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I've been looking and looking through Legends pegs for that Jetfire for you, T. I spotted a mountain of the new Optimus Prime but there were so many that I figured you'd be likely to find it there. Also, TRU has the armored-up Prime keychain that's roughly the same scale and wears the armor better than the Legends. I hadn't actually seen the Legends combine before now, it's underwhelming: http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...jetfire/14808/
EDIT: Wait, it's not as bad as I thought, there's other ways to do it: http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=16426 (posts 5 and 6 are good, post 8 is interesting but blurry, post 9 is HILARIOUS)
J&H, awesome find, best of luck bringing it in. I want a full report by the end of the day.

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Filed many bugs this past weekend to get raiseless DnD support in GNOME, and grouped them with a meta-bug. I split them too finely, so Owen promptly marked some as duplicates of others. All the Gtk+ bugs are on the 2.6 API freeze target milestone. Thanks to some earlier work and Matthias Clasen, there's already a patch which makes most of the necessary changes to Gtk+. The Metacity bugs have patches attached too, though they're the minimum needed (three lines) to get the right behavior and less than ideal.


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|The Enterprise is in the vicinity of Sherman's Planet, a world claimed by both the Federation and the Klingon Empire, when they pick up a Code One Emergency from the nearby Deep Space Station K-7. The code is reserved only for the most dire disasters, so Kirk takes the ship in expecting the worst. On arrival, though, he finds the station apparently peaceful and untroubled. The commander of the station, a Mr. Lurry, asks Kirk to come over to the station to talk. On arrival, a furious Kirk finds the Federation Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Nilz Baris, in Lurry's office with his assistant Arne Darvin.
Baris admits that he ordered the emergency code because the station is currently holding a large stock of Quadrotriticale, a genetically engineered grain to be used on Sherman's Planet. He is worried that the Klingons will attempt to sabotage the grain, as this would seriously hamper the Federation's attempts to develop the planet - and under the terms of the Organian peace treaty, the planet will belong to whomever can best use it. Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the use of the emergency code for what he sees as such a trivial reason, but is forced to concede that Baris has the authority to issue it and to order Kirk to provide security. He reluctantly assigns two guards to the storage compartments and returns to the ship.
As the Enterprise orbits the station a Klingon cruiser arrives, prompting Kirk to go to battle stations. However the ship's commander beams over to the station and merely requests shore leave for his crew there; under the treaty Mr, Lurry must agree, but Kirk is deeply suspicious of the Klingon Captain, Koloth, and places limits on the number of crew who can come aboard at any given time. He also informs Koloth that he will assign a security guard to follow each and every Klingon on the station. Baris is extremely unhappy with this development, and wastes no time in venting his anger on an increasingly frustrated Kirk.
On K-7 Uhura and Chekov are enjoying some time in the station bar where an independent trader named Cyrano Jones is trying to sell his wares. These include a Tribble - a small creature which looks like a spherical ball of fur with no visible limbs or features. Tribbles emit a soft purring sound when stroked, and Uhura finds it adorable. Jones gives her one as a free sample and agrees a deal with the bar owner to supply some more.
Uhura's tribble quickly reproduces, giving birth to a whole litter of small Tribbles which she distributes them to the crew as gifts. The Tribbles in the bar also reproduce, making it impossible for Jones to sell more. He tries to sell them to the Klingons, but the Tribbles react to proximity to a Klingon with a distressed shrieking sound - and the Klingons seem to like Tribbles no better than the Tribbles like them.
The Klingons begin needling Enterprise personnel in the bar about what a terrible person Kirk is. Scotty, as the senior officer present, restrains Chekov from starting a fight - but when the Klingons begin to mock the Enterprise Scotty himself throws the first punch and a large bar brawl breaks out. Kirk logs the incident as a 'small disturbance' and confines Scotty to his quarters, which delights the Engineer as he will have time to read up on his technical journals.
Meanwhile the Tribbles are reproducing at a fantastic rate, every one of them giving birth to large litters of offspring every twelve hours. Soon thousands of them are overrunning the ship, and much to Kirk's annoyance there seems to be no way to stop them. When he tries to order a meal he finds that the Tribbles have gotten into all the ship's machinery, including the food system, and are consuming their supplies rapidly. Spock notes that the Quadrotriticale is being stored under similar conditions on K-7, which is also being overrun by the furry menace.
Kirk beams to K-7 and hurries to the storage compartments to check on the grain - only to find that the compartments are stuffed with almost two million Tribbles who have eaten all the grain in the process of reproducing. However, a scan reveals that many of the Tribbles are dead, and the rest are rapidly dying - victims of the grain, which had been poisoned.
A furious Baris blames Kirk for the fiasco, threatening to have his career in ruins. Koloth also demands an apology for the brawl, which he blames purely on Kirk's men. Koloth also demands the removal of the Tribbles which are crowding the room, as he suffers from the same dislike of them as other Klingons. As Kirk moves to take them away he passes Baris's aide, Arne Darvin - and the Tribbles shriek as soon as they get close to him. A quick examination by McCoy shows that Darvin is a Klingon, a spy working to sabotage the Sherman's Planet project - it was he who poisoned the grain with a virus which prevented the food being absorbed into the body.
With his own aide shown to be the cause of all the trouble Baris's threats against Kirk are rendered moot, and with the Klingons shown to be behind the sabotage Kirk is able to brush off Koloth's complaints and order him out of Federation space. A new shipment of grain is ordered for Sherman's Planet, which now should fall quite easily under Federation control. Kirk orders Cyrano Jones to clear up all the Tribbles on the station, a task Spock estimates will take him 17.9 years - his alternative being to be charged with disrupting a space station, a crime which carries a 20 year sentence.
A victorious Kirk returns to the Enterprise to find it wholly Tribble free. After some prevaricating, his officers admit to the method they used - they beamed the entire population of Tribbles into the engine room of the Klingon ship just before it went to warp. Where, as Scotty puts it, 'they'll be no Tribble at all'. Imagining the chaos that must be going on aboard the Klingon ship, the officers share a laugh as the episode ends.
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|Abraham Lincoln appears flaoting in space before the Enterprise (!). Understandably surprised, Kirk accepts the former president aboard the ship and gives him a guided tour. Lincoln invites Kirk and Spock to beam down to Exo III, a planet utterly hostile to Human life except for an unexplanable "oasis" spot on the surface. The invitation is accepted, and the officers beam down. They are met by an Excalbian, a silicon being who informs them that his people wish to investigate the Human concepts of good and evil to discover which is stronger. The good are to be represented by Kirk and Spock, Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan; their evil opponents are Ghengis Khan, Kahless the Unforgettable, Zora and Colonel Green. The aliens threaten to destroy the Enterprise in a matter of hours unless Kirk wins the battle.
