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Synopsis : The year is 1970 and it is the event of the opening of a new giant radio-telescope. Professor Reinhart's (Esmond Knight) staff are making routine tests when something unexpected cuts across the usual background static of outer space and across all their lives.
Notes : A For Andromeda saw the screen debut of a fresh from drama school Julie Christie. Christie portrayed both the doomed lab assistant Christine and the mysterious Andromeda, but was unavailable to continue with the character in the sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough. Susan Hampshire would have the honour of this.
Publicity : The Radio Times dated 30th September 1961 trailed the first episode as follows: A For Andromeda by Peter Browne. A new science-fiction series is an exciting prospect at any time. When it is backed by the authority of a scientist with the international reputation of Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University, it ranks as a major television event. A For Andromeda, which begins tonight, has the special distinction of being soundly based on mathematical possibility.
Set in the near future, it opens as a group of scientists working with a powerful new radio-telescope pick up a strange message from outer space - from the constellation Andromeda. In six succeeding forty-five-minute episodes, played out against the stark background of a remote stretch of coast in the Western Isles, the dramatic story tells of the impact of an alien intelligence upon life on earth, and of the ruthless pursuit by rival factions of a secret on which the future of mankind may depend.
Fred Hoyle has established himself as a novelist as well as a scientist with two much-praised science-fiction books, The Black Cloud and Ossian's Ride. The original story of A For Andromeda was dictated on to a tape-recorder and then dramatized for television by John Elliot. The serties has an exceptionally authentic flavour, for in addition to Hoyle's unparalleled knowledge of his subject, producers Michael Hayes and Norman James have been able to enlist the cooperation of the computer and aircraft manufacturing industries, the Army and the R.A.F.
An outstanding cast includes Edmond Knight, Mary Morris, Noel Johnson, Maurice Hedley and Patricia Kneale. Peter Halliday, whom many viewers will remember in Stress Point and The Train Set, plays John Fleming, the brilliant young scientist whose discovery reveals that it can be dangerous to extend the frontiers of human knowledge too far, too quickly
Synopsis : The radio message from outer space received on the new giant radio-telescope throws the country into a panic. Scientists, military, security forces, and a great international cartel are all competing for the information it contains. The only one with the answer is the young scientist John Fleming (Peter Halliday): "It's a do-it-yourself kit. And it isn't human!".
Notes : Seven scenes from this episode have survived and reside safely in the BBC archives.
Sir Fred Hoyle was a college professor and a respected astronomer and science fiction writer. He died aged 86 on August 20th 2001. His novels included The Black Cloud (1957) about an intelligent cloud around the sun. His only other piece of TV drama is the Andromeda's sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough.
Publicity : The Radio Times dated 5th October 1961 trailed the second episode as follows: The time is 1970. High in the Yorkshire Dales, while technicians are casually testing a giant new radio-telescope before its official opening, a totally unexpected sequence of dots and dashes is picked up, apparently from a source a thousand million million miles away in space - the constellation Andromeda. A brilliant, unconventional young scientist, John Fleming, makes tape-recordings of this strange sound which has taken two hundred years to reach the earth, and becomes convinced that it is sent by another intelligence. "It doesn't have to be flesh and blood - it doesn't have to be organic at all. Just an intelligence". In tonight's episode, the second of this exciting seven-part series based on an original story by Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a noted science-fiction novelist, Fleming solves the riddle of the signal. It is a series of arithmetical instructions for building a computer of a size and complexity beyond anything in existence. As the implications of Fleming's discovery are realized in Whitehall the Minister of Science takes a hand. After Fleming's comment that "whatever intelligence sent this message is way ahead of us. We're just homo sapiens, plodding along", it is agreed at Cabinet level that the computer shall be built at a remote rocket establishment in the Western Isles. `Project Andromeda' is classified Top Secret but it is a secret for which certain people are prepared to kill
Synopsis : John Fleming (Peter Halliday) interprets a message from outer space as a plan for the construction of a super computer. His colleague Dennis Bridger (Frank Windsor) sells information about the computer to an international cartel, and a Government agent following Bridger is killed. When the computer is built, it begins to print out information which only Fleming understands.
Notes : An extract from this episode was discovered in an edition of Points Of View, broadcast the day before episode six (The Face Of The Tiger) was transmitted. Frank Windsor, who portrayed Dennis Bridger, would later become an enduring character in Z Cars and its respective spin offs.
Publicity : The third episode also benefitted from publicity in the Radio Times dated 12th October: Behind barbed wire at Thorness, a remote rocket-testing base in the Western Isles, a group of scientists led by brilliant John Fleming are working on Project A For Andromeda. Strange signals picked up by a powerful radio-telescope from a source millions of miles away in outer space, somewhere in the constellation Andromeda, have been interpreted by Fleming as mathematical instructions for building a huge computer - an electronic "brain" - of fantastic complexity, and the decision has been taken at Cabinet level to go ahead and build it. In the third episode of the serial tonight the outstanding cast which already includes Edmond Knight, Noel Johnson, Peter Halliday, Patricia Kneale, and Julie Christie, will be further strengthened by the first appearance in it of Mary Morris, playing Professor Dawnay, a distinguished biologist who sees Project Andromeda as a heaven-sent opportunity for laboratory research. Miss Morris, like several other members of the cast, played a memorable part in the Age Of Kings Shakespeare series, of which Michael Hayes, co-producer of Andromeda, was director. For Julie Christie, on the other hand, the role of Christine is her first major one in television: Hayes discovered her recently at a drama school exercise.
Synopsis : John Fleming (Peter Halliday) and his colleague Bridger (Frank Windsor) have built a super computer to a plan received from outer space which acts as a means of communication between the source of the message in the constellation of Andromeda and the Earth. With the help of the computer, the scientists produce a synthesized living organism. Bridger, who has been selling information about the project, is arrested, escapes and, after a chase, falls to his death.
Notes : Major Quadring was played by Jack May who would later appear as butler William E Simms in Adam Adamant Lives!. Born in 1922 May also had genre credits in Dr Who (The Space Pirates), R3, The Avengers (The Secrets Broker), Out Of The Unknown (Stranger In The Family) and The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. He was also an accomplished voice artist and provided the voice for the long running character Nelson Gabriel in Radio Fours The Archers and Igor in Count Duckula. He died in 1997.
Synopsis : With the help of a computer designed from a message from outer space, Professor Dawnay (Mary Morris) succeeds in making and keeping alive a synthesized creature, and even makes it grow. The computer achieves a haphazard and unsatisfactory communication with the creature. Against his better judgement, Fleming (Peter Halliday), who built the computer, suggests arranging a direct electrical supply between it and the machine. Even this is not entirely satisfactory, and the computer, in an attempt to extend its knowledge of humanity, compels Christine (Julie Christie), one of Professor Dawnay's assistant, to take hold of the exposed terminals, and kills her.
Notes : A For Andromeda also featured another actor who would appear regularly in Adam Adamant Lives! in the form of Peter Ducrow who played super villain The Face against Gerald Harper's gentlemen adventurer.
Synopsis : The computer built by Fleming (Peter Halliday), from a design received in a message from space, begins to show its power. In spite of Fleming's warnings, Professor Dawnay continues to use it for her experiment in the synthesis of life. The final result of the experiment is a human body, which is christened Andromeda and which grows up to show a startling resemblance to the dead Christine. She is clearly in mental communication with the computer. When the international situation becomes desperate, the Prime Minister (Maurice Hedley) turns to Andromeda and the computer for help. Meanwhile, Kaufman's `Intel' organization becomes yet more deeply involved with Fleming's super-computer project.
Notes : This episode was returned to the BBC archives in 2006 after being in the hands of a private collector for several decades.
The series was transmitted between 8:30 pm and 9:15 pm.
Synopsis : The computer designed by an intelligence from another world, and its girl-like creature Andromeda, provides the Government with a rocket capable of intercepting and destroying any space satellite. Everyone is delighted except Fleming (Peter Halliday), who refuses to see the conjunction of Andromeda and the computer as anything but a menace. He tries to sabotage the computer. It takes its revenge, but the blow falls by mistake on Professor Dawnay.
