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questionsdid you know there's a forum moderator job posted… Honestly, yes. But I doubt everyone read this. I think the wife would kill me if I left the family behind to work for Woot! "i assume there's open access to a freezer full of whiskey stones." I've been looking nearly a year for that freezer. :( @inkycatz: the whiskey stones exist. The whiskey, not so much. Maybe only the good stuff in jumbowoot's office. Johnnie Walker Blue label is what I'm thinking I still want a deals.woot moderator job so that I may obliterate all duplicates. To me, it sounds like an incredibly tough job. @inkycatz: out of curiousity, has anyone ever brought the item(s) listed in the "Make sure you bring" section? mainly because i'm not sure i could get 7 lbs of Vermont cheddar in time for an interview. One side note if you are sincerely looking at this job or know someone who wants this job, it would be of great advantage for you (or the applicant) to be in/near/moving/wanting to live in Seattle. Just sayin'. @carl669: Honestly, I have no idea. I forget what it was I should have brought (it was a year ago) with the job listing I replied to, but all I did was bring my awesome. Since I guess it was pretty awesome (obviously? YAY STAFF SQUARE), I'm thinking folks might want to up their game. It can't hurt. Besides, we like cheese. I like cheese, anyway. I need more grilled cheese material. FEED THE TEAM. I'd love to come work for Woot! Wonder if they offer relocation assistance, since I'm not in Dallas or Seattle. @giggleloop: I have no idea. I was already living here (Seattle) when I applied. :) (What I'm really saying is if you think you're up for the task, apply, ask, see what happens?) I wouldn't be able to maintain "consistent SEO tagging." I love all the tags. And is THIS a sign of things to come? You know what grinds my gears? When employers post job openings but don't list expected compensation. I know it is unprofessional to ask about compensation right away but I feel like this is an antiquated thought. It would be like an applicant saying "Well I have years of experience in the industry, but I'll be more specific after you decide to hire me." Just my 2 cents/pointless rant/incoherent rambling. I'd move out there. Yayz. Just wish it said how much the wage is. @inkycatz: Out of curiosity, why do you say it would be of benefit to live in Seattle? Unless I'm completely misreading the posting, this seems like a job that would pretty easily fall into the "work from home" category. Is office time a part of the job? @thedogma: I'm typing this reply from my cube in the office, if that's an indication. Office time is very much a part of the job and expected (although often flexible because @gatzby is cool like that). ps. For those thinking of "yeah I'd move to Seattle", be sure of that sort of thing - speaking from personal experience, I moved for a job once before and while I don't regret it because of the job itself, I do know it was to somewhere I wouldn't have moved otherwise and as such, was a lot unhappier than I should have been for a very long time. i'd also suggest you take a long hard look at the weather in seattle before deciding to move. i moved, but lousy weather doesn't bug me that much. Yes I did I check the woot jobs semi regularly. They have some uber high experience requirements for most jobs, though :( Can't say I blame them!) Also, I agree, with @carl669, I moved to Seattle last year for a job and it is fine most of the time, but it does rain here for 10+ days straight sometimes, but to be honest the rain isn't as bad as the clouds. It's almost always cloudy, even on days it doesn't rain at all. Can't wait for summmmmaaaa! On the plus, we got about 3 inches of snow and I got 2 days off from work for it :) Yes. I sent in my resumè a long time ago. Heard nothing. Have sads. @inkycatz: That may explain why I haven't heard anything. I guess they aren't looking for a NYer... Boo. @inkycatz: No whiskey stones, but the beer cooler is in my office... Perks! @josefresno: Oh so that's where it is! (I really need to get out of my cube more.) jumbowoot himself emailed me and told me to not even bother applying. something about pre-disqualification, whatever that means. pffff i wonder how many of the current mods were wooters before joining woot. i'd apply, but what if i got the job and had to create a new username! what would happen to my recently obtained (as in yesterday) black square? I've had a forum moderator job back in my high school days. Didn't get paid because I volunteered for it, and there was like at least 300 active members a day to the thousands registered. It was an online gaming forum so yeah, could imagine all the people now. At first it was like a pretty neat job having "God-like" powers over the internet. But to me, it's a lot of proof reading every new post for anything that violates the rules.. so here I am obsessively reading in my chair until my eyes started burning. With Woot on the other hand, I'm pretty sure most of us are mature enough to not post anything NSFW (best I've seen are pictures of cats).. unless of course they have some kind of bot that filters those well, which I guess my old forum didn't. I wonder if Woot staff gets any incentives for working with Woot though? @carl669: As far as I know, so far all of us. :) (I was barely active in the community, but I liked buying stuff!) Quite certain there's some jiggery that can be performed with that sort of thing, but I've had fun building up my staff account "fresh". Of course for the first few weeks I had everyone telling me to buy something, which ended up being some cheese over at wine.woot... Oh, wow. It really all comes back to cheese, doesn't it. @joshobra: My perk is the cat gets fed, and I get that special peace of mind that comes with having a job. I'm not too complicated, I guess. I was gonna say that if you are looking for the cheese at Woot, you need to be talking to WineDavid. I think, in addition to being Lord And Master of the King's Cellars he is also CheeseMaster. And sometimes (like today) also Chief Confectionary. (mmmmm, toffee!! Too bad I'm still trying to lose the fat from the salted caramel pecan clusters he hooked me up with.) @wilfbrim: Oh, the preview that ToffeeKing gave makes me so hungry whenever I read past it, especially this part: The second is a peanut butter toffee coated popcorn with dark chocolate and a touch of sea salt...amazing stuff. I'm going to have to brave the weather and start hiking again so I can be in shape when this stuff comes around... @inkycatz: Yeah, I remember that cheese. It was awesome. I've seen the posting and keep thinking on and off how fun it would be to work for woot. On the other hand, there are likely to be a ton of things that we just plain ol' never have to see thanks to the mods. @joshobra: Trust me, I may not have been here as long as some people, but things are relatively calm right now compared to how they were just a few years ago. Use to be that you couldn't browse a woot off comment thread without seeing tons of lol cats, goofy and gross gifs, the "skittles girl," and the infamously long long long long long cat. I remember people complaining (bragging?) how they would get probated for posting the long long long long long cat.

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Picture This: 7 Tips for Perfect Pics Whether you're taking pictures for photo Christmas cards or everyday photo cards, we know that you want to make your pictures - the star of your card - look great. Believe it or not, when it comes to photography, knowing some simple tricks will make all the difference. And if you take better pictures, you're going to be happier with your cards! You've already got the tough part down... you have the special people and amazing places whose pictures can make any card perfect. As far as how to take the best photos of them, Cardstore talked to professional photographers and asked for advice - here's what they said. Change your perspective Most "amateur" photographs are taken from the photographer's-eye level, usually standing up. Stand out and shoot like it's your job by exploring alternative camera angles... crouch down, get up above the subject or even lay flat on the ground. Doing something as simple as changing your angle can take an average image and make it dynamic and interesting. If you're taking pictures of kids or pets, for instance, crouch down low and experiment with taking pictures from an eye-to-eye point of view. (For more tips on taking pictures of kids, take a look at this article on our blog.) On the other hand, if you want to be the most popular photographer at the high school reunion just hold your camera about a foot over your head as you snap every picture. The simple trick of having everyone in the photo look upwards a little bit makes the extra years - and the extra chins - magically disappear! When it comes to changing angles, there's no right or wrong. Experiment, have fun, and see what works for you. Go steady Who says pro tips have to be hard? You can instantly improve the quality of your pics by attaching your camera to a tripod. Or, if you don't have a tripod, use your imagination: lean on a tree, rock, table, a building - or even on someone's shoulder. In a pinch, you can pull your elbows tight into your sides to create stability. This is much easier than holding a camera up by your face and trying to hold it steady. Having a steady shot will give you the clearest photos. Get up close & personal When taking portraits, it's important that the people are the focus of the picture. Make sure your subject fills the majority of the frame, and don't feel the need to include their whole body in a shot; a picture from the waist up usually works well. You don't need to center subjects in a picture, either. Get creative by posing your subject off to one side to a get a more styled look. If you're using a camera phone, our best advice is zoom with your feet - in other words, walk closer to your subject rather than use the "digital close up" zooming feature. We all love our camera phones, and you'll be amazed at the difference that one simple trick will make in your photos. To increase the brightness in a room, hold white pieces of poster board around your lamps to "bounce" some light back into the scene. Turn off the flash Take advantage of natural light as much as possible to create more interesting shots, even playing with taking pictures at different times of the day - you'd be surprised by how much more warm and flattering an early morning or evening sun can be compared to the bright shine of midday. Experiment throughout the day to find your own "magic" sunshine level; it tends to be unique for everyone. For outdoor scenes, you can also play around with a technique called "backlighting" by shooting with the sun behind your subject. Backlighting can create a warm halo effect around a person, and sometimes add a soft sun flare. For indoor scenes, you've got plenty of options. To increase the brightness in a room, hold white pieces of poster board around your lamps to "bounce" some light back into the scene. Or to create a softer feel in a shot, take your picture in a room with lots of windows and open your shades up all the way. Then drape a white sheet over them to diffuse the light. This diffused light technique is a great trick if you're taking pictures of a baby - just take the pics next to the window, and drape another white sheet over whatever table or chair the baby is resting on. Come up with a game plan When it comes to photography, a little planning can go a long way. Before you start snapping shots, spend a few minutes considering the background and color story for your photos. A busy background will compete with the person (the star of the show!) you're photographing. Stay away from bold patterns, as well as other visual distractions like light poles, trees, and people passing by in the background. Choose colors that "work" with your composition. You want to create a scene that complements your subject, not clashes with it. This also applies to wardrobe - busy patterns and bright colors distract from people's faces. Instead, have your subject wear muted or basic colors, or subtle patterns. It never hurts to avoid baggy clothing, and aim to wear something that enhances your shape. Try layering techniques, and use jackets and blazers to subdue patterned shirts or dresses. And as long as we're talking about what to wear... if you're posing a group shot, make sure it looks like everyone's heading to the same place! We're not talking about matching t-shirts or cheesy his-'n-her outfits, but having a woman in a cocktail dress standing next to guy in shorts and a polo shirt just doesn't work. Limited depth-of-field can render less important parts of a picture soft and dream-like, while keeping the important parts of the picture – your main subjects – in sharp focus. And, really, we don't mean to sound like your mother - but use that iron! Nothing will make you cringe like seeing wrinkled clothes in your family portrait. Google your camera If you're anything like us, you probably have no idea where your original camera manual is right now. And that's okay, because if you're reading this it means you have the power of the Internet on your side. Go ahead and search your camera model, along with the word "settings" or "icons." That will give you a great overview of what all those weird symbols mean. Want more information on your camera's mysterious icons? Here's a link to a helpful article, which provides a quick overview of the symbols found on most digital cameras. Once you've got the tech basics down, you can begin to play around with some of the advanced settings on your camera, especially in "Manual" mode. For example, you can try a technique called "limited depth-of-field." Limited depth-of-field can render less important parts of a picture soft and dream-like, while keeping the important parts of the picture - your main subjects - in sharp focus. You can do this by opening your f/stop to the largest opening (which is the smallest "f/" number). Most consumer lenses have maximum f openings of f/2.8, but fixed (prime) lenses, such as some 50mm types, will open to f/1.4. Manual mode will also let you adjust things like the shutter speed, which comes in handy if you're taking pictures of pets or other moving objects. Using the fastest shutter speed setting on your camera will help you avoid blurry shots. Shoot, shoot, shoot! Pro tip number seven is actually the easiest and most fun: Take as many pictures as you can! Instead of taking just one or two pictures of the scene you've set up, why not take 30 or 40? This isn't 1995, when you would have had to pay for the development and printing of 40 shots (not to mention film!). The joys of being digital is that the more pictures you take, the better your odds will be of finding that perfect shot in the batch. And taking the perfect picture for your card is what it's all about, right? And there you have it... seven simple tricks from the pros that are guaranteed to improve your photos! And once you're ready to showcase your pics to the world, here are some awesome Cardstore photo cards: Blank Photo Cards Add a photo and personalize your card with an instant memory. Shop blank photo cards > Photo Cards It's not just a card; it's a conversation piece. Make your favorite photo the main attraction. Shop all photo cards > Word Bubble Cards Create your own comic clouds. A personalized funny page for any photo. Shop word bubble cards >

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Greece, Spain, Italy and now US. Is Recession coming? by on August 9th, 2011 Recession is at the foot-steps, and there is no denying that the logic has to come back and win over intentions. There has been talks about a lot of booms and bursts but for last 70 years US had always maintained AAA ratings from the rating agencies. Image Credit: What does this mean? This means the rating agencies were either ignorant or unwilling or afraid to bring any logical analysis reports on US Economy. Standard and Poor has done excellent work by lowering the credit rating, and even though the agency has got serious remarks from several corners. Many folks went ahead and said they wont do any busienss with S&P, and others said the agency has gone crazy. But the reality is different. American Economy is far from being ok. Its not good at all. If you keep 50 Economic Analysts of the World and ask them to rate India, China and US, the most stable and forward looking is clearly India. India has energy, huge youth population and the new breed of entrepreneurs that are aiming to put a mark in the World. For US, its just the opposite. US was once known for its performance and now the same country needs to bail out banks and automobile companies to remain afloat. The country is in direct war with 3 nations — Afganistan, Iraq and Libya, and is in indirect war with many nations. The general people hardly know about whats happening outside and most of the jobs they do are basic jobs that any illiterate can do. Now, if we come to China, it is the nation run with great leadership and vision to rule the World. It was once the factory of the world, and is now slowly becoming the innovation hub. Chinese have their strengths — discipline, hard-work and vision. When this is the structure of societies of these great nations, when we look back at the economic data. American is in red for around a decade; it has fiscal deficit while China and India are building huge reserves. China has more than a Trillion Dollar of American Treasury, while India has more than $300B of Forex Reserves. The US Treasury was last known to have just $73B, which is lesser than Steve Jobs’ Apple’s cash reserve. The situation is actually alarming. We heard Greece entering the area of economic collapse last few months, and the nation is helped by IMF and EU to keep afloat. Italy, Portugal and Spain are fighting hard to keep their economy afloat. Reason — fiscal deficit that has come from uncontrolled spending and irrationality. After knowing all this, when I learnt that India is rated at BBB-, while US is just brought down from AAA to AA+, I can hardly believe the rating agencies. Spain has better rating than India. God bless them whoever makes such ratings and god help more to the folks who actually believe it. The economic crisis or recession of 2011 is happening, and it is happening to make world more rational. The rating agencies have survived the great recessions of 1973, 1995, 2001, and 2008. But if they fail to keep people informed this time too, they should be the ones shut down.

