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President Kennedy's remarks to Mission Directors and Deputy Mission Directors from the Agency for International Development from the Rose Garden of the White House June 8th, 1962.
Well I want to – I'm impressed by – I wish all of our fellow Americans could listen to the litany of the countries to which you are going – all of them far away – many of them countries about which most of us knew very little two decades ago, or even in the case of some of them, a few years ago. And the term that they will spend in these countries ranges from what? A minimum of two years, two to four years
Well I want to tell you what I'm sure you must be aware of or you wouldn't be here, and that is the importance of this program and the importance of your work and how much we depend upon your judgment
Aid, the concept of foreign assistance, is not a popular program in the United States. That is a well-known fact. And therefore, there will not be farewell parades to you as you leave or parades for you when you come back. But I cannot think of any action which is more important to the effort of which we're engaged than what you are doing and the military advisory programs which are carried on in the same countries and the Peace Corps activities which are carried on in some of these countries also.
The presence of the United States as a leading power in the free world is involved in your work directly. The people who are opposed to AID should realize that this is a very powerful source of strength for us. It permits us to exert influence for the maintenance of freedom. If we were not so heavily involved, our voice would not speak with such vigor, and as we do not want to send American troops to a great many areas where freedom may be under attack, we send you, and you working with the people in those countries to try to work with them in developing the economic thrust of their countries so that they can make a determination that they can solve their problems without resorting to totalitarian control and becoming part of the block – that's the issue. That is why you are very much in the front line of this effort. That is why every president of the United States since 1947 – President Truman, President Eisenhower, and myself, have strongly supported this effort. It represents a very essential national commitment. It is a burden, but far less than the burden that would be involved to us directly if we did not have this program.
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UPDATED: Melvin Manhoef Fighting in Strikeforce March 5
- Written by Dave Walsh
Sometimes being Marvelous means people will get confused when they talk about you, apparently that is what is going on with "Marvelous" Melvin Manhoef. Earlier today, MMAJunkie broke some news that Melvin Manhoef will be fighting for Strikeforce on March 5th against Tim Kennedy. Tim was originally slated to fight Luke Rockhold, but that fell through.
Ever the vigilant fight fan, Bloodstain Lane (yes, Bloodstain Lane) so artfully told everyone on Twitter that Melvin Manhoef was not fighting Tim Kennedy, that it was faulty information. Manhoef was going to be fighting on that card, but that is not his opponent. So, now this evening, Manhoef himself cleared the air about his upcoming fight: Melvin Manhoef will be facing Luke Rockhold at Strikeforce: Columbus.
We'll have to wait to see what the official word from Strikeforce is, as well as what will become of Tim Kennedy, but Melvin Manhoef fighting again in the US means that we can expect fireworks for sure. With only one armbar win to his credit, Rockhold does not seem to pose a threat to Manhoef's kryptonite of sorts, but Rockhold is a strong wrestler with an impressive four rear naked choke victories. He has never faced a striker as dynamic, powerful and skilled as Melvin, so he should look out.
Manhoef's career has spanned K-1, It's Showtime, DREAM, HERO*s, Cage Rage and more. Manhoef has knocked opponents out all over the world, 27 times in kickboxing competition, 23 times in MMA competition. Rockhold is in for the fight of his life.
UPDATE: Melvin Manhoef was armbarred by the internet, it seems, as he just moments ago announced on his Twitter that Luke is injured and that he'll be fighting Tim Kennedy. The news, it just comes slower in the Netherlands, alright?

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If you like the recent changes of SSG, then you'll like ActionFigs.com as it will be familiar. We also have former Tomart's Action Figure Digest Editor, Nathan, as the Senior Editor.
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> I've been here to long to be any kind of fan of Bill, but I do admire his focus on charity that makes a concrete difference to people with real and immediate problems.
Access to communication networks helps address lots of real and immediate problems.
> Lets not get so obsessed with "first world problems" that we forget that millions still die of easily curable and preventable conditions.
Let's not get so obsessed with narrow, paternalistic solutions that we don't direct efforts toward things that empower people by giving them access to resources/tool that they can use to address their own concerns, like microcredit-fueled economic development or improved communication infrastructure.


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Kenai Fjords
National Park
Glacier-carved Valleys Filled with Ocean Waters
The Kenai Fjords are coastal mountain fjords whose placid seascapes reflect scenic icebound landscapes and whose salt spray mixes with mountain mist. Located on the southeastern Kenai Peninsula, the national park is a pristine and rugged land supporting many unaltered natural environments and ecosystems. The land boasts
- an icefield wilderness,
- unnamed waterfalls in unnamed canyons,
- glaciers that sweep down narrow mountain valleys, and
- a coastline along which thousands of seabirds and marine mammals raise their young each year.
Kenai Fjords National Park derives its name from the long, steep-sided, glacier-carved valleys that are now filled with ocean waters. The seaward ends of the Kenai Mountains are slipping into the sea, being dragged under by the collision of two tectonic plates of the Earth's crust. What were once alpine valleys filled with glacier ice are now deepwater mountain-flanked fjords. The forces that caused this land to submerge are still present. In 1964, the Alaskan Good Friday earthquake dropped the shoreline another six feet in just one day. As the land sinks into the ocean, glacier-carved cirques are turned into half-moon bays and mountain peaks are reduced to wave-beaten islands and stacks.
Though the land is subsiding, a mountain platform one mile high still comprises the coast's backdrop. The mountains are mantled by the 300-square-mile Harding Icefield, the park's dominant feature. The icefield was not discovered until early this century when a mapping team realized that several coastal glaciers belonged to the same massive system. Today's icefield measures some 35 miles long by 20 miles wide. Only isolated mountain peaks interrupt its nearly flat, snowclad surface. These protruding nunataks-this Eskimo word means "lonely peaks"-rise dramatically from the frozen clutches of the Ice Age.
The mountains intercept moisture-laden clouds, which replenish the icefield with 35-65 feet of snow annually. Time and the weight of overlying snow transform the snow into ice. The pull of gravity and the weight of the snowy overburden make the ice flow out in all directions. It is squeezed into glaciers that creep downward like giant bulldozers, carving and gouging the landscape. Along the coast eight glaciers reach the sea, and these tidewater glaciers calve icebergs into the fjords. The thunderous boom of calving ice can sometimes be heard 20 miles away.
The park's wildlife is as varied as its landscape.