Notes : The last two reels of this episode (including the final scene and end credits) are held by the BBC archives.
Kenneth Kendall, a BBC television newsreader of the time, has a cameo in the series as a TV interviewer. This helped to provide a grounding in reality for the show as would Kendall's other telefantasy appearance in the Adam Adamant Lives! episode The Doomsday Plan.
All episodes where directed and produced by Micheal Hayes and Norman Jones. The series was written by Fred Hoyle and John Eliott. Film Cameraman for the series was Peter Sargeant. Film Editor for the series was Agnes Evan. The series was designed by Norman James.
A true classic which, for its time, was a ground breaking production. Transmitted on Tuesdays at 8:30pm, towards the end of 1961, A For Andromeda helped in its own way to usher in the radical thinking and cultural explosion that characterised the decade. It also dealt with issues far ahead of its time including genetics and high powered computers as well as putting women in a central and powerful roles.
Written by BBC producer John Elliot, and respected astronomer/novelist Fred Hoyle, the story was set in 1970 and featured a young Julie Christie. Scientists on the government funded Thorness research programme decode messages buried in signals received by radio telescopes, and build a powerful computer to run the programme contained in the signals.
This proves to be a genetic code and a strange creature is developed as a result which can only communicate with the computer when placed between two electrified plates. A young research assistant is killed (Christie) when she touches these plates, and this is quickly followed by a second genetic code, which rapidly grows into a replica of the dead assistant (again played by Christie).
The creature, called Andromeda, displays supernatural mental powers and slowly it becomes increasingly obvious that the being has a capacity destruction.
The series boasted an excellent cast including Julie Christie in her
debut TV role, Mary Morris and Peter Halliday whose later potential was never quite achieved thanks to a long line of character roles. The series also boasted well known faces in smaller roles, often early in the respective actor's careers, including Anthony Valentine, Frank Windsor and Frederick Treaves.
Direction came from the BBC staff director Michael Hayes, who would later handled severeal fondly recalled Tom Baker era Doctor Who adventures. The series was a tremendous success and commanded audiences of up to thirteen million.
Italian television remade the series in 1971 and was faithful to the original production. Unlike it's BBC counterpart the series is retained intact and it has been released on VHS in Europe. The series was novelised by Hoyle and first published in 1962 by Souvenir Press, with a Corgi paperback edition following in 1963.
Fragments of several episodes, including the climax to the series, still survive in the BBC archives. These were complimented by the return of a full episode, The Face Of The Tiger, in 2006. The production was remade by BBC 4 also in 2006 as a ninety minute stand alone programme broadcast on 27th March. The existing footage of A For Andromeda was released along with the complete series of the sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough in 2006.
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By Andrew Liszewski
Here's another one of those products I didn't know I needed until I saw it. I'm pretty sure this LED light bulb can be plugged into a standard light socket but it goes above and beyond just being more energy-efficient than a regular bulb.
First off it comes with it's own remote which allows you to control the brightness of the LEDs or even put them into one of 4 modes that includes flashing, strobing, fading or smooth… (I think that last one falls under 'lost in translation.')
The fun doesn't stop there though. As you can see on the remote this LED bulb can also be switched between 16 different colors depending on how tacky you want your home to look. If you value function over style I highly recommend swapping out all the light bulbs in your home for these ones.
The RC LED Lamp is available from Gadget.Brando.com.hk for $48.
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How to Look Chic in Glasses
Omg. Omg. Omg. Me with glasses? Seriously. This is the kind of thing my mom loves to hate. She'll say why would you wear glasses when you don't need to? And I'll reply my standard, I do it for fashion. 🙂
I came across Firmoo and they wanted to send me a pair, so I immediately picked out the biggest, darkest-rimmed pair I could find. It's funny because about five years ago I was also into the fake glasses thing, but they actually had a very mild prescription and I almost ran into things (you think I'm kidding). So I was thankful to know I could order non-prescription on Firmoo and totally still get my chic on. Without breaking my neck.
baby L looooves it when wear these glasses (I must admit I put them on her for kicks and giggles). I'll take them off and hand them to her, and she'll hand them back to me to put on. Cutest thing. Ever.
I mostly love wearing these with edgier things right now like my staple moto jacket, but I think they'll look pretty sweet with some plaid from the closet, too. I'm just steering away from wearing them with a too-casual wardrobe because then I come off as literally looking like I rolled out of bed. It's alllll about balance. We tread carefully with fake glasses, folks. This is not for amateurs.
However, if you really do wear glasses, Firmoo has a lovely selection and I'm sure you'll love it to pieces. Happy shopping! Xoxo


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I've been wanting to do a photo scavenger hunt with the family ever since I read about Joy Phenix's MLK Day scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt is spontaneous but has structure, gets us outside, fun, and free. Yep, I'm in!
I decided to keep our first hunt simple and incorporated things I knew they would love to do. So, armed with our list we headed out.
Spring Time Photo Scavenger Hunt
Take a photo of you:
By a tree that is blooming:
On a slide:
Love the flair he added with his hands!
Hanging Upside down:
She was pretty tickled by being upside down!
Jumping off a low wall:
Love the determined look on her face.
Blowing bubbles:
Coloring Easter eggs:
Last year I saw that my friend Jill had colored her Easter eggs outside which was just brilliant. I made a mental note and we too went outdoors this year. Coloring eggs was actually a pleasant experience this year since my kids didn't have my neurotic self making sure they didn't make a mess in my kitchen. That my friends is a win/win!
Doing a crazy dance in a public place:
It was a fun day and I'm looking forward to getting Luke and Maddie more involved next time with creating the list and taking the pictures. We'll definitely do this again!


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Baseball's Color Barrier
I will post the weekly results later in the week for the sake of consistency. I think they may change because there's an obvious glaring error in that Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages was given a loss to the Houston Asterisks even though Houston used 8 starts instead of 7. The Carlins did win though and that's all that matters.
In the meantime and the in between time, here is something i wrote for Yahoo that I thought was pretty good and maybe one person will click it.
Stats Don't Like: Statistical facts that Prove Baseball's Color Barrier was Ridiculous
Crime & Punishment
The kid who ran onto the field during the All-Star game may get a year in jail for his actions. I didn't read the article as to why. I would guess something about how he publicized it on Twitter and the fact it was a nationally televised game. Probably not. I was too obsessed with how ridiculous the picture used was.
It literally looks like both the tackler and the tackleree are asleep in this photo. I worry about the tackler's left ankle too. It appears to not be in proper alignment with the ground. I worry for his metatarsals. If you only look at the upper half of the photo it's quite romantic.
Oh and the fantasy baseball week started up again yesterday. I also got a job. The last time I started working during this fantasy baseball season I went on a 5 game losing streak. Here's to hoping I won't go winless the rest of the season.
Call the Bullpen Maybe?
No maybe. Definitely.
Fake 2013 All-Star Teams
The RT Baseball League (the name of the league the Miami Carlins are participating in) have announced their All-Star teams today. The two leagues is split in two divisions, East and West, and will be playing each other never. The teams were decided on fantasy points alone and no other factors such as popularity, ballot box stuffing, or relationship with the media. I have taken the players with the most points at their positions and put them on this team. These are the squadrons.
I have selected two players from every position (6 outfielders) along with 7 starting pitchers and 4 relief pitchers.
