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Description The Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme), also known as the Alfalfa Butterfly and in its larval stage as Alfalfa Caterpillar, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the "yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico, but is absent from the central and southeastern USA.
C. eurytheme belongs to a lowland group of clouded yellows (or as they are known in North America, "sulphurs"), Colias. Other members of this lineage including the Common or Clouded Sulphur (C. philodice) and Colias eriphyle and Colias vitabunda that are often included in C. philodice as subspecies.
Hybridization runs rampant between these, making phylogenetic analyses relying exclusively on one type of data (especially mtDNA sequences) unreliable. Therefore little more can be said about its relationships, except that it is perhaps closer to C. (p.) eriphyle than generally assumed, strengthening the view that the latter should be considered a good species.
The Orange Sulphur's caterpillars feed off various species in the pea family (Fabaceae) and are usually only found feeding at night. Occasionally this species multiplies to high numbers, and can become a serious pest to Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) crops.
Dimensions 1 5/8-2 3/8" (41-60 mm).
Habitat Canyons & caves, Cities, suburbs & towns, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Grasslands & prairies, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Shorelines & salt marshes.
Range Eastern Canada, New England, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Western Canada, Southwest, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Texas, Southeast, Florida, California.


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It had been discussed, sometime in the past, by several members of these forums. Will Uncle George bridge the trilogies by possibly using the lost "Luke with the macrobinoculars" scene at the end of Episode III.
I think that it would be a nice flash forward to Episode IV and tying in the infant Luke with the Luke was had first been introduced to.
I envision the last shots as a fade out on an infant Luke and then a fade in on young adult Luke with the melancholy reading of "The Force Theme" playing (akin to the one played when he is looking at the sunset in IV). Luke looks to the sky with the macrobinoculars as the shot closes in on his face, following up the macrobinoculars and then wiping to the end credits starfield.
So... basically, does anyone else feel that Mr. Lucas will or will not bridge the trilogies?

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09 Apr 2006
The Guardian on Helen of Troy and Opera
She'll always have Paris
Sexual icon, dark temptress or a smutty comedienne? Helen of Troy has fascinated writers and composers for centuries.
Riccardo Frizza is a young Italian conductor whose performances in Europe and the United States are getting rave reviews. He tells us of his love for the operas of Verdi, Bellini, and particularly Donizetti.
On Saturday evening April 1, 2017, Placido Domingo and Los Angeles Opera celebrated their tenth year of training young opera artists in the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Program. From the singing I heard, they definitely have something of which to be proud.
What's an artist's place in politics? That's the question many were asking after actress Meryl Streep made a pointed speech criticizing President Trump at the Golden Globes. Trump responded directly to Streep, using his preferred communication medium of Twitter to call Streep "overrated."
In 2015, Bampton Classical Opera's production of Salieri's La grotta di Trofonio - a UK premiere - received well-deserved accolades: 'a revelation ... the music is magnificent' (Seen and Heard International), 'giddily exciting, propelled by wit, charm and bags of joy' (The Spectator), 'lively, inventive ... a joy from start to finish' (The Oxford Times), 'They have done Salieri proud' (The Arts Desk) and 'an enthusiastic performance of riotously spirited music' (Opera Britannia) were just some of the superlative compliments festooned by the critical press.
How many singers does it take to make an opera? There are single-role operas - Schönberg's Erwartung (1924) and Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies (1969) spring immediately to mind - and there are operas that just require a pair of performers, such as Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart i Salieri (1897) or The Telephone by Menotti (1947).
The college administration and President Denise Battles' recent decision to defund the Finger Lakes Opera came as a shock to many and a concern to more. This decision reflects the administration's blatant disregard for the arts and reveals a mindset that is counterproductive to the mission of the college.
Lucerne Festival announces its 2017 Summer Festival.
The GRAMMY Award-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an all-new production inspired by the splendor and music of the palace of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father's pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France.
Louis Karchin's Jane Eyre, a full-length opera in three acts with a libretto by Diane Osen based on Charlotte Bronte's novel, will receive its world premiere at The Kaye Playhouse (Hunter College) on Thursday, October 20, 7:30pm with a second performance on Saturday, October 22, 8pm. Jane Eyre is Karchin's second opera, composed in 2014, following his critically acclaimed one-act comic opera Romulus.
Cambridge, MA–The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Melinda Sullivan to the new position of the Lucy Graham Dance Director.
Kseniia Muslanova from the Russian Federation has won the 3rd annual Elizabeth Connell Prize for aspiring dramatic sopranos held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Sydney Australia on 3 September 2016.
Victory Hall Opera is a new company making its debut in Charlottesville Virginia on August 14, 2016. Its first presentation will be Richard Strauss's and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Rosenkavalier.
Lyric soprano Elizabeth Caballero's signature role is Violetta in La traviata, which she portrays with a compelling interpretation, focused sound, and elegant coloratura that floats through the opera house as naturally as waves on the ocean.
Maria Nockin interviews baritone Brian Mulligan.
I arrive at the Jerwood Space, where rehearsals are underway for Garsington Opera's forthcoming production of Idomeneo, to find that the afternoon rehearsal has finished a little early.
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A Double-Bill of Divine Comedies
With its merry-go-round exchange of deluded and bewitched lovers, an orphan-turned-princess, a usurped prince, a jewel and a flower with magical properties, a march to the scaffold and a meddling 'mistress-of-ceremonies' who encourages the young lovers to disguise and deceive, William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring has all the ingredients of an opera buffa.
Kathleen Kelly is an internationally renowned pianist, coach, conductor, and master teacher. She was the first woman and first American named Director of Musical Studies at the Vienna State Opera.
Atsuto Sawakami is a slightly built man in his late sixties with impeccable, gentlemanly manners. He communicates a certain restless energy and his piercingly bright eyes reveal an undimmed appetite for life.
She'll always have Paris
Sexual icon, dark temptress or a smutty comedienne? Helen of Troy has fascinated writers and composers for centuries.
By Tim Ashley [Guardian, 7 April 2006]
Just before Christmas 1864, La Belle Hélène, Offenbach's operetta about Helen of Troy, sex and impending war, opened at the Thêatre des Variétés in Paris. Offenbach had turned the myth of Helen, her elopement with Paris and the build-up to the Trojan conflict into an erotic satire on a hedonistic society oblivious to the fallout from its own actions. In the title role he cast a woman called Hortense Schneider. A great beauty and something of a grande horizontale, she was as famous for her raunchy delivery on stage as for the succession of lovers she took off it; the men in her life included the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII.


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Family: Anatidae, Ducks and Geese view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mainly black and white plumage. Rounded, peaked head appears dark in poor light, but iridescent green in sunshine. Note beady yellow eye and striking white oval patch at base of bill. Eclipse male resembles an adult female, but retains his more striking white wing pattern. ADULT FEMALE Gray-brown body plumage separated from dark brown head by pale neck. Note beady yellow eye. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but with dark eye.
Dimensions Length: 16-20" (41-51 cm)
Habitat Common and widespread. In summer, found on wooded lakes, nesting in tree holes. In winter, commonest on coasts, although also found on ice-free inland lakes across region.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Alaska, Western Canada, Florida, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Southeast, Eastern Canada, New England, California, Texas, Northwest
Voice Displaying male utters squeaky calls. Otherwise silent.