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Iran-Iraq war remains exhumed   |   Feb. 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM BAGHDAD, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- More than 150 bodies of those killed the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s have been exhumed, the Red Cross said. Iraqi and Iranian officials, operating under the auspices of the International Red Cross, exhumed the remains of 178 Iranian and Iraqi soldiers killed during the war in the 1980s. "The representatives of both countries reiterated their commitment to continue the search and to plan more such joint missions in the coming months," added Joana Durao, a representative from the ICRC in Iran. "They also agreed to have the remains of 21 Iranian soldiers repatriated before the end of February." Iran, Iraq and the ICRC set up a process to identify those missing from the war. More than 2,500 missing people have been accounted for and the remains of 407 soldiers repatriated. The latest mission was the second in three months in Iraq. Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980 following Iran's revolution. The war, the longest conventional war in the 20th century, left hundreds of thousands dead on both sides. Since the U.S.-led invasion, Iran and Iraq have moved closer diplomatically. "The Iraqi authorities, including their Ministry of Human Rights, and the Iranian authorities worked together closely to locate and exhume the human remains," Dika Dulic, from the ICRC delegation in Iraq, said in a statement.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Headin' Down South I've found three little bits of copy regarding the larger world and the Nentir Vale's place in it: • "A broad borderland region." • "The Nentir Vale is a northern land..." and • "(Harken Forest) separates the Nentir Vale from the more populous coastal towns of the south." Sticking the Vale up along the northern border of the kingdom takes care of the first two points. Making the rest of this Nerath Empire remnant into a bastardization of southern England satisfies the third point as well a my current preoccupation with Bernard Cornwell's King Arthur books. But please let me know if you've any better published sources for expanding the map, won't you? I'm working entirely from the DMG and H1. Update: Misspelled "capital". D'oh! Latest update: I got to thinking about Colmarr's comment that the Hammerfast trade route needed somewhere to go. It occurred to me if the Vale were on one side of a hellaciously vast mountain range, it would explain why people on the other side would refer to the mountains as something else beside "Dawnforge". Plus, a safe route through such rugged terrain really would be an asset worth guarding with a fortress. Thanks Colmarr! =) Colmarr said... The location of Hammerfast doesn't make much sense to me. IIRC, the dwarven city is on a major trade road, and there is no reason for a major trade road leading into coastal mountains with nothing on the other side. You either need a port to the east of Hammerfast or the Dawnforge mountains aren't coastal. crazyred said... I hear ya Colmarr and I wrestled with that. My thinking, however, was the "major trade route" could, once through the mountain range, could take a sharp left and head up the coast. For some reason it would bug me if the "Dawnforge Mountains" were to the west of residents of the other side. Calling them the "Sunset Mountains" sounds a little too Malibu for my taste. Thanks for dropping by! Dar said... Nice! and Yoink! I really like the little peak of the wider world you give here. Colmarr said... Glad to be of service :) Van der Hoorn said... The "Winter of the Witch" article in Dungeon Magazine 162 also has some info on the Nentir Vale. crazyred said... @Van der Hoorn: not being a subscriber, do you think you could bootleg me a copy? SupSteff said... Dear Doodle, Why you don't integrate the information from the adventure P1 and P3 ; respectively, the therund baronny (and moon stair), the town of Vaester (and gloomdeep). And more importanly, where is the elsir vale. Thank you a lot, for your maps. There are very suggestive and deteilled. Best regard crazyred said... I'd love to Sup! I don't have either P1 or P3 (I only have the DM guide and H1) so I'd need someone to post/email a summary or an excerpt. You, perhaps? Also, what is the Elsir Vale? Thanks for stopping by! Iron said... Great map. But there is a bit of information that you missed. In the last entry for Fallcrest (29. Lower Quays), there is this in the second sentence of the second paragraph. "The Swiftwaters carry cargo all the way down to the Nentir's mouth, hundreds of miles downriver." This makes the the information for the Harken forest a bit odd, since Daggerburg is described as being in the southwest region of the woods and close by the Manor. With the rest of the woods separating the Vale from the coastal cities. Iron said... Here is the URL to the exerts from P1 on Wizard's site. The first two pdf files contain a brief description of its location in relation to Nentir and a map of a the region (respectively). Be aware that the scale of the map in P1 is different from the one used for the Nentir map. Hope that helps. crazyred said... Excellent, excellent, thanks for that catch! So help me with a solution here; the Harken forest should extend... further West? Feel free to send me a drawing if you want. SupSteff said... The Elsir Vale is the location of "the scale of war" Dungeon mag campaign and of an old published 3.5. adventure "Red Hand". And this vale that you can find many maps on the net, is linked by the "king road". And there is an old article on en-world forum with map that show the link beetween the two zones. Have a great day Toldamore said... If MY D&D4e world, Hammerfast leads to the large kingdom of Osden and straight across a vast desert (on the Great Desert Way road no less) is the marvelous Citystate of Brary and the eastern coast. That is what the trade route leads to. Iron said... Not sure that I have a good solution for that one. The best I can come up with is to have the western edge of the forest be only 20-30 miles long but the eastern edge (following the Dawnforge Mts. south-south east) be 2 or 3 times longer (50-100 miles). If I were to draw a rough map I would have a buffer of about 80-100 miles between the forest and the coast. Maybe there are not any major settlements worth mentioning between the coastal cities and the valley. As for the coastal cities, I would not put them on an ocean coast or even a sea, I would make it a large lake, like Lake Superior, whose eastern edge is also the Dawnforge, like the forest. Depending on how meandering you want the river to be, the distances mentioned might about cover the "hundreds of miles downriver."

