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If you would like a great place to relax and stay cool, come in and visit us at the Alma Public Library. Relax in air conditioned comfort and read the newspaper or the current edition of People magazine. The library has many popular magazines and newspapers. We are sure to have one that interests you. Or bring your laptop computer in and take advantage of our free wireless service. If you don't have a laptop you can use one of the library's computers. If you need to get a library card just bring your picture ID with you and fill out a short application and we will get you a new library card for no charge if you live in Gratiot County.
Some other services the library offers are: Faxing for $1 per page, copying service for 15 cents per black and white page or $1 per color page, and document scans for $1 per page.
The library has meeting rooms available for groups and business meetings or parties. There is no charge for a nonprofit group, a $50 fee for a business meeting and a $25 fee for a party. The library accepts credit and debit cards for a small transaction fee.
If you've got your sunscreen, towel and beach chair ready to go – don't forget to pack one of these recommended "Beach Reads" into your tote for some hot summer reading: "The Hit" by David Baldacci, "A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume 2" by George R.R. Martin, "Hellhole: Awakening" by Brian Herbert, "Katie's Choice" by Amy Lillard, "Sweet Tea Revenge" by Laura Childs, "Poppy Done to Death: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery" by Charlaine Harris, "Dangerous Refuge" by Elizabeth Lowell, "Dream Eyes" by Jayne Anne Krentz, "Something Wicked" by Lisa Jackson, "First Sight" by Danielle Steel, "The Chance" by Karen Kingsbury, or "Fly Away" by Kristen Hannah. These are just a few of the new books the library has received in the last month.
We have also received many new children's books, movies and books on CD. Come in and check out the new arrivals. And don't forget that ebooks are now available at the Alma Public Library. There is sure to be something to please everybody in the family.
If you have been enjoying this year's Evening in the Park Series, there are still three programs left that you won't want to miss. On Tuesday, July 23 at 7 p.m. is "Wonders of Nature". Explore nature at the Forest Hill Nature Area. As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, staff members from the Nature Area will take participants on hikes to see wildflowers, birds, insects, and other wonders of nature. Cancelled if it rains. The Nature Area is located at 11297 N. Rich Road.
On Tuesday, July 30 at 7 p.m. is "Jazz it up!" Enjoy an evening of local talent. The Central Michigan Jazz Ensemble artists range from middle school students to community members. With their upbeat music, you will be sure to get out of your seat. This event will be held at the Breckenridge JC Park. The rain site will be the Breckenridge High School cafeteria.
The last program this summer is on Tuesday, August 6 at 7 p.m. called "Ephraim Williams, Pioneer Fur Trader." Step back in time as Kyle Bagnall presents a costumed, first-person program based on the life of Ephraim Williams, who arrived at "The Forks" of the Tittabawassee and Chippewa Rivers at Midland in 1828 to reopen a trading post as an agent of the American Fur Company.
You'll hear tales of this renowned pioneer family as they established a farm in an unbroken forest, traded with Native Americans and even searched for a copper mine on the Pine River in Gratiot County. This event will be held at Gratiot County Reed Park, in North Star. This event will be cancelled if it rains.
Make sure to put the Opera House celebration on your calendar for August 7 from 6 until 8:30 p.m. The Opera House celebration will happen in Alma at the historic downtown Alma Opera House. There will be tours of the newly renovated historic facility with commentaries by local historian David McMacken, and by the leader of the renovation and restoration effort, Kurt Wassenaar. Assorted entertainments, including the "Opera House Band," under the direction of Claude Lemmer, and special refreshments are also planned.
This is a local fundraising event for the Alma Community Art Center and the Alma Public Library, sponsored by the Alma Community Arts Council and the Friends Of The Alma Public Library.
Tickets for the event are $10 advance sale, or $15 at the door, and are available at the Alma Community Art Center, 312 Woodworth Ave., Alma, or the Alma Public Library. See you at the Opera House celebration!


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No one told me that mythological creatures existed. No one told me that they would be such a major part of my life. If I could go back, would I choose to never have met any of them?
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It was late on a Tuesday night. Do not ask how I know it was a Tuesday; I just remember it. I remember everything from that night. Vividly. It was also the year I had first seen Scream. Eight months has passed since my sister, Susanna, had suddenly disappeared. I did not think of any of those things that night.
It was around nine-thirty and I had just finished showering. My parents were out with another couple and I was watching Gabriella, my younger sister. She was downstairs in the basement watching the third season of Gilmore Girls. I would join her with sodas and popcorn despite my diet after I finished drying my hair. I stepped into my my underwear and dropped the towel. A shrill wolf whistle sounded. I dropped to the floor and looked over my shoulder. The window was wide open and the blinds were not closed. Flushing bright crimson, I grabbed by nightgown and pulled it on. I looked down and rolled my eyes when I realized that it was a "sexy" thing. Lingerie, technically. I stormed over to the window and stuck my head out.
"Grow up!" I yelled before closing the curtains. Blinds just took too long.
Still annoyed, I dried soft red hair quickly. Despite the fact that I had over two feet of hair, it took me seven minutes to dry it. Miranda Lambert's Famous in a Small Town was playing. I sang out of tune with it why I rolled the hair dryer's cord. When as sensual male voice joined mine, the appliance fell from my grasp. I whipped around and came face to face with the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
He was outrageously tall, like six' seven''. He had chocolate brown hair that was slightly but sexily curled with large black eyes. He was the color of milk but he was proportioned and hotly muscled. So basically, he was very very very very very very very very very very very very very handsome.
"Wh… who are you?" I breathed out, beyond terrified.
"Carson," he answered, his deep voice seemed to be caressing me. "And forgive me, Remembrance, for intruding on your privacy. Yet you are such an enticing creature… I could not resist."
He took a step closer to me. His blue jeans rustled, bringing me to my senses. "Leave," I hissed, "Or I'll call the police."
"I would be long gone before the police ever got here." Carson said with a smirk, "And you, my dear, would be with me."
My mouth dropped. Carson continued, unabashed. "I have been watching you for quite some time… years- longer than you ever would imagine. Far longer than you might deem appropriate. I have quite convinced myself that I am in love with you."
"I don't love you. I don't even know who you are." I countered.
Carson chuckled. Even it sounded sexy. He took another step and was suddenly right in front of me. His hand reached out as the breath in my body left me. His touch was icy could, probably because I was still over heated from the steaming shower. His hand was smooth. HIs touch was gentle at first and tentative, but he grew in his confidence and increased his pressure, pulling me closer.
Without warning, he pulled me foreword and kissed me right on the mouth. It all escalated out of control when I kissed him back. One hand cupped my face while another slid down my back, rubbing circles with his thumb. His pressure was far too hard and hurt, but I was too consumed with the pleasure he bestowed on me to complain. I moaned as his tongue- just as icy cold as the rest of his body- moved in figure eights around my mouth. Finally, I opened my mouth and our tongues became entangled in an intricate dance. I had never been kissed in such a way before- my only kisses being quick pecks on the lips, and it was better than anything I could have imagine. I had closed my eyes with bliss but quickly opened them when his hand th cupped my face trailed down my neck and found my erratic pulse. I
"This won't hurt at all," his whispered, his mouth moving down my cheek and neck.
"What ar-"
"Mem!" a familiar voice screamed, bursting into my room. My baby sister, Gabby, stood, clutching a dull child safe child safe kitchen knife. Her tear stained face was frozen in a mask of fear and my heart stopped.