Discussion Robust diving duck. Both sexes are similar to their Barrow's counterpartsósee that species' description for differences. In flight, white on inner upper wings is more extensive in male than female.


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Hotel discounts, including at Walt Disney World, have been added to the Bar's Member Benefits Program.
The Board of Governors at its recent Amelia Island meeting approved the recommendation of the Member Benefits Committee to add discounts for the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort and the Wyndham Hotel Group to the benefits program.
Bar members will get 35 percent off Swan and Dolphin "rack rates" or the best available rate at the Starwood website, whichever is less, and receive a complimentary upgrade to a resort view room, if available.
Other advantages include free transportation to Disney theme parks and attractions, access to extra hours at theme parks offered to resort guests, complimentary parking at Disney theme parks, and complimentary child care when dining at one of the resort's signature restaurants.
The Swan and Dolphin will also create a special webpage for Bar members, which will be linked to the Bar's Member Benefits webpage.
The Wyndham Hotel program will offer Bar members a 20 percent discount off the best available rates at 13 hotel brands — covering 7,000 hotels — associated with the company. Those brands are Wyndham Hotels, Ramada Worldwide, Travelodge, Knights Inn, Howard Johnson, Super 8, Red Roof Inn, Days Inn, Night, Dream Hotels, Baymont Inn & Suites, Motel 6, and Planet Hollywood.
Wyndham also will develop a webpage for the Bar program.
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Anyone hunt quail with a lab? If so any tips?
Anyone hunt quail with a lab? If so any tips?
Yep...hunt them like you would any other upland fowl...of course, I am in the midwest and only hunting bobwhites, when we can find them...your desert quail may be another story...
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The main part of the covey will explode and fly all directions....but often a couple stay where the covey was, so let your dog go back and check.
Helps if you have a pointing lab
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Work on quartering and steadiness to the shot ahead of hunting. If you are able to hunt across the border in Baja, coveys of several hundred birds are common. You will not be able to replicate the excitement of even a thirty bird covey in training, so be prepared to concentrate more on training than hunting in the beginning.
Quail are low flying birds, so a dog that breaks when the quail start flying or when you put one down will jeopardize taking a second or third shot. It may even put the dog in danger of getting shot
Cactus is a constant problem when quail hunting. I train my dogs to sit without trying to extract the cactus themselves. Sometimes I realize that my dog is not with me and look back and see him sitting patiently behind me several hundred yards, waiting for his master to come pull out a large chunk of cholla. I wear the diagonal cutters in a holster from my fishing tackle box. I find the "dikes" are the most efficient tool for removing the spines. I have a collapsible cordura nylon water bowl in my hunting vest and carry at least a quart of water for the dog.
Quail are low flying birds, so a dog that breaks when the quail start flying or when you put one down will jeopardize taking a second or third shot. It may even put the dog in danger of getting shot
Can't agree more with the above statement. I wouldn't hunt quail with a dog that wasn't steady to wing & shot. Safety First.
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I use my lab in training with my pointing dogs. She is used to go find the bird that escapes and brings it back so I can manage the field and where the birds are for training the pointers. She handles them softly and delivers them live. Only killed one last summer and I think it died when she pulled it out of heavy cover. As far as hunting upland, she hunts close and slows down and watchs me for the sit command when she gets on birds. Don
If you can find a hunting buddy with an experienced Quail dog, your dog might be best served by running & learning from them. That will save you a bunch of time, trying to teach the game. Also rattlesnake shots & avoidance; quail are the gamefowl where you're probably the most likely to run across snakes.
"They's Just DAWGS"; "I train dogs, Not papers"
"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
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Keep you and your family cozy with the Sunpentown Ceramic Tower Heater (SH-1960B). This lightweight heater provides warmth to your entire room, and the versatility of this heating unit allows it to double as a fan. The built-in digital thermometer displays the temperature in an LCD display and allows you to control and maintain the temperature settings throughout the room. With a temperature range between 50 and 86 degrees F, this heater ensures that you will stay your warmest and coziest during those bitter cold winter months.
An 8 hour on/of timer allows you to set your heater to heat the room and turn off even when you aren't there to do so, and the included remote control allows you to control the air flow and settings from all the way across the room. As an oscillating heater, you can be sure that your entire room will be filled with warmth, while the four (4) heat settings let you change it to the optimal temperature. With safety features like a thermo cut-off protection and a tip over safety switch, you can rest assured that your kids will be safe when near this heater. Perfect for any household, this heating unit will keep you warm for a long time.
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|Origami, the human art of paper sculpture, is a fresh challenge for the field of robotic manipulation, and provides a concrete example for many difficult and gen- eral manipulation problems. This thesis will present some initial results, including the world's first origami-folding robot, some new theorems about foldability, defi- nition of a simple class of origami for which I have designed a complete automatic planner, analysis of the kinematics of more complicated folds, and some observa- tions about the configuration spaces of compound spherical closed chains.
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Reporter to discuss 2008 presidential race, Nov. 5
Posted October 31, 2007; 01:35 p.m.
Carl Cannon, White House correspondent for the National Journal, will give a talk titled "Mixing Race, Religion, Gender, War and YouTube: The 2008 Presidential Trail" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Cannon began covering the White House in 1993 for The Baltimore Sun and remained on the beat after moving to the National Journal in 1998. The following year, he was honored for his White House coverage with the prestigious Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting of the Presidency.
Cannon is a co-author of "Boy Genius," a biography of White House aide Karl Rove. He also wrote "The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War," a 2003 book exploring how American leaders have employed the language of the Declaration of Independence in times of national crisis. He has covered every presidential campaign and political convention since 1984.
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Posted February 22, 2001; 11:37 a.m.
Donnica Moore '81 and Catherine Keyser '01 will be awarded the first Friends of the Princeton Women's Center's Women's Leadership Awards at a ceremony and reception Saturday.
Moore, a physician, is a highly regarded expert on women's health issues who has received more than 30 awards for her achievements in medicine and business. The founder and president of the Sapphire Women's Health Group, a healthcare consulting firm, Moore also is the women's health expert on NBC's "Later Today" and founder and president of www.DrDonnica.com, a women's health information Website.
Keyser is a senior majoring in English and hopes to pursue a doctorate in 20th-century British and American literature. She has produced and directed several theatrical works at Princeton, including "Singular Women" and "Educating Rita." Her own play, "Welcome Home, Virginia Woolf" won the National Young Playwrights' Festival this past fall. Keyser also is the author of "Transforming the Tiger: A Celebration of Undergraduate Women at Princeton" which is scheduled to be published in March.
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This time I am setting my alert on my ipad so I don't miss it. I NEED this chat.
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I'm going to try to be there!
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I wish I could make the chat -- but we will be out. Have fun and let me know what I missed!
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Ahh sorry to miss you Diane! And Andrea and Jayme hope to see you there!
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Great chat, ladies! I actually got my layouts done:
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The long awaited, supposedly bipartisan senate bill is now out. Interestingly, Baucus dropped the bipartisan effort at the last minute rejecting at least a dozen proposed GOP amendments.
