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Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice. Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize.
Case in point: Paul Krugman, The NY Times' staff economics blowhard recently typed, re the state of education in Texas:
"And in low-tax, low-spending Texas, the kids are not all right. The high school graduation rate, at just 61.3 percent, puts Texas 43rd out of 50 in state rankings. Nationally, the state ranks fifth in child poverty; it leads in the percentage of children without health insurance. And only 78 percent of Texas children are in excellent or very good health, significantly below the national average."
Similarly, The Economist passes on what appears to be the cut-'n'-paste lefty factoid du jour:Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:The point being, I suppose, is that unionized teachers stand as a thin chalk-stained line keeping Wisconsin from descending into the dystopian non-union educational hellscape of Texas. Interesting, if it wasn't complete bullshit.
South Carolina 50th
North Carolina 49th
Georgia 48th
Texas 47th
Virginia 44th
If you are wondering, Wisconsin, with its collective bargaining for teachers, is ranked 2nd in the country.
As a son of Iowa, I'm no stranger to bragging about my home state's ranking on various standardized test. Like Wisconsin we Iowans usually rank near the top of the heap on average ACT/SAT scores. We are usually joined there by Minnesota, Nebraska, and the various Dakotas; Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire...
... beginning to see a pattern? Perhaps because a state's "average ACT/SAT" is, for all intents and purposes, a proxy for the percent of white people who live there.
In fact, the lion's share of state-to-state variance in test scores is accounted for by differences in ethnic composition. Minority students - regardless of state residence - tend to score lower than white students on standardized test, and the higher the proportion of minority students in a state the lower its overall test scores tend to be.
Please note: this has nothing to do with innate ability or aptitude. Quite to the contrary, I believe the test gap between minority students and white students can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic status. And poverty. And yes, racism. And yes, family structure. Whatever combination of reasons, the gap exists, and it's mathematical sophistry to compare the combined average test scores in a state like Wisconsin (4% black, 4% Hispanic) with a state like Texas (12% black, 30% Hispanic).
So how to compare educational achievement between two states with such dissimilar populations? In data analysis this is usually done by treating ethnicity as a "covariate." A very simple way to do this is by comparing educational achievement between states within the same ethnic group.
In other words, do black students perform better in Wisconsin than Texas? Do Hispanic students perform better in Wisconsin or Texas? White students? If Wisconsin's kids consistently beat their Texas counterparts, after controlling for ethnicity, then there's a strong case that maybe Texas schools ought to become a union shop.
Luckily, there is data to answer this question via the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP is an annual standardized test given to 4th and 8th graders around the country to measure proficiency in math, science, and reading.
Participation is fairly universal; if you've had a 4th or 8th grader in the last few years, you've probably familiar with it. Results are compiled on the NAEP website, broken down by grade, state, subject and ethnicity.
So how does brokeass, dumbass, redneck Texas stack up against progressive unionized Wisconsin?
2009 4th Grade Math
White students: Texas 254, Wisconsin 250 (national average 248)
Black students: Texas 231, Wisconsin 217 (national 222)
Hispanic students: Texas 233, Wisconsin 228 (national 227)
2009 8th Grade Math
White students: Texas 301, Wisconsin 294 (national 294)
Black students: Texas 272, Wisconsin 254 (national 260)
Hispanic students: Texas 277, Wisconsin 268 (national 260)
2009 4th Grade Reading
White students: Texas 232, Wisconsin 227 (national 229)
Black students: Texas 213, Wisconsin 192 (national 204)
Hispanic students: Texas 210, Wisconsin 202 (national 204)
2009 8th Grade Reading
White students: Texas 273, Wisconsin 271 (national 271)
Black students: Texas 249, Wisconsin 238 (national 245)
Hispanic students: Texas 251, Wisconsin 250 (national 248)
2009 4th Grade Science
White students: Texas 168, Wisconsin 164 (national 162)
Black students: Texas 139, Wisconsin 121 (national 127)
Hispanic students: Wisconsin 138, Texas 136 (national 130)
2009 8th Grade Science
White students: Texas 167, Wisconsin 165 (national 161)
Black students: Texas 133, Wisconsin 120 (national 125)
Hispanic students: Texas 141, Wisconsin 134 (national 131)
To recap: white students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin.
In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. Further, Texas students exceeded the national average for their ethnic cohort in all 18 comparisons; Wisconsinites were below the national average in 8, above average in 8.
Perhaps the most striking thing in these numbers is the within-state gap between white and minority students. Not only did white Texas students outperform white Wisconsin students, the gap between white students and minority students in Texas was much less than the gap between white and minority students in Wisconsin. In other words, students are better off in Texas schools than in Wisconsin schools - especially minority students.
Conclusion: instead of chanting slogans in Madison, maybe it's time for Wisconsin teachers to take refresher lessons from their non-union counterparts in the Lone Star State.

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Robert Hefner, professor of anthropology at Boston University, will give a lecture on "Religious Violence and the Future of Indonesia" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.
Hefner is the associate director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture and a research associate at the Institute for Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. He is the editor of "The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia" (2001) and the author of "Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia" (2000), "The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History" (1990) and "Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam" (1985).
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Daniel Murphy belted a grand slam in the first inning on Sunday, powering the Nationals to a 6-3 victory over the Mets and a three-game sweep of the weekend series.
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Two outstanding musicians -- one a graduate student and the other an undergraduate -- will be featured in the April 21-22 performances by the Princeton University Orchestra.
The program of audience favorites from the French, German and Russian traditions will begin at 8 each evening in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The orchestra is under the direction of Michael Pratt.
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 50, September 1, 1995
PATP Meeting at JPL
Below is the final schedule for the PATP conference given last week. JPL is binding each of the presenter's material for each attendee and that bound material will be available in the next few weeks. I will pass along some of this information when the bound material is available.
PATP Scientific Conference Building 167 Conference Room Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California
Thursday, August 24, 1995
- Opening Remarks
- 8:30: Welcome to JPL Ed Stone, Director of JPL
- 8:45: Welcome to the PATP Conference Carl Kukkonen, JPL
- Caltech/JPL
- 9:00: Visualization of Earth & Planetary Data Dave Curkendall, JPL
- 9:30: Ocean Modeling on the Cray T3D Yi Chao, JPL
- 10:00: High Performance CFD Applications Steve Taylor, Caltech
- 10:30: break
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- 11:00: The High Performance Parallel Processing Project and MPP Access Program Alice Koniges, LLNL
- 11:30: Ab Initio Material Simulations for Massively Parallel Environment Lin Yang, LLNL
- 12:00: Structures and Acoustics Rich Procassini, LLNL
- 12:30: lunch
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- 1:30: High Performance Parallel Processor Project at LANL Bruce Wienke-LANL
- 2:00: Deterministic Neutral Particle Calculations for Well Logging on the T3D Randy Baker, LANL
- 2:30: Oil Reservoir Models Olaf Lubeck, LANL
- 3:00: break
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
- 3:30: Modeling Materials with Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Roberto Car, EPFL
- 4:00: Parallel CF on the Cray T3D: Programming Models, Methods and Applications Mark Sawley, EPFL
- 4:30: Parallel Implementation and Interactive Optimization of Video Data Compression Techniques T. Ebrahimi, EPFL
- 5:00: Kinetic Modeling of Fusion Relevant Plasmas Kurt Appert, EPFL
- 6:00: reception - Ritz Carlton Hotel, Plaza Room
Friday, August 25, 1995
- Cray Research, Inc.