"Gabby! Run!" I screamed. Not thinking, I pushed against air- Carson suddenly gone, and ran to her. Grabbing her wrist, I jerked hard, pulling her down the hallway with me. Adrenaline pulsed through my body. At the bottom of the stairs just before the door, I saw Carson waiting, his malignant black eyes glaring. I shoved Gabby past me into the kitchen. "The back door," I yelled to her, darting the opposite direction, hoping Carson would follow me instead of Gabby. His cold iron grip encircled my wrist. He pulled me close to him, our faces inches apart
"Hello again, my dear." His gazed softened, and he did not look so menacing.
I screamed. Carson gave me a comforting smile and I was momentarily reassured until I remembered that he was trying to kill me. "What do you want?"
"We must hurry. Those infernal police will be here in minutes."
Carson grabbed my hand. I struggled to pull it away. He was far too strong. "NO!" I yelled but he paid me no mind. With one last attempt, I stabbed his arm with the knight I had taken from Gabby.
And it had absolutely no effect. The knife bent side ways. The shock to my arm so bad that I dropped the knight and my bones shook.
"What the heck?" I asked.
"Freeze!" someone shrieked. My arms dropped down limply as Carson vanished once m ore. I sank to my knees and sobbed. Someone draped a blanket over my shoulders and helped me stand. My legs collapsed once more. Two arms scooped me up and carried me outside. An ambulance sat waiting. Only then did I see my rescuer's face. Brad, my cousin.
"Hey you," he grinned uncomfortably. Another officer, Brad's partner, Mike, carried a pale Gabby past me. I lost it. One tear escaped then another. And another. I sobbed on Brad's chest while he held me tightly. I did not see them put Gabby in another ambulance. I dried for a very very long time. Until eleven-thirty when my parents came home.
Momma ran up to me, paler than snow. She pulled me close to her but I just shrugged her away, numb. I did not want any one to touch me. Not for a long while.
"Honey, are you all right?" she asked me.
"I'm fine," I stonily answered, my face blank. I was exhausted and really wanted to sleep.
"What happened?" she asked Brad.
"Aunt Kathy, it would probably be better to discuss this elsewhere," Brad said with authority.
Momma pursed her thin lips as she followed Brad. Dad looked torn.
"Go," I whispered.
"You sure, kiddo?"
"Yeah. Go,"
He nodded and followed. Two paramedics walked up. They loaded an alarmed me up.
"Where are we going?" I panicked.
"To the hospital, hun," one answered.
"I'm fine," I protested.
"Procedure. Lay on the bed."
While I complied, one shut the doors. There was finality to it as we sped of into the night. I do not think that my folks realized that I was gone until some time later.
At the hospital they put me in a room by myself. A few minutes later, to my eternal embarrassment, a little old woman came in to do a rape kit on me. I told her that I had been raped. She just smiled and said that she was following procedure.
I cried again. When my parents did come, I told the same sweet nurse that I did not want to see them. She looked like she understood but let them in anyway. All my mother wanted to do was hug me. It was the same with my dad, but he looked lost.
I pulled away from my mom. She looked hurt and I instantly felt bad. I was saved form further contact when Brad walked in followed closely by Mike.
"Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jerod, we need to talk to Mem," Brad said with a grim look.
Momma paled. Dad asked, "Are you sure that it is a good idea?"
"It's fine, Daddy," I interrupted. Momma scowled at me, but Brad gave me a grateful grin. I returned it with a grin of my own. Brad, my cousin and awesome friend, knew how to me smile. Always. He knew me almost as well as Suky did. My heart stopped. Thinking of my twin sister, I burst into tears. My other half was gone forever and every memory and thought of her destroyed me. No one knew what happened to her. We were in New York City for vacation. I had gone to bed beside her and woke up in an empty room. Everyone was used to my random tears and even with the events of the night, every one knew that I cried for Suky.
"Why don't y'all go get some coffee?" Mike suggested a moment later, allowing me to collect myself.
My parents shuffled out the room looking angry. When Suky had disappeared, they were treated the exact same way and it made them feel helpless. I think that they thought that I might suddenly vanish just like my twin. Brad sat d own on the foot of the bed while Mike stood at it. I felt suddenly bashful. I had gone on many ride-alongs with them. But now that I was the victim, I felt useless and silly.
"How's Gabby?" I asked, gulping.
Brad sighed. "She is fine, just a little shaken up. We are more concerned with you."
"Nothing happened." I quickly stated.
Mike sighed. "Yu know how often we hear that in this line of work and how often it is not true."
"Yeah, but I'm not lying."
"May be," Brad said, "Do you know hat this guy wanted?"
I shook my head no. Brad sighed and looked at Mike. Mike took on a callous look. I scowled. Baby faced Mike Newell was not scary or intimidating.
"We talked to your sister, Remembrance. She said that she that the assailant was there for you. She said that she heard you talking in your room and then again in front of the door. She said it sounded like you had spoken before. Gabby also said that he called you something besides your name," he recounted.
"My dear," I immediately replied. "But no, I've never seen or met him before."
"What did he look like?" Brad asked.
"Like the most beautiful morning.'' I answered, remembering my attacker's beauty. "He is definitely the most beautiful man I have ever seen." Brad and Mike exchanged glances. I kept going. "He was very tall, maybe six' seven''. And he had dark chocolate hair. It was kinda curly and fell about to the middle of his face. He actually was really kinda sexy." Brad's eyebrows shot up but I was on a roll. He had snow white skin and inky black eyes. Also, he was built, but not muscular."
"And you are sure that you've never seen him before?" Mike sounded dubious.
"Okay. We swept the house and found some fingerprints. We also found a disfigured knife. Did you try to stab him?""
"I did stab him. But it didn't do anything. It just… bent." I shrugged.
Brad nodded. "'Kay. We're gonna go talk to your parents. You lie down and get some sleep. If you remember anything else jus-"
"His name is Carson and he said that he loved me." I blurted out.
"What?" Brad thundered.
I took a deep breath. "He told me his names was Carson and said that he loved me. Apparently, he has been following me for a long time." Years just sounded stupid. Even to me. He must have been exaggerating.
"Start from the beginning," Mike said as Brad sank into a chair.
After I finished, both were pale. "Jeez, Mem,"MIke said slowly. "Just get some sleep. We'll keep an officer outside your door."
"Thanks," I murmured, already asleep.
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Two men in separate cases avoided convictions for attempted murder by taking pleas this week in Davidson County Superior Court.
Two men in separate cases avoided convictions for attempted murder by taking pleas this week in Davidson County Superior Court.
Richard Marr, 57, of 275-C4 Hinkle Lane, and Michael Scott Hege, 42, of 407 Kepley Craver Ave., Apt. E, received active sentences Monday. Both were facing attempted murder after incidences investigated by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office in 2011.
Marr pleaded guilty to felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. He received an active sentence of four years, seven months to six years, 10 months. Marr was ordered to pay $3,004.50 in court costs, $805 in attorney fees and $8,794.60 in restitution.
Hege pleaded guilty to felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. He received an active sentence of two years, two months to three years, five months. Hege was ordered to pay $374.50 in court costs, $2,329.67 in restitution and $1,290 in attorney fees.
Hege's original attempted murder charge stemmed from an incident June 12, 2011. That was when Hege was accused of running over his wife, Kimberly Faulk Mize Hege, of the same address as her husband.
Capt. Casey Tarleton of the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said shortly after the incident that Hege attempted to run over his wife twice. She jumped out of the way the first time, and he came back around with a Jeep Grand Cherokee and struck her the second time, the captain said. The wife, whose injuries were not life-threatening, did not contact authorities and waited until June 13, 2011, to visit Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center, at which time the hospital notified the sheriff's office of her injuries.
