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All these were VIN-identified as 1965 designs, but several changes were made at the traditional opening of the new model year (start August 1964), including the addition of back-up lights on some models, the intro of generators to replace generators, and an upgrade of the V8 engine from 260 cu into 289 cu in. In the case of a minimum of some six-cylinder Mustangs fitted with the 101 hp 170 cu in Falcon engine, the rush into production consisted of some unusual peculiarities, such as a horn ring bearing the 'Ford Falcon' logo below a trim ring emblazoned with 'Ford Mustang.' These characteristics made adequate distinction to require classification of the 121,538 earlier ones as "1964 1/2" model-year Mustangs, a difference that has actually endured with perfectionists. Mustangs For Sale in Tilden NE are easy to find now with online shopping.
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Sun Diego would like to welcome 12 year WCT veteran Damien Hobgood to our surf team! Damo, who is known for his mental style and crazy barrel riding skills, is a current San Diego resident and one of the coolest humans you will ever meet. Damien Hobgood was born in Satellite Beach, Florida and is the brother of 2004 ASP World Champion C.J. Hobgood.
Damien joined the ASP World Qualifying Series in 1998. In 2000, after just two years on the WQS, Hobgood qualified for the ASP World Championship Tour. He then went on to win rookie of the year!
While on the WCT, Damien Hobgood has won four events—most recently in 2007 at Teahupo'o, Tahiti. He also won in 2004 at Cloudbreak in Tavarua, Fiji, in 2005 at Imbituba, Brazil, and then again at Cloudbreak in 2006. Always consistent, Damien has 5 top 10 finishes in the past 11 seasons on the pro tour and has finished in the top 16 nine times.
"San Diego is my home and where I enjoy spending my time with my family when I'm not on tour. I felt it was important to represent and be a part of my local community. Sun Diego has the best shops and it's also where my friends work and hang, so joining the Sun Diego surf team was the perfect fit for me". – Damien Hobgood
Damo joins our surf team that includes the likes of Kyle Knox, Ricky Whitlock, Sean Marceron, Sean Taylor and Scotty Hammonds.
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Children enrolled this summer in Lincoln Parks and Recreation's FUNdamental Healthy Me Day Camp at Irving Recreation Center, 2010 Van Dorn, will participate in the Wise Kids® Outdoors program. The nationwide program leads children through supervised outdoor adventures to expose them to the advantages of exploring the natural world.
The program is offered to children currently enrolled in grades 3 and 4. The camp is from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays from May 29 to August 10. In addition to Wise Kids® Outdoors, camp activities include active play, archery, swimming, tennis, reading and special interest clubs. The fee is $108 per week, and families can register for individual weeks. Need-based scholarships are available for families who qualify.
"Wise Kids Outdoors also connects nature to health," said Dan Payzant, Irving Recreation Center Director. "We want young people in our community to understand the lifelong importance of eating healthy and being active outdoors. Day camp is a fun setting to reinforce these values."
Nearly 350 children participated in a successful test of the Wise Kids Outdoors programs in summer 2008. Payzant said Parks and Recreation is taking a leadership role in encouraging healthy lifestyles while reconnecting children to the outdoors.
The Wise Kids Outdoors program was created by the Säjai® Foundation in partnership with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). The nonprofit Foundation works to combat childhood obesity by developing preventative healthy lifestyle programs for children ages 6 to 11. The programs are designed specifically for after-school care and summer camps, and they emphasize a lifelong approach to nutrition and activity. NRPA is a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing park, recreation and conservation efforts that enhance quality of life for all people.
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1) This is a major expansion of a previous blog of mine.
2) Before I start, let me address my credentials. I am a Spider-Man fan. I am such a geek I own over $100,000 of Spider-Man issues. Therefore I speak with authority, and I have a message to all you Batman lovers: get fucking laid.
The perception and common knowledge is that X-men is about racism or McCarthyism, but that is the defensively male-centric point of view. Different era's produce different messages, and in the 80's when the book was really clicking, plot lines mostly revolved around romances, escalating into marital issues and in the case of Cyclops and Jean Grey – loss of a child (Issue #200, AKA the Ashley Judd issue). X-Men wasn't about racism or McCarthyism. X-men was Desperate Housewives with superpowers. The only thing Mutants were hiding from the public was the right for teenage boys to play Barbie.
Right. The lady doth protest too much.
Reality is a tricky thing to demand out of your superhero movies. The problem with asking for versimilitude is that the core superhero logic was designed for the brains of twelve year old boys. Even when the heroes get updated for the modern manchild who can afford $3.99 for a ten minute read, the supposedly complex themes now added to their cartoon origins can become ridiculous. For all the metaphors against anti-semitism X-men can try to infuse, it all gets muddled when you consider that there really are bad mutants trying to take over the world. For all of Xavier's dreams of equal rights and that humans have no reason to fear mutants and their powers, he does call himself Homo Superior and he spends an awful lot of time trying to protect said human beings from Giant Blobs and crazy shape shifting killers trying to become President by murder. This is the equivalent of a Seinfeld episode in redneck Mississippi where Seinfeld saves their churches while fighting George Costanza, who is hurling bolting flames of World Bank Loans at Christians.


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When Natalie Fiore opens the door in this SCORE video and steps through the doorway, the odds are good that you'll do a double-take. That's because her massive tits, cradled by her half-cup brassiere, create this incredible boob-shelf she could serve breakfast on. Natalie has become one of the hottest one-on-one video stars ever seen on SCORELAND. The combination of her amazingly rich, ripe body, her seductive eye-contact and personality, and her supersexy verbal talents in tit-chat result in videos that just suck you in and grab you by the horns. Natalie has all of the qualities that make a solo video a special event. "I love her sexual energy! 1000% Woman!" comments a SCORELAND guy who grasped Natalie's charisma and magnetic allure. There are some women who make you feel as if you are the only man in the world and Natalie is one of them. That's why she's #6 in the Best of the Decade and consistently in the Top 20 in the Model Directory. See Natalie's matching photo set from this… Read More »
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We cap off five days of memorable natural big-tit action on Grand Bahama Island with this behind-the-scenes video featuring all the girls: Karla, Natalie, Jenna, Arianna and Taylor. It starts with Karla, Jenna, Arianna and Taylor on the beach, destroying tiny, colorful bikinis, playing in the water, bouncing, jumping and getting their boobs wet and finishes with Taylor and Arianna slapping their boobs against each other in bed and kissing us goodbye. In between, there are plenty of highlights, like Taylor giving us an ass show, Karla kissing Arianna's tits and Natalie interviewing Arianna, who gives us a brief lesson in Romanian. Of course, the girls' huge boobs come out in this video but so do their playful personalities. You just might be surprised. You'll definitely be entertained.