- 8:30: System Architectural Frontiers Steve Nelson, CRI (Consultant)
- Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC)
- 9:30: Science on the CRI T3D System: An Overview Sergiu Sanielevici, PSC
- 10:30: break
- North Carolina State University (NCSU)
- 11:00: Ab Initio Simulations of Advanced Materials Jerry Bernholc, NCSU
- T3D Research Centers
- 11:30: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Michael Ess, ARSC, Univ. of Alaska at Fairbanks
- 12:00 Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center Arthur Trew, EPCC, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland
CRI/EPCC MPI for T3D Release 1.2aThere has been a new release of MPICH from Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center. There have been several bug fixes, enhancements and greater conformance with the MPI standard with this release. The changes from the 1.1a release are described in the html files below. I have installed the following files of the 1.2a release on denali:
/usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/include/mpi.h /usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/include/mpif.h /usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/lib/libmpi.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/user.ps /usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/bugs.html /usr/local/examples/mpp/mpi/news.htmlCurrently the 1.1a files are in the default locations:
/usr/include/mpp/mpi.h /usr/include/mpp/mpif.h /mpp/lib/libmpi.aIn the future we will replace the 1.1a files with the 1.2a files and that change will be reported in this newsletter. If you encounter a problem with this new release please contact Mike Ess.
Additions and Changes to BENCHLIBBrent Swartz of the Environmental Protection Agency at the National Environmental Supercomputing Center in Bay City Michigan passes on this further information about BENCHLIB:
> I have ftped BENCHLIB from your site, and though you might be interested > in knowing that the flipper perl script is missing from BENCHLIB (even > though Jeff's paper indicates it's in BENCHLIB). I have obtained it from > Jeff so if you'd like it, let me know. And if you're creating a new tar > file, you might as well fix the other problems encountered (you must have > seen these too!) > > 1. makefile's reference asm, not cam, which is not how the assembler is > currently installed. So all asm references should be changed to cam. > > 2. util's mpp_annex.s contains a bug, which (I believe - it compiles > anyway!) can be corrected by replacing the .psect mpp_annex as shown here: > > sequoia% diff mpp_annex.s{,.orig} > 13c13 > < .psect mpp_annex_code,cache,code > --- > > .psect mpp_annex,cache,code > > Also, it may be worth mentioning to your users that the scalar_fastmath > routine's results may differ from the libm routine's results by a maximum > of 2 ULPs (i.e. the 2 least significant digits may differ). The libm > routines differ from "reality" by at most 1/2 ULP, and my (non-extensive) > tests of the vect_fastmath routines indicate they differ from the libm > routines by at most 1 ULP (better precision than scalar_fastmath). >I have remade the tar tape on the ARSC ftp server to include these changes and remade the libraries on denali in /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib. Some of the files available on the ARSC ftp server are:
/pub/submissions/libbnch.tar.Z - An updated version of benchlib /pub/submissions/flipper - Jeff Brook's perl script(from Brent Swartz) /pub/submissions/t3d_opt.ps.Z - Jeff Brook's paper on T3D optimization /pub/submissions/cug_slides.ps.Z - Slides for Jeff Brook's talk on optimization /pub/submissions/ieee.ps.Z - A description of converting from Cray format to IEEE format
The 1.2.2 Release of the Programming EnvironmentOne of our users, Dr. Alan Wallcraft, a scientist with the Naval Research Center in Stennis, Mississippi sent in this note about Fortran 90 in the new 1.2.2 PE:
> FYI, f90new on the T3D supports loop unrolling (e.g. -O scalar3,unroll2) and > this can make a dramatic difference. Previously a single-node REAL*4 ocean > model benchmark ran at 16.5 Mflops, but with automatic unrolling it runs at > 26.6 Mflops. In REAL*8, f90 is now only slightly slower than cf77 (15.2 > Mflops, vs 16.0 Mflops). The remaining difference is probably because cf77 > used -Wf"-o noieeedivide,unroll2" and noieeedivide is not an f90 option. > > A DEC Alpha 4000/710 is clocked at 190 MHz (vs the T3D's 150 MHz), with a > large L2 cache, and it runs this benchmark at 46.7 Mflops in 32-bit and > 26.1 Mflops in 64-bit. Thus the DEC workstation is now about 30-40% faster > (allowing for clock speeds), which may entirely be due to the larger cache > (i.e. Cray's compilers are now as good or better than DEC's).
New Libsci VersionsWe have updated the original version of libsci.a in the 184.108.40.206 PE to the version in the 18.104.22.168 PE. This new version has corrections to the routines SLARFG and CLARFG in CRI's implementation of LAPACK.
List of Differences Between T3D and Y-MPThe current list of differences between the T3D and the Y-MP is:
- Data type sizes are not the same (Newsletter #5)
- Uninitialized variables are different (Newsletter #6)
- The effect of the -a static compiler switch (Newsletter #7)
- There is no GETENV on the T3D (Newsletter #8)
- Missing routine SMACH on T3D (Newsletter #9)
- Different Arithmetics (Newsletter #9)
- Different clock granularities for gettimeofday (Newsletter #11)
- Restrictions on record length for direct I/O files (Newsletter #19)
- Implied DO loop is not "vectorized" on the T3D (Newsletter #20)
- Missing Linpack and Eispack routines in libsci (Newsletter #25)
- F90 manual for Y-MP, no manual for T3D (Newsletter #31)
- RANF() and its manpage differ between machines (Newsletter #37)
- CRAY2IEG is available only on the Y-MP (Newsletter #40)
- Missing sort routines on the T3D (Newsletter #41)
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Cingulair:I lost my cell 6 months ago. My agent told me to check back in August for a renewal and free phone. So I did, and guess what? Cingulair has changed their upgrade policy, no free phones! Fine, I'll switch providers. Now, There is a nationwide change happening a that non-"local" cell numbers no longer being free to the caller!! All of the Baby Bells are dropping the capability for letting the cell companies pay for the out of area calls into a cell phone! So I may need a new number anyway.
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Today's Readalikes are for the Dork Diaries series. These books follow 8th-grader Nikki Maxwell as she describes her TRAUMATIC move to a snooty new school, her EPIC battle with her mom for an iPhone, and her issues with the CCP (Cool, Cute & Popular) kids, especially the SNOBBY Mackenzie.