- Mountain goats, moose, bears, wolverines, marmots, and other land mammals have re-established themselves on a thin life zone between marine waters and the icefield's frozen edges.
- Bald eagles nest in the tops of spruce and hemlock trees.
- Steller sea lions haul out on rocky islands at the entrances to Aialik and Nuka Bays.
- Harbor seals ride the icebergs.
- Dall porpoises, sea otters, and gray, humpback, killer, and minke whales ply the fjord waters.
- Halibut, lingcod, and black bass lurk deep in these waters, through which salmon return for inland spawning runs.
- Thousands of seabirds, including horned and tufted puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, common murres, and the ubiquitous gulls, seasonally inhabit steep cliffs and rocky shores.
Exit Glacier, the remnant of a larger glacier once extending to Resurrection Bay, is one of several rivers of ice flowing off the icefield. Active, yet retreating, it provides the perfect setting to explore. Here are found newly exposed, scoured, and polished bedrock and a regime of plant succession from the earliest pioneer plants to a mature forest of Sitka spruce and western hemlock.
Humans have had little lasting impact on this environment, although the park includes a few Native American archeological sites and isolated gold extraction locations. The park's overwhelming significance is as a living laboratory of change. Plants and wildlife subsist here amidst dynamic interactions of water, ice, and a glacier-carved landscape relentlessly pulled down by the Earth's crustal movements. The Harriman Expedition, a steamship-borne venture visiting the fjords in 1899, predicted this area's future value as a scenic tourist attraction. To protect this life and landscape, a national monument was proclaimed in 1978, and the 580,000-acre Kenai Fjords National Park was established in 1980.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
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W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
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Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
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Btw, I'd be interesting in reading any data that supports your "sad but true" assertion that "most Americans don't read much anymore." Intuitively it would seem that just the opposite is more likely to be true. Or do all those millions upon millions of Americans using their computers have access to some new fangled' talkin' interwebs that I haven't heard about. Amazon ain't just a river in South America.
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Marty Beil told the committee Wednesday that staffing shortages have also led to increased stress on workers who are there and created an unsafe environment. He said six workers have been assaulted by inmates since Christmas Eve.
But Corrections Secretary Ed Wall said none of the people in any of those incidents were admitted to the hospital. He said he couldn't discuss them in more detail because of health privacy laws.
Wall and the others were scheduled to provide an overview of the state Department of Corrections for members of the Assembly's Corrections Committee.
Beil said the Wisconsin State Employees Union represents about 1,800 Corrections workers.
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Gordon C. Clemment
Gordon C. Clemment, age 75 of Westby, died Monday, February 18, 2013 at his home. He was born on May 27, 1937 to Clarence and Nora (Haugen) Clemment. On April 6, 1957 he was united in marriage to Carol Eitland. Gordon retired from Mobil Oil in LaCrosse at age 55 and enjoyed golfing. He was a member of the Viroqua Country Club and was proud of his "hole-in-one". Gordon and Carol had golfed in Myrtle Beach, SC during their 21 winter trips to that area. Through Carol's work at Stefferud Equipment, they traveled to Rome in March of 1996. During the summer program at Westby Elementary, groups of students would make their way to the neighborhood barn where Gordon delighted in helping the kids learn about the horses.
In addition to his wife, Carol, Gordon is survived by two sons: Rick (Stephanie) Clemment and Steve Clemment; two grandsons: Chad (Danielle) Clemment and Chris (Dawn) Clemment; one granddaughter, Angela (Jon Schmitz) Krattiger; three great-grandchildren: Hayden Clemment, Jackson Clemment and Hudson Clemment; two brothers: Richard (Margaret) Clemment and David (Rachel) Clemment; three sisters-in-law: Diane Stenslien, Dorothy Clemment and Judy (John) McEachran; one brother-in-law, Marlin (Pat) Eitland; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends including special neighbors, David and Kay Vosseteig and family.
He was preceded in death by his parents: mother and father-in-law, Emma and Leon Eitland; one sister, Celia Running; one brother, Virgil Clemment; one brother-in-law, Stewart Stenslien; and one sister-in-law, Dee Eitland.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Bethesda Lutheran Brethren Church in Westby. Pastor Paul Tjelta will officiate with burial in the Coon Prairie Cemetery. Friends may call on Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Vosseteig Funeral Home, 708 S. Hwy 14 in Westby. Friends may also call at the church on Friday after 10:00 a.m. Online condolences may be offered at www.vossfh.com
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Family: Plethodontidae, Lungless Salamanders view all from this family
Description Black in color with green blotches. Underside black or dark brown. Light dots in 2 rows on either side. 14 Coastal grooves.
Dimensions 9-21cm. (3 1/2-8 1/4")
Breeding Breeds June through July. Up to 40 eggs laid singularly under stones in stream bed. Hatches in early fall. Sexually mature after 3 1/2 years.
Habitat Temperate rivers and mountain streams.
Range Virginia through Gerogia. Also in South Caroline.
Discussion Nocturnal. Sometimes basks on rocks. Rarely leaves river/stream banks. Very agile. Leeches are sometimes a problem. Diet consists of insects, snails and other Salamanders.


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Manny Farber 1917-2008
Painter, carpenter, university professor, and underground model for scores of American film criticsmyself includedManny Farber died early Monday morning in San Diego, where he had lived, taught, and worked since the early 70s.
Farber, who began reviewing movies for the New Republic during World War II and wrote for all manner of smallish magazines thereafter, was a legendary figuremore connoisseur than critic, less a pedant than a hipster. He had an utterly distinctive voice and a genius for coinage (underground films, termite art, carbonated dyspepsia). He had superb taste and fantastic range.
Marching to the beat of his own drum, Farber was among the first American critics to appreciate Hollywood genre artists Howard Hawks and Don Siegel as well as European modernists R.W. Fassbinder and Chantal Akerman. Id like to say that I discovered him in the third-rate mens mags for which he wrote in the mid 60sbut it was actually a few years later, in the tonier pages of Artforum. In any case, I was totally hooked. Who was this guy? How did he learn to write like that? (On Siegel: What is a Don Siegel movie? Mainly it's a raunchy, dirty-minded film with a definite feeling of middle-aged, middle-class sordidness.)