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Ironically, we had lived in Chicago and played in the same underground music scene, but never met. Even more bizarre: we had both left Chicago to go back to college in Central IL; we met after joining this site. Life, timing, and the undercurrents of the universe are amazing. I do have a few friends that occasionally send messages through this site, so I'm going to keep this profile up and leave the original info in tact below. Maybe I should also add: making new friends here is still fine by me, as long as it's understood I'm NOT INTERESTED in ANYTHING MORE! I've also changed majors (sounds silly at my age) and am now studying digital media/design. I still want achieve my mobile art class dream (see below)--but came to the conclusion that No Child Left Behind is definitely leaving art programs behind...and several other subjects too, really. Caught somewhere between the artistic and the practical, I approach life with a sense of wonder at the simple (the way light plays on a surface of a field or object) and marvel at the mundane (paying bills) trials of everyday existence. I would like to say that I believe in romance supreme, but feel that I'm old enough to know better. At this point I am simply searching for new friends and acquaintances with a minor hope that I may one day meet someone that knows the difference between simple love and a real relationship. Love tends to wax and wane; real relationships require more attention and work- a partnership that faces all of lifes' ups and downs, embraces the static realities of basic survival (need to eat, etc) and the continual unfolding of personalities: an evolutionary process involving two people. Complicated, indeed! I have decided that I would rather not have kids (even though I'd be a great mother) than have them with just anyone, or just for the sake of having them. So there you have it...part cynic, part dreamer. More willing to be alone as age encroaches, but oddly hopeful that it won't always be as such. I often describe myself as emotionally retarded, thanks to some bad experiences, yet I don't feel so screwed up that I am damaged goods. Am I cautious with me heart? Yes. Am I buried treasure waiting to be discovered? Yes, but you'll have to be willing to do some digging if you want to win me over. Wow me with your brain. Make me laugh. Discussion of books is a bonus. Appreciation of the arts preferred. La de da de da...etc, etc, etc. I am artistic, silly, and passionate What I’m doing with my life After a failed marriage to a younger man, I decided to abandon a somewhat successful career in retail sales and management. This means I moved from Chicago to small city USA and returned to college. It's a slow process; I may graduate by the time I'm 40. I want to teach art, ideally to form a non for profit organization that takes classes to school districts that can't afford art programs. I'm not guaranteed to succeed at the latter, but prefer to give it my best, rather than eek out a living doing something less rewarding with my life. I’m really good at drawing, painting, collage, reading, reading in between the lines, conjecture, flirting, singing, doing a little soft-shoe, listening, talking, sniggering, eating popcorn with straws held like chopsticks, understanding opposing viewpoints and still disagreeing, sneezing three times in a row, star gazing, not giving a crap about Hollywood stars, turning off the TV, listening to Blues Before Sunrise and This American Life, tying my shoes, tying your shoes, making chili, understanding similar viewpoints and agreeing, voting, cleaning the bathroom, brushing my teeth, ignoring religious zealots, annoying over-the-top conservatives, being loyal, taking time out for friends, choosing cheap wine, drinking expensive wine, playing Scrabble (travel version=one of the best inventions of the 21st century), pretending to be a dumb blond when it's handy, asking more questions than I should, answering fewer questions than asked, openly bitching about The System and feeling powerless to change it, escapism, choosing fruits and veggies at the supermarket, rolling my tounge, spending time alone, talking to strangers, feeling like a social outcast and not caring if I am, making obscure references to Kids in the Hall skits, sharpening pencils, not being scared of spiders or other bugs, doing my best in spite of it all, shooting rubber bands, stream of consciousness typing, wishing there was a more practical use for Silly String, tangling yo-yo string, playing botchi ball, unraveling the secret desires of the human heart and re-raveling them, eating meat, laughing at the futility of it all, planning my next move, running to my car in a downpour, opening cans, choosing oven mitts that coordinate with kitchens and dining rooms, building my hopes up, thinking geeks are sex-y, telling people when they have food caught in their teeth, wearing my heart on my sleeve, tinkering with reality, having a sometimes flippant attitude about the nature of human existence, reading to much into other peoples comments, flying kites, making up my mind, changing it, putting mascara on other people, making a mess with chalk pastels, filing paperwork when I have to, denying the way that the world is declining, reclining with the declining world, following directions, finding my way across busy streets without getting hit by cabs-buses-inconsiderate drivers, being concerned about the religious "right" imposing their beliefs on people like me, pumping gas, wishing for a better life, making a better life for the future, talking to and snuggling with my pet bird (a quaker parrot), being immersed in city life, sleeping in a sleeping bag-outside on a camping trip, painting my toenails but not my fingernails, tripping over my own feet when I walk, dancing to unusual music, buttering toast in a hurry, naming other peoples babies, spelling poorly, cussing in languages other than English, writing mediocre poetry, sharing, kissing, sleeping to late to be productive in the winter, studying, giving speeches, starting over, opening my mind to new ideas, following through on promises, giving massages, toiling for a job well done, faking foreign accents, surfing the net, providing minor tech support to family, tickling unsuspecting people, openly admitting that I don't know it all, trying to learn more, feeling like a single brush stroke in a overwhelmingly large universe, wondering what will happen next, happening, foiling the plans of evil doers, driving my car, walking on old or overgrown pathways in the woods, washing dogs, making mountains out of molehills, shoveling snow off of sidewalks, planting myself in the middle of a room and people watching, sketching people/places/things from memory, typing more random things than most people will likely have the patience to read, choosing a restaurant that will please more than 2 in a party of 5, throwing golf balls, swearing to never make the same mistakes, making some of the same mistakes anyway, alphabetizing my books by author, arranging my CDs by genre-caring little about the alphabet, wishing I had better technology, praying for warmer weather, waiting out the heatwave, cutting through traffic, merging, pretending to listen in classes that bore me, clipping my nails into the trash can, wiggling my eyebrows, finding parking in Lincoln Park, mourning the masses, admitting when I am wrong, wronging when I am admitted, drinking room temperature water, faking the words to songs I don't know, goofing off online, picking out fine chocolates, purchasing office supplies, telling it like it is, liking it as it could be, being, fighting the urge to scream in public, ya-ya-ing instead of clapping, scrambling eggs, tip-toeing through the house, putting up with bullshit for a paycheck, guessing peoples nationality or heritage, plucking eyebrows, finding large noses sexy, making strangers nervous with a glance, melting peoples' suspicions with a smile, hugging, hiding my hardware store fetish, wondering why we exist, existing in a dream world, throwing caution to the wind, getting winded climbing two flights of stairs, losing at arm wrestling, reading tarot cards, being a skeptic, chewing serveral times before swallowing food, making lunchtime quality at work, spinning the bottle in off-time, wondering why foreigners hate rootbeer, drinking a good Heffeweiss, admiring men who can catch-gut-scale their own fish, baiting the hook and casting a line, making things out of paper mache', using body lotion, winking, wrapping presents, striving to be a better person, being sorry that I am not a bitch, giving advice, loving this godforsaken planet and its inhabitants in spite of itself/ourselves, collecting as little as possible, being sentimental without the help of objects, being objective, making friends in strange surroundings, openly admitting that I am imperfect, making vanilla flavored pancakes, packing boxes, doing laundry, pretending that I am more complicated than I am, surprising people with how complex I really am, crying quietly, laughing uncontrollably, finding other peoples lost objects, writing letters, painting rooms with a faux finish, programming NPR into as many radio presets as possible, accepting that I am Ameri-centric, being sorry that I have traveled less than I'd like to, being glad that I have traveled as much as I have, being spontaneous, sewing when needed, wanting more out of life and tring to get it, offering one of my Altoids, attracting swarthy-looking foriegn men, pretending to know better, doggy-paddling in open water, making it up as I go, going up as I make it, trying to hard, over analyzing, hating Warhhol for being right, loving Picasso for being diverse and not being ashamed that that might sound predictable, giving books away after I have read them, being a voyeur on this website but being to shy to contact most of the people who intrigue me, being frustrated that the interesting men seem to be sooooo far away from my small berg, finding culture in surprising places, eating at mom and pop restaurants, filling in the gaps of my odd life, trying to decide who I will be in 20 years, just being who I am in the meantime, remembering who I was when I was younger, throwing minor hissy fits when life is frustrating, compromising in a relationship, cleaning out my car on a regular basis but not washing it, keeping to many odds and ends in my trunk, carrying a small purse, wearing minimal makeup, being a girly-girl, holding a grudge against the second and third grade teachers that gave me math-phobia, wondering if shallow people are happier than me, considering that a head injury might do me some good if it made me a simpleton, catching the small jokes in the Simpsons, aware of the fact that overly muscular men are a turn-off, never caring if my socks match, walking and running in high heels, refusing to blindly follow fashion, recommending books, waiting for someone to tip me off on a good read, not gambling for money, curious to know if anyone out there will be bored enough to read all of this and realize that I am being totally honest and dead serious, thinking that the glass is neither half full nor half empty-but that the glass just "is" AND the glass just "isn't". The first things people usually notice about me I’m an empty essay… fill me out! I'm creative. I am naturally kind in my approach to the world. I have unusually pale eyes. I think too much for my own good sometimes. I'm an idealist in a typically unjust world. Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food Help your potential matches find common interests. All lists are in random order, what I am up for depends on my mood. If you see something we have in common on these lists and want to suggest something new, message me. If you see something you know nothing about and are curious, message me too-I'm not a snob. a) Fiction of all sorts. I belong to a website called Do I really have to pick some titles? Fine, be that way: Wicked, The Lovely Bones, The Life of Pi, Searching for Hassan, A Confederacy of Dunces, Fahrenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five, Skinny Legs and All, Still Life with Woodpecker, Dune, Sphere, The Metamorphosis, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Education of Little Tree, Speed of Light, The Handmaid's Tale, The Stranger, The Jungle, The Great Gatsby, etc... b) Young Frankenstien, Harold and Maude, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blue Velvet, Dead Alive, Walk the Line, The 6th Sense, Delicatessen, Blade Runner (directors cut, no voice overs please!), Johnny Stickino, The Princess Bride, LA Story, Better Off Dead, Frakenhooker,Dead Man, Being John Malcovich, the (real ;p) first three Star Wars, Logan's Run, The Elephant Man (David Lynch version), anything Monty Python, etc. -I like a "good-bad" movie every now and again, as much as like the artsy ones. Subtitles are fine by me. c) Anything that I won't hear on the radio 'til I'm sick of it. I love American roots music (bluegrass, blues, big band, swing, non-sleepy-jazz), classic rock and roll, and world music. I like my country old-timey, I like my blues gritty, my rock and roll guitar heavy, and wolrd music drum-driven. I openly admit to liking polka and lounge. I enjoy a wide range of noisy electronic music. I like punk from the era when it was still under-produced and recorded by musically challenged, angry people. I stopped listening to commercial radio sometime in the early 80's. A rattled off list: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Miles Davis, Jim White, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Dean Martin, Buckwheat Zydeco, Souixsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Kodo, Zakir Hussian, The Moog Cookbook, The Six Fat Dutchmen, Hank Williams Sr, Wolfsheim,Coil,Johnny Cash, Peter Murphy, Foetus, 242, Medeski Martin and Wood, Cab Calloway, Plasmatics, Gene Autry, Orbital, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughn, Dead Kennedy's...and many, many more. d) If I cook, it is usually simple and typically Americanized. If I eat out I love adventure: sushi, Indian food, Thai. I love being surprised by flavor and will try most food at least once. I love spicy food-give me a jalapeno to eat and watch me smile and reach for more. Having grown up in the Midwest, I am not a huge fan of seafood. So far as I can tell it has to be cooked just right to appeal to my palate. If I had a last meal to order, it would have to include a banana and popcorn-seriously. The six things I could never do without 1) art supplies 2) road trips (I love roadside attractions! Americana! Hoorah!) 3) coffee 4) books 5) music 6) hope Ok, the last one is contrived...but it's that or list the blatant--water, oxygen, food, sex...blah de blah blah I spend a lot of time thinking about The nature of human existence, the mystery of the universe/God (NOT limited to the Judeo-Christian or Muslim perspective), the why-how-what of anything that catches my interest, that creating (art, literature, music, kids) is just humankind's way of trying to cheat death. When I get to grumpy about living in an imperfect world I like to read books about dystopian societies. A Brave New Wolrd by Aldos Huxley is always a good shot in the arm-it's frighteningly insightful. Thankfully, I still believe that America is teetering in between the Civilized and the Savage. On a typical Friday night I am at home reading...lame but true...I am not a drinker by nature and avoid bars most weekends. I like to go out and socialize but hate being drunk or feeling out of control. If I do go to a bar it is more likely to be divey than fancy; I outgrew big clubs when I was 22. I would rather hang out and have coffee or a flavorful beer and talk without shouting. The most private thing I’m willing to admit I’m an empty essay… fill me out! I'm as riddled with flaws as any human being and don't expect to ever stop growing or learning. I miss the following about Chicago: the food; people think that "eye-talian" and Chinese food are exotic where I live now. Hearing 10 languages in 10 mins of walking. I miss the choices of transportation in Chi...walk, el, bus, car. I miss the easy access to original live music, as well as the variety of theater and art. -I don't miss the high cost of living or the difficult parking. I still don't know if I'll move back when I finish college. If I could wake up with the vast knowledge and skill at one instrument tomorrow, it would be the accordion. Laugh if you will, yet it is one of the most versatile instruments and it never needs tuning, thus making it one of the most popular instruments worldwide. Poor ol' accordion...not appreciated enough, by so many people. You should message me if Offer a few tips to help matches win you over. You're as bored as I am with meeting people in conventional ways (bars, fix-ups) and/or too shy to walk up to people in person at random places. If you aren't offended that I've answered so many of the questions for matches and taken so many of those ridiculous tests; it snowed a lot here recently and I have been rather bored to say the least. I also spent some time reading them off to one of my best friends, while we laughed a good streak about how inane they are. Because I dare you to be so brave! Add a photo to: Stay fresh with Instagram Are you sure you want to delete this album? Where's your photo? Drop it like it’s hot Photos must be at least 400 x 400px Edit thumbnail Add a caption You look fantastic!

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The baby bird wan't the only pecker in this tale Sometimes you just kinda shake your head in disbelief. I hope there's a judge who will look at this and toss it. Use your damn common-sense people. Woodpecker-saving daughter costs mom $500, possible jail time By Kristin Fisher - WUSA9 "I've just always loved animals," said Skylar Capo. "I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten." Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home. The rest of the story:

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How Can We Help Refugees Break Out Of Poverty? by Chelsea Wagner Chelsea Wagner, DSI Class for 2014, originally wrote this article for It's hard enough to move to a new city. Tougher to move to a new country. But imagine moving to Buffalo, New York, after spending a decade in a refugee camp in Nepal. You don't know anyone. You don't speak the language. You don't even have a winter coat. And you're in Buffalo. There's no one to call to help you unpack your truck, which is okay, because you don't have anything to put in a truck, if you even had a truck. Which you do not. Refugees are different than other immigrants; refugees don't get to plan their trips. By definition, they've fled their old lives. They've left behind homes, communities, and careers—all with the hope that they'll somehow find a safe place to live and begin again. Last year, more than 1,300 international refugees from Burma, Bhutan, and Iraq, moved to Buffalo. The international resettlement agencies place refugees in cities where the cost of living is low—cities like Buffalo, where housing is cheap because residents have left and the market has gone down. The number is not unusual for Buffalo, which over the last 10 years brought in more than 8,000 refugees, but it is a growing number, and those numbers are leading to new communities and new opportunities. Buffalo, like a lot of rust belt cities, needs help, and its newest residents could become a profound resource toward revitalization. One of the harsh realities of the federal resettlement policy is that most refugees are resettled into poverty. Funding for resettlement makes up less than one percent of the overall federal budget, and each family receives a only a modest amount upon arrival to get their lives started in the U.S. Refugee families also receive welfare assistance during their resettlement period, but that can last less than a year, and some argue that the money isn't enough to break a cycle of dependence that begins in refugee camps. It's a bad start for the refugees and for the organizations that are supposed to help transition them into independence. Refugees, like the waves of immigrants before them, often find themselves working unskilled jobs in factories, processing plants, hotels, and restaurants. It's not a sector where the wages are good, and yet refugees are often pushed into these jobs because they don't speak English well, or because the skills they acquired in their home country go unrecognized. It's tough for anyone to make a living on a minimum wage job. And often, even when there's work, refugees have a hard time getting enough hours to support themselves and their families. So despite the tireless efforts of resettlement workers, many refugees remain dependent on the welfare system long after their resettlement period. I spent three years working at a resettlement agency in Buffalo. We were a nonprofit institution, and most of our funding came from the federal government and grants. We worked harder than our pay grade, like most people who work for nonprofits. And we worked to make miracles happen with the scarce resources available. My colleagues and I worked every day—and on our off days—devising ways to squeeze every resource, to find donations for new families, to connect refugees to people who could do what we could not. But no matter how hard we worked, we'd end up with the same clients again and again, helping the same refugee after he was laid off from his temp job for the fourth time in a year.  During the employment program intake interview, you ask a refugee his or her dreams and goals.  Then you tell him or her that job isn’t available. Resettlement workers can't work any harder, so how can we work smarter? How can we innovate to improve the quality of life for refugees, to provide economic independence and alleviate pressure on resettlement agencies? Refugees are people from all walks of life: laborers and masons, artists and craftspeople, journalists, doctors, engineers, teachers, and business owners. It is an educated, skilled population with the motivation to succeed. We need to start understanding that this population is a resource, not a drag on resources. Buffalo's new immigrant populations can contribute to the city's revitalization, and they can do it by starting businesses. This is already happening. Refugee entrepreneurs are already opening restaurants, retail shops, and grocery stores. A favorite example in Buffalo is West Side Value Laundromat, a business started by Zaw Win, a Burmese refugee. In addition to being a laundromat, it is now also community center with a small art studio space in front. For the last four years, organizations like the Westminster Economic Development Initiative(WEDI) and its partners are helping guide refugee entrepreneurs through the process of starting a business in the U.S. WEDI's business incubator marketplace, the West Side Bazaar, boasts a large number of refugee-run businesses. The West Side Bazaar played a big role in attracting attention and increasing foot traffic to Grant Street, one of the main streets on Buffalo's West Side, a neighborhood long plagued by crime. Many refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs who started in the incubator have expanded their businesses and moved to their own storefronts, many of which were previously vacant, in neighborhoods across the city. In the field of social innovation, we look to those who seem to be succeeding where the majority of their peers are not—the social deviants—to show us the key behaviors, resources, and leverage points that make them successful. In the case of economic dependence among refugees in Buffalo, we should be looking at the social deviants as well as at organizations like WEDI in order understand what works best, not in theory but in practice. At SVA's Design for Social Innovation program, I have begun a new project designing a program that can supplement the work of resettlement agencies and organizations like WEDI. There are complex systems at play and, by mapping the relationships within them, leverage points are emerging. By talking to the social deviants in the community, I'm discovering what sets them apart. By engaging the larger refugee communities, I'm finding what they identify as barriers to economic independence. By collaborating with other organizations in Buffalo doing great work, I'm finding ways to overcome those barriers. We can develop a new approach to economic independence for our new neighbors, one that can help refugees break out of the systemic poverty and the grips of learned helplessness. One that expands on the great work being done by organizations like WEDI. One that harnesses the skills and social capital brought to Buffalo by refugees. And in a city that has suffered from a lack of jobs for decades, what better way to find employment than to create it. Image by chiakto /