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What goes on behind the closed doors of a lady's bathroom? Go where no man has gone before as our cameras hang out with Natalie Fiore and record the mysteries of her private rituals. Natalie is our guide to every step and beyond in her feminine preparations. She's so sensational in body and personality with tremendous erotic talents and the horny vocal talents that would make a phone sex operator jealous. She knows what to say to excite the male member and how to say it in her sexy exotic accent! After her slow, sexy bath and depilation, Natalie's skin is as soft and as smooth as vanilla velvet. Her body is heaven-sent. Now Natalie's ready for her after-bath ritual which we will see in part two next month.
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Natalie has done it again, had another growth spurt! Good hooter-heaven! Natalie is bustier than ever! Somehow you managed to survive her red monokini video and pictorial and made it to her candid videos and photos. When we first met Natalie Fiore in Nassau, Bahamas, in 2006 she had DDD's. When she was photographed in Prague in 2009, Natalie was up to a G-cup. In 2010 on Grand Bahama Island, Natalie inched up to an H-cup. Now in Mexico, she's even bustier. Now she can fill a J-cup. Will her tits continue to grow? In this video, Our studio manager talks to sensational Hitomi and then Natalie comes over and the two demonstrate how west meets east with a water bottle transfer using their boobs.
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Natalie Fiore looks even bustier in this Grand Bahama bikini pictorial and video than in her most recent pictorials shot in Prague and published in the October '09 Voluptuous and December '09 SCORE. Hot on the beach is a major understatement! It's a fact that there's something about the beach that brings out all the sexiness in a babe. Before she joined us in The Bahamas, Natalie told our studio she'd gained some extra boobage, so the excitement level was high. Needless to say, when the photographers saw Natalie's naked tits the first day of her arrival, their adrenaline levels markedly increased. Even in clothing, her boobs are now incredibly huge! This pictorial and vid were shot when the beach was deserted so that Natalie would feel completely comfortable. Natalie is, at heart, a conservative woman, an exhibitionist in private but reserved in public. Natalie, thank you for letting us know about your increased chestal development and for accepting our invitation once again to a revealing bust-out in The Bahamas.
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SCORELAND guarantees that those cooking and food channels on television pale in comparision to Natalie Fiore's video, Foodie Time With Natalie. The super-stacked babydoll is a better TV food star than any of those celebrity chefs. Who'd have guessed? Then again, she surprises everyone with a new talent everytime she's here. Natalie will turn you into an Iron Cock Chef yourself as you watch what she does in the kitchen. Natalie returns to the apartment after a trip to the grocery store, and with her incredible bod wrapped in that tight dress, they must have been tripping over their own feet when she strolled down the aisles. She's brimming with plans for a food fest with her fantastic figure as the main dish. Several of our BLOG entries have asked about the subject of food play. Even if you never cared for foodie action before, Natalie may convert you to her way of thinking after you see what she does and hear what she says in her hot, accented English. She makes the perfect boobalicious buffet and, trust us, you can't afford to miss her one-woman banana contest. Natalie is always sexy but she's really outdone herself this time. Pass the honey, would you, Natalie?
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And now for someone a breast-man could never tire of. The amazing Natalie Fiore, a huge SCORLAND favorite, is back with another nipplicious video, oiling those heavy, beautiful tits, talking sexy and petting her purring pussy after a night out driving the boys wild with her unstoppable body. Don't touch that mouse when Natalie says goodnight because there's a bonus Natalie interview that begins immediately after the scene ends! "I like a man to worship my breasts," is Natalie's credo and she says it again in this interview. She's in the right place. Miss Fiore's got countless worshippers on SCORELAND because this is the most visited temple of tits on earth and Natalie's one of the temple goddesses.
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There are many reasons for a lovely woman to stay in her bedroom in the middle of the day when the sun is shining and she's on an exotic holiday. Natalie Fiore has the most valid reason of all. She's horny and her nipples and pussy need a good rubbing. She needs a revitalizing orgasm. "That's what I'm going to do," Natalie says. "Sounds like a plan." Wisely observing that she has too much clothing on, Natalie removes each item starting with her vest. Then she unclasps her strappy top but before she removes it, she examines her massive cleavage in her full-length mirror. Playing with her bra and the treasure chest within the cups, Natalie talks about her tits, their size and sensitivity, and how she likes to make them jump. She holds the bra by the straps and jiggles the cups, making her breasts bounce like puppets on strings as she examines them in the mirror. The bra material is thin and can't mask her pointy nipples that jut through the fabric. Miss Fiore says that she should take her bra off, one of the greatest ideas a woman like her ever came up with. Natalie releases her tits from the restraints of her brassiere, and their sheer size and the size of her wide areolae is still shocking, even though she has been showing off those babies at SCORELAND since 2007. No bonafide breast-man could ever take them for granted and should be grateful that she decided to become a model. The brunette handful could have kept them all to herself and a lover. Instead, she decided to share them in a very interactive way. She has the rare talent of making you feel as if you are actually in the room with her. She's a whole lotta woman and there's a whole lotta shaking goin' on in that quiet, air-conditioned bedroom she is spending a hot afternoon in. She makes a solo video seem like it's a full-sex video. Natalie Fiore: one of a kind. There is no one like her.
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Back we go to Natalie Fiore's bathroom for the conclusion of Natalie's Private Morning Ritual. It's a rare treat to be granted access to that most sacred and secret of female temples, the bathroom, where girls transform themselves into man-pleasers. A sanctuary usually forbidden to men, where females primp and fuss and preen. Now refreshed and energized by her bath in Part 1, Natalie checks herself out in front of her mirror. She likes what she sees and so do we. As she makes her evening preparation, Natalie tells us in her sultry accent, a voice that could melt titanium, about her plans for going out to a hotspot and says she is not going to wear panties. She'll be going shaved pussy "commando" and her mission is to drive guys crazy. She will succeed. "Natalie's gonna be very kinky!" she reveals. "And have a glamour look. I love to seduce and tease every man. Every man." You know she can 'cause she's a woman with a plan! She will decimate every man within her radius. Natalie Fiore, you are one of a kind.


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Dialogue: Mark Strong Explains the 'John Carter of Mars' Title Change
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from our larger interview (up later today) with Green Lantern's Mark Strong, focusing specifically on Disney's upcoming John Carter, a topic that's been on many fans' minds lately due to the title change (it was previously titled John Carter of Mars) and first poster for the Andrew Stanton-directed film about a Civil War soldier who awakes on an alien planet.
Movies.com: You seemed to move pretty quickly from [Green Lantern] to John Carter, where you play a villain, but one who's more ethereal.
Strong: Yeah, I've sort of refined that. If Sinestro is physical, Matai Shang is spiritual, mental.
Movies.com: How quickly did you move from one to the other, and how tough was it to shift from one character to the next?
