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For future reference the Wikitravel:CIA World Factbook 2002 import can be found at Talk:Morocco/CIA World Factbook 2002 import.
'See' section
Don't we need a 'See' section for special "must-see" attractions?
External links moved
Some WikiTraveler left the following external links that might be useful to researchers.
More external links: taxi and car
Few more external links on travelling by taxi and by car:
It has some ideas we would welcome here--but is it OK to just transcribe key of them in this article? Will it conform to our policy on using copyrighted content? BTW, here's who they are and why they are doing that: http://www.triotours.com/faq/about/who-is.htm. --DenisYurkin 23:37, 15 November 2006 (EST)
Sleep for Dh75 is expensive budget?
I wonder if the prices like this really exist anywhere in Morocco:
From my experience, typical budget accommodation is from EUR50 to EUR80 per double, which is about x10 higher then the figures above. Can anyone support that the prices above are real and up-to-date? --DenisYurkin 15:53, 13 November 2006 (EST)
Buses are more reliable than trains?
I removed several quotations like this, as they give more questions than answers. In what sense are they more reliable? Are there more buses per day than trains per day for the same connection? Are buses better in departing/arriving in time? Do they break up more rare than trains? Please give details on this--and we'll bring the phrase back to the guide. --DenisYurkin 17:46, 22 November 2006 (EST)
Get around: by plane
We need more details here: routes available; frequency per day; give some idea on prices of domestic flights. Anyone willing to share? --DenisYurkin 16:46, 24 November 2006 (EST)
URLs for ferries
Hi, I do respect you external links policy, but it is very annoying that I only see soem prices for ferries, but no names for companies nor website addresses. The wiki would be a good place for that. Now im in the hands of google, and the travel preparation gets much more of a fuss. --188.8.131.52
hamams vs rhyads as a substitute of shower
Dear 126.96.36.199, hammams look much more reasonable substitute for hotel shower, as riads are actually a mid-class kind of hotel, not a public bath. Why did you change hammams to ryadhs? --DenisYurkin 05:06, 18 January 2007 (EST)
Traveling During the Ramadan Holiday
Is it possible traveling during the Ramadan Holiday? our planed vacation is scheduled for the same period of the year as the Ramadan happens to be celebrated. Homer 08:49, 30 June 2007 (EDT)
Is a Carnet de Passage needed?
Could someone confirm (and include in the article under "Get In / By Car" section) whether you need a Carnet de Passage in order to bring your car into Morocco? I was told by my local automobile association that I need one, but on wikipedia Morocco isn't even listed among the countries where it is helpful to have one. Also, I do feel that it is a rather important information to have if you're planning on entering Morocco by car.
Morocco badly needs subregions. I am not familiar with the country, but here is my suggestion:
Do these seem like good travel regions? --Peter Talk 13:19, 27 September 2007 (EDT)
Left Handedness
The article states to avoid doing anything with your left hand, as the Moroccons perceive the left hand is used for handling excretion. Is this for real? c'mon, the Moroccons should know that most foreigners simply do not go around in life handling crap. But the problem is that being left handed I could not even sign my name with my right hand. To what extent is this anti-left hand guideline a real issue in their culture?


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Walmart appears to have unknowingly violated city code in advertising the opening of its new grocery store in Boulder.
City officials plan to notify Walmart that a mobile billboard -- a truck toting a banner advertisement in its flatbed -- that was seen driving around Boulder streets is in violation of vehicular sign codes.
The city's plans to send a code enforcement official to provide information to the new Boulder business stemmed from a complaint filed by a resident.
"The code enforcement officer will be making a site visit to Walmart to provide information to the store manager," Mike Banuelos, a city spokesman, wrote in an email to the Camera. "If the store manager indicates that a mobile billboard was paid for by the parent company and utilized in Boulder, the officer will issue a formal warning."
Walmart officials said the company uses mobile billboards as part of a marketing strategy to promote new stores.
"Walmart uses a variety of common marketing tools, including mobile billboards, to promote new store openings," spokeswoman Delia Garcia said in an email. "The mobile billboards typically run for the first seven to 10 days after a new store opens to ensure customers are aware that the store is open and available to serve them.
"Customer response to the Boulder Walmart Neighborhood Market remains strong and we continue to receive positive comments from customers who are pleased to have a store close to home where they can find affordable groceries and fresh produce."
Boulder resident Will Sacks said he was "disgusted" when he recently saw the Walmart mobile billboard driving near the King Soopers off 30th Street and Arapahoe Avenue. After reading an article about Walmart's Neighborhood Market in Boulder on Monday, Sacks said he was reminded of the billboard he'd seen a couple of days earlier and fired off a tweet directed at the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer.
"@Walmart I felt sick when I saw your Ad Mobile in Boulder today. Polluting the air, my eyes, and clogging our traffic. #epicfail in #boulder," Sacks tweeted Monday night.
Sacks said he has a general dislike of mobile billboards, adding that they "represent everything that I hate about over-indulgent capitalism."
When he lived in Montreal, Sacks said he felt similar displeasure when seeing mobile billboards driving around the city.
"It was a dissonance with my understanding of Boulder," he said of seeing the Walmart ad. "I don't think people in this town want to see billboards driving around, polluting the environment."
Prohibited actions under the city's vehicular sign code include: The sign, if not roof-mounted, is not painted on or securely affixed on all edges to the surface of the sides of the body of the vehicle; and the principal use of the vehicle at the time of the display is for the display of the sign.
While this is the first mobile billboard complaint received by the city this year, it isn't the first time a billboard on wheels triggered action from the city.
In 2000, Boulder's city attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to J&B Scotch in an effort to put the brakes on a Billboard Express truck that drove around the city advertising the company's whiskies. The mobile billboard was not legal under city code, attorneys at the time said, adding they would be willing to take the matter to municipal court.
"It is not an infraction that is very common in the city of Boulder," Banuelos said Wednesday. "The city deals with mobile billboard complaints as it would any other code enforcement complaint: Log complaint, investigate and issue summons, if necessary."
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Here is my to do list this month:
- Finish Vevay Newspaper Index. I just need to finish the last 2 years and I'll be done. Then I need to sort it and publish it online.
- Attach all newspaper clippings about my family to my tree. (I've found lots of great nuggets about my ancestors' lives by going through these papers.)
- Sort through all the wonderful things I have received recently by email from new cousins and reply to them all.
- Publish (by pdf) for relatives "The Life of Alice Hillis" story and "The Immigration of William Watson Suckling" story.