It has no public option per se but it is loaded with stiff penalties with families facing tax penalties as high as $3,800 a year for not complying, singles $950. As one resident of Massachusetts where Mitt Romney imposed an individual mandate in 2006, this is like taxing the homeless for not buying a mansion.
His plan remains a public option by other means....imposing vast new national insurance regulation, huge new subsidies to pay for the higher insurance costs this regulation will require and all financed by new taxes and penalties on businesses, individuals and health-care providers.
His cost is $856 billion...the cheapest of all the other bills still pending. To help pay for this is the still as yet undefined reducing Medicaid costs. Fees on everyone from drug makers, insurance companies, medical device makers, labs and a whopping 35% excise tax on the plans that charge over $8K for singles and $20K for families.
Doesn't he know that these added fees will simply be passed along to the consumer in some shape or form?
Mandates for all citizens and legal residents to have health insurance. I find it terribly ironic that if liberal health care reform is supposed to be so good for us then why in hell does it require stiff, harsh penalties that force everyone to buy it? Geez--louise.
They require individuals to get health insurance from employers, or 2 other options but yet it doesn't require employers to provide insurance, but if they do...it has to be "qualified" coverage....what the hell does that mean and who regulates that?... but yet will impose a fee...read tax...on employers with 50 or more employees that go elsewhere and get subsidized government policies. Talk about a Catch-22.
To be fair there are a couple of positives....forbidding exclusion for pre-existing conditions, cancel coverage, and lifetime limits on coverages. My question here is...who is going to regulate this???
Coops and state based exchanges for individuals and companies to shop policies. Why not just require all insurers to offer the same plan...nation-wide?
All policies have to offer the same basic benefits...primary, preventive, hospitalization and prescription drugs. But yet singles, under 25 can opt out of certain coverages.
Then there is this thing about the government subsidies.....the subsidies in the Baucus plan go to people without a job-based plan and who earn under three times the federal poverty level, or about $66,000 for a family of four.
Take a family of four making $42,000 in 2016. While government would subsidize 80% of their premium and pay $1,500 to offset cost-sharing, they'd still pay $6,000 a year or 14.3% of their total income. A family making $54,000 could still pay 18.1% of their income, while an individual earning $26,500 would be on the hook for 15.5%, and one earning $32,400 for 17.3%. So lower-income workers would still be forced to devote huge portions of their salaries to expensive policies that they may not want or be able to afford.
How can these kind of subsidies be justified in light of Obama's promise that the reform package not add 1 dime to the budget deficit?
I guess this is a start but even other democrats like Rockefeller of WV is concerned about the affordibility element and says he won't support the bill.
So the way I see it.....this plan would increase the cost of insurance and then force people to buy it, requiring subsidies. Those subsidies would be paid for by taxes that make health care and thus insurance even more expensive, requiring even more subsidies and still higher taxes and that's even before other liberal Democrats see Mr. Baucus and raise him, and then attempt to ram it all through the Senate.
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I have this 12" TaunTaun at home and Han was riding on it ever since I brought this home a year ago. Last night, it topple down from my display cabinate. So I tried to put it back in display but the TaunTaun just refuse to stand up anymore. And when it does, it topple again when I place Han on it.
Therefore, I took a closer look at it and discover that both joints on its thigh are loosen from the sprocket. it kinda "spread-eagled" itself gradually when on a standing posture and ultimately topple. Now I have to use some sort of support pillar sit just between its chest and tummy. Hope that works.
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This type of Javanese dagger [keris] is named after Majapahit, the last great Javanese Hindu kingdom that declined in the late 15th century with the arrival of Islam. The prototype for this type of weapon, with hilt and blade created from one piece of tempered metal, is said to have developed in the Majapahit period. The crouching figure that forms the hilt, however, can be traced to a much earlier era. The keris Majapahit is not used as a weapon, rather it is its talismanic properties that protect its owner.


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Palin aide: She's getting death threats at unprecedented levels
posted at 8:40 pm on January 12, 2011 by Allahpundit
I almost wish that this wasn't being reported as it'll only inflame things further among fringe types, but after four days of screeching about Palin the murderer, who can blame her staff for wanting to show the world the ironic outcome? I trust and hope that she'll be fine: She's got the financial means to hire the best security that money can buy, and remember, as noted earlier, the truly dangerous nuts typically don't make threats. The vast majority of these people, I'm sure, are liberals popping off at her in a rash moment and then cooling down later.
An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska governor's team has been talking to security professionals.
Since the shooting in Tucson, Palin has taken much heat for her "crosshairs" map that targeted 20 congressional Democrats in the 2010 mid-term election, including that of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the main target of Saturday's attack.
Friends say Palin, a possible 2012 contender, was galled as suggestions of her role in the tragedy have swirled.
Given the amount of hate routinely directed at her, she's appeared at times to take an oddly too-casual approach to personal security. Remember how there seemed to be no bodyguards around when that weird guy followed her around the airport with a handheld camera? No disrespect to Todd, but if he's all that's standing between her and a Jared Loughner, that's not good enough. This week will, I assume, change that situation forever.
Now, let's see tomorrow how the media and the left react to this story. There'll be three responses, I assume. One: "Hey, maybe we should tone down the rhetoric on Palin before she gets shot." If so much as one person offers that, consider it a victory. Two: "I condemn the threats, but we can't be held responsible for the actions of crazies." That's actually the right answer, I think, or at least it would be if they'd been criticizing her for something she'd actually done. Having invented the Loughner connection out of thin air, though? Nope. Three: "She's lying, either to turn down the heat on herself and earn sympathy or because she enjoys the media spotlight." Mind you, there's actual documentary evidence of some of the threats, but this will be the default explanation anyway thanks to the magical civility gene that makes liberals who are mentally ill somehow utterly immune to the worst rhetorical excesses. Demonize Palin all you want — have Paul Krugman and Frank Rich scream in the face of an untreated schizophrenic that she's the prophesied antichrist — and it won't motivate him a bit, because even deranged liberals are ultimately too smart and civilized to do anything wingnutty like take a shot at someone. That, as best as I understand it, is the going theory for why the left's endless casual assertions about the basic malevolence of the right — racist, sexist, fascist, plutocratic, 50 times a day in assertions great and small — can be shrugged off as harmless to even the most diseased sympathetic mind. "Only fruitcakes" would act on stuff like that. Right, Jared?
To cleanse the palate, here's our old friend Chris preparing for tonight's post-Obama full-body tingle by insisting that we can't "exonerate" Palin in the shootings because we don't have all the facts yet about what motivated Loughner. She is, in other words, still a suspect in mass murder. Click the image to watch.
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Kudos to Scott Bestul for his "Awakening By Bow" article in the T & TH Spring '08 issue. An essay on the surge in popularity of bowhunting turkeys was long overdue.
Many of his remarks are spot on, especially in the ethics argument area. The "archery-as-folly slant that gunhunters purvey" and "the implication that bows and arrows are somehow unethical to use for turkeys" are astute observations that most every archer has heard.
