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Hi, I'm really interested in becoming the owner of several 12" versions of the Farmboy to Jedi galactic hero.
Jedi Luke (probably the one with the bone accessory)
Dagobah Luke
Those are the ones I'll most likely pick up. Anyway, could you guys and gals who own those two or any other 12" Luke post pictures or comments?
I'm very undecided about the Hoth, Bespin or Pilot gear versions.
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Michigan State University College of Law's Indigenous Law & Policy Center hosted its 10th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, an interdisciplinary event featuring Anishinaabe scholars from across the country, on October 24 and 25, 2013. This year's event, which was titled "Nd'nakweshkodaadimin: A Gathering of Anishinaabe Scholars," was held in the Castle Board Room.
"We are proud to be able to host this event, to bring in a wide variety of scholars who have one thing in common—they are all Anishinaabe," says Matthew L.M. Fletcher, professor of law and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at MSU Law.
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President Barack Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union to a joint session of Congress on Jan. 28 amid reports that he will seek an agenda emphasizing issues such as income inequality and the environment. The following roundup provides analysis and insight on the issues expected to dominate the president's address.
Income Inequality
Project Syndicate: The Decline of Upward Mobility
At the core of the gap between the rich and poor is lack of upward mobility, not inequality, writes CFR President Richard N. Haass.
CFR Renewing America: New Harvard Study: U.S. Social Mobility Is Not Decreasing
A study from Harvard's Equality of Opportunity Project finds that the chance of going from the bottom income quintile to the top quintile has remained at a fairly constant 8 to 9 percent for everyone born in the second half of the twentieth century, writes CFR's Rebecca Strauss.
Gallup: 67 Percent Dissatisfied With Income, Wealth Distribution
A recent Gallup poll finds two out of three Americans are dissatisfied with current income and wealth distribution in the United States.
New York Times: Fifty Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag
A renewed debate over the government's role in creating opportunity and ending deprivation has been sparked by inequality comparable to the 1920s and the ranks of the poor and near-poor at record highs, writes the Times' Annie Lowrey.
Economist: Growing Apart
The Economist proposes a two-part agenda that draws on ideas from both left and right and aims to reduce boondoggles for the affluent and increasing investment in the young.
Foreign Policy
New Yorker: Going the Distance
Editor David Remnick's wide-ranging piece profiles President Obama as he enters his sixth year in office. Remnick looks ahead to the challenges facing Obama on both the domestic and foreign policy fronts as the president nears lame-duck status.
Washington Post: Why Sunnis and Shias Are Fighting
In this video, reporter Karen DeYoung gives a brief history of the Sunni-Shiite divide and what it means for Iraq's escalating violence.
CFR Podcast: Previewing the President's State of the Union Address
CFR's James Lindsay and Robert McMahon highlight issues that are expected to dominate the president's Tuesday-night address.
Brookings: Big Bets and Black Swans
The foreign policy experts at Brookings offer President Obama and his cabinet a set of policy recommendations to address the critical foreign policy challenges in the year ahead.
Project Syndicate: Stopping the Syria Contagion
If a cease-fire has not been achieved in the next three months, the Obama administration should make the case for military strikes to the American people in terms of straightforward U.S. security interests, writes New America Foundation President Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Foreign Affairs: Winning the Peace by Failing in Geneva
Former State Department officials Jeremy Shapiro and Samuel Charap argue that if Assad blocks a settlement at Geneva II, Russia may move toward greater cooperation with the United States, and together they can facilitate a political resolution among regional supporters of the regime and opposition.
CFR Expert Roundup: Prospects for Afghanistan in 2014
Afghanistan faces a critical year as NATO-led troops draw down, international aid drops, and elections could deliver the country's first democratic transfer of power. Five experts weigh Afghanistan's prospects in 2014.
New York Times Op-Ed: Grabbing the Wolf's Tail
An unraveling of the Afghan state can be avoided, but it will require the international community to stay involved, writes the International Crisis Group's Graeme Smith in this Times op-ed.
Foreign Affairs: No End Game in Sight
The world would be safer if Iran did not enrich uranium, but the United States is not in any position to prevent Iran from doing so, writes the Carnegie Endowment's George Perkovich.
Washington Post: A Deal, Not Détente
"The challenge for Washington today is to defy its history and reach a nuclear agreement with Iran while negating the Islamic Republic's regional ambitions," writes CFR's Ray Takeyh.