There are 10 books in the series (and a movie coming soon), but once you've finished all those, what to read next? Look for these other funny books about life in school for ages 9-12.
- The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by Amy Ignatow
5th grade best friends Lydia and Julie decide to study the popular girls at their school to be better prepared to fit into the popular crowd in middle school. See also the other books in The Popularity Papers series.
- Gossip from the Girls' Room: A Blogtastic Novel by Rose Cooper
Unpopular 6th-grader Sophia writes an anonymous blog on her middle school's website, and keeps track of everything she overhears in the girls' bathroom in her notebook.
- Dear Dumb Diary Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jim Benton
Jamie Kelly writes in her middle school diary and describes her life at home and school in humorous detail. Only Jamie's dumb diary understands why Angeline is awful, her mom's cooking is terrible, and why her little cousin is so annoying! See also the other books in the Dear Dumb Diary series.
- Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
While training her new puppy, 6th-grader Annabelle discovers that many of the same techniques can be used to tame the crazy boys in her middle school.
- Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Author Raina describes in humorous and heartbreaking detail the traumas she went through in 6th grade before and after getting braces.
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Callie is the set designer for her middle school drama production, but the onstage drama is nothing compared to the offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. When two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
- How I Survived Middle School Can You Get an F in Lunch? by Nancy Krulik
Jenny and Addie have always been best friends, but when Addie decides she wants to join the Pops, the coolest clique in the school, Jenny is worried she may lose her best friend. See also the other books in the How I Survived Middle School series.
- Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer Holm
Ginny can't wait for 7th grade to end, especially when it involves getting braces, annoying brothers, and losing the lead in the ballet to your ex-best friend. In this story told entirely through notes, grocery receipts, and a variety of other items, Ginny's first year of middle school is revealed in gruesome and hilarious detail!
- The Misfits by James Howe
Four unpopular 7th-graders create a "No-Name" party for the student council elections representing all the students that have been picked on and called mean names in school.
- Amelia's Notebooks by Marissa Moss
Moving away from your best friend isn't fun, but at least Amelia has her notebook to write about her life as she struggles with friends, school and of course, gossip. See also the other books in the Amelia's Notebooks series.
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet never goes anywhere without her journal. But when her classmates find her notebook and discover what she really thinks of them, Harriet has some serious explaining to do!
- 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
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The Assignment (episode)
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After returning from the Fire Caves on Bajor, Keiko's body is controlled by an alien lifeform that forces her husband O'Brien to do its bidding or else face the death of his wife.
After Miles O'Brien has succeeded in killing Keiko's bonsai trees that he was caring for while she was visiting the Fire Caves on Bajor, he welcomes Keiko home. However, as soon as she gets off the transport, Keiko informs Miles that she's not Keiko, but someone who has taken over her body. Whoever is inhabiting Keiko threatens Miles with his beloved wife's life and the life of their innocent daughter Molly, claiming that they'll kill them both if he doesn't do exactly what she wants. O'Brien at first thinks that his wife is trying to play a joke on him, but is quickly persuaded otherwise when the entity causes her to choke. It stops choking Keiko just as easily to warn O'Brien off from calling the infirmary.
Miles is ordered to reconfigure certain parts of the space station but is not told to what end. At the same time, Rom is excited about his new job as an engineer. Quark expresses his loathing of Rom's new job since he quit at Quark's, as Rom has been assigned to the graveyard shift fixing the waste extraction. Rom is proud as he is called to a meeting on the "swing-shift" to replace an ill worker, where the other workers treat him coldly. Miles appears on the monitor and assigns the engineers their jobs for the day, asking them not to bother him unless its absolutely necessary. He then has the computer scan Keiko to confirm her identity, which it does. He then asks the computer how long it would take to knock out Keiko through various means; however, all would take too long as the entity only needs a fraction of a second to kill her.
During Miles' birthday celebrations, the inhabitant draws on Keiko's brain to act like Keiko, and no one other than Miles knows any different. Captain Sisko is especially impressed by the Q'parol that she served, showing that the alien has access to all of Keiko's memories and talents. During the party, Jake Sisko asks Keiko if she saw any Pah-wraith in the Fire Caves, prompted by Odo's sharing of Bajoran legends. The inhabited Keiko teases Odo for believing in "the wraiths," which Odo denies.
Miles finally decides to warn Sisko about what is happening, but before he can get to Sisko, he hears Keiko call out his name and watches in horror as the inhabitant forces Keiko to throw herself over the railing on the upper level of the Promenade. Dr. Bashir treats her injuries, and when Miles visits her in sickbay, the evil inhabitant gives Miles an ultimatum: complete the reconfigurations in thirteen hours or it'll kill Keiko and Molly. Miles starts a countdown clock to stay aware of the deadline. Rom comes to the chief later, having finished his work already. Miles is very impressed that Rom got his workload done so fast and decides to enlist his help to get the modifications done, claiming its a secret assignment that Sisko and the senior staff know all about (while also warning him not to mention it to them). With the help of Rom, Miles manages to complete most of the work before Jadzia discovers his alterations and alerts security and Sisko. Sisko calls a meeting of O'Brien, Odo, and Dax to discuss the sabotage. Desperate to throw the officers off his scent and needing a distraction, O'Brien leads Odo to Rom, and Odo takes him to a holding cell while Miles is left to survey the damage. Rom refuses to tell Odo anything (even his name), instead calling for O'Brien. O'Brien goes to see Rom, and Rom (having guessed this is not part of a secret assignment) reveals that O'Brien's modifications are converting the station into a gigantic chroniton emitter. Rom also reveals that chronitons are lethal to the wormhole aliens. O'Brien wonders aloud about this, and Rom explains that according to the Koss'moran, the Pah-wraiths were cast out by the Prophets. O'Brien now knows that Keiko's intruder can only be a Pah-wraith from the Fire Caves, and is planning to use a chroniton beam to kill the Prophets.
The newly-solid Odo confronts O'Brien that he knows that O'Brien was behind the modifications, so O'Brien knocks him out. He finishes the station modifications, and takes the Keiko/Pah-wraith to a runabout, coldly telling it that he figured out its plan but doesn't care about the Prophet/Pah-wraith conflict: he only wants his wife back. Once in position near the wormhole, O'Brien activates the emitters on the station, but targets the runabout instead of the wormhole, killing the deranged Pah-wraith inhabiting Keiko once and for all. Keiko and Miles embrace. When they return, Sisko asks Miles for an explanation.
Back in their quarters, Keiko reveals that she knew what the Pah-wraiths were doing, but could not intervene. Keiko tells Miles that she doubts the Pah-wraiths would have spared them.
The next day, a tired but excited Rom enters Quark's. Quark warns him that the night shift is obviously too much for him but Rom explains that he wasn't working, rather he was out celebrating his now permanent promotion to the day shift; his reward for helping O'Brien. Quark sighs as Rom then proceeds to order pancakes, sausages, and pineapple: the breakfast of the day shift.