- Attend Indiana Genealogical Society Conference on April 10 in Fort Wayne. (A great way to end my spring break.)
- Attend Ohio Genealogical Society Conference on April 22-24 in Toledo.
Anyone else have some goals for April? I know I am ready for Summer Vacation and the time to do genealogy all day for a few months!


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Camel Military Coat
Added Oct 24, 2013
by alanaf
New York, New Yo...
This coat was definitely a bit of a production. Because of the complexity of the pattern, I wanted to make sure that every detail was as perfect as I could make it – which, of course, it never is. I wanted to play with the idea of neutrals and color, and had this inspiration of West meeting East. I chose a really neutral camel wool, but lined the coat with the most fabulous Chinese patterned silk brocade. I was really torn on the piping, and almost went with a brown or gold, but in the end I decided to stick with my first instinct and use cherry red piping.
I few notes on construction. Definitely use a strong interfacing – the weight of the fabrics, and the coat itself will drag down a basic interfacing. Second, the pattern suggests using silk lining for the piping material. While that is perfectly acceptable, it is much easier (and a lot quicker) to use satin bias tape. Iron out all the fold in the bias tape, and proceed to use it as you would any other piping material. The buttonholes were the biggest problem I encountered. I have a basic, run of the mill, home sewing machine – and it was IMPOSSIBLE for my machine to punch through the two layers of fabric and interfacing. I ended up having to hand-stitch all of my buttonholes. While I throughly enjoyed the learning experience, I would have appreciated not having to do so much extra hand-sewing.
All in all, I am very satisfied with my finished project. I am looking forward to some chilly weather, so I can wear my coat.
Material Notes
100% Wool Coating
Lining: Silk Brocade
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Nov 5, 2013, 08.04 PMby jacqueb73
Nov 2, 2013, 10.23 PMby cur-jargon
Stunning. Just, stunning. Kudos!
Oct 29, 2013, 05.01 PMby Abigail Ball
That is really well done. I liked your description of the project.
Oct 27, 2013, 06.32 PMby kirstenlarsen62
Hi, your coat is superb. Excellent tailoring and choice of fabrics. My mothervtaught me a trich for button holes on thick blazers and coats. She called it a hand bound button hole. You cut a rectangle of the wool larger than the desired button hole. Faces together, place it over where you want the button hole. You machine sew a rectangle that has space in the center through the wool rectangle and the top layer only. (Later you will do the same w.ith the facing or lining so that it lines up.) cut a slit inside the sewn rectangle and slit to the 4 corners careful not to cut the stitching. Flip it around to the inside and you now have a finished button hole. Press. Now do as mentioned on the facing or lining with the same fabric as facing or lining. Then line theM up and hand stitch together. It takes some work but it is very durable and will hold up to heavy use.
Oct 27, 2013, 06.12 PMby claudinka
That is just wow!
Oct 27, 2013, 11.30 AMby alekat
wow, youve done a really great job! looks awesome
Oct 25, 2013, 05.43 AMby Misokizen
Wonderful!Love it!
Oct 24, 2013, 06.12 PMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous coat!! All the work that you have put into this shows. I love everything about this x
Oct 24, 2013, 07.51 AMby Brittaasp
The red piping is fab! Good job.
Oct 24, 2013, 06.43 AMby Bbtiny
It is very lovely, your coat! The fabrics are great and look perfect for each other. All the handy work was worth it! You've got yourself a great coat!!! I like it very much!
Oct 24, 2013, 05.49 AMby cris orange
Great coat, love the red lining and piping!
Oct 24, 2013, 04.37 AMby JolJol
Love this coat, great contrast in colours and the shape is perfect. A fantastic addition to your wardrobe.
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'The Call' dials up a shallow thriller
In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless call made by our movie's main players.
But in "The Call," the 911 operator gets a starring role. It would seem to be long overdue, since Halle Berry is apparently among their ranks.
She's a highly professional emergency operator in Los Angeles, where the trauma of a first kidnapping case has forced her to hang up the headset. But, having shifted to a trainer position, she's lured back for a second kidnapping call when a rookie dispatcher can't handle the frightened pleas from a teenager trapped in a car's trunk (Abigail Breslin).
Director Brad Anderson (who has a few sturdy thrillers to his credit: "Transsiberian," ''The Machinist"), working from the simple, high-concept screenplay by Richard D'Ovidio, ably cuts between Berry's increasingly emotionally-attached Jordan Turner and Breslin's panicking Casey Welson, contrasting the fraught strategizing of Turner with the frantic police pursuit of the kidnapper (Michael Eklund). Turner's cop boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) is among those in the hunt.
"The Call" dials up a shallow thrill ride, but one efficiently peppered with your typical "don't go in there!" moments. But what once was usual for Hollywood — reliable, popcorn-eating genre frights — isn't so much anymore. "The Call" is a rudimentary, almost old-fashioned 90-minute escape that manages to achieve its low ambitions.
To distract and calm Welson, Turner at one point asks her her favorite movie, to which she replies "Bridesmaids." The bit has a two-pronged effect. One, we can't help but think: Wouldn't it be nice to instead be watching something as good as "Bridesmaids"? But also, two, to remind us of the joy of moviegoing, of which thoughtless movies like "The Call" are a definite part.
But while "The Call" manages to build some suspense from the trunk of the car — the clever attempts to elicit help, the dwindling cell phone battery — its deficiencies become less forgivable once the action turns off the road. Eklund's psychopath kidnapper is cartoonishly drawn and when he has Welson back at this lair — and Turner is summoned from the high-tech, oddly NASA-like call center — "The Call" disconnects with horror film clichés.
Berry, with a ball of short curly hair, keeps the film rolling even when it veers off course. Breslin, making a leap to more sordid territory, has little to do but be scared. Michael Imperioli makes a brief appearance as a concerned bystander, a reminder mainly that the fine "Sopranos" actor deserves considerably better.
From "Phone Booth" to "Cellular" (a film with which "The Call" shares many similarities), phone-based movies have generally been bad service for moviegoers, who so often would rather look at their own mobiles in the movie theater.
"The Call," a Sony Pictures release, is rated R for violence, disturbing content and some language. Two stars out of four.


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Jazz Studies at UNCW
UNC Wilmington offers a Bachelor of Music in Performance with a concentration in Jazz Studies. The curriculum includes a wide array of jazz courses and performance opportunities to ensure a solid foundation in jazz. The UNCW Department of Music also offers music degrees in music education, performance, and general music, as well as minors in music.