Financial Times: Obama Challenge on Selling Trade Deals to Resurgent Left
It remains to be seen if President Obama's economic populism can be squared with his second-term trade agenda, including massive deals with eleven Pacific nations and the EU that could well be sealed within the coming year, writes FT's James Politi.
CFR Report: Trading Up: U.S. Trade and Investment Policy
This scorecard infographic and accompanying progress report analyze the overall health of the U.S. economy by focusing on shifts in global trade and foreign direct investment in the United States.
Immigration Reform
Washington Post: For House Republicans, New Momentum on Immigration Reform
House Republican leaders have signaled that there could be an opening for the White House to achieve a major legislative deal on immigration this year, writes the Post's David Nakamura.
Time: Is There Any Hope for Immigration Reform on the Hill?
While hopes for a bill are high, experience suggests that, at most, only border security will see Congressional approval this year, writes Time's Alex Rogers.
CFR Timeline: U.S. Postwar Immigration Policy
This interactive timeline outlines the evolution of U.S. immigration policy after World War II.
Infrastructure Spending
CFR Renewing America: The Real Challenges to Growth
Achieving full-potential growth requires a shift from consumption-led to investment-led growth, and it has to start with the public sector, writes CFR's Michael Spence.
Financial Times: U.S. Public Investment Falls to Lowest Level Since War
Public investment in the United States has hit its lowest level since post-World War II because of Republican success in obstructing President Barack Obama's push for more spending on infrastructure, science, and education, write the FT's Robin Harding, Richard McGregor, and Gabriel Muller.
Domestic Surveillance
President Obama's Remarks on Results of Signals Intelligence Review
The president discussed changes to the National Security Agencies' operations regarding intelligence collection of American citizens' records at the Department of Justice on January 17, 2014.
Lawfare: The President's Speech–A Striking Omission
CFR's John Bellinger writes that the one striking omission in President Obama's NSA reforms speech was a clear statement about the national security damage caused by Edward Snowden's disclosures.
Slate: Obama's Three Ambitious NSA Reforms
For CFR Murrow Fellow Fred Kaplan, Obama's proposed reforms erect roadblocks that would slow down "the attempt by some future authoritarian president or rogue NSA director to use this treasure trove of metadata for oppressive purposes."
Energy and Climate
CFR Energy Report: Implications of Reduced Oil Imports for the U.S. Trade Deficit
Although falling imports could have significant short-term effects, any improvement in the oil trade balance is likely to be offset in the long run by deterioration in other parts of the U.S. trade balance, writes Robert Lawrence in this CFR report.
New Republic: Two Hundred Things Obama Can Do For the Environment—Without Congress
The New Republic breaks down a report issued by the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE), which suggests more than two hundred executive actions for the president to consider.
New York Times: Kerry Quietly Makes Priority of Climate Pact
The Times' Coral Davenport looks at the secretary of state's goal to become the lead broker of a global climate treaty in 2015 that will commit the United States and other nations to historic reductions in fossil fuel pollution.
CFR Energy Report: The Shale Gas and Tight Oil Boom
The U.S. "shale revolution" could leave some states more vulnerable to energy price swings, write Stephen P.A. Brown and Mine Yucel in this CFR Energy Brief.
CFR Backgrounder: Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing has unlocked huge reserves of shale gas and oil, transforming the energy outlook in the United States and the world, explains this Backgrounder.


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SALTILLO – Hallie Frenn, now pitching at Mississippi Gulf Coast CC, left big shoes to fill in the circle for Saltillo softball. The Lady Tigers' young replacement is growing up on the job.
Eighth grade starting pitcher Karley Williams helped her own cause in a 5-3 win against Mantachie on Monday.
"They got to her a little bit late, but we're trying to let her grow up," Saltillo coach Lee Buse said. "She's doing a good job. We've played a pretty tough schedule and we've been throwing her in the fire a little bit."
In on-again, off-again snow, Morgan Sartin hit a 2-run home run for Saltillo (5-8) in the first inning and Williams added a solo shot in the second.
Madison Sartin drew a two-out walk in the third inning and scored on Lexi Brazeal's RBI single for a 4-0 lead.