The two groups skirmish on the surface, improvising weapons from whatever materials are to hand. Eventually Kirk and Spock manage to prevail, and the Excalbians release them and free the Enterprise to continue on its way.
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Despite the extremely arid climate of the Nitzana region southwest of Be'er Sheva, the sandy landscape sprouts a variety of shrubs and blooming flowers in winter, fascinating heritage sites and a very unusual breed of people.
Tiny Ezuz (approximately 12 families), welcomes visitors and overnight guests; one family sells its goat cheeses, and an adobe inn is popular with eco-tourists. A family at Kadesh Barnea near the Egyptian border raises wine grapes; another provides apia- (bee sting) therapy. The Nitzana Youth Village and Educational Center serves as a residential Hebrew language school for young immigrants, an "outward-bound"-style nature school, an inn and desert research center.
History's presence is everywhere. Near Ezuz is a natural oasis where the Turkish army camped during World War 1. The Turks also built the railroad whose tracks can still be seen, and a hospital at the foot of Tel Nitzana. High on this mound is the city of Nitzana, founded by the Nabateans, whose caravans bore incense and spices across the Negev from Arabia to the Mediterranean.
About 15 kilometers down scenic road 10 along the Egyptian border south of the Nitzana crossing; you can stop at an observation point and look into Egypt, toward biblical Kadesh Barnea where Miriam the prophetess is buried.


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03-22-2013, 03:06 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Tankmates for auratus, 29g set up?
I have a few questions, here is the background. Im getting my tank squared away after losing most of my fish - not sure what the cause was, most levels checked out. Have had Cichlids for about 10yrs.
PH is currently around 8.6, ammonia and nitrite are fine, nitrate is high. Curretly have a 3" auratus (seems aggressive) and a 3" mix mumba born in the tank. Plenty of rocks and a sand / coral substrate. Looking to add more fish.
Do I try to work around these two or turn them in to a dealer and start new? Would love to go with Aulonocaras at some point.
Is 8.6 ok or should I try to get down to 8.2? if yes whats the best way?
Do I need to be concerned about the nitrate? should I get Nitra Zorb.
Any help with these questions would be much appreciated.
Turn these in asap. The auratus is going to give you hell and the tank isnt big enough.
You could do a single species of Peacock with 1 male and 4-5 females in that tank but it would be hard to justify an all male peacock tank. You need at least a 4ft tank for that to give enough space for the fish to hide.
03-22-2013, 04:44 PM #3Junior Member Guppy
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Thanks, turn them in and consider the ss Peacock tank
Sorry to burst your bubble but auratus is not a fish to be kept in a mixed Malawi tank. They have foul tempers and are the most agressive African cichlid I can think of.
Others may disagree with me here, but I don't think you should be keeping Malawis in a 29g. It just isn't big enough for very active species. Peacocks reach 4-6" adult size and that will be quite cramped in your tank.
Have you considered some of the smaller Tanganyikan species? You could keep a decent group of some of the smaller Julidochromis species (cave dwellers that need plenty of built up rockwork) and some shell-dwelling species such as Multifasciatus in open sandy, shell-strewn areas of the tank. Lamprologus Ocellatus "Gold" is a very attractive shell-dweller, but in my experience not best for community set-ups due to their aggression. One day I'd like a species only tank of these.
Or if you fancy a species only tank I can strongly recommend Neolamprologus Pulcher "Daffodil". They are stunning in adult colour and when paired up, will breed and rear the family. Very interesting behaviour. Family members will assist with further fry-rearing. NOT to be kept with other tankmates though as they are likely to be killed."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
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+1 firefly shell dwellers would be cool in a 29 they are very interesting little fish.
03-24-2013, 08:17 PM #6Junior Member Guppy
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Thanks for the advice, was giving that some thought already - I'm going with a Tanganyikan set up, tured in the malawis yesterday. Have reset the tank with rocky areas and open sand, shells are on order. Would this work for stocking? Tank dimensions are 36x12x18
3) Lamprologus mautifascians
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Sounds good - although be aware that leleupi are very aggressive and can become horrible bullies. I'm not sure I'd keep more that 1 in that tank. The julies will inhabit the caves and the leleupis will compete (and win) for territory.
A calvus will be ok singly. They're awesome looking fish.
Good choice on multies, they are active little scapers - if you break up the eye-line in your tank you might get away with 5. Check out the videos from jeffs99dime on here. He has a great multie tank. One of his videos is here:
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Sternfeld, pioneer in color photography as an art form, to speak in PittsburghJanuary 21, 2014 11:56 PM
Joel Sternfeld's cameras and color sense have taken him around the world, photographing New York City's High Line before it became a destination, Italy's famed Roman Campagna and more than 40 experimental utopian communities in the United States.
Twenty-nine of Mr. Sternfeld's utopian community images are exhibited as part of the current Carnegie International and will be on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland through March 16. Mr. Sternfeld, 69, of New York City, will give a free talk about his work at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30 in the museum's theater.
Mr. Sternfeld's 62 images of communities ranging from Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Ariz., to Old Economy in Ambridge, to the dacha/staff building at the hospital Dr. Patch Adams founded in Hillsboro, W.Va., were published in a 2006 book called "Sweet Earth."
Tina Kukielski, one of three curators who for the Carnegie International, became aware of Mr. Sternfeld's photographs while working at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
"He has a bold ambition to address big subjects, the promise of new communities and new ways of living and alternative lifestyles through a very accessible, approachable means," she said.
"Sweet Earth" "did encapsulate a bit of the hopes and failures of the founding of this country and what we wrestle with today," Ms. Kukielski added.
Mr. Sternfeld said in a recent telephone interview that when he began shooting color in the 1970s, "color photography really wasn't considered an acceptable medium of fine art photography."
One day in 1974, he showed his images to a New York gallery employee. "The gallerist asked me, 'Why are you working in color? Black and white is so natural.'
"Now, that seems like a really telling question. But at the time, it was a pretty natural question because color photography as it was being practiced was really pretty garish. It was largely practiced by commercial photographers in advertising or journalists," Mr. Sternfeld said.
He stuck with his passion.
"For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality -- the changing of the seasons -- that's what I deeply loved."
His romance with nature bloomed during his boyhood in the New York borough of Queens.
"I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau."
Like many artists, Mr. Sternfeld was influenced by the color theories of Josef Albers, the famed Bauhaus professor who immigrated to the U.S.
"I took it as a given that a color photographer had to choose his or her palette just as a painter would choose theirs. You work with Albers as a starting point for a heightened awareness for what colors can do: heighten awareness and interact with each other.
"By the time I get to 'Sweet Earth,' it's built into my work. It's less conscious, it's less deliberate."
Last year, as part of a project to capture what he calls the "global moment," he journeyed to South Africa to photograph Nelson Mandela's funeral. One of his dream assignments came in 2000, when he first saw the abandoned historic railroad freight line that became the High Line. Robert Hammond and Joshua David, co-founders of Friends of the High Line, took him there on a cold March morning.
