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Hurray!I've just taken a walk to the supermarket to get some more stuff to drink. The amount of snow over here is insane! (For the Dutch anyway.)
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Well, that was a frustrating shopping trip - talked to a really unpleasant clerk at the paint store - rude and incompetent, didn't even know the kind of paint I wanted even exists, let alone that they sell it. Luckily, his colleague took over then. However, I still have to wait till Monday, as they didn't have the smaller bucket that I needed, and they have to order it.
Note to self: Lifelines is your friend. Don't be so macho as to cable without 'em, or you end up ripping back further than necessary!!Goodnight y'all. Tomorrow, Christmas Tree.Oh, Tannenbaum ....Vision of sugarplums for everyone!!!!
I've had my Christmas tree up for 2 weeks now. It's probably going to be dry and half dead before Christmas Eve, but I just couldn't wait.Going to Denmark today to visit family. I'm going to eat a lot of æbleskiver (see link for description). http://nefermiw.blogspot.com/2005/11/bleskiver.html
Meant to go to bed early, and get up early to start painting my kitchen, or at least covering everything that paint shouldn't drip on... but then I made the mistake of starting Shadowheart, and stayed up until 4 AM. It's surprising I'm even up before midday.
*giggles at the Magpie*I ended up sitting around until 3am to write the first Sinterklaas poem for my dad.... in English.... it's gone funny, but hey, who cares.... Two more to go now before today at 3pm.... ahhhhhhh....Snow has gone... weeeehhhh!!!
I finished my first hat! And my mother in law actually thought I'd bought it. *beams*
Cool!!!!! Good work!! Want pictures!!
Struggling to finish the sinterklaas poems.... drama utter!!!
Christmas tree acquired. Will decorate this afternoon.Knitting and watching X-Files. It's really interesting to watch episodes, back-to-back, with no commercials.Both cats are sitting in the exact same patch of sunshine.
Sinterklaas has come and passed... no it's time for food.... all creatures 'cept for me have already been fed... Now my turn... trying to be sneaky as his Catness has been extremely interested in my food lately....
*le sigh* Rough & stressful weekend. Work is not going well at all. I have to work crappy hours for crappy pay and we won't even talk about the people that I have to work with, as that'll get me going on a tangent that might end in me saying things I'm not supposed to say.It doesn't make sense. I have to work to pay for, well, life. But I go to school, and apparently *that* is supposed to be life, but I can't spend so much time on things because I have to work to afford to live comfortably... ugh. I mean, I know it could be worse, I'm not complaining about the situation itself, I just wish I could catch a break on the stress level. Like ooo buy a lotto ticket and win a few thousand. lol
*huggles Ad1tu*I know what you mean.... it's the reason I still haven't gone back to school so far....
It's a frustrating weekend. I feel like I'm accomplishing nothing, constantly confused or forgetting things, and everything else also seems determined to get in my way, like delayed trains and idiotic salespeople.I can only hope Monday will be better.
*hellos the Mint**eyes Libra's postcount**starts making preparations for a 10K party*
Sent a job application today. The job sounds interesting, so I'm crossing my fingers. I'm sure that if they invite me to an interview they will want to hire me on the spot.
Em wrote:*hellos the Mint**eyes Libra's postcount**starts making preparations for a 10K party*
*loads the confetti cannons*-X
Genisis X wrote:Em wrote:*hellos the Mint**eyes Libra's postcount**starts making preparations for a 10K party**loads the confetti cannons*-X
Think I'll be a-waiting the 9999 and stay there.... hahahahahaha..... it's such a pretty number!!!
Things continue to be crazy-crazy-crazy, life continues to throw obstacles in my way, like the paint store still not having the right kind of paint, so I can't finish painting my kitchen, and it's all very frustrating.But I have Shadowheart. So at least some consolation while I sit on the bus being sent from one place to another, chasing for things I wanted to have a week ago.
Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:Genisis X wrote:Em wrote:*hellos the Mint**eyes Libra's postcount**starts making preparations for a 10K party**loads the confetti cannons*-XThink I'll be a-waiting the 9999 and stay there.... hahahahahaha..... it's such a pretty number!!!
You vill post. Ve hav our vays. :PAlso: It's bloody wet here.The restaurant I used to work at is just to the right of that photo. It's underwater.More photos will be in the photography thread.-X
Party in the Mint tonight! Libra's 10K party (that is, if she posts four more times).
Uargh. Tired and headachy and bellyachy... wanna go back to bed. But I can't. And my room is descending deeper and deeper into utter chaos.On the plus side, the floor in my bedroom is nice and shiny again. Maybe I'll paint that room next. And then I can start moving furniture, hooray.
*hellos the Mint*Once more, into the breach, dear friends!!!!We will conquer this pile of paper!
So I guess I complained too much about missing the snow storm, as it's been snowing almost constantly for the past 2 days here, lol. Only have maybe 6-8" total accumulated, but it makes everything look pretty and everyone drive like morons... :) lol I wonder if we get snow days here..?6 more classes left this semester, and 3 finals! *trudge trudge trudge*


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I was so happy and feeling productive until conversation of Cloud Atlas came up.
And its use of YELLOW-FACE as PROGRESSIVE? BRILLIANT?
I didn't even know about this shit, and I was at peace with my self right now.
I spent 10 seconds of my life making this in MS Paint.
And now I'm moving on with my damn Mongoloid self, okay? #OverIt

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In 1950, US Decides Not to Fight in South Korea. Communism was seen as creeping into post-war Europe, but the success of the Marshall Plan injecting billions of dollars into the West suppressed the growth of communist parties in countries such as France and Italy. Czechoslovakia, which had turned down the Marshall Plan due to political pressure from the Soviet Union, fell to a coup in 1948. Shortly after, the Berlin Airlift successfully ended Stalin's plans of forcibly reuniting Germany. President Truman enacted his doctrine of stemming the spread of Communism through dollar diplomacy, which proved effective in Greece and Turkey. An Iron Curtain descended across Europe, establishing clear borders between the capitalist West and communist East.
US Decides Not to Fight in South KoreaHalfway across the world, however, Communism continued to spread. China's decades-long civil war ended with a Communist victory as the Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1950. Even before that war was over, North Koreans from the area that had been occupied by Soviets after the war invaded the South. South Koreans appealed to the United Nations, who on June 25 enacted United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 (the Soviets had boycotted the UN over the refusal to recognize the PRC) and following resolutions calling up forces to help defend the country. This put US President Truman in a delicate position between a war-weary populace and the prediction of losing Japan if Communism spread across the Sea of Japan. After much discussion with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, he determined not to repeat the mistakes of appeasement as had been seen with Hitler, but he doubted the desire of fellow Americans to enter another war.
A new article by Jeff ProvineOn June 27, 1950, Truman announced before Congress that the United States would offer support from its bases in Japan, funding, advisers, and arms, but only a voluntary expeditionary force would be dispatched rather than a renewal of the draft and a full declaration of war. The UN and its allies would be supportive, but the US would not be "running the show". The first evidence of support was the movement of the US Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait, which ended the PRC's hopes of fully crushing the Nationalists. Mao Zedong reorganized what would have been the invasion army for Taiwan into the People's Liberation Army North East Frontier Force to intervene in Korea, whom Premier Zhou Enlai called "China's neighbor".
Reinforcements from the UN arrived in September, as the South Koreans had been nearly pushed off the peninsula. At the Battle of Inchon, US, Canadian, and British naval attacks provided cover as a mixed group of Allied marines stormed the beach and seized Kimpo Airfield. The largely unorganized Allies made some advancement toward Seoul, but the lack of troops slowed progress despite the clear supply line. That fall, the Chinese again warned of intervention of the UN crossed the 38th Parallel that had initially divided the North and South. The UN obliged, preparing for winter as the South Koreans made their own strikes across the border. Many, such as General Douglas MacArthur in Japan, criticized the move, stating that victory against North Korea should be absolute. If the Chinese joined the war, then it would be another communist country to defeat and liberate.