Memorable quotesEdit
"Is there something wrong, chief? I can work slower if you want me to."
- - Rom
"Culpable deniability. I understand. Don't worry about me, chief. My lips are sealed. Nobody will get anything out of me. Not even my name."
"Rom, everybody on the station knows your name."
(confused) "Right." (a pause) But I won't confirm it."
- - Rom and O'Brien
"Everyone has enemies. Even the Prophets."
"That's right. They're not just wormhole aliens; they're Prophets. Part of Bajoran mythology, just like the Pah-wraiths of the Fire Caves. So what have those wraiths have to do with the wormhole aliens?"
"It's a Bajoran legend. From the verb kosst, meaning "to be", and amoran, "banished". Leeta's been telling me all about Bajoran legends. She can go on for hours. She says I'm a good listener."
- - Rom and Miles O'Brien, about the Pah-wraiths
"According to Leeta, the Pah-wraiths used to live in the wormhole. They were part of the Celestial Temple."
"They were Prophets?!"
"False Prophets. They were cast out of the Temple, exiled to the caves where they were imprisoned in crystal fire cages and forbidden to ever return lest they face the wrath of the true Prophets."
"So if these false Prophets were to return to the Celestial Temple..."
"I don't think they'd be welcomed."
- - Rom and Miles O'Brien, about how the Pah-wraiths were banished from the Celestial Temple by the Prophets
"For the first forty minutes it was like pulling teeth even getting him to admit his name."
- - Odo, after interrogating Rom
"Well, (a pause) Rom, I'm glad things are going so well for you."
"(very quietly) No you're not. (a little louder) But thanks, anyway, brother."
- - Quark and Rom
Background information Edit
Story and scriptEdit
- In Robert Lederman and David R. Long's original version of this story, Keiko O'Brien is on a biological expedition to a planet inhabited by non-corporeal beings. When she returns to the station, one of the beings accompanies her, and has her under its control as a hostage. René Echevarria changed the premise of the story to be more focused on the possession aspect than that of the hostage situation. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- After Ira Steven Behr assigned David Weddle and Bradley Thompson to compose the teleplay for this episode, they were unsure as to what direction to take it in until Hans Beimler pointed out to them that this was another 'O'Brien must suffer' episode. Beimler also summed up the tone of the show as "everyone comes over for a party when you're having a huge fight with your wife and she acts as if everything is perfectly normal." After talking with Beimler, Weddle and Thompson had no problems writing the teleplay. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- This episode was also the first produced teleplay for David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, who had pitched the story for the fourth season episode "Rules of Engagement". Furthermore, this episode is also the first episode with music by Gregory Smith.
- This was the first episode to mention the Pah-wraiths, the demons of Bajoran religion who are the enemies of the Prophets. O'Brien mentions the Fire Caves, where Kai Winn later attempts to summon the Pah Wraiths in "What You Leave Behind". However, although this episode represents the first time the Pah-wraiths are mentioned, the origin of the concept can actually be dated back to the first season episode "The Nagus". While developing "The Assignment", René Echevarria was trying to come up with a concept that would tie into the Deep Space Nine mythology. He didn't want the being who possesses Keiko to simply be some random entity, but rather something that would fit into the overall scheme of the show. Ultimately, he suggested that perhaps the aliens in the wormhole weren't all good, and that there were in fact some evil members of the race. Echevarria, however, had no idea that four years previously, Robert Hewitt Wolfe had come up with exactly the same idea. In the episode "The Nagus", Sisko and Jake are supposed to visit the "Fire Caverns" on Bajor, and there was a line in the original teleplay where Sisko is told jokingly to "watch out for the Pagh-wraiths." The Pagh-wraiths were Wolfe's idea and were supposedly little goblin creatures that lived in the Fire Caves, having been cast out of the wormhole and given corporeal form. It was only when Echevarria was trying to find some connection between "The Assignment" and previous episodes that Wolfe returned to his old Pagh-wraiths concept. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Of course the Pah-wraiths went on to play a huge role in future Deep Space Nine storylines, especially towards the end of the seventh season.
- According to Wolfe, the common spelling of Pah-wraiths is actually a misspelling, and his original 'Pagh-wraiths' is the correct form; however, David Weddle disagrees, arguing that 'Pah' is correct if the term comes "from ancient Bajoran. The g's were added centuries later, when the seventh hemisphere became more influential." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- In this episode, Rom tells O'Brien of the myth of the Koss'moran, which comes from the Bajoran verb "kosst," meaning "to be," and "amoran," meaning "banished." According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, Koss'moran is the same thing as Kosst Amojan – they both mean "to be banished". The phrase Kosst Amojan appeared in the episode "The Reckoning", but it was not revealed as meaning anything specific. Although most fans seem to assume that Koss'moran and Kosst Amojan are actually two different concepts, according to the Companion, they represent exactly the same idea. René Echevarria simply altered the name because he didn't like the sound of Koss'moran.
- Nana Visitor (Kira Nerys) does not appear in this episode because she went into early labor during production. This is the first episode of the series in which she does not appear. Originally, the party in the O'Brien's was going to be a Bajoran holiday presided over by Kira, but when producers discovered she was unavailable, they did a quick rewrite of the scene and turned it into a birthday party, while also ensuring to explain Kira's absence. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Colm Meaney enjoyed the episode. He commented: "That was great. Roz's performance in that, I thought, was spectacular. It was the first time she really had an opportunity to do her thing. You got to see her range in way you hadn't before, playing Keiko and the alien horror. From my end of it, it was good writing, good drama. It was a solid idea to have Miles do something against his will, to have him be coerced. It was a good episode, very strong". (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine, issue 24, p 45)
- This was Allan Kroeker's first Star Trek directing job. Kroeker would go on to direct almost forty episodes across Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, including the finales of the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons of Deep Space Nine, the finales of the sixth and seventh seasons of Voyager, and the finales of all four seasons of Enterprise.
- This episode went into production after "Trials and Tribble-ations", but it aired the week before, presumably due to the lengthy post-production on "Trials and Tribble-ations".
- During the party, Jake Sisko says that he has always wanted to meet a Pah-wraith. A year later he is possessed by one in "The Reckoning".
- Keiko's possession by a Pah-wraith differs from later episodes. When Jake and Dukat are later possessed by Pah-wraiths their eyes glow red and their voices take on a metallic, echoing effect. Neither of these physiological changes occur to Keiko. It may be possible the Pah-wraith deliberately concealed this, as such changes would've undoubtedly garnered unwanted attention.
- Since O'Brien's birthday was revealed to be in September in DS9: "Whispers", this episode is set in September 2373.
- This episode features an alien officer called Abdon, who bears a strong resemblance to a Kobali. However, the two make-ups are not identical.