"Robert said to me, 'We need the money shot.' I said, 'Robert, the money shot takes time. I need a year of access to the High Line.' He negotiated it with CSX Railroad.
"So, I got access and the wonderful thing was that for the next couple of months I forgot about Robert and Josh and they seemingly forgot about me. In April, it rained. It was the rainiest April in living memory and in May the High Line bloomed as it has never bloomed before. In May, I just started to photograph."
He spent days taking pictures of the wild industrial space that has become a park, outdoor art gallery and destination for visitors on New York's West Side.
"I was all alone and I was free to think about it as an artist. Even though this was a project that might have some practical purpose, I was free to think about it in terms of just how I wanted to depict it. There were so many ways that it could have been done. Eventually, I just started following this thin little path that had been worn into the High Line by the few people who had come up there."
That was an idyllic time for the photographer.
"I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it. ... I'd walk around. I was all alone."
The High Line project "was a utopian work," Mr. Sternfeld said. "Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. It fit within this lifelong theme that has emerged in my work -- utopia and dystopia."
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Cursed locations? Sky-high rents? Restaurants usually fail for reasons more basic
There's been a spate of high-profile Dallas restaurant closings lately. In the past week, the Greek — the One Arts Plaza spot from the Ziziki's folks — called it quits. Today we learned that Twomey Concepts will be be closing its two restaurants in Highland Park Village – Village Kitchen and Toko V — after dinner on Saturday night. Cafe des Artistes, the pseudo-French restaurant in One Arts Plaza, closed in late December, only about 14 months after it opened.
Why do restaurants close? Is it a cursed location, or rents that are too high, or changes that confuse diners?
No doubt all these things come into play. I do think the exorbitant parking fees at One Arts Plaza probably puts many diners off; meanwhile, high rent makes any business a challenge.
But there's a much more elemental reason restaurants fail: They're not working. The menu at the Greek was too timid, and the commercial pita bread it served was terrible. It's the Arts District, for crying out loud — let's not have moussaka be the most exotic dish at a Greek restaurant there, one that feels cold and corporate. Cafe des Artistes, in trying to appeal to everyone with its "Cali-Euro inspired menu" appealed to no one — at least no one I know. The service was largely unprofessional, the wine list a depressing, overpriced document and little care was taken with the food. The dining room looked like a bordello — and not even a nice one.
And the two restaurants at Highland Park Village? I think they failed because they gave their Park Cities diners what the restaurateurs imagined the diners wanted, rather than something that came from the heart of the very talented chef, Andre Natera. The menu at Village Kitchen, as I wrote in my review, was emphatically conformist. At Toko V, the dishes were mostly same-old, same-old Asian fusion. When I fact-checked my December review of Toko V, the management told me the menu was based on what customers were saying they wanted — including escolar (which can cause gastrointestinal disturbances), bluefin tuna (which is headed toward extinction) and a panoply of sticky-sweet sauces and yuzu-drenched concoctions.
Consistency in execution was a problem at all four places, but I feel that more than anything, the problem was that these restaurants felt like they were more about making money than making something delicious to eat that we haven't eaten a million times before. The one thing missing from all of them was originality. Which isn't to say simple food can't be great — it absolutely can. But if simple food is going to be great, it has to be, you know, great.
With the pace of openings having reached such a frenzy in the past year, it won't be surprising if we see more closings in the next six months or so. With so many restaurants to choose from, Dallas diners wield more and more power with their dining dollars. And more and more, they're demanding something authentic, something unusual, something real, something from the heart. Give us something cynical, and no, we won't bite. At least not for long.
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Access Virus TI
Virus TI Desktop
Arguably the pinnacle of DSP-based digital synthesis at the moment. It could easily be written off as a Virus C with added supersaw, but the many improvements suggest revolution, not evolution!
The TI includes several oscillator sources from simple sine/tri/saw through to wavetables (63 to choose from, nicely varied; the 64th wavetable is actually the pure sine wave) and also granular and formant sources based on the wavetables. The supersaw mode is present and allows big, spreadable saws with a huge unison effect - you can dial in over 100 oscillators per note if your mix (and your monitors) can take it.
If you want it on a digital synth oscillator section, then this has it: 3 oscillators, multiple modes, FM (with several FM applications), oscillator sync, an additional subosc and a noise source. There'll be a bit of menu diving though - the TI may have more physical controls than any Virus before it, but options here outweigh controllers. Fortunately, the menus are logically laid out and fairly simple. The common parameters are on the front panel, and the most in-depth tweaking lies no more than four menu-pages under the hood.
There are dual filters with multiple modes from Lowpass, Hipass, Bandpass, Bandreject to more DSP-intensive emulations of analog 1- , 2- and 4-pole modes (the so-called Minimoog emulation). These filters are what really make the synth and impart a definite character to the Virus. Most would agree that the Virus sounds dark and ominous rather than the bright, crisp sounds of the Clavias and Korgs. They whine and screech when you crank up the resonance into the self-oscillating regions as well! Regardless of whether the filter emulations perfectly copy the originals, or any preconceptions regarding what is analog or digital, these filters are a modern classic and can be argued to have already made it onto even more vinyl acreage than the venerable Minimoog. The Virus really IS several genres of dance music; as much a signature sound as the saxophone to modern be-bop. To dismiss it as a dance floor-only synth would be criminal, however.
The Mod Matrix and LFO sections are comprehensive - 18 mod matrix slots, 3 LFO's (which can do double duty as simple third envelopes - although a 3rd envelope feature isn't expressly provided) which can do all the usual LFO tricks. The matrix can even modulate itself; perfect for sonic experiments, but it can be a test of memory (yours, not the synth's) remembering just what it is you're trying to modulate. Too many options may not be a valid complaint, but what this synth could really do with is a screen-based editor...
...And it's the computer integration which the TI does better than any other computer-age synth to date. There's a USB1 (not USB2, but fast enough for most tasks) interface which doubles as both a DSP audio interface for you computer and enables an onscreen librarian VST3/AU/RTAS plugin interface to appear in your software of choice. If you can do it on the synth, you can do it onscreen, except that some parameters (like arpeggiator settings) can only really be edited on the computer. On the subject of the arp, there's no step sequencer option, which is a shame because this synth really can nail those Berlin school drones and sequences.
