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Now, if we could apply this much effort and expense in to doing something that would actually help save the elephants. |
3. Jim Reply |
My fear is traveling with my bow that has mastodon ivory and having the customs agent think it’s elephant ivory. Fish and Wildlife have been good at returning my emails, but I seem not to be able to make them understand the issue. They keep telling me to a CITES, but you aren’t eligible for one if it’s mastodon ivo... |
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Walrus, warthog, hippopotamus, mammoth and mastodon ivory are all legal to travel with without documentation. The Schreger lines on each type of ivory is different, so a trained wildlife inspector should know the difference. If you’re worried, I would recommend getting an official document that states that it’s m... |
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This proves that we need to elect more congressmen who have actually played an instrument. If it affected anybody making significant money, it would have been legislatively fixed instantly. I can’t believe the years of passive, polite reaction to this. Classical music performance must inoculate humans against crimi... |
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I wished that this information was available to me back in ’95. My ivory frog was in need of restoration and I sent only the frog via commercial express carriers to the restorers address…. my package never arrived! About a week later I got a notice from my express carriers saying that I had violated international l... |
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My husband restores antique pianos. Manufacturing records are rarely available for instruments over a hundred years old. He’s got a couple that are more than 200 years old. He’s not shipping them internationally, but he isn’t sure he can legally ship a piano with intact ivories into or out of NY state. And I hate t... |
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In cross-country race with a bicycle、It will be held in the winter。Super hill、In the forest、Course variegated such as Sand is set、Elite Men 1 hour、End the race to guide the competition time that would trough women's 40 minutes、Put the relative merits in a time of order goal line pass。On the course、It harsh race such as... |
Parties differ on government’s scope |
John Hood Columnist |
Most voters in North Carolina and the rest of America cast ballots reliably for either Democratic or Republican politicians — even if the voters themselves don’t belong to a party. That’s pretty much the definition of political polarization, and a well-established fact of current voter behavior. |
But it is also obvious that voters don’t just come in two categories. There are Democrats who favor restrictions on abortion, Republicans who favor higher taxes on the wealthy, partisans who disapprove of their leaders’ personal behavior, and lots of disagreements across the two political coalitions on many other speci... |
So what truly separates Democratic-leaning voters from Republican-leaning ones? According to the latest voter-typology study from the Pew Research Center, one of the strongest predictors of partisan leanings has to do with the size of government. |
“If you had to choose,” the Pew questionnaire reads, “would you rather have a smaller government providing fewer services, or a bigger government providing more services?” In most of the recent past, smaller government has been the more popular answer to this question, although this year the responses have been closer ... |
The 2017 Pew typology of voters consists of eight different voting groups — two core Republican constituencies, two core Democratic ones, two that lean Republican, and two that lean Democratic. I don’t have room here to describe these eight typologies in great detail, but perhaps thumbnail sketches will suffice to make... |
On the Republican side, disproportionately upscale Core Conservatives and disproportionately rural Country First Conservatives are the most reliable GOP voters. Their primary areas of disagreement are on foreign policy, trade, and immigration. Two other groups, the mostly pessimistic Market-Skeptic Republicans and the ... |
On the Democratic side, Pew calls the most loyal groups Solid Liberals (disproportionately wealthy and secular) and Disaffected Democrats (disproportionately poor). A third group, Opportunity Democrats, are notably more optimistic about the future and favorable to business than the first two. Slightly more of them iden... |
Political junkies love to read and digest these kinds of studies. They are typically drawn to the differences, the variations, the surprises. |
I freely admit to the same bias. I was fascinated to discover from the new Pew data that only one of the four GOP-leaning groups, the Country First Republicans, is clearly opposed to same-sex marriage. Another notable finding is that the Democratic groups are starkly divided on how much America ought to be engaged in i... |
But when it comes to the size of government, the two coalitions are easy to differentiate. All four GOP groups say they want smaller government, by at least a 22-point margin (Core Conservatives are nearly unanimous at 93 percent). All four Democratic groups say they want larger government, by at least a 21-point margi... |
Naturally, there are tensions between what these voters say they want in abstract and what they favor in particular instances. Nevertheless, what the government-size question reveals is that the broad philosophical differences are real and politically significant. |
For the foreseeable future, Democratic politicians will talk a lot about how government programs help people and solve problems. Republican politicians will talk a lot about how government programs often cost more than advertised and make problems worse by producing unintended consequences. Politicians will say these t... |
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Reaching At-Risk Youth |
I read an article today called, Socioeconomic status as child dictates response to stress as adultBasically, this article was about how individuals who grew up poor or lacking in resources, tend to make decisions that are likely to bring immediate rewards as opposed to delayed gratification when faced with stressful/li... |
I don’t know about anyone else, but when my students come to me telling me about how their cousin was shot at the Taco Bell, or how they don’t get home until 9:00 pm because they have to wait for their father to ride the bus home with them to one of the worst parts of town, I don’t think my saying, “You are safe and al... |
Now, how can we use this knowledge to improve education for at risk youth? Is it enough to just say that things will be okay? I doubt it. I think that youth need to actually believe it and have reasons for believing it. Also, they can’t be told, “When you graduate from college….” That’s too far into the future. P... |
So what’s the answer? I have no idea! Any possible answer seems too simplistic and limited in scope, but one thing is for sure…we can never stop trying! |