- Five years earlier, Miles O'Brien was possessed by an alien consciousness in a similar way to his wife Keiko in this episode. (TNG: "Power Play")
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 5.3, 24 February 1997
- As part of the 35 Jahre Star Trek German VHS release
- As part of the DS9 Season 5 DVD collection
Links and referencesEdit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Rene Auberjonois as Odo
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
- Terry Farrell as Lt. Commander Dax
- Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko
- Colm Meaney as Chief O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Alexander Siddig as Doctor Bashir
Guest starsEdit
- Patrick B. Egan as Whatley (credited as "Jiyar")
- Rosie Malek-Yonan as Tekoa
- Judi Durand as the Cardassian computer voice
- Majel Barrett as the Federation computer voice
Uncredited co-starsEdit
- Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn
- James Lee Stanley as a Bajoran security deputy
- Unknown performers as
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External linkEdit
- "The Assignment" at Wikipedia
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Visiting the fly- and seagull-infested dump, with its cocktail of distinctive odours, is not for the faint-hearted.
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It means that once again, I have defeated nature's attempts to turn my holiday-house garden into something reminiscent of the Amazon hinterland.
This year, however, another event was the highlight of our vacation adventures, clearly edging out the excitement of visiting rubbish dumps, as I explained.
"What could be more interesting than frequenting refuse tips?" my cafe friend murmured dryly. Poor thing: he could only boast about his Christmas trip to Spain - studying Iberian architecture - and was clearly a touch envious of the richness of my lifestyle.
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Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
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Nobody was predicting this.
The general consensus from those in the know was that we could beat England in the shorter formats but the No2 test team in the world would expose us wearing whites over five days. England had an experienced batting line up with impressive averages in the 40s. Their bowlers could swing the ball at pace. They were led by the one of the best opening batsman statistically the world has ever seen.
They'd come off an impressive series win in India - the first English team to do that since Gladstone Small shrugged in. Their opposition was young. They were given a hiding by the best team in the world a few months before. Their batting looked prone to collapse. Some fans had given up hope. New Zealand's chances were poor.
How quickly things can change.
Today, New Zealand go into the final day of the third test at Eden Park in a very unfamiliar position - favourites to win a test series against one of the better English teams in their long and proud history.
Eden Park had a strange feel about it last Friday. As Peter Fulton and Kane Williamson pushed us to 250-1, I found myself staring at the scoreboard wondering whether I was witnessing something special. I thought about the spectators who watched our last home test series win against England at Lancaster Park in 1984 when Tony Pigott's grunt and the sound of the ball on Richard Hadlee's GM Cannon signalled a great victory.
On Friday, Fulton's helmet looked a little less crooked than usual. His shoes seemed newer. He'd learnt from his last couple of dismissals and he'd decided to put the back-foot drive away.
Fulton looked determined. He caught the English bowlers napping. New Zealand sent a message to England that day... we really want to win this game more than you. The English looked deflated. The much anticipated pace and bounce of the Eden Park drop-in pitch never eventuated.
It's been seven years since Auckland hosted a test match - insane considering that a third of New Zealanders live here. Eden Park has had more facelifts over the past 20 years than Joan Rivers and none of them have been to the benefit of cricket. The straight boundaries are short. The square boundaries are long. Most of the seats are empty. But despite all its shortcomings I enjoyed every sun-filled moment there.
Day after day I have found myself drawn towards the park, lured by our team's gutsy performance.
So what happened to the English? Were they homesick? Had they been lured into a false sense of security?
What I do know for certain is that their poor showing in Auckland correlates to the delivery to the teams' hotel of a free package of Herbal Ignite - the herbal supplement that aids healthy erections.
I'm not sure whether any of the English players took the pills, or whether any English players suffer from erectile issues, but I can say that playing cricket with an erection is both difficult and dangerous, so whoever had the idea has potentially changed the course of New Zealand cricket history for the better.
Through an unlikely combination of Peter Fulton's batting and Herbal Ignite erectile dysfunction pills, New Zealand Cricket may have finally found the formula to springboard us to cricketing greatness.


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Chile options. . .
I have what appear to be 4 great choices for a last minute trip to Chile that have late availabilities, and I'm seeking a little advice from anyone who's been to any one (or all) of these:
1. El Saltamontes
2. Estancia Del Zorro
3. Cinco Rios
4. Heart Of Patagonia
I'll give you a little background: It's my wife and I fishing, it's the first stop in a sort of late honeymoon, so we're looking for a little pampering on top of the fishing (my wife seems to like fishing a lot more when someone makes lunch and serves a bottle of wine, and I like fishing with my wife, so it seems like a great compromise). I've got to pull the trigger sometime in the next day or so, so any advice in the meantime would be appreciated.
I'm particularly interested in anyone with info on #1, b/c I have the least amount of info on it.
Thanks in advance.
Hi there,
I just came back from a fishing and hiking trip on the Futaleufu in Chile (east of Chaiten).
It was a great trip, although with the time of year we fished lakes more than rivers. We had great action tossing dragonflies and big Adams drys into the weeds. Some of the browns seemed to be as big as my leg.
If you need any info regarding that area then let me know. I might have a good contact for you in Chile.
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of surveyed enterprises report that they are "reliant or very reliant" on wireless LANs within their organization. 1 Even more exciting
for Cisco ® partners, the same study reveals that wireless LAN adoption is expected to increase dramatically across all industries in the
short term, with up to an 83 percent increase in the average number of access points in the next two years.
Early deployments tended to be limited in their scope, but increasingly the trend is to create pervasive deployments as companies experience the benefits of mobility and realize its profound impact on productivity and customer and partner satisfaction. Changing employee demographics are also fueling this trend, as a new generation of workers, with an expectation of who expect instant connection anytime anywhere becomes a larger portion of the workforce.
by 2009. 2
The New Baseline: Increasing Efficiency through Pervasive Mobility
• Changing downtime to productive time during breaks in meetings
• Faster decision making through instant access to networked information
• Reducing the costs of moves, adds, and changes for rapidly growing organizations
Using Mobility Services to Go Beyond Basic Connectivity
Figure 1. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network Mobility Services Framework
• Guest access service: Allow customers, vendors, and other non-employees to wirelessly access network resources, with privileges based on user type and physical location, without compromising enterprise security.
• Security service: Unify wired and wireless security and ensure network information integrity by enabling location-based authentication and precise detection, identification, and prevention of wireless threats.
• Location service: Quickly locate any Wi-Fi device to support enhanced network security, management, and troubleshooting, as well as enable location-based applications through a rich, open API.
• Voice service: Extend the seamless mobility of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network to enable business communications using
Wi-Fi enabled clients and Wi-Fi and cellular compatible smart phones with end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and manageability.
Mobility Services Pave the Way for Competitive Advantage
of how pervasive wireless LANs can create new services, or renovate existing business processes to be more efficient include:
• Enhance decision making-Provide guest networks for customers, system integrators, and vendors to help speed information gathering and as part of the company hospitality.