Farber wasnt like other critics. He didnt proselytize and he didnt create systems. Rather, he articulated his idiosyncratic perception, which is to say: He had a sensibility. Farber was as punchy and hardboiled, at least in his prose, as Sam Fuller (a director he admired) and as masterful a vernacular stylist as S. J. Perelman (who, knowledgeable as he was, nodded to Farber in one of his pieces). As was said of Perelman, before they made Manny they broke the mold.
Although he wrote like a champ, Farber was far from literary and is, Im told, very difficult to translate. He described lowbrow action flicks as if he were discussing a canvas by Franz Kline and referenced comic strip artists in the context of avant-garde filmmakers like Marguerite Duras. My mantra when I began reviewing for the Voice was WWMDlike, what would Manny do? And, in a sense, it still is.
Originally printed in the Village Voice May 20-26, 1981: J. Hoberman on Manny Farber
Termite Makes Right
The Subterranean Criticism of Manny Farber
Now that The New York Times has put Manny Farber on record as the best still-life painter of his generation, it seems a bit perverse to shift the spotlight to his movie criticism. But the fact is that the 64-year-old Farber is an artist-essayist on the level of Fernand Leger or Robert Smithson. His writing, intermittently published in an odd assortment of journals between 1942 and 1977, combines the historical perspicacity of Andrew Sarris and the verbal punch of Pauline Kael with an eccentric individualism that's all its own.
Farber has the strongest visual bias in American film criticism. Playing both ends against the middlebrow, his pieces are thick with inside references to painting, photography, and comic strips. ("I don't get why other critics don't pay more attention to what's going on in the other arts," he says.) Like the surrealists, he's fond of destroying narrative continuity by taking in a film in random, 15-minute chunks. On meeting Farber, his appearance is as striking as his method. A prominent forehead and jaw connote intelligent pugnacity, while the rest of his features cluster mid-face to give him the stylized appearance of a kindly Chester Gould character. "What he really looks like," critic Richard Thompson once wrote, "is philosopher-king of all the bums in all the grind houses in the world, bringing a Promethean message to us from Plato's cave world of the triple feature."
Part of that message is embodied in a key 1962 essay that originally appeared in Film Culture. (The same astonishing issue also contains Sarris's "Notes on the Auteur Theory," Jack Smith's "The Perfect Cinematic Appositenness of Maria Montez," and Kael's review of Shoot the Piano Player.) Farber's contribution, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," is the snappiest jeremiad I've ever read. Its target is films that are inflated, over-wrought, precious, "tied to the realm of celebrity and affluence" white elephant stuff, in which the artist tries "to pin the viewer to the wall and slug him with wet towels of artiness and significance." Against this beast (personified by Antonioni, Truffaut, and the then modish Tony Richardson) Farber raises the red flag of termite art, a mysterious form that flourishes in dark corners where "the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence." Farber's termites include journalists, pulp writers, B-movie directors, and comic-strip artists intuitive, unself-conscious professionals who have "no ambitions towards gilt culture but are involved in a kind of squandering-beaverish endeavor that isn't anywhere or for anything."
Although I interpreted it to suit myself, Farber's white elephant/termite dichotomy was crucial for me. I got my first regular writing gig in 1972 for a shortlived successor to the East Village Other that was known as the New York Ace and operated out of a fetid basement on West 16th Street. Under the rubric "Terminal Termite," I tried to work out a kind of Farber-inspired cultural criticism capable of ping-ponging back and forth between Brakhage movies and Coca-Cola commercials. After a few of these, the editor asked me to please explicate my "incomprehensible logo" and "buglike theory of art" (a reference, he probably thought, to our working conditions). I composed a tribute to Farber that segued seamlessly into a rabid attack on such current white elephants as 2001, Performance, and El Topo. With that issue, the Ace folded.
Actually, I had stumbled across Farber a few years earlier, in the pages of Dan Talbot's Film: An Anthology, which included Farber's 1957 essay "Underground Films." A hard-boiled paean to a then-unsung cadre of action directors (Hawks, Walsh, Wellman, Mann, Karlson), "Underground Films" took Farber three years to write and was originally intended for Vogue. This exciting, if morose, manifesto not only anticipated the discoveries of the French auteurists, it audaciously valorized the style and mise-en-scene of a movie over its plot. Farber's "hardgrained cheapsters" thrived on precisely that material that was most hackneyed and childish. Typically, he compared them to basketball layers who did their best shooting from the worst angle on the court.
"Underground Films" contains all of Farber's attributes the pop-culture connoisseurship, the canonization of a peripheral form, the authoritative painter's jargon worked into a nervy, wise-cracking, baroque prose style. (All that's missing is his trademark reference to Cezanne's "niggling, tingling" brushwork.) Like Raymond Chandler, Ben Hecht, or S. J. Perelman who once wrote "With men who know rococo best, it's Farber two to one" Farber could twist the American vernacular into something like a salt pretzel. "The films of the Hawks-Wellman group are underground for more reasons than the fact that the director hides out in subsurface reaches of his work," wrote Farber appreciatively. "The hardbitten action film finds its natural home in caves: the murky congested theaters, looking like glorified tattoo parlors on the outside and located near bus terminals in big cities. These theaters roll action films in what, at first, seems like a nightmarish atmosphere of shabby transience, prints that seem overgrown with jungle moss, soundtracks infected with hiccups. The spectator watches two or three action films go by and leaves feeling as though he were a pirate discharged by a giant sponge." It was startling to discover that Farber was knocking out copy like this every month for the back page of Artforum.
Rereading Farber's essays before the interview, what struck me was how reflexive they are, how much they describe his own modus operandi. When he writes that "a peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and likely as not leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity," he could be predicting his own development, the successive occupation of disparate realms (the B movie, the structural film, European modernism) without settling into any of them. When he cites the "important trait of termite-fungus-centipede art" as "an ambulatory creation which is an act both of observing and being in the world, a journeying in which the artist seems to be ingesting both the material of his art and the outside world through a horizontal coverage," he's acknowledging the painter's traits that inform his criticism the sense of space as a malleable substance, the capacity for collaging raw perceptual data, the knack for looking at movies from the inside out.