In the top of the sixth, Mantachie got on the board with an RBI single from Maggie Oswalt and a second run on an error, but Williams (4-3) got out of a bases-loaded jam with a one-run lead.
"I think she grew up a little bit more tonight," Buse said. "They hit the ball well. They've got a good squad, but we were going to leave her out there and see what she could do.
"At the plate, we got off four really good swings. We've improved every week."
Mantachie (5-3) had only one base runner in the first four innings, but was in it until Williams got a groundout to end the sixth.
Saltillo got one back on Jona Nicholson's RBI double. Mallory Clouse fell to 3-3 with the loss.
"We've been up and down," Mantachie coach Kristy Montgomery said. "We had two or three games we hit really, really well. The weather, too, you can't blame everything on the weather but you just can't get in any kind of rhythm of playing."


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Happy post-holidays Ink Splotters! In the past few weeks I've brought you interviews with Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright (Draco and Ginny), and the Phelps twins (Fred and George). Now I'm back, and you know what that means – another another Harry Potter movie interview! (Insert gasps here.) Can you guess who? I'll give you a few clues.
- Clue #1: She had a huge crush on Ron Weasley.
- Clue #2: Her best friend is Parvati Patil.
- Clue #3: Her name is a color.
If you guessed Lavender Brown, you're correct! Our own Marie Morreale traveled to London to the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I for cast interviews, and got the chance to speak with Jessie Cave who plays Lavender in the final three movies. (Lavender was played by different actresses in the earlier movies.)
Q: When you were reading the Harry Potter books, did you see yourself as the character?
Jessie: Not at all, quite the opposite. I mean I read Half-Blood Prince actually weirdly maybe six months before I got the call to an audition. And when I first read the book I didn't like Lavender at all, and found her really annoying. So then to read it again with me in mind playing her, it was very different. I suddenly realized that actually she's just got this huge crush on a boy. And she does just get heartbroken as well. So I had a lot of empathy for her, as opposed to really disliking her.
[Ratha: I agree!]
Q: She probably is one of the characters fans really don't like. What is their reaction to you?
Jessie: I've gotten loads of really sweet letters really loving Lavender and thinking Ron and Lavender should be together and stuff like that. I don't know. I think she's a source of humor in the film. She's not a caricature but she's very nearly a caricature and I think the response to her is funny.
Q: Have you ever gone through a crush like that?
Jessie: Well, I tried to. I wasn't quite as successful as Lavender, but I remember just getting these huge crushes on boys at school. I remember finding a timetable [class schedule] of one of the boys I fancied, and me and my friends would just follow him around. We knew wherever he was in the school day. I used to walk past his class window, thinking that it would make a difference. That he would see me. I was just pathetic. I shouldn't be repeating it now! I was fourteen or fifteen. Just pathetic!
[Ratha: Don't worry, we've all been there!]
Q: Was it strange coming into an established series where these people had grown up together? Did you have that sort of "new girl in town" vibe?
Jessie: Yeah, it was incredibly strange given that I've watched them onscreen and read the books since I was young. But it was a relief to meet them and to realize they are actually really normal. They were all lovely and welcoming. It was a brilliant experience.
Q: Who do you think you bonded with most?
Jessie: On set? Definitely Emma [Watson who plays Hermione]. I really got on with Emma really well. I thought she was brilliant.
Q: How was it kissing "Ron Ron" (Won-Won) in Half-Blood Prince?"
Jessie: It was weird! It was just so strange, mainly because it was my first day of shooting. You were really plunged into the deep end. There were so many people in the room as well so it was quite scary. But, also because of that, because of the people and the sets, it's quite easy to pretend you're in that world for a minute.
Q: How many times did you have to take the shot?
Jessie: Quite a few times. Because there were different angles, it was a two-day thing!
[Ratha: Hmm. . . I'll bet they went through lots of chapstick.]
Q: Was it easy or difficult for you to play the character?
Jessie: She was really quite liberating to play. It would be nice to be that free with your emotions and your feelings, and profess your love to people. She's quite energetic and so she's quite fun to play.
Q: What is the best memory that you're going to take away?
Jessie: I think the best memory will be my final day of shooting [Half-Blood Prince] and we were over there in the Weasley Wizard Sweet Shop, which I just love because I used to be an illustrator. I did art. And every single box of sweets was decorated and designed and was beautiful and I just remember thinking, "This is brilliant." But not only that, it was because I knew it was coming to an end the filming. It was such a beautiful day and I remember being so happy that I'd been in this film, and I just remember I loved everything about it.