Marr's charge of attempted murder resulted from a shooting at 322 Easter Road on Dec. 10, 2011.
E. Brian Grubb, chief deputy of the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, said on Dec. 12, 2011, that deputies learned during their investigation that one shot was fired with a shotgun at the victim, Linda Bean Hughes, of 322 Easter Road. Deputies determined that an acquaintance, Marr, had entered Hughes' residence where a struggle ensued. A news release from the sheriff's office stated the shooting resulted in Hughes being shot in an area that was not considered life-threatening.
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Skipper Carlos Edwards has hailed the spirit in the Ipswich camp
Carlos Edwards wants his Ipswich team-mates to pick up where they left off when the international break comes to an end.
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Edwards' 88th-minute strike clinched a massive 1-0 win over Bolton last weekend as Town signed off for the two-week hiatus with a four-point gap between themselves and the relegation zone.
Forty eight points would have been enough to seal Championship safety in each of the past four seasons but with Town currently boasting 46 and with another eight games left to play, it looks as though it will require more this term.
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"We have eight games left to play and we know just how important each one will be," he told the club's official website.
"The win over Bolton was massive for us and it means we will be heading into the next game with our heads held high, and it's important we hit the ground running after the international break.
"You could see how much the win meant to everyone by the celebrations and it's important we give a good account of ourselves from now until the end of the season, because we don't want to be going into the last game of the season needing a result.
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Woodridge Congregation plans June 1 BBQ fundraiser
Woodridge Congregational United Church of Christ will host a BBQ Fundraiser Dinner in the church Fellowship Hall on Saturday, June 1.
The dinner will run from 5 to 7 p.m., with continuous seating until 7, in the hall, located on 20 Jackson Road in Cranston.
The night's menu will include BBQ chicken, homemade baked beans, corn, potato salad, homemade cornbread and green salad. Members and friends of Woodridge UCC of Christ will also provide pastries and confections for a bake sale.
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Speaking of which, if the ending to this movie ends the same way as the tv then I would like Vivio,Einhart, Touma, and Lily scratching their heads in confusion as to why it fells wrong.
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|2012-01-13, 04:30
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Perhaps this is why A's was the best season since it allowed a full show casing of high action packed sequences with having all the main cast members on full display (especially fate and nanoha). Still even here the writing was evidently very weak.
Shit hit the fan in Strikers though. This is when the bloated the cast with tons of forgettable people and stopped focusing on what made this franchise popular. On top of that they pretty much trashed half the cast that was already there. Now weak writing coupled with an less interesting cast, with a bad budget, and you got nanoha strikers, a terrible piece of work.
Then you go to Nanoha Force.... And well that'd be a spoiler for the anime thread, but lets say it somehow gets even worst.
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Still, Vivid started to become pretty entertaining as the fights are getting progresively more awesome and is already started to approach StrikerS in my book. Force also started to earn some points with me, it raised from "horrible" to "average"(i started to find Tohma sympatethic and Veyron is a pretty cool character and i kind of admire Curren's superiority).
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|2012-01-13, 05:21
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The same can be applied on StrikerS, it's more enjoyable if you take it for what it is and don't compare it with A's because that's pointless. I also started to enjoy Vivid and ceased to hate Force under the same principle(i still hate what happened in Chapter 7 but i think the overall manga is ok).
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A's puts all of the Nanoha series after it to shame.
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I judge a show by what it tries to achieve and how successful it is in achieving that. Quality is a vague word to me.
Persona 4 is a very interesting show.. but only if you have played the game; otherwise, it has a limited target audience.
But it does excel very well in capturing its intended target audience. I'm surprised how WACKY and entertaining the show can be.
So, I consider this to be a successful adaptation, and thus, a good show despite lacking obvious lack of budget. It's not a good stand alone show, but I don't think it wants to be one.
The judge StrikerS the same way.
Low sales are not an indication of a bad show
but high sales always means that a show managed to give the majority of its target audience what they expected.
So I have to acknowledge that. How much to intersect with the target audience? How much of their interests are my interest? Hmm.. sometimes I wonder about that with Nanoha.
I have enough problems with StrikerS to the point that I would not call it a good show, but I wouldn't go so far to call it a crashed and burned franchise. That would imply that the franchise has betrayed its target audience, but I am not enough to be considered the entirely of that, for the better or worse.
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Sales for StrikerS surpassed those of A's in Japan.
As for me, I wouldn't be here if not for StrikerS. I always skipped Nanoha because the summary just screamed "generic mahou shoujo" it wasn't until StrikerS came along with 'dimensional bureau' in the summary that I got interested.
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Frederic Lau, Managing Director of Promontory Financial Group, will delve into the problems and potential issues in the Chinese banking sector, including government platform financing loans, slower exports and economy, real estate bubble, deregulation of interest rates, shadow banking, weak corporate governance, and weak risk management capability, amongst other issues. He will deliberate whether these problems will result in a hard landing for the banking sector, and consider the challenges ahead.
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I wasn´t sure about writing this, but since there´s a lot of quite experienced people in the forum who climb independent and are weary of the mandatory guide policy in Ecuador, I may add something that will maybe help in decisions to climb or not, in Ecuador.
I spent three weeks there in January. I traveled by myself but was able to join a group for my first two climbs.
I attempted Cayambe, and summited Cotopaxi with one company: Andean Face, owned by Javier Herrera (highly recommend, very high level of service), with Nacho Espinoza (UIAGM) as a guide, also, highly recommend him. Had Cesar as assistant guide (don´t know his last name) and met Gaspar Navarrete (UIAGM, guides for several top tier american companies). All these I can recommend.
For Chimborazo and Antisana, I decided to book with Gulliver. Even though I requested to be in touch with the guides to discuss details previously, I was utterly ignored. I had Rodrigo, from Baños, to guide me on Chimborazo. Not only extremely lazy (because of Chimbo´s conditions, he wanted to go only to a viewpoint at 5400m), but harassed me the entire time, to the point I felt scared of being around him, and was glad that once we got to the refuge there were more people there.
For Antisana, my main goal, I had Fernando Iza, manager of the Illiniza refuge. I figured this time I´d let the guide know ahead of time I was there to climb and nothing else, but he seemed professional at first so I felt I didn´t need to do that. I´m a beginner, I worry a lot about safety and I observe and question a lot so that I learn, and I made that pretty clear. But by the time we got to base camp of Antisana, he was already making passes at me, and worst of all, this time it was me and him in the mountain, no other groups.
I´ve also met a German whom Gulliver was taking to Cotopaxi only 2 days after he had arrived at Quito, and read some comments on travelers forums with similar complaints regarding uninterested guides. I made a complain to Gulliver but they seemed only to be worried about it until they managed to remove my negative review from Trip Advisor.
I realize some people do travel seeking sex-partying-etc, but in my perception, a mountain climb is no situation for that, and a mountain guide needs to know that as well, and behave accordingly. The difference in professionalism and commitment between Nacho and Cesar to Rodrigo and Fernando was immense. The good guides in Ecuador are awesome, but stay away from anyone but them.
I was pretty disappointed with the second half of my trip, and quite traumatized even though I had traveled alone before. But I wish I did have good recommendations before hand (I tried...), and would be really pissed off if I was an experienced climber, forced to hire a guide to climb a mountain, and then had to go through something like this and pretty much ruin my experience. So there´s my piece of advice.