UNCW offers a comprehensive jazz curriculum that includes two levels of jazz improvisation, jazz history, jazz arranging I and II, jazz pedagogy, and a modern jazz performance practice course that combines historical perspectives and improvisational practices in jazz from 1940 to the present.
In addition to teaching at UNCW, each member of the UNCW Jazz faculty maintains a busy performance schedule as a soloist as well as a recording and supportive musician. The collective musical experiences of the jazz faculty read like a Who's Who of Jazz. Joining the UNCW Jazz faculty this year is renowned drummer and vibraphonist, Joe Chambers. The UNCW Jazz Faculty are active clinicians &, performers throughout the country and are dedicated to the pedagogy and perpetuation of jazz as an art form.
The UNCW Big Bandsperform music that includes swing through bebop and modern styles. In addition to their concert schedule, the UNCW Big Bands have produced several recordings, including four compact disc recordings (On the Edge, Portraits of Swing, Travelin' Light and Summation), as well as a videotape called "Sing Like a Pro." They have performed at various jazz festivals, including the 1997 Graz Jazz Festival in Austria and the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland.
The UNCW Jazz Combos have garnered numerous awards over the years at various jazz festivals including a gold award (first place) for the best university combo at JazzFest U.S.A. (sponsored by Down Beat magazine) held at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. They have also been invited to perform at various prestigious jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, as well as the Graz Jazz Festival in Austria. The UNCW Combos have been featured on CD's for both Jazziz and Jazz Player magazines as well as featured on several UNCW CD's including Summation and On the Edge.
Annual Guest Artist Jazz Festival
The UNCW Jazz Program hosts an annual guest artist jazz festival that provides an opportunity for the students to participate in master classes and clinics, as well as, perform with world-class jazz artists such as Bob Berg, Marvin Stamm, Rufus Reid, Ingrid Jensen, Ed Shaughnessy, Vincent Herring, Denis DiBlasio, and Slide Hampton to name a few. Download a Jazzfest Ensemble Registration (pdf.)
The UNCW Jazz Scholarships and Awards
Jazz Awards are available for qualified students participating in the jazz program, and in particular, the UNCW Big Band. While the number of awards is based upon programmatic needs and instrumentation, the amount of the awards is based upon the student's ability.
In addition to the Jazz Awards, the Cape Fear Jazz Appreciation Society Scholarships in Music are annual awards established by The Cape Fear Jazz Appreciation Society in support of students who are interested in majoring in music as a jazz studies major. The scholarships are based primarily on study of jazz instrumental performance and/or composition. The student should not only be pursuing a degree in music, but also actively involved within the jazz program, including the jazz ensembles. The scholarships are available to incoming freshman as well as continuing students.
Summer Jazz Program
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themusicman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Love the arts? Help us take our older metchorus.org non-profit community website and update it with a new, cooler template design. (Basically ONE look that will be used on every page)
The Metropolitan Chorus
The Metropolitan Chorus is a community non-profit chorus based in the Washington, DC area and has been providing music for the greater DC area for over 42 years.
I volunteer to help with their online marketing and website and am looking to get it totally revamped with a new template we can use for all the pages (and upcoming blog)...and especially a new design with more color instead of our existing B&W design that we've outgrown. (Existing site is at http://www.metchorus.org)
Even though things have gotten a lot tougher to bring audience membersin and keep the lights on, we're hoping a revamped website can help ourcommunity arts group continue to make music for many more years.
As you can see from the existing site - each page is pretty much the same look - just different content that we plug into it.
The only thing that MUST stay in the new design is "The Metropolitan Chorus" logo you see on the page - and a place for the tagline of "Celebrating xx years of Enchantment" (idealy that should be something we can easily update each year to increase the number). Also would be nice to keep those testimonials/reviews at the top.
The navigation on the left can remain on the left OR go up top (like Kennedy-Center.org does).
We're looking to get a template that can be easily adapted to use for all the pages. Also want to have it done in a way that we can add a blog into the template and add a new part to the navigation that says 'blog' since we want to add that into our mix. And also add a "Free Newsletter" link to the navigation also
(If you can design Wordpress templates too that match the site design please let me know!)
In addition - we want to have an 'upcoming concert' section to the main page. And change tickets to "Get Tickets"
Look in the sections below for more details. Any questions? Just ask! :) I'm sure we'll have a few more suggestions and tweaks once we see your cool designs...
Payment will be made via our company's PayPal account. Thanks in advance. This is be a fun and easy project for the designer who knows what he/she is doing.
- Chris :)
P.S. - A job well done will be rewarded... ;)
- To clarify - this is NOT for a blog. We're just looking to update the look of the site. As you can see at metchorus.org, we use the same look on every page. So we want to update the site design 'template' that we use.
- This is work-for-hire project, so we will own all rights to the completed work.
- Whatever you design must be of your own original creation and/or use elements from the existing site - under NO circumstances should the design be stolen or 'borrowed' from other sites.
- We also want a 30-day clause added if we choose you as the winner (so if we need a few minor tweaks done within 30 days, you can do that for us).
- Definitely want to add MORE color to this site.
- This design should be done in a way that we can make changes to it down the road if needed (so we should get the original .psd files, etc.).
- It should be modular so we can ADD new elements if needed (like the Blog Updates)
- We'd also like to get an HTML template for the design included so we can start copying the content over to the new template.
- As this is an arts organization, we don't want this to be a gaudy, loud page. It should have CLASS and elegance...and a sense of fun. :)
- We want to avoid a flash-based site so that changes can be made to the site easier.


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Oh those crazy carefree days of the 70s. This Bohemian inspired kit is full of flowers and paisley and peace signs and beads. You will love the palette with it's bright colors and fun unique elements.
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The Texans were trailing the Titans in the fourth quarter and wide receiver Andre Johnson was on the bench being evaluated for a concussion.
In past years, that would have spelled disaster for the Houston offense because there wasn't another pass catcher dynamic enough to make a game-changing play to put the Texans back in business. That's why they drafted DeAndre Hopkins this offseason and Hopkins delivered in a major way.
He caught passes on three straight plays to set up Arian Foster's game-tying touchdown in the fourth just before Johnson was injured and then caught two more in overtime, including the game-winner in the 30-24 victory, after Johnson was out of the game. It was a coming-out party for a player who was drafted to complement Johnson but plans to surpass him in the years to come.
"I feel like I can be better than Andre," Hopkins said, via the team's website. "That's my mindset. And that's what Andre tells me. [He says] Don't try to shadow yourself when you know you can be better."