[Ratha: That's awesome. I think it's those moments that we get flashes of every now and then, that put everything in perspective, and make us really appreciate our lives.]
Q: What book do you think Lavender would recommend to read?
Jessie: Probably something like the Twilight series (for ages 12 and up), because she's such a romantic and they've got great love stories going on in them. So I think she would have read them, and wanted to fall in love with a vampire.
Q: If you could play another character in the Harry Potter series, who would it be?
Jessie: I'd love to play Professor Trelawney or Professor Dolores Umbridge, because they're eccentric characters and I love the glasses Trelawney wears.
There you have it! Keep reading the Harry Potter books and look for more Harry Potter cast interviews, streamlined straight from Ink Splot 26 into your brain. . . as we approach that magical moment – the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I on November 19, 2010.
— Ratha, Stacks Writer
Interview by Marie Morreale
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Left-right: Anselm Kiefer Abendland [Twilight of the West] 1989; Louise BOURGEOIS C.O.Y.O.T.E. [previously known as The blind leading the blind] 1941-48; Robert Smithson Rocks and mirror square II 1971; Donald Judd Untitled 1974; Max Ernst Habakuk 1934/70 bronze Purchased with the assistance of the National Australia Bank 2006; Ken Unsworth Suspended stone wallpiece 1976; Anthony Caro Duccio variations no.7 2000 sandstone and steel On loan from Kenneth Tyler and Marabeth Cohen-Tyler; Constantin BRANCUSI L'oiseau dans l'espace [Birds in space] c.1931-1936; Bronwyn Oliver Garland 2006 copper On loan
The National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery, the only gallery dedicated entirely to sculpture in an Australian art institution, is opened at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007.
The gallery space shows new acquisitions alongside sculptures that are already part of the Gallery's significant collection. It will be known as the National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery for 10 years in recognition of a new arts partnership between the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and National Australia Bank (NAB). This initiative is part of the National Gallery of Australia's 25th Birthday celebrations.
The arts partnership, announced previously by Mr Rupert Myer AM, Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia Council, includes the commitment of a significant seven-figure investment over the next four years for acquisitions.
Several acquisitions were displayed for the first time in the new gallery space, including a very significant sculpture by famous European Surrealist Max Ernst (1891–1976), which has been acquired with the assistance of the National Australia Bank.
The bronze sculpture Habakuk, Max Ernst's largest work of art is a dark, towering, bird-like column, which has a commanding presence, slightly threatening, like a giant bird about to peck you. It is also comic, a person transformed into another form of being. Habakuk is named after a biblical prophet. The Book of Habakuk is one of the last, and shortest, books of the Old Testament, in which Habakuk asks God to curse his enemies. These include the makers of idols, that is, sculptors:
Max Ernst Habakuk 1934/70 bronze Purchased with the assistance of the National Australia Bank 2006
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Habukuk will be joined by other recently-acquired works of art such as Maria Feranda Cardoso's complex interconnected starfish work Woven water: submarine 2003, Cy Twombly's extraordinarily powerful, attenuated monument Untitled 2005 and Shu Min-Lin's Glass ceiling 1997-2001 a dynamic interactive holographic installation.
"Over 12 months of planning, extensive restoration, refurbishment and re-lighting of the original space within the Gallery is now completed and our audiences can enjoy seeing Brancusi's iconic Birds in space 1931-36reinstated within a reflecting pool in this most beautiful gallery in the building", said Ron Radford, Director or NGA.
"The new NAB Sculpture Gallery places Australian sculpture firmly within the context of international sculptural tradition – our visitors will see Australian pieces side by side with the finest European and American works in our collection", he said.
John Stewart, Group Chief Executive Officer of the National Australia Bank, said "We are delighted to be able to partner with the National Gallery of Australia to create this exciting new sculpture space. A vibrant and dynamic arts culture is part of Australia's unique character, and to be able to help the development of Australian artists through the Gallery's exhibition and acquisition program is something that we are very proud to be part of".
The new National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery will be opened for public viewing within the Gallery's display of the permanent collection from Wednesday 23 May 2007, admission is free.