Strong: Well funnily enough, when you do things like that at the same time, they inform each other and also, it's very useful because you're playing so against the other one. In this instance, they are so different, it was great. Because I could literally play Sinestro against Matai Shang, if you like, and remind myself that he is really all about action and physicality. And Matai Shang, by the same token, is the opposite. Very knowing, very, as you say, ethereal, a very Zen-like character of the mind, rather than of the body. And it was useful actually, because although they're both aliens and so they're similar in that respect, their characters are so totally opposite ends of the spectrum. And I enjoyed playing them around a similar time.
Interestingly, John Carter's had its titled changed. And there seems to be some kind of confusion as to why this should be, and I think the reason is brilliant. The reason is that he has to earn that title. Again, it's a franchise or a number of books; a series of books that people may or may not know, but if you call him John Carter of Mars, I think at the very beginning, all the work's been done and what Andrew wants to do, I think, is introduce people to this first film, and by the end of it, he becomes John Carter of Mars, but not at the beginning. In the beginning he's John Carter, but by the end of the first film, he's John Carter of Mars; so he's earned that title to take it off should it want to go to further storytelling.
Movies.com: How successful do you feel like Andrew Stanton made that transition from animated filmmaking to live-action? And how did his past experiences impact your collaboration?
Strong: He was no different to any other film director. I mean, you're in charge, you have to answer all the questions and you have to have the idea in your head. He definitely had all of that and more. His enthusiasm was what was really infectious. And your knowledge that he's such a great storyteller was a very comforting thing to have during shooting. I mean, I don't know how much collaboration he's done on you know, subsequent [projects]. But I thought he was absolutely at the top of his game and he knew exactly what he was doing.
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Furore after Costa Concordia captain gives lecture on emergency procedures
Rome: A Rome university professor is facing a disciplinary hearing after inviting the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner to lecture students on emergency procedures.
The dean of Rome's Sapienza University, Luigi Frati, voiced anger on Wednesday at the professor's decision to invite Captain Francesco Schettino to give a seminar, calling it an "inappropriate and unworthy choice." Mr Frati said he was turning the matter over to an ethics committee.
The university dismissed the "pathetic excuses" offered by the professor, Vincenzo Mastronardi, when confronted by the dean.
Mr Schettino is being tried for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship over the January 2012 capsize of the Concordia, in which 32 people died.
Italy's education minister called the news "disconcerting," while the prosecutor in Tuscany who is arguing for Mr Schettino's guilt expressed indignation also at reports that Schettino had been awarded a diploma.
The Florence daily La Nazione reported that Mr Schettino gave a nearly two-hour lecture to criminal science masters candidates last month, including reference to panic management. Passengers have described a chaotic evacuation of the Concordia.
Mr Schettino, through his lawyer, defended the seminar, saying it was "a technical intervention on the basis of my knowledge and professionalism acquired over many years of service."
His lawyer, Cataldo Calabretta, criticised "an unacceptable attempt to discredit Schettino, who has been subjected for a long time already to unmerited media attacks."
The Concordia was towed from its Tuscan graveyard last month to Genoa's port where it will be turned into scrap. During a search of the ship on Wednesday, authorities found some bone fragments that they said could belong to the one person still unaccounted for from the tragedy: Indian waiter Russel Rebello.
They said the bones could also belong to an Italian passenger whose partial, mutilated remains were found some months ago.


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Newfoundland and Labrador regional managing partner Neil Jacobs quoted in Canadian Lawyer
Neil Jacobs, Newfoundland and Labrador regional managing partner, is quoted in an article by Donalee Moulton exploring the recent expansion and growth in St. John's due to the discovery of untapped oil fields.
Within St. John's: Big-city practice, small town lifestyle, Neil states, "Newfoundland and Labrador has gone from a have-not province to a have province. That changes the whole dynamic within the country." The growing oil industry has resulted in a shift in the kind of work being done within Newfoundland and Labrador and Neil explains that law offices are now getting the experience with bigger clients and larger-value deals that could only be found previously in larger cities and economies.
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Note: The sum of the individual and all other condition death totals may be greater than the total number of deaths in the selected states and years because some decedents have more than one condition listed on their death certificates. Percentages may not total to 100% due to rounding. See selected limitations for general cautions regarding inferences based on small numbers of deaths, and see appendices for source description, methods, ICD codes, industry and occupation codes, industrial sector groupings, and list of selected states and years.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Pterosaur fact checking
Example 1: one of their concerns with the quad launch hypothesis is clearance for the wings after launch. Now, I've calculated the expected clearance and everything seems fine, but that doesn't mean I'm right. Maybe someone will find an error at some point. What is clearly not going to be true, however, is the idea that keeping the feet on the ground (biped running launch) is going to give more clearance than a leap. It simply isn't possible to get more clearance by not jumping (it might be true that jumping still isn't enough, but it's not going to be worse). So Chatterjee et al. have a mismatch between their own conclusions and their arguments with the competing model. The numbers and the behavior don't match up.
Example 2: Chatterjee et al. argue that pterosaurs can't work as scaled up bats, and argue instead that they should work like scaled up birds. Anatomically, pterosaurs don't match either of these, so the bat argument is a straw man, and the bird argument is moot. The anatomy and the behavior don't match up.
These are the sorts of arguments that raise red flags in scientific discourse. On a final note, there are some basic fact checking items that should be looked out for, such as claims about living animals. From the media story, Chatterjee is quoted as saying "Like albatrosses and the Great Kori bustards, which weigh 20 to 40 pounds, ground takeoff was agonizing and embarrassing for Quetzalcoatlus."
Aside from the problem with the pterosaur analogy, there is the obvious problem that Kori bustards don't have trouble taking off (though they might find it embarrassing; I haven't asked them). In fact, Kori bustards can leap into flight at a steep angle. Check this out. Yes, the bustard tries running to escape, first, but when pressed, it just leaps into the air. No big runway, no "agonizing" takeoff. In fact, there is no correlation between running launch and size in living birds or bats. More on that some other time, but in general, if a YouTube search quickly demonstrates that your commentary is flawed, that's a bit worrisome.
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Come now Mike, who are you going to believe, the press or your lying eyes?ReplyDelete
I was going to roll dice, in fact.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the interesting comment. Reading the media, it seems that their model of take off for Albatross or Quetzalcoatlus is based on Orville or Wilbur form the Disney Bernard and Bianca ;-)).ReplyDelete
on a related, is there books or article accessible to non specialist about mechanism of flight or take off, ' find always fascinating when you brought to us element as the near vertical take of of gallinacean.
David Alexander's book on animal flight is relatively accessible, though it doesn't talk much about takeoff (perhaps not coincidentally, he is part of the "et al." in the Chatterjee et al. presentation on Quetzalcoatlus launch; perhaps takeoff isn't something he's worked on much). There are very general books/papers on takeoff, specifically, I am afraid to say.ReplyDelete
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I'm stumped. I tried related rates, integrating cylindrical shells, and integrating using disks, all to no avail. Every method I try, leaves me in a total mess.