Instead, the war became a stalemate as the South Koreans bolstered their defenses and gradually replaced UN soldiers. In the North, China and the Soviet Union gave aid, but neither side could legally enter the fight. For the remainder of his term, Truman kept up his doctrine of aid for communist-threatened countries but felt glad he had kept America at large out of another war. Chinese expansion continued southward, however, as they seized Tibet in 1950 and gave aid to rebels against colonialism in French Indochina. The Eisenhower Administration gave similar aid, but was unsuccessful in halting the fall of Vietnam and Laos. Closer to home, however, economic support to Cuba won over Castro's new government.
In the Middle East, meanwhile, the Soviets began to make political maneuvers to expand their political influence. Americans drew up their own allies, but notions of Pan-Arabism stilted the effect of both. Instead, the US limited its efforts while the Soviets pressed all the harder, leading up to the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The war would prove too costly for the Soviet Union, which had been decaying internally for years, and contribute to its collapse in 1991.
Chinese communism began to suffer similar decay, but the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 brought in a new generation of leaders who put into effect economic reforms that brought a new era of prosperity. The death of Hu Yaobang in 1989 led to protest for similar reforms on democratization and freedom of speech, but the ideas were suppressed. The prosperity of smaller Asian communist states has not followed as readily while some, such as Vietnam, do well with tourism and manufactures while others still suffer repression.
North Korea remained under the control of guerilla leader Kim Il-sung until he left for Moscow in 1956 to stand up to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization. Former followers seized the government and worked to stop his return as his popularity had never recovered from his futile invasion. This coup won over much of the support of the military and of Mao Zedong, who had begun to question Kim's stability. Kim was exiled to Russia, where he remained despite attempts to reinvade his country. North Korea continued as a satellite of China, but began to seek a more independent stance in the 1980s. In August 2000, the Koreas became reunified.
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What is P. T. Kali?
The Training Guideline
Instructor's Program
About the Organization
Questions & Answers
Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje
Grand Tuhon's Blackboard
Video Female Special Action Force Officers from Philippines
Interview with Mandala Uli Weidle
Round about the knife: Training Methods and Weapons of the Pekiti-Tirsia System
European Pekiti–Tirsia Festival has Video!
Good news from Sweden has Video!
Philippines Travel 12/2003-02/2004
To Teach & To Fight
Open Hands of Pekiti-Tirsia
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In this seminar we focus on developing the quality of The Flow by use of the knife training methods of the Pekiti Tirsia training system from the Philippines.
The ability to Flow is based on technical skills, but more so it is a state of mind. Flow allows us to act confidently on opportunities, to overcome obstacles without effort and to win without loosing. The ability to Flow is one of the most aspired abilities to every knife fighter or martial arts expert. It is one of the essential elements for being truly successful in self defence and it is one of the key qualities found in successful people.
Achieving The Flow means experiencing a sense of total freedom and balanced confidence: being able to do whatever you want and when you want. Or as Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje puts it: "In this art, we don't make mistakes."
February 25. 1200 – 1900 February 26. 0900 – 1500
For those who want to further and deepen the skills taught in this weekend seminar, we continue Monday and Tuesday (Feb 27th–28th) with the Accelerated Knife Workshop.
Turnhalle Reisweg, Reisweg 27, 72768 Reutlingen – Rommelsbach
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The gym (Turnhalle) opening and closing times are > Saturday 11:00 – 20:00 o'clock. > Sunday 08:00 – 16:00 o'clock
Uli Weidle is ranked Tuhon in the Pekiti Tirsia system. In the year 1996 Uli Weidle has been assigned by Grand Tuhon Gaje to represent him and the Pekiti Tirsia system in Europe and to be the Managing Director of the Pekiti Tirsia Europe organisation.