A congenital maverick, Farber was born in an Arizona copper town one mile from the Mexican border. His parents owned a dry-goods store. As a student he was interested in both painting and journalism, but became a carpenter as an alternative to working for the WPA. Arriving in New York in the late '30s, he intersected two key intellectual scenes: the Partisan Review crowd and the future Abstract Expressionists. In 1942 he succeeded Otis Ferguson as the movie critic for The New Republic, writing for it, and its cousin The Nation, off and on for the next 11 years. (At times, Farber's beat included art criticism as well: Matisse's "line is as much a thing of genius as Cary Grant's dark, nonchalant glitter. With one swift, sure, unbroken flip of the wrist he can do more for the female navel, abdomen, breast, and nipple than anyone since Mr. Maidenform.") Despite his remarkably prescient appreciations of Tex Avery, Val Lewton, Sam Fuller, and The Thing from Another World, Farber was consistently overshadowed by his more famous crony, James Agee.
Like a veteran relief pitcher, Farber was "traded" to the New Leader. Then, after dropping out of regular criticism to write his position papers "Underground Films," the acid "Hard Sell Cinema," "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" he signed on as the movie reviewer for a second-string strokebook, Cavalier. (According to Greg Ford, who helped Farber assemble his one anthology, Negative Space, Farber never bothered to save these pieces, which then had to be excavated from Times Square backdate magazine stores.) When Farber abruptly decamped for Artforum in late 1966, the shift in perspective was more complex than just a move from the psychic environs of 42nd to those of 57th street.
Arguably, Farber did his best writing in his three years at Artforum: a canny mixture of career appreciations (Hawks, Fuller, Seigel), straight reviews, and pithy reports on various New York film festivals. Moreover, he pushed his termite aesthetic into new territory, revealing an enthusiasm not only for Jean-Luc Godard but for the structural films of Michael Snow, Ernie Gehr, and Ken Jacobs. His affinity for the latter group may well be a factor of Farber's painterly eye, but he credits his wife and collaborator, the painter Patricia Patterson, with leading the expedition into the avant-garde. Farber's last stint as a regular critic was in 1975 after he and Patterson got teaching positions at the University of California at San Diego, where they still live. For seven issues, the Farbers worked for Francis Ford Coppola's City magazine, filing exhortatory reviews of the European modernists (Fassbinder, Herzog, Duras, the Straubs, Rivette, Akerman) that he was then teaching. "Duras should direct a Continental Op story," he says. "Two grudging, monosyllabic writers."
Farber isn't grudging in conversation, just understated. He measures his words, spends a lot of time listening, and asks as many questions as I ask him. What was Michael Snow's new film like? What do I think of Herzog? Where did I go to college? The interview turns quickly into a discussion. Among the topics is Fassbinder's decline from an arch-termite to a total white elephant ("The low budget helped a lot he's over-produced now.") Farber and Patterson were among the first American critics to discover Fassbinder. They caught The Merchant of the Four Seasons at the 1972 Venice Film Festival, writing in Artforum that it was "the single antidote to thoughts of suicide in the Grand Canal." Hollywood, Farber thinks, "is being castrated because it doesn't get any help from the inventions of people like Snow, Rocha, Gehr. Somehow, it's cut off from all pictorial contributions by outsiders." He found Raging Bull "a terrific movie technically, but much too narcissistic and aggressively ambitious." Excalibur? "Horrible. I always thought Boorman had a better eye."
Right now, Farber tends to downplay his writing. He calls it "excruciating" work. (Farber's difficulty with deadlines is legendary. Film Comment is still waiting for his piece on Syberberg's Hitler film.) He'd rather talk about his paintings the aerial views of Milk Duds boxes and lollipops scattered in stringent, centerless patterns across a desk-blotter surface, or the works of the "Auteur Series," which employ the same overhead perspective and overall compositions as well as a host of miniaturized objects in suggestive, rebus-like formations. ("I like work termitically.") The elements in Howard Hawks "A Dandy's Gesture" include railroad tracks and a model train, a speedboat, an airplane, an elephant, and what look like bits of a Hershey bar. They're all roughly the same size. Slanting off the canvas at the lower edge is a somewhat larger reporter's tablet filled with scrawled notes on Scarface and His Girl Friday.
The "Auteur Series" includes paintings on Preston Sturges, Anthony Mann, and Marguerite Duras. Farber tells me he's currently working on William Wellman and Luis Bunuel. The canvases take a long time to finish. "I don't go to movies that much any more," he says. "I think about them while I'm painting."
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Posted November 15, 2007; 04:27 p.m.
David Remnick, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker and a 1981 Princeton alumnus, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, in McCosh 50.
In "A Conversation With David Remnick," he will participate in a discussion with Michael Wood, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, on topics ranging from Russian politics to the U.S. presidential race to famed journalist A.J. Liebling.
Remnick was a member of the University Press Club as an undergraduate and a founder of the Nassau Weekly. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1992 after 10 years at the Washington Post. He has been editor-in-chief of the magazine since 1998.
Remnick won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire." In 2002, he was selected to receive the University's Woodrow Wilson Award. His most recent book, "Reporting: Writings From The New Yorker," was published earlier this year. His other books include "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero" and "Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia."
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Posted 01 May 2006 - 01:57 AM
Let's start the month off with a new challenge!
I challenge you to use one of the Scrap Girls Alphabets as a BACKGROUND on your layout. Use one alpha or a bunch of different alphas, make some letters big and some letters small, rotate them! Have fun with this girls!!
Here's an example:
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#3 heart*scrappin
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To have a friend is to have a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold and an extra pair of legs when yours are too weak to stand alone...
I have been living buried in books and writing classes... as an added note I must say that it is rather scary when you start dreaming and all you can see within your dreams is words floating everywhere!
Valerie Lynn Harrell is the published author of a book of poetry, titled "A Little Girl Lost... Was Found Through Her Writing"
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Sounds like a great way to use relatives initials in a layout, not just one relative, but lots of them .
That is a GREAT idea!
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Is the deadline the end of May, or sooner?
Oh, sorry!!! The deadline is the 15th since I will be posting a
new challenge then!
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It was fun to work on! Thanks Syndee!
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Here's my May challenge lo using Thao's Earth Vessel alpha in the background. I couldn't find where to put it, so it's in my member album ...
It was fun to work on! Thanks Syndee!
LOVE it Vic!!! Great use of alpha's and of the Earthen Vessel Collection!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!
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should i have the time: - add Unicode support to re2c and patch-or-fork. i'm thinking of rewriting it in ruby, as it would make a great alternative to pure regexp parsing and could be supported in ruby's core.
- add bytecode lexer. uses the same grammar as the YAML lexer.
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Well it's less than 2 weeks away so I will go ahead & start up The Official CFB Thread for 2013. Lots to talk about. Wait for it. Wait for it. The Over rated State University will play in The BCS NAT CHAMP. There. I said it. It's happening. Time to move on.
