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The Clean Water Act is a 1977 amendment to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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He does not think that the brain sprouts new neurons, because the remapping can occur in times less that a month or two. Less than two months is too small an amout on time for neurons to have grown and reconnected. Ramachandran believes that there already exists the neural circuitry associated with cortical remapping. An amputation stops activity in that area of the homunculus, which allows hidden neural circuits (laying in wait for this oppurtunity) to become activated and link other areas of the body through that supposedly inert section of the humunculus.(Shreeve 1993
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I read a charming book called "The Parrots of Telegraph Hill" about the
wild parrots that live in San Francisco. It's the true story of a homeless
man who gradually makes friends with a flock of them, and meets a girl who
is making a documentary, falls in love, etc. The documentary is showing in
SF right now and I hope to see it, but liked the book too. The author has a
website so I was able to talk with him about it; am still trying to find a
webcam to watch the parrots from. Bizarre idea, isn't it? They must be
pretty tough birds to make the transition.
wild parrots that live in San Francisco. It's the true story of a homeless
man who gradually makes friends with a flock of them, and meets a girl who
is making a documentary, falls in love, etc. The documentary is showing in
SF right now and I hope to see it, but liked the book too. The author has a
website so I was able to talk with him about it; am still trying to find a
webcam to watch the parrots from. Bizarre idea, isn't it? They must be
pretty tough birds to make the transition.
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." -- Roger Penrose
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Paul Gleason - Richard Vernon
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Ralph Johnson
John Kapelos - Carl the Janitor
Judd Nelson - John Bender
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds
Perry Crawford - Allison's Father
Mary Christian - Brian's Sister
Ron Dean - Andy's Father
Tim Gamble - Claire's Father
Fran Gargano - Allison's Mom
Mercedes Hall - Brian's Mom
John Hughes - Brian's Father
Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Ralph Johnson
John Kapelos - Carl the Janitor
Judd Nelson - John Bender
Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish
Ally Sheedy - Allison Reynolds
Perry Crawford - Allison's Father
Mary Christian - Brian's Sister
Ron Dean - Andy's Father
Tim Gamble - Claire's Father
Fran Gargano - Allison's Mom
Mercedes Hall - Brian's Mom
John Hughes - Brian's Father
Originally Posted by Pirate Queen ChoChiyo
Who could have imagined that words could be sent through wires to people on the other side of the world? Who would have imagined that people could chug along the bottom of the sea and not drown? Walk in space? Preserve vegetables in ziplock bags in a freezing environment during the sweltering heat of summer? Mankind is a clever bunch of monkeys. We will kill and hurt each other, but we will also quit doing it occasionally and get on to something more productive, like creating solar generators or finding the cure to AIDS.
Who could have imagined that words could be sent through wires to people on the other side of the world? Who would have imagined that people could chug along the bottom of the sea and not drown? Walk in space? Preserve vegetables in ziplock bags in a freezing environment during the sweltering heat of summer? Mankind is a clever bunch of monkeys. We will kill and hurt each other, but we will also quit doing it occasionally and get on to something more productive, like creating solar generators or finding the cure to AIDS.
"This is the grace that has been given to you - to bear what must be borne."
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The UNH Connection is an electronic publication
of the Communications Office of the Alumni Association at
the University of New Hampshire. Address: Elliott Alumni
Center, 9 Edgewood Road, Durham, NH 03824. Interim Editor:
Meg Torbert meg.torbert@unh.edu. Interim associate editors:
Suki Casanave '86G and Virginia Stuart '75, '80G. Editorial
assistant: Elaine Isherwood '79.
of the Communications Office of the Alumni Association at
the University of New Hampshire. Address: Elliott Alumni
Center, 9 Edgewood Road, Durham, NH 03824. Interim Editor:
Meg Torbert meg.torbert@unh.edu. Interim associate editors:
Suki Casanave '86G and Virginia Stuart '75, '80G. Editorial
assistant: Elaine Isherwood '79.