The Texans don't need Hopkins to be better than Johnson at the moment. They just need him to be good enough to keep defenses from shutting them down by shutting down Johnson, something he's proven capable of doing in each of the team's first two games.


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Toyota Sequoia 4WD with Toyota 7.5" Series Axle with Reverse Rotation 2001, Front Outer Differential Oil Slinger by Yukon Gear & Axle®. Yukon Gear & Axle manufactures a full line of top quality small parts to complete any job including ring gear bolts, crush sleeves, pinion nuts and washers, axle studs, thrust washers and much, much more. For all your differential small parts needs, look no further than Yukon.
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Yukon Gear & Axle® is one of the leading manufacturers in the aftermarket transmission industry. The company offers a great assortment of reliable ring and pinion sets, axles and axle bearings, spindles, locking hubs, and more. Yukon's commitment to top-quality products which meet or exceed expectations of customers lasts for years. To provide parts featuring solid fit, quality pattern, and clean finish, the company uses the ongoing Quality Assurance practices, extensive series of tests and inspections as well as the latest manufacturing technology.


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Those two Mars rovers, named Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the red planet in January 2004 and are still going strong, twelve times longer than their originally-planned mission of 90 Martian days. Together they've sent more than 160,000 images back to Earth and have driven a combined 10.4 miles.
The two rovers were pretty much chowderheads when they first landed, but now they're quite a bit smarter because of their newly-uploaded software. Now they can be more picky about their choice of snapshots, recognizing that, for example, a rock they're looking at is the same one they saw earlier, but just from a different angle. This keeps the little robots from taking multiple pictures of the same thing.
Perhaps scientists will teach them how to reproduce, and then an entire population of the little droids will be there to meet their earthling overlords if we ever arrive.
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Creatively Colorful Kitchen Tools
I'm not quite sure what's happening to me but it seems that some how color is slowly but surely making an appearance in my home (gasp!). Maybe it was my recent trip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market that got me loving color again — who knows, but I love it!
An easy way to infuse color into the kitchen is through the very tools you use to whip up delicious meals. Whisking is one of my favorite things to do (and one of my favorite tools to look at) and obviously this colorful Kitchen Magic Spiral Whisk from Anthropologie is simply amazing!
If you're budget is a little bigger and you're looking to make an even bigger color statement — there's always the fridge. The Retropolitan Fridge from Big Chill is so retrorific is fabulous. Here are some other fantastic options:
• Kitchen Magic Spiral Whisk, $8.00 at Anthropologie
• Taylor's Eye Witness Stainless Steel Knife Block Set, £45.00 at Oliver Bonas
• Retropolitan Fridge, $3395.00 at Big Chill
• Vintage Measuring Spoons, $18.00 at Etsy
• Opinel Knife Set, $68.00 at Terrain
Related: Color Everywhere: Even At The Sink
(Images: Anthropologie, Oliver Bonas, Big Chill, Etsy, Terrain)


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Undocumented Youth With Work Permits Seek Professional Licenses
For months, Jose Godinez had to put his dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer on hold. The 26-year-old passed the Florida Bar exam and earned a law degree from Florida State University.
But he had been denied a law license from the Florida Board of Bar Examiners because he is in the U.S. illegally.
Not anymore.
He now has a two-year work permit, a driver's license and a Social Security card, after qualifying for a federal immigration program for people who were brought illegally into the U.S. as youngsters.
Handing out law licenses to illegal aliens is going to create a precedent that will affect licensing from electricians to airline pilots — this is insanity.
His new legal status sets up a landmark decision that could have repercussions for thousands of undocumented immigrants across the country. That's because it remains unknown if Godinez, along with the more than 350,000 other young immigrants approved under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, can obtain professional licenses – as lawyers, doctors, even as electricians and air pilots.
The program, a Homeland Security Department policy change initiated last year, offers young undocumented immigrants a reprieve from deportation and a two-year renewable work permit. The program offers guidelines for law enforcement, but each state has the power to decide how they'd like to follow the guidelines.
So they can work – but what can kind of job can they actually get? They will not qualify for certain professions that require licenses – the Justice Department wrote an opinion last year that undocumented immigrants – even so-called "DREAMers" – are not allowed to receive state- and federally-issued commercial and professional licenses.
The DOJ's opinion was offered for a case involving undocumented immigrant Sergio Garcia. Garcia, like Godinez, is an undocumented immigrant seeking a law license from the California Bar, but unlike Godinez, has not been granted DACA. The California Supreme Court has yet to decide whether Garcia and other undocumented immigrants can receive law licenses.
Being allowed to get a job but not a license – the apparent contradiction has created widespread confusion in immigrant circles. The issue already struck a chord nationally over whether those qualifying for the program could obtain driver's licenses. States like Iowa, Michigan, Arizona and Nebraska barred DACA recipients from getting driver's licenses, leading to lawsuits by pro-immigrant activists who argue DREAMers won't be able to take their children to school or drive around for errands.
Because Obama's DACA is not a law, but only departmental policy, states can decide how they'd like to administer those guidelines – including issuing professional licenses.
Homeland Security had likely not anticipated this controversy – particularly over licenses for certain types of jobs. Last week, the agency issued further details on DACA policy: "An individual who has received deferred action is authorized by the Department of Homeland Security to be present in the United States, and is therefore considered by DHS to be lawfully present during the period deferred action is in effect."
But the move did not seem to clarify the growing confusion.
"It's an excellent example of why creating a false distinction for these categories of people just isn't really workable," said Laura Lictor, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a pro-immigrant group. "You have someone who is educated, and ready to contribute, and there is a piece of paper standing in his way."
Others like, Bob Dane, spokesperson for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for restricting legal and illegal immigration, believe there is confusion from state to state because the president "misused his executive power by bypassing Congress, violating the separation of powers."
Dane said it's "common sense" that undocumented immigrants who broke the law shouldn't be allowed to practice law.
"Handing out law licenses to illegal aliens is going to create a precedent that will affect licensing from electricians to airline pilots — this is insanity," Dane said.
In Godinez's case, filed last year, the Florida Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether undocumented immigrants are eligible for admission to the Florida Bar so they can become licensed lawyers. But now, armed with DACA and thus living legally and allowed to work, he said there should be no reason he couldn't pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer.
"I'm very excited and I hope that the court will rule in my favor," he told Fox News Latino.
His lawyer in the case, Talbot D'Alemberte, argued there's no legal reason why Godinez should be turned down.