It's no coincidence that the spring bowhunting boom has paralleled the development of high tech bows, portable ground blinds and strutting gobbler decoys. After all, proximity is the key to archery success. I must express my disappointment, however, at his avoiding any mention of the latest phenomenon, archery headshots on turkeys with guillotine style broadheads. The guillotine has been the hottest topic at the last several NWTF conventions. You can't find a chat room discussion about bowhunting turkeys anywhere on the internet that doesn't include comments on the guillotine, including the forum sponsored by this magazine. With all due respect to Brooks Johnson, the traditional archery tackle he prefers and the Double Bull blinds tie-in on Scott's hunt, this is a glaring omission.
I have always held T & TH in the highest regard as the foremost turkey hunting publication and will continue to do so. The magazine has never shyed away from any controversial subject, including ambushing/bushwhacking turkeys, the use of gobbler decoys and the mainly southern tradition of hunting turkeys with dogs. The clock is ticking and it's long past the time when the bowhunting turkey headshot should have been recognized as a viable method for harvesting our grand game bird.
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Have there been any definitive reviews of the Brainwavz M3? They look really good but I'm really pushing my budget at $90. Astrotec AM-90 are more in my budget, but they don't look comfortable. Deep ear insertion isn't working for me and I don't like too heavy bass. My Shure SE215's sound fantastic but I can't wear them for more than a couple of hours without an earache (too heavy, too deep, I guess)
Joker, thanks for your advice and patience with all us newbies! I really like this hobby but like a lot of us, I'm budget constrained and hate making the wrong decision!


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Inspiring Japanese Culture
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There is so much that's smart in that article. I like the idea of rotating
teachers. I'm impressed.
My small personal experience with Japanese culture is also favourable. Their respect for their elders takes things to a new level that just seems completely out of fashion in the west. I found that there was a lot to learn from the simple example of just one Japanese student's life.
Your Don Knuth comment made me chuckle. It's true; it would be hard not to love him. Maybe if more Christians lived like that, we wouldn't be "taking the Lord's name in vain" and giving God a bad rep in the world.
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Vintavious Cooper needs just 109 more yards this season to be the first Pirate running back to run for one thousand yards since Dominique Lindsay (2009). It is encouraging that Tulane's defense ranks 118th against the run, giving up over 241 yards per game and over five yards per carry. If those statistics hold true, Cooper could be well in line to eclipse 1,000 in this game against the Green Wave.
Hardy's tenth TD
Only nine players in all of college football have 10 or more receiving touchdowns this season. ECU's standout wide receiver Justin Hardy is just one touchdown shy of joining that club, with nine touchdown grabs this season. With Hardy not scoring against Houston last week, and with this bye week to rest, it seems only logical that No. 2 is due to score his 10th touchdown sometime soon.
UCF losing against UTEP and Tulsa
Currently, ECU sits behind rival UCF in the Conference USA East Division standings with just a few short weeks left to determine who will represent the East in the C-USA title game. In order for the Pirates to overtake UCF (who holds the tie breaker since they beat ECU earlier in the season), Pirate Nation needs the UCF Knights to lose two of their remaining three games: at UTEP, at Tulsa, and/or home against UAB. By the time ECU kicks off against Tulane, in a little over a week, we will know the outcome of UCF's first two games. With two UCF losses in three weeks, the Pirates are still alive in C-USA. Keep your fingers crossed people.
How the Pirates will contain Tulane's passing attack
The one good thing about The Green Wave's offense is that it can move the ball through the air (compared to averaging just 38.1 yards per game on the ground. Yikes). The one bad thing about ECU's defense is that it has been giving up big plays in the passing game. I'm looking forward to see how the Pirates plan to limit Tulane's aerial attack, as Green Wave quarterback Ryan Griffin is coming off of two back-to-back 400 yard games (He threw for 466 yards against UAB and 476 against Rice). Actually, just seeing the opponent quarterback's name is R. Griffin is enough to make some shudder.
Tulane's porous defense
As mentioned slightly before, Tulane's defense has been less than stout (to put it nicely). The Green Wave is giving up just under 40 points per game, and ECU has scored at least 40 in three of its last four games. Tulane ranks 80th against the pass (giving up over 250 yards per game) and 118th against the run (over 241 yards per game). If my math is correct, those totals add up to just under 500 yards a game that this defense is giving up. Somewhere Carden, Cooper, Hardy and the crew are licking their chops.


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Annie Lowrey interviews Jim Yong Kim in the New York Times on why he wants to run the World Bank, just ahead of his nomination for presidency of the institution.
This week, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the Obama administration's nominee to head the World Bank. Dr. Kim is the president of Dartmouth College and a public health expert. He is a physician and anthropologist, a founder of the nonprofit Partners in Health and a former World Health Organization official.
Dr. Kim is also the front-runner for the World Bank job, given that Europe customarily supports the American candidate for the bank, and the United States supports Europe's candidate for managing director of the International Monetary Fund in turn.
But that does not mean that Dr. Kim's nomination has met with universal praise. Commentators have questioned whether he has broad enough experience for the post, and questioned a decade-old book in which he critiqued the bank's development approach. There has also been broad criticism of continued American leadership of the multilateral institution.
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2.15: Line Graphs to Display Data Over Time
Have you ever tried to show how something has changed using a graph? Remember Tania? Well, with all of the vegetables that she has been growing, Tania is trying to plan for next year. To do this, she takes a trip to the nearby organic farm to gather some data. When she meets with Mr. Jonas the farmer, he shows her a line graph that shows vegetable growth for the past four years. Tania is fascinated. Here is what she sees.
Mr. Jonas tells Tania that according to his calculations, the farm will produce twice as much in 2009 as it did in 2008. Tania leaves the farm with the data and a lot of excitement. She decides to redraw the line graph at home with the new calculations for 2009. The minute she gets home, she realizes that she is confused and can't remember how to draw a line graph.
This is where you come in. There is a lot to learn in this Concept, pay attention so that you can help Alex draw his map and Tania draw her line graph at the end of the Concept.
We have already learned about a few different ways to visually display data.
A line graph is a graph that helps us to show how data changes over time.
How can we make a line graph?
To make a line graph, we need to have a collection of data that has changed over time. Data that shows growth over years is a good example of appropriate data for a line graph.
When Jamal was born, his parents planted a tree in the back yard. Here is how tall the tree was in each of the next five years.
2003 2 ft.
2004 3 ft.
2005 5 ft.
2006 9 ft.
2007 14 ft.
Now let's make a line graph.
The first thing that we need is two axes, one vertical and one horizontal.
The vertical one represents the range of tree growth. The tree grew from 2 feet to 14 feet. That is our scale. The horizontal axis represents the years when tree growth was calculated.
Now let's practice with a few questions about line graphs.
Example A
True or false. You need a vertical and horizontal axis for a line graph.
Solution: True.
Example B
True or false. A line graph and a frequency table measure the same thing.
Solution: False. A frequency table measures how often something occurs. A line graph measures how data changes over time.
Example C
True or false. A bar graph measures the same data as a line graph.
Solution: False. A line graph measures how data changes. A bar graph does not.
Now let's go back and help Tania with her garden plan. She wants to create a line graph to show the 2009 data with the other data she gathered from the farm.
The first thing that she needs to do is to draw in 2 axes.