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John Martz and the Art of the Robot Gag |
Let's look at a smattering of publications from Canadian cartoonist John Martz. |
Machine Gum #2 and #3. These comics contain Martz's many, many robot-related gag comics. When Martz wants to work out an idea, he does it with his robots. Some of these strips are less gags than simple visual exercises exploring transformation, evolution, joy, despair, decay and anxiety. There's a lot of classic cartoo... |
Heaven All Day. This attractive Xeric Grant winner is a sort of graduate project for his robot experimentation projects. There are two parallel narratives: one involves an amateur scientist who's a glorified garbage-counter in his day job, and a down-on-his-luck robot in a world where robots are common but are consider... |
Gold Star. This was my favorite of Martz's comics. It's sharper and meaner than his other works, and the intricate structure has quite a payoff. It's about a nebbishy artist of some kind coming to an Oscars-like ceremony in Hollywood and how his casual indifference to the well-being of others as well as his astounding ... |
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THE END OF POVERTY by Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Economic Possibilities for Our Time |
by Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Pub Date: March 21st, 2005 |
ISBN: 1-59420-045-9 |
Publisher: Penguin Press |
Must the poor be with us always? Probably. But there are degrees of have-notness, and, argues UN special advisor Sachs, “extreme poverty can be ended not in the time of our grandchildren, but in our time.” |
The poor, even the one billion poorest of them, are not necessarily fated to be so. In early modern times, much of the world lived at much the same economic level, which explains why European explorers could have been impressed by the sumptuousness of places such as Timbuktu and Tenochtitlan. But after 1800, writes Sac... |
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In modern and late Medieval Christian thought, Lucifer (Hebrew: הילל heylel – Lucifer, "light-bearer" shining one, morning star, 'Helel' describing the king of Babylon) from (Hebrew: הָלַל halal "to shine," "to flash forth light," "to be boastful") is a fallen angel commonly associated with Satan, the embodiment of evi... |
Lucifer was originally a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus. |
—Genesis 3:15 ESV |
According to David J. Stewart |
The reason Lucifer has been understood to be a proper name of the Devil has to do with the Latin translation of the Hebrew term Helel. This word was understood, by some, to be a proper name for the king of Babylon. It means "light bearer," or Lucifero in Latin. The Latin title became a popular name for this evil figure... |
The word Lucifer was the direct translation of the Greek eosphorus ("dawn-bearer"; cf. Greek phosphorus, "light-bearer") used by Jerome in the Vulgate. In that passage, Isaiah 14:12, it referred to one of the popular honorific titles of a Babylonian king; however, later interpretations of the text, and the influence of... |
A 2nd-century sculpture of the moon goddess Selene accompanied by Hesperus and Phosphorus (pictured left): the Morning star was later Latinized as "Lucifer". Lucifer is a poetic name for the "morning star", a close translation of the Greek eosphoros, the "dawn-bringer", which appears in the Odyssey and in Hesiod's Theo... |
A classic Roman use of "Lucifer" appears in Virgil's Georgics (III, 324-5): |
"Luciferi primo cum sidere frigida rura carpamus, dum mane novum, dum gramina canent" |
"Let us hasten, when first the Morning Star appears, To the cool pastures, while the day is new, while the grass is dewy" |
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(CNN) -- Former NBA star Charles Barkley spoke Monday to CNN's Campbell Brown about politics, race and his plans to run for governor in his boyhood home state of Alabama. Here is a transcript: |
Charles Barkley tells Campbell Brown some whites will vote for Obama, but tell their friends they didn't. |
Campbell Brown: To start off, let's talk about something that has been getting a lot of attention, which is the Bradley effect. You know, the idea that the polls don't tell us the truth about this election and that people will say I am willing to vote for a black man but they go into the booth and they won't. They are ... |
Charles Barkley: Of course that's real. I think if you ask... first of all, racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime. I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. Anybody who is racist I just I think they are an idiot. But if you ask any white person on television, they are not going t... |
Brown: So you do not believe the polls? Video Watch Barkley talk to Brown » |
Barkley: I think the polls are absolutely useless. I do. Seriously. Most people who are racist, they are not going to answer that question correctly either on the phone call or on camera, so I 100 percent believe the polls are flat out useless. I think this race is going to be neck and neck down to the wire. I also thi... |
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Brown: If he does go on, if Barack Obama does pull this off, tell me what it will mean for African-Americans? |
Barkley: Well, It would be great for -- it would just be great that white America elected a black president. Because the truth of the matter is, unless he gets a certain percentage of the white vote, he is not going to be elected, so that would be cool that white people had enough confidence in him. But Campbell, unles... |
Brown: You really believe that? |
Barkley: I really believe that |
Brown: He is the most powerful man in the free world? |
Barkley: But he doesn't have an effect on people's everyday lives. He does not. I mean, think -- it's not -- I mean that sincerely. Whoever the president is does not have an effect upon people's everyday life. |
Brown: So you see him more as a role model? |
Barkley: I see him as a great role model 'cause we got to get more black kids educated. And you know we have this terrible thing going on in the black community about if a black kid does well in school we make fun of him. We've got to get more black kids getting their education, carrying themselves with great dignity, ... |
Brown: What about the counter to that? If he doesn't win this election, ultimately, how much of a disappointment is that for African-Americans in this country in your view? |
Barkley: I think it will be a great -- first of all, I never thought in my lifetime I would see a black president. |
Brown: You didn't? |
Barkley: I did not. And I'm surprised, happily surprised he got this far. It would be very disappointing, but, listen, we're in terrible economic situation. And first of all whoever's president, the next four years is gonna be a really difficult time and a really difficult situation. You know they're shipping all our j... |
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