"The court is free to admit the Respondent to the Florida Bar, there being no barrier under federal law to his using bar admission in the practice of law," his lawyer, D'Alemberte wrote in a legal brief to the Florida high court last week.
Former Federal Judge Andrew Napolitano and Fox News legal analyst believes the Florida Supreme Court will rule in Godinez's favor.
"This is a progressive Supreme Court, and would look kindly of the application of an immigrant to become a lawyer," he said.
If Godinez does win the case and obtains a law license, it could set a precedent for countless other DACA beneficiaries – like Melissa Garcia. The 20-year-old New York college student is an aspiring social worker – but will need a state license, assuming she first qualifies for DACA.
"It's going to be a state by state fight," Garcia said of the DACA initiative, "It's not enough. It's not going to be and never will be enough. We are still seeing a lot of struggles."
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CYFD probation officer arrested
Domestic dispute gets out of hand
A CYFD probation officer was recently arrested after APD said she attacked her husband.
The incident happened about two weeks ago in the couple's Albuquerque home.
CYFD told Action 7 News that Desarae Guthrie has since been on paid leave. She monitored juveniles through CYFD.
According to a criminal complaint, the Guthrie's got into an argument that turned physical. She allegedly kicked in a door and hit and punched the husband.
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Joe Warren Feels Bad for Travis Marx
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Joe Warren notched the first submission win of his career Friday at Bellator 101, but he'll be looking for a more brutal finish when he meets Travis Marx in the 135-pound tournament final.
"I kind of feel bad for this Travis Marx because all the problems I had in this last fight, it'll be all fixed and it's just going to be a brutal beatdown," Warren told the Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show.
The 36-year-old bantamweight had been scheduled to compete Sept. 7 at Bellator 98 in Uncasville, Conn. However, he was scratched from the card after the Mohegan Tribal Athletic Department did not to clear him medically. The commission had raised a concern over Warren's MRI, though Warren said it ended up being an "image abnormality."
"It sucked, but I have babies at home," Warren said. "I was more worried about making sure everything was OK."
There was also the stress of being told he may never fight again. Of course, he was soon cleared to fight and three weeks later he was back in the ring, armbarring semifinal opponent Nick Kirk. The finish was nice, but Warren would have liked to showcase his striking.
"My hands are so nasty," he said. "My hands are nasty right now. … I was really anxious. I wanted to get to him so bad. It's hard for me to stand back and understand distance when someone blows the whistle and I know the guy wants to get to me. If I would have been able to bring my heart rate down a little bit and stay a little calmer in the first, I would have finished it on my feet. I really thought I'd probably knock him to his back and finish him with ground-and-pound, but my submission stuff right now and control was so strong that that kind of was a freak position. I tried to take his back in a mount and he rolled underneath and I locked that triangle up and I just kind of stayed calm until I had his arm extended. I just popped that elbow right out."
Next up is Marx, who advanced to the tournament final by stopping Brandon Bender. In the opening round, Marx outpointed Chase Beebe.
"I don't really know much about him," Warren said. "I know he's a lefty and I think he's a little older fighter like me. I don't really care. He's just another body in front of me that I'm going to run through. I believe I'm primed up ready for this belt run and this is the next guy in my way."
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Booking Through Thursday--Illustrious
Today's Booking Through Thursday question is:
How do you feel about illustrations in your books? Graphs? Photos? Sketches?
I don't have a strong opinion about illustrations in my books. I guess it really depends on the book.
As a child, I loved the illustrations in my copies of Alice in Wonderland (the originals by Sir John Tenniel), and in The Borrowers (illustrations done by Beth and Joe Krush), because they were really beautiful drawings, and I looked forward to coming across them while reading. It was like getting a wonderful little surprise every few pages. So I remember the magic of illustrations very well.
I just finished Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, about her life in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe, which had photos sprinkled throughout. It reminded me of those reading experiences I had had as a child, enchanted by the illustrations I would come across. That's because the pictures were so great in this book--allowing a glimpse into a life, and perfectly illustrating the text. They also felt necessary, because they were often mentioned in the text, and were part of the story itself.
But generally speaking, I don't want or need illustrations for a novel. The language paints enough of a picture for me.
6 comments:
- litlove said...
I love photos in a biography - the more the better. But like you, illustrations aren't the first thing I look for in books. I'm interested in the Patti Smith memoir - hopefully you will review that soon? :)
- March 12, 2010 at 12:38 AM
I've always considered photos and illustrations as bonuses. I don't need them, but I find them wonderful when they do appear.
- March 12, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Gentle Reader said...
litlove--I really enjoyed the Patti Smith memoir, but there was some dissent in my book group, which I will report on to you soon!
Jill--I agree, photos and illustrations can be looked at as a bonus--and a lovely surprise!
- March 13, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- Bybee said...
I like a lot of photographs when I'm reading a biography or memoir. I flip to that section often. Otherwise, I don't really need pictures.
- March 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Grad said...
My favorite book as a child was The Tall Book Of Make-Believe. I still have my original copy, and a copy my brother gave me around my 40th birthday. Sadly, it is out of print, I believe. The enchanting illustrations of Garth Williams truly make the book the beautiful thing it is (although the poems and stories are fabulous as well). The illustrations really transported me to another world as a child. To be honest, when I look at the book today, they still do. When I read a biography or other work of non-fiction, I definintely want photos!
- March 16, 2010 at 6:55 AM
- Gentle Reader said...
Bybee--me, too. Amazing how important the photos are to me in biography or memoir, and how little I care about pictures in fiction.
Grad--Didn't Garth Williams also do the illustrations in the Little House on the Prairie books? I loved those pictures, too!
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Hey, very easily could have been you
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Tie means you win. You scored more points. Nearly 1000!
Nice matchup Migya. It was very close all week, but your team absolutely farted these past few days.
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NOVA "Quest for Solomon's Mines" In southern Jordan, University of California San Diego archaeologist Tom Levy leads a team on a quest to learn more about the area of major copper mining they have discovered that coincides with the Bible's timeframe for Solomon. The fabled rich kingdom during the 10th century BCE could have been fueled by the mines at Khirbet en Nahas that may have employed 1,000 workers on an around-the-clock schedule, producing up to 20 tons of copper annually - an early industrial revolution.G
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Jealous of the Femme Cowboy:
I must admit I find this F-Minus comic funny. The idea that cowboys would wear blinky-light boots (or that there would be adult blinky-light boots at all) is just funny. It would be equally as funny, however, if the blinky-light thing wasn't linked to some sort of femme attribution by said cowboy's leg lift, as if he were kissing a butch sailor who likes his cowboys a bit fey.