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[www.f-117a.com] Title: Page born: April 01 2002 [Senor Trend in flight.(LMSW)] "Ben said 'Okay.' The rest of us said, 'Oh, shit.'" Original F-117A program manager Alan Brown on Ben Rich accepting the USAF's deadline of 22 months from contract to first flight of the F-117A. On November 16,1978, Lockheed was awarded a contract for five full scale development (FSD) test aircraft under the code name Senior Trend. The Senior Trend aircraft came to be defined as a single-seat night surgical strike fighter, with no radar but a very comprehensive electro-optical system for aiming its weapons. Because it was intended to operate at night, and had no radar, there was no requirement for any air-to air capability. Apart from it's low observable (LO) design, its most unusual feature was associated with it's covert mission: the outer wings were removable, allowing the aircraft to be stowed inside a C-5 transport. [C-5 Galaxy with F-117A onboard. (LMSW)} The C-5 would ferry the fighter and its support crew into a base (quietly and discreetly at night) within striking distance of its target.(Note: this was how many of the first aircraft were delivered to Groom Lake. In fact, the image to the right shows a crated up Senior Trend F-117A being loaded aboard at the Skunk Works in Burbank. This method was later abandoned in favor of aerial refueling during flying with the thought that by the time an aircraft was disassembled, transported, and reassembled the crisis would be over.) The USAF saw the Senior Trend aircraft as one that would be used singly or in pairs against a small range of targets. Not many would be needed, explaining the initial order of only 20 aircraft. The five FSD aircraft were not prototypes, but test aircraft that after the initial testing phase could be upgraded and become part of the operational fleet. When the FSD's were flight tested, the data and design changes would be immediately implemented on the FSD's as well as any future aircraft to roll off of the production line. [Photograph showing the six sided hexagon cross section of production tailfins.(Unknown)] For example, FSD-1 (#79-780) showed stability and control problems that did not show up during wind tunnel tests. This was rectified by enlarging and lengthening the tail fin, and changing the tail fin from a four faceted diamond shaped cross section to a six sided hexagon cross section. FSD-1 was modified after the 10th flight (August 6, 1981). It initially flew with the larger fins on Oct. 21, 1981. FSD-2 (#79-781) which first flew on September 24, 1981 was retrofitted with larger fins after four flights. During retrofit, a production nose assembly was also installed replacing the conventional nose boom it originally delivered with. FSD-3 (#79-782) was retrofitted with the new fins while still in the production jigs, and each aircraft leaving the Burbank plant after that had this change implemented into its airframe. Although the honeycomb structure of the FSD's exhaust system successfully handled the 400degF. temperature change between it's outer skin and the inner skin, the super heated air consistently caused warping at the four inch deep opening at the rear of the platypus. Once the precisely faceted panels lost their shape, the RCS bloomed from some aspects-defying the whole purpose of the aircraft. [FSD-1 was fitted with experimental blow-in doors. Notice the 4450th TG A-7D acting as a chase aircraft. (LMSW)] FSD-1 was fitted with large, experimental blow-in doors over the platypus exhaust system to see if they would help cool the engines' superheated gases. Eventually, it was found that an expandable , shingled structure would take care of the problem, resulting in the implemented complex exhaust system, incorporating sliding elements and quartz tiles to resist heat without changing shape. Other design changes include: the current mesh screen covering the FLIR as opposed to the original faceted flat surface having holes-creating a hard "screen", testing of fixed leading edge slats in an attempt to improve lift and reduce drag, and a change in the trapeze bomb hoist among other things. [FSD-1 being reassembled in a hanger at Groom Dry Lake after delivery.(LMSW)] The USAF required that the aircraft carry at least 5,000 lbs. of ordnance or auxiliary fuel or both, added with the need to store these items internally if the aircraft was to keep it's low observable qualities, required that there be a large internal bay. Airframe and size limitations restricted engine placement to the fuselage. This resulted in the aircraft having a remarkably wide structure with engines and wheel wells placed outboard of the bay, and a more modest wing sweep of 67.3 degrees. (As opposed to the Have Blue's 72.5 degree sweep.) The increased wing area provided better lift for the heavier FSD while keeping with the shape of the hopeless diamond. The dart like appearance of the original XST's also gave way when the IR acquisition and designation (IRADS) was added. Made up of a downward-looking sensor (DLIR) under the fuselage, and the FLIR ahead of the cockpit, the IRADS's need to retain good downward visibility in the FLIR resulting in the nose of the aircraft having a steep, blunt shape. This feature added some to the FSD's observability, but not an amount substantial enough allow the overall observability. [FSD-1 undergoing engine test in a hanger at Groom Dry Lake. The camoflauge netting was for the sake of security. (LMSW)] Also, it was originally believed that the inward-canted tail fins on the XST's would help shield the upward facing exhaust system from aerial IR detection. In doing this, the fins actually channeled the hot exhaust gases straight downward below the aircraft, increasing the IR signature from below. The twin tail also required that each fin be mounted on it's own separate boom. Although the distance was insignificant in the XST's, the larger FSD's distance of approximately 11 feet across the exhaust system made this arrangement impossible. Therefore, the split tail was abandoned by the now familiar V tail. The new arrangement was placed at the end of a stronger lengthened center spine to increase it's distance from the exhaust. It was found that the V-tail actually disperses the exhaust gases better than the split tail. [F-117A with braking parachute deployed. (Unknown)] Other features included the two small twin doors immediately forward of the V-tail where the parachute breaking system is located. (Even though the FSD's did not have the high sink rate of the XST's, the aircraft still landed at a speed of 180 mph plus. Landing techniques lowered the landing speed by 10 mph and the parachute is now only used in landings with high crosswinds or on shorter runways.) The FSD also had a tailhook to be used in combination with a portable arresting cable and two hoists that raises and lowers the munitions back up into the weapons bay and forward into the air stream respectively. (Note: this is the exact opposite of the landing gear that retract forward into the aircraft.) [FSD-1 in camoflauge paint scheme that was applied to FSD-1 for flights #2-11. (LMSW)] [Inflight view of FSD-1 in desert camoflauge from underneath. (LMSW)] FSD-1 was originally delivered unpainted (See earlier picture on this page) and was painted in a camouflage paint scheme for it's first flight. That was abandoned for the standard gray used on all four subsequent flight test aircraft. Ben Rich, head of Skunk Works, personally preferred the gray and would have delivered the entire run in gray, but chief of TAC, Gen. Bill Creech, wanted black since it would mask the faceting and their shadows during the day. "You don't ask the commander of TAC why he wants to do something. He pays the bills," later recalled Rich. "The Skunk Works plays by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold sets the rules! If the general had wanted pink, we'd have painted them pink." [Flight Test Engineer patch from early test flight days. (Patch designed by Flight Test Engineers Dan Fuller and Major Dave Coombs.)] The Groom Lake crew called the FSD's "Scorpions" because of its menacing aspect and forked tail. (Other names applied to the F-117A include "Black Jet" and "Cockroach".) Two patches appear to have been worn by the personal at Groom. One featured featured a standard T-38ish aircraft and a scorpion separated by a lightning bolt with "Scorpion FTE" (Flight Test Engineer) written below. This patch was specific to the FTE's for the program. Since they could not ride in the aircraft (F-117A's are single seat) , they rode in the T-38 chase. (which is why the T-38 is featured on the patch). Published reports that FTE stand for "Flight Test and Evaluation" are incorrect. The second features a Scorpion with "Baja Scorpions" written across. (The Baja supposedly refers to lower or southern Groom Lake where testing was taking place.) In all, about 40 patches are known to be related to the F-117A, including patches related to individual test programs. [NOYFB Patch given to upper Skunk Works managment under Ben Rich. (Unknown)] Even the C-5 flight crews that picked up the completed Senior Trend aircraft from Burbank had their patch-a black circle with a white crescent moon and a large question mark. On a tab at the top of the patch was "DON'T ASK!," while another tab at the bottom carried the letters "NOYFB." (None Of Your F#@!*#% Business) A similar patch (although possibly not specific to the F-117A) was given to upper management under Ben Rich and is shown here to the right. It must be remembered that the F-117A number came along later in the project. At the time other aircraft operated at Groom. These included the Red Squadron-a squadron of Soviet aircraft that the US government had "acquired". These flights where logged in the pilot's logs as YF-110, YF-113, YF-114, etc. The pilots of the Senior Trend aircraft logged in the next in sequence, the YF-117A for a lack of an unclassified designator. When Lockheed printed up the Dash 1 flight manuals, they printed F-117A on the front cover. Supposedly neither the US government or Lockheed wanted to pay the reprinting cost. [First flight pilot Hal Farley posing with an F-117A years later. (LMSW)] On June 18th, 1981, Lockheed test pilot Hal C. Farley lifted the nose of FSD-1 off of the runway at Groom Dry Lake and made the first flight of the F-117A. FSD-2 made it's first flight unpainted on September 24, 1981. FSD-3 was initially painted gray and made it's first flight on December 18, 1981. FSD-4 was delivered in early 1982, but remained grounded for RCS configuration until 7 JUL 82. FSD-5 made it's first flight on April 10, 1982 and was used for navigation/autopilot and avionics development. On September 25, 1985 the left tail fin "fluttered off" of FSD-2 (#79-781) while doing a pull-up maneuver during a daylight weapons test at Groom Lake. As the black tail with its large white 781 fell to earth, the pilot, Maj. John Beesley, was unaware anything had happened (because of the computer compensation) until the chase plane told him. He brought the aircraft in for a safe landing, and was later awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Restrictions were placed on certain regimes of flight (high speed) and the all-moving metal fins were replaced by thermoplastic graphite fins. (This incident is on file because the whole test was being filmed, but the footage is still classified.) On July, 18, 1990 FSD-5 (#784) flew with the new rudders. (Possibly lifting the speed restriction) The last graphite rudder was fitted in 1992. Current operating FSD's are operated by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron, 412th Testing Wing, Air Force Flight Test Center, Air Force Material Command at Palmdale California Plant 42. Full Scale Development (FSD) Aircraft [FSD-1 on pole at Nellis AFB. (Tony Landis)] FSD-1 (#79-780) Made it's first flight on June 18th, 1981 at Groom Dry Lake Nevada. FSD-1 was used for most testing related to the basic air vehicle. It was delivered unpainted, but made it's first flight in desert camouflage. Was configured with the conventional nose boom, and small vertical fins. The small verticals were replaced after the 10th flight (August 6, 1981). It initially flew with the larger fins on October 21,1981. It was positioned by the gates at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada on May 16, 1992. This was the first of the F-117A series to take up gate guardian duties. [IMAGE] FSD-2 as displayed at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. (Unknown) [IMAGE] FSD-2 upon arrival at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB.(Unknown) FSD-2 (#79-781) Made it's first flight unpainted on September 24,1981. It was originally configured with the conventional nose boom and small tail fins. It was retrofitted with larger fins after four flights. During the retrofit, a production nose assembly was also installed. The first SENIOR TREND RCS test flight on January 23 1982. This aircraft was used for weapons separation, anti-icing, flying qualities, and performance testing. It reportedly carried a White Playboy Bunny on the fin during testing. It was delivered to the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB on July 17, 1991. FSD-3 (#79-782) Ship 782 made it's first flight occurred on December 18, 1981. It was used for acoustics and navigation system testing. Initially painted gray. Later painted black after the brief period with the US Flag on the underside. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. as a WSC Avionics Test Bed. [782 in flag scheme.(USAF photo via Jim Goodall)] FSD-3 (#79-782) with the US Flag Ship #782 was initially painted grey. However, later in Nov. 1983 the aircraft was painted with a U.S. flag motif painted on the underside. The reason for this-the aircraft was officially being unveiled to high ranking officials, including Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger during a F-117A test force change of command ceremony at Groom Lake. The above is the first photo of this paint scheme widely available to the public. This photo appears in "F-117 Nighthawk" by Paul Crickmore, published in July 1999. As with past photos of the F-117A, now that the first photo has been published, the author is sure that other photos of this scheme will soon appear in the public domain. The upper surface was painted flat black with standard gray markings. The tail markings have been duplicated exactly in Mike Machat's "Lockheed Legends" painting. There was a 6" (not 6' like in the Goodall book and the drawing) white disk with a Lockheed skunk logo near the top of the tail. Below it, and spread out rather more widely than usual, were USAF and 782. The forward third (ending about 6" aft of the retractable blade antenna) of the underside was blue with 50 white stars. The stars were in even rows, except a few stars had to be nudged out of line to accommodate the DLIR window. The thirteen red and white stripes increased in width toward the aft end (Think "rising sun"). A camera pod under the right wing (to photograph weapon drops) was in the middle of one of the red stripes, and was also painted red. The plane approached the reviewing stand from the south and banked to show it's top surface. As it reached the center of the crowd, the plane banked again to show the American Flag. The crowd went wild. It was a beautiful airplane, and kept its patriotic colors for a number of months before being repainted overall flat black. FSD-4 (#79-783) Initially delivered in early 1982, but remained grounded for RCS configuration until July 7, 1982. It was used for RCS and IR signature testing. Later used for avionics integration tests. During the early Senior Trend years FSD-4 had it's own patch-a red delta shape with the number "4" and a black scorpion superimposed over it. The shape was based on the wing of the plane. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. being a WDC Avionics Test Bed and testing low observables. This aircraft performed a flight demonstration and was on static display October 18th and 19th at the 1997 Edwards Air Force Base Airshow displaying "79 783 ED" on the tail. FSD-5 (#79-784) First flight was on April 10, 1982. Used for navigation/autopilot and avionics development. Currently being flown by the 410th Test and Evaluation Squadron at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. being a OCIP/RNIP Avionics Test Bed and testing Weapons Compatibility/Separation, Performance/Flying Qualities, Flutter, and Structural Loads. This aircraft performed a flight demonstration and was on static display October 18th and 19th 1997 at the 1997 Edwards Air Force Base Airshow displaying "79 784 ED" on the tail. The tires were all black, but the inside of the MLG (Main Landing Gear) wheel (which is usually white) was painted yellow, with a small, black 'Baja Scorpion' stenciled on the center 'wheel cap'. "Pete's Dragon" Contrary to some published reports, aircraft (FSD-4)#784 was not delivered with a color drawing of Elliot, the dragon from Disney's "Pete's Dragon" in tribute to Col. Pete Winters, the USAF site commander at Groom Lake. (Elliot remember was invisible to everyone except Pete.) Apparently, that aircraft was #787 and it was named for Pete Barnes. Barnes was assigned to fly IOT& E in #787. Also contrary to published reports, The Pete's Dragon artwork was not on the tail of aircraft-rather the night before Barnes's first flight (July 8, 1982), Brad Brown (a painter for LADC) painted a dragon design on the side of the aircraft, after hours, on his own time. Pete's Dragon also had it's own patch-a black shield with a green dragon and "Pete's Dragon" in red. Patrick Allen Blazek writes that the origin of the "Pete's Dragon" patch in part derives from the Walt Disney movie of the same name that featured an invisible dragon. The USAF crew chief for the aircraft was Clyde Fonner. To raise money for Fonner's retirement party, the patch was designed. Aircraft #787's first flight was in the summer of 1982 (With USAF acceptance on August 23, 1982.). It was used by test force as a defecto-FSD for initial operation test and evaluation. This IOT&E program has come to be known as the Dragon Test Team. (FOR MORE INFO PLEASE SEE "THE DRAGON" PAGE). 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Freud-Debunker Bill Domhoff Dream Un-Weaver Friday, March 01, 2002 Bill Domhoff Photograph by Timothy Archibald Forget Freud and his interpretations. Statistics are the key to unlocking the meaning of dreams, says Bill Domhoff, a psychologist and sociologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Along with his colleagues, Domhoff has broken thousands of dreams into coded elements such as characters, emotions, settings, and types of social interactions. By performing statistical analyses of these elements, the researchers can study what we dream about and perhaps begin to develop data-driven theories about why we dream. Domhoff discussed his work with Discover associate editor Kathy A. Svitil. Do we know why we dream? I'm unimpressed with any evidence that dreams have a function or a purpose. I think they are an accidental by-product of two great evolutionary advances: sleep and improved cognitive abilities. Dreaming is a kind of freewheeling thinking that the mind goes through when there is no external input to bring it back to reality. If that is true, then is there any value in dream interpretation? I think it is a scam. I recently went through Freud's masterwork, pulling out every assertion and comparing it with the systematic empirical studies conducted over the past 75 years, including my own. I don't find support for a single one of Freud's specific claims. Freud said all dreams are wishful, for instance, but there is a lot of evidence against that. I've given up on Jung as well. It's sad that these theories continue to attract so much attention when they are clearly not adequate. We ought to move on. So what determines the things we dream about? Dreams express our conceptions of ourselves and of people close to us. If I take 100 of a person's dreams, and I study his interaction patterns with his parents, siblings, and friends in those dreams, I can then predict his relationships in waking life. Do you find any larger patterns in the content of people's dreams? There's a lot of overlap, but there are differences by age, by gender, by personality, and by culture. The most striking differences have to do with physical aggression. There is little of it in the dreams of children, but it increases in the teenage years. Men's dreams have more aggression than women's. Almost invariably, smaller societies have more physical aggression in their dreams than do Americans: They are killing animals, being attacked by animals, which is much closer to their daily life. But Americans have more physical aggression in their dreams than do the Swiss and the Dutch. Does that mean our society is more aggressive? It certainly fits with the fact that we kill each other far more frequently. You've found that people have the same basic dreams over and over. What does that tell you? I don't know, but no dream theory can account for it. A person suffers a trauma—say September 11—and several months later starts having an upsetting dream about it. Five or 10 years later, the same person may be doing well in his waking life, but he is still having that dream. The Freudians would say the dream proves the problem is unresolved. But does it prove anything? Dreams may simply run on their own track. What is the biggest misconception people have about dreams? That they are often about sexuality. Most dreams are about aggression. Only 10 percent or less of dream content involves sexuality. Dreams don't have much eroticism, and certainly not much pleasant eroticism. People dream they are with the wrong person, someone is watching, they feel guilty. When people talk about having great sex dreams, they are usually talking about daydreaming, not actual dreams. Comment on this article Discover's Newsletter Collapse bottom bar Log in to your account Email address: Remember me Forgot your password? No problem. Click here to have it emailed to you. Not registered yet?