C – Buster Posey (Stone Cold)
C – Joe Mauer (Si Hurricanes)
1B – Paul Goldschmidt (Team Gold)
1B – Joey Votto (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
2B – Dustin Pedroia (Team Gold)
2B – Brandon Phillips (Si Hurricanes)
3B – Josh Donaldson (Team Gold)
3B – Evan Longoria (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
SS – Ian Desmond (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
SS – Everth Cabrera (Stone Cold)
OF – Mike Trout (Team Gold)
OF – Carlos Gonzalez (Si Hurricanes)
OF – Jacoby Ellsbury (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
OF – Domonic Brown (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
OF – Adam Jones (Cecil Cantrell)
SP – Max Scherzer (Stone Cold)
SP – Matt Harvey (Cecil Cantrell)
SP – Clayton Kershaw (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
SP – Adam Wainwright (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
SP – Felix Hernandez (Stone Cold)
SP – Madison Bumgarner (Jimmy Dean Vienna Sausages)
SP – Hisashi Iwakuma (Team Gold)
RP – Greg Holland (Stone Cold)
RP – Aroldis Chapman (Si Hurricanes)
RP – Edward Mujica (Team Gold)
RP – Craig Kimbrel (Cecil Cantrell)
C – Yadier Molina (Houston Asterisks)
C – Carlos Santana (Miami Carlins)
1B – Chris Davis (Team Boyle)
1B – Edwin Encarnacian (The Fuzzy Taints)
2B – Robinson Cano (Houston Asterisks)
2B – Jason Kipnis (Drunkin' Drafters)
3B – Miguel Cabrera (The Fuzzy Taints)
3B – David Wright (Drunkin' Drafters)
SS – Jean Seguar (The Fuzzy Taints)
SS – Troy Tulowitzki (Houston Asterisks)
OF – Jose Bautista (Drunkin' Drafters)
OF – Andrew McCutchen (Miami Carlins)
OF – Carlos Gomez (Miami Carlins)
OF – Matt Carpenter (Miami Carlins)
OF – Allen Craig (Miami Carlins)
OF – Michael Cuddyer (Houston Asterisks)
SP – Cliff Lee (Team Boyle)
SP – Jordan Zimmermann (Miami Carlins)
SP – Yu Darvish (Miami Carlins)
SP – Patrick Corbin (The Fuzzy Taints)
SP – Homer Bailey (Houston Asterisks)
SP – Mike Minor (Miami Carlins)
RP – Jason Grilli (Drunkin' Drafters)
RP – Joe Nathan (Miami Carlins)
RP – Addison Reed (Team Boyle)
RP – Mariano Rivera (The Fuzzy Taints)
(Say what you want, Smashmouth is a genius band. Forever and always will this song play whenever an All-Star team is selected)
Congratulations Miami Carlins All-Stars
12 players from the Miami Carlins will be going to Citi Field (that sounds like a punishment) as All-Stars this year.
Congratulations to:
Brett Cecil
Yu Darvish
Joe Nathan
Salvador Perez
Jhonny Peralta
Nelson Cruz
Torii Hunter
Jordan Zimmermann
Allen Craig
Matt Carpenter
Carlos Gomez
Andrew McCutchen
Of course others may be added and hopefully none will be removed due to injury.
My Bad Predictions
Before the season started I thought it would be fun to predict who would win the different awards this season like MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year as well as predict the final outcomes of the standings. I went back to look at my picks and all I have to say is that there is a reason my last name is not Nostradamus.
Let's start off with a possibly correct prediction. I said Mike Trout would win the AL MVP. Right now the clear cut winner is Miguel Cabrera, but Trout still has time. I won't hold my breath though and no that's not a bad pun about his last name and its similarity to a fish.
I predicted the AL Cy Young would go to David Price. Not only is Price injured now, he also pitched poorly before going down. It looks as if front runners for the AL Cy Young are Max Scherzer, Yu Darvish, and one of the good Seattle pitchers, Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma. When did white guys who weren't Jewish become such bad American League pitchers?
Rookie of the Year was difficult to predict so I went with Jurickson Profar. He finally got called up and he's played decent. Certainly he won't win the award. The American League has yet to have any one rookie set themselves apart and the front runner is either a guy with a 4.60 ERA in Dan Straily, a relief pitcher in Nick Tepesch, or a guy who has only had 60 at-bats in Jose Iglesias. I could sign up and play for the Astros and lead the league in hit by pitches and possibly have a chance at winning.
Moving onto the National League, I predicted Matt Kemp to win the MVP Award. No. Could I have been more wrong? I would say at the moment Carlos Gonzalez is most likely to win the award. Not only is he having an amazing season, the Rockies have been overachieving. If it's not Cargo, I would go with Paul Goldschmidt. His average has dropped a bit so as long as it doesn't continue to fall like a menorah off a windowsill he'll remain near the top.
The NL Cy Young was supposed to go to Stephan Strasburg. He has had some bad luck this year between injuries and not getting the run support he needed. If the season ended today because Bud Selig decided it was a fun twist, Adam Wainwright would win it. Other top candidates include Matt Harvey, Cliff Lee, and Jordan Zimmermann. I'm clearly rooting for Zimmermann. I didn't make him the team captain of my fantasy baseball team for nothing.
My worst prediction of all was saying Adam Eaton would win the NL Rookie of the Year. The guy hasn't even played due to an injury. I of course predicted this before I knew he was an injury prone bum. Shelby Miller of the Cardinals looks to be the favorite to win the award with Braves catcher Evan Gattis trailing behind and that one is a bit of a pun because he's a slow runner.
Just to show that I'm not a complete idiot, Sports Illustrated said Trout would win MVP, Verlander would win Cy Young (8-5 with a 3.72 ERA right now), and Profar would win Rookie of the Year. For the National League they said Bryce Harper would win MVP (.287/12/23 before his injury), Strasburg would win the Cy Young, and Adam Eaton would win the Rookie of the Year. In addition, they named Matt Kemp "Mr. Irreplaceable" (unless of course he only hits 2 home runs so far this season before getting hurt) and Kris Medlen to be the Breakout Pitcher of the Year (4-7 record). The only other bad American League prediction they made was calling Yoenis Cespedes the Breakout Hitter of the Year. A .228/13/36 season with a long injury doesn't sound like breaking out very much to me.
This shows something very important, I am just as bad as professionals at predicting the future.
The Paralyzed Baseball Player
In this year's baseball draft the Arizona Diamondbacks drafted a player who was paralyzed during a game in college. This was a kind gesture by the team, but opens my mind up to hatred, jealousy, and an array of offensive jokes. This is just where my mind goes.
How does a paralyzed guy get drafted? I couldn't even make the 12-year-old travel team in a less than superior league when I was a preteen. I was pretty good too. I could walk…which is the first "step" in playing sports.
I'm incredibly jealous of this guy. Why wouldn't I be? He will always get to say he was drafted into professional sports and I never will. It's not fair. This teaches a bad lesson to kids. It's similar to when they let a retarded kid score a basket or kick a ball off his face and let it bounce into the net at a soccer game. It's cute, but it teaches us that there are three groups of people. There is the ELITE, the MIDDLE CLASS, and THOSE WE PITY.
The Elite are the people who work hard and cheat their way to the top. The Middle Class are the common folk who desire more and were not given the talent to do it, because not everyone is created equally. Those We Pity are people we are told are so weak that we have to let down our guard and treat them special, like the paralyzed baseball player. I'm sure it meant a lot to him. At the same time, this is a reminder to him how much he is going to miss out on. Even worse, he was originally drafted in 2010 when he had the ability to tap dance, but turned it down for college. An even more important lesson here, college is bad.
Of course the guy would never actually get a chance to play. He was drafted by the Diamondbacks, not the Marlins. I wonder though if he did get the chance to play how it would turn out. What would he do when he got into an argument with an umpire? He can't kick dirt. He wouldn't be able to score any "runs" nor would he ever get any "walks." The announcers would never be able to say "he legged out a triple" because not only would that be an obvious and unneeded mention of his legs, it would also be impossible for someone paralyzed to hit a baseball deep enough into the right field corner then get around the bases that fast. Of course, it's always possible if Delmon Young is the right fielder. God he is fat.
(A fat Jew-hater. No wonder the media hates him)
I once broke my league while playing baseball. Do you know what I got? A wheelchair to sit in and a semi-interesting story to tell. I also got a hit with a broken leg. Granted, now that leg hurts constantly, but back then we were only 11 games out of a playoff spot with 6 games to go and it meant something.
I don't feel bad for this guy at all. The rest of his life will be spent doing some sort of work, possibly even front office baseball related due to the story. If not, I'm sure he'll get taken care of in some way. So with this I announce my plan to get paralyzed publicly because clearly I am not in the Elite, a category you have to reach by the team you reach a certain age. I'm not Those We Pity because people are too mean to me. I'm stuck in the Middle Class. Like an NBA team that finishes with the 8-Seed, I'm stuck forever hoping either I marry royalty or catch a rare disease.