Virus TI software interface
The hardware is a metal-skinned, wooden-ended tank, with solid knobs that turn easily yet feel as though they're set in concrete. The desktop version lets you remove the wood, replace with rack ears, and tilt the I/O panel through 90 degrees so you don't lose a rack space above the unit - very clever. The keyed versions have the very best keybed available on a synthesizer today (synth-weight or semi-weight by Fatar); note that aftertouch is only monophonic. Tap-tempo and simple Oct+/- buttons which transpose semitones with a simple click of the 'shift' key; this keyboard makes for a great master controller for both computer-based and hardware-based sequencers. Multi-mode is available for the older-school studios with 16-channel MIDI multitimbrality. This is a synth for the computer age, but multi-mode is genuinely useable due to the synth's awesome dual-DSP polyphony. You'll run out of hardware sequencer notes before the synth does.
Virus TI 5-octave keyboard model
Rounding the synth is a studio-spec effects section, with delays (including tape delays - clocked and free running with modulation and bandwidth options), a great sounding reverb (which is used in perhaps a little too many of the 4,000 - yes 4,000 - factory presets) and EQ options with Q control. There's a distortion mode which can spit your sound out for breakfast, and phaser/chorus/unison effects for thick washes of sounds. You can play a 4-minute pad that never sounds the same twice on this synth; a great drone machine. Analog EQ emulations were added recently, and subtly tweak your sound in all the good ways.
There's also the small matter of the after-sales service from Access, which is second to none; email support, even for secondhand purchasers, and free lifetime updates (sometimes even after the synth has been replaced in the lineup by something newer). Unless you've been on Mir or Mars for 10 years, you've heard of the Virus. The TI model is the best Virus to date. Even if you have an irrational hatred of digital synthesis, you have to admit that this is the top-of-the-digital-tree at the moment.
Virus TI2 Desktop
In 2009 the Virus TI2 Desktop, Keyboard and Polar revisions were released, featuring 25% faster DSP processing, a lighter, redesigned enclosure, new effects including Tape Delay, Frequency Shifter, new Distortions, and Character Control, and an enhanced Virus Control 3.0 plug-in.
Virus TI2 Keyboard
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Ambient musician Phillip Wilkerson performs a short arpeggiator improvisation at home on the Access Virus TI.
Getting There - Virus TI demo (2 of 2)
Manual - Download the original owner's manual from SoundProgramming.net.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - Over 80 voices
- Multitimbral - 16 parts
- Oscillators - 3 osc + subosc + noise, FM, Sync
- Waveforms - Sine / pulse / saw / supersaw / wavetable / granular / formant
- Filter - dual LP/HP/BP/BR with envelopes and addtional multi-pole analog emulations (includes Minimoog 4-pole emulation)
- LFO - 3 LFOs, multiple options plus mod matrix 18 slots
- Envelope - Amp / Filter / 'LFO as envelope' option
- Sequencer - none onboard
- Arpeggiator - Up / Down / Random / Chord / Multiple additions, editable in software to any variation
- Effects - Reverbs, Delays, EQs with Q and freq control, Tape Delays, Distortions (multiple), Phasers, Flangers, Chorus, Analog EQs, Vocoder.
- Keyboard - 3-oct (37 key) or 5-oct (61 key) models
- Memory - 128 patches in each of 30 banks plus USB storage / Librarian with additional free patchbanks provided regularly by Access
- Control - MIDI, USB, 16-part multitimbral in Multi or sequencer modes
- Date Produced -
Virus TI series: 2005
Virus TI2 series: 2009
- Websites of Interest
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Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
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The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
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The southern stingray is adapted for life on the sea bed. The flattened, diamond-shaped body has sharp corners, making it more angular than the discs of other rays. The top of the body varies between olive brown and green in adults, dark grey in juveniles, whilst the underside is predominantly white. The wing-like pectoral fins are used to propel the stingray across the ocean bottom, whilst the slender tail possesses a long, serrated and poisonous spine at the base, used for defence. These spines are not fatal to humans, but are incredibly painful if stepped on. The eyes are situated on top of the head of the southern stingray, along with small openings called spiracles. The location of the spiracles enables the stingray to take in water whilst lying on the seabed, or when partially buried in sediment. Water enters the spiracles and leaves through the gill openings, bypassing the mouth which is on the underside. Female stingrays can grow to a disc width of 150cm, contrary to the smaller male stingrays that reach maximum size at 67cm.
Dimensions Up to 5' (1.5 m) wide.
Warning Rays in the genus Dasyatis have a long whiplike tail with a venomous spine. These rays are potentially dangerous to swimmers and waders as they can inflict wounds characterized by intense pain and slow recovery. To prevent an encounter with a ray, shuffle your feet as you walk through the water so you nudge the ray on the side or from underneath: it is likely to swim away.
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows.
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*****This ****Product Doesn't work from an ergonomic point of view. It falls over, you cannot even touch the the thing an it will fall over. Don't even look at it and it will fall over. I bough cheaper BT key boards that work better. People are being to kind on this thread. Sorry Mombates this product stinks.. I think they are trying to dump them..
keyboard for ipad2 10/7/2012Marilyn from Savannah, GA
I bought this for my son and he loves it.
worhwhile purchase 9/25/2012
I was looking for an inexpensive keyboard case for my iPad that would also work with newer versions of the iPad (namely 2 and 3). This fits the bill. Only minor critiques are that the keyboard sometimes falls out. A velcro connector would easily solve that. Also space key seems to not respond (probably hitting on the end instead of the middle). I would have preferred a stop for the ipad so that when propped up it does not slide. The cloth pad (bump) is ok but something to stop it would be better
Good product, but... 9/25/2012Tanagra from Cleveland
When folded up for use as shown in the illustration, the screen has no place to set into, the keyboard it leans on is just not good enough and the screen has a tendency to slip and collapse.
Good quality 9/25/2012
Easy to setup keyboard, Attractive leather cover.
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Ive had my ipad 2 for nearly a year and have been using the Apple cover. This case with bluetooth keyboard allows my ipad to perform much more like a laptop increasing its usefulness. My only observation is the unit is necessarily a bit thicker than I had hoped but is of excellent quality and very neat in appearance.
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Josh Hutcherson looks dapper and confident. This might sound silly, but I'm getting a bit of a Caesar Flickerman vibe from the way he's leaning toward the camera like he'd ask you a question.
You know how Rooney Mara has worn nothing but black or white since playing Lisbeth Salander? I get a similar sense that Jennifer Lawrence was looking to match her radiant "girl on fire" dress from the movie. And it works!
...But Elizabeth Banks is giving her some strong competition in this great orange dress.
Leven Rambin got the girl on fire memo, too. Dayo Okeniyi is rocking a mockingjay pin; I love this guy. And while I don't have a Hunger Games-related analog for Jackie Emerson's green dress, I will say that she reminds me of a young Julianne Moore on the red carpet.
Josh Hutcherson looks dapper and confident. This might sound silly, but I'm getting a bit of a Caesar Flickerman vibe from the way he's leaning toward the camera like he'd ask you a question.
Kelly Osbourne channeled the ominous President Snow and the roses he leaves for Katniss with what could pass as a pink rose.