Uli started the adventures of martial arts as a young child and practised various Martial Arts systems for over 40 years. The last 20 years he's been focusing on Pekiti Tirsia system, whereof the last 15 years he was travelling more then 25 times to Philippines studying the culture and training as a direct personal student of the Pekiti Tirsia heir and supreme grandmaster Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje. In the year 2011 Grand Tuhon Gaje awarded Uli with the Rank Tuhon in the Pekiti Tirsia system. This is the highest rank ever given outside the Philippines to a Pekiti Tirsia practitioner. Uli is the only Tuhon of Pekiti Tirsia in Europe.
Grand Tuhon Gaje provided opportunity for Tuhon Uli to train with other weapon experts in the Philippines. In his journeys to the Philippines, Tuhon Uli Weidle has been active as a close quarter combat trainer for the prestigious Force Recon unit of the Filipino Marines, the Intelligence Group of the Philippine National Police and the Security Group of the President of the Philippines.
In Europe, Uli Weidle is the Training Consultant for Military Commando and Police SWAT / Task Forces from various countries. He is teaching Self-defence, Fitness & Hilot to civilians of all ages. He is also conducting Leadership Development and Conflict Solutions Training Program for the Upper Managements, Executives & the CEO's of International Companies.
This seminar is open to everybody with general good physical and mental health. No previous martial arts experience or training required. New comers are welcome. The training is physically intense. It is generally recommended to consult a doctor for advice if you are in shape to attend the seminar.
Members: Members of the Pekiti Tirsia Europe organisation are free to decide, how much they want to contribute to the seminar. The suggested contribution is 60 Euro per day.
Non Members: The workshop fee is 70 Euro per day.
It is possible to sleep on the padded area in the Martial Arts Center without extra charge.
The Hotel Germania (Tel.: +49-7121-31900) is in convenient walking distance (less than 10 minutes). More hotels can be found here: Hotels in Reutlingen
08.06.2013 / Update seminar calendar: The Magic Three Camp in Leipzig with Bernd Altenhöfer
15.04.2013 / Update seminar calendar
10.09.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Details for the seminar in Osnabrück added
14.08.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Seminar with Sixt Wetzler and Roland Roppelt in Chemnitz
26.07.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Weekend seminar "Introduction to Pekiti Tirsia" by Tuhon Uli Weidle
07.03.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Seminars with Bernd Altenhöfer in Osnabrück
07.03.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Seminars with Tuhon Uli Weidle in Würzburg and with Bernd Altenhöfer in Gerolstein
07.03.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Seminars with Tuhon Uli Weidle in Cairo, Egypt and Croatia
24.02.2012 / Update seminar calendar: Fight & Heal in Würzburg and weekend seminar with Bernd Altenhöfer in Bulgaria
20.02.2012 / Flow of Knife Seminar changed seminar location!
01.02.2012 / New seminar in Moscow
31.01.2012 / New seminars: «Pekiti Tirsia and the German Law for Self-Defence» in November 2012 und «Grand Tuhon in Reutlingen» in May 2012
07.12.2011 / Update seminar calendar: weekend seminar with Roland Roppelt in Austria
07.12.2011 / Update seminar calendar: weekend seminar with Tuhon Uli Weidle in Austria
07.12.2011 / Update seminar calendar: weekend seminar with Tuhon Uli Weidle in Osnabrück, Germany
30.11.2011 / Update seminar calendar: Workshop "Spear and Knife" in October 2012
02.11.2011 / Seminar details: Knife Camp 2012: The Flow Of Knife & Advanced Knife
15.12.2010 / Report Pekiti Tirsia Training For Trainers
07.09.2010 / Pictures and feedback to our summer camp 2010
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Medical Student from Portland, OR
08/20/2011Reviewer is A current student here.
3 out of 3 people found this review useful. 1 of 6
Categories Comments Great for these types of students Low-stress, industrious, determined.
