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Possession and landing of thorny, smooth, and barndoor skates have been prohibited since 2003 due to their low levels of relative abundance (NEFMC, 2003).
Elsewhere, the Boy showcases 20 constellation photographs (taken with the aforementioned barndoor mount).
For example, the barndoor skate has declined 90 to 99% over the last 50 years due to incidental capture in trawls and dredges (Casey and Myers 1998).
One factor in the scarcity of barndoor skates and other large species may be hiding in the second paragraph of your article "Skating to extinction" (SN: 5/1/99, p.
The fact of Etant donnes being set in a museum has been amply commented on, and complex diagrams have been proffered that give attention and interpretation to the lines of site within the space, but there is also the space outside - the voyeur peering through the barndoor peepholes, bent over, exposed, exposing (in Proust's phrase) a "symbolic bum" and - if con celui qui voit, then cul celui qui est vu - an anal aperture.
In the truest tradition of locking the barndoor after the cow has wandered out, solutions were appearing just as the end was near.
The population dynamics of little skate Leucoraja erinacea, winter skate Leucoraja ocellata, and barndoor skate Dipturus laevis: predicting exploitation limits using matrix analysis.
And, of course, Alan Smith, a barndoor leader who loves being combative, has seen his international chances greatly enhanced by a summer transfer to Manchester United.
Chapter 8 gives lessons on how to capture star trails as well as how to make the barndoor star tracker, an equatorial camera platform known in the United Kingdom as the Haig or Scotch mount, after Scottish astronomer George Haig, who designed it in the mid-1970s.
Among the unintended victims of trawling have been skates, especially the spectacularly large barndoor skate, Raja laevis, in the Atlantic off North America.
They hang from a barndoor track mounted to a beam above the opening.
2) In a season when top strikers like Torres and Defoe can't hit a barndoor, revel in their misery.
One especially novel project involves astrophotography with barndoor tracking mounts and reused disposable cameras.
Gunners' marksman Bendtner endured a torrid time from Arsenal fans on his return as he struggled to score and was dubbed 'Barndoor Bendtner'.