Twilight's Peter Facinelli played the part of a District 12 tribute too poor to afford nice threads for the reaping. Aww!
Liam Hemsworth... looks like every other red-carpet photo I've seen of him. He seems perfectly happy to be there, but also not so engaged. Maybe he'll be more excited when he's on the red carpet for the Catching Fire premiere.
Could Liam's girlfriend Miley Cyrus have lost half of her outfit in the Arena? She looks like she just came out on the worse end of a fight to the death. Note director Gary Ross smoothly sidestepping Miley as she vamps for the cameras.
Looks like some Capitol stylists got a hold of Kevin McHale. The horse (or is that an elephant?) print on his shirt reminds me of Peeta's interview outfit with its flame detail.
Now that Wes Bentley is appearing in public without his intricate Seneca Crane beard, in my eyes he may as well be naked.
Effie Trinket would definitely approve of Kalia Prescott's fluffy, light-pink gown.
Jack Quaid gives fans his autograph and his best Marvel face.
Cody Simpson's clothes seem a bit small for him. Could this be a new Capitol fashion?
Woody Harrelson is also going for the "weird print" trend.
The Descendants' Shailene Woodley wore her best reaping dress.
Donald Sutherland was basically a hipster President Snow. And I'm still terrified of him.


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Chipotle chiles are dried, smoked jalapeño chiles. They are available dry in bulk, or canned in adobo sauce. Adobo sauce is a traditional Mexican paste made from ground chiles, herbs and vinegar. It's not overly hot, but it has a rich spicy flavor.
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If you're into tech (and if you're reading Gear Live, then it's safe to say that you are,) you'll want to check out Best Buy this Saturday afternoon. Coming to select Best Buy stores will be the Best Buy Special Holiday Shopping Event - yep, the holiday shopping season is being kicked off at Best Buy in a majoy way. In fact, this is Best Buy's biggest shopping event of the year. It all goes down on Saturday, November 7th. What can you expect? Read on!
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Remember that BB-8 Star Wars Droid made by Sphero that took over the Internet back on Force Friday? Well, we thought we'd bring you guys a giveaway so you can win a Star Wars BB-8 Sphero Droid of your very own! They are hard to find, but we've got two of them here that we're giving away to two of our YouTube subscribers. I've teamed up with two of my favorite YouTubers, Chris Pirillo and Erica Griffin, to bring this giveaway to you.
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It's no argument that one of the biggest gadget sensations right now. That's understandable, what with the cool-factor combination of flying a radio-controlled craft and the ability to record footage from places you'd never be able to take your DSLR. Be it for casual fun or business purposes, they're fun toys (or tools, depending on how you look at it.) Just be sure to be aware of your local laws regarding the flying of drones.
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LEGO unveiled the set this past weekend at the Sydney Brickshow in Sydney, Australia, bringing with it the nostalgia of days gone past. If you were around during the traveling carnival heyday, you know that it all begins with the trucks. That's how all those rides get moved from town to town, and that's how the LEGO Fairground Mixer 10244 operates as well. The entire set of attractions (and characters!) neatly tucks away into the LEGO trucks. Here's a look at what's in the set:
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We always knew that the Thwomps that try to crush our heroes in Super Mario Bros. were big softies, and now there's proof in the official Thwomp pillow. These are licensed by Nintendo, so they're the real deal. You can get one of your own right now for $25 on Amazon. Just be sure to time your jumps carefully, mmkay?
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Of course I want to train him to the highest level possible, but right now I am trying to get him to be calmer and more under control so we can go forward. I do plan to take him through force fetch and teach him lining and casting. What I am asking for is help with the basics that have to be there before we go farther. Let me tell you what I have done. I have taught and worked extensively on sit, stay, down and heel. As I stated he is very good in the yard and on walks on our road. These are of course controled situations with limited distractions. He knows the commands and what I want him to do. Everything I have read and heard says that the next step is "proofing" where you basically hold the dog more accountable than you did before and make him know that "sit means sit" Other than that I have not been able to find any more guidance on what "formalizing" or "proofing" really entails. I am willing to learn and have done a lot of searching and research on my own with little success. Thank you all for your help and suggestions. It really helps to be able to ask specific questions. You can't do that using a book or a DVD. I am currently using Tom Dokken's book.
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I had seen a posting on Facebook of a yellow Lab that had a black band around its midsection. Then, today, I saw this photo posted.
The explanation given was that the animal was genetically two animals ... both black and yellow.
One of the comments on the photo was:
A subsequent comment clarified that the chimera dog can be fertile, but will produce either black or yellow offspring, not another chimera.A chimera is not a mixed breed dog. It happens when two separate embryos fuse together very early on and become one animal (or human) with two distinct DNAs. It can't be duplicated or bred.
Another comment indicated that this fusing of embryos may occur more often than we know, but if both embryos were yellow (or black) we wouldn't know that the fusion had taken place.


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$1.4 million grant boosts interdisciplinary research at Binghamton University
BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University has been awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to fund undergraduate interdisciplinary research opportunities around the theme of solving problems in the life sciences. Only 50 research-focused universities from a potential field of 197 institutions across the country were awarded grants and Binghamton University joins a list of recipients that includes Harvard, Yale, Cornell and the College of William and Mary. Binghamton and Stony Brook were the only two SUNY schools to be recognized.
"I'm very proud that Binghamton won this prestigious award," said President Lois B. DeFleur. "The application process is highly competitive and I commend the faculty and staff who worked to develop this program. Their tireless efforts will benefit our undergraduates enormously."
With science becoming more collaborative and interdisciplinary, life science and medical research is increasingly dependent on scientists and engineers who can work across disciplines. With the help of the HHMI grant, undergraduates at Binghamton University will now have more opportunities to cross those disciplinary boundaries.
"Biology is incorporating more mathematics, engineering, physics, and computer science," says Anna Tan-Wilson, a Binghamton University distinguished teaching professor of biological sciences and HHMI program director. "In the real world, those boundaries are blurring."
The grant will fund a program that teams undergraduate majors in the life sciences with students in the physical sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering to work on collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects in the life sciences.
Tan-Wilson expects to launch the program in fall 2010 with a series of workshops where faculty can meet to propose collaborative projects that the undergraduates will work on. At the same time, Tan-Wilson will start taking student applications and plans on signing up about 30 undergraduates. She hopes to actively recruit and include students who are from underrepresented minorities in science, engineering and mathematics.
Teams will begin their research projects in summer 2011 and will continue working together for the entire following academic year. Along the way, they will be trained in how to work effectively across disciplines. Graduate students will also be trained as mentors.
"We also want to work with them because these PhD students will be faculty members someday," says Nancy Stamp, dean of the Graduate School and grant co-program director.