"Do your job. Do your job. Be a part. You do those things, we enjoy victory @ the end. As a team."
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// This function writes the slave address to the i2c bus.// If a slave chip is at that address, it should respond to// this with an "ACK". This function returns TRUE if an// ACK was found. Otherwise it returns FALSE.int8 get_ack_status(int8 address){int8 status;i2c_start();status = i2c_write(address); // Status = 0 if got an ACKi2c_stop();if(status == 0) return(TRUE);else return(FALSE);}//=================================void main(){int8 i;int8 status;int8 count = 0;printf("\n\rStart:\n\r");delay_ms(1000);// Try all slave addresses from 0x10 to 0xEF.// See if we get a response from any slaves// that may be on the i2c bus.for(i=0x10; i < 0xF0; i+=2) { status = get_ack_status(i); if(status == TRUE) { printf("ACK addr: %X\n\r", i); count++; delay_ms(2000); } }if(count == 0) printf("\n\rNothing Found");else printf("\n\rNumber of i2c chips found: %u", count);while(1);}
I don't really understand what you mean...
there are only three lines I don't understand...can I ask that question...?
why not? you did that in your code you sent me and why that doesn't work?!
in the function 'load_data' you wrote these three lines:IC_SEND(i);IC_SEND(0);IC_SEND(0);
lol, I have no idea. maybe transistorgod got him.
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The first thing that you ask yourself is whether or not adopting a dog is a good idea for your family. Do you have the resources to provide quality food, accessories, and veterinarian care for a pet? Do you have enough time in your schedule to spend quality time with a pet each day? Are your children old enough to help take care of the pet? If not, are you willing to be the sole provider for the pet?
2. What Type of Pet Should I Choose?
So you think you can handle a pet — now you must decide what type of dog would be the perfect fit for your family. Consider the amount of space you have for a pet, as well as the amount of exercise you'll be able to give it. Would you be best off with a puppy you can train from the start, or do you prefer an older more docile pet that's already housebroken. Other considerations include; shedding, size, stamina, and demeanor. You want to choose a pet that is the right size and has a temperament and stamina that matches your family. And if you can't stand dog or cat hair on the sofa, then choosing a breed that doesn't shed is optimal.
3. How Do I Know if My Family is Ready?
If this is the first time that your family will be welcoming a pet into your home, I highly consider borrowing one first. Chances are that you have a close friend or family member that would let you "borrow" their dog for the weekend. This will give your family a chance to see if a new pet will really fit into your family dynamic. It is also a great time to see how involved your children will be in the process. Are they eager to take the dog out for a walk? To feed the pet? Groom the pet? You can see if your home has enough space for a pet and it gives you a good idea of what everyday life will be like once you bring your new dog home.
4. What Kind of Dog Does Your Family Connect With?
Now that you have decided on the type of demeanor and size dog that you want to welcome into your home, it's time to visit your local shelter. I suggest meeting with a volunteer at your local shelter to discuss the type of dog you're looking for and what temperament you think will be the best fit for your family. The volunteers continuously and closely work with the animals, so they will be able to give you a lot of information. You want to make sure that any potential pet is good with children and other pets (if you already have either one). I also think picking out a couple of pets to interact with is a good idea. You can see how your child responds to each different pet. This is also a good chance to see how a pet will respond when your child wants to pet, or walk it. Most animal shelters happily welcome volunteers every day to walk the dogs living there. Visit your local shelter and a few dogs repeatedly to see what kind of connection you can make.
5. I Love a Shelter Pet, Now What?
If your family becomes smitten with a particular animal when visiting the animal shelter, I suggest taking the pet for a few extra walks, and to spend as much time as you can with the pet before you commit. The more time that you can spend with the animal before you bring it home, the better. Many shelter animals will find their way back to a shelter simply because the person who initially adopted him didn't spend enough time getting to know him. You want to know as much as possible about your new pet: Does he shed, is he super hyper, is he too big that he knocks your children over? Slow down and take your time to make sure this pet is right for your family.
6. How Do I Prepare a Pet for His New Home?
Be prepared for how your new dog will react when you bring him to your home for the first time. He may feel afraid and overwhelmed, so it's important to give him time to adjust. I highly suggest supervising all of the time that your new pet is interacting with your children and other pets until your new dog is well adjusted. Having a safe place for the pet to go is essential. I suggest a crate that is large enough for them to stand up in and turn around, lined with a comfy blanket in a quiet part of your home. If you feel that your pet is overwhelmed, you can remove him from the situation and give him a little time-out.
7. What Will My Pet Do When I'm at Work?
I suggest adopting a pet when you have some time off from work and the children are home from school, even if it's only for a week. This gives your pet time to adjust to her new living situation before being left home alone for a few hours. I also recommend keeping your pet (especially a dog) in a crate when you're away from home. This will protect your pet from getting hurt when you're not there or from chewing up your favorite piece of furniture or clothing. Many people feel that putting a pet in a crate is inhumane, however, I have crate trained all of my dogs and they don't mind it at all. In fact, they climb in and immediately lay down for a rest. You can also consider leaving your dog with at a doggy day care, hiring a dog walker or leaving him with a friend or family member during the day.
8. What Should I Expect in the Long Run?
The most important thing to remember is that it will take time for your new dog to settle in. If you adopted a puppy, understand that potty training usually takes time — up to a year. It also takes time for your pet to learn the family rules including not getting on the furniture, not running away when you open the front door, not jumping on people, etc. The best advice that I can give you is that you get out of your pets, what you put into them and that consistency is key.


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The National Propane Gas Association announced Monday, February 27, 2012 that it and a coalition of over 58 companies and trade associations protested an unjust and unreasonable tariff increase on the Enterprise TEPPCO pipeline, which runs from near Houston, Texas, to Upstate New York. The protest was filed on time despite a mere 15 day window available to protesters under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations. Also joining the protest were two refined fuels providers.
"The protest filed today by 58 propane shippers, marketers, and state associations demonstrates the high levels of concern the industry has about these rate increases," said Tom Van Buren, Vice President of Ferrell North America and Chairman of NPGA's Pipeline Advocacy Task Force. "Never before have we seen such an emphatic and concerted response to a FERC proceeding. The industry believes the abnormally large rate increases - many of which are 70% to more than 100% -- will have a devastating effect on the competitiveness of propane as an alternative fuel in the eastern United States."