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"Do you recall that there were a number of...things that related to the Three Stooges?" defense attorney Robert M. Sanger asked Detective Karen Shepherd of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department.
Replied Shepherd: "I don't remember seeing anything related to the Three Stooges."
Overall, Jackson's stash of non-R-rated material made little impression on Shepherd or her colleagues.
Replied Shepherd: "I don't remember seeing anything related to the Three Stooges."
Overall, Jackson's stash of non-R-rated material made little impression on Shepherd or her colleagues.
fall far and well Pilots!
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Text Forecast from Environment Canada
Halifax: Issued 11.00 AM AST Saturday 19 March 2005
Today Cloudy with sunny periods. A few wet flurries. Wind northwest 20 km/h. High 4. Tonight Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind northwest 30 km/h. Low minus 5. Sunday Sunny with cloudy periods. Wind northwest 30 km/h. High plus 3. Monday A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 1. High plus 3. Tuesday Sunny. Low minus 5. High minus 1. Wednesday Flurries. Low minus 4. High plus 1.
Halifax: Issued 11.00 AM AST Saturday 19 March 2005
Today Cloudy with sunny periods. A few wet flurries. Wind northwest 20 km/h. High 4. Tonight Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind northwest 30 km/h. Low minus 5. Sunday Sunny with cloudy periods. Wind northwest 30 km/h. High plus 3. Monday A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 1. High plus 3. Tuesday Sunny. Low minus 5. High minus 1. Wednesday Flurries. Low minus 4. High plus 1.
I thought you were a ripe grape
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
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DRAGON’S KIN
Dragonriders of Pern Series
Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
Ballantine Books, December 2003
Reviewed by Joy Calderwood
Science Fiction
Kindan, a small boy in a small mining camp, has no reason to look out toward a larger world. He has his duties and his pleasures, and his future in his little community is set. When he is old enough he will go into the mines, like all the other men.
Kindan is different from other boys his age, though, in two ways. He has a talent for singing, and he helps take care of his father’s watch-wher. Watch-whers are distant cousins of dragons. Camp Natalon is experimenting with them in the mines, to sense for gas, bad air, and other mining dangers. It is hazardous work, and one bad accident takes with it the camp’s last watch-wher and Kindan’s family.
Now Kindan’s view of his world must open up – he has no choice. He is fostered by the camp Harper, who is also the schoolteacher. Finally, desperately, the responsibility for Camp Natalon’s existence falls on his shoulders, because without a watch-wher there are more accidents than the population can survive. Kindan must learn by trial and error how to bond with a watch-wher and raise and train it himself.
As Kindan’s mental horizons widen, DRAGON’S KIN takes on the kind of appeal readers expect from an Anne McCaffrey. Naturally, the story is populated by dragons and good friends meeting challenges in very human ways. Pern’s population needs the rich vein of coal found by Miner Natalon, Camp Natalon needs to prove their experimental safety measures can be effective, humans and watch-whers need to learn how to work together, and Kindan needs to choose between his two conflicting talents without abandoning the broader goals of his community.
As always in a McCaffrey book, character is the foundation of its appeal. Kindan’s young friends, responsible Zonor, sensitive Dalor, and talented Nuella, develop together in their different ways, helped by the Harper Master Zist and his dragonrider friend M’tal. In fact, while Kindan and his friends, especially Nuella, do deserve sequels to explore their potentials, Master Zist is the character who calls for the most examination. Zist has a past he doesn’t like to talk about, contacts in unexpected places, and the leadership needed to help Pern through a crisis in some future story.
Anne McCaffrey has written from male points of view before, but there is a genuineness to this male protagonist that stands out from the others. It must come from Todd McCaffrey, stepping into his mother’s most famous series for the first time. The era is new, the Third Pass, with no reuse of characters so familiar to readers. The setting is new, a mining camp whose access to the outside world is limited throughout most of the book. The beasts are new: little attention has been paid to watch-whers before, and now we find that they have some draconic abilities and characteristics they have not had in previous books.