Binghamton is also interested in understanding how students in the program will develop and progress. Krishnaswami (Hari) Srihari, dean and distinguished professor of systems science and industrial engineering in the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, will observe the students as they work and use data to model the social interactions of the interdisciplinary teams. They will use what they learn to determine what factors help interdisciplinary students grow into independent scholars and better match students to faculty mentors.
"What are the conditions that make for success?" says Tan-Wilson. "Or, how can we ensure that students don't get frustrated with the challenges of interdisciplinary work? We want to find out what makes for the kind of fulfilling experience that then translates into careers in biologically-based research."
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About the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
The HHMI, a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation's largest philanthropies, plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States. The Institute spent $730 million for research and distributed $101 million in grant support for science education in fiscal year 2009. Its scientists, located across the country and around the world, have made important discoveries that advance both human health and our fundamental understanding of biology. The Institute also aims to transform science education into a creative, interdisciplinary endeavor that reflects the excitement of real research.


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GOP takes back full control in Madison
State Senate control shifts back to Republicans
LA CROSSE, Wis. - On a night when very little when right for the Republicans, the party was still able to win back the Wisconsin State Senate on Tuesday.
That means the GOP will once again have full control in Madison.
Democrats have controlled the State Senate since this summer, when several recall elections gave the party a 17 to 16 majority. Pending verification of Tuesday's election results, Republicans will have a 18 to 15 majority come January.
"In a sense, the State Senate is back to ground zero and the starting point before the recalls," said Joe Heim, a political science professor at UW-La Crosse.
"To be blunt, it makes you wonder whether all these recalls were worth it," he added.
Republicans already have their eyes on one key piece of legislation that failed to come up for a vote earlier this year when the party only had a slim 1-seat majority in the State Senate.17323122
"We really need to work on a mining bill that's going to create a lot of jobs and those are jobs that we need in Wisconsin," said Julian Bradley, chair of the La Crosse County Republican Party.
The mining bill failed to come up for a vote because State Sen. Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) refused to support it at the time.
"I'm for mining and I want it done it right and I think our society needs mining. What concerns me is that we (need to ) have an open and transparent process about how we change the regulations," Schultz said in February.
Schultz is still in office but with a 3-seat majority, Republicans won't need his vote to pass the controversial legislation. It would pave the way for a large open pit mine to be built in northern Wisconsin. Officials have said the mine would create as many as 700 new jobs.
Democrats and conservation groups opposed the mining bill because they felt it rolled back too many environmental regulations.
Bradley hopes the legislation can be re-worked to make all sides happy.
"I think it's important that we work with our Democratic colleagues to come up with a bill that's going to get bipartisan support through the houses and be signed by the governor," he said.
State Sen. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse), who won the 32nd senate race, says it's not just the mining bill where there needs to be more cooperation.
"Voters want us to get along. They want us to be problem solvers and (hopefully) we can find that common ground and that compromise that people are hungry for," said Shilling
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If you're gauging a good dog and trainer by its ability to achieve 500 please move on. Th HRCH MH I'm working with and running is about to get her 500 points and I wouldn't buy the dog for $500.
You can run a dog with a 50% pass rate and still hit 500 points if you want to spend the money.
And no I don't own a dog that has 500 points. No want to at this time either. But to each his own.


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I would just like to start of by saying that personally, I am not a great fan of magical girl anime and it is actually on my 'Top three least favourite genres' however, I did greatly enjoy this particular magical girl anime. To me, being a ballet dancer, the anime was one of my favorites, however I tried not to let this make the review too positive and was honest with my opinions, not just considering the fact that this is one of my all-time favorites. Well, without further ado, let's get on with the review, shall we?
【Synopsis】 Princess Tutu has a storyline basically about about a story... See full review
(Synopsis) Yui Hirasawa is very excited about starting high school as a freshman. Meanwhile, Ritsu Tainaka (a drummer) and Mio Akiyama, a bassist, are keen on renewing the Light Music Club, and are trying to find new members to join the club where they will form a band. Very soon, a pianist, Tsumugi Kotobuki joins the club, so now they only need one more member in order to be considered an official school club. This is when Yui joins, and, not knowing how to play any instrument whatsoever, she decides to learn to play guitar. With their new club formed, they've also created a band! Yui and her new friends... See full review
Death Note being one of my favourite ever animes I've watched just has to be reviewed so here we go... (Summary) Light Yagami, a perfect high school student, suddenly stumbles across a mysterious notebook titled 'Death Note' (which was dropped by a Shinigami, Ryuk). Not realising the book's power, he takes it home with him. After reading the first few pages, Light finds out that the notebook he has found has a powerful ability to kill people whose names are written on the pages of the notebook. Light soon is called Kira by the society of Japan and becomes a greatly known person across the news. After many... See full review
(Synopsis) Nana Komatsu is excited to finally visit Tokyo where she can finally spend more time with her boyfriend, Shouji Endo. On the way there, she meets a girl called Nana Osaki - this girl may share the same as her but she is everything Nana Komatsu is not. During the journey there, they get to know each other a bit. When they go seperate ways, it doesn't seem that fate is finished with them as they both meet again when they go to check out a house that both of them consider buying. After figuring out that it would be the cheapest option, they buy the house, splitting the cost in half between... See full review
(Synopsis) Just like in a typical horror, the anime is set in a small village called Sotoba which is secluded by a big group of trees. There has been a rumour spreading around the village that Sotoba is surrounded by death - that soon becomes a true case. One year, during summer, a mysterious series of misfortunate events takes over the small town - a great number of the citizens begin dying with no evidence of any illness. For the time being, it is thought to be an epidemic. With an unusual rate of deaths, the local doctor, Toshio, and the chief monk, Seishin, become suspicious of the occuring events and... See full review


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How long did it take for you to develop BabyShield?
It took about two years and a 12-member team to come up with BabyShield. This was championed by an IIM graduate. He was the project manager who came with an engineering background. We had the soft launch of the program couple of months back with hospitals. We have 400 parents who are using this service since September. We anticipate that we will be catering to 2,000 clients in a month by early next year and our target is to do at least 1,00,000 newborn screening within three years.
What is the price at which one can avail this service?
The price for BabyShield Newborn screening is set to around $90 (Rs4,990). This includes enrollment fee, cost of sample collection kit, collection charges, shipment, testing of cord blood and urine samples and providing comprehensive report.
May be $90 is a reasonable price for the rich and for the middle class in India. However, have you thought of the poor may avail this service?
We are looking to work with the government to initiate newborn program on a large scale. For example, at AIIMS, we did a program where we offered new born screening at half-the price. If more of such national programs are there, the costs will certainly come down.
Today the challenge is that healthcare is not the priority for the country. Less than one percent of GDP is being spent towards healthcare. It is not that we don't have that much money, we have the money and capacity but priority is not there.
Is LifeCell present in countries other than India?