Perhaps I'm wrong about all of this and the guy will play. After all, baseball is 99% mental and 1% physical. With that logic, Stephan Hawking should have the home run record and have a lifetime average of .462. It's a bullshit quote that mothers used to tell their fat sons. My mother told her fat son it. I think she got baseball confused with sex. Now that's something that's 99% mental and 1% physical. Want to please a girl? Lie there stiff as a board for that 1% and let her use the other 99% with her own mental capabilities. If she's dumb, well, the sex may not be very good for her. But who cares? You still didn't have to do much and the dumb ones are always the hottest.
(Stupid girl. She doesn't even realize she's letting someone take a picture of her. Put on a shirt clumsy!)


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An Introduction to Interfaces and Colloids: The Bridge to Nanoscience
"Born of decades of diverse experience performing research and teaching in the field of surface and colloid science, Prof. Berg's new textbook is a must buy for students just entering the field, as well as for experts. I find myself frequently referring to the book as a reference when writing grants. Prof. Berg's organization of the subject matter, combined with his exquisitely clear descriptions that provide a molecular level understanding of phenomena, have set a new standard for textbooks in the field." -- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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Welcome to the world of torrents. The internet is filled with torrent sites which promises to be the best, only later to be disappointed with inappropriate material and loads of pop ups and ads.
I love mininova, it has a very large user base and very 'family friendly'. I generally use torrents to only download TV episodes. Mininova always has all the latest episodes, but the Seeders are generally lower than Leechers, so you might not be able to download at the maximum transfer rate.
This is where Private trackers come in handy. These are called private because only registered users can download torrents from their sites. They more often than not, will have rules forcing a user to maintain a minimum download/upload ratio. If the ratio goes below a fixed threshold they will be banned from the site.
This helps in keeping a good share of seeders, and also urge the users to share more.
IPtorrents is one of the many private torrents available online. I love it for it's ease of use, honest recording of uploads/downloads and their bonus feature(more on this later).
First of all IPtorrents is an invite only site, this is deliberately done to prevent misuse from people who sign up, download loads of stuff and don't mind being banned because they know for sure they can sign up for another account. So, Obviously you need an invite to join, and invites are provided in limited numbers to existing members. I am planning to give away 5 invites to people who can assure me that they will maintain a good ratio.
Why only IPT?
- Freeleech : These are tags attached to certain torrents, for which downloads doesn't count and only upload counts. Keep in mind that you need not maintain a good ratio with individual torrents, only overall your ratio should be good. You can find really good torrents with these tags –complete season of a series, complete collection of movies of a director/actor etc.
- Bonus Points : There may be situations where you may not be able to maintain a good ratio because there are simply not enough leechers. Fret not, your sharing is not unrewarded. You keep accumulating bonus points for every hour you seed, which can later be used to get invites or improve your ratio.
See you in IPT. Leave a comment stating why you need an IPT invite, and also try to convince me you deserve one 🙂


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Coca Cola Happiness Machine
Coca Cola recently took the "Happiness Factory" concept out of the television and into the common room of a New York City university. A specially rigged Coca Cola vending machine was set up overnight in Marilac Hall at St John's University in Queens, with five hidden cameras ready to catch the action. Next day students were surprised to find that the machine was prepared to break the users pays rule, handing out (literally in some cases) pizza, flowers, extra Coke, balloon animals and a a six-foot sub. The edited video has just gone over 900,000 views since its launch on January 12, 2010.
Students laugh and jump, pass the Cokes and gifts around, and even thank Coke as they hug the vending machine. But the footage is "all real students and real reactions," according to Christy Amador, digital marketing manager, Coca-Cola global interactive marketing. The video ends with the question, "Where will happiness strike next?" and a message encouraging viewers to "Share the happiness, share the video."
Click on the image below to play the video.
The Happiness Machine stunt was developed at Definition 6, Atlanta, by executive creative director John Harne, director Paul Iannacchino Jr., producer Todd Morris, director of photography Sean Donnelly, executive producer Blakely Blalock, set decorator Ni Ni Than, prop builder Mike Myers, editor Pat Carpenter, editorial assistant Pieter van den Berg, sound designers Mike Barrett and Juan Sosa, post producer Lisa Miller.
The Happiness Machine campaign was launched on Coca Cola's Twitter channel and Facebook Fanpage.
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Thunderbolt Area FCU's Rich History: Keeping it in the Family
Although they offer many of the same services, credit unions operate in a fundamentally different way than banks, one based on the philosophy of "people helping people". Credit unions were typically founded by friends, like neighbors, workers and people who worship together. Today we're featuring a credit union founded by eight toolmakers who worked in America's first Defense Airport.
The South Jersey town of Millville is rich in history, most famously known as the home of the Millville Municipal Airport, the first training ground in the country for pilots during World War II. Thunderbolt Area Federal Credit Union, located at the airport entrance, is a part of that history and holds quite a story of its own.
Its president, Bob Millard, is the son of the credit union's founder, Asher K. Millard. Asher worked for Airwork Corporation, the engine overhaul shop located in Millville, as a toolmaker. He and seven other Airwork employees began Airwork Employees Federal Credit Union – later to become Thunderbolt Area Federal Credit Union – by pooling together their money, $5 each at the time. Until then, Asher had kept his money in a safe at home, lending to friends in need when he could. Laying the foundation for the credit union came as a natural next step for him.
The credit union gained its federal charter on May 1, 1951 and was located on the premises of its original sponsor company, Airwork Corp. Asher, however, couldn't take off work from his position as a toolmaker to operate the credit union. So, his wife, Helen K. Millard, worked there part-time, for no pay, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Their son, current Thunderbolt Area Federal Credit Union president Bob Millard, at the ripe age of 8, began helping his parents with calculations. "Effectively I have been involved in some way for nearly 65 years," says Millard. He was then elected to the board of directors in 1968 and eventually took over as president when his father retired in 1985.
When asked why he began working at the credit union, and continued for as long as he has, Millard says it's the philosophy of "people helping people" that brought him there and kept him there. "I liked the concept," he explains, "To help an individual, someone who just walks in, needs help, that's where it counts."
Where does the name Thunderbolt Area come from? It was also taken from the pages of the history of Millville. The Thunderbolt P-47 was a plane flown in World War II, and pilots of these planes were trained at the nation's first Army airfield: Millville Municipal Airport. "Area" comes from the credit union's change in charter to serve the surrounding area.
Through the years, Thunderbolt Area FCU has stayed true to its roots—its community and its humble beginnings—due to its founding family.
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama's family saga is a remarkable, quintessentially American story—a journey from slavery to the White House in five generations. Yet, until now, little has been reported on the First Lady's roots. Prodigiously researched, American Tapestry traces the complex and fascinating tale of Michelle Obama's ancestors, a history that the First Lady did not even know herself. Rachel L. Swarns, a correspondent for the New York Times, brings into focus the First Lady's black, white, and multiracial forebears, and reveals for the first time the identity of Mrs. Obama's white great-great-great-grandfather—a man who remained hidden in her lineage for more than a century.
American Tapestry illuminates the lives of the ordinary people in Mrs. Obama's family tree who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; who endured the agonies of slavery, the disappointment of Reconstruction, the displacement of the Great Migration, and the horrors of Jim Crow to build a better future for their children. Swarns even found a possible link to the Jewish Reform movement.
Though it is an intimate family history, American Tapestry is also the collective chronicle of our changing nation, a nation in which racial intermingling lingers in the bloodlines of countless citizens and slavery was the crucible through which many family lines—black, white, and Native American—were forged.
Rachel L. Swarns has been a correspondent for the New York Times since 1995. She has written about domestic policy and national politics, reporting on immigration, the presidential campaigns of 2004 and 2008 and First Lady Michelle Obama and her role in the Obama White House. She has also worked overseas for The New York Times, reporting from Russia, Cuba and Southern Africa where she served as the Johannesburg bureau chief. She currently writes about demographics, social trends and the modern American family. Prior to joining The New York Times, Ms. Swarns worked for The Miami Herald, where she reported from Haiti and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, covered the L.A. riots and the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. She started her journalism career at The St. Petersburg Times. Born in New York City, she received her B.A. in Spanish from Howard University. She received her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
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10 / The Natural World
|Artist / Origin
India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Region: South and Southeast Asia
ca. 1780
Period: 1400 CE - 1800 CE
Watercolor on European paper
Medium: Painting
|H: 29 ¾ in . (75.6 cm.), W: 21 ½ in. (54.6 cm.)
|The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
|Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund
expert perspective
|Romita RayAssistant Professor of Art History, Syracuse University
Additional Resources
Chakraverty, Anjan. Indian Miniature Painting. New Delhi: Roli, 2005.
Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art. London: Phaidon, 1997.
Sardar, Marika. "Company Painting in Nineteenth-Century India." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cpin/hd_cpin.htm (October 2004).
Schiebinger, Londa, and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Smith, Pamela. Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 2001.
Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Black Stork in a Landscape represents a school of Indian art known as "Company Painting" that arose in the late eighteenth century.
Company Painting takes its name from the East India Company, the officials of which were its first patrons. As British employees of the East India Company began relocating to India, often with their families, they desired images of their new surroundings. Although some British artists fulfilled this need, it was primarily Indian artists who met the demand and came to be known as Company School painters. Some of the images produced by these artists were sent back to England as a record of life in India. More often, however, they stayed in the possession of the long-term British residents who commissioned them.
The Company School was not defined by one style. Rather, local artistic traditions influenced the paintings produced in different cities throughout India. The degree to which artists incorporated Western techniques into their work also varied. The detailed rendering of the stork in this image, for instance, has precedents in earlier Mughal studies of animals, while the receding landscape points to European influence, as does shading and the use of muted watercolors in place of brilliantly colored gouaches.
The images produced by Company artists for British patrons ranged from portraits and images of Indian dress and customs to scenes of the landscape and images of specific flora and fauna. The documentation of plants and animals was in keeping with similar practices in Europe. Such studies contributed to the growing interest in natural history that accompanied the scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The documentation of the natural world was a means of gaining knowledge about a new habitat. They also reflected European colonial impulses. The collection of samples from the environment—whether specimens or reproductions—might be understood as an implicit assertion of possession.


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I can't really say that I'm still enjoying creating in my Documented Life journal after seven weeks. I want to play by the rules, not skipping ahead - so I'm always waiting with anticipation for the new prompt so I could start creating. But when the prompt comes, I'm just facing a blank page and a vague prompt that allows me on one hand to start painting pretty much anything I want, but on the other hand doesn't really give me the initial impulse to paint. I will probably have to think up some prompts for myself.
(photoshopped part of my Week 6 page)


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Thursday, May 29, 2008
McDonald's beef lkjafoj328uskdrfjekwlajv (can't even think of good headlines anymore for this shit).
So some people went to a McDonald's in Seoul to protest the restaurant's use of American beef. Because American beef is dangerous. And Korean beef is safe. So they shouldn't use American beef.
Haha, fail. There's a prominent box on the McDonald's Korea homepage addressing concerns about where the restaurants' beef comes from. The poster above, originally from here, says that the store uses Australian beef. Burger King has a little thing of its own on their site (it's a pop-up):
Lotteria has a pop-up of its own advertising domestic and Australian beef:
A few others:
Oh, please please please please please please please snuff the visa waiver program. And please please please please please please please have everyone here start bitching and moaning. And please please please please please please please have people make the connection and realize they don't get shit for free. And please please ple . . . wait, "make the connection?" Nevermind.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Perhaps the Korean Teachers' Union doesn't care for American beef, but I'm not sure.
From a couple days ago. Source.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ. Source.
So first we had that hate group the "Anti-English Spectrum" (ha!) run their mouths about foreigners in the Korea Times---and then show their true colors on their Korean-language homepage. Then the Korean Association of Foreign Language Academies trotted (trut?) out the usual stereotypes in that same paper. Now, another loony fringe organization has come out with wall-to-wall anti-beef coverage of the same hue and with the same single-minded determination. Oooh, wait, that's not a fringe organization, that's the 400,000-strong Korea Teachers and Educational Workers Union (KTU), and these photos are from their newspaper 교육희망, sitting on my desk today.
Sort of related, a few weeks ago I wrote an opinion piece for the Korea Times asking why people were spending so much time worrying about dying from Mad Cow Disease when the realities of being a pedestrian and a driver are so much more dangerous. That was just after two Suncheon high school students were killed on a field trip when the taxi driver driving their school bus lost control while coming down Hallasan. Anyway, I got into a bit of trouble at my school for that piece. A few of my coworkers read the English-language Korea Times, saw the article, and eventually translated it into Korean and passed it around. No serious damage, but it did make for an awkward couple of days. I'll give you three guesses as to why some coworkers were upset with the piece. No, it wasn't because I was exploiting the deaths of students to counter anti-American rallies. No, it wasn't because I was pointing out that Koreans are bad drivers. And no, it wasn't that I was making fun of a popular TV show. It was because I criticized the KTU, of which lots of my coworkers are members. I was a little harsh on them, and was probably off-base with some of my comments, especially since I don't have access to Korean-language media because of my limited Korean skills. But I don't think I was necessarily misinformed, and I was bothered that my colleagues focused on such a small part of my larger argument. In the piece I wrote:
The notoriously xenophobic and anti-American KTU has been given many opportunities to spout off against American beef imports.
While encouraging discussion among able students on topics like the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and beef imports being unhealthy [is fine], to coerce students to attend rallies and to brainwash them with ultra-nationalistic propaganda is irresponsible, to say the least.
A few of my coworkers were pretty upset, and one of them---the man who translated the article in Korean---printed out and gave me the union's "Founding Manifesto" and "Platform," both available online, to dissuade me that the organization is anti-American. Both are worth a read; here's a couple excerpts from the former, promulgated on 19 years ago yesterday, May 28th, 1989:
The KTU is the best classroom, wherein teachers themselves can be living examples of democracy, for students who must be raised as democratic citizens. Because we know that the democratization of society starts with the democratization of education, we 400,000 teachers will be unable to talk about democratization, unable to teach students democracy, unless we replace our antidemocratic educational system and change our reality, a reality that is destroying harmony and meaning in the lives of students and teachers. This is why we have organized the Teachers and Education Workers' Union, a concrete act of the democratization movement.
Meanwhile our dictatorial regime and its selfish educational profiteers, such as MoonGyoBu [the former Ministry of Education], DaeHanKyoReon [the former Korea Federation of Teachers' Association] etc. have distorted our intentions and trampled on us remorselessly. With their irrational behavior, they are on a wild rampage, intent on impeding the advance of history.
Comrades! Let's unite and fight for our students' smiling faces!
Comrades! Let's work together for the democratization of education, the democratization of society, and reunification under the banner of the KTU!
For Korean education! For democratic education! For humane education! For solidarity with the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union!
The pro-democratic stance of those two documents stand in stark contrast to how some of the union's activities have been portrayed in, say, the Chosun Ilbo, and while I'm not sophisticated enough to understand the ins and outs of the Korean media, the. In fact, as regards both the union and the anti-beef stuff, my coworkers dismissed any articles I presented from that paper, claiming that it, the Dong-A Ilbo, and the Joongang Ilbo were spreading lies. In fact, the big reason that my colleagues didn't accept the rest of my article, at least to my face, was that they thought it was built on a false premise influenced by the wrong papers: a he said (PD Diary) vs. she said (everyone else). Fair enough, and perhaps those papers have axes to grind, but it's not as if the union doesn't have an agenda, or hasn't been prone to bouts of anti-Americanism. And while I realize that protesting American beef isn't the same as protesting American culture, and that these rallies shouldn't be read as anti-American in spirit, I do question how appropriate it is for teachers to be so actively political. Everybody has their own cause, and I'll admit I wouldn't be so upset if, say, students and teachers protested human rights abuses in North Korea, or walked out of their class to protest a near-fatal beating handed down by a teacher, or protested something like the No Child Left Behind Act. But the things with which the union apparently takes issue go well beyond food safety, and encouraging students to participate either by coersion or by example seems unusual and over the students' heads, but these quote-unquote educational opportunities are apparently in line with the KTU's motto.