Everyone knows what the volume of a complete sphere is, but I am trying to find a function that will tell me the volume below a certain height from the bottom of the sphere. The familiar formula for the volume of a sphere is derived from integrating the function of a single quadrant from zero to the radius using the shell method and multiplying the result by two. But you cannot change the limits of integration to include values larger than R because the original function would then have to produce multiple values of y for a single value of x. Thus it no longer is a function.
I tried making two functions one for the upper bound and one for the lower, but again, after you pass R it becomes undefined. I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated and the person who solves it would earn the rank of GOD in my opinion.
Are you talking about for instance, calculating the volume of water in a spherical container that is filled to a given height?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
Exactly, mikau.
w00t! Very interesing. Have you considered integrating in terms of y using the pi r^2 method from y = 0 to y = h and adding that to the other half othe sphere? (unless the sphere is less then half full, but again a similar method might be doable.)
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
I never thought of mixing methods. But the disk method: ∫πf(y)²dy rotates about the x axis while the shell method ∫2πxf(x)dx rotates about the y axis. The two I would think are incompatible.
My last experiment was in trying to develop a function that changed with differing values of h, but still using x as the variable. It gave me a headache though, because you would have to reintegrate every time you wanted to use a different value of h.
I will keep playing with it, because this problem will probably haunt my dreams until I resolve it. Outwardly, it sounds very simple, but in practice.....
This is what I mean.
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
But the disk method: ∫πf(y)²dy rotates about the x axis while the shell method ∫2πxf(x)dx rotates about the y axis. The two I would think are incompatible.
forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't the disk method integrated in terms of x when rotating about the x axis?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
I don't know why I typed that. What I was trying to say was that the shell method revolves around the opposite axis of the variable while the disk method revolves around the same axis as the variable.
I might be doing something wrong but I integrated the function you have above and I got:
π [ ry - y³/3 ]
If r = 1 and h(upper) = 2 then this equals -2π/3
I'm not ripping, I liked your thought process too. It just doesn't seem to work in this instance.
I didn't see that you were using the equator as the x axis.
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woah! How could h be 2 if radius is 1?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
oops! messed up there, its r^2 not just R. There we go!
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
If we work it out with the base of the sphere centered at the origin we don't have to worry about negative integrals, and can do it in one piece. If I integrate it for you...
Here you go! Volume as a function of height:
V(h) = pi ( r h^2 - 1/3 h^3) where r is the radius of the sphere and h is the height of the "water" measured from the bottom of the sphere. (ie. if the sphere were filled to the top, h = 2r)
Lets check. The formula for the volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3, if radius is 1 the volume should be 4/3 pi. Now lets use my formula. if the sphere is filled with water the height of the water from the bottom of the sphere will be the diameter or 2r. The radius in this case is 1 so h is 2. Fill in these values and you get:
pi ( (1) (2)^2 - 1/3 (2)^3) = pi (4 - 8/3) = 4/3 pi same answer!
This time lets let h = 1. The volume will only be half. So it should come out to 2/3 π
pi ( (1) (1)^2 - 1/3 (1)^3) = pi( 1 - 1/3 ) = 2/3 pi. Again the correct answer!
It works! :-D This was fun!
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
Nice, mikau, you have earned the rank of GOD in my opinion. I missed the substitution for R when I was going around in circles a few days ago. I kept seeing that x and, instead of substituting, I was banging my head trying to use related rates for x and y.
Once again, this forum has produced a neat little formula for all that have the pleasure of reading it.
Thanks again, mikau.
V(h) = πh²/3(3r - h).....sweeet!
:-D No problem! But I have to decline the rank of "GOD". My real name, michael, means "who is like God?"
Of course if I'm an ancient greek god thats fine with me. Fear me...
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
And the wonderfull thing about calculus, now that we have the formula, differentiating allows us to calculate the rate at which the height is changing as the volume increases at a given rate and vice versa.
I love calculus....
And thanks for giving me such a fun problem. Solids of rotation are really awsome problems in my opinion.
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
Yes, the concept of solids of revolution will always be etched in my mind. There was such a WOW factor to them in my mind when I was first introduced to them. I always find if amazing that many of the foundations for this type of computation were derived from individuals working by candlelight in an age which now seems eons ago. The imagination of the human mind is truly incredible.
Yeah, but whats most odd is no one can come up with anything new like that anymore. How come people were so much smarter a thousand years ago?
They just don't make geniuses like they used to.
One thing i'd like to know is how pi was discovered. And why the area of a circle is the integral of the circumfrence. WIERD!
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
You must remember that people back then had very few alternatives to spending their time compared to what we now live like.
Take, in my opinion the greatest single contributors to mankind's knowledge, the Greeks for example. They created a slave system so that they could spend all of their time in "noble" pursuits such as the journey toward enlightenment. Euclid never "worked" a day in his life. All he ever had to do was contemplate new ways to view form and mathematics. In fact, "working" was regarded as dishonorable for a long period of their civilization, as it was viewed as a waste of human potential to understand truth.
Maybe sometime in the near future we will have the technology to take care of the mundane aspects of existence so that we too can focus our energy into mental and spiritual pursuits.
Also they didn't have idiot boxes back then. Now people waste all their time staring slack jawed at some chicks bottom in high def.
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
idiot boxes ?
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Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Japan will reportedly phase out all nuclear power by 2030, according to a draft government proposal. An official announcement is expected within the next week. The move is significant; before the Fukushima crisis began in March 2011, Japan planned to rely on nuclear power for 50% of its power needs by 2030. But since the disaster, 48 of 50 reactors in Japan have been taken offline, and public opposition to nuclear power has continued to grow. Anti-nuclear demonstrations, rare in Japan, have become widespread and at points have been attended by more than 100,000 people. Japan has been trying to determine how much nuclear energy it should use by 2030: 0%, 15%, or 20-25%. At one point, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was expected to back the 15% plan, but pressure to completely eradicate nuclear power continued to snowball. Nevertheless, experts caution that in Japan's volatile political climate, a loss by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in elections expected to be held this fall means that the decision could be reversed if a new political party comes into power.
However, officials in Aomori Prefecture are now expressing concern and anger, because ending nuclear power means that nuclear fuel recycling, a mainstay of the economy in that prefecture, will presumably end. Japan has long included recycling of fuel as part of its nuclear energy cycle, even though the Rokkasho reprocessing plant there, which was first built 20 years ago, has been plagued with problems and has never operated at full capacity. In the meantime, spent nuclear fuel—or "nuclear garbage," as local officials call it—has continued to build up. The governor of Aomori, Shingo Mimura, has promised to return the fuel to nuclear power plants around Japan if recycling is not continued, expressing concern that Aomori not become a final mass storage place for nuclear waste. If prefectural officials do return the waste, spent fuel pools would almost immediately reach capacity, and their respective plants would be forced to shut down. Most are already offline already, in response to the Fukushima disaster. Meanwhile, Britain and France, who are also storing spent fuel for Japan, have met with their country's ambassadors from Japan to ensure that they, too, will not be left holding vast amounts of nuclear waste for unknown periods of time, and that Japan would willingly accept return of the spent fuel currently sitting overseas.