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Waikiki one block from the beach, on the roof of Eaton Square. Jeremy, Romina, Lucija, Britta, Simon and Pete met on the roof top of Eaton Square, 36 stories up. Jasmine stopped by too for a barbecue with some friends. She had shot up at Tantalus with Galina and Pete earlier in the day. Romina is from Germany, Lucija from Slovenia, Britta from Atlanta, Jeremy from Southern California, Jasmine from Canada, Simon from Kauai, Galina from the Dominican Republic and Pete from Oahu.
There is a heavy, plastic, tinted glass barrier that's over 6 feet high and surrounding the pool, barbecue grills and lounge area. We had no ladder and the tripod didn't extend above the barrier.
So we stacked two round plastic-topped tables on top of each other and hoped for stability. The four metallic legs of the one table fit into the aluminum rim of the other. We had no ladder and stacked chairs was too dangerous and scary to climb on top of at the corner of the building. We decided to set up on the ground and hoped the trigger mechanism wouldn't slide off in the middle of the shoot.
Thankfully it wasn't windy. So the team calibrated and tried to account for the angle six feet up that we would be placing the camera, and the y-axis we would be lifting the camera up to. The table looked pretty level, though there was a subtle and inevitable warp in the circular plastic top. We calibrated horizontally and vertically, but we could have set a more extreme down angle, that was one of the features about being up there, the canyons below; and we didn't foresee the camera angle drifting below the horizon after the 180 degree mark.
We ordered pizza and watched the sun set. You can see over the Alawai to people playing in the park on the mauka side to Magic Island on the makai side (proposed "Barack Obama Park" by Mayor Mufi Hannemann--yikes on that idea!).
Unfortunately our makeshift jib had an unstable foundation, and even the Kolor stitcher could not equalize the per-picture calibration. The collapse of images from the corner turn of the building to sundown to the west, is like a dreamy slide into deep sleep. Interesting how Western reading (left to right) is replicated here in the language of nature.
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From Ancient Greek δυάς (dyás), δυάδ- (dyád-) from Ancient Greek δύο (dýo) from Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó,*duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁). "dyad" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
dyad (plural dyads)
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
1908, W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, translation of original by Aristotle:
- ... positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; ...
- (music) any set of two different pitch classes.
- A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
- "For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling),..." Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides - The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach, p. 20
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Coins and counters are fun! You can use them to track your level, your slack, your victory points, or whatever. They're doubly awesome when they're pretty and look like coins right out of a fantasy setting. That's what Rare Elements is doing with their Elemental Fantasy Currency Kickstarter. Those things are very, very pretty. Go take a look!
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Deeplinks Blog posts about The Global Network Initiative
This week EFF attended a meeting of the Human Rights Working Group of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a global industry forum that includes many of the world's largest IT and communications companies, including AT&T, BlackBerry, HP, Microsoft, Telefónica, Verizon, and Vodafone.
Responding to both global and regional calls for industry to share more responsibility for the human rights impacts of ICT products and services, GeSI's human rights project aims to enliven greater vigilance amongst its members as to the human rights impacts of their activities throughout the supply chain.
The United Kingdom's draft Communications Data Bill, more commonly known as the Snoopers' Charter, has drawn a sharp critique from the Global Network Initiative (GNI). In a submission to the UK Parliament's Communications Data Bill Joint Scrutiny Committee, the organization outlined serious concerns with the proposed legislation, which would expand governmental powers to access the online communications of all UK citizens.
GNI is a coalition of companies, civil society organizations (including EFF), investors and academics working collaboratively to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the Information Communications and Technology (ICT) sector.
On April 18, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) released its annual report documenting third-party assessments conducted in 2011 and 2012 for GNI's three founding corporate participants: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. GNI was formed to bring major Internet companies together with human rights organizations to improve practices around human rights, privacy and freedom of expression on the Internet. In the past year, GNI expanded to include two more corporate participants—Evoca and Websense—and Facebook has recently joined the organization as an observing member. GNI has also added seven new non-corporate members—NGOs and investors from all over the world.
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Thinking some more about the trust thing I've decided that the whole scheme using 'open source contributions' as the basis for certification is completely orthogonal to the problem of keeping the signal boosted on a message board.
After all someone with a Masters in English (and I have someone in mind who fits this example perfectly) might be able to comment quite well on technology issues, or even open source itself. They would, should the certifications be accurate, be unable to post though.