The horizontal axis shows the years: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. The vertical axis shows the number of vegetables harvested. The highest number she has is in 2008 with 400 vegetables. However, the Mr. Jonas told her he expects to double this amount. This would give 2009 a total of 800 vegetables. Our range for the vertical axis is from 0 to 800 in increments of 100 units.
Here is Tania's line graph.
Here are the vocabulary words in this Concept.
- Coordinate grid
- a visual way of locating points or objects in space.
- Coordinates
- the \begin{align*}x\end{align*} and \begin{align*}y\end{align*} values that tell us where an object is located.
- Origin
- where the \begin{align*}x\end{align*} and \begin{align*}y\end{align*} axis meet, has a value of (0, 0)
- \begin{align*}x\end{align*} axis
- the horizontal line of a coordinate grid
- \begin{align*}y\end{align*} axis
- the vertical line of a coordinate grid
- Ordered pair
- \begin{align*}(x, y)\end{align*} the values where a point is located on a grid
- Line Graph
- a visual way to show how data changes over time
Guided Practice
Here is one for you to try on your own.
Look at the following line graph.
Which day of the week had the highest temperature? What was that temperature?
The day of the week with the highest temperature was February 3rd. The temperature on that day was about 33 degrees.
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2. What is on the horizontal axis?
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9. What was the median temperature for the week?
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12. On which two days did it occur?
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During its period of growth, the Checkerspot Butterfly will search for a host plant for nourishment. Its native larval host is the White Turtle Head (Chelone glabra), but it has also to some extent made use of the introduced lawn weed English Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) and other plants.
Unlike most butterflies and moths, which overwinter as eggs, pupae, or sometimes adults, the Baltimore Checkerspot overwinters as larvae. In late summer (sometime in July through September depending on latitude, weather, and other factors) the larvae spin a pre-hibernation web on a plant, stop feeding, and remain in the web. Several months later they leave this web and enter the litter (dead grass and leaves and so on) on the ground, where they spend the winter.
Dimensions 1 5/8-2 1/2" (41-64 mm).
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Meadows & fields.
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It's been a long time since I've touched this. Quite a bit has occured since November.
- My site has been completely revamped, completely in eRuby, which I've come to love far more than I ever enjoyed PHP. The site is weblog based and is in constant development. I hope to add article posting to it sometime in the near future.
- Have been working on Haskell, a functional programming language, along with the Language of the Year group at #loty on irc.openprojects.net This has given me an entirely new outlook on computer programming in general, and has probably caught me up with some old calculus equations I'd forgotten. Since I've always dealt with Imperative (mostly OOP) languages, it's a unique experience.
- Ruby has been my favourite for quite some time now- I'm practically parked in #ruby-lang and follow Ruby development closely; I find the language and community fascinating and hope to contribute a few library modules to the language in the future. I'm also offering free space on my webserver for Ruby programmers.
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This Sampson Mordan Sterling Silver Dip Pen & Pencil is rare as it has the "Bramah" clip that holds the nib (As invented by Joseph Bramah the famous maker who also made the famous and signature "Bramah Lock" that adorns high quality Victorian boxes and writing slopes). See the photos for how this elegant nib holder works: If you see this unique device elsewhere it is the "Bramah Clip".
This pen & Pencil Combination ("Combo") measures approximately 4 1/4 inches or 107 mm in length when it is closed by just under 1/2 an inch or 12 mm across the widest part of its body.
The pencil is 5 1/8 inches or 131 mm in length from the top of the body to the end of the pencil when it is fully extended
The dip pen is just under 5 1/2 inches or 139 mm in length from the end of the body to the end of the nib holder when it is fully extended and overall; it is 6 3/8 inches or 162 mm in total length when both the dip pen and pencil are fully extended (which they wouldn't have been).
It is made from solid sterling silver in a round tubular shape with a relief reed decorated outer body that has two sliding toggles, one of the toggles extends and retracts the internal mechanical pencil that is marked on the end with the letter "H" (which is the type of lead to be used with this particular pencil) and the other sliding toggle extends and retracts the internal ink dip pen that has a later gold nib that is held in place by the "Bramah" hinged nib clamp or holder that is in turn held in place by a smaller sliding ring. The pen and pencil has not been engraved with a previous owners initials or family monogram, which some people think reduces value; personally I see it as part of the items history.
It has been impressed with the makers mark of Mordan & Co Patent on one end of the body along with the London makers mark SM of Sampson Mordan who registered this mark in 1823, it also has a very faint Lion Passant mark of English solid sterling silver along with the King George Head duty mark of the reigning monarch and the London assay office letter "k" for 1825, the silver hallmarks and makers marks are partially rubbed due to their location but still legible. The condition is used but good, genuine and comensurate with its age.
The Combo has no damage or repairs that I can find, the body is straight, the decoration is crisp, it extends and retracts perfectly, the mechanical twist mechanism of the pencil is in Full Working Order and the inner lead push rod extends and retracts as it should, the Bramah Clip is also working perfectly.
PHOTO.4: This is the central "Mordan Patent": This promulgated a "standard" for leads used in Victorian Propelling Pencils, by and large; most (but not all) makers of metal propelling pencils used this standard "specification" and standardisation as laid down by Mordan i.e . VH, H, M, S & VS. These required lead refill markings are always to be found somewhere on the propelling tips of most quality propelling pencils of the age.
Some Historical Background:
Sampson Mordan, (Senior) was born in England in 1790. He apprenticed and then was assistant to Joseph Bramah (1748-1814), famous inventor of patent locks*, and an associate of Michael Faraday. *The world famous Bramah Lock
Mordan established his own business in partnership with John Isaac Hawkins at City Rd. London in 1815. 20th December 1822, they patented a metal pencil with an internal mechanism for propelling the graphite lead shaft forward during use so that it was "ever-pointed". Most of these pencils are operated by a mechanism that allows the pencil to be propelled out of the casing by pulling on the opposite end. When closed, only the case could be seen. They entered, at the assay office; the first silver mark (S.MORDAN) for sterling silver pencils: 20th June 1823.
Mordan then bought out Hawkins and entered into a business partnership with Gabriel Riddle, a wealthy stationer, in late 1823. Mordan entered another silver mark (S.MORDAN & COS PATENT and SMGR) for pencils with his partner Gabriel Riddle 30th April 1824. Mordan and Riddle set up business at 22 City Road, London, England. It was here that S. Mordan & Co. were first listed as "patent ever-pointed" pencil and portable pen manufacturers. The partnership between S. Mordan and G. Riddle was dissolved on 20th December 1836. The Company continued to be run solely by Mordan until his death in 1843. After his death, his two sons; Sampson (Junior) and Augustus continued the business, building on their fathers success and reputation; excelling in quality silver and gold pencils, pens, novelties and other exquisite items; supplying silver articles to fine retailers including Asprey & Sons, The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd, Mappin & Webb, Leuchars, Thornhill etc.
Sampson Mordan & Co. products can be approximately dated by the following marks:
S MORDAN & COS PATENT and SM GR - 1823 to 1837
S MORDAN & CO MAKERS & PATENTEES - 1838 to 1845
S MORDAN & CO MAKERS - 1845 to 1860s
S MORDAN & CO - 1860s - 1941.