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AUBURN HILLS (AP) — A former Oakland University student who was suspended for writing about his attraction for a teacher plans to try to keep his lawsuit alive.
A Detroit federal judge ruled in favor of the Detroit-area school in July, saying Joseph Corlett's work isn't protected by the First Amendment. Corlett titled it "Hot for Teacher," after a song by Van Halen.
Corlett's lawyer recently filed a notice of appeal.
The 57-year-old was suspended in 2012 after writing about his writing instructor. He compared her to the sexy starlet Ginger from the 1960s TV series, "Gilligan's Island," and said he was distracted by her beauty.
Corlett says he was told that no topic was off limits. Oakland said the work was clearly inappropriate. Corlett now lives in Sarasota, Fla.


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Books on recommended edu. software reviews by homeschoolers?
Also, any recommended adult continuing or remedial educational resources tested and deemed useful by homeschool parents or their children.
Where could I find some good educational software?
I am looking for educational software that has worked for you and your family. I remember some years past that there was a "big book of homeschooling software" or something like that, where software on varying subjects was used and rated. Does anything like that still exist?
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Any info leading to educational software you recommend would be appreciated.
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Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional - for now.
A federal court of appeals overturned it by an 8-7 vote Thursday, and now Michigan's attorney general and civil rights advocates are speaking out about the decision as universities figure out what it means for them.
Attorney General Bill Schuette's office called the ruling 'disappointing,' and is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Prepared to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the Michigan Constitution, and he will argue that entrance to our public universities should be based on equality, fairness, and the rule of law," Attorney General Press Secretary Joy Yearout said. "If you look at the logic of it, it simply defies common sense. What the court said today was that when you ban discrimination, you're actually creating discrimination, and it just doesn't make sense at all.
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights sees the overturning of Michigan's affirmative action ban a bit differently.
"We believe that this is a decision in the best interest of both the students and the universities in Michigan," Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Civil Rights Leslee Fritz said.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals found that part of the 2006 voter-initiated amendment, known as Proposal 2, was unconstitutional because it placed an unfair burden on racial minorities.
"Setting a different standard for admissions policies on race created a violation of the equal protection clause," Fritz said.
Michigan State University said in a statement it's reviewing the court's opinion, but they've always considered a range of factors for admission.
"Certainly universities in Michigan all have different policies about how they address the issues of diversity and fairness in their admissions policies," Fritz said. "They know what's right for their students and student body, and that's where these decisions really should be made, and not with politicians."
But some argue this was the will of the people; 58 percent voted 'yes' on Proposal 2.
"This amendment to the constitution was approved by a substantial majority of Michigan voters in 2006, and the Attorney General is committed to respecting the will of the voters, and expects the Supreme Court to agree," Yearout said.
The Attorney General has 90 days to file his request with the Supreme Court. His office expects to take that action in the next couple of weeks.
Yearout said the ruling has no immediate impact on university admissions. The ruling doesn't become binding until the court of appeals issues a formal mandate. The attorney general is asking that be delayed pending the U.S. Supreme Court's Reviews.
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Many eyes are also on an affirmative action-related case in Texas. MSU and other organizations said they're watching it closely to see how it might impact Michigan.


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I am a quasi-beginner of Latin and Ancient Greek. I've just completed one year of study in both languages at a private university in New York City. I plan to continue my studies on my own. I hope these forums will be helpful when I come across difficulties in this pursuit.
My Greek class was comprised mostly of seminarians and, thus, was targeted at NT Greek. It wasn't particularly intensive and I don't feel like I've gotten anything more than a fleeting introduction of the language. I'd prefer, if possible, to start with Homer and progress more or less chronological through the ancient writers. I've come across Pharr's Homeric Greek text for beginners, in which the author argues for the use of Homer as a beginning text. Is it practical for me to try to continue with Homer, given that I have some experience with Attic?
As for Latin, I'm quite content with Wheelock. We covered about half of the book and I plan on continuing with it until I finish all 40 chapters.
If you have any advice for me as I begin my self-guided study of these classic languages, I would greatly appreciate it.


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Actually, that would be the Inuit. The Innu nation is in Labrador (where the Inuit live too, but farther north and on the coast).
Aren't most movies fiction anyways? I mean, who cares if they're pirating fictitious or documentary films?Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction?
And the Hobbits sound like teenage girls and I didn't realize Middle Earth had cell phones.
By headcount or by percentage of population? I'd like to see the cited stats. It would cheer up some of my fellow readers.Readership statistics really haven't changed much in the last hundred or so years.
When camcorders first came out, a school friend's father set up a tripod in the projection room and taped a lovely copy of a then-popular movie. You could barely hear a low whir in the background from the projector...
Can't get more "inside" than that.
The movie industry, like the music industry, releases a large number of movies, but makes most of the money from a small number of hits. Since pirates will tend to target the most popular films, that 13% of films probably represents the majority of revenues and profits.
Of course, it's very difficult to determine just how much loss the existence of pirate versions of those films represents to the industry. It might be significant; it might be quite small. The MPAA hardly has a record of being honest in
Most people out there are simply not qualified to do statistics and they think they are. Turns out that most people don't even know how to count as anyone that has taken a discrete mathematics course would know. So verifying the results in all but a trivial case isn't possible for most people. For those of us who could do it, the data is often not available (intentionally). If it is available and we try to tell othe
You can't be serious. That's 11% of theatrical releases! Could you imagine if a retail store had an 11% shrink rate? (Hint for those unfamiliar with retail: 11% is head-rolling territory).I particularly liked how Geist dug up the fact that the MPAA itself says that there have only been 179 movies recorded with a camcorder over the past three years out of the 1,400 that the Hollywood studios released."
You can't be serious. That's 11% of theatrical releases! Could you imagine if a retail store had an 11% shrink rate? (Hint for those unfamiliar with retail: 11% is head-rolling territory).
Look, I disagree with the RIAA as much as the next
Actually - that's an 11% attempted rate. What does it really mean? Seriously?
So 11% of the movies were taped with a camcorder. Ok, fine. What happened after that? They had a whole 10 people download it before word got out it sucked horrendous road kill?
I understand your point, but I think the argument here is that we don't know what happened after the movie was taped, and we never will.So 11% of the movies were taped with a camcorder. Ok, fine. What happened after that? They had a whole 10 people download it before word got out it sucked horrendous road kill?
That's not necessarily 11%.
Where does the number 179 come from? Is that the number of arrests made? If so, then that's 179 out of however many million Canadians went to see those 1400 movies. Or maybe that's 179 releases made from camcorders in Canadian theatres, in which case all 179 might have come from one person or a small group of people. Maybe 179 incidents only accounts for ten movies with multiple recording attemps done for those movies.
Rather than speculating, you can just read the cited document(I know wild speculation is more fun):
"MPAA analysis of counterfeit copies of recently released movies on DVD seized throughout the world reveals that more than 90 percent can be sourced back to theatrical camcording. As of August 2006, MPAA had documented 179 member company titles that had been stolen in this manner since 2004, providing the source copies for pirate DVDs discovered in the markets of 46 other countries on every inhabited conti
"MPAA analysis of counterfeit copies of recently released movies on DVD seized throughout the world reveals that more than 90 percent can be sourced back to theatrical camcording.