According to Philip Squair, NPGA's Senior Vice President for Public and Governmental Affairs, "This enormous increase is particularly disturbing since it comes in the middle of the propane industry's peak heating season and without sufficient notice to customers and other affected third parties." He added, "No acknowledgement has been given to the impact these tariff increases will have on the existing commercial relationships between suppliers and marketers as well as the corresponding negative impact on the consuming public."
The protesters strongly believe that FERC should reject outright Enterprise TEPPCO's proposed rate increases. Rick Roldan, NPGA's President and CEO, stated "The propane industry has drawn a line in the sand today for one simple reason: unless the propane industry takes action, FERC will not do so on its own."
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Judge Robert H. Bork, one of the the greatest jurists this country has ever produced, died early this morning from heart complications in a Virginia hospital near his home. He was 84…
The vicious campaign waged against Judge Bork set a new low—possibly never exceeded—in the exhibition of unbridled leftist venom, indeed hate. Reporters combed through the Borks trash hoping to find comprising tidbits; they inspected his movie rentals, and were disgusted to find the films of John Wayne liberally represented. So hysterical was the campaign against Judge Bork that a new transitive verb entered our political vocabulary: "To Bork," scruple at nothing in order to discredit and defeat a political figure. Monsieur Guillotine gave his name to that means of execution; "progressives," those leftists haters of America who have so disfigured our national life since the 1960s, gave us the this new form of character assassination. The so-called "Lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy, surely one of the most despicable men ever to hold high public office in the United States (yes, that's saying something), stood on the Senate floor and emitted a serious of calumnious lies designed not simply to prevent Judge Bork from being appointed to the Supreme Court but to soil his character irretrievably.
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I am a husband, father, son, brother, uncle and friend. I believe in sharing my talents and experiences by giving back to the community by giving my time to coaching, church and especially to the disability community. I truly believe that all men and women are created equally.
13 Reasons Why I Do Not Support "Choice"
It continues to amaze me how some people think that "choice" is enough of a reason to support the Special Needs Voucher. I participated in a conversation on Facebook and I have had a couple of subsequent conversations since outside of Facebook. I will always respect those that believe "choice" is enough of a reason. But in my mind, "choice" is the only thing that the special needs voucher has going for it.
The special need's voucher has more negatives then the one positive of "choice".
Vouchers may not cover the entire cost to send a student to that voucher school. The family would be obligated to pay the difference.
Voucher schools do not have to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This could mean that some individuals with physical disabilities may not even be able to get into the voucher school.
Voucher schools do not need to follow the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); a very important piece of civil rights legislation for students with disabilities.
Voucher schools do not have to implement, follow or update an Individualized Education Programs (IEP) once a goal has been achieved. Something protected under IDEA.
Voucher schools do not have to accept every child with a disability.
Voucher schools do not have to have certified special education teachers.
Voucher schools do not have to offer any therapies, not speech, not physical, not occupational. Each of these therapies contributes to a student's success in the future.
Voucher schools do not have to allow a student to remain in school until their 21st birthday to continue preparation for transition to adult life.
Voucher schools do not have to ensure that there is a transition plan in place for a student's life after high school; this includes registering with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR).
Voucher schools do not have to keep students in age appropriate classes.
Voucher schools do not have offer a formal way to resolve disputes, something protected under IDEA.
Voucher schools do not need to ensure transportation to the school.
If voucher schools fail to meet the student's outcomes and the student returns to the neighborhood school, there is no mechanism to return the public funding to the neighborhood school, meaning that the public school needs to educate the student with no additional funding.
This is just 13 reasons why I do not believe in the special needs voucher. These are all things that our public schools do for students with disabilities. These are things that the Cudahy School District has to offer. We have had very good success with the Cudahy schools so far. I realize that not every family is as fortunate as we have been, both here in Cudahy and across the State, but these are just to many things to give up to support the special needs voucher.
It appears that there is some interest on the Federal level supporting special needs vouchers. We knew the fight would not end, I guess I thought that I would have a bit more of a break
I think that you should ask yourself: Is it worth giving up these 12 protections for the sake of "choice"?
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Ung Lee wins Stony Brook prize for fiction
Posted July 10, 2002; 10:29 a.m.
Ung Lee, a psychology major from the class of 2002, has won this year's Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize , an international literary contest for college undergraduates.
Lee's story, "Accidents," was selected from about 200 entries by a panel of judges who are faculty members of the Department of English at the State University of New York. "Accidents" tells the story of a man trying to cope with the repercussions of an accident.
Lee, who is from Baltimore, Md., is teaching creative writing to high school students this summer in a program at Yale University. He will read his winning story at an event at Stony Brook in the fall.
Kathryn Jude Benson, a member of the class of 2003, earned an honorable mention in the contest.
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Family: Diomedeidae, Albatrosses view all from this family
Description ADULT Has mainly dark brown plumage, but tail is noticeably darker than back and most birds show variable amounts of white at base of bill and on undertail coverts. Typically, the extent of white in both these areas increases with age and some birds appear very pale-headed. Bill is dark pink in all birds. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but usually the pale elements of adult's plumage are absent.
Dimensions Length: 28-36" (71-91 cm); Wngspn: 6' 6"-7" (1.9-2.1 m)
Habitat Breeds on remote islands off Japan and Hawaii. Occurs year-round off North American Pacific coasts as a feeding visitor; most widespread and numerous outside the breeding season, from fall to spring.
Observation Tips Easiest to see on pelagic trips.
Range California, Alaska, Western Canada, Northwest
Voice Mostly silent.
Similar Species Laysan Albatross P. immutabilis (W 78-80 in) has blackish brown upper wings, back, and tail. Plumage is otherwise mainly white, but, seen from below, note the dark primaries and dark margins to the wings; wing coverts are also variably dark. At close range, note the grayish cheeks and dark "eyebrow." Bill is pink with a dark tip in all birds. Breeds on Kauai and remote islands off Hawaii. Occurs off Pacific North American coasts as a wandering, feeding visitor. Easiest to see on pelagic trips.
Discussion A huge seabird, unmistakably an albatross on account of its size, proportionately very long wings, large bill, and flight pattern. The mainly all-dark plumage separates it from Laysan Albatross, which has a white head, neck, and underparts, and is the only other of its kind to occur regularly off Pacific coasts. Flies in typical albatross fashion: the wings are held stiff and outstretched and seldom flapped, as the bird glides and banks effortlessly. Sexes are not separable in the field, but aging differences are discernible with care.