Give me a fucking cookie:
Apparently, men clean their homes not because they like to live in clean houses, but rather because it keeps their wives from murdering them. Make a note.
I'm crying because I'm laughing, not because of the mace in my eyes:
I may be the only one here, but I find jokes about women who have to defend themselves against stalkers and rapists with mace to be...how shall I put this...not jokes at all. Even when made by comic-strip women at the expense of possibly perfectly respectable comic-strip men. It seems to me the idea here is that this guy is just asking this woman out, but she refers to her mace--which might actually need to be used against actually violent, stalk-y men, to ward off a guy she doesn't want to give her phone number to. Which, in my mind, is exactly the sort of thing that makes people think stalking is akin to asking somebody out.
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How Secure are Numeric Passwords?
Numeric passwords are ubiquitous. Most of you use one nearly every day, whether it be on your smartphone, your debit card, your voicemail system, or a secure token. But how secure are those passwords? How likely is an attacker to be able to misuse it?
Two-Factor Authentication
Recently the press reported on a break-in at Lockheed Martin, an intrusion deemed serious enough to have made President Obama's daily briefing. After much speculation, RSA soon revealed that this was related to an earlier break-in at RSA security, which may have resulted in leakage of sensitive data about their two-factor authentication tokens, SecurID. Although they issued a FAQ at the time of the break-in, and have a best practice guide, they issued a subsequent apology to their customers.
Two-factor authentication works as an additional level of authentication, following the principle of using "something you know and something you have" to strengthen login procedures. The idea is that instead of just a password, you also have to enter an ever-changing code, that is provided to you by something you have, usually either a key fob or a software program running on your computer. These codes typically change every 30 seconds or so, and cannot be re-used, thus preventing a password-sniffing or -guessing attack from easily succeeding. They can mitigate the tendency of humans to choose bad passwords (abc123, qwerty, etc.) or leave their passwords unchanged for years.
One interesting datapoint in that article is that Lockheed Martin is planning, as a result of the incident, to increase their two-factor authentication codes from 4 digits to 8 digits, among other security measures. This may imply that they feel that the SecurID tokens may have been a weak point in their security perimeter.
What was stolen in the RSA attack was not the codes themselves, but the keys (also called seeds) used to generate the codes. Knowledge of a seed combined with knowledge of the algorithm can allow you to predict all the outputs that a SecurID key will generate. So, in effect, it allowed attackers to predict the codes, and perform an end-run around them without having to guess them. If you can predict it, the length of the code becomes irrelevant, so it is still unclear what prompted Lockheed Martin's desire to increase from 4 to 8 digits. Perhaps it was just a security best practice unrelated to the actual intrusion method.
Even when data isn't disclosed, two-factor systems aren't foolproof. If there are no mechanisms for detecting password guessing attempts, or for locking out accounts with many password failures, an attacker can still use automated programs to guess both the password and the code digits at the same time. With 4 digits, it just takes an attacker 10,000 times longer. 8 digits would take 100 million times longer. An attack like this is known as a brute force attack. We don't know the details of the Lockheed Martin break-in, or why the attackers were successful, but password and code guessing is one possibility.
Smartphone passwords are another place we commonly see 4-digit passwords. These are usually designed to prevent casual users from picking up someone's smartphone and finding personal information or sending embarrassing data with them. But if the smartphone is stolen, an attacker might have a lot more time to try to guess these passwords. It is unlikely that an attacker will manually try to type all 10,000 combinations, but as these are chosen by the user, they are much more likely to contain patterns. I have observed friends type "1234," "2684", "4565" or similar numberpad patterns as their smartphone "passwords." These may give them a sense of security, but people have been guessing 4 digit passwords since the dawn of voicemail, and there are lists of commonly used passwords. One study indicated that the top 10 passwords could get you into 15% of lock screens. Apple does mitigate guessing by introducing increasing timeouts for incorrect password guesses on an iPhone. There is also a setting to delete all data after 10 incorrect password guesses, but users may disable this if they fear losing data in the event they forget their own password or their toddler finds the phone and taps passwords over and over again. You can also turn off "Simple Passcode" and then use numbers and letters to create a stronger password. Android and Blackberry phones also allow you to choose various password methods to secure your phone.
If you lose your device and it falls into the hands of professional adversaries (be they an unfriendly government or a criminal), they may be able to use software to guess your password. A Russian company, ElcomSoft has developed a forensic program that can copy the encrypted filesystem from an Apple iOS device and do brute force attacks on the password. If successful, it then enables the attacker to decrypt all the files. They claim that with the standard 4-digit password, this takes an average of 20 minutes, and a maximum of 40. An 8-digit password would lengthen this to an average of 4.5 months, and a maximum of 9 months, a significantly longer time. If you use letters, numbers, and special digits, this could lengthen the cracking time to many years, and make it an infeasible attack. Even just switching to 7 random lower case letters can lengthen the average to 32 years, probably long after the data becomes unusable. Of course, this has to be balanced with the usability of having to enter a longer password every time you use your device.
Credit Cards
Credit and debit cards have three codes associated with them for security, all based on digits. These are a PIN, the CVV, and the CVV2. The first is a customer Personal Identification Number (PIN), used for withdrawing money or for using the debit function of the card. Some banks allow you to choose these, while others assign them automatically.
ATM cards commonly have 4-digit PINs, but as the lockout mechanism for these is to impound the card in an ATM after a small number of guessing attempts, the risk is generally deemed small. It is unclear what the policy is on unsuccessfully using a debit card at a cash register, but presumably a certain number of incorrect guesses will result in some type of fraud warning. Physical possession of a debit card, however, usually allows someone to use it as a credit card without knowledge of the PIN, so the PIN is generally only important if a thief attempts to withdraw cash.
The Card Verification Value (CVV) is an invisible 3 digit code stored on the magnetic stripe that the customer doesn't know. Its purpose is to require the card to be present in an in-person transaction. The CVV2 is a printed 3- or 4-digit code that the customer can read, and is designed to prove ownership of the card in online or phone transactions. 3 digits doesn't withstand guessing very long (1,000 guesses guarantees success), so attempting to guess these values in automated transactions ought to trigger a fraud alert. Attackers do attempt brute force guessing attacks. However, Visa indicates in a best practices guide for card issuers that a mismatch alone shouldn't necessarily be a reason for declining a transaction:
Do not decline authorizations solely for CVV mismatch. Incorporate CVV mismatches as an additional risk indicator in fraud detection strategies…Limit declines of CVV2 mismatches to transactions with other characteristics that, combined, represent higher risk
Conversely, this best practices guide for Credit Unions that issue cards indicates that failed CVV matches should trigger blocking and reissuing of cards:
Verify card is blocked & re-issued when CVV/CVC/CVI fails – Helps prevent counterfeit caused by "brute force" attacks
In either case, the credit card companies apparently do not see the need for a longer code, for it would be very easy to implement one. Perhaps this indicates that even though an individual transaction shouldn't be denied for CVV or CVV2 mismatch, excessive mismatches might trigger a card lock or fraud alert via the credit card company (Visa, Master Card, etc.).