OTOH, I, which would most fairly be called a 'Master' in this system by virtue of the amount of time I spend on cetus-links.org and other open source projects (easily 40 hours a week both paid on non), am not always to most interesting guy to listen to rant on a given topic.


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One would think with the shellacking and beatdown they took last week, losing the vote in all groups of color and losing the women's vote, the GOP would be interested in increasing the size of their 'tent'.
Can't even bother with the low hanging fruit (it's a cliche, not an aspersion) of adding another old white guy to their senate caucus, in this case, an independent who expected to be approached by both parties.
"Sen.-elect Angus King, I-Maine, surprised no one Wednesday morning when he announced that he would caucus with the Senate Democrats, bringing the number in that caucus to 55 for the new Congress.
�I wanted to maintain my independence as long and as thoroughly as possible,� King said. He added that �it simply wouldn�t be practical� to not join either caucus." Web Link
AS Roll Call said, it's not a shocker.
What is shocking? The GOP didn't even bother to try to get King.
"Angus King also said Mitch McConnell never called him."
King isn't crazy enough for the republicans. No sense trying to get a sane person to join the GOP caucus.
Democrats know have a senate lead , 55 - 45.


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I also thought godix's sig about that one editor's profile sucking so bad was actually my profile so I changed my profile because of it and checked the next day to see if it still linked to my profile and realized it was some script or such and just lol'd.
It actually seems I was trying to be quite helpful even if my suggestions were a bit stupid.
I also joined all the meps (quite a bit anyways) despite only contributing to a couple.
Ahh, those were the days.


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I love the color palette of this wedding. It's lovely and soft with the perfect amount of style, and carried beautifully throughout the entire party. And the images from Carla Marie? Equally lovable. They tell the prettiest story of a couple head over heels in love, and you can see every last gorgeous moment right here in the full gallery of images.
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Posted October 17, 2008; 02:03 p.m.
Sung-In Jun, a professor of economics at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea, will present "An Introduction to the Financial Industry of Korea: Achievements and Challenges" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in 219 Burr Hall.
The lecture is the second in a three-part series on "The New Korean Economy" organized by Un-Chan Chung, a Princeton graduate alumnus and president emeritus of Seoul National University.
Chung is a visiting fellow this fall with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, which is sponsoring the lecture series. A leading economist, Chung is spending the semester at Princeton to lend his expertise to the University's expanding focus on Korean studies.


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Shares of speech recognition technology provider Nuance Communications (NUAN) are up 32 cents, or 2.4%, at $13.42, after the stock got some mixed messages today, with UBS's Brent Thill cutting his rating on the shares to Neutral from Buy, but boutique research outfit Standpoint Research starting coverage with a Buy rating and an $18 price target.
The reports today follow a weaker-than-expected quarterly and year outlook on Monday afternoon, with the company telling the Street that the move to cloud computing makes revenue patterns less predictable. Nuance said analysts may have to look to its bookings report, not top-line growth, as the best gauge of its business for the foreseeable future.
Thill, cutting his price target to $14 from $22, writes that "we have low conviction on growth guide for rev +5% (mid-pt) and bookings +15%."
As reasons, he cites: "(1) broad deterioration throughout FY13; (2) highly complex pdt line & pricing model; (3) gradual & unclear pace of shift to ratable model; (4) multi-yr headwinds in healthcare SaaS transcription, smartphones, & consumer desktop software. "
On the plus side, the company's newer products, such as the healthcare product "Clintegrity," and products for mobile, show "better-than-expected traction." He also thinks it's possible activist investors may prompt shareholder-friendly action come the 2014 annual meeting. (Nuance added two representatives of Icahn Enterprises on October 8th.)
But there are "headwinds" to the company's "legacy" products, he writes, and a stated goal of expanding the company's operating profit margin by 2 or 3 percentage points seems "ambitious."
"We recommend stepping aside to a Neutral rating until visibility improves," Thill concludes.