Actually I didn't get that bit. *Why* would anyone bother distributing a camera capture ? Just to beat the DVD release ? The DVD release local to wherever the movie is from usually follows the theatre release quite quickly. Creating copies from that ought to yield far better quality. Stripping the zoning shouldn't be that hard
And when someone tries to equate 11% of 1400 theater releases being filmed by camcorder-wielding pirates to an 11% shrink rate, well that's called FUD . Now, if the box-office receipts of 179 theaters were stolen by thieves - that I'd call an 11
With the exception of SW ep 2 (which I already noted) I liked all those movies. There were plenty more that I liked as well, but they didnt fall under the must see category.
How does it relate? The previous poster was claiming that movies werent good lately, and that there were very very few must see movies. I happen to completely disagree. And if they truly were crappy movies, why would you pirate/steal/whatever them and watch them anyhow? Watching them admits they are worth your time.
Epic Movie has a 3% rating at Rotten Tomatoes [rottentomatoes.com]... I won't be rushing to watch, or download that one, I think.
"Epic Movie strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of humor into questi
Cool. But I think I'll trust the 97%.
My MP also informed me that he would like more information when the Minister Responsible For This Mess replies to our initial inquiry.
Democracy might not be dead yet in Canada...
Lying to the police or the courts, those who adminster the law, is an offense punishable by jail term and fines, yet the far more grevious misleading lawmakers is considered business as usual. One act affects an individual or small group while the other a nation. Why aren't these people going to jail? I'm all for this being considered a form of treason.
That technique is just one of the methods and is arguably the worst way to pirate. A lot of films get bootlegged during post production and often show up before the film is released in theaters. Waterworld showed up in Russia as this chaotic mix of dailies and some cut scenes, not that the final release was much better. The most popular way to pirate has to be ripped DVDs. My friends in distribution call them $20 masters. You buy one copy and use it as a master recording. I shot a couple of low budget films and my distributor told me he saw bootlegs selling for a $1 in Malaysia right next to 100 mill Hollywood films also selling for $1. There is no market in South East Asia for domestic films, they're all pirated and sold openly. I think you'll find there are pirates of every film made. Pirating is largely free and if they are reselling the pirates DVDs are cheap to burn.
the window of availability of the camcorded versions is very short. Counterfeiters invariably seek to improve the quality of their DVDs by dropping the camcorder versions as soon as the studios begin production of authentic DVDs (which provide the source for perfect copies).
The problem is that if it isn't Oda, it'll be somebody else. The movie and music industries will just turn their attention to the next Heritage Minister. No matter what political party is in power, the movie and music industry will always shmooze with the government to get their way.
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ESPN is now predicting Michigan vs. Texas A&M in the Capital One Bowl.
That'd mean Greg Mattison & Co. vs. Johnny Manziel.
So I went over and looked and Johnny's stats and I was just thinking this kid....OH MY GOD!!!.....
ESPN is now predicting Michigan vs. Texas A&M in the Capital One Bowl.
That'd mean Greg Mattison & Co. vs. Johnny Manziel.
So I went over and looked and Johnny's stats and I was just thinking this kid....OH MY GOD!!!.....
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please god no
And to make sure that game never happens, please Iowa, beat Nebraska.
Michigan needs to finish its own job in Columbus.
If wne do, at least we will be in a good bowl. And let's consider that these are just predictions and that we may get and even better bowl.
we are not whimpering about facing A&M this bowl season.
I want to see us in Pasadena
Of all the teams we could see in the Cap 1 Bowl - TAMU, yes please.
It's like the Alabama game is the only game A&M has played all season. Guess what, they've only played two other tough games all season, Florida and LSU, both were at home and both were losses. After Alabama, their next best win is...Miss St? Louisiana Tech (who they only beat by 2)?
Johnny Manziel is a very good QB. And TAMU played their best game of the season when Alabama played their worst, and had that game lasted an extra 5 minutes, Alabama wins it and we're talking about A&M as being a middle of the road SEC team.
Now, do I think we'll beat them up? No sir. But I think we have a better shot against them than against LSU, Florida or Georgia.
I'm just curious, but have you watched many Texas A&M games this season? I just ask because I've watched most of them (second favorite school) and I can't say that I really agree with your assessment at all.
Thats because Alabama can beat bad NFL teams, AND if they only have 5 more minutes in any game, they are sure to win.
This is Michigan! We fear no one but first we must take care of business and BEAT OHIO!
back in 1977, think it was. They rolled into Ann Arbor and everyone was freaking out leading up to the game. Tough Big 8 team and all that. And we stomped them, 50 something to something small, can't remember the score.
(No, I didn't look. I give myself a 50/50 chance of being right.)
Great point, but A&M was never part of the Big 8. They were part of the Southwest Conference until the Big 12 was formed (which combined some of the SWC teams with Big 8 teams).
Would rather be in the Rose Bowl duh..... but if that's how it shakes out, then BRING OL' JOHNNY FOOTBALL ON! Jake's got something for ya Johnny!
We made George Woodard look like George Jefferson.
Riverwalk is a terrific bar area Game sucked, horrible play-calling by Lloyd... Texas A&M folks are cross between MSU Juggalos, cadets and cowboys. No joke.
BUT... Would love to play them again, beat Johnny Football. Do to him what Henne & Co. did to Tebow in Cap One Bow.
I work with a ton of them (Houston) and I would love to shut them up.
If Martinez breaks his leg and the backup Nebraska QB throws 5 interceptions, then sure. Otherwise, you're letting desperate hope overwhelm your higher brain functions.
I don't expect Nebraska to lose that game. But stranger things happen pretty much every week in college football. I'd be pleasantly surprised, but far from shocked.
Based on most models, this would not be an insurmountable matchup. Using the Sagarin ratings, Texas A&M would actually only be a 1 TD favorite, which I'll take. Further, they give up 245 yards per game in the air on average per game, which is lower tier in Division I, as well as 136 yards on the ground, which is a good rush defense (32nd nationally). They are also 93rd nationally in turnover margin, which is something that we are opprtunistic enough to exploit, I would think.
Could be a good game, if it does indeed happen.
If we play TAMU, Denard Football & Devin Football will kick their asses! Go Blue!
I ain't scurred.
Bring 'em.
That is all.
Go Blue! BEAT OHIO!
Last time Michigan played a Heisman winner* in a bowl it worked out great.
* I assuming Johnny Football wins it this year. Hard to find a better candidate.
Don't want my 2 teams playing each other.
M is my first love, but I think A&M would win. Johnny Fucking Football is on fire and Evans is a beast. Also have top OL in the country and a projected top-5 pick on defense.
but there's a high probability Manziel would make us look stupid. If Braxton does anything like that this Saturday, Manziel would probably do it x2 or x3
Ok, when did we all become a bunch of whiny ninnies?
Please advise.
Pretty sure it was the 90s.
GO BLUE, BEAT OHiO!
I'm not the only MGoBlog poster with some ties to A&M -- see MichiganAggie above, and there are several others whose handles escape my memory right now. But I'm sure they share my mixed feelings about this potential matchup.
I'm a Michigan grad, but spent most of my childhood in Texas and come from a family of Aggies - my dad and grandfather both graduated from there, and several other relatives still work there. (It's to their great credit that as much as they love the school, my dad/grandfather never pressured me to go to school there; U-M had the academic program I wanted that wasn't offered at TAMU.) I went to dozens of A&M games both at Kyle Field and on the road as a kid. It's safe to say a little bit of maroon blood still courses through my veins, and I was thrilled to see the Aggies beat Saban's evil empire a couple weeks ago. But there's no question I'll always root for Michigan in a head-to-head matchup, as I did during the Alamo Bowl in '95.