Japan's newly-created Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA), which will be overseen by a five-person panel called the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), will reportedly begin operations on September 19. The new agency, which will employ 500 staff, replaces the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), widely criticized for having conflicts of interest as a division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), which is responsible for promoting nuclear power in Japan. Now the NRA has become highly controversial, since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that he would appoint Shunichi Tanaka to head the commission overseeing it. Tanaka was formerly deputy head of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), which promotes nuclear power, and four of the five commissioners have admitted that they accepted remuneration from the nuclear power industry within the last few years. Such appointments normally require Parliamentary approval, but in the wake of the controversy, and facing significant opposition in the Diet, Noda said he will make the appointments without Parliamentary approval now that the Diet is out of session. In response, anti-nuclear protesters from all walks of life have been demonstrating outside the Prime Minister's official residence, and on Tuesday formed a human chain around the Parliament Building.
A year and a half after the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant, TEPCO finally released 600 additional photographs taken in the 18 days following the beginning of the crisis on March 11, 2011. The move came after considerable pressure from a Diet-appointed investigatory panel. That report, which produced a highly critical evaluation of TEPCO's response to the disaster earlier this year, criticized the utility for failure to produce the pictures, many of which were taken by employees and contract staff. TEPCO has variously blamed its slow response on a lack of internal coordination, time needed to sort the photos (which apparently took 18 months), and a desire to protect nuclear security. Junichi Matsumoto, who is acting General Director of TEPCO's Nuclear Power and Plant Siting Division, said, "We were unsure exactly how many photos were left at the site and how many of those photos had not been disclosed before."
TEPCO has appointed Dale Klein, former Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Kenichi Ohmae, formerly a nuclear engineer at Hitachi, Ltd., to a newly-created third-party Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, which it says will oversee reform of its nuclear power division. TEPCO's own Chairman, Kazuhiko Shimokobe, is also a committee member. Both Klein and Ohmae are pro-nuclear; Klein currently sits on the Boards of Directors of Southern Company and Pinnacle West in the US, both of which operate nuclear reactors. Many analysts charge that the utility has established the committee in an effort to win back public trust, so that it will encounter less resistance this spring when it tries to win local approval for restarting seven nuclear reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture. Nearby residents are already protesting the move. However, TEPCO President Naomi Hirose rejected that claim. Nevertheless, he later said, "We are aware that restarting the reactors would not be allowed by the people in Niigata unless we properly do things."
Worker Safety
Contract workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant are facing challenges to monitoring their health after Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare halted subsidies for health checks of contracted workers earlier this year. Initially, the Ministry said it would underwrite the cost of the examinations, since employment at the Fukushima plant was considered "emergency work." That arrangement provided workers with cataract checks when they had been exposed to a cumulative 50 millisieverts and cancer screenings once they'd received a cumulative 100 millisieverts. However, they lifted that status in December when TEPCO declared the reactors there "stable." Now, new workers are no longer eligible for subsidized care, and more than 180 workers who reached the prescribed limits after December aren't, either. The decision to cancel the subsidies has been heavily criticized by Makoto Akashi, Director of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, who said that the number of workers exposed to dangerous levels of radiation at the Fukushima plant is expected to rise.
Contamination, Including Human Exposure
Although fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture began test-fishing 10 different types of seafood this month, including some types of crab and squid, experts are warning that further studies must be done to understand why some fish are measuring abnormally high levels of radioactive cesium that exceed the government safety limit of 100 Bq/kg. Last month, cod (which migrate long distances) captured off the cost of Aomori Prefecture measured 132.7 Bq/kg; earlier this summer, rock trout caught near Fukushima Prefecture measured 380 times the legal limit. Although oceanic radiation readings are low, some marine biologists posit that the fish are eating contaminated sandworms. They say further studies must be conducted to understand the impact of radioactivity on the food chain. (Source: NHK)
Meanwhile, scientists led by Hideo Yamazaki from Kinki University announced this week that they found high levels of radioactive cesium in subsea mud on the northwestern coast of Japan, near the mouth of the Shinanogawa River. The highest concentrations, measuring 460 Bq/kg, were discovered in samples taken between 2-3 cm deep, below 30 meters of water. The researchers plan to present their results at a meeting of the Oceanographic Society of Japan later this week.
Waste Disposal and Decontamination
Fukushima Prefecture has promised to conduct lifelong thyroid examinations on 360,000 young people who were aged 18 and younger at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. So far, medical officials have performed checks on 80,000 subjects. This week, officials reported that they have discovered lumps of at least 5.1 millimeters or cysts of 2.1 centimeters on 425 young people. Thyroid cancer was discovered in one, although officials say that the radiation absorbed from Fukushima was likely not the cause, since thyroid cancer is slow-growing and takes longer to develop. Benign tumors were discovered in 27 others.
A group of scientists from the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) are advising the government via the Japan Atomic Energy Company (JAEC) to completely overhaul its nuclear waste disposal plan. Currently, the government plans to bury spent nuclear fuel 300 meters below ground, where it will need to stay for tens of thousands of years until it is no longer radioactive.
However, the SCJ group said that because Japan is so prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity, there's no guarantee of safety for future generations.
Instead, the researchers recommend storing the waste in "temporary safe storage" facilities, either above ground or underground, for up to a few hundred years—and in the meantime, actively working to develop new technology to ensure safe burial of the highly radioactive material. That technology does not exist at this point. "Based on current scientific knowledge, we cannot determine a geological formation that would be stable for hundreds of thousands of years…And thus the best possible option is temporary storage," Harutoshi Funabashi, a scientist from Hosei University, said. "This does not mean postponing the problem irresponsibly to the future," he added. "It is to secure time to find ways to more appropriately handle the matter." As of now, Japan is storing 2,650 cylinders of highly radioactive vitrified waste, as well as 24,700 cylinders of spent nuclear fuel. The scientists point out that local consent is crucial in determining burial sites, but discussions on where the spent fuel should ultimately be stored have not even begun.
In addition, the SCJ report criticized the government's apparent lack of concern about the total amount of waste being generated, and said it needs to ultimately set a cap on the total amount of radioactive waste produced.
More than 18 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan's government continues to struggle in its efforts to decontaminate radioactive homes and public areas within the evacuation zone covering 11 municipalities near the plant. Insistence by government officials that radiation zones be established before any cleanup work began has seriously hampered efforts, and now, many residents are discovering that significant earthquake damage to walls and roofs of homes is preventing workers from using high-pressure hoses to reduce radiation levels. So far, work has only begun in one city, Tamura. (Source: NHK)
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Congratulations again on a very well written informative update on the disaster in Japan. Without Greenpeace the government and utilities would be doi...