The Mordan London factory was destroyed in a German Luftwaffe air raid in 1941 and never reopened. The Sampson Mordan name is continued under the aegis of the Yard-O-Lead Company that still make exquisite handmade pencils today, in Birmingham, England.
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Stainborough, Barnsley Yorkshire, England, was an inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having invented the hydraulic press. Along with William George Armstrong, he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering. In the case of this posted "Combo" his is the inventor of the nib "holding" device. It is believed that Sampson Mordan Snr. had close dealings with Joseph Bramah.
He was the second son in the family of three sons and two daughters of Joseph Bramma a farmer. He was educated at the local school in Silkstone and on leaving school he was apprenticed to a local carpenter. On completing his apprenticeship he moved to London, where he started work as a cabinet-maker. In London, Bramah worked for a Mr. Allen and in 1778 patented a design for an improved WC. of all things!
Bramah then designed the "Bramah Lock", receiving a patent for it in 1784. In the same year he started the Bramah Locks company at 124 Piccadilly, which is today based in Marylebone, London and Romford, Essex. Bramah received a second patent for a lock design in 1798.
Partly due to the precision requirements of his locks, Bramah spent much time developing machine tools to assist manufacturing processes. He relied heavily on the expertise of Henry Maudslay whom he employed in his workshop from the age of 18. Between them they created a number of innovative machines that made the production of Bramah's locks more efficient, and were applicable to other fields of manufacture such as pens and pencils etc.
Bramah's most important invention was the hydraulic press. The hydraulic press depends on Pascal's principle, that pressure throughout a closed system is constant. The press had two cylinders and pistons of different cross-sectional areas. If a force was exerted on the smaller piston, this would be translated into a larger force on the larger piston. The difference in the two forces would be proportional to the difference in area of the two pistons. In effect the cylinders act in a similar way that a lever is used to increase the force exerted. Bramah was granted a patent for his hydraulic press in 1795.
Bramah's hydraulic press had many industrial applications and still does today. Bramah together with William George Armstrong were the two pioneers in this field.
The hydraulic press is still known as the Bramah Press after its inventor. So we have the Bramah "Press", "Lock" and more importantly from the perspective of my collecting interest in Victorian Writing Equipment: The "Bramah Clip"
Bramah was a prolific inventor, and obtained 18 patents for his designs between 1778 and 1812, and of interest to me; in 1809 he obtained and secured one for Pens (Pat. No. 3260)


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By Riley Manning/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – As Christmas draws nearer, Salvation Army's angel tree is in dire straits.
According to Susan Gilbert, director of social services for Salvation Army, 16 Christmas lists have yet to be adopted. In addition, the deadline for returning gifts to the Army for distribution passed on Dec. 9 with around 100 lists unreturned.
"Last year 200 lists weren't returned at this time, but all of them had been adopted," Gilbert said.
The angel tree is a tradition for the nonprofit. Christmas wish lists are turned in to the army by families in need. The lists are then made anonymous and hung on the tree, which is placed in the food court of The Mall at Barnes Crossing. Charitable mall shoppers register to fulfill a list, purchase the items, and return the gifts to the Army, who distribute them to their respective families.
"Lots of people sign up for a list and forget about it. If someone is unable to fill a list, they should let us know," Gilbert said. "We could always use people's donations of toys and clothes."
Gilbert said the nonprofit will distribute the gifts on Dec. 18, but they must have gifts before then.
"The economy is still not where we want it to be, but the lists that haven't been adopted ask for very basic things like pajamas and board games," she said.
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So now that we have found a place to live, all that is left is something to do. Life is very expensive in the UK - at least compared to our side of the channel - so I will need some source of income. The job I had been hoping to get fell through, so it's back to searching. Maybe I should go study again - there are excellent artificial intelligence masters at the University of Sussex.
Here I am, on a mountain above Montreux. The weather is terrible - we're in the clouds and it rains all day. Like it has for the most of the last two months, I have been told.
The little internet cafe I set up here still works like a charm. Next summer we'll actually hook it up to a broadband line which will be much better. I'll need to rewrite my software but that's ok.
It's hard to be over 9000 km from the person you love. I can't wait until September.


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About Springfield
Springfield is a classic Midwestern town of ~110,000 people featuring affordable housing (94% of residents own a home), ease of commute (average <10 mins for residents), and extracurricular activities for all ages. The state Capitol building is located only a few blocks from either hospital and is constantly buzzing with activity. Other major industries in Springfield include medicine, insurance, and tourism. Over one million individuals visit here each year for the Lincoln attractions including his home, tomb, and presidential library.
Recreational opportunities are plentiful in all seasons in Springfield. Lake Springfield, which is 15 minutes from the hospitals, has over 60 miles of shoreline and offers a great place for boating, fishing, and waterskiing/wakeboarding. The University of Illinois has a branch in Springfield which brings the opportunity for additional educational courses for significant others, as well as great traveling productions including orchestras, ballet companies, and off broadway plays. One of the growing activities in Springfield is cycling, thanks to the recent conversion of old railroad tracks to bike trails.
We feel that Springfield has many things to offer its citizens. Below we have listed a few other activities/attractions that make Springfield a great town to live in while gaining a top-tier surgery education.
Park System: Springfield has an extensive park district that manages several great parks and bicycle trails throughout the area. Washington Park is located in central Springfield and has a pond for fishing, a botanical garden and a 2.5 mile running course. The Interurban and Lost Bridge Trail are two of the more popular bike trails in the region.
Affordable Golf: Springfield has 11 excellent public and private courses. Golf Digest recently named a local course, Piper Glen Golf Club, as "#21 Best Golf Course in US for Under $50."
Old Capitol Farmers Market: 50 vendors provide a variety of produce, cheese, baked goods, meats, plants and specialty items; plus local artisans, entertainment and chef demos.
Illinois Products Farmers Market: The Illinois Products Farmers' Market offers a chance to buy a variety of Illinois products, including produce, meat, eggs, honey, bakery items, herbs, plants, flowers and even wine.
4-7pm, every Thursday evening through October 16, except during the Illinois State Fair (Aug. 7 and Aug. 14)
Where? The Illinois State Fairgrounds, Come see us in our NEW LOCATION - The Shed, next to the dairy building
Springfield Sliders: This is a prospect league team to join Springfield and is a great chance to grab a cheap seat and hear the crack of a wooden bat all summer long.
Sand volleyball, softball, indoor/outdoor soccer leagues are also available.
St. Louis is only 90 minutes away, and Chicago is 3 hours away. Both locations are an easy direct interstate drive or a short Amtrak trip.
The Mother Road Festival
Each September, during the International Route 66 Mother Road Festival, the streets of Springfield come alive with the rumble of engines from hot cars, cool trucks, vintage motorcycles, street rods, customs and everything in between. Hundreds of vehicles line the streets of Springfield's historic downtown in a display that is guaranteed to wow even the most-seasoned car enthusiast. This 3-day, free car show & street festival, celebrating the past, present & future of Route 66, also offers outdoor stages with live music, commercial vendors, kids' activities and entertainment, Route 66 celebrities and events, plus much more.
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Act on Diabetes. Now.