Tips for prospective students Survive the admissions process and you'll be fine.
Bang for the buck Had to dock some stars here for the in-state tuition. OHSU has been the most expensive public medical school in the country in recent years, and it's probably still in the top three. But OHSU has been innovative with its curriculum and is always improving to stay at the forefront, so I couldn't complain too much. Medical school is simply going to be expensive in this country.
Am enjoying being here Hard work, but a pleasure to be here. My classmates are wonderful and the instruction is top notch. I look forward to spending more time with the nursing, physician assistant, and dental students as the curriculum evolves.
Am learning a lot I am learning an amazing amount every single day.
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Tips for prospective students Well rounded students make the best applicants for OHSU: volunteer work, great grades, life experience, job experience.
Bang for the buck Can't beat the price!
Am enjoying being here Excellent nursing professors and clinical instructors! Great experience!
Am learning a lot Love this program!! It's worth the extra year of nursing school; I feel by the time I graduate, I will be a well-prepared nurse!
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Categories Comments What to do for fun Different campuses, Ashland has a wonderful downtown area.
Tips for prospective students You must be a self directed learner to be successful. You are responsible for your own education at this university.
In three sentences Highly ranked school with many devoted instructors.
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5 of 6
Categories Comments What to do for fun There are so many things to do around the Portland area like hiking, swiming, rafting, camping, etc.
Tips for prospective students Pick your advisor and project wisely
In three sentences OHSU has some amazing, diverse opportunities for research. OHSU has brilliant professors. OHSU also has many campuses around Portland metro area.
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Bang for the buck OHSU is one of the finest medical universities in the United States.
What to do for fun Portland is a great town for every interest. A liberal community close to the ocean and the mountains, if you like outdoor activities.
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First photo of Comet Pan-STARRS.
Tonight is our first opportunity to see Comet PanSTARRS, low in the west this evening. Check just a few degrees above the horizon about a half hour after sunset. binoculars may help pick out the comet fromt he glow of dusk. Remember, you need a very clear view of the western horizon, and you only have a brief opportunity to see it before it sets. Of course, with each passing day it will get higher and higher, so if you miss it tonight you can try again any day this week. Good luck and hopefully we'll have lots of good reports to share at the next meeting. More info is available in this month's Event Horizon http://amateurastronomy.org/EH/March2013.pdf
I checked about a half hour after sunset tonight (Sunday March 10) and had low cloud in the west, obscuring the comet and ruining any chance of a view tonight. The forecast is poor for the next few days, but here's hoping! Post your observations here on the blog or email them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Success! After several cloudy nights I was able to see Comet Pan-STARRS low in the west this evening. Barely visible to the unaided eye from the Hamilton harbourfront, it was easily visible in binoculars. Not the best comet I've ever seen, but each one is a treat. Looking forward to hearing your observations. (pics to follow)
(Copied from our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hamiltonamateurastronomers)
By now with some of the posts here and elsewhere, you've probably heard about Comet PanSTARRS. It will be the first naked eye comet visible to us in the northern hemisphere in some time. There was hope that it would be extremely bright, but revised estimates place it maxing out at magnitude +2, perhaps +3 (which will make it brighter than Sirius - the brightest star in the sky, but not as bright as Venus or Jupiter can get). Correction: got the + and - signs mixed up. Sirius is at mag -1. So PanSTARRS won't be the brightest object. At +2, it will be comparable to the star Saiph in Orion or the brighter stars in the Big Dipper or Cassiopeia. Still potentially impressive. Unfortunately comets are very unpredictable - it could end up becoming brighter or dimmer very quickly.
Perigee (the closest the comet gets to the Earth) was Tue Mar 5, but it was not yet visible from the northern hemisphere. But it's climbing in the sky as it continues towards the Sun where it should get closer to it expected maximum brightness. Maximum brightness should occur around March 10 just as it does get above the horizon for us northerners.