• Track and secure assets-Reduce spending and personnel time locating or repurchasing assets through location services.
• Improve customer-facing services-Deliver instant access to customer account records, reach the closest available service associate, and track product progress in a manufacturing or repair facility.
• Improve logistics and maintenance-Update transportation management systems with passengers served, fuel status, collected revenues, and video surveillance logs as passengers enter the airport or station.
• Increase responsiveness and control over telecommunications-Offer consistent call quality in-building, track expenses and integrate into existing voice PBX infrastructure through voice services.
• Protect personnel and property-Secure the campus or remote sites using wireless video surveillance to prevent theft or harm.
• Engage customers-Offer Internet access, online services, and Web portals to inform and amuse customers onsite, reinforcing brand loyalty.
• Strengthen security systems-Continuously monitor the entire work environment in order to detect abnormal wireless activity
and automatically act upon it.
Solution Components
• Client Devices: PC cards and other client adapters that connect desktop and mobile devices to the wireless network.
– Cisco Compatible Extensions is a program that enables mobile client devices to simply and securely connect to a
Cisco Unified WLAN.
– Cisco Secure Services Client is a software supplicant that enables businesses of all sizes to deploy a single authentication framework across multiple device types to access both wired and wireless networks delivering simplified management, robust security, and lower total cost of ownership.
• Access Points: Cisco Aironet access points and bridges that connect wireless devices to wired networks, providing ubiquitous network access.
• Network Unification: A variety of platforms, such as wireless LAN controllers, integrated switches and routers that deliver comprehensive wireless network services such as dynamic RF management and self-configuration.
• Network Management: Cost-effective tools providing a complete view of the wireless LAN network for easier planning, configuration, and management from a central location.
• Mobility Services: Appliances and technologies that enable applications such as guest access, wireless voice over IP, location tracking, and wireless intrusion detection and prevention.
Figure 2. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network Components
Manageable and Scalable
Available and Reliable
signal strength.
Investment Protection
IP (VoIP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other back office and customer care solutions. The next natural phase of wireless
LAN advancement centers on integration with the Layer 2 and 3 switching infrastructure. Customers understand this as well, with over
70 percent of those surveyed by Gartner citing integration with the wired network as the key criteria for selecting a wireless LAN vendor.
Figure 3. Key Selection Criteria for a Wireless LAN Vendor
Only Unified Wireless and Wired Solution
to simplify management and take advantage of the security and redundancy of the Ethernet infrastructure. Cisco market leadership in both wireless and wired networks enables the right solution to be designed for companies of any size.
A Complete End-to-End Integrated Network
Unsurpassed Security
defences, including IEEE 802.11i, IDS/IPS, and Cisco Network Admission Control, a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending
Network initiative.
Feature-Rich and Standards-Based
Wi-Fi devices and Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags. Cisco Unified Wireless Network services are built on a strong foundation of industry standards such as IEEE 802.11. By adhering to industry standards, Cisco wireless LAN solutions provide for easy integration with existing customer investments. For example, large-scale deployments utilizing the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Wireless Services Module or the Cisco Wireless Services Module for the Integrated Services Router take advantage of the powerful security, voice, and high-availability capabilities of your existing infrastructure. Where standards are not yet available, Cisco drives industry wide initiatives to enable new functionality that can be utilized in a multivendor environment. Cisco Compatible Extensions program (CCX) is one such area where
new advances can be rapidly rolled out and reach over 90 percent of the Wi-Fi client market.
Tested and Proven
Industry Trends
have been able to improve responsiveness and treatment accuracy and to save lives as well as millions of dollars. In addition, recent improvements in wireless infrastructure security and advanced applications, such as location-based tracking and voice over WLAN,
have provided further gains in productivity and patient care while simultaneously addressing government privacy regulations.
Improving Patient Care and Medical Staff Productivity with Cisco Unified Wireless Network
• Patient registration: Simplification of patient registration through self-administered check-in.
• Patient medical records: Input clinical of data at the point of care, which reduces transcription errors while allowing other healthcare providers instant access to the most current patient medical history.
• Prescription automation: Immediate look up of adverse drug interactions, patient allergy information, patient-specific dose checking, coupled with accurate information from the latest medical reference guides.
• Treatment verification: Simple verification of patient identity using barcodes providing more accurate treatment, medicine delivery, and the additional benefit of streamlined insurance billing.
• Real-time, mobile voice communication: Improved access to the closest and most appropriate caregiver using wireless
IP communications.
• Materials management: Ordering, distribution, and safe dosage monitoring of patient prescriptions through barcode scanning of new supplies to departments, minimizing errors, overstocking, or out-of-stock situations.
• Hospital equipment tracking: Active RFID tags provide real-time location tracking of critical medical equipment to gain better asset utilization.
Trends Driving Retail Enterprise IT Buying
3 percent 5. As a result, improvements and efficiencies are paramount and can mean billions of dollars in savings, avoided costs, or both.
Until recently, a solid return on investment (ROI) case for data connections between stores and corporate offices was difficult to make in retail -especially in those with a store footprint of less than 10,000 square feet. The monthly cost for T1 or Frame Relay lines to individual stores was disproportionately high and was exacerbated by the requirement for up-front capital for hardware investments.
Benefits of Cisco Unified Wireless Network for Retail Enterprises
• Enhance the shopping experience-Wireless-enabled kiosks can display new product promotions and be easily moved as stores are reconfigured.
• Engage customers-Retailers can allow online shopping or product information look up for customers carrying Wi-Fi enabled smart phones.
• Boost productivity-Retailers can connect associates with managers in real time through voice over Wi-Fi to approve store credits, offer rain checks, or update pricing without noisy overhead paging.
• Improve customer satisfaction-Retailers can enable line busting to move customers through check out faster with mobile
point-of-sale (POS) terminals.
• Protect brand image and assets-Retailers can track high-value items using RFID to decrease loss.
• Improve reaction time to market shifts-Retailers can generate alerts on inventory levels of high-profit or seasonal items to
store managers via integration with POS systems.
Trends Driving State and Local Government IT
has been a major theme for several years, 71 percent and 66 percent of respondents reported that improving security and business continuity, respectively, is still the highest priority for IT spending. The second-highest priority was the need to replace existing employee computing equipment, including laptops, with over 66 percent of government respondents indicating that this was a priority. Because over 90 percent of laptops today come equipped with wireless LAN capability, it's not surprising that this trend is closely coupled with the desire to enable employee mobility.
Benefits of Cisco Unified Wireless Network for State and Local Governments
• Improve logistics and maintenance-Update transportation management systems with passengers served, fuel status, collected revenues, video surveillance logs as they enter airport or station or throughout the city using an outdoor WLAN network.