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By Patsy R. Brumfield/Daily Journal
TUPELO – Christmas cheer came early for Lee County operations as its board of supervisors and staff officially moved into long-time-coming space downtown.
"After 17 years, it's kind of nice not to have to work out of the back of my truck, " joked District 4 Supervisor Tommie Lee Ivy today as the board welcomed the public to its new office complex in the former CDF facility.
Months ago, economic developers CDF moved into its own facility just off Main Street in Fairpark District.
Today, it was "the people's building" being returned to total public functions, said Board President Phil Morgan, who represents District 1.
The board officially cut the ribbon and hosted an open house for the public this morning.
The prominent brick building at 300 W. Main St. has been a post office, housed chancery clerk functions and hosted other roles. But with CDF's move, the county saw an opportunity to build space for work previously squeezed into tight quarters in the Lee Justice Center.
The renovation price tag was about $400,000 from existing county funds, said County Administrator Sean P. Thompson.
He said space will be available for public groups to meet, too.
The board's meeting room is impressively large, compared to the small room it once held its public meetings.
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It sometimes feel like Toronto police get stuck in a rut when it comes to enforcing traffic violations. They have their preferred locations where they camp out and rarely seem to stray from these established areas.
To me, that means that many places in the city, places where law violations seriously risk the safety of pedestrians and cyclists, are ignored.
For example, the newly installed Bike Boxes on Harbord and College streets are a prime example. My daily travels take me by the intersections with bike boxes and more often than not there are drivers either ignoring the stop lines or making illegal right turns on red lights. Yet, I have never seen police officers on site ready to both educate and ticket drivers who make these violations.
Is it because Toronto police don't know or don't believe that these are trouble areas? Well, if the reason is the former then thankfully Toronto police have an easy-to-use online reporting system that allows you to submit complaints.
Is there a stop signed intersection that drivers constantly fail to stop for (like the entire stretch of Barton from Christie to Bathurst)? Is there a key area where you observe a large number of drivers using handheld devices? Is there a stretch of road where drivers consistently exceed posted speed limits?
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When Obomo went over to Germany during his campaign, all the socialist came out to cheer him.
Now, he has to meet with many of their leaders and the reception is nothing like he experienced last Fall.
Right or wrong, Bush stood up for his principles. The Euro leaders are now getting a first hand look at the phony that now calls himself PROTUS and they are not impressed!


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You're doing the right thing trying to get the leg healed properly. Stay positive and don't give up.
As you can see, the loss of a leg is far from the end for a retriever. Dogs can't feel sorry for themselves. Dogs don't hold a grudge. Dogs don't worry about the past.
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Description Native perennial forb. Habit: erect, 4-8 inch height. Leaf: palmate, single whorl of 3 to 5 leaflets; attached directly to the plant stem. Flowers: spherical dull white umbel, fades to pink. Fruit: yellow, clustered berries in July to August. Rounded, edible roots.
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Habitat Moist woods, damp clearings, bottomlands.
Range Northeastern U.S. and Canada, from Ontario east to Nova Scotia, south to Georgia and northwest to Kentucky, Indiana, and Minnesota. (Not reported in South Carolina.).
Discussion This plant looks like a small version of American ginseng (P. quinquefolius), but can be distinguished by its sessile leaflets (usually three) versus the five stalked leaflets of American ginseng. Also known as groundnut.


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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – After three days off the field, Mississippi State strapped on pads for the first time this spring and resumed practices Wednesday.
The Bulldogs had originally been scheduled to practice Tuesday, but frigid temperatures and an ill Tyler Russell made that an unattractive option. Russell, the senior quarterback, wasn't 100 percent well on Wednesday but was back at it nonetheless.
"He understands that's part of being the starting quarterback. You're never always going to feel great," coach Dan Mullen said. "He did good."
Russell, the only healthy scholarship quarterback, looked sharp on his passes as MSU continued the installation process. Putting on pads gave it a different feel, one the players liked. Although, some rust had to be knocked off.
"Yeah, I got it worked off today. I should be ready Friday, turn loose," said defensive end Denico Autry.
Receiver Robert Johnson said fatigue was a factor toward the end of practice, but, "It felt good to be back in the groove of things."
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MSU's coaches also have to find a groove, and that can be especially challenging with three new assistants on staff.
"A lot of them understand what we expect, being around," Mullen said. "You're a coach, this is where you want to be. You want to be out on the field coaching, teaching and doing football."
This is an adjustment period as the players learn their new coaches. For instance, cornerbacks coach Deshea Townsend – who replaced Melvin Smith – is trying to get his group used to his coaching methods.
"The first couple of days it kind of took a minute, because we were still trying to do things the coach Smith way. But now everything's going good," cornerback Jamerson Love said.
New receivers coach Billy Gonzales has made it known just what he expects from his players, and he's using this time to try and eliminate any sense of timidness.
"I want freakin' mean football players on the football field that are going to portray that," Gonzales said. "More than anything, I want toughness."
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By Tiernan Ray
Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi today joins the crowd of those mulling through the prospects for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5 sales since the device went on sale three weeks ago.
Saccaonghi writes that investors have asked him how important upgrades are to sales of the iPhone.
In fact, contrary to what some investors might suppose, it's new buyers, not existing iPhone owners, driving the vast majority of iPhone purchases:
Many investors have asserted that the iPhone 5 product cycle will be significant, in part because of the high number of expected upgrades. However, perhaps surprisingly, our analysis indicates that only about 30% of iPhones sold (or 38M) in FY 12 will be from customers upgrading from an older iPhone. The remaining 70% will come from new customers, most of whom have never owned a smartphone before.
Those new buyers are coming in large part — two thirds — from new carriers that Apple added in 2009 and 2010. Only about 8% of new iPhone buyers can be expected to come from new carriers Apple is adding this year, he writes.
Sacconaghi expects new buyers will continue to be important in 2013 and it won't be till 2014 that upgrades will come to represent half the total iPhone sales. At that point, "recurring revenue and profit will increase" for Apple, he thinks.
As the smartphone market matures, and iPhone growth invariably slows, replacement sales will become an increasing share of total iPhone sales. Our model points to iPhone replacement sales amounting to 40% of total sales in FY 13 and >50% of units in FY 14, and higher thereafter. Once a customer owns an iPhone, repurchase intention is high – 95% according to previous surveys we have done1. We estimate that Apple's recurring operating profit, including replacement iPhones, was 18% in FY 11 and will increase to ~37% in FY 14.