2011 was a turning point for diabetes. On 19 and 20 September of that year, the United Nations held a High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in New York. A milestone in the history of global health, the Summit was only the second time the UN General Assembly devoted exclusive attention to a health-related issue.
The most significant outcome was the unanimous adoption of the Political Declaration on the Prevention and control of NCDs by 193 Member States. That document firmly put diabetes and non-communicable diseases as top priorities on the global agenda. IDF and IDF Europe saw World Diabetes Day celebrations that year as the perfect platform to cement this decision from global decision-makers and to create more impetus for concrete action.
2011 also marked the 3rd year of the 5-year campaign focus on Diabetes Education and Prevention.
The slogan for the 2011 WDD campaign was: Act on Diabetes. Now.
IDF Europe campaign
IDF Europe celebrated World Diabetes Day at the heart of the EU institutions by organizing two events: one at the Council of Europe and the other at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
- WDD at the Council of Europe: 10 November 2011
For the first time IDF Europe cellebrated World Diabetes Day in the Council of Europe.
We organized an exhibition, blood sugar testing as well as a debate on diabetes prevention to focus on the wider five-year education and prevention team as well as the recently adopted UN Political Declaration on NCDs.
IDF Europe was represented by Board Members, staff and one of the participants at the first IDF Europe Summer Youth Camp.
- WDD at the European Parliament: 15 November 2011
The event in the European Parliament focused on Young Leaders in Diabetes, Diabetes Prevention and the launch of the 3rd edition of the Policy Puzzle.
The event was organized around an exhibition, the "Diabetes Pathways", and included a lunchtime debate meeting hosted by MEPs from the EU Diabetes Working Group.
IDF Europe was represented by Board Members, staff, youth advocates and consultants.
Campaign material
World Diabetes Day Logo: the Blue Circle
You can download the WDD logo here in several languages.
IDF Europe posters
IDF Europe created a new series of posters as part of its campaign for World Diabetes Day 2011. They are available for download here.


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After searching, and searching and searching. I never saw the Scuba Clone in person. And screwed up and passed on Snowbunny Padme, because I was stressin on small dings on the box.
Well stopped by Target and boom finally saw 1 Scuba Clone and 1 Snowbunny Padme. The boxes were in pretty good condition, some small dings, but I wasn't gonna be stupid and pass on them. Especially the Scuba Clone. Only if there were 2 then I could open one, dammit.
On a side note, how come there isn't a Scuba Clone with the 1st day foil sticker? Wasn't this the first time this Clone Troopoer was released? Along with the Clone with light blue trim?


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About us
The formation of Certified Diabetes Educators has the goal of training the health team with a pedagogical purpose based on the education of fundamental basic concepts and skills on diabetes education.
The education process incorporates the desires, motivations, objectives and life experiences of a person with diabetes and is guided by Standards based on the evidence (based on International Curriculum of IDF). Educators primary objective are based on the basis of a correct decision-making, attitudes of self-care and the solving of problems and in an active collaboration with the health team and consequent improvement of the state of health and the quality of life.
The certification is a way to guarantee to the users of the health services that the professional who will take care of them has the knowledge and the necessary experience to support them recuperate and/or to maintain a good health condition.
The Argentinian Diabetes Society, as a leader scientific institution with tradition in education, has formation and training programmes and contributes to the national health system by preparing professionals in the education of people with diabetes.
Title of course
Course of Certified Diabetes Educators
Brief description of the course:
400 h Theoretical course:
- 200h bi-monthly face-to-face obligatory course for 6 months.
- 150h Semi-attendance (material of self formation, questionnaires of self evaluation, seminaries and tutor position)
- Fieldwork under supervision of direct person in charge.
- Live Experience in a Camp with patients during 4 days.
Target participants:
Health professionals and health workers.
Qualification gained on successful completion of the course:
Certified Diabetes Educator
Requirements for entry into course:
Experience in education of people with diabetes of at least 2 years. Additionally, participants should be currently working in a diabetes service (Hospital, Primary Care Center, etc)
Course outline
Profile of the course and schedules
The course has three great thematic axis; "Medical axis", "Didactic-Pedagogical Axis" and "Social and Cultural Axis". They are traversed by a Transverse Axis that is the "Patient as Protagonist", center of all process of learning in the treatment of its own disease.
The three areas will be approached at the same time following a common connector (the community, with focus from the clinical, pedagogical and sociocultural areas.)
When finalizing this course the student will be able:
- To have capacity of answer to epidemic of diabetes and improve the accessibility to high quality education provided by an interdisciplinary team.
- Use of educative communication and the value of the therapeutic message.
- To act on the modifiable risk factors through education.
- To recreate didactic-pedagogical strategies based on the improvement of the planning of education-learning processes.
- To detect individual learning cognitive strategies for each patient.
- To include/understand the function of the education and its place in the therapeutic process
- To recognize the role of non verbal communication.
- To be aware of the aspects that improves the quality of attention of the person with diabetes.
- To create means of dissemination of knowledge on the care of the diabetes, the treatment (education in diet, exercise, monitoring, insulin and oral drugs) and prevention and on the treatment of acute and chronic complications.
- To implement didactic strategies and pedagogical methodology oriented to each modality of education activity based on Diabetes Education Projects (Standards of IDF).
- To implement different learning evaluation instruments in diabetes
- education according to the educative moments and to the components of the planning of the education-learning process.
- To know and to value the importance of the culture in the health-disease process.
- To analyze and to include/understand the behavior of patients and the explanatory models of disease and treatment.
- To use the necessary tools and consultations for the analysis and modifications of the mentioned aspects.
Contact us
Link to the website: www.diabetes.org.ar
Address: Paraguay 1307 8vo 74 Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Telephone: 541148138419
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But that's not how I want our income sourced!!!
But that's not how I want our income sourced!!!
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
My experience with dentistry indicates vast advancement since the days when I got amalgam fillings as a kid. Twenty five years ago I had a root canal. Ten years ago that crown came loose and the post pushed through the root on my tooth. At one time the only option would have been extraction. I was able to go to an oral surgeon how went through my jaw bone, drilled the root, filled it and replaced the post. Then my dentist was able to put on a new crown. The surgeon stated that he couldn't guarantee the fix for 40 years, but noted that he couldn't guarantee anything for that time. He said that the material he used to fill the tooth was relatively new and bio friendly, meaning that my body would not likely reject and that the bone would likely grow back in. Subsequent x-rays have shown that indeed it has.
This fall I bit into a sausage and cracked a tooth on a piece of bone. Tuesday this week I had my appointment to have a crown installed to make the repair. The dentist now has a machine that he can image my teeth. The machine then makes 3-D models of the teeth and from a block of porcelain he mills out a crown while I wait. In 1 1/2 hours I walked out with a new crown that fit perfectly. No temporary and no waiting for a crown on a metal base to come from the lab. No biting into molds. It is amazing. Ten years ago I paid $800 for my crown. The whole process took 1 1/2 weeks. Tuesday I paid $940 for a better crown that I walked out with, same day.
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Wouldnt you want to find vehicle speed instead of engine rpm?
To the correspondent who suggested road speed instead of engine speed -- it's simpler and safer to have one interface that works, and by checking engine speed the only way to go wrong is if the idiot behind the wheel isn't in the gear used when establishing the initial 'speed'.