Anne McCaffrey’s main contribution to DRAGON’S KIN might well have been the world of Pern itself. This is a fully realized story from a new viewpoint. It is not just the popularity of the Pern series that has made DRAGON’S KIN a bestseller, it is also the exploration of fresh areas. It is easy to imagine Todd talking his idea over with Anne beforehand, then seeing her read through the finished manuscript with a few suggestions – but not many. My guess, and this is purely a guess, is that the main reason Anne’s name is on DRAGON’S KIN is to pave the way for Todd to inherit the franchise. DRAGONSBLOOD, by Todd McCaffrey alone, is now selling well in hardcover. It appears the strategy – and the storytelling – has succeeded.
March 2005 Review
Dragonriders of Pern Series
Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey
Ballantine Books, December 2003
Reviewed by Joy Calderwood
Science Fiction
Kindan, a small boy in a small mining camp, has no reason to look out toward a larger world. He has his duties and his pleasures, and his future in his little community is set. When he is old enough he will go into the mines, like all the other men.
Kindan is different from other boys his age, though, in two ways. He has a talent for singing, and he helps take care of his father’s watch-wher. Watch-whers are distant cousins of dragons. Camp Natalon is experimenting with them in the mines, to sense for gas, bad air, and other mining dangers. It is hazardous work, and one bad accident takes with it the camp’s last watch-wher and Kindan’s family.
Now Kindan’s view of his world must open up – he has no choice. He is fostered by the camp Harper, who is also the schoolteacher. Finally, desperately, the responsibility for Camp Natalon’s existence falls on his shoulders, because without a watch-wher there are more accidents than the population can survive. Kindan must learn by trial and error how to bond with a watch-wher and raise and train it himself.
As Kindan’s mental horizons widen, DRAGON’S KIN takes on the kind of appeal readers expect from an Anne McCaffrey. Naturally, the story is populated by dragons and good friends meeting challenges in very human ways. Pern’s population needs the rich vein of coal found by Miner Natalon, Camp Natalon needs to prove their experimental safety measures can be effective, humans and watch-whers need to learn how to work together, and Kindan needs to choose between his two conflicting talents without abandoning the broader goals of his community.
As always in a McCaffrey book, character is the foundation of its appeal. Kindan’s young friends, responsible Zonor, sensitive Dalor, and talented Nuella, develop together in their different ways, helped by the Harper Master Zist and his dragonrider friend M’tal. In fact, while Kindan and his friends, especially Nuella, do deserve sequels to explore their potentials, Master Zist is the character who calls for the most examination. Zist has a past he doesn’t like to talk about, contacts in unexpected places, and the leadership needed to help Pern through a crisis in some future story.
Anne McCaffrey has written from male points of view before, but there is a genuineness to this male protagonist that stands out from the others. It must come from Todd McCaffrey, stepping into his mother’s most famous series for the first time. The era is new, the Third Pass, with no reuse of characters so familiar to readers. The setting is new, a mining camp whose access to the outside world is limited throughout most of the book. The beasts are new: little attention has been paid to watch-whers before, and now we find that they have some draconic abilities and characteristics they have not had in previous books.
Anne McCaffrey’s main contribution to DRAGON’S KIN might well have been the world of Pern itself. This is a fully realized story from a new viewpoint. It is not just the popularity of the Pern series that has made DRAGON’S KIN a bestseller, it is also the exploration of fresh areas. It is easy to imagine Todd talking his idea over with Anne beforehand, then seeing her read through the finished manuscript with a few suggestions – but not many. My guess, and this is purely a guess, is that the main reason Anne’s name is on DRAGON’S KIN is to pave the way for Todd to inherit the franchise. DRAGONSBLOOD, by Todd McCaffrey alone, is now selling well in hardcover. It appears the strategy – and the storytelling – has succeeded.
March 2005 Review
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." -- Roger Penrose
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