Choosing a Code
So, if you have to use a system that has numeric codes, how do you protect yourself? Don't use an easily guessable code, consisting of sequences, repetitions, or cute patterns across the number pad. If you have a choice, such as on a smartphone, use a code that includes numbers and letters. If you need to write down your PIN (perhaps because it is system-generated) keep it someplace separate from your phone or your card. Don't choose the same PIN for everything, especially not for protecting financial accounts. If an attacker guesses your favorite PIN by automated guessing against your voicemail account, that may also let him into your bank account.
If you are a systems administrator, you can follow some of RSA's recommendations:
- Require 8, not 4-digit PINs
- If you must use a short PIN, allow alphanumerics
- Use random PINs, not user-selected PINs
- Configure lockouts after 3 failures. Require manual intervention to unlock.
So, in conclusion, while 4-digit PINs are not very resistant to automated or concerted guessing, they can provide decent security in certain circumstances. Guessing attempts must be limited by lockouts. If they are a second factor combined with a password, they can add additional security. Finally, they are much more secure if used in an application in which they are random and not chosen by the user.
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Double the congratulations to NFL star Peyton Manning and wife Ashley!
The 35-year-old Indianapolis Colts quarterback and his wife welcomed twins, RadarOnline reports. Their son Marshall Williams Manning and daughter Mosley Thompson Manning arrived on March 31st in Indianapolis, Indiana. The couple had not publicly announced the pregnancy.
A family source said: "It is true, it is happy news for them."
These are the couple's first children.
Peyton's younger brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his wife Abby, welcomed a daughter, Ava Frances Manning ten days earlier on March 21.


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'2016' Oscar snub has filmmakers claiming bias
'Anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival'
(HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) — Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of Schindler's List, is claiming political bias because a documentary movie he produced this year isn't up for an Oscar – even though that film, 2016: Obama's America, made more money at the box office than the 15 movies the Academy deemed eligble – combined.
2016 is a negative take on President Barack Obama. It was co-written and directed by author Dinesh D'Souza, and earned $33.4 million at the domestic box office. But its omission on the list of the 15 movies the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday would advance in the voting process makes it ineligible for an Oscar.
"Dinesh warned me this might happen," Molen laughed on Tuesday. "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood circles. The film's outstanding success means that America went to see the documentary in spite of how Hollywood feels about it."


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This year, among 19 projects presented with awards at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla on Oct. 11 were three La Jolla attractions, which were honored with Orchid awards for blooming architecture, interior design and landscape architecture.
And the winners are …
What was previously a vast, vacant warehouse with an expansive barreled roof, has been transformed into a 21st century wonderland filled with unique nautical elements, like stacks of lobster traps filled with lacquered puffer fish, a giant whale skeleton caged in wrought iron and exposed light bulbs, and rope-art installations draped from every corner of the restaurant's one-of-a-kind chandeliers and lighting elements.
Thomas Schoos, mastermind behind the building's interior design, even lined the restaurant's vintage brick walls with his own original paintings, which depict bold graffiti-style illustrations of seafood on oversized canvases.
Exposed brick and natural wood elements line the walls and ceiling of the establishment, and the branches of six 100-year-old olive trees twist overhead as guests enjoy their fare. Iconic images and aged textures transform the former industrial warehouse into an eclectic rustic garden dappled in light from the interior skylights by day and from the twinkling light fixtures by night.
Schoos' vision and transformation brought to life a long-vacant building, ultimately earning him and his design team an Orchid in this year's interior design category.
This 88,000-square-foot medical training center, designed by architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is a striking modern spectacle that exudes transparency and well-executed design to inspire the next generation of medical experts housed within its glass-paned walls.
Its prominent feature — a dramatic glass panel suspended on the building's front façade — makes for a welcoming entrance to the state-of-the-art facility. Adding to the design are the building's floor-to-ceiling glass-walled interior hallways, its use of ample natural lighting and materials, and a spacious central courtyard that serves as the communal hub for transport in and out of the building. Flanked by generous open landscaped spaces and situated at the intersection of two major pedestrian routes, the building encourages its inhabitants to interact and exchange ideas in a stimulating, indoor-outdoor learning facility.
The innovative architecture of the building — and the cutting-edge technology it holds — creates an atmosphere that is commensurate to the world-class medical school and its students.
The craftsmanship of this cast concrete building and its sustainable landscaped grounds has earned the student housing complex two orchids at this year's awards.
UCSD's first LEED Platinum-certified student-housing complex exemplifies smart, sustainable design in its form and function. The undergraduate housing complex, which is home to more than 500 UCSD students, employs myriad innovative tactics to tackle Southern California's environmental challenges from the building's grounds.
Significant reductions in energy consumption are sourced from a number of designs, including natural cooling by ocean breezes made possible by the building's shape and arrangement, onsite renewable energy from a rooftop photovoltaic array and heating efficiencies achieved by thermal mass and other sustainable measures.
Landscape architects from Spurlock Poirer also made water management, conservation and reuse some of their primary goals, resulting in the creation of the building's water efficient landscaping and plumbing, onsite wastewater recycling, and remediation of stormwater flow from the Pacific through a system of landscape bio-swales and retention basins.
The noteworthy efforts to construct a building that meets the utmost standards in sustainable design, while not compromising the building's aesthetic, were not overlooked by SDAF, earning architects at Kieran Timberlake and Spurlock Poirer praise as an exceptional example of environmentally sensitive design and landscape.
To see a full list of Orchids & Onions award winners, visit www.orchidsandonions.org.


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1. Re: How to preserve Illustrator Glow in FlashMark Jawdoszak Apr 4, 2012 4:05 AM (in response to FlashKatt)1 person found this helpful
This is an issue with the way objects are exported/imported.
It sounds like the imports are being done as Bitmaps, in some way, which explains the jagged edges and the horrible scaling - we often have the same issues!
You should be able to export and import as a vector graphic (SVG) and that should maintain the effects.