Here's a chart showing the position of the comet from the 7th to the 20th. On the earlier dates, the comet will be very low and hard to see in the distant horizon. Later it will get higher, but at the same time it will be getting further from us. The crescent Moon on the 12th and 13th won't really interfere, but may enhance any photographic efforts.
The chart (from Sky&Tel) is good for 40 degrees latitude north - Hamilton is at 43, so it's a pretty good guide for us.
Because it's low in the western sky, we will only have a short window each evening just after sunset to view this object before it sets. It may be a bit of a challenge to pick out of the sunset glow around the earlier dates.
Fortunately for our area (Hamilton), the skies are expected to be mostly clear from the 8th to 10th, and perhaps again around the 13th to 15th. This may give us lots of opportunities to view and maybe even image the comet.
But be careful using optics or cameras. Don't use them until the Sun has fully set - we don't want to risk any one's eyesight.
The best instrument to use to enjoy the comet is probably going to be a pair of binoculars. It provides a wide enough field-of-view to see the entire comet and any tail(s). Find yourself a good open location with a clear view to the West. The lower the horizon from your vantage point, the better. Once the Sun has dropped below the horizon, then begin scanning for it in the sunset's glow. Don't wait until twilight is over - it will be too late then.
Sunset is approx 6:15pm to 6:20pm EST. Don't forget that Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday Mar 10 when clocks are moved forward 1 hour. So sunset will occur 1 hour later after that.
If you do manage to see or image the comet, please let us know here. Have fun and good hunting.
(A Sky&Tel article with more info about the comet)
This asteroid is going to make a close fly-by of the Earth on Friday 15 Feb. It's going to pass so close, that it will fly within the radius of geosynchronous/geostationary satellites (35000km/22000mi). This approx 45m (150ft - about half the size of a football stadium - a 130,000 metric ton half-size football stadium!) asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of 27000km (17000mi). But there is NO RISK of Impact - we are perfectly safe.
Also - even though it will pass within the range of some satellites, the chance of hitting one is quite low. It will pass through our orbital plane from south to north, inside the geosynchronous orbit - in an area where there are very few satellites.
(Artist rendering)
Closest approach will occur at around 19:25UTC (14:25EST). It will be magnitude 7 - too faint for naked eye viewing, but potentially viewable in binoculars and telescopes. Regrettably we won't be able to see this fly-by ourselves since it will still be daylight for our area. The best viewing will be from Asia, Africa and Europe. It will be moving in a south to north direction, ending up passing through Ursa Major. By the time night falls for us, it will be very high in the sky and will have faded to about magnitude 12 which will be a challenge, even in larger scopes. It's apparent motion across the sky will be quite quick - approx the diameter of the Full Moon every 45 seconds at closest approach (a little slower as it recedes).
(Track of asteroid across the sky)
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Asteroids of this size pass this close to Earth on average, every 40 years and impact about every 1200 years. The Tunguska event of 1908 would be comparable if this asteroid did hit us (and I repeat, it will NOT hit the Earth). So we're not due to be hit by another asteroid of this size for about 1100 more years. But it is a fairly rare occurrence and something you should try to see.
How can you observe this asteroid if it's not going to be visible from North America?
If you wanted to catch it as it receded from the Earth (once it was dark here), you could try to load ephemeris for the asteroid's track using programs like Stellarium or Carte Du Ciel. But it will pass so close that the Earth's gravity is going to perturb it's orbit and the ephemeris will not be correct for the entire track.
Another option is to use JPL's web site which takes into account Earth's gravity and provides the correct calculations, but this means having a computer to track your scope. Can be done, but tricky.
(It's important to note that even in amateur telescopes, it's going to be a faint small star-like point moving across the sky. You won't see any details.)
Fortunately a much easier 3rd options exists. There will be a number of telescopes on the correct side of the Earth that will be tracking this asteroid and they will be streaming online. So you can watch the fly-by live.