• Increased responsiveness and control over telecommunications-Offer consistent call quality in-building, track expenses
and integrate into existing voice PBX infrastructure through voice over Wi-Fi.
• Enhance decision making and increase digital inclusion-Utilize guest networks for constituents, system integrators, and vendors in public buildings.
• Track and secure assets-Reduce spending and personnel time locating or repurchasing assets through location services.
• Improved patient services-Deliver instant access to medical records, reach the closest caregiver, and track critical assets
or at-risk patients through a pervasive wireless LAN.
• Engage citizens-Offer online city services guide and Web portals both in public buildings and outdoors.
• Protect the community-Secure highly trafficked thoroughfares and business districts with wireless video surveillance.
Trends Driving Education Network Investments
The Benefits of Cisco Unified Wireless Network Mobility Services for Educational Institutions
• Differentiated guest services-Multileveled wireless access for the community, visiting researchers, conference attendees, students and faculty.
• Lower-cost communication-Voice over wireless LAN using Skype or other software clients helps students reduce the cost of staying connected to relatives and friends back home.
• Making new connections-Finding people with similar interests combines Wi-Fi location services and social networking sites to help students make connections, especially on large campuses.
• Ensuring student and faculty safety-Wireless video surveillance keeps students and faculty safe as they travel in and around campus and the community.
• Protecting campus assets-RFID tags on valuable computing devices and other important research tools helps ensure that their location is known and deters theft.


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Family: Bufonidae, Toads view all from this family
Description 2 1/2-3 3/4" (6-9.5 cm). Mid-size, usually gray-brown toad with light stripe down middle of back. Large brown blotches on back, each with 3 or more rusty warts. Chest unspotted. Prominent cranial crests contact elongate parotoids. Yellow, green, brown, or gray.
Warning Toads have enlarged glands (called the paratoid glands) on the side of the neck, one behind each eye. These glands secrete a viscous white poison that gets smeared in the mouth of any would-be predator, inflaming the mouth and throat and causing nausea, irregular heart beat, and, in extreme cases, death. Toads pose a danger to pets, which may pounce on and bite them. Humans should take care to wash their hands after handling a toad, and to avoid touching the mouth or eyes until having done so.
Voice Plaintive, descending, 1- to 3-second "wraaaaaah."
Breeding March to August. Egg strings are attached to vegetation in shallow water.
Habitat Sandy areas near marshes, irrigation ditches, backyards, and temporary rain pools.
Range Lake Michigan east through most of Pennsylvania to se. New York and s. New England, south to the Gulf coast (excluding coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and most of Florida), west to e. Texas and north to Missouri and s. Illinois.
Discussion This is a common toad in the East, active night and day from April to October. It was formerly considered a subspecies of Woodhouse's Toad.


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These fun and frantic short films—comedy, drama, animation, music videos—tell the twisted tales of terrified souls caught in inescapable situations, trapped inside the machine.
Whether you're hanging out with your best friend's corpse, convinced you've been abducted by aliens, vying for elusive Internet fame, made of uncontrollable rubber material, or trying to escape the cycle of a defective justice system there's a method to the madness and it's often entertaining as hell.
Wawd Ahp (Steven Girard, Josh Chertoff | 3 min.)
A man raps in the mirror, cuts off his head, and has sex with it. There is also a cartoon.
MeTube: August sings Carmen Habanera (Daniel Moshel | 4 min.)
George Bizet`s "Habanera" from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.
Syndromeda (Patrik Eklund | 21 min.)
Leif wakes up on the road—naked and bloody—with no memory of what has happened. No one believes him when he claims he was abducted by aliens.
Late For Meeting (David Lewandowski | 2 min.)
Late for Meeting is the first companion piece to the 2011 short film entitled Going to the Store. A rubbery man makes his way through Los Angeles by any means necessary.
The Runaway (La Fugue) (Jean-Bernard Marlin | 22 min.)
A rehabilitated teenage girl stands before a judge for sentencing. Still, she fears the system is stacked against her. Winner of best short at the Berlin Film Festival.
Kids and Explosions - Swear Words (Thomas Vernay, Yann Wallaert | 3 min.)
Inspired by GIF, this video clip is about the clichés of American antagonisms: Christian thought, homeland love and excesses of the USA.
Rehearsal (Tom Rosenberg | 12 min.)
A surreal study of a simulated terrorist attack in middle America. Composed frames observe the meticulous care taken to create a hyperreal terrorist event. Once the bomb goes off, hundreds of volunteers deliver a convincing performance as stunned and mutilated blast victims.
I'm A Mitzvah (Ben Berman | 18 min.)
A young American man spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.
Bird Courage
Bird Courage met in dark spaces under New York City and together are now forging a new pastoral-astral sound that is drawn from the heart, the land, and the stars. From seeds carefully planted in the heart of Brooklyn, their following is spreading quickly through the North East of the USA and across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe.
"Already raising comparisons to Simon and Garfunkel, Bird Courage play stripped down folk with earthy overtones. The band has an assuming presence with gentle strength in songs like "Blind in Both Eyes" and "Wind and Oak," both of which conjure images of a gray, wooded forest in winter's eve."
- Devon Antonetti, The Deli National.
"A Promising Flee is precious and delicate, moving and passionate. Each song is a pleading ode, a woeful cry, full of intricate acoustic guitar work and vocal harmonies so beautiful and gentle they seem to float away like big, airy clouds. If you like Fleet Foxes, you will love Bird Courage"
- Michelle Geslani, The Music Ninja
"…masterful acoustic guitar is present, as is the stripped-down yet musically rich folk sound the tracks showcase…The dual vocals lend variety to tracks, as the two alternate taking lead, joining together in rich, Simon and Garfunkel style-harmony."
- Lauren Sloss, Indie Shuffle
" Like the exquisite marriage of Iron and Wine and The Tallest Man on Earth, their earnest folk instrumentation and introspective lyrics meld to form a sound that is warm and welcoming…"
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Otis' Lincoln Express MH (Abe) is a 75lb male Chocolate Lab with tons of drive. Born July 2009, he earned his AKC Master Hunter title and qualified for the 2012 Master National as a 2 year old. Abe is a great family dog and pleasure in the duck blind. He has a nice water entry and plenty of style and go in the marsh and field. Dark chocolate with an athletic build, he gets many compliments on his looks. First breeding produced wonderful dark chocolate puppies which were retrieving in water at 8 weeks old.
Abe is out of The Cptn's Sierra Shadow Ale QAA-MH, son of FC Nan-Dool Elwood Blues. His bloodlines include many accomplished retrievers such as NAFC-FC Ebonstar Lean Mac, NFC-AFC Storm's Riptide Star, FC-AFC-CFC-CAFC Barracuda Blue MH, CFC-CAFC BigValley's Costa-Lot Shadow, Candlewood's Cash On The Line, among others. See website for complete pedigree and pictures.