Congratulations again on a very well written informative update on the disaster in Japan. Without Greenpeace the government and utilities would be doing business as usual. Thank you again Greenpeace.
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(Thanks for your excellent continuous updates on the disastrous situation in Japan, but please, please, please do not fall into the trap, seen constan...
(Thanks for your excellent continuous updates on the disastrous situation in Japan, but please, please, please do not fall into the trap, seen constantly in the media and often quoted by pro nuclear politicians of confusing the public by mixing up the terms
"Energy" , " Power" and "Electricity"!
Nuclear power in both the UK, and the world has never produced any more than 5% of total energy. Electricity is just one of many forms of energy used to provide part of our total energy requirements and power needs.
Too often pro nuclear media and politicians exaggerate the importance of the nuclear industry either deliberately or through ignorance, by mixing up these terms.
Media must state clearly whether they are referring to electricity or to energy needs. For example in the UK the nuclear industry at it's most productive times never produced more than 20% of our electricity, but remember electricity usage is only about 20% of our total energy usage, therefore only 4% of total energy use.
This percentage may increase if we use more electricity for transport and home heating, but even doubling or trebling the number of nuclear reactors a very slow process is going to make only very small changes to the other 96%
of our energy, mainly produced by fossil fuels.
A true mix of large, medium and small scale renewable energy technologies is already showing the way to tackle global warming in a much quicker, cleaner and cheaper way than nuclear ever could.
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In Somerset the Hinkley Point nuclear site is in exactly the same pre-disaster situation which existed in Japan before the Fukushima disaster and in U...
In Somerset the Hinkley Point nuclear site is in exactly the same pre-disaster situation which existed in Japan before the Fukushima disaster and in Ukraine before the Chernobyl disaster. Both disasters are now recognised as being caused by human error of the operators and/or the nuclear regulators. At Hinkley B there was an accident in 2009 when 8 workers had to be referred to Harwell for treatment. The site licensee claimed there had been no off-site discharges; this was not true, as subsequent increases in premature deaths and serious illnesses demonstrated. The Hinkley B AGR reactors are being operated way beyond their safe lifetime because that is the most profitable time for the owners, EDF. The AGRs are suffering from such serious faults with the graphite bricks that emergency articulated control rods are being installed. In addition, there are now faults with the fuel pins. Emergency shutdowns are happening more frequently - these are warning signals that the reactors are at continual and increasing risk of core meltdown. The nuclear regulators have the power to order the shutdown of these AGRs - why aren't the Office for Nuclear Regulation officials doing what we're paying them to do, put public safety before profit for EDF?
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Well, it's 2009 and it's almost time for the Museum District's Museum Educators Open House on Saturday, January 24th! MEOH is always a fun day for us at the Houston Museum of Natural Science where we get to collaborate with other Houston Museums to put on a big event for area Educators!
The HMNS will be hosting the following amazing Houston organizations; Battleship Texas/San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, Bayou Preservation Association, Downtown Aquarium, FotoFest, Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, Houston Computer Museum, Houston Gem and Mineral Society, Houston Zoo, The John C. Freeman Weather Museum, Moody Gardens, and the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art! The Children's Museum of Houston, The Health Museum, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will also be participating as MEOH hosts for the other 16 participating organizations!!
Houston area educators, school administrators, home school educators and student teachers are invited to discover the fascinating exhibitions, programs and educational resources available for their students. This event is completely FREE for all educators and for educators who attend at least 3 or more presentations are eligible for 3 hours of Continuing Education Credit; all you have to do is register online.
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Kenny Kemp is an award-winning and best-selling author and filmmaker, whose memoir Dad Was a Carpenter won the Grand Prize in the National Self-Published Book Awards sponsored by Writers' Digest magazine. Shortly thereafter, he was signed by HarperCollins to write a multi-volume historical fiction series set in Judea at the time of Christ. In addition, he continues to self-publish and speak at writers' conferences, encouraging new writers to find a way to get published. When not writing, he works as a contractor, practices law, and flies his private plane.


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26-Year Old Former High School Football Star Who Served 5 Years In Prison For Rape He Didn't Commit Gets Overturned!
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I might answer this myself as I go along but anyway here goes.
Say two people roll a dice, the highest number wins you would expect
each person to win 50% of the time. But what if one person was luckier
and won 55% of the time. You could say he was 5% luckier than average.
How extend that to 3 people, you would expect each person to win 33%
of the time. How say one persoon was luckier as in the first example, and
also the same %age luckier. Would that be 5% luckier, ie 33+5=38%?
I think this is too high, I think the answer is he would be 3.3% luckier for
to be the same amount of 'luckierness' than in the first example.
Also I think I am into problems here with sample size possibly.
Going back to the first example another way is to say 55% is 10%
luckier than normal (5/50 times 100).Thats how I get the 3.3% value for
the second example.
So for four players it would be 2.5%, 5 players=2%, 10 players=10% etc...
You see I want to compare how lucky a person is in poker 'showdowns'
there would be no problem if it was just 2 players but sometimes there are 3
or maybe 4, the max possible (but rather unlilkely) being 10.
Problem X
But lets take 10 players as an example, say one player wins 20% of the time,
which is twice as lucky as expect. Now if he got the same amount of luck
in 2 player games what would the figures be? It can't be twice because
twice 50% is 100% and that don't seem right.
I think I am into sample size problems here too, I never did statistics
Well I pretty much know I am into sample size stuff because I know that
over say a million game even winning 5% more than average would be
impossible (at least statistically anyway).
I guess I need to look at something like standard deviation (yuk) or
something like that?
OK back to problem X.
I can't even guess the right answer so I am going to make it easier and say
it is on a sample of 100 to see if that helps.
So in the 10 player games normal is 10 in 100 but he wins 20 in 100
So in a 2 player game normal is 50 in 100 but he wins ?? in 100 with the
same amount
of good luck.
What is the correct value of ??
One guess would be 60 but that seems to low, another guess is 100 but that
way to high. 75 feels about right but I can't explain why.
OK I will have a crack at Problem X.
I think a better way of thinking is how often would he win 20 in 100 which
would have
a value 'x' which means it would happen once in every x number of trials so
then I
would need to work out the value which happened once in every 'x' trials for
players, and this would be the answer!??
Trouble is I am not sure how to do it (yet). I think I could do a simulation
On my computer :O)
I would just get the maximum value which occured in 'x' trials. I better
still obtain
an average value over repeated trials??
I expect there is a (well known?) equation for this, which I might be able
to work
out if I spent few years thinking about it!!!
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Did you like our March issue's interview "Across the Board, Peace" with addiction-recovery worker, supporter of the consistent-life ethic, and all-around character Jim Balmer? Wait, there's more!
