and BIOS also recognizes it flawlessly now. The ATA removable enclosure joins the PSU in the waste bin.
Third test, reattach SATA disks. Ouch! blinking orange again, nothing boots. Well, let's try just one SATA disk. Phew! It boots again and shows the GRUB menu, ready to load the kernel list. At that moment, the new Space Fun theme could be shortly appreciated. Sweet.
Some tests later, I'm giving up. No matter which combination of the two disk and two SATA ports on the motherboard you made, once the two are attached nothing works. Leave only one and it boots. It's clear to me the motherboard has also been damaged, in a minor degree, but, certainly not reliable any more. Specially when the disk mirroring cannot be implemented again. Another piece on the waste bin.
Changing motherboard pushes things a little more than just a PSU. I've decided to try to keep all the existing pieces that work, so only the core is being replaced. But that is: motherboard (with integrated graphics card, as the AGP interface of my NVidia seems pretty obsolete now), processor, memory and, of course, a new PSU ;-)
This is, at least as I understand it, a new computer. So finally it seems I'm not going to check my mail in this computer any more.
P.S.: Yes, since last post and finally the Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 AKA Squeeze has been released!


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An Unwavering Commitment to the Community
At the heart of HonorHealth is a legacy of caring for our communities.
Thousands of individuals and families benefit annually from our commitment to serve the community through two special programs:
- Desert Mission, whose services include a Food Bank, a Community Health Center, a Children's Dental Clinic, Marley House Behavioral Health Center, Neighborhood Renewal, Adult Day Healthcare and Lincoln Learning Center.
- NOAH (Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health), which provides compassionate, quality healthcare — medical and dental services, plus physical, behavioral health and speech therapy — for vulnerable individuals in the community.
In 2014, Desert Mission served 45,955 individuals, including 42,751 at the Food Bank and 1,575 through the Community Health Center. In addition, Desert Mission provided 39,165 Snack Pacs for schoolchildren who otherwise would have gone hungry over weekends in 2014.
NOAH served 8,276 patients with a total of 23,634 medical visits, 4,179 dental visits and 3,140 behavioral health visits.For more information about our community service programs, as well as to volunteer or to donate, please visit Desert Mission and NOAH.
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The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center has a new partnership with StoryCorps Legacy, a program of the national oral history project. StoryCorps Legacy records and preserves the stories of people affected by serious illness and their loved ones.
Learn more about this program and the healing power of story telling, at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center.
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6.2: Principle of Horizontality
Why does the Grand Canyon resemble these cakes?
If you go to the Grand Canyon, you'll see a layer cake of geological formations. Some people call this "layer cake geology." Just like the cake, the bottom layer is put down first and then subsequent layers moving upward. If a layer is not horizontal it must have been deformed. We'll learn about deformation in the next several concepts.
Sedimentary Rock Rules
Sedimentary rocks follow certain rules.
- Sedimentary rocks are formed with the oldest layers on the bottom and the youngest on top.
- Sediments are deposited horizontally, so sedimentary rock layers are originally horizontal, as are some volcanic rocks, such as ash falls.
- Sedimentary rock layers that are not horizontal are deformed.
Since sedimentary rocks follow these rules, they are useful for seeing the effects of stress on rocks. Sedimentary rocks that are not horizontal must have been deformed.
You can trace the deformation a rock has experienced by seeing how it differs from its original horizontal, oldest-on-bottom position. This deformation produces geologic structures such as folds, joints, and faults that are caused by stresses.
Geologic History
You're standing in the Grand Canyon and you see rocks like those below. Using the rules listed above, try to figure out the geologic history of the geologic column. The Grand Canyon is full mostly of sedimentary rocks, which are important for deciphering the geologic history of a region.
In the Grand Canyon, the rock layers are exposed like a layer cake. Each layer is made of sediments that were deposited in a particular environment - perhaps a lake bed, shallow offshore region, or a sand dune.
(a) The rocks of the Grand Canyon are like a layer cake. (b) A geologic column showing the rocks of the Grand Canyon.
In this geologic column of the Grand Canyon, the sedimentary rocks of groups 3 through 6 are still horizontal. Group 2 rocks have been tilted. Group 1 rocks are not sedimentary. The oldest layers are on the bottom and youngest are on the top.
The ways geologists figure out the geological history of an area will be explored more in "Concept Earth History."
- Sedimentary rocks are laid down horizontally.
- Rocks are laid down from oldest to youngest.
- Sedimentary rocks that are not horizontal have been deformed.
- Sedimentary rocks are very useful for deciphering the geological history of an area.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What is the law of superposition?
2. How us rock laid down?
3. How can you determine the oldest rock?
4. What can happen to disturb the layers?
5. What does erosion do?
6. What is an intrusion?
1. In the Grand Canyon section, what do you think caused 4a and 4c?
2. What may have happened in to the rocks in 2? What type of rocks are they?
3. What could have happened between 1 & 2 and 3?
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Don't spend the big $ for the Walter's book just for the diagram of Walking Baseball. It's plain not worth that kind of money.
I don't want to say it's a worthless drill. Most dogs like it and I guess it will get them taking better casts, but I really don't think it's necessary for most dogs. I've done it a little but don't see any advantage to it over other casting drills.