Hips OFA Excellent: LR-193887E24M-VPI
Elbows OFA Normal: LR-EL51730M24-VPI
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EIC Clear: LR-EIC1476/25M-VPI
CNM Clear: LR-CNM11-496-M-PIV
Breeding to approved bitches, stud fee $500 for natural breeding, $650 for frozen (plus shipping), and chilled options sometimes available.
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Every day is a bonus. That's really the way I've started to look at each and every day. This morning I went to our woods to look for paw paws for Doris. She likes them as much as any deer, racoon or possum. We have at least 3 groves in our woods but all of them were bare. I did however find a very deep dusting spopt that was full of turkey feathers.
I kept jumping deer all over the woods. I'd sprayed myself with Deep Woods Off and they smelled me from a long way off, I think.
If there was a market for poison ivy...
At any rate, it was good to be back in the woods and just enjoying the day.
I appreciate so much all of your thoughts, PMs, emails and most of all your prayers through this difficult time for us.


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Family: Gaviidae, Loons view all from this family
Description ADULT In summer has iridescent greenish black head and neck; note two rows of white stripes on neck. Blackish upperparts have checkerboard-like pattern of white spots on mantle and smaller white spots elsewhere. Underparts are white and bill is dark. In winter, has dark gray upperparts and whitish underparts; note dark half collar. Pale gray bill has noticeably darker culmen. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult, but upperparts are brownish gray, scaly-looking on back.
Dimensions Length: 28-36" (71-91 cm)
Habitat Fairly common on large lakes in breeding season. In winter, favors rocky coasts and large lakes inland.
Observation Tips Most fish-rich lakes within breeding range support a pair in summer.
Range Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Northwest, Eastern Canada, California, Texas, Western Canada, New England, Florida, Alaska, Southwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic
Voice Utters evocative, wailing cry and eerie yodeling sound on breeding grounds.
Similar Species Yellow-billed Loon G. adamsii (L 34-35 in) has similar summer and winter plumage. Pale yellow bill is straight, with paler culmen (concave and dark in Common); bill and head are held tilted upward. Juvenile is similar to winter adult with scaly-looking back. Locally common high Arctic breeder. Scarce on east coast in winter. Pacific Loon G. pacifica (L 24-26 in) is smaller, with a daintier bill. In summer, has black back with white checkerboard-like pattern of white spots, white underparts, black throat, and otherwise gray head and neck, with black and white stripes on side; in winter, has mainly dark upperparts and white underparts, throat, and front of neck. Breeds in Arctic, west from Hudson Bay. Winters mainly on Pacific; rare in East.
Discussion Elegant waterbird. Long, pointed bill held horizontally or only slightly elevated. In flight, head and neck held outstretched and feet and legs trailing behind (true of all loons). Dives for fish. Sexes are similar.


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No Roger, I would side with what is best for the American people.
A foreign concept to you.
Can't get any more foreign than this.
No Roger, I would side with what is best for the American people.
A foreign concept to you.
Can't get any more foreign than this.
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I am respectfully requesting that you back off coming after me, because you might catch me.
You are making it personal.
If you catch me, you may not like what will happen.
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LAS VEGAS -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid branded Chinese President Hu Jintao a "dictator" on a TV talk show on Tuesday night, a remark likely to make the start of Hu's first state visit to Washington, D.C., awkward for President Obama at a moment when the U.S. is trying to ease tensions with the Asian power.
Reid was responding to a question from "Face To Face" host Jon Ralston about the December compromise that extended the Bush-era tax cuts. The Nevada senator veered off on a tangent intended to compare the American and Chinese systems of government to give a roundabout defense of the importance of legislative compromise.
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Stan b & Elvis
The three-day trip includes a state dinner on Wednesday and the eighth face-to-face meeting between Obama and the Chinese leader, which administration officials say illustrates the importance of relations between two global powers at a time described by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a "critical juncture."
And Rush Limbaugh is making fun of himHow is that good for America?
Now that you mention it, he sort of looks like the pot bellied pig dictator of North Korea. They may not be related, but they treat their people the same way. Funny that Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner would honor someone such as this with a state dinner. Strike the funny part...it's really pretty bewildering like a lot of things Obama does.
Bill Davis
Do you think Obama is the only president to kiss China's azz?
Who put them on the MFN list? (and that's not a racial slur)
The almighty dollar and commerce trump all....even human rights. What has Cuba done that China hasn't done 10x over, yet we welcome them to state dinners and make the best cigars in the world illegal here?
I realize Obama is the sitting POTUS, and he's a favorite target of many on this list....but to trivialize US-China relations as another of Obama's follies, is very naive, and totally misses the issue.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!


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2011 Grand Theft Auto III Mobile released December 15th
Grand Theft Auto III - General News | @ 12:05 PM MDT | By Ash_735
The Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition, also known as Grand Theft Auto III Mobile, will be released on the 15th of December on the Android Marketplace and the Apple App Store for only $4.99. Rockstar have announced a new trailer will be made to celebrate the release. Below is an updated list of devices that the game will be compatible with along with some released screenshots:
Apple iOS Devices: iPad 1 & 2, iPhone 4 & 4S, iPod touch 4th Generation
Android Phones: HTC Rezound, LG Optimus 2x, Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Droid X2, Motorola Photon 4G, Samsung Galaxy R, T-Mobile G2x
Android Tablets: Acer Iconia, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Dell Streak 7, LG Optimus Pad, Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, Sony Tablet S, Toshiba Thrive
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Single parents are focus of talk, Sept. 27
Posted September 22, 2005; 05:38 p.m.
"Not Married With Children: Should the Government Intervene?" is the topic of a lecture scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in 16 Robertson Hall. Kathryn Edin, a University of Pennsylvania sociologist, and Robert Doar, commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, will deliver the talk.
Edin, an associate professor of sociology and research associate at Penn's Population Studies Center, focuses her research on poverty and social inequality, urban and community sociology, family and gender, public housing, child support and unmarried parents.
Edin has written three books: "There's a Lot of Month Left at the End of the Money: How Low-Income Single Mothers Make Ends Meet in Chicago"; "Making Ends Meet: How Low-Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work" (with Laura Lein); and "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage" (with Maria Kefalas). She currently is writing a book on low-income single fathers.
Doar, a 1983 graduate of Princeton, runs the New York state agency that administers welfare and other assistance programs. He previously served as the agency's executive deputy commissioner and deputy commissioner of child support. His work in child support enforcement earned him a "Golden Heart Award" from the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support.
The lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Well-Being.


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2 October 2013 to 4 October 2013
Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg, Austria
Organised by the International Forum Gastein, the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) is the leading health policy event in the EU and takes place annually. It provides a major platform for decision-makers in various fields of public health & health care. With its wide-ranging three-day programme, the EHFG offers an unparalleled opportunity to exchange information about a broad spectrum of contemporary health issues.