Below are some of his additional thoughts inspired by years helping others recover from addiction. Sojourners associate editor Elizabeth Palmberg interviewed Balmer early last year at the Consistent Life conference in Washington, D.C.
How did you get started working in addiction recovery?
I got sober in 1971; however I actually spent the first years of my career, until I came to Dawn Farm in '83, not working with addicts. I worked for a number of years for the local community mental health center and had a fairly diversified career. I worked with couples and adolescents, I consulted to an emergency room, and I was on the local police hostage negotiation team. Mental health people often aren't very literate about addiction, and addiction treatment people are often not very literate about mental health. I had the opportunity to straddle both worlds.
What are some of the misunderstandings that happen there?
I think it just tends to be a lack of understanding—addiction professionals often don't have a good framework for understanding mental health issues, and I think mental health folks suffer from the same problem.
Realistically, if you're an addict and you're anxious and you show up at your average psychiatrist's office, the chance of being diagnosed bipolar and being put on meds is pretty high. The misdiagnosing or underdiagnosing or overdiagnosing on both sides is an ongoing problem.


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App Annie, a service that tracks revenue and growth for both the App Store and Google Play, has released their January 2013 index. Both marketplaces are doing very well and while Google Play saw more growth than the App Store, the App Store still managed to bring in over 3 times more than Google Play.
When comparing both app ecosystems, Google Play has grown tremendously with over 700,000 apps now available to consumers compared to the App Store's 800,000, according to App Annie and Bloomberg.
App Annie wouldn't disclose specific revenue figures because it sells that information separately to software companies that buy the data and analytics. While Apple has said the App Store has generated more than $7 billion since 2008, Google hasn't made such information public. Apple has more than 800,000 apps on its store, and Google has more than 700,000.
Apple has reported to average around $333 million a month since June to December, which is over 3 times more than Google Play. Apple also saw an increase in sales of around 20% between October and December which can probably be attributed to the release of the iPhone 5 and iPad mini.
What's interesting though is that Google Play has grown 6 times its size prior to 2012, even though Apple still pulled in higher revenue. Apple's App Store has been around a lot longer than Google Play and has a very established user base but it shows that both ecosystems are doing remarkably well as coming into a brand new year.
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Sanitov Studio is definitely turning up the dial on the London Design Festival's hottest new projects. The same team that transformed a utilitarian Chinese bike into a stylish must-have commodity has designed an extraordinary green-roofed, solar-powered floating home just outside of London. The "ark" (which even has a green wall inside it) is only one part of their "Urdaimonia Project," which seeks to understand how to incorporate much-neglected waterways back into our lives in search of the urban good life. See our exclusive photos of Sanitov's holistic take on the modern-day house boat, and if you're in London, stop by the H.C. Mooring Community right on the Thames River for a peak at the group's fascinating Urdaimonia exhibit.
Alexander Host, the Danish designer behind many of the project's most special features, including an illuminated, sculptural facade, a waterproof hull, 93% recycled stone cladding, and many of the interior details, took us on a brief tour of the boat that is currently being built at the famous Chatham Docks. With almost all of the locally-sourced timber framing and electrical infrastructure complete and plumbing on its way, the team is very busy laying the finishing touches. And every stylish detail has been accounted for.
The first thing residents and visitors will see upon entering is a wonderful living wall, which will also be visible from strategically-placed portals throughout the floating home. Great big skylights on the roof flood both interior levels with light, and underfloor radiant heating will keep the ark nice and warm during chilly London winters. Solar panels installed on the roof will provide electricity, though it's unclear at present how much, rainwater will be harvested to irrigate the green roof and living wall, and wastewater will be carefully treated. Lighting will be comprised of a mix between conventional warm sources and energy-efficient LEDs.
Although care has been taken to make the project as sustainable as possible, Host points out that in some cases, available renewable technologies were simply not good enough. In order to provide a sustainable, good life for up to four families, he says, it's necessary that the technology doesn't create a "nightmare" scenario by consistently breaking down. The first prototype of what is expected to be a big rollout of sustainable, flexible houseboats should be finished by the end of November, and we are waiting with bated breath!


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CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED: Congratulations to Andrew Qua, who was randomly selected as our winner from his entry on Twitter!
One of the great family events that take place each season is the Canucks Superskills competition held annually at Rogers Arena. Canuck players all take part in various skill drills such as accuracy, fastest skater, breakaways and more.
The Vancouver Canucks have offered us two tickets to give away to a luck reader and you don't have to be a fast skater or a target sniper to win them.
All you have to do is RT this message for one entry:
"I want to win tickets to the #Canucks Superskills competition via @VanCanucks and @CanucksCorner! #ccskills http://tinyurl.com/7vh6f8w"
For a bonus entry, leave a comment on this page on a new event you would like to see at the Skills Competition and what Canucks player you think would win it!
There are still great seats available to the event and you can get them at Ticketmaster.
We'll announce our winner on Friday January 20th. The winner will need to pick up the tickets at the Will Call window at Rogers Arena.
Canucks Superskills, powered by Rogers:
WHERE: Rogers Arena
WHEN: Sunday, January 22, 2012 (Doors open at 12:00pm)
WHO: All Canucks players
TICKETS: Starting at $10 (plus HST and applicable convenience fees)


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|Tornado Victims in Moore area in Oklahoma needs our help!
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We are deeply saddened by the loss and the damage because of the Tornado in Moore area. Our hearts and thoughts go to all of those who were affected by the Tornado but people need more than that.
Federal Government has declared a major disaster in the State of Oklahoma following a massive tornado that destroyed or heavily damaged lots of homes, schools etc. in the southern part of the state.
Raindrop Helping Hands launches a campaign that focuses on all aspects of the relief efforts following Tornado pass through Moore, OK.
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California's bosses must lead their workers to lunch, but they cannot force them to eat.
That was the bottom line in a closely watched California Supreme Court ruling Thursday clarifying the law on an employer's obligations to ensure workers actually take their legally required meal and rest breaks.
The justices found that although employers must provide "uninterrupted" opportunities for such breaks, they are not obligated to ensure workers grab that sandwich or cup of coffee and cannot be sued if employees choose to work through their breaks.
The unanimous decision, written by Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, came in an eight-year legal battle against Brinker International, which operates a chain of restaurants that includes such popular eating spots as Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy. The lawsuit, which could affect thousands of Brinker waiters, waitresses, bartenders and cooks across California, claimed the chain's restaurants violated California labor law by regularly failing to ensure employees got their breaks.
But the Supreme Court ruling has broader implications for hourly workers in everything from hotels to the trucking industry. The decision also will shape the growing number of class action lawsuits low-wage workers are filing against California businesses accused of meal and rest break violations, with restaurants and retailers often the main targets.
Less clear, however, is how the ruling will resolve those legal challenges. Employer groups said the decision would derail lawsuits over meal and rest breaks. But lawyers for workers called the ruling a strike against bosses who try to discourage breaks altogether.