Clay Center Observatory:
Virtual Telescope Project in Europe:
Slooh Space Camera:
I haven't seen any productions from Clay before, but Slooh and Virtual Telescope usually have some good commentators.
The following web sites have more information about this asteroid fly-by.
Universe Today - asteroid-2012-da14-observing-prospects-and-how-to-see-it
Planetary Society - Guide-to-2012-DA14
NASA Science News - 28jan_2012da/
Sky And Telescope - Asteroid-DA14-to-Zip-Past-Earth
Which ever method you use, be sure to catch this rare event.
And remember - keep looking up.
The first meteor shower of the new year is coming up fast. The Quadrantids is an annual meteor shower which occurs on or about Jan 3 of each year. This can be a very productive shower, producing upwards of 50 to 100 meteors (often bright) per hour. But it can also be a very narrow shower, lasting only a few hours at peak (unlike the better known showers Perseids and Geminids which can last several days).
Like all meteor showers, the Quadrantids are named after a constellation from which the meteor "appear" to radiate from. Meteors don't actually come from the constellation - the stars composing the constellation are far beyond our solar system. All meteors are remnants of comets or asteroids that reside within the solar system. But if you traced the path the meteors followed, they would appear to come from the same point in the sky in the area where the constellation is located. This particular shower is believed to be particles from the asteroid 2003 EH1 (2003 was when it was re-discovered and officially given a name). It may be the core of an extinct comet, possibly C/1490 Y1, discovered by Asian astronomers more than 500 years ago.
But where is the constellation Quadrantids you may ask? Actually, this is Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant) which was defined in the late 1700's, but was removed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in the early 1900's when they defined the 88 constellations we use today. But this shower continues to use the constellation name that was given when they were discovered in the mid-1800's. Quadrans Muralis was located between Bootes (the Shepard or Herdsman) and Draco (the Dragon).
The best "guess"timate of when the shower will peak is before dawn on Thur Jan 3. Look below the Big Dipper and to the left of the bright star Arcturus (in Bootes). This is where the meteors will appear to come from. The meteors may not appear directly in this area, but in a wider circumference around this point and radiating away. As with all meteor showers, special equipment is not required to enjoy this show. The best is to lay out on the ground facing up to view as much of the sky as possible. Of course being winter in Ontario, you'll want to dress warmly, place a groundsheet/plastic sheet on the ground and perhaps bring a sleeping bag to keep warm. You can also use a lounge-chair to raise yourself off the ground. If you want to image this shower, then a wide-angle lens is best to cover as much of the sky as possible. And of course, the darker the sky, the more meteors you will see, so try to get away from city lights if you can.
The current forecast for Thur morning in our area is calling for a mix of clouds and clearing. The waning gibbous moon will also be still present which can wash out some of the fainter meteors. But it looks like there is a pretty good chance to see some of these. This will be the last good meteor shower until April's Lyrids so get out there and have fun.
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Marci inspires all of us to wake up with unconditional love in our hearts – for ourselves and for the people in our lives. In this message, Marci shares about the power of forgiveness – the gift you give yourself, to set yourself free from the pain of resentment. There is an old saying that holding onto resentment is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Marci shares the Hawaiian Ho'oponopono method of forgiveness, which works by repeating the phrases, "I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you," until you unblock the barrier to love. Forgiveness is a surefire miracle maker. It's like adding Miracle Grow to the love in our hearts and our relationships. Forgive and watch the love bloom!
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Yesterday, the wife and I went to "the big city" to see Les mis. We went to the mall prior to the show to eat at the Cheese Cake Factory. While at the mall, I made a few observations.