A&M's a great school with passionate and extremely loyal fans/alums, great traditions, etc, so a bowl game b/w A&M and Michigan would represent a lot of what's great about college football -- two good teams, terrific (if very different) marching bands, lots of history and tradition on both sides. What a treat it would be to see two of the more exciting college football players in recent memory, Johnny Football and Shoelace, go head-to-head. (Aggie fans travel very well, so I'm afraid the crowd in Orlando would be hugely tilted toward A&M.)
That said -- while Michigan should never be "scared" of any opponent, I think this would be a tough matchup for us. A&M has a hell of a lot of Texas-bred athleticism on both sides of the ball. The offense would be particularly tough for us to handle, even granting the solid fundamental play of our defense and that Mattison would have a month to prepare. Their O-line is almost as good as Alabama's: A&M's two tackles, Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews (yes, he's from *THAT* Matthews football family) are both juniors who will probably come out early and be first-rounders along w/Taylor Lewan; and their senior center, Patrick Lewis, is a David Molk-style leader/linchpin. We all know about Manziel now, but their depth and talent at wide receiver w/Swope, Nwachukwu, 6-5 freshman Mike Evans, et al. would severely test our secondary. Malena and Michael are a solid duo at RB. And of course, their Oregon-style tempo would pose a huge challenge. Their defense is pretty good too (28th in scoring D). What's more, Kevin Sumlin seems finally to have rid this team of the "second-half-chokers" syndrome that plagued them under Mike Sherman. (This program has always been what Jackie Sherrill called a "sleeping giant," and perhaps Sumlin is the coach who will finally make them the national power that their recruiting base, fan support, facilities, etc. indicate they should be.)
I think it could be a competitive game, but I could also see a scenario in which Manziel & Co. light us up and our inability to run the ball consistently and keep their O off the field would cost us over 4 quarters. We're still a couple good Hoke recruiting classes away from having the depth and talent (particularly at the skill positions) to really stand toe-to-toe with these deep SEC teams like Alabama and A&M.


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The last article that was posted [slashdot.org] was only about typing individual letters, and of course people were quick to say how useless that was: slow and impractical.
And of course the researchers thought so too, which was fine because the technology isn't done yet.
The downside is you have to wear a skull cap with electrodes that capture your brain waves like an EEG machine.
I'm guessing it's progress, but I'd end up with documents that were full of "man, this is the 2nd stupidest hat I've ever had to wear at work" repeated over and over again.
Only the 2nd stupidest?
Anyway, I'm sure it will continue to improve, and they'll obviously have to figure out some way to filter out the thoughts that randomly pass through people's minds as they're using this. Although a passing thought may not even trigger this because it would be such a different brain pattern than that shown during the focused concentration of "typing".
Only the 2nd stupidest?
You're right... it's probably more like the 7th stupidest.
Man, that lady's got a huge ass.
Those could be anyone's thoughts!
Thought reading devices are the second most hyped technology I've ever read about.
(As quantum computing is the second most hyped area of computer science.
(Do thoughts exist before or after your consciousness has observed them?)
Thought based typing is nice.....
but I'm looking forward to the Outer Limits' thought-based sex machine. (See season 2.) All you do is THINK the action and it's transmitted over hundreds of miles to your partner in a similar machine who feels the result.
I'm guessing it's progress, but I'd end up with documents that were full of "man, this is the 2nd stupidest hat I've ever had to wear at work" repeated over and over again.
I suspect that would be an improvement for many reports. Now, if halfway through you got "but at least it's not as stupid as the boss's tie", then you're going to have a problem.
Seems like even the letter version could be useful if you train it.
I would expect this sort of technology could be trained by typing, and gradually learn enough that you don't need to move your hands, you just think similarly to how you do when you type.
the technology isn't done yet
Thoughts wander. The hands not only input data, they filter it. Unless this thing has something analogous, it's useless and will remain so, no matter how much you can input at a time.
I would have a very hard time thinking about every letter I type. I type words, not letters
Interesting side node: It will in the process change your view of the world, by creating bigger associations between whatever is stored in the areas where you create those patterns (or in other words: what you think about), thereby changing your character and who you are.
Yes, this happens with every input in our head. But the problem is that it's not an input in this case, but a random learning. As opposed to real inputs, where your learning always has a point and a use. (Yes even the stupid lolcat an
Specifically it detects and interprets what are known as P300 event-related potentials in the EEG-signals of a person that is selecting characters from a display presenting alternate rows and columns of characters.
It sounds like they haven't made any progress in speed what-so-fucking-ever, they've simply made it more comfortable to wear, and changed the interface very slightly.
If they want to speed it up, why not use the predictive texting stuff? It's usually fairly accurate, and if it doesn't bring up the word they want, they keep doing the letter-by-letter.
of course people were quick to say how useless that was: slow and impractical.
Actually some of us said the hype was stupid.
By thought ALONE, eh?
So, like, no cables, computers, software, hardware...? All I have to do is think, and my typing appears somewhere, without any intervening, like, STUFF?
Because that's what "alone" would seem to mean. No one would think it reasonable or honest to say, "Automobile allows people to travel huge distances at high speeds by ARMS ALONE!" even though that's what cruise control does. We'd all recognize that as misleading and stupid.
So why do we ke
*me rolls eyes*
No one would think it reasonable or honest to say, "Automobile allows people to travel huge distances at high speeds by ARMS ALONE!"
No, but perfectly reasonable to say "power steering allows people to drive their car with only the slightest movement of their arms".
"Drive their car" implies obvious stuff like the car and a steering wheel by which to drive it. Similarly "type words" implies obvious stuff like a device to display the words (computer) and hardware to interact with you (hat and the box it's attached to) so that you can type.
On the surface, this sounds shit fuck fantastic, but reality is, I gotta take a crap our brains don't focus my leg itches like that. Well, at least titties mine doesn't.
I wanted to comment on the wrongness of the moderation this post received, but instead all my brain is thinking is that whoever the douche is that moderated this a troll mod needs their points taken away and needs to get laid something fierce.
Using this in computer games seems nifty, but I can see some definite issues that it would introduce. Lets say you use emotional feedback to adjust difficulty; you want them challenged but not frustrated. Problem is, if they pause the game, get a snack, and come back, you can't make them resume the same emotional state they had when they paused. When they come back refreshed, the game will assume it isn't challenging them anymore and unleash hell.
I'm not saying this can't be worked around (wait a couple min
Only if the subject is stationary. In a walkby, you'd get a Doppler effect:
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Watch out for that guy whose text is riddled with "DIE!", "DIE MOTHERFUCKER!", "I HATE YOU ALL!" and "ONE DAY YOU WILL ALL BURN!".
He brings a heavy looking sports-bag in the office one day - find a reason to quickly step outside.
He brings a heavy looking sports-bag in the office one day - find a reason to quickly step outside.
If you get enough people to do that, he could wind up like this guy [theonion.com].
A reason? By the time you came up with it, it's already too late.
Oh, and even a single gas bottle can wreck the whole house, while fitting in that sports bag. So unless you step out of the whole building, you will be one of those who aren't liberated by death, but still alive under the rocks for a slow and painful death.
Better just make a quick run. You will have enough to think up an excuse when nothing happened and you came back.
(Protip: Raising you phone to your ear and running outside while
...what I want is to be able to transmit images from my brain onto a computer monitor. I have a TON of (what I think as) really cool and creative images in my head, but completely lack the artistic ability to even begin to sketch/draw/paint them.