Apple shares today closed down $14.21, or 2%, at $652.59.
Previously: AAPL: Cowen Maps LTE Prospects for iPhone 5; China the Wild Card, October 5th, 2012;
AAPL: Piper Trims Sept. iPhone View, No Risk Yet to Dec. View, October 4th, 2012.


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I have learned I need these dogs much more than they need me. Tim Bockmon
It doesn't really matter what book you read, who's program you use, or what club you belong to if you don't spend time with your dog. The biggest problem I see with Labs in my area is: Duck season is coming up and people decide they need a retriever. They buy a puppy that they can't do anything with because it is too young. A few months later Christmas passes, duck season is over, and spring is coming. The dog is now at a crucial training age yet the new owners have changed their focus on fishing, spring break, crawfish boils, or whatever seasonal hobby is popular. Now the dog runs wild on the yard for 9 months chewing up everything, digging up flower beds, and jumping on every person that comes by to visit. Now there is a 1 year old dog with zero retrieving ability, a ticked off spouse, and a hunter that will still be walking out making his own retrieves!
Dogs are like children, you have to spend time with them if you want them to grow up and be something. When I hear some average joe tell me the family is getting a duck dog I tell them to buy a started dog or buy a puppy and send it to the trainer at 4 months old. Most of the time it is cheaper to buy a started dog. I don't train dogs for anyone but myself. I wonder how many "Great Retrievers" never made a retrieve because they were forgotten in the back yard.
But of course, most people on this site don't have this problem. We all need more time in a day to work with our dogs!
To quack, or not to quack, that is the question.
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Pretty easy to speak of Richard Wolters since he has been dead for almost 20 years. Most of his books were wrote in the 60,s. So guess when someone can write and produce videos to compete with him maybe they have the right to open their mouths and say he was an idiot but from where I sit he was a pioneer of his times.
PS the popcorn is cooking
I said the same thing when he was alive. He was a good BS slinger but he wasn't a dog trainer. If you want a dog to get even to the upper levels of retriever hunt tests you need more than he gives in his books.
Just because he's passed doesn't mean his books are better dog training tomes.
Howard Niemi
You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
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There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
You old regulars here really know how to make a good impression on a newcomer, huh? I don't understand the constant bashing of all the old trainers just because you don't agree with their methods. If those methods got even a few dogs out of the back yard or off the couch... then I would say they were a success. Maybe the next NFC won't come from Wolter's book, but it is better than nothing at all.
More than one way to "skin a cat" regards...
Bill Davis
I can go on record as saying Wolter's GunDog was the only training material, I've ever actually paid money for and brought. I had a 3 month old lab that I wanted to hunt. If I recall it was a pretty humorous down to earth book. That said I think I only actually read 2 chapters, then sort've skimmed everything else. I recall liking his attention of developing the nose, did really well with a young pup and her trailing ability. After that I got drug into a club day and a hunting partners Saturday training group and the dog sort've developed under tutelage, of steps and suggestions of what to work on next. This was much better for me as I have a pretty short attention span, books and programs can't really hold my interest, for to long so many other interesting things .
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"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
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I've read most of his books and have pulled a few nuggets of info from them. Compared to the material available now they are very very basic to say the least.
Weller's Tell It To The Judge MH (Justice)
Weller's Running With The Wind MH (Chase)
JD's In It Again MH (Trouble) 5/1/2009 - 1/3/2012
Books are nice to read and get the basics from. But it's the little bitty stuff that as an amateur you won't notice that'll get you in trouble. Spend the money and hook up with a pro. They'll show you things and give you advice that you won't get in a book because every dog is different and reacts to correction in a different way. The pro will be able to show you how to get your dog motivated when it's needed and calm them down when it's needed. I did the book thing on my first two 15 years ago and they were good hunting dogs. I have two at a pro now and if I had known the difference 15 years ago, I would have had two awesome hunting dogs back then.


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That point in the Scout Oath that is often over looked.. said real fast to get to "Mentally Awake.. Morally Straight". Yep, I'm calling you out! But just as the old adage says.. when you point a finger, three are pointing back at you.
I consider myself in good shape, and I am with in the Height and Weight limits to go to Philmont, but you know I could always do better.
It is a peeve of mine when Scout leaders preach fitness and then are not fit. I understand, and have compassion for those volunteers that have medical conditions and physical aliments that they have to live with, really I feel bad for those people. But on the other hand, what example of physical fitness are they modeling for the young men and women in Scouting? Now, I do not expect all Scout leaders to the poster child on the wall of a local gym, but I would expect them to be able to at least keep up and practice what they preach.
Many well intentioned Scouters give lots and lots to Scouting. I had a friend that recently passed away. He was way to young to go, but health issues plagued him. Diabetes, circulation problems, heart issues, and yes he was extremely overweight. He was a dear friend and tried to do everything he could in Scouting. He would attend Summer camp, he was as active as he could be in the Order of the Arrow, he was a great merit badge counselor, but when he tried to go to Arrow Corps 5 he was turned down because of his weight. And as much as is pains me to say it… rightly so… he was a liability that the BSA could not afford. What if something would go wrong out in the middle of Shasta? I felt bad for him, but then on the other hand, his weight was his problem and no one put it on but him. He could control it. He used to be a strong, fit man. A fire fighter, a backpacker, and very active. Then came the weight and down went the activity and everything else. I never want to be "that guy".
I think it is very important that we try as hard as we can to be the model of fitness, especially when around our Scouts. They should see us eating healthy, not smoking and discouraging tobacco use, we should be active and take a look in the mirror once in a while to see what you look like in uniform.
Remember.. three fingers pointing back here. We could all do better.
Which brings me to the point. Scoutsigns has done it again! #100daysStong is the next 100 days of blogging, this time its all about YOU and getting yourself Physically Fit.. oh and along the way encouraging fitness in your units! I am on board with this effort.. I could always better myself, I have Philmont coming up next summer and I need to be in top shape to keep up with the crews we are taking. As we get older, we should not slow down, nature will set its course, but we do have ways to stay on top of it and fight back a bit.
So, here we go #100daysStrong, lets see how we can be Physically Strong and live that part of the Promise!
Eat healthy and stay away from Pop.
Have a Great Scouting Day!