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Sacred Texts  Christianity  Early Church Fathers  Index  Previous  Next  Chapter XXI. The answer to the question raised. Eccl. 1:9, 10. Gen. v. 4-30. Gen. iv. 17-21. In Gen. vi. 2 the mss. of the LXX. fluctuate between γγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ and υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ. The interpretation of the passage which Cassian here rejects is adopted by Philo and Josephus, the book of Enoch, and several of the early fathers, including Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius and others. The explanation, which Cassian here gives, taking the “sons of God” of the Sethites, and the “daughters of men” of the line of Cain, is apparently first found in Julius Africanus (οἰ ἀπό τοῦ Σὴθ δίκαιοι), and is adopted among others by Augustine, De Civitate Dei, Book XV. xxiii., where the passage is fully discussed. Ps. 82:6, 7. Wis. vii. 17-21. Deut. 8:3, Exod. 34:16, 1 Kings 11:2. Next: Chapter XXII. An objection, as to how an unlawful intermingling with the daughters of Cain could be charged against the line of Seth before the prohibition of the law.

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pt-table-usage - Analyze how queries use tables. pt-table-usage [OPTIONS] [FILES] pt-table-usage reads queries from a log and analyzes how they use tables. If no FILE is specified, it reads STDIN. It prints a report for each query. • Read the tool’s documentation • Review the tool’s known “BUGS” • Test the tool on a non-production server • Backup your production server and verify the backups pt-table-usage reads queries from a log and analyzes how they use tables. The log should be in MySQL’s slow query log format. Table usage is more than simply an indication of which tables the query reads or writes. It also indicates data flow: data in and data out. The tool determines the data flow by the contexts in which tables appear. A single query can use a table in several different contexts simultaneously. The tool’s output lists every context for every table. This CONTEXT-TABLE list indicates how data flows between tables. The “OUTPUT” section lists the possible contexts and describes how to read a table usage report. The tool analyzes data flow down to the level of individual columns, so it is helpful if columns are identified unambiguously in the query. If a query uses only one table, then all columns must be from that table, and there’s no difficulty. But if a query uses multiple tables and the column names are not table-qualified, then it is necessary to use EXPLAIN EXTENDED, followed by SHOW WARNINGS, to determine to which tables the columns belong. If the tool does not know the query’s default database, which can occur when the database is not printed in the log, then EXPLAIN EXTENDED can fail. In this case, you can specify a default database with --database. You can also use the --create-table-definitions option to help resolve ambiguities. The tool prints a usage report for each table in every query, similar to the following: Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.1 Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.2 The first line contains the query ID, which by default is the same as those shown in pt-query-digest reports. It is an MD5 checksum of the query’s “fingerprint,” which is what remains after removing literals, collapsing white space, and a variety of other transformations. The query ID has two parts separated by a period: the query ID and the table number. If you wish to use a different value to identify the query, you can specify the --id-attribute option. The previous example shows two paragraphs for a single query, not two queries. Note that the query ID is identical for the two, but the table number differs. The table number increments by 1 for each table that the query updates. Only multi-table UPDATE queries can update multiple tables with a single query, so the table number is 1 for all other types of queries. (The tool does not support multi-table DELETE queries.) The example output above is from this query: UPDATE t1 AS a JOIN t2 AS b USING (id) The SET clause indicates that the query updates two tables: a aliased as t1, and b aliased as t2. After the first line, the tool prints a variable number of CONTEXT-TABLE lines. Possible contexts are as follows: SELECT means that the query retrieves data from the table for one of two reasons. The first is to be returned to the user as part of a result set. Only SELECT queries return result sets, so the report always shows a SELECT context for SELECT queries. The second case is when data flows to another table as part of an INSERT or UPDATE. For example, the UPDATE query in the example above has the usage: This refers to: The tool uses DUAL for any values that do not originate in a table, in this case the literal values “bar” and “bat”. If that SET clause were SET instead, then the complete usage would be: Query_id: 0x1CD27577D202A339.1 The presence of a SELECT context after another context, such as UPDATE or INSERT, indicates where the UPDATE or INSERT retrieves its data. The example immediately above reflects an UPDATE query that updates rows in table t1 with data from table t2. • Any other verb Any other verb, such as INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc. may be a context. These verbs indicate that the query modifies data in some way. If a SELECT context follows one of these verbs, then the query reads data from the SELECT table and writes it to this table. This happens, for example, with INSERT..SELECT or UPDATE queries that use values from tables instead of constant values. These query types are not supported: SET, LOAD, and multi-table DELETE. • JOIN The JOIN context lists tables that are joined, either with an explicit JOIN in the FROM clause, or implicitly in the WHERE clause, such as = The WHERE context lists tables that are used in the WHERE clause to filter results. This does not include tables that are implicitly joined in the WHERE clause; those are listed as JOIN contexts. For example: Results in: The tool lists only distinct tables; that is why table t1 is listed only once. The TLIST context lists tables that the query accesses, but which do not appear in any other context. These tables are usually an implicit cartesian join. For example, the query SELECT * FROM t1, t2 results in: Query_id: 0xBDDEB6EDA41897A8.1 First of all, there are two SELECT contexts, because SELECT * selects rows from all tables; t1 and t2 in this case. Secondly, the tables are implicitly joined, but without any kind of join condition, which results in a cartesian join as indicated by the TLIST context for each. pt-table-usage exits 1 on any kind of error, or 0 if no errors. Prompt for a password when connecting to MySQL. short form: -A; type: string type: Array type: string; default: DUAL Table to print as the source for constant data (literals). This is any data not retrieved from tables (or subqueries, because subqueries are not supported). This includes literal values such as strings (“foo”) and numbers (42), or functions such as NOW(). For example, in the query INSERT INTO t (c) VALUES ('a'), the string ‘a’ is constant data, so the table usage report is: The first line indicates that the query inserts data into table t, and the second line indicates that the inserted data comes from some constant value. default: yes Continue to work even if there is an error. type: array Read CREATE TABLE definitions from this list of comma-separated files. If you cannot use --explain-extended to fully qualify table and column names, you can save the output of mysqldump --no-data to one or more files and specify those files with this option. The tool will parse all CREATE TABLE definitions from the files and use this information to qualify table and column names. If a column name appears in multiple tables, or a table name appears in multiple databases, the ambiguities cannot be resolved. short form: -D; type: string Default database. short form: -F; type: string type: DSN A server to execute EXPLAIN EXTENDED queries. This may be necessary to resolve ambiguous (unqualified) column and table names. type: string Discard events for which this Perl code doesn’t return true. This option is a string of Perl code or a file containing Perl code that is compiled into a subroutine with one argument: $event. If the given value is a readable file, then pt-table-usage reads the entire file and uses its contents as the code. Filters are implemented in the same fashion as in the pt-query-digest tool, so please refer to its documentation for more information. Show help and exit. short form: -h; type: string Connect to host. type: string Identify each event using this attribute. The default is to use a query ID, which is an MD5 checksum of the query’s fingerprint. type: string Print all output to this file when daemonized. short form: -p; type: string Password to use when connecting. type: string short form: -P; type: int Port number to use for connection. type: array; default: time,30 type: string Analyze the specified query instead of reading a log file. type: time; default: 0 Wait this long for an event from the input; 0 to wait forever. This option sets the maximum time to wait for an event from the input. If an event is not received after the specified time, the tool stops reading the input and prints its reports. This option requires the Perl POSIX module. type: time How long to run before exiting. The default is to run forever (you can interrupt with CTRL-C). type: Array By default, the tool sets: short form: -S; type: string Socket file to use for connection. short form: -u; type: string User for login if not current user. Show version and exit. • A dsn: charset; copy: yes Default character set. • D copy: no Default database. • F dsn: mysql_read_default_file; copy: no Only read default options from the given file • h dsn: host; copy: yes Connect to host. • p dsn: password; copy: yes Password to use when connecting. • P dsn: port; copy: yes Port number to use for connection. • S dsn: mysql_socket; copy: no Socket file to use for connection. • u dsn: user; copy: yes User for login if not current user. PTDEBUG=1 pt-table-usage ... > FILE 2>&1 For a list of known bugs, see • Complete command-line used to run the tool • Tool --version • MySQL version of all servers involved • Output from the tool including STDERR You can also get individual tools from the latest release: Replace TOOL with the name of any tool. Daniel Nichter pt-table-usage 2.2.12 © Copyright 2013, Percona LLC and/or its affiliates. CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Created using Sphinx 1.2.2.