We have a reasonable presence in the UAE. In Asia Pacific, the challenge is different. For example, although Singapore is the world's highest penetrate-able market for stem cell banking there are several people from Chinese origin and Malay origin who live there. This makes the market extremely diverse and we need to scale-up in order to provide services there. We have started our operations in Nepal and within a few months we will be beginning operations in Sri Lanka as well. Also, Bangladesh is within our radar.
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Seven years ago, on a trip to a part of Montana that was once Blackfeet territory, astronomer Judith Young saw a ring of stones that pointed the way to north, east, south and west. This prehistoric structure, called a sunwheel, was one of thousands of similar astronomical markers erected throughout the world in ancient times—including the famous site of Stonehenge in England. Young, who teaches astronomy at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, began to wonder whether she could build a megalith for modern times, as a way of reconnecting ordinary people with the skies. Now, on the University of Massachusetts campus, Young's vision is about to become a reality.
Today we think of astronomy as hard science, carried out with gigantic telescopes on faraway mountain peaks. But it really began with people watching the sun. They watched for many reasons—for example, to tell which way was north (by observing the direction that shadows point at midday), or to mark the beginning of a new season (by observing when the sun sets at its northernmost or southernmost point). That's exactly what Young thinks is missing from astronomy today—the sense that it's something anyone can do.
Physicist, astronomer and writer Philip Morrison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agrees with her. In interviews with schoolchildren, he found that they don't think of the planets as something they can see in the sky. They experience the planets only through television, movies and the World Wide Web. As a result, astronomy seems removed from everyday life—as he says, "book-ified."
Young's goal for the Sunwheel project is to bring astronomy down to earth… more precisely, to a vacant lot near the football stadium and soccer fields on the UMass campus. In 1995, she won unanimous approval for the project from a campus committee. Getting money for it was a little harder. As she puts it, "The artists say it's not art, and the scientists say it's not science." A lot of the early funds came from sales of T-shirts and donations from individuals who visited the site, which at first consisted of nothing but wooden markers. In 1997, as more money came in, Young was able to replace the markers with two- to four-foot-tall stones. Finally, this year, she got the biggest prize of all—a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that will allow her to build the full-scale version. She says, though, that the time spent selling T-shirts was well worth it. "I had to put out a tremendous effort to get the word out to schools and the community," she says. "[The grant] came when I was ready for it, after two seasons of letting the public know the Sunwheel is here."
When complete, the Sunwheel will be 60 feet in radius, with standing stones 8 feet tall marking the sunrise and sunset at the solstices. as well as the four compass points—the arrangement she found in Montana, but on a larger scale. Placards will explain what to look for, and suggest experiments that visitors can do themselves. For example, visitors can determine the angle of elevation of the sun by observing the length of a stone's shadow. If they are dedicated enough to come back at the equinox and on the summer and winter solstices, they can use the angle of elevation on those days to figure out that the earth's axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees.
Unlike the builders of Stonehenge, Young is taking full advantage of modern construction equipment, hauling the stones from a local quarry in trucks. According to Morrison, who has observed the progress of the project, there was no need to duplicate the methods or the appearance of Stonehenge: "It's not faithful to any particular site. What it's faithful to is the sky."
The full-scale Sunwheel was scheduled to be built in October 1999. Unfortunately, the astronomer's oldest enemy got in the way. "Between August and today we haven't had three dry days in a row," said Young on a rainy day in October. Because of the heavy rains, the field (which is on the site of a glacial lake bed) became too waterlogged for heavy trucks to drive across, and construction had to be postponed until next summer.
Young is unfazed by the delay. ("You sound more disappointed than I am," she tells me.) Instead, she is heartened by the positive response that the smaller-scale Sunwheel has already drawn in two years. It has become a popular field trip for school groups as well as a meeting spot for the community. A group of modern-day Druids has even put her on their e-mail list. Most encouraging of all are the letters she gets from visitors to the site. "At least three young girls have written to me and said they wanted to be astronomers," she says, "because it looks like fun."—Dana Mackenzie
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U-Store sponsors fall events with noted authors
Posted September 16, 2002; 04:33 p.m.
The University Store is sponsoring a number of events this fall featuring authors with Princeton connections or those of interest to the University community. The authors usually present a short talk at the store, answer questions from the audience and sign copies of their book.
Here is the schedule so far:
- 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994" and co-editor of "The Essential John Nash."
- 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, Anthony Lane, film and literary critic for The New Yorker magazine and author of "Nobody's Perfect: Selected Writings from The New Yorker."
- 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, Nell Painter, the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton and author of "Southern History Across the Color Line."
- 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, James McPherson, the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History at Princeton and author of "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862."
- 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton and author of "Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth."
- 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, David Sibley, naturalist, birder, artist and author of "Sibley's Birding Basics."
For more information on these events, contact Tracy Harkins at the University Store at 921-8500, ext. 255.
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THE MONK CLASS - Achaea Online Help
The origins of the monk class are lost to antiquity. What is known is that an ancient order of monks called the Sentaari had developed the ability to use telepathy and harness kai energy. They also mastered the art of edgeless weapons, including the staff and the cane. These weapons allowed them to defend themselves against attackers without killing them, while still letting them strike mighty blows in the defence of the peoples of the continent, as during the invasion of the Tsol'teth known as the Black Wave. However, during a civil war in the ancient Seleucarian Empire, the invading forces stripped the monks of their weapons to impair their ability to assist the rightful rulers. While his guildsmen were held under martial law, the Grandmaster of Flowers meditated for a month, then unveiled the unarmed art of Tekura, vowing that the monks would never again be made helpless against evil. Combining Tekura with his pre-existing mastery of Kaido and Telepathy, the Grandmaster drove the Royal Elites from the area around the monastery. After the war, he disseminated the art to all the other monasteries. Within ten years, the armed arts had fallen into disuse. Within a hundred, they had been forgotten. Although the Sentaari lived on in the form of a House founded by monks, monks generally follow no particular set of beliefs. Some devoted themselves to building empires, while others prefer a life of solitary meditation. The skills of the monk forge mind, body, and spirit into an indomitable force. Using their unarmed attacks they can break limbs, cause internal bleeding, sweep an opponent off his feet, and deliver body-crushing throws. A monk can confuse and damage the mind even over a distance and through the power of kai, can toughen his body to withstand damage, make himself heavier, restore damaged limbs by sheer force of will, and eventually temporarily banish a victim from the timestream itself. The skills wielded by those of Monk class are Tekura, Telepathy, and Kaido. A fledgling in this class will possess Tekura and Kaido, gaining Telepathy on embracing their class. (See also: HELP TEKURA, HELP TELEPATHY, HELP KAIDO, HELP 8, HELP CLASS)


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UTSA graduate student Janis Edralin sees real-life benefits of SECC
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(Oct. 3, 2007)--Janis April Edralin, a UTSA graduate student in the Department of Counseling and Education Psychology, is learning a lot about San Antonio's homeless population. As part of her professional development, Edralin is completing a 300-hour internship with the Community-Based Counseling Program, part of Family Violence Prevention Services Inc. and the Battered Women and Children's Shelter of Bexar County [SECC charity code 415055].