Standpoint's Ronnie Moas, on the other hand, writes in a brief missive that he will produce a 15-page report on Nuance come December 9th. For the moment, his main point is that technical indicators were weak going into Monday's report, but now that many have been washed out of the stock, the stock is a nice price for good company:
When I looked at it a few weeks ago (@ $16) the chart and rising short interest is was what kept me on the sidelines [...] Yesterday I got the wash-out and entry point I was waiting for. Nuance shares have now dropped by nearly 50% since February and are attractive. This is a solid company with a $4 bln market capitalization. Now trading at 12X adjusted and lowered estimates for next year, NUAN has doubled its revenues from $1 bln to $2 bln in less than five years and revenues are up 5X since the 2006 level of $400 mln. The voice recognition market should grow at near double-digit rates annually for at least a few more years and will top $60 bln by 2016. Apple uses Nuance software on its iPhones and hospitals use the software as it helps cut expenses. Apple and Google are working on their own voice recognition software and the market has probably already priced this in. NUAN is being targeted by activists and that should support the stock in the near-term and hopefully boost the stock in the medium-term. The recently reported quarter was solid but the lower-than-expected FY14 EPS guidance caused some noise yesterday. The Nuance transition to on-demand offerings will require additional investment and more than what was previously expected [...] Revenue guidance for FY14 was only revised slightly downwards to $2.06 bln from $2.07 bln – the problem will be in the near-term on the cost end and a shifting business model. Going into the news from Monday evening, short interest was 18,000,000 mln shares … the stock traded 70,000,000 shares since yesterday. So, you had some short covering but there were also investors stepping in to buy this name < $14. In my opinion, the buyers will look smarter than the sellers 12-18 months from now … probably much sooner.


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H&M Gave Us An Early Valentine's Day Gift In The Form Of These Candid David Beckham Underwear Photos
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To help promote their David Beckham underwear line, H&M recently enlisted auteur Guy Ritchie to film a sexy commercial in which Becks himself is chased around his neighborhood wearing only his David Beckham for H&M skivvies. And happy Thursday, they've just posted a whole bunch of preview material on the internet. "For me, this felt like more than a campaign – it was like directing a short film," says Ritchie. Blah blah blah. Pics or it didn't happen! Luckily, there are also some of those. I also find it worth noting that H&M is audacious enough to call the forthcoming ad "a Valentine's gift in and of itself." Normally I'd mock their "cocky" attitude, but judging from the candid shots released so far, I'm inclined to believe them. More


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A recent study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that in almost all of 268 pregnant women tested, eight different types of chemicals were found in their bodies. Chemicals found include pesticides, flame retardants, PFCs from non-stick cookware, phthalates, car exhaust pollutants and even DDT, a chemical that has been banned since 1979!
These toxins can pass right through the placenta and into the fetus. In fact, a previous study, done by the Environmental Working Group, found that unborn babies carry over 200 different chemicals in their bodies, even before they are born.
The study in pregnant women looked for 163 different chemicals, so it only scratches the surface, because over 80,000 new chemicals are introduced each year. The chemical bisphenol A (BPA) was found in 96 percent of these women. Prenatal BPA exposure has been linked to adverse health outcomes, affecting brain development and susceptibility to cancer in later life.
Certain chemical levels found in these women were at levels known to be harmful to children. While concerning, this does not even take into account the additive effect that chemicals have, which is considered to be more dangerous because new chemical compounds can be formed when chemicals mix, and little is known about the possible consequences of this.
Toxins are everywhere. We live in a toxic soup. We can reduce our exposure, but we cannot prevent it. That's why a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, and supporting the health of the body's channels of elimination (colon, liver, kidneys, lymph, blood, lungs and skin) are so vital to reducing the harmful effects that toxins can have on our health.


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Topics: "Jay Cooke State Park Re-Opens" & "Wisconsin U.S. Senate Debate" & "Lake Superior Art Glass"
Description: Jay Cooke State Park, closed since June due to flood damage, will re-open on Monday. Tonight, an update on what visitors can expect.
The candidates vying for Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat met in Wausau for a debate this week, we'll have an excerpt.
And a new downtown Duluth business is featured in a poster on display in 7,000 Starbucks outlets across the country.
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READERS afflicted by pavement cyclists may be interested in a device my brothers and I made a few years ago for a TV programme. It consisted of a steel plate studded with spikes and hinged at one end which could be attached to a walking stick and folded up. On the approach of an errant cyclist on the footpath, a flick of a finger could deploy this mini stinger into the cyclist's path. The resultant punctures to a bike tyre immediately transformed the rider to a pedestrian.