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I Was Raped at 55. Here Is How I Responded. What women really think about news, politics, and culture. July 29 2013 5:07 AM Rape Myths I was raped at 55. Here is how I responded. Woman sitting in corner, head in hand (B&W) Photo by Terry Vine/Stone/Getty Images Angie Epifano, the woman who was raped last fall in an Amherst dorm room, reported that she could hear her friends having fun in the next room as she endured the ordeal.* I mentioned this to a friend of mine recently, and she wondered why Angie hadn’t banged on the wall or yelled for help. On the surface, my friend’s question may seem legitimate, until you consider that it is less often asked about women who have been beaten or kidnapped, and almost never about women who have been robbed or mugged. Most consider it a sign of coolheaded intelligence for the victim of a mugging, for example, to peaceably hand over whatever the thief asks for, while keeping one’s eyes averted like we’re told to do when confronted by an aggressive dog. Practically the first thing you’re taught in a course on how to respond to a rapist is that you should not fight or make a scene because you could end up dead. I didn’t scream or fight, either, when I was raped in my own bed at the age of 55. The reasons were logical and illogical, historic, complex, and also smart. He held a knife, and I assumed he was the serial rapist who had been breaking into women’s houses in my Mexican town for eight months. I’d heard accounts of the four women he’d raped before me. The first two had fought and been beaten; the second two, having heard about the first two, didn’t fight and so were not left with black eyes and bruised ribs. Even if the man who raped me had not held a knife and I’d heard nothing of his other attacks, I’m 99.9 percent sure I wouldn’t have fought. I have never been in a physical fight in my life, have no training in martial arts, and do not consider myself strong enough to ward off any man. Also there was an awful inevitableness about it all, of a worse fear come true, an acceptance: Now, I will be raped. Still, I did try to talk him out of it. “This is sick,” I said, repeating back words he’d used himself with his other victims in a perverse version of post-rape intimacy during which he tried to ellicit sympathy by talking about how sick he was. “You talk too much,” he barked at me, then imitated a whining baby, “Na, na, na, na.” This taunting did not make me angry. I was not angry—or perhaps I was not in touch with my anger. I was too terrified, my heart buzzing like a field of bees, adrenaline charging through every organ, my skin vibrating. Perhaps women who do respond physically to danger possess a fighter’s instinct, physical prowess, or they’ve been taught to stick up for themselves. A friend of mine was once out sailing alone with a man who tried to rape her when they were far from shore. She kicked him then jumped overboard and swam more than a mile to safety. Recently, while the same friend and I crossed a Brooklyn street and a car at a light jumped forward, she pounded the fender with her fist, shouting, “Asshole!” A reaction I admired. Mine had been to believe I must have been crossing out of turn. We are all different; still, every woman I know, from the moment she’s learned such a thing can happen, dreads being raped. Most of us walk through a dark house, building, parking lot, or down a deserted street, afraid of the shadows, of the strange sadistic man, lurking, stalking, plotting to pleasure himself by the rush of power he will get from our humiliation and the subjugation of our will to his. And then when it does happen—whether it’s a stranger or, even more likely, a person you know—which it will to an estimated one-quarter of the women in the world; when you are physically appropriated for someone else’s pleasure; when you smell him; when his hands and fists and weapons touch your body; when this man, whose intention is to take whatever he wants from you no matter how you feel about it, mimics postures and actions that have been shared before only in intimate consensual moments, a response to this sick perversion of intimacy does happen, even if it’s nonphysical and nonverbal: It’s a plea in your heart, Don’t hurt me; a begging, Please go away. Rape victims do not exactly remain silent during the rape. They’re screaming inaudibly through the whole thing. Some women  may become silent for other reasons: fear that we won’t be believed, shame of being seen as at best unlucky and at worst damaged, dread of the stigma that will attach itself, and knowledge of the human tendency to blame the victim to avoid empathizing with her, which would require imagining another’s horror and humiliation as our own. But there’s another reason some women stay silent: Women have internalized the message that if it happened to them they must have at some deep, subconscious level caused, invited, even wanted it to happen. In countries that are still squeamish about sex—I count both the U.S. and Mexico among them—women will never feel comfortable admitting to sexual crimes done to them. I was at an advantage. At 55, I’d been a feminist my entire adult life; I refused to feel guilty and knew better than to indulge my feelings of shame. Yet I still dreaded being known for the rest of my life as a woman who’d been raped, a victim. Gratefully, my indignation soon overrode this: I hadn’t done anything to be ashamed of, dammit, the rapist had. I reported the attack, and wrote the details of it in the town newspaper. Five days after the article appeared, the rapist was caught, and then he was convicted. Beverly Donofrio. Beverly Donofrio. Courtesy of the author Before the trial, the judge mandated that I talk to a court-appointed psychologist to assess whether I’d been damaged by the attack. The psychologist was embarrassed by his task and apologized for his “backward country.” He told me that if the rapist were found guilty, the severity of his sentence would be determined by how much damage he’d caused. I told him I no longer wanted to sleep in, or even live in the house I’d built and loved; I told him I couldn’t sleep through the night and often awoke screaming, convinced there was an evil presence in my room. Later, at the trial, the judge asked me why I didn’t fight. I told her about my foreknowledge of what had happened to the other victims. I did not even think to say with high indignation, “He had a knife, [you moron].” As a society, we subliminally hold ancient prejudices. The woman must be at least complicit in any rape and even the instigator, by dressing or acting provocatively, by not being sufficiently wary, by incautiously walking down a deserted street in the night or the day, by getting drunk, by leaving a party with a guy, by accepting an invitation, being too naïve, trusting, sexy. Merely by being women, we’re alluring, and worse: we’re temptresses. With this course of reasoning, the burka seems a reasonable solution. In societies like ours that accept rape myths—acquaintance rape happens because of “mixed signals,” rapists can’t control sexual urges, women lie about being raped, women invite rape by their actions or their dress—men are more likely to commit rape because these beliefs make it seem almost acceptable. At my trial, the serial rapist’s attorney read his deposition. In it he said he’d have a few beers then break into women’s houses and “cause a little mischief.” I’ve no doubt that is exactly how he thought of his crime. I’ve no doubt many rapists think the same of their crimes: “Na, na, na, na, na.” Stop whining; what’s the big deal? The rapist was asked if he had anything he wanted to add to his deposition, and he ran on for an hour. Among other woe-is-me statements, this is the most memorable: “These women are ruining the good name of my family.” How dare we cause all this trouble? How dare we not? *Correction, July 29, 2013: This article originally stated that Angie Epifano was raped at a frat party. She was raped in a dorm room.   Slate Plus Slate Picks

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Not to knock cellophane tape as a method for in-car iPhone navigation, but if you want to use the new TomTom app in a more proper setting, you'll want the official TomTom car kit. In addition to enhancing the GPS signal and charging your iPhone, it's also got hands-free dialing and a speaker that's (presumably) better than the phone solo for giving directions. At a rumored price of just under $200 with software, it's not a bad deal if you were planning to shell out $100 for the US maps, anyway. We're still on the fence, but the hypnotic soundtrack of the promotion video is admittedly alluring. See for yourself after the break. [Thanks, Arthur] See more video at our hub!

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Not signed in (Sign In) CommentAuthorIron Imp • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 edited Given this is Whitechapel, I'm going to assume you're all familiar with tranhumanism and a lot of you will be familiar with UK based documentary filmmaker Rob Spence, who lost an eye in a shooting accident, but turned misfortune around by having a custom wireless camera built into his face by way of a prosthetic he can now use for his film career. I was looking him up on a whim, having seen him featured on the modern day analog for a circus freak show that is the "Diagonal View" program... I came across this video, where he took it upon himself to look at the (excellent) videogame Deus Ex: HR and also meet and great with some of the most exceptional living cyborgs today. The video is a great 12 minute watch and I wanted to share it, but for further discussion value, lets put on our thinking hats and speculate on what augments we'd personally fancy, given our various interests and proclivities... For myself, I'd obviously be interested in the application towards sound. Naturally, I am thrilled that technologies like cochlear implants are allowing deaf people to hear, but from from a creative perspective, I've always been taken with the notion of a matrix style brain plug (in XLR format or 1/4" format) that you could plug directly into your amp or mixer and think sound... That's a simplified pipe dream by itself (for the forseeable future), but using biofeedback and controlling brainwaves to translate into analog control voltages has been in practice since the late 60's, and more recently, digital values for MIDI / OSC. My friend and synthesis teacher Don Garbutt, an older gentleman, told me about how rooms full of techno hippies at university would gather round to watch someone struggle for 40 minutes to finally be able to control the pitch of a single oscillator in a modular system with their mind. He admitted it that for all the cool ideas behind it, it was sorta like attending a dodgy theremin performance, but other more dedicated and well funded pioneers like Kraftwerk have been all over that technology with moderate success. Brainwave Freq - CV We live in interesting times and the collision of the human mind with both practical and artistic technologies will be an emergent shift worth watching. :) • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Awesome video! I'd like bionic implants in a few different levels. On a personal level, I am EXTREMELY near-sighted, so I would like bionic that can see well. I can expand this to a professional level, since, as I scientist, I often find myself in the lab (at least I did in college, heh, we'll see what happens in the real world), and I would love to be able to zoom in on the things I am working with, which is what would take me from just wanting lasik to cure my near-sightedness to wanting a bionic eye. It would also be neat if the eye can give me an AR view with measurements if the things I was working with. Also on the professional level, bionic arms and hands that are better at controlling their motor functions and allow to me to make more efficient and precise measurements in the lab. This would also help me to work on my experiments with a decreased chance of sample contamination due to human error. On a different level, as someone who loves body modifications in general, I'd be interested to see how I could use this technology to apply it aesthetically to the human body. However, one of the things I like about body modification is that I feel that the process or organic body modification allows to to get to know my own body better and connect with it, so I'm also worried that bionics might take some of that away from me. I'm definitely interested in how bionic implants can take us from being humans to being transhuman, but also how they can strip away our humanity. 1.  (10513.3) I'd take some kind of eye enhancement, I've had total deafness in my right ear since I was a baby, so some kind of replacement there would be nice, and I'd like my joints all rebuilt to not be so damn frail, as human joint design is clumsy at best (I'm looking at you, God!) Mainly though, I want my sub-dermal communicator. I look forward to being part of the hive mind. :) On a marginally more serious note, I've been doing a lot of thinking and writing about H+ recently, and am very interested in how an h+ society would treat those that opt out of improvements. • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Ooooh, yes a subdermal communicator would be amazing! i'm sure we'd see some sort of shift in how H+ and non H+ people see each other. Those who opt to willfully remove a limb to get a bionic one would be shunned by a lot of people - I wouldn't surprised if religious types were against it. Those who get implants and such for the fun of it might be thought of as freaks at first, but as it became more popular, the H+ and non H+ crowd would start getting along, and then maybe H+ would become the dominant norm. I'm curious to know how to those who become H+ due to accidents will treat those who were born "normal" (for lack of a better word) or weren't in accidents that choose to replace body parts with bionics. • CommentAuthorArgos • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 Also curious to know how advancements in H+ technology can be of use to genderqueer folk. One of my professors, who is a transwoman, did her MFA using second life. She immersed herself in second life for 365 hours as a dragon, to mimic the one year requirement that transfolk are required to live as their sex of choice if they want reassignment surgery, to ask the question if living virtually as a different species can satisfy that requirement for those wishing to be something completely different. Anyway, she used to talk a lot about the use of technology to become "Transreal," and how we can use such technologies to create and shape our own identities. CommentAuthorIron Imp • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2012 edited You may actually be able to overcome your deafness in the one ear with a Cochular implant. It's obviously a complicated procedure and if you get by in day to day life fine, it might be more trouble than you need, but if you're interested here's the link on the general technology and procedure - Just so you know about some of the options out there. 2.  (10513.7) @Iron Imp - Thanks for that, it made for an interesting read. I think I'll hold out for a better version tho. As you say, I function perfectly well with one ear, in fact my direction specific hearing is very strong, I've always assumed that it is compensating for the loss of the other one. This is what puts me off: Still, chalk another one up to H+. Bionic ears are go. Whilst I'm writing, it occurs to me that another of the "conditions for transhumanism" is that we start to grant and recognise rights for sentient non-humans, which reminds me of this story and this lawsuit, and I wonder how far off we are from that. • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2012 @Magnus - Governments around the world are consistantly failing to recognise Human Rights Conventions (or in the case of the UK, trying to back out of previous agreements). What makes anyone think that they are likely to grant rights to non-human sentient beings - apart possibly from a few incredibly progressive nations? (nb, Not that I am necessarily against the idea) Regarding the H+ movement, I am one of the "we have been transhuman ever since we started to use tools" camp. As someone who uses an augmentation to see properly at normal distances (ie. I am miopic and wear glasses to correct my sight), and other tools to augment my vision for greater distances (binoculars and telescopes) or smaller scales (microscopes) I believe we have already gone beyond our natural biological limitations. Is someone fitted with a medical pacemaker a cyborg? How about Oscar Pistorius? Already non-surgical (i.e drug) treatments are commonplace in sports to boost individuals performance. Are steroid/HGH/EPO users PostHuman? On a personal level I feel somewhat in a minority in that I don't have any tattoos/piercings or other body-mods, and I can't foresee a time where I would be wililng to grind myself with any kind of H+ augmentation, beyond possibly wanting my vision corrected with LAY-ZERS at some point. I have no issue with whatever with other people going down the elective body-mod route and I can see why people would want to augment their fleshy meatselves for additional/greater abilities. As a fan of wearable computech, Clatter-style HUD contact lenses would be kinda awesome though..