Since August, Edralin has been counseling homeless men and women at the Dwyer Avenue Center for Transitional Housing, the SAMM Shelter and the Battered Women's Shelter.
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The former parole officer and appellate court advocate found that she enjoyed the counseling aspects of her former jobs the most -- a decision that led her to UTSA's graduate school in 2006. She will graduate in December.
The Dwyer Center is located in downtown San Antonio, directly across from a new high-rise luxury condominium development advertising residencies "from the $500s." It's a contrast that Edralin can't help but take note of as she enters and leaves the center.
"Most of our clients are victims of family violence or abuse. Some feel safer on the street than in their homes," said Edralin, who noted that she can meet clients at the homeless shelters or even on the street.
"A lot of my clients have not had a positive guide in life. They don't know that they come first or that they can share their feelings," Edralin said, adding that "some clients did have jobs, but fell on hard times."
Edralin sees about five to 10 clients a week, as her clients fulfill a requirement to see a counselor before staying in a shelter. "Our role is to be present, to talk about empowerment in terms of what issues they are trying to resolve, such as finding a job and a home," Edralin said. "I can see them [Battered Women's Shelter and Family Violence Prevention Services] putting their resources to work."
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Make plans to attend "UTSA's Got Talent," 9-10:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 19 in the Business Building Liu Auditorium (2.01.02), 1604 Campus. You won't see these acts on YouTube! Did you know that your boss can dance and sing? Come see UTSA's faculty and staff display their extroverted sides in a fun-filled event. If you are interested in participating or helping with the event, call (210) 458-5136. Your SECC donation is your ticket to this one-of-a-kind event.
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Not to bother you but can I have one Arceus and I'll exchange with you a kyurem, terrakion, cobalion, or virizion with good evs. If wanted, you can get a shiny hippowdon.
Not to bother you but can I have one Arceus and I'll exchange with you a kyurem, terrakion, cobalion, or virizion with good evs. If wanted, you can get a shiny hippowdon.
looking for an event arceus.to get a sinnoh ruins legendaries.willing to part with my manaphy egg.tnx
i need an arceus to barrow ill return him once i get palkia via heart gold event
Hey guys. I'm looking for an Arceus to complete my dex, so I just want to borrow it, I'll send it right back. I just need to finish my dex, can someone help me?
I can give a Darkrai or Shaymin as a failsafe. PM me
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can someone please trade an arceus with me! i dont care what level it is, or if its action replayed or not i just really want one! i can trade back from most legendaries and all starters!!! please help!!!!
hi all.im offering a tru arcues.looking for an event deoxys and event darkrai.thanks
A very kind forum member was nice and trusting enough to let me borrow the event Arceus to start the event in SS! Now all I need is the Hall of Origin Arceus to get another one of the dragons! Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Looking for an Arceus that activates the HG/SS event. Will trade back after I finish the event
Completed event
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Have A TRU Arceus.
It can activate the SS/HG Ruins of Alp Event.
( knows Judgment, Spacial Rend, Roar of Time, Shadow Force)
Wanted: Shiny Speed or Attack Nature.
Many Pokemon to Offer and Trade.
TRU Arceus (Can Activate SS HG Event in Sinjoh Ruins)
Birth Island Deoxys UT
MYSTRY Mew
And Many More. (Too Lazy to Put it Here.)
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I'm looking for an Event Arceus (SS/HG Ruins of Alph event).
I'm looking just to borrow him or if you can PM what you'll want for it.
I'm also looking for an event Arceus if possible if not any arceus will do, message if you can help.
I'm looking for an Arceus to activate the Ruins of Alph event. I just want to borrow it, but I can give a Giratina or a jollyMence for the trouble (sorry, no events...or other legendaries on that game). Please let me know if you can help.
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I have every 4th gen pokemon pm me and some shines looking for pokemon that can be traded into my white 2
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Looking for a LEGIT Arceus, what event doesn't matter, I just want it to be absolutely legitimate.
Untouched Articuno lvl. 50 / docile nature.
Slightly touched Suicune lvl. 40 / lonely nature.
Slightly touched Entei lvl. 40 / naughty nature.
Slightly touched Raikou lvl. 40 / rash nature.
PM me for business.
"This won't hurt a bit..."
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Hi there i need a Arceus if anybody has one and is willing to trade then please pm me and let me know what you want to trade for ill see what i can do, i have a lot of pokemon to offer, items etc etc thanks
Currently Trying to Complete the White 2 Nat Pokedex
Friend Code: 0133-1177-6159
I'm looking for a Arceus, I can trade a shiny Manaphy, shiny roselia, most other legendaries and Melloetta in black/white
I'll trade for it
Looking for a temp trade (long enough to find myself a Palkia/Dialga)
3DS Friend Code: 5171-9608-5466 (PM when you add me)
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Have: Deoxys 50lv Gamestp UT
-Celebi 10Aniv UT
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Looking For: Mew FAL2010 5lvl UT
Ho-oh 45lvl or 70lvl UT Adamant Nature From soulsilver or heartgold
Lugia 45lvl or 70lvl UT Bold or Timid Nature From soulsilver or heartgold
Entei,Raikou,Suicune Shinies UT WIN2011
Raquaza UT jolly from heartgold or soulsilver
Latios and Latias UT timid nature from heartgold or soulsilver
Kyogre UT modest nature from heartgold or soulsilver
Groudon UT adamant natu
Lv70 Relaxed nature || ALAMOS Event
x3 Lv50 Hardy,mild,bold nature || WIN2011 Modest flawless nature
x2 Lv50 docile,naughty nature || GAMESTP
x2 sassy,nasty nature || Oblivia
adamant flawless nature || TRU
Jolly flawless nature (MAY2010) || TRU
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hey I am looking to loan an arceus so I can activate the event in SS. please pm me if u can help me out
Hey all,
I'm looking for an Arceus, Just temporairily to fill my Dex up, Let me know??
Hello all,
New to the site! I am seeking an event Arceus for my HG and SS. I'd like to use him to create the Platinum legendaries, so I am okay with just borrowing! Please message me with what you'd like in exchange or collateral and I'll see if I can meet your quota!
Looking for all pokemon in my sig, willing to trade a combination of up 6 for each one. Can breed all starters plus loads more, just ask
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my friend code is 1607-2314-9878
If anyone has a TRU Arceus, can I borrow it please?
I play Heartgold and Black 2.
Looking for legit event arceus ... pm me , good offer including shineys, events, legendaries, EV trained pokemon and items