I doubt I'm the only one in this hellishly frustrating situation -_-;;
Sometimes with images, but usually with music. I'll get a guitar riff or something in my head that I know sounds awesome, but even though I can play guitar a little, I can't get that sound through the guitar. A way of recording the audio in my head would be awesome.
The pictures in your head are what matter; the rest can be learned. These days you don't even need eye-hand coordination, since we have programs like Photoshop. Take some classes at your local university or community college, I'm sure they have an art department.
Coming up with an idea is the hard part, exersizing it is easy (which is why I don't have more journals than I do -- I have to wait for the muse to hit).
Eh, I've gotten over it. I much prefer making music [last.fm] anyway...it's difficult to find the specific kind of music I want to listen to, so I figured making it would be the best solution. I played French Horn, Clarinet, and Piano when I was younger, plus I still have full retention of how to read music and the actual structure of music creation, so it didn't take much time or investment to get up and running.
It's served me well enough...I would love to write the scary short stories in my head, and I would love
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It'll be far easier than typing with one hand.
Still Will Alone that you set your thoughts in motion, still the Blood of Sapho, Diet Coke or Mountain Dew that the thoughts aquire speed.
so this would be wonderful.
Bursitis in right thumb, carpal tunnel both hands. nerve damage from chemo.
I can type- but it's like level "2" (of 10) pain, every keystroke.
I looked into the NIA and have used voice software.
I can't wait for them to get it hooked up to my iPod so I can write while I jog. I don't care about silly hats if I can transcribe my thoughts. I realize I'll need to edit the output, but that's a small price to pay.
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...is just how little I apparently think about sex, relative to the general population. There is a period of roughly once every 24 hours where the subject comes up, for the most part, and that is it. If I go outside, and happen to run into some women, it might be more than that, but on days when I stay in, it genuinely doesn't.
I guess I'm just really abnormal.
Or perhaps you're perfectly normal and the whole 'men can't not think about sex all the time' is misandrist bullshit.
Indeed; someone should mod you up. Those obvious jokes (except the first one) should be modded "redundant".
Indeed. While men have high hormone levels as teenagers, women have the same high hormone levels in their 30s. Men don't have more obsession with sex compared to women overall, they just have their "peak" earlier.
I suppose you could get your "revenge" in your 30s by treating them the way they did to you in your teenage years, but it is all stupid.
Well, the thing is: There is not much stimulation when you're alone in your basement.
If you ever get a GF, or go outside... or even both at the same time (*gasp*)... that will change. ^^
Amusing comments but the reality is that this is still the same old P300. You concentrate on a letter, they flash different letters on the screen for about 30 seconds, and it makes a guess at what letter you were thinking of. Then if it's right you go on to the next letter. Super super slow. Eye blink signals are probably just as fast. And if you can't use your eyes you probably can't use P300. I think there have been some studies trying to extract P300 signals from audio cues but they have not been too suc
You can not write words by thought alone. This device allows to (painstakingly at a very slow speed) type letters.
So does using a keyboard if you've never used one before.
If they could they could scale the tech down a bit, maybe build it into a hat, combine it with some kind of HUD (either in the form of glasses or contacts), you'd have a true wearable computer.
The low typing speed is a small price to pay for something that cool/useful.
What's wrong with the old definition?
"When you say one thing, but mean your mother"?
The image I see for me using this would just be a shotgun blast of words spewing onto the screen without any particular form or direction. It takes so much control for me to just type a sentence without other thoughts crossing into the stream of words. Without the physical filter of selectively typing words it would become incoherent babble almost instantaneously.
Damn that was a workout.
Damn! The next thing you know, they'll expect me to read TFA before posting.
I guess if you're Rom Houben [dailymail.co.uk], you'd have a legitimate need for one of these things.
I mean, someone like Dr Steven Laureys would presumably come in, attach the electrode cap to your head, post the operating instructions on the ceiling over your bed, and leave you alone with it. After a few hours, if you've typed out "OMG Help Me I'm trapped and I can't move -- oh and please scratch my nose!" then you're not comatose.
Should I comment on this story? Nah, it's not so important, what I have to say, anyway.
Hey! Someone must have hacked my account and posted with it! >-( Someone in this very room, even, since they heard what I was think...... !!!!!!!!
What would be cool is if they made this sensitive enough, and trained someone well enough, that they could use it to communicate while dreaming.
Of course, all you'd see is line after line of "The blue fish is mellooooow... How's that snarker, Mr. Handle? Where did I leave my other lung..." and the like, but it would still be fascinating.
and the surgery to implant it into the base of your skull is so painless it's no wonder I'm number 1!
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why hasn't Stephen Hawking been using it?
Surely he'd be the best advertising for them?
Mainly from just using it, of course, not from what he says with it.
Or any of the comatose patients which "facilitators" tell us are really alive and conscious?
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Banking, on the other hand...
Give a person a gun, and the can rob a bank
Give a person a bank, and the can rob a country.
You're twice the the he ever was!
Give them a political office and they can rob both.
Give them a political office, and they can accept money from the bank
Give them a political office, and they can accept money from the bank
Rob a country, and the cities fall into ruins, leaving the people with no hope, no education, and driving them to desperate acts such as robbing banks. The cycle is complete.
Rob a country, and the cities fall into ruins, leaving the people with no hope, no education, and driving them to desperate acts such as robbing banks. The cycle is complete.
All of this has happened before, and and all of this will happen again...
Give them a political office and they can rob both.
And get paid to do it...
and get medical benefits...
and retirement!
Give a person a bank, and the can rob a country.
Absolutely, when there is no one watching what you are doing and the regulations are off the rails...it makes robbing a countryand its people so easy.
Just loan on the front and bet against those loans on the back...then ask for a bailout when things come crashing down (which banks knew would happen) and reward your board with big bonuses courtesy of the tax payers you already robbed...isn't double dipping great...especially against the middle class and poor.
this is too earnestly true to read as proper sarcasm.
i need a drink.
Realize that today a lot of banks don't handle the physical money - they only handle digital money, so being a bank robber is soon futile.
To get cash you need to stand in the ATM queue.
The downside is that robbing a supermarket can give a better payoff.
No, the cash in an ATM does not come from the bank. It comes from a cash vault at a central depository in secured canisters via an armored car. Nobody at the branch (including the armored car delivery guy) physically touches any of the cash that goes into the ATM. The people at the depository are guarded by guns; robbing a depository would be a bit more difficult than robbing the cash from a drawer at a branch bank.
"Which is the greater crime, to rob a bank or to own one?" --Bertold Brecht
The answer is to rob a bank of-course.
Owning a bank is a business, like any other, except when government gets involved, guarantees the debt that is taken (FDIC), guarantees the credit and loans that are given out (FHA, F&F), creates environment where giving out fake loans is profitable (Fed, IRS, FHA, F&F, FDIC, HUD, all of this).
Banks are businesses, saying that a business is 'crime' is strange at least, since people use them voluntarily (until again, gov't makes it impossible not to use one).
except when government gets involved...
You mean this government [wikipedia.org]???
saying that a business is 'crime' is strange at least, since people use them voluntarily
People get into Ponzi schemes voluntarily too. I don't think this is a good argument.
Owning a bank is a business, like any other
No, it is not. A bank has power over an economy that no other institution can match.
saying that a business is 'crime' is strange at least,
LOL. Tell that to the drug dealers, oh, everywhere.
You are getting confused about "criminal" versus "illegal." Criminal is criminal, no matter the law. Illegal is when the law recognizes that something is criminal. But many businesses are actively criminal in that they steal from their customers, and actively harm their communities. The law has simply been bought to permit them to behave this way. Doesn't make it any less reprehensible.