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Saturday, December 20th, 2014 Why You Must Push Past Your Pain Barrier effort and pain barrierI often call the gym or workout environment “the strength of will proving ground” because we have an opportunity while in that environment to not only test our will but develop it as well.  But the physical training environment is even more than that. It can also serve as an acute opportunity to identify the self imposed limits we place on ourselves in any given area of our life. If you have ever run into what appears to be an immovable WALL on your success path (that somewhat unidentifiable and insurmountable THING that stands between you and your objective) and were unable to get past it – you may understand what I mean when I say “self imposed.” In my opinion and experience those so called “insurmountable/immovable external obstacles” don’t exist. It has been proven time and time again that there is virtually nothing that can stop a completely committed, motivated and determined human being from achieving their objective, providing the objective falls within the laws of physics… and even those laws are not written in stone when it comes to the power of human endeavor. So why then, if 10 people set out to achieve something great will 8 of those 10 people be stopped dead in their in tracks long before reaching the end of their journey? The answer to that question is the same answer to why most people never achieve the physical results they anticipate experiencing when they start an exercise program. They’re unable, unwilling or lack the motivation to PUSH PAST THEIR SELF IMPOSED PAIN BARRIER. Several years ago, around the same time Richard Simmons introduced short shorts, slouch socks and sweating to the oldies to the world we began to reject the phrase “NO PAIN, NO GAIN” as excessive and unnecessary.  Since that time we have been popping one pain medication after another and have been running to the doctor’s office at the first sign of illness or physical discomfort all in a desire to avoid physical pain at all costs. The truth is – for decades we have been conditioning ourselves to avoid anything that so much as resembles pain or discomfort in our lives and as a result we’ve wound up suffering even more with no growth to show for it.  “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle” ~Napoleon Hill Bodybuilders, and elite athletes of every verity have long since understood that pain and discomfort in the gym is part of the growth and development process and have conditioned themselves to push past the otherwise self imposed physical pain barrier that would and does stop most people. The gym is an opportunity for you to feel the pain, push past it and even embrace it as part of your personal growth process both physically and emotionally.  It will serve as a new conditioning process and open the door to understanding and excepting the pain, discomfort, fear, doubt and uncertainty that will unavoidably precede the growth you want to experience outside the gym in your relationship, finances and leadership position in the world. Keep in mind one of my favorite sayings as you attempt to push through,  “Pain is only weakness leaving your body” Watch The Muscle and Fitness Video Tom Terwilliger Muscle and Fitness Welcomes Tom TerwilligerSee all the MAX MIND SET Videos Fitness - Mindset - Goal Achievement No BS. No Spam. Sign up for the MaxMindset newsletter and get the info you want delivered straight to your inbox! Share This Page BANNER - unleashing ambition machinex One Response to “Why You Must Push Past Your Pain Barrier” 1. I’ve had a few people take exception to this “push past the pain” philosophy when I posted the video and blog post on FB. So I should make the obvious even more obvious by stating it clearly. Pushing past the pain barrier does not mean ignoring the pain of an injury or a serious orthopedic problem. Those are not internal self imposed (although possibly self inflicted) barriers – they may be issues that should be identified and dealt with not ignored or arbitrarily pushed past for the sake of short term progress. And with a few exceptions they are not necessarily legitimate excuses for stopping or quieting. The pain barrier obstacles I refer to in the video are the ones that stop us from banging out 10 or 12 reps when our body says stop at 8. It’s the self imposed weakness that shows up in the form of pain or discomfort just when we are about to break through to knew levels of growth either physical or emotionally. The conditioned weak will use the discomfort of a simple hangnail or blister as an excuse for not showing up and unless you want that to be you – you must recondition yourself to push past pain and discomfort in the name of growth and development.

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=/nojavascript/"> Mutation | CK-12 Foundation Skip Navigation Key Concept Mutations are caused by environmental factors known as mutagens. Examples of mutagens include radiation and certain chemicals. Germline mutations occur in gametes, and somatic mutations occur in other body cells. Mutations may alter entire chromosomes or change a single nucleotide. Their effects may be neutral, beneficial, or harmful. Mutations are essential for evolution because they are the ultimate source of genetic variation in a species. • CA.9–12.IE.4.c; CA.9–12.LS.7.c • NSES.9–12.C.2.3; NSES.9–12.C.3.1; NSES.9–12.F.1.1 • AAAS.9–12.5.A.1; AAAS.9–12.5.B.4, 5; AAAS.9–12.5.C.6; AAAS.9–12.5.F.3, 5; AAAS.9–12.6.E.2 Lesson Objectives • Identify causes of mutation. • Compare and contrast types of mutations. • Explain how mutations may affect the organisms in which they occur. Lesson Vocabulary • chromosomal alteration: mutation that changes chromosome structure • frameshift mutation: deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides that changes the reading frame of the genetic material • genetic disorder: disease caused by a mutation in one or a few genes • germline mutation: mutation that occur in gametes • mutagen: environmental factor that causes mutations • mutation: change in the sequence of bases in DNA or RNA • point mutation: change in a single nucleotide base in the genetic material • somatic mutation: mutation that occurs in cells of the body other than gametes Teaching Strategies Introducing the Lesson Call on volunteers to describe drastic mutations they have read about or seen in science fiction stories or movies, or describe examples yourself. Explain that real mutations rarely have such drastic effects, but they are extremely important. Without them, evolution could not occur. Tell students they will learn more about mutations in this lesson. Assign the activities at the URLs below. Students will investigate the effects of different mutations on the encoded proteins. Differentiated Instruction Pair less proficient readers with more proficient readers, and ask partners to make a table comparing and contrasting the following types of mutations: deletions, insertions, duplications, inversions, translocations, and point mutations. LPR Ask a group of students to create a public service announcement identifying common mutagens that may cause cancer and ways that people can reduce their exposure to them. Have students make a video of their announcement and present it to the class or, if possible, the entire school. Science Inquiry Have students do the online activity Test Neurofibromin Activity in a Cell (see URL below). After reading about the protein neurofibromin and its role in normal cell division, students will predict how mutations in the gene for this protein might affect cell division. Then they will use an interactive animation to test their prediction. They will observe the simulated effects of different mutations on cells as though seen through a microscope. Common Misconceptions Misconceptions about mutations are common. Discuss the examples below and give students the correct facts as well as examples of mutations that illustrate why the misconceptions are false. 1. All mutations are harmful. 2. All mutations change the protein products of genes. • Fact: Some mutations have no effect on protein products. For example, mutations may occur in noncoding sections of DNA, or they may result in synonymous codons that code for the same amino acids. 3. All mutations have phenotypic effects. • Fact: Many mutations are recessive and do not affect phenotypes. Having one copy of the normal allele is sufficient for a normal phenotype. For example, the mutations that cause PKU and cystic fibrosis are recessive. Two copies of the recessive alleles must be present for the diseases to appear in the phenotype. Reinforce and Review Lesson Worksheets Review Questions Points to Consider Sometimes even drastic mutations do not affect the proteins produced by a particular type of cell. The reason? The genes affected by the mutations are not normally used to make proteins in that type of cell. In all cells, some genes are turned off — they are not transcribed — while other genes are turned on. • How do cells control which genes are turned on and used to make proteins? • Can you think of a mechanism that might prevent transcription of a gene? Image Attributions You can only attach files to None which belong to you Please wait... Please wait... Image Detail Sizes: Medium | Original Original text

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Buying E-PL5 or E-M10 Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread Junior MemberPosts: 40Gear list Re: Buying E-PL5 or E-M10 In reply to ttan98, 10 months ago Well once you add in the cost of a new or used EVF, the price of the EPL5 is closer to that of the EM10, so it's hard to argue for the EPL5. I have an EPL5 with VF4 and I love the combo, but I can't say I'd buy it today over the EM10.  I actually find the EPL5 okay to use even with my large-ish hands, but I suppose it depends how you shoot.  I mostly just keep it in A and use exposure comp and a back button to focus, so I don't really feel that deprived of controls (plus the super control panel is only a button press away). However the little dial thing on the back is annoying and fiddly, and when I look at my other camera - a Ricoh GR - which is not that much bigger, I wonder why Olympus couldn't have fit in an additional dial or lever or something.  But I do like how the EPL5 can go from something you can fit in your palm like the GR (with a pancake lens and no EVF) to something more substantial in your hand eg. with the VF4 and a larger lens.  mcentral's gear list:mcentral's gear list Ricoh GR Sony a6000 Sony E 50mm F1.8 OSS Reply   Reply with quote   Complain Keyboard shortcuts: Color scheme? Blue / Yellow

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It was only a matter of time before the lovable punks at Mega 64 took on Beyond: Two Souls for some real-world mockery. And lo, they have done so, and it's pretty funny. Guess what: people don't appreciate it when a dude with a camera goes around knocking crap over.

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Knowing Movie Review Summary Actors: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Knowing Lucinda Embry writes a page of random numbers and adds it to a time capsule in her elementary class. 50 years later, Caleb Koestler retrieves the capsules contents while he is a student at the same elementary school. Caleb's father, John, begins investigating the numbers. John finds out that the numbers have a specific set of sequences referring to major disasters. John tracks down Lucinda's daughter Diana and Diana decides to help John. She tells John that Lucinda used to hear voices. John has a sudden revelation and goes to telescope observatory. While he is there, he discovers a solar flare that will soon destroy Earth. Diana and John think about taking their children to the caves. Meanwhile, Diana stops for gas and some strangers take their children. Diana chases them and crashes in her car. John reaches her and watches her die. A space ship descends from the sky and takes John's son and leaves John. The solar flare will soon destroy earth unless someone does something to stop it. Best part of story, including ending: What I hated about this story is that everyone dies. Best scene in story: My favorite scene was when the solar flare comes because it was entertainingly scary. Opinion about the main character: What I liked most about Johnathan was that he had the will to find out more information from Diana about Lucinda. Please enter the number 42 plus two in the right box. Script Analysis of Knowing Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Main Character Writing Style Movies with storylines, themes & endings like Knowing Knowing Message Board (click here) 2 Ways to Search! Our Chief Librarian

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© 2014 Shmoop University, Inc. All rights reserved. The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Analysis: Plot Analysis Initial Situation When the manciple of the local university becomes ill, Symkyn, the miller, takes the opportunity to steal even more flour than usual from it, prompting two clerks, John and Aleyn, to journey to the mill next time to prevent it from happening again. All of the elements for a really good conflict are in place with this set-up: Symkyn's more blatant than usual cheating of the university prompts John and Aleyn to boast that they'll prevent him from doing it again; having publicly announced their intention, they can't back out now. But we know Symkyn's a proud guy, not to mention supremely unethical. Will he figure out a way to cheat the students despite their stratagems? John and Aleyn announce their intention to watch the corn being ground. Symkyn promises himself that he'll manage to cheat them anyway. Symkyn makes the conflict between himself and the clerks totally clear. He also clarifies that he sees the conflict as one between the learning of clerks and the common sense street-smarts of peasants like him. The clerks ask to spend the night at Symkyn's house, and bed down with the family in their shared sleeping quarters. Just when we thought the conflict was over and Symkyn the clear winner, John and Aleyn decide it's too late to go home tonight. The fact that they bed down in the family's shared quarters, in close proximity to Symkyn's wife and daughter, and that they've got a bone to pick with Symkyn, leads us to suspect that something naughty will soon be afoot. Aleyn has sex with Symkyn's daughter. John has sex with Symkyn's wife. Aleyn and John get "payback" for their stolen corn. Everything in the story has been leading up to this, from numerous double-entendres in the tale's scenes and language to the opportunity presented by those shared sleeping quarters. When Aleyn calls sex with Malyne "esement," meaning both payback and physical release, we know that the sex is pretty much a done deal. John moves the cradle to his own bed to get Symkyn's wife into it. As Aleyn creeps back to their bed in the morning, he's confused by the misplaced cradle and crawls between the sheets with Symkyn. Mistaking the miller for John, Aleyn whispers to him that he's just had sex with Malyne. The minute John moves that cradle, we know disaster's about to strike. Sure, it causes Symkyn's wife to hop into bed with John, but since Aleyn doesn't know a thing about it, he's sure to hop into the wrong bed, too! Sure enough, he does, and to make matters even worse, he brags about sleeping with Malyne to the last person he should. Now the reader is left wondering how Symkyn will react to this slight to his daughter's honor. Symkyn leaps out of bed in a rage, and he and Aleyn go at it. His wife, mistaking him for a clerk, strikes him over the head with a staff. Aleyn and John beat Symkyn unconscious. The tensions that have been brewing between the characters, and the suspense that has been slowly building, get released here in physical violence. Finally, the rivalry between the clerks and the miller, which was never stated outright but always implicit, is out in the open. John and Aleyn leave the mill, taking all their flour – including the part that John stole – with them. The narrator explains that "thus was the miller repayed." John and Aleyn are the clear winners in this conflict, getting not only their full amount of corn, but also something "extra" in the sex they have with the miller's wife and daughter and the beating they give Symkyn. The narrator draws a moral from the story, saying that this punishment served Symkyn right for cheating his customers. People who Shmooped this also Shmooped... Noodle's College Search

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Breaking News Jacinda Barrett Omarr's daily astrological forecast, For release 08/02/14 for 08/02/14 BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Jacinda Barrett was born in Brisbane, Australia, on this date in 1972. This birthday gal is known for her roles in such films as "School for Scoundrels," "Poseidon" and "Ladder 49." She starred in the short-lived 2013 TV series "Zero Hour" and has played recurring roles on "The Following" and "Suits." Barrett has been married to actor Gabriel Macht, star of TV's "Suits," since 2004 and the couple has two children. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't put a down payment on your dreams. Sometimes it's good to build castles in the air and treasure a few unrealizable fantasies. At the same...