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Are you looking for somewhere to watch the Vols game? Do you want to be surrounded by orange on football game days? Whether you're at home or out of town there may be a UT Alumni Chapter TV Viewing Party near you.
Across the country, UT alumni chapters host viewing parties during football season. You can enjoy the company of others clad in orange to cheer on the Vols! Some areas have multiple locations for more game-viewing options.


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Roger Federer as King Arthur.
"Where every Cinderella story comes true."
Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella.
"Where dreams run free."
Jessica Biel as Pocahontas.
"Where you're always king of the court."
Roger Federer as King Arthur.
"Where you're the fairest of them all."
Rachel Weisz as Snow White.
Julianne Moore as Ariel and Michael Phelps as a merman.
"Where a whole new world awaits."
Jennifer Lopez as Jasmine and Marc Anthony as Aladdin.
"Where imagination saves the day."
David Beckham as Prince Phillip.
"Where you never have to grow up."
Gisele Bundchen as Wendy, Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan, and Tina Fey as Tinkerbell.
"Where romance is celebrated."
Vanessa Hudgens as Sleeping Beauty and Zac Efron as Prince Phillip.
"Where wonderland is your destiny."
Beyoncé as Alice, Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter, and Lyle Lovett as the March Hare.
"Where your every wish is our command."
Whoopi Goldberg as the Genie.
"Where magic speaks, even when you're not the fairest of them all."
Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen, and Alec Baldwin as her magic mirror.
"Where a moment of beauty lasts forever."
Penelope Cruz as Belle and Jeff Bridges as the transformed Beast.
"Where memories take hold and never let go."
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Description The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is indigenous to the southeastern Mediterranean Basin, Eastern Africa, and India, but is widespread throughout tropical regions, and widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant). In areas with a suitable climate, castor easily escapes cultivation and can often be found on wasteland. It is a fast-growing, suckering perennial shrub which can reach the size of a small tree (around 12 metres / 39 feet), but it is not cold hardy. It is the only species in the genus Ricinus. All parts of the plant are toxic.
The castor oil plant can vary greatly in its growth habit and appearance. The variability has been increased by breeders who have selected a range of cultivars for leaf and flower colours, and for oil production.
Its seed is the castor bean which, despite its name, is not a true bean. Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a wide variety of uses. The seed contains the toxin ricin, which is also present in lower concentrations throughout the plant.
The glossy leaves are 15–45 centimetres (5.9–18 in) long, long-stalked, alternate and palmate with 5–12 deep lobes with coarsely toothed segments. In some varieties they start off dark reddish purple or bronze when young, gradually changing to a dark green, sometimes with a reddish tinge, as they mature. The leaves of some other varieties are green practically from the start, whereas in yet others a pigment masks the green colour of all the chlorophyll-bearing parts, leaves, stems and young fruit, so that they remain a dramatic purple-to-reddish-brown throughout the life of the plant. Plants with the dark leaves can be found growing next to those with green leaves, so there probably is only a single gene controlling the production of the pigment in some varieties at least. The stems (and the spherical, spiny seed capsules) also vary in pigmentation. The fruit capsules of some varieties are more showy than the flowers.
The flowers are borne in terminal panicle-like inflorescences of green or, in some varieties, shades of red monoecious flowers without petals. The male flowers are yellowish-green with prominent creamy stamens and are carried in ovoid spikes up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long; the female flowers, born at the tips of the spikes, have prominent red stigmas.
The fruit is a spiny, greenish (to reddish-purple) capsule containing large, oval, shiny, bean-like, highly poisonous seeds with variable brownish mottling. Castor seeds have a warty appendage called the caruncle, which is a type of elaiosome. The caruncle promotes the dispersal of the seed by ants (myrmecochory).
Warning Seeds contain toxic substances, and a single seed can be fatal if eaten. Leaves can cause skin irritation. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Fields.
Range Great Lakes, California, Plains, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Texas, Florida, Eastern Canada, New England.


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By Gene Phelps/NEMS Daily Journal
Tupelo High School principal Jason Harris believes the Golden Wave football program is on the verge becoming a contender.
The second-year THS official saw this season's team lead eventual 6A state champion South Panola in the first half. He watched the underdog Golden Wave rally from a three-touchdown deficit to nearly upset powerful Olive Branch.
"It's there. It's time to take it to the next level," said Harris, a member of the search committee formed to find a replacement for retired head football coach and assistant athletics director David Bradberry.
"I firmly believe Tupelo High School should be in the (football) playoffs every year. I think we've recommended someone who can do that."
Harris and the committee members – Tupelo superintendent of schools Gearl Loden, assistant superintendent Matthew Dillion and THS athletics director Danny Porter – will present their candidate's name to the school board today for approval in a special called meeting at the THS Performing Arts Center.
The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The new coach, if approved, is scheduled to meet the media and public at 3:45 in the Performing Arts Center.
Looking for energy
"We were looking for someone who was energetic and ready to come in," Harris said. "I think David Bradberry did an excellent job taking the program from where he inherited it."
Tupelo, which finished 4-7 this season, reached the postseason under Bradberry in 2010 and '11.
Loden, the system's first-year superintendent, said there was a "high level of interest" in the opening. The search committee conducted nine formal interviews with the candidates, he said.
"The committee wanted someone who was good with Xs and Os, but also someone who would get people excited about football," Loden said.
Tupelo's lone state championship football team celebrated its 20th anniversary this season. James Sloan coached the 1992 5A state title team.


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What You'll Get
The deal
- $19.90 for one Chong Qing charcoal-grilled live fish (worth $32.80)
- $39.80 for two Chong Qing charcoal-grilled live fishes (worth $65.60)
Meal includes
Approx. 800g Fish (choose 1)
- Patin
- Sea bass
Cooking styles (choose 1)
- Hot and spicy
- Fragrant corn with green pepper
- Pickled peppers
- Scallion in Maggi sauce
- Fermented black bean
- Chilli pepper
- Tom yum sauce
- Pickled cabbage
Tong Fu Ju Sichuan Restaurant
Located among the Boat Quay shop houses, Tong Fu Ju Sichuan Restaurant serves up a selection of Chinese dishes prepared by experienced and highly skilled culinary artists, including griddle-cooked crab, fried eel, and Sichuan signature diced chicken. Offering views of the waterfront, the restaurant allows diners a feast for both palate and eyes in a traditional tea house setting.
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About Tong Fu Ju Sichuan Restaurant
Tong Fu Ju Sichuan Restaurant
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Wait, didn't we just have the American Country Awards several weeks back? Oh, that was the Country Music Awards? Well what about last week…oh, that was the American Music Awards, that's right. Thank god for Google Calendar or I'd never get any of this straight.
Though this ceremony did distinguish itself in ways the CMAs failed to. Sure, there was the usual amount of tassels masquerading as the bottom parts of dresses, and men wearing inappropriately casual Ed Hardy shirts. But did the other music award shows have both Carrot Top and famed illusionist Criss Angel? I rest my case, good sir. Sir, I said I rest my case! Now be a good lad at fetch me some of those Uncle Krackers. More