No, it is not. A bank has power over an economy that no other institution can match.
- not in a free market economy. In a gov't controlled fake money, fake credit, fake insurance economy, with huge impossible to service debts - yes.
In a free market economy? Absolutely not, a bank is just another business - storing people's deposits that are not to be loaned out and making loans with deposits that can be loaned out, where the client of the bank is informed that his deposit is partially loaned out but he is making some interest on it. And of-course in case of making loans without gov't invo
My point is that a business that satisfies consumer demand (and I did put the word VOLUNTARY there, by the way), is not a crime.
What consumer demanded securities based on loans that were known to be over 90% fraudulent?
Banking doesn't have to be a criminal enterprise, but as long as they're allowed to get away with stuff like that, it will be.
Didn't you read what I wrote?
It's a gov't system that created this problem. Gov't provides fake banking insurance - FDIC. There are no assets there, it's all 'guaranteed' with printed money or at best with taxes (which is also ridiculous, it's redistribution of wealth from some people to others because why? Gov't isn't supposed to backstop bad business behaviour, a bank loses money, a car company goes bust, whatever, it's a private matter).
Gov't destroys the currency by printing the shit out of it, its val
Yes, because banks never collapsed before the FDIC. There were never any bubbles before the creation of the Fed.
If you actually look at history, the period between the great depression and the 1980s were among the least financially turbulent in history. We learned our lessons after the great depression, and that served us well for 50 years until "free market" types like yourself decided banks didn't need to be regulated.
Were there bubbles in the meantime? Yes, but they were far milder than they would have been otherwise.
Stagflation isn't a depression. Relative to the great depression, and the crisis we're in today, the 1970s were a speedbump. I'm not ignorant of our history, I just view it in context.
Again, small potatoes compared to the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the numerous recessions that occured in the 1800s.
Also, there's nothing voluntary about losing your job because your employer can't get a short term loan to cover your paycheck because their bank didn't have enough cash in reserve.
>> Give a person a bank, and the can rob a country.
If you look at the USC 1-201 (4) a bank is "means any person engaged in the business of Banking."
If you understand banking as the holding and trading of notes or other instruments, we are all banks. And since we most often trade notes or instruments that are issued or backed by the Federal Reserve Bank, our banks are technically all subsidiaries of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Has anyone here ever tried exchanging notes or instruments that are of your o
I RTFA but I didn't see any reference to the general intelligence of the robbers. From what I've always understood, intelligent bank robbers are generally not caught while those who just wandering into a bank with a paper sank and a finger gun end up getting busted quickly. You know, because they make it obvious who they are.
Intelligent bank robbers get government bailouts, and don't go to PMITA prison.
Silly bank robbers use a mask and a gun, and have much worse outcomes.
My suspicion is that the white collar or "intelligent" robberies are not included in the statistical sampling the authors were allowed to draw upon. Things like electronic fraud, employee skimming, loan fraud, etc - which net the culprits millions and are not made public because they impune upon the bank's integrity far more then some guy with a gun in his pocket.
From what I have seen, it all comes down to the frequency with which you attempt to do it. There was someone in LA that was hitting a bank or two every week that wasn't caught until their 9th attempt.
The best way to rob a bank is to own one [amazon.com]. And it's only gotten better for the robber barons over the past 30 years.
Know what you are doing [officer.com].
In the US there are very few large scale organizations that are not businesses, and violence is bad for business; there is not that much of it. A good example of this kidnapping, extortion, protection rackets, are usually small-scale. There are other occupations that are safer and easier to gouge people out of money so it never reaches the scales that it does like in Mexico.
If the poverty line gets low enough combined with severe cuts in local services, it would not surprise me to see this trend be reversed.
In the US there are very few large scale organizations that are not businesses, and violence is bad for business; there is not that much of it. A good example of this kidnapping, extortion, protection rackets, are usually small-scale.
Then explain the government's War on Drug Users. It turns out kidnapping and extorting harmless pot smokers is very good for business.
I feel certain all persons considering robbing banks will study this statistical data and after due and sober consideration, be dissuaded from such high-risk, low-reward enterprise.
Not any more.
Credit cards mean banks no longer have the money.
ATM machines mean most of the money is locked away in safes - and spread out over many branches, convenience stores, etc.
The money is in retirement and institutional accounts. That's why there are so many people who are filthy rich from "working" Wall Street.
ATM machines mean most of the money is locked away in safes - and spread out over many branches, convenience stores, etc.
This [wikimedia.org] is an ATM.
This [aliimg.com] is an ATM machine!
So you won't find any money inside of an ATM machine. ATM machines only build ATMs, so they are full of ATM parts. If you are after money, you should more likely go after the ATM itself.
And knowing is half of the battle!
The vast majority of bank robbers are unlikely to have developed a career plan, and sufficient training and study to buttress it. Rather, they tend to be running on desperation. When someone(s) go on a bank robbing spree, it's usually a sign they've reached some sort of crisis in their lives, and aren't really thinking things through.
Pervasive video surveillance makes life difficult for the modern retail robber, just as it would for traders making heavily leveraged bets at trading desks in the CBD offices.
The trouble is many criminals are criminals because they haven't got the good upstairs to support more gainful employment. Has anyone done a study to determine how the intelligence of those convicted of bank robbery and related crimes compares with society as a whole?
My guess they are below average. So its no surprise they are not terribly successful at it. Its not likely they'd be terribly at anything that requires deep analysis. Its sorta like how robbers always love guns that use clips. If you going
Three UK economists got access to national data on bank robberies... Average take is about $19k per person per robbery.
... getting paid off with a degree in Economy
Of course, it pays the banks more than the bank robbers. Same basic principle though.
So the question is bank robbery good for unskilled labor. Lets say that you pull five jobs in a year, get convicted for the last one, and get five years in prison. The robber is in jail, room and board taken care of, but the family might have 80K in unreported funds. If they are somewhat smart, they will get government assistance as well as the 13K a year average. OTOH, if the robber is less responsible they have had a lifestyle for a year that few unskilled people can have. And only worked a few weeks at most.
Sure for those of us with jobs and skills it seems a bit silly, but there a lot of people for whom 20K seems like a fortune. This is why I think that such analysis are not very useful. It does not speak to the basic root fo the crime.
Did the same banker who calculates interests calculate the changes of getting caugh.
One raid, 20% change of getting caught, you need two raids a year, and that increases changes to over 50%, WTF!?
One raid, 20% change of getting caught, you need two raids a year, and that increases changes to over 50%, WTF!?
TFA claims that doing two raids a year gives you a greater than 50% chance of getting caught within 2 years (i.e., 4 raids). Let's check the math...
After 1 raid you have a 100% - 20% = 80% chance of eluding capture.
After 2 raids, it's 80% ^ 2 = 64%
After 3 raids, it's 80% ^ 3 = 51.2%
After 4 raids, it's 80% ^ 4 = 40.96%
100% - 40.96% chance of not getting caught = 59.04% chance of getting caught, which is in fact over 50%.
Average take is about $19k per person per robbery. But, there's a 20% chance of being caught per raid.
$19k per job plus a 20% chance of winning free room and board for a few years doesn't sound so bad. Sign me up!
Don't forget healthcare. What happened to that man who wasn't given prison after purposely robbing a back to get healthcare? He said he'd do it again.
...if bank robbing is such a terrible business then why do the banks continue doing it?
what you should do if you want to rob a bank is get hired as an exec at one and then get paid way to much.
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