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To the ends of the earth Between tea breaks, Alastair Sawday explores the hidden sandy coves and gorse-scented clifftops of the unchanging south-west Cornish coast Like many Englishmen brought up in the 50s, I spent most of my holidays in the UK. I went to the Western Isles and knew them as lovely beyond believing; Holy Isle, too, and the beaches of Northumberland. I spent weeks and weeks in Wales as a cadet and boy scout, wet behind the ears and in my boots. I lived in Suffolk and knew the marshes around Havergate Island like my hand's back. I tramped around Surrey and canoed the river Wey. But it was not until my widowed mother married a Cornishman that I learned of the Cornish coastal path. What a magical discovery that has been. Around south-west Cornwall there come together so many of the qualities we look for in a perfect walk: sea views, fresh wind, a sense of drama and of being away from it all, natural beauty on a grand scale, and a sense of achievement. You are never far from help or a cuppa, yet feel a million miles away. I have walked it countless times, with and without dogs, children and friends. I will do it again and again. The very words "Land's End" carry weight; there is a sense of magnificence about the place. If you ignore the buildings and press on, within 10 minutes you are on the clifftops. Your eyes strain against your common sense, dropping you vertically down to rocks that have broken the mightiest waves. The granite is beautiful, worn into shapes and colours that still lure artists. Streams emerge, dark from journeys across open moors, in the valleys and crevices. You are heading for Nanjizal, a wide, golden beach when the tide is out, a fine picnic place often devoid of people. But there is life all around: frigate birds soaring and plunging with killing accuracy, fulmars gliding closer to the cliffs, shags stretching their wings to catch the sun, even grey seals. In the past few years, basking sharks have also cruised in and out of the bays here. Climb up the long flight of steps from Nanjizal and you are heading for Porthgwarra, a tiny hamlet of fishing boats and granite cottages. You hug the clifftops, with the moor to your left and a fohorn blowing its regular warning out to sea. In spring, flowers bring the cliffs to new life: birdsfoot trefoil, kidney vetch, campion, wild garlic, foxglove and ragged robin. The bushes seem to be alive with birdlife; the path always surprises, with twists and turns, dips and rises, squeezing you between granite walls. The names, too, are dramatic: Ardensawah Cliff, Black Carn, Pellitras Point. Wreckers have lured ships to their doom here, and you can see how easy it must have been. High above Porthgwarra is the coastguard lookout, scanning the seas as far as the Lizard. You can take an easy path straight to the village or continue round the clifftop - more beautiful and exhilarating. At the head of the bay is a tiny cottage where tea and cakes (key elements of any good British walk) await. At the bottom of Porthgwarra's old slipway, you can dip your toes into the water and grope through the natural rock tunnel back to the path. It is 20 minutes to Porthcurno, but soon you are looking down to another golden beach, Porthchapel, a short rock-climb away. A gentle ascent, scented with broom and gorse, takes you to a high point above the bay, a place for painting and dreaming. And thence, in five minutes, to the glorious Minack outdoor theatre. The path now becomes a series of steps leading down to Porthcurno beach, one of Britain's best. There is a fine beach cafe, plus a village shop, and a museum that celebrates the crucial role of the transatlantic cable that emerges here. The beach is a great place to take off your boots and scamper (or limp) across the sand and into the water. It is always cold. The last half-hour lies along the cliff overlooking the beautiful Porthcurno Bay, facing the rocky peninsula with the Logan Rock on its ridge. Down to your right, at low tide, the brave bathers of "Pedny" beach stroll far out into the bay on the sand. This is as lovely as a sea can be, and a fine place to take your clothes off. Instead of branching left to take the farm track to Treen and its Logan Rock pub, you could press on and fork right to explore the real Logan Rock. The peninsula juts dramatically into the sea and a happy hour or so can be spent exploring. I have often taken a book and hidden among these rocks, on a patch of turf just above the sea. It is a fine thing to read, or snooze, while perched above such views. And in the 30 years I have been walking here, I have seen almost no change. Now that is special. · Alastair Sawday is the publisher of

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Thinking Differently – developing new ideas “It’s the things people know … that ain’t so”, Howard Armstrong, Inventor of FM Radio What is it that allows people to come up with ideas outside the box? When I ask teachers what do they see are the skills required for the 21st century some of their answers include lateral thinking, risk-taking, problem solving, etc. So teachers are also interested in creating thinking that is “outside the box”. Gregory Berns, in his latest book “Iconoclast”, addresses the world of people who create breakout ideas and distinguishes where they come from, how the brain often works against us and what we can do to seize the day. Our brain is a physical organ that consumes energy and performs feats of astounding complexity. The brain has a fixed energy budget (around 40 watts) and it can’t demand more power when it needs to do something more powerful thus it has evolved to do what it does as efficiently as possible. In its essence our brain is designed to: • make what is conscious … unconscious • take shortcuts all in order to ensure that its energy usage remains within its budget. Inside of these two principles we discover humanity’s greatness … and its constraint. The greatness comes in the brain’s ability to adapt … its constraint comes in the shortcuts it takes to ensure that it remains within its energy budget. I have two children and currently my 6 year old, Chiara, is learning to read. She began with looking at the pictures and interpreting what was happening on the page to tell the story. Bit by bit Chiara started to associate the words on the page with the pictures on the page. As she developed her sense of what the meanings behind the squiggles on the page meant I began to notice that she had created a bank of words in her head. Sometimes that bank of words were the actual words on the page and she reproduced them because it seemed right. Sometimes the word on the page … had similar letters to ones that she knew but it was a different word … and my wife and I corrected her. Bit by bit she is training her brain to recognise the words and attribute meaning to them from the context she is reading them in. Bit by bit the brain is making unconscious what is conscious. Through repetition and correction Chiara is developing her reading skills. It was the same when you and I learnt to walk. It was the same when I learnt how to throw a discus during my years of competing in track and field athletics. It is the same in everything that we learn. We learn a skill or knowledge such that we can refer to it automatically and unconciously. So that we don’t have to THINK! But the problem with this is that the brain takes short cuts in developing our concepts of the world. Here is an optical version of this. Kanizsa Triangle Kanizsa’s triangle appears to indicate that there are 2 triangles in the centre. One that is “white” and one that is bound by the vertices in 3 corners. But … that is your brain making a shortcut. What is actually on the page is 3 pacman type symbols and 3 angles. Notice how difficult it is to just see those 6 figures without associating the two “triangles” with the figure. Our brains take shortcuts all the time. It interprets the world and creates feelings, emotions, contexts, and ideas from its shortcuts. Paraphrasing Berns … when confronted with information streaming from the eyes the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible (time is energy). The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. This means it must draw on both past experience and any other source of information (such as what other people say) to make sense of what it is seeing. This is why having inquiries and having the students question their ideas and contexts is so important. In a world that is changing exponentially (many of your current students will be going into jobs and careers that have not been invented yet) the individual who does not challenge their ideas and beliefs will be left behind.StreetOptical Illusion If you want to develop new ideas and have students who think “outside the box” it will only occur in an environment that allows for that. Given what I wrote earlier, we must also have explicit teaching and rituals to embed knowledge and processes. However, the challenge I throw down to you today, and for the future, is How are you creating an environment where your students challenge their own thinking? If you are interested in joining a group of teachers developing 21st century skills register at Views: 46 Join The Future of Education Support Free PD! A Learning Revolution Project Twitter Feed © 2014   Created by Steve Hargadon.   Powered by Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service

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Bookmark and Share Soundtrax from our listeners around the world This summer on Dispatches we've been airing some of our correspondents' and listeners' memories of music they've heard on travels and assignments abroad.  We asked for more letters, and got some.  Roberta of Gananoque, Ontario: Like many people, I find music particularly evocative of places I've travelled and times in my life, and a couple of songs always take me back to memorable places. One is Melissa Etheridge's cover of Janice Joplin's "Piece of My Heart". I downloaded that song to my iPod while I was on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. I added it to my running playlist and would listen to it while running along Kandahar airfield early in the morning. Although I can't say for sure that the song and the images occurred at exactly the same time, when I hear it, it reminds me of running along-side the air-field at dawn, with black hawk helicopters lifting off in formation and the sun just starting to heat up the dusty landscape. My tour in Afghanistan was the most memorable experience of my professional career and that song takes me back there every time I hear it. The other is Bob Marley's "Is This Love". When I was in India in 1998, on an undergraduate term-abroad, it was strangely ubiquitous. I heard it in so many shops in the City of Pune, home of the university where I was studying, that it became the theme-song for my stay. I have no idea why that song was so popular with Indian shop-keepers, but it's a great song, and makes me think of the crowded, colourful shopping district of Pune every time I hear it. I love your show, thank you for so many interesting stories. Best wishes, Jon Claydon, who now lives and works in London, U.K.: Good morning I listened with interest to Neil MacDonald's description of hearing Bowie's 'This is Not America' (July 7 Dispatches) in a German beerhall while surrounded by Nazis and Nazi memorabilia. Music is definitely evocative and can take me back to an event (maybe a bit less political) or a period in my life in the first bars of a song. Some music that comes to mind: Bowie's 'Let's Dance' cassette which I listened to on my Sony Walkman on a Greyhound bus from Calgary to Vancouver when I started university at UBC. The music matched my excitement of a new start in Vancouver, particularly 'China Girl'. A couple year's later I took a year out from UBC to study French in Paris, and accompanying me was Rick Gleason, the Canadian man who was later killed in the Bali bombing, who liked my idea of getting away for a while. Without the aid of any Walkman I kept singing (in my head, I hope) Joni Mitchell's 'Free Man in Paris'. It was the theme song for the whole time I was there, and while I was escaping the inevitable career grind for one more year, just as the writer of the song had escaped the music industry grind And a decade after that, living in London at the height of Brit Pop, on a motorcycle drving on the Hammersmith flyover one beautiful summer's evening with Blur's 'London Loves' playing in my ear. So much evocative music. All the best Jon Claydon Hammond Joshi of Moncton: A few years ago, 2007, I went to India on business trip and visit a friend from Canada who was trying to establish himself in India. We're both East Indians but lived most of our lives in Canada. It was a trip with many modes of travel. We went north to the foothills of the Himalayas, flew to Banagalore, visited a coffee plantation, saw a ginger farm, and it was amazing. The whole country is so diverse in all of its geography and people. The one thing I loved is the music. India is an attack of the senses. The colours, the smells, the pollution, the noise of cars and imaginative other forms of transport from overloaded trains and buses, to just plain old fashioned animal powered carts. The music and in particular a song that will forever be etched in my brain, is a song called  "Lift Karadey " by a singer named Adnan Sami Khan.  It's a song about getting money, and getting ahead. Looking to the heavens for God to give a guy a bit in life. Children would dance in the streets, traffic would grind to a halt and the poorest of the poor, would rejoice. It was an anthem to them. To me it reminds me of just how great we have it in Canada and how a song can literally warm the hearts of those that have nothing but hope. It's a catchy little number and I love it. Thanks. Elaine Cawadias of Ottawa: The first trip my husband and I took as a married couple was in 1981.  We went to Mexico and visited several archeological sites.  Chichen Itza and Uxmal were amazing but we will especially remember our experience at Teotihuacan.  Picture it. Ee are at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun enjoying the view and the magnificent ruins.  And then we heard it; "can you take me to Funkytown?"  Making his way up the steep steps of the pyramid was a young fellow with a ghetto-blaster the size of a small suitcase (as they were "back in the day") blaring out that classic disco hit Funkytown. Unforgettable. Damon O'Brien of Victoria: Rick, I caught your program last week, and was fascinated by your story about covering Marc Garneau's launch into space (Dispatches June 16), and the music that experience lodged in your memory.  I thought I would share a musical passport with you of my own, which I hope you enjoy.  I was in Bornean Malaysia a few years ago, and like other young drifters, I would pick up the guitar whenever I saw one, hoping to endear myself to the locals, whose naive tongue I knew next to nothing of.  Music being, after all,  the 'universal language.'   It turns out there are lots of equally clumsy guitar players over there, and like me, they also love American pop music.  Their handicap being, however, that very few of them could speak more than the most basic English.  What a strange and joyful experience, to play in a room full of smiling until-just-then strangers, all singing along with great spirit, using "la-la-la-la" throughout the many verses of "Hotel California" and coming in strong on the chorus.  I'll remember that song with great fondness, and thank you for sending my thoughts back to those verdant days. • Commenting has been disabled for this entry.

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What is an asteroid? Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit around the Sun; most of them are located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe there may be more than 50,000 asteroids in that belt, and perhaps millions more elsewhere in space. They range in size from nearly 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter to some as large as 600 miles (965 kilometers) across. (While 20 feet seems small compared to 600 miles, the smallest asteroids would still have a strong impact if they hit Earth.) Slight changes in asteroids’ orbits occasionally cause them to collide with each other, resulting in small fragments breaking off from the whole. Sometimes these small fragments leave their orbit and fall through Earth’s atmosphere as meteors. Some scientists have suggested that it was a huge asteroid’s collision with Earth 65 million years ago that caused the massive damage that led to the extinction of dinosaurs.

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