P W Anderson, Consett , County Durham
This declaration of cold war by the Echo has just been warmed up somewhat by a snappy response by blogger Karl McCracken:
The thing is, I've been thinking for some time that I need a sting in my own tail . Just as PW Anderson feels the need for a first-strike weapon against bicycles, I feel I need one against certain drivers. In this crazy arms race, I've realised that I need something to really discourage those drivers who think they can pass as close as they like - so long as they don't actually hit you , there's no harm done. Here's what I've come up with:
Could this be what is termed the "Green Economy" in action, the "jobs answer" to the proposed slashing of North East jobs by our new government? Whatever, we look forward to the Northern Echo's next joyful celebration of cyclist bashing.
PS Memo to Peter Barron : Many new cyclists use pavements, particularly alongside busy roads, when there is no cycle path. Discuss.


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Gold To Struggle Once Again, Morgan Stanley Says
Morgan Stanley's commodity strategists this morning predict the price of gold won't hold onto the $1,300-$1,350 range it's been gamely occupying of late.
The firm's Joel B. Crane, Adan Longson and five coauthors argue instead that gold will "struggle to perform in the face of rising real interest rates, bond yields and USD" (the U.S. dollar).
The group characterizes gold's recent rebound as a "bounce" that was "overdue" following five quarters of declines and heavy ETF outflows. They're also eyeing trading volume skeptically. As they put it:
The rally has also been characterized by relatively low volume trading that can amplify directional trends, which has in turn led to a technical breakout (e.g., closing above the key resistance level 100-day moving average, a feat gold only managed 3 times during 2013).
The firm has a $1,160 price estimate for 2014 and $1,138 for 2015, and an estimate of gold's current marginal cost of production at $1,200.
Glum forecast or not, the market for gold futures looks strong Monday, with the most actively traded contract gaining 0.9% to $1,335. SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is also ahead by 0.9%.
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) are ahead by 1.2% and 2.7%, respectively. iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is rising 1.2%.
The leveraged Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NUGT) and Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X Shares (DUST) are moving by roughly 2.5%-4% in Monday trading.


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Athletics Working Group Announcement
April 25, 2012
Dear Emerson community,
I recently announced that beginning in 2013–14, Emerson College will join the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), whose membership includes highly selective colleges and universities: Babson College, Clark University, Coast Guard Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Our NEWMAC association will offer our student-athletes the opportunity to develop their capacities for leadership, excellence, and collaboration in association with a distinguished group of institutions.
In anticipation of our NEWMAC membership, I have established an Athletics Working Group whose purpose will be to develop a strategic plan to strengthen our athletics program in support of our educational mission. In order to complete successfully its work, the Working Group should:
- Develop a philosophy statement and role of the athletics program at Emerson College, including non-intercollegiate and fitness programs;
- Meet with students, faculty, and athletics staff to assess program strengths and areas of improvement;
- Review intercollegiate athletics, non-intercollegiate, and fitness programs with respect to facilities and operations needs;
- Assess intercollegiate recruitment and enrollment strategies; and
- Develop short and long-term strategies to improve the athletics programs, especially the student-athletic intercollegiate experience.
Intercollegiate athletics, club sports, and fitness programs represent an important aspect of Emerson College undergraduate life. Intercollegiate athletics competition, in particular, should aid the educational experience.
At their best, athletics broaden, rather than narrow, the educational experience. They contribute to the emotional and personal growth of student-athletes. They help student-athletes to make choices and to take responsibility for those choices; student-athletes increase in confidence as they grow in competence; participation teaches flexibility, adaptability, and how to work and get along with others. Athletics teaches student-athletes to be leaders––on, as well as off, the playing fields and arenas––thus preparing them to assume their roles as effective citizens of the larger society after they graduate.
During the last several weeks, I have met with student-athletes in groups and individually, many of whom expressed their disappointment and frustration with their intercollegiate athletics experience.
All of them arrived at Emerson with the hope of making a positive contribution to the College, and now many of them will graduate with a sense of lost opportunities, dashed hopes, and diminished pride. Inadequate resources and a lack of support are cited as key areas for improvement.
Ron Ludman, Dean of Students, has agreed to chair the Working Group. We will announce the group's membership soon.
The Working Group, which will begin its work in the Fall Term 2012–13, will submit its report to me no later than February 1, 2013.