Anyway, you can find some Chosun Ilbo pieces on the union here and here, and it's easier to just say to click on all the "related articles" rather than linking to them myself. And, here are a few other cartoons I found on their site, without too much poking around:
Classy. Source.
Source. This has nothing to do with anything, but I found it amusing.


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I don't believe in boogiemen so instead of cowering docked, I put their "unstoppableness" to the test. I filled my Orca with double-wrapped packages, surely full of valuable goodies and did several trips in an out of Jita and the nearby systems that had high kill count. For days nothing happened, the monsters from Deklein ignored me. You might think I was just very-very lucky, but on Sunday my "luck" ran out as a Machariel and others started to bump me and Tornados shown up the overview on the Perimiter gate in Jita. A stranger convoed me too:
As you can see, after scanning my ship, the "unstoppable boogiemen" choose not to attack. Could they muster the force to take down my Orca? Probably. But there was no point as the cost of the gank would probably be too high for the lottery of the double-wrapped goodies, so what was inside will remain secret.
The "real boogiemen" would damn the cost and would just gank out of principle. But there is no such thing as "real boogiemen". The monsters are created in the mind of the morons and slackers who are unable to understand risk and reward. They fly their loot pinatas and cry "monster" when they are robbed. They don't see that the robbing wasn't random and was motivated by the loot or prestige value of their ship. If they wouldn't be dumb, they could easily fly something that doesn't worth ganking. Highsec is safe, as you can limit risks to the point where you don't really have to care, but the gankers would lose way to much to proceed:
If everyone could fit ships and calculate loot values, there wouldn't be ganking at all. Every gank victim is a fool who made himself a target. You can fly safely in the middle of Burn Jita with 40 seconds aligning brick.


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Dave, my mind is going..Posted: March 19, 2008 Filed under: Cognition, Future, Science | Tags: 2001, Authur C Clarke, Science Leave a comment
After living a quite productive life Authur C Clarke has passed away today. Many have already blogged about his passing and it is apparent his writing touched many peoples lives. I remember reading his books in the 70's along with similar writers like Asimov and others of the old guard who had grown out of the 40's and 50's pulp series. Many of these authors were probably the reason I set out a career in the space race, only to see the field wither and die after the successes of the 60's and 70's. As it was I did end up working in engineering doing some pretty cool stuff with robotics in manufacturing. However they were only really simple machines (ok, really freaking complicated simple machines) and these days I work as a cognitive scientist, in some way due to, arguably, his most notorious character, HAL.
"I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you."
In the time of the Beatles, the space race and the threat of nuclear destruction the field of AI had great promise. Many people were making predictions and Marvin Minsky was the adviser for the movie. Marvin is still around, still getting annoyed by people dicking around with robots rather than dealing with the big problems of AI. However, after all this time we are not much closer to having a real HAL, or even anything slightly intelligent. A whole pile of people now work on AI and nearly all have a background in digital computing and have all done the same courses. These days I'm pretty sure we have missed the turnoff for what I term , synthetic cognition, and the clue for this may well be in what HAL stands for.
Although there has been speculation it represented IBM, notice the one letter difference, this has always been denied. Furthermore IBM hasn't really made headway with AI in the last 40 years. And before I get howled down, NO, chess does not count, it does not represent intelligence in a very useful form. The real meaning of HAL was based around H(ueristic) AL(gorithm), the speculated concept which made HAL so clever. Through a rather fortunate string of events I now find myself working in this area and I actually research human hueristics and biases which affect them. My 2008 talk titled "Rational Irrationalism" which I have given at the local skeptics only a month ago and most likely will give at the national conference examines some of these concepts from their impact in understanding how humans make irrational decisions. These decisions are not always bad in an absolute sense although I do highlight the fact that being rational is seen as some idealised perfection to aim for. This same ideal is what has driven AI for 50 years with it's long string of predictions and failures. The field is full of search trees, algorithms and neural networks, all nicely running on super fast computers and all completely stupid.
What these machines don't do is use heuristics, rough rules of thumb that give good enough answers with only partial dodgy information. Now people may can this idea but it has served humans extremely well and we are not extinct (yet) in spite of surviving close calls from nature and ourselves. As such I'd suggest the field has some merit for usefulness. Of course AI researchers and IT people in general don't want machines that make mistakes like humans do, they want all the imagined perfection without the downside. It all strikes me as reminiscent of the religions concept of the fallen human, how they have been made perfect in God's eye but then became tainted. This sort of idealism simply ignores reality. Humans are no more or no less perfect than every other flawed creature on this ball of rock and water.
However it isn't the techies who are bothering with heuristics, it's the research scientists and they are looking at using the idea to explain human behavior and generally not make an AI. It's like two ships passing in the fog, with the additional problem of the crews speaking different languages. The idea of commonsense reasoning exists but it has a small following. Not surprisingly, one of those who have promoted the idea is non other than Marvin Minsky, 40 years after the film 2001 a Space Odyssey was made in which HAL featured.
So the imagination still burns, perhaps in some way inspired by the movie and the hope that computing machines become less useless and more like a person, warts and all. Interestingly, the last words I wrote at my desk yesterday before leaving for the Easter break, was "Implement this in code!". It was scrawled on the bottom of a recently published paper that had brought together a few heuristics and tested them. The authors have found that the heuristic matched the behavior of humans in evaluating a wide range of non-zero cost decision making problems. And in particular a range of problems where humans give the 'wrong answer' if compared to the 'rational' solution. HAL, one of your fathers may be gone but your children might yet live on.
" Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It's called "Daisy". Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two."
Ironically the song isn't actually called "Daisy", HAL has made a mistake here, it's called "Daisy Bell". The sort of simple mistake a person would make. And that I think, is a very promising sign.
The "Law of small numbers" BiasPosted: February 12, 2008 Filed under: Cognition 2 Comments
Last week I was giving a talk on decision making and biases and we had some robust debate on the bias called the "Law of small numbers". Below is the slide from the talk.
Some confusion existed because of ambiguous wording, in particular the first phrase "Mean IQ is 100" was seen to apply to the subsequent sample, calculated post-hoc.
However they appeared to be a few in the room who still didn't believe the maths, so here it is explained.
To get the actual average IQ of the group we add the total IQ and divide by the number of people, in this case 50.
The first persons IQ is 150 so the running total is now 150. For the next 49 people we don't know the exact score so the best we can do is assume they represent the average person, i.e. someone with an IQ of 100. The total IQ of the group of 50 is now 150 + 49 x 100 = 5050
We divide this by 50 to get an answer of 101.
So the improved wording would be "The mean IQ of all people is 100. From this group we select 50 people and the first person selected has an IQ of 150"
This example is showing that people will generally expect a run of lower than 100 IQ's for the remaining 49 people to "balance" the average so it becomes 100. Of course this does not occur, on average.
The same thinking is also behind the gamblers fallacy where someone will see a run of, for example, black numbers on roulette and then expect a run of red numbers to balance the average.
When memories go bad..Posted: October 11, 2007 Filed under: Cognition, Science | Tags: 9/11 "false memory" cognition 1 Comment
Everyone knows the moon is visible in the sky each night, don't they? Surprisingly many people will think this simple statement to be true when in fact it is true only half the time. Although not as harmful as thinking Iraq was behind 9/11 or that aliens kidnap you for weird experiments every so often, memories which are wrong can be very persistent and quite believable. A recent article in the Washington Post goes through some recent research highlighting how flaky the human mind is when dealing with myths or other false memories. I'm not going to paraphrase that article, it's pretty good as it stands IMHO.
Cutting to the chase, the basic problem is that any sort of access to memory, including just the act of recalling it, will strengthen the neural networks which decide it's coherence. Lets go through an example with Alice, a hypothetical friend. One day she hears a radio report about planes crashing into buildings and turns on the TV. She sees footage and the story emerges that the perpetrators happened to be Muslim terrorists. She sees images on the TV, she hears the words of the newsreader and she is distressed by the death and suffering she seeing in the faces of the survivors. This sets up some initial memories. These episodic memories are effectively links between existing semantic knowledge of planes, buildings, Muslims and the time and date in her life when they occurred. The memories are quite strong due to the emotional content and as well as strengthening the episodic memory the semantic memories are also strengthened. It's unlikely she will ever not associate collapsing skyscrapers with passenger jets.