Brinker officials said the ruling "effectively truncates" the lawsuit against its restaurants. And attorneys for employers said it prevented the need to be the "lunch police" to avoid being sued.
"Virtually every employer in California has been held hostage by meal period class actions in the past few years," said Leslie Abbott, who represents employers. "Employers that follow the plain language of the (law) by making compliant meal periods available can now breathe a sigh of relief."
The California Labor Federation called the ruling "unjust," saying it "unnecessarily muddies the waters" on legal obligations for meal and rest breaks and creates a "confusing and vague patchwork" for the workplace.
But a lawyer for the Brinker workers said the decision allows the workers' lawsuit to proceed and "doesn't leave employers much room for mischief."
"We think this was a good result for workers in California," said Kim Kralowec. "They have to create a real and reasonable opportunity to take uninterrupted breaks."
In Thursday's decision, the justices concluded that labor laws clearly obligate employers to provide meal and rest breaks but rejected the argument they must make sure those breaks are work-free. The justices said businesses cannot be sued if they do not "impede or discourage" workers from taking breaks.
"The employer is not obligated to police meal breaks and ensure no work thereafter is performed," the Supreme Court wrote.
The court also found a first meal break must take place no later than five hours into a worker's shift.
As part of the decision, the Supreme Court allowed the lawsuit against Brinker to proceed as a class action on claims of rest break violations. But it sent the issue back to the trial judge to decide whether, in light of the new ruling, the case could proceed in such broad fashion on the meal break claims.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz


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The Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee (JCIBPC), conducting its 40th annual meeting in Memphis, has agreed that increased emphasis should be placed on educating ginners about the need for producing uniform bales.
The JCIBPC said that bales with sloping heads do not stack as efficiently and can pose a safety concern — one that is exacerbated by the current large supply of cotton bales in U.S. warehouses.
The JCIBPC also recommended that packaging manufacturers begin supplying to the end users of approved packaging products a certificate of analysis on a voluntary basis for 2007. The aim is to ensure that manufacturers adhere to the industry bale packaging specifications.
JCIBPC Chairman Lee Tiller said certificates of analysis will become a mandatory requirement in 2008.
The committee also updated the current specifications with a definition of extruded seam bags — an action resulting from some bag failures on the 2005 crop.
In other action, the JCIBPC approved two new woven polypropylene bags: an extruded seam bag with modified construction and a spiral seam bag with 8x8 yarns per square inch fabric construction.
Test programs approved for 2007 included: (1) two fully-coated, circular woven bags, (2) a lighter weight spiral sewn polypropylene bag and (3) a woven cotton bag.
Based on changes made in the 2006 specifications for cotton bale packaging materials, a compatibility test program also was granted for plastic strapping — which saw increased usage in 2006. Tiller said this test is to demonstrate that plastic strapping which meets the approval criteria can be used successfully in currently-approved strapping systems.


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A profitable General Motors Co. is poised to shake off a half decade of U.S. government oversight next month, underscoring the comeback of a once-moribund industry and gaining leeway over a $26.8 billion cash pile that it can use to lure talent while weighing a dividend.
The U.S. Treasury Department expects to sell its remaining 31.1 million GM common shares by year-end, depending on market conditions, the government said yesterday. The exit would end restrictions on pay for top executives that the largest U.S. automaker has said hampered recruiting.
The sales mark the end of an era of U.S. government intervention in an industry that was near collapse in 2008, before bailouts from the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The investment gave new life to GM and Chrysler Group LLC, slashing debt and rekindling growth. Auto sales are headed for the best year since 2007, and GM, Chrysler and Ford Motor Co., which didn't get a bailout, are profitable again.
"The first step will probably be a dividend," said Michelle Krebs, an analyst at auto researcher Edmunds.com. "That will be a significant move toward normalcy as they become a truly publicly traded company. They'll also be able to pay executives more money, which has been a constant complaint."
With government loans repaid and the Treasury out of GM, "people will feel really good about the company," Mark Reuss, the Detroit-based automaker's president for North America, told reporters Nov. 20 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. "It will help our sales when it goes."
Chrysler Valuation
In another sign of the industry's rebound, Chrysler advisers are discussing a valuation of about $10 billion for the carmaker before an initial public offering that could take place next month, people with knowledge of the matter said yesterday. In 2009 the automaker was considered worthless and Obama had to personally intervene to save it from liquidation.
GM rose 0.1% to $38.23 at 9:44 a.m. in New York. The shares have gained 32% this year through yesterday, as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 26%.
The end of GM's pay restrictions may also mean the automaker has the flexibility to look outside the company for a replacement for Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson as he nears retirement, said Krebs, who is based in Southfield, Michigan. The CEO turned 65 last month.
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NOAA scientist Greg Johnson was a lead author for a section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment. But he wasn't satisfied with the scientifically-based written prose he created.
So he has come up with a simple, elegant way to communicate the complex scientific findings — haiku, and illustrations.
Johnson was sick one weekend and unable to leave his house. To pass the time, he decided to reread the summary for policy makers from the first section of the IPCC report. He was having trouble concentrating on the dense, detailed text and thought he could "fix it in [his] mind" if he tried to compose a haiku for each of the subsections of the report.
He accompanied each haiku with a small watercolor painting.
Haiku isn't a new form of expression for Johnson. He posts almost exclusively in haiku on Facebook.
"I find that it helps me be in the present," he says. "It tends to link my posts a little more closely to nature and what's going on around me," he says. "And it also limits the number of posts, which my friends probably like."
But just because he made them, didn't mean Johnson intended to share them.
"[It] took some time on my part to get up the courage to put this out there," Johnson adds. "This, of course, is a distillation of [the] work of 209 lead authors, 50 review editors, 1,000 expert reviewers — so a huge amount of work went into [that report]. But the response to the haikus has been remarkably positive."
A note from Greg Johnson: This work is an attempt to distill into haiku "The Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group 1 Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report." The result is solely my own creation, so any views or opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Government, the IPCC, or any other entity.


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- B.S., Biology, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Okla.
Current Research: The major focus of Dr. Eyster's laboratory are endocrinology and reproduction. Three research projects are under investigation. The first project focuses on the genomics of endometriosis. Endometriosis is an estrogen-regulated disease that causes infertility and pain in affected women. This research searches for genes that are involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. The second project focuses on the effects of estrogen on the cardiovascular system. Women develop cardiovascular disease at a later age than men, typically after the menopause. This research addresses the hypothesis that estrogen has direct protective effects on the cardiovascular system when the vasculature is healthy, and that estrogen exacerbates cardiovascular disease when the blood vessels are unhealthy. The third project examines hormonal regulation of signal transduction in the ovary. Techniques used in these projects include DNA microarray analysis, real time RT-PCR, Western blot, and cell culture.
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