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Kids can only communicate via cell phone
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People with a middle eastern appearance (with bags or jackets) hanging around support columns or in busy sections of the mall freak me out
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Goal: Read 12 Novels in 2010
Currently Reading: #4. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
When I was in the second grade, I went to an event at Logos Bookstore in Oak Park, Illinois, where Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, read and spoke. Some of my classmates and I got to meet her after the event and ask questions. I asked her what advice she had for young writers and I remember, to this day, her answer:"Read. Read and read and read and read and read. And write."I realized that, though I've been writing more than ever, I've fallen down on that reading part, particularly when it comes to novels. I manage to read lots of short stuff - stories, essays, news - but a lot of times I'll pick up a novel, read the first 100 pages, then put it down and not pick it up again. So, inspired by a colleague's list of the books she'd read in 2009, I decided at the end of January to read 12 novels this year.
My general plan is to try to knock off a novel every 3 weeks or so, in order to have 11 novels read by sometime in October, then use the last part of the year to read a long work, like Infinite Jest or Underworld. I'm going to keep this front and center here so that my readers (Hi Mom!) can see where I'm at and, hopefully, keep me on track. Here are my lists:
Read So Far:
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire (approx. end of February)
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (re-read, approx. end of March)
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (April 24)
- Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
- At Swim, Two Birds by Flann O'Brien
- At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion (re-read)
- 1984 by George Orwell (re-read)
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- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (re-read)
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Pittsburgh Tattoo Artist Finishes Second on 'Ink Master' Reality TV Show
Sarah Miller, owner of Wyld Chyld Tattoo in Brookline, took second place during the finale of Spike TV's "Ink Master" reality television show.
Second place is nothing to scoff at when you're competing nationally, and for that reason, Pittsburgh has another reason to be proud. Tattoo artist Sarah Miller, owner of Wyld Chyld Tattoo on Brookline Boulevard, took second place on Spike TV's tattoo competition reality series "Ink Master" on Tuesday evening. Miller was a contestant on the second season of "Ink Master." The series finale—a live, two-hour special—aired on Spike TV on Tuesday. The title of Ink Master went to artist Steve Tefft of Groton, Conn., who also wins $100,000 and a feature in Inked Magazine. To see what Sarah's been up to this season, check out the "Ink Master" page on the Spike TV website. For even more info about Sarah and Wyld Chyld Tattoo, check out the Wyld …
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May 22, 2013
You could be forgiven if you thought John Wayne was born in the back of a covered wagon headed west across the Plains or came into this world in a one-room thatched-roof house in a small Irish village.
Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
May 19, 2013
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a show that featured, among long-forgotten performers, a dancer named April Showers.
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May 14, 2013
Row, row, row your boat,
Chicago band Switchback keeping musical options open
May 3, 2013
Former Chicagoan Ron Pen holds a very lengthy and lofty title at the University of Kentucky in Lexington: Professor; Director, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music; Coordinator, Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology.
'Burger Land' and the Billy Goat
April 26, 2013
No one who met George Motz on the afternoon of April 19, 2003, as he bit into his first double cheeseburger in the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern on Hubbard Street — "It is incredible, everything I had heard it was. The taste is distinctive … a great burger," he said — might have imagined that he would now be considered the nation's leading expert on cheeseburgers and the star/host of a new series on the Travel Channel titled, appropriately enough, "Burger Land."
Chicago volunteer organizations spread literacy
April 19, 2013
More than five years ago, in a colorful classroom at Michael Faraday Elementary School in a harsh area on Chicago's West Side, three women and their three dogs were helping a group of second--graders learn to read. They were volunteers for an organization called Sit Stay Read! which for a decade has been bringing the joys of reading to little kids, using dogs as a tool.
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April 5, 2013
Stephen Wade's affection for the Chicago in which he grew up and that he left long ago is passionate and palpable in the introduction to his astonishing book, "The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience."
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An unforgiving icy wind blew across the three dozen — young and old, black and white, rich and poor — gathered on Palm Sunday in front of the ancient and shuttered St. James Catholic Church in Bronzeville.
John Landecker: One heck of a life
March 22, 2013
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The first time I met Paul Durica, he was Ben Reitman.
Brown Sugar Bakery anchors Grand Crossing renaissance
March 1, 2013
Some neighborhoods