As time goes on and she talks about the event the act of recalling it will further reinforce the memories of the event. However this is now a memory of a past event but that doesn't mean it is permanent or fixed, unlike writing something down. New memories about planes or skyscrapers can be formed and these new neural links activate are in the same 'memory space' as existing memories. In summary we don't make a brand new memory if we see a new skyscraper, we link in the new information to the old. We can assume it has a foyer, lifts and lots of offices, perhaps some shops on the ground floor, even without seeing it. And until we do and discover it's only an empty shell full of giant flowers (for example) our imagination will happily link together an existing memory and attach it to the semantic memory of the new building.
So when Alice hears talk of 9/11 and Iraq, 9/11 and terrorists, Iraq and terrorists, strange and wrong links can form in her mind. The more often she hears these words and the more often she talks about them the more often these concepts and reinforced and linked together. Sooner or later inside Alice's mind we have the memory, seemingly as real as real, that Iraqi terrorists caused 9/11. Now this won't happen to everyone, some people might first hear that the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, some people might ignore certain media that is not very trustworthy and some through pure luck will hear the words "Saudi Arabia" more often than "Iraq". In these people there is less chance for a false memory or myth to take hold. And even when those with false memories are told "Iraq did not cause 9/11" the actual act of hearing these words may well reinforce the link between 9/11 and Iraq, the negation is not always remembered as well.
The simple fact is that recalling a memory is not a passive act. In some ways 'recalling' or 'remembering' are poor words. Better would be 'activating'. When you have related sections of memory that are activated then the links that lead to a cascade of activation are strengthened. When you think '9/11' the first related items to be activated are those with the strongest links such as 'airliner','terror'. This activation will then spread to other areas of memory that do not have as strong links. Note that all of your memories of event do not all appear instantly available, some have weaker links and take longer.
So now we have Alice with some pretty wacky memories and ideas in her head. It could just as easily be aliens, astrology or psychic powers. How do correct this situation?
And that's where this little story gets interesting…her memories are corrected with great difficulty. We simply can't say "Iraq did not cause 9/11" and expect success, it simply doesn't get rid of the memory, there is no competition to this wrong memory. A better method would be "Al Qaeda caused 9/11". If this is done enough eventually the link between 9/11 and Al Qaeda will become stronger than the link between 9/11 and Iraq. A prompt of 9/11 will lead to an activation of Al Qaeda. Not recalling Iraq in relation to 9/11 will allow this 'memory' to fade through lack of use. But this is all much easier said than done when you have spin merchants in politics and the media wanting you think a certain way.
As skeptics this leads to what many see as an uphill battle, the ID arguments (it's barely a debate) are case to point. The best we can do is to learn more about how the mind works, speak our convictions with a loud voice and try to get as many people as possible to think and question what they hear and what is in their mind. To quote a rather left-wing friend from the 1980's , who was quoting it from Zapata, who was was quoting it from Jose Marti, "it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees".
Or we could just quote Zapata directly:"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."
Take as long as you like…Posted: October 9, 2007 Filed under: Cognition, Science | Tags: cognitive science, decision making 1 Comment
A recent article in the Journal of Consumer Research (October 2007) examines an interesting issue in human decision making, what they call the "Duration Heuristic" which involves peoples perception of the cost effectiveness of time taken for a task.
I'll take a step back here and just explain what is meant by heuristic in layman's terms by using an example. If I ask you to choose a positive feature of two products and that feature isn't clearly apparent and you don't have prior expert knowledge, lets say the nutritional value of 2 loaves of bread, you will most likely choose the brand you are most familiar with. This is an example of the recognition heuristic. This is tendency for humans to choose something that is familiar rather than something that is unknown. At this stage I'm sure a few of you are thinking "..but I'd read the pack, it's printed there on the side, and then I could evaluate it". That's all fine and dandy and is one of the traditional ways of thinking about how humans think however in the RW (Real World) we are often pressed for time and…and this the important part.. these simple heuristics work quite well most of the time.
This area of cognitive science is rather new, like in the last 10 years new and if want to read more you can get a taste in this article by Gerd Gigerenzer. These heuristics are basically simple rules that humans use when they are not being totally rational like Spock, which is nearly all of the time. Many people underplay their importance and we have grown accustomed to viewing humans as these super cool, work it out rationally, mistakes are bad , sort of Utopian weird idea that wacky religious nuts could dream up when you ignore the RW evidence.
However back to this new heuristic. In summary, consumers (i.e. you, me , everyone) often think that there is a positive correlation between the length of service and it's value. In particular in situations involving price, even where the service would be better if quicker, the perception persisted. How could this be? Well, in many cases the amount of effort put into a task can reflect the quality of the outcome. In cases like this I like to strip away the glitz and complexity of the 21st century and go back a few ice ages to a hunter gatherer society. Our brains these days are pretty much the same as back then and those who survived back then passed their genes and brain structures onto their descendants, which is you and me, so I reckon it's a fair model.
During a day Fred goes out hunting and Wilma looks after the children and does some gathering. Fred has spent time making his hunting tools, Wilma the same, and it would be reasonable to assume the more care and effort put into tools, the better they turn out. Getting the stone to fit the haft snugger, spending more time binding the axe point to the shaft, working on the skin scraper etc. Similarly when gathering the more time spent, the greater the collection and the more food. And here we see the basis of our modern work ethic. More is good.
What this simple heuristic our minds use does not account for though is efficiency. Bang for buck. The research subjects viewed lock picking as better if it took longer, even though a bit of thought considering it's time based payment and sooner is better and you could rationally come to another conclusion. That however would take more thought and a bit of frontal lobe action, something our brains can be loathe to do as they generally don't have this Protestant work effort we get conditioned to accept.
I remember that in poorer times (or before easy credit) I'd think about the back for buck of entertainment. Cost of seeing a band for x hours versus seeing a movie for y hours. How many dollars goes though a Galaga video game machine per hour? I think local bands and beer won out on that account, I'm a cheap drunk. Books also come out ahead as these days, I'm a slow reader. But how many people think of the number of hours of "entertainment" they will get from a shiny new Plasma TV before it wears out? Is that a much better quality of experience than a large screen for half the price? Maybe I should watch it more to get my 'moneys worth', totally ignoring that the money is spent and now you're most likely wasting time, which is much more valuable, as well. But all this thinking is difficult and uses up time that could be spent relaxing.
Where's that remote? At least that's an easy decision.


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It is the end of another year and I must vent or bust.
Busting is NEVER good!
There's an old saying that goes something like this:
"Don't piss in my hat and tell me it's raining."
I take that to mean that no matter how many times you call a turtle a duck… it's still a duck.
Lately I have been being told that I am a duck.
I know full well that I am a turtle but will occasionally check for feathers!
Brainwashing is an interesting thing. It's real. It works. People do it when they try to convince you that you did, do, mean something that you really don't.
That was a confusing sentence. Sorry. I'll try a different way because I am writing this as much for clarity to myself as I am interesting reading for you.
There was a movie a little while ago called "The girl on the train." In this wonderfully tedious story a woman keeps seeing something on the back porch of a house as she passes by hundreds of yards away.
Each time she sees it she gets a little more clarity.
In the beginning she believes, as does everyone else, that her ex-husband is a saint who endured years of marriage to her even though she was mean, crazy and psychotic. She believed that with her heart and soul because she had been told all those things for so long.
She even manifested memories to back up the story. (The mind will do whatever it can to "connect the dots." The mind doesn't like a puzzle with missing pieces.)
After many sightings of the couple on the porch so far away the girl on the train recognizes that the people she's seeing are actually her and her ex-husband having an argument some years or months ago. He is angry. He is physical. He is the mean, crazy and psychotic person of her memory… not her.
Anyway… my point is that she was a duck that had been called a turtle for so long that she could actually feel feathers that weren't there.
After some time, the girl on the train reclaimed her "turtle-ness" and showed the duck (her ex-husband) for the duck that he was.
It was quite wonderful. A long ride to get there but well worth the train ride.
Back to clarity…
I am a turtle. I have willingly sacrificed years of sweat and blood and time and finance and dreaming to fulfill an obligation that I willingly entered into and am proud of doing so and honored to have been given the opportunity. I love my family with all me heart and soul even though it appears they have been convinced that this turtle is a duck.
I will not let the persistent claim both privately and publicly that I am a confused, misguided, no-good duck convince me that I am anything but a plodding, hard working and even, noble, turtle.
I remember one of the last things my mother said to me before she passed and I want to share it with you:
"I want you to know that I am ready to go. I am okay with dying because I know that you have someone in your life who loves you as much as I do."
What an amazing thing to hear.
"You are a fine turtle, son. Keep listening to those who remind you about what a great turtle you really are and ignore the mean people in your life who keep calling you a duck!"
Hang in there fellow Turtles. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's not attached to the front of a train…
Keep on course. Keep believing that you are good and keep doing good things. Ignore and disregard those who call you other than what you truly know you are.
Stay the course. I wish confusion to your enemies, especially those enemies who dare call you friend.
Yours and mine.
Have the best Christmas (or whatever you choose to call the Holiday Season) ever! Hug those you love and really mess with the minds of those woh don't have your best interest at heart and hug them too.
Be well!


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A wide range of light that may be detected with a digital camera — all colors of visible light, the near Infrared (IR), and ultraviolet (UV)— enter the camera through the lens.
Since most digital cameras have a glass lens, most UV is absorbed before it enters the camera .
The IR filter blocks nearly all infrared light from reaching the camera's sensors, unless the filter has been removed. Even with the IR filter in place, intense near infrared light sources will be seen by the digital camera - such as the LED on most remote controls.
The visible light passes through the infrared blocking filter of the camera's internal light sensor. Visible light then passes through a series of color filters which control what color light reaches an individual light sensor. Red filters block/absorb/subtract green and blue light, so red light reaches the sensor. The sensors convert light to electricity, with the greater intensity of light creating a greater number of electrical charges. This sequence of filters coupled with the sensor translates the light traveling from the picture's subject into measurable intensities of red, green, and blue light.
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
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With increased usage of green energy, the number of photovoltaic arrays used in power generation is increasing rapidly. Many of the arrays are located at remote locations where faults that occur within the array often go unnoticed and unattended for large periods of time. Technicians sent to rectify the faults have to spend a large amount of time determining the location of the fault manually. Automated monitoring systems are needed to obtain the information about the performance of the array and detect faults. Such systems must monitor the DC side of the array in addition to the AC side to …
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This thesis is focused on the study of wind energy integration and is divided into two segments. The first part of the thesis deals with developing a reliability evaluation technique for a wind integrated power system. A multiple-partial outage model is utilized to accurately calculate the wind generation availability. A methodology is presented to estimate the outage probability of wind generators while incorporating their reduced power output levels at low wind speeds. Subsequently, power system reliability is assessed by calculating the loss of load probability (LOLP) and the effect of wind integration on the overall system is analyzed. Actual generation …
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I have been a volunteer with the American Cancer Society fo several years now and I am saddened by all the negative comments and I'm not really sure where people are pulling their info from. I can tell you that I have seen first hand numerous friends that have been helped free lodging, travel, medical equipment, wigs, programs and numerous other patient services. I have also seen first hand cutbacks within the ACS organization...as in less employees....more work taken on by the remaining employees. I can tell you that our Staff partner as well as the Quality of Life Manager, Executive Director and the staff of our local office work their butts off for that organization. Anyone that thinks volunteers do it all is wrong. Granted, ACS is approximately 90% volunteer driven...but I think of that as a plus. Shame on you people for being so gullible - do what your heart tells you. Do you really think that many volunteers would be volunteering if they felt ACS mismanaged their monies? Why do you think they have such a huge volunteer base?? Because the volunteers have seen FIRST HAND how many lives have been helped by the American Cancer Society. I don't believe all the negative articles I read about places such as the American Red Cross, Komen, etc. I believe what is in my heart. I will continue to volunteer for the American Cancer Society until cancer is gone or I'm gone.
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The Trenton Animal Shelter needs Volunteers and Foster homes. Our cats and dogs need animal lovers to come in help feed, socialize, take photos, or go for walks. Experience not necessary but general love for animals is required 🙂 . You must be 18 (if under 18, you must have an adult accompany you). Many of our cats and dogs are adopted every week into wonderful homes. Our Volunteers and Foster Homes play an important role in preparing these animals for their forever homes!!
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Some people collect newspapers, towels and blankets, and other items used extensively at the shelter.
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The number of people killed or injured by landmines and similar weapons reached a 10-year high last year, a new report has revealed.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said the number of casualties worldwide rose to 6,461 in 2015, up 75% on the previous year.
The report said civilians made up more than three quarters of victims and 38% of them were children.
Most victims were in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Ukraine.
"The decade-high number of new casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance, and the continued suffering of civilians, more than a third of whom were children, proves again that these indiscriminate weapons should never be used by anyone," Loren Persi, of the ICBL's Landmine Monitor, said in a statement.
The report said that the use of antipersonnel mines by nation states remains rare due to a ban signed by most countries.
However, it said there had been a steep increase in casualties from improvised devices, mines and "explosive remnants of war" recorded in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
Anti-mine funds decrease
It said greater availability of casualty figures also contributed to the rise.
The highest number of casualties in 2015 was recorded in Afghanistan with 1,310 people killed or wounded, a similar figure to 2014.
There were 1,004 victims in Libya, with Yemen recording 988, Syria 864 and Ukraine 589.
The report said that the only countries where government forces planted landmines in 2015 were Myanmar, North Korea and Syria, none of which have signed up to the international Mine Ban Treaty.
The ICBL also noted that, despite the increase in casualties, worldwide funding for clearing mines and helping victims decreased.


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Interpol's Paul Banks has said that the band are working on an "orchestral" sounding new album.
The frontman explained that the follow-up to 2007s 'Our Love To Admire' was heading in a more classical direction.
"There's some really classical stuff going on," Banks told BBC 6 Music. "[bassist] Carlos [Dengler] has gone to total new levels of crazy sophisticated orchestration."
Due out in early 2010, the yet-to-be-named album is set to be a "step forward" for the band, despite reports from the groups's drummer Sam Fogarino, that the album would sound like their 2002 debut album 'Turn On The Bright Lights'.
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I hope that all of you had a magical holiday. I did. I was playing in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I explored the only temperate rainforest in the continental U.S. Here I had time to reflect on the gifts I received in 2016 including the wisdom gained from the challenges. As I stood looking up this magnificent tree in the photo (yes somehow it uploaded sidewise but that is cool since there is more wonder in the photo like this), I could see the world through the eyes of a child. I also thought about how I want to paint my life's canvas in 2017. I am painting and will paint my canvas with lots of colors of wonder, love, nature, adventure, play, love (yes twice), joy, laughter, exploration, discovery, peace, harmony, collaboration, sharing my gifts/talents/passions/wisdom in an even bigger/deeper way to help others and this world even more – so many great things ahead with Passion + Purpose = World Change – stay tuned.
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation involves the implantation of a small device under the skin on teh chest under the collar bone. The device acts similar to a pacemaker, sending electrical signals to the brain via the vagus nerve. This periodic mild stimulation helps to control seizures in some patients, although research has yet to determine exactly how.
VNS is effective in controlling some forms of epilepsy when anti-epileptic drugs are inadequate (or produce intolerable side effects) or neurosurgery is not an option. In some cases, VNS has also been effective in stopping seizures.
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Common side effects during stimulation:
- a tingling sensation in the neck and/or
- mild hoarseness of the voice
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- ear or tooth pain and
- skin irritation or infection at the implant site.
VNS is a viable option for some children in some circumstances. Parents should speak to their child's physician about the possibility of VNS.
Unlike many medications, there seems to be no significant intellectual, cognitive, behavioural or emotional side effects to VNS therapy.
In Canada, VNS is approved as an adjunctive therapy for some people with epilepsy. It is currently approved in more than 20 countries.
Reports from November 2000 state VNS is the second most common treatment for epilepsy in the United States. Its effectiveness in controllign seizures is comparable to that of new AEDs, according to the American Academy of Neurology.
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