However, these effects tend to give pretty bad performance within the Flash Player (except on the desktop). Just a word of warning!
2. Re: How to preserve Illustrator Glow in FlashFlashKatt Apr 4, 2012 7:46 AM (in response to Mark Jawdoszak)
OK..sounds like there are lots of gotchas and pitfalls associated with imported assets with effects applied in the application that created them...
any tricks to share to get things to work?
thank you!
3. Re: How to preserve Illustrator Glow in FlashMark Jawdoszak Apr 4, 2012 7:50 AM (in response to FlashKatt)
One way is you can export as a SWF and import that object - it should maintain effects. You WILL need to rescale this SWF, though (just set the .width/.height properties when you include it in your code and you're away).
Other than that, we try to avoid using any fancy effects and, if they are needed, build them onto the asset when they are created.
One other big one that we noticed, is that PhotoShop's "Pass through" is not the same as using the alpha channel within Flash/AS3 - or at least, it doesn't give the same visible effect. (I know the OP was about Illustrator, but I would wager there are similar problems with effects from other applications).
Sorry I can't be of much more help :-/
4. Re: How to preserve Illustrator Glow in FlashFlashKatt Apr 4, 2012 7:52 AM (in response to Mark Jawdoszak)
believe me, you are a HUGE help...it's just as important to know real world quirks and limitations as to know whizzy cool features.
thank you!


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Take Flight is an exploration of the creative process of flight. Visitors try their hand at building their own planes and rockets, while uncovering fundamental principles of flight.
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Maine's Top 20 High Schools
U.S. News reviewed 31,242 high schools across the country and 26 Maine schools made their rankings!
According to the U.S. News website, "Maine high schools must instruct students in eight subject areas, including career and education development and world languages." The site also states that our students take the Maine High School Assessment exams. Maine has 55,888 students enrolled in 113 high schools across the state.
The Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone tops the Top 20 High Schools in Maine, which is a boarding school with 108 students in grades 9 through 12.
- Maine School of Science and Mathematics - Limestone
- Falmouth High School
- Yarmouth High School
- Cape Elizabeth High School
- Kennebunk High School
- Wells High School
- York High School
- Camden Hills Regional High School
- Orono High School
- Scarborough High School
- Marshwood High School in South Berwick
- Greely High School in Cumberland Center
- Bangor High School
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The black CO-3-Kit from Point Source Audio pairs an entry-level headset microphone and Sennheiser wireless microphone connector. It is designed for speech reinforcement in church liturgy, lecturing and other applications where the speaker needs to use their hands, instead of holding a mic.
The kit features an omnidirectional polar-pattern microphone in a low-profile earworn-type headset with a reversible dual-ear mic clip. This allows the mic to be worn on the left or the right ear. The omnidirectional polar-pattern offers a 360 degree pick-up pattern. This provides clarity in close mic operations and offers better gain before feedback. The fixed-boom design reduces speech-popping sounds and voice overloads by offering convenient placement of the mic near the mouth. This reduces noise from wind and clothing. The kit also includes a storage case and 6 windscreens for the CO-3 microphone.
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Utah State University's Wind Quartet Hits the Road
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012
Utah State University's Logan Canyon Winds and the Caine Wind Quintet travel to Moab, Utah, to perform at Star Hall Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and all are invited.
"This trip to eastern Utah is a nice way to encapsulate the mission of the Caine College of the Arts," said Nicholas Morrison, clarinetist in Logan Canyon Winds. "We will perform at an elementary and secondary school, visit the regional Price and Moab campuses and work with the students there. This is living what the mission says."
The concert features Logan Canyon Winds, CCA's faculty wind quintet, and the Caine Wind Quintet, a scholarship group for students, performing individually and together. Logan Canyon Winds will perform Serenade for Wind Quintet by Ferenc Farkas and the Caine Wind Quintet will perform Allegro ben Moderator from Quintet, op. 43 by Carl Nielsen. Both will perform And the Ink's Hardly Dry (ca. 11:15 a.m.) by Mark Emile and Three Sacred Women by Jeff Scott.
Scott, a member of the Imani Winds quintet, was commissioned by Logan Canyon Winds to create Three Sacred Women. Scott is highly influenced by the music of other cultures and, in this piece, each movement is based on female deities in Egyptian, Brazilian and African culture.
"This is really significant that all three movements are about women and come from other cultures," said Morrison. "The American concert halls are lacking diversity in culture and gender."
The quintet members are Leslie Timmons, flute; Bonnie Schroeder, oboe; Nicholas Morrison, clarinet; Carolyn Bodily, bassoon; and Steven Park, horn.
Logan Canyon Winds is supported by USU's Department of Music and the Caine College of the Arts. A generous gift from Wilford and Marjorie Gardner supports the commissioning and outreach projects of the quintet.
"We would never be able to commission music without the very generous Gardners," said Morrison.
For more information, contact the CCA Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU's Logan campus, call 435-797-8022 or see the college website.
While the concert in Moab is free, donations will be accepted at the door with proceeds supporting the USU Moab Student Scholarship Fund.
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Highlights of Inuit Sculpture
This display features a few of the outstanding sculptures by Inuit artists in the permanent collection of the WAG. The most common material used by Inuit artists is stone, and the type of stone is dependent upon what can be hand-quarried locally. Some communities have only small deposits of carving stone nearby and artists often resort to using organic materials, such as ivory, antler, and whale bone. Artists such as Charlie Ugyuk from Taloyoak have become known for their expressive use of ancient whale bone left on the tundra by their predecessors.
Most of the sculptures in this display have subject matter relating to traditional shamanic legends and beliefs. Two works by Aqjangajuk Shaa and Manasie Akpaliapik depict the powerful female sea spirit, known variously as Sedna, Taleelayuk, or Nuliajuk. Several other pieces show shamans partially transformed into the spirits of their animal helpers: walrus, caribou, and bird. One work by Abraham Anghik Ruben symbolizes the death/rebirth ritual of a shaman's apprentice. One of the fascinations of Inuit sculpture is observing how the intrinsic qualities of the various carving materials are used to create unique and evocative artworks.
Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Culture Days at the WAG
Celebrate Culture Days with a visit to the WAG!
Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 11am to 5pm
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg: Carpe Noctem
Stay up into the wee hours at this free, all night celebration of the arts with music, dance, film, and more!
Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 6pm to 3am
Family Sunday - Arctic Chill Out
Keep your snowsuit on when you visit the Far North at the WAG!
Sunday, January 24, 2016 from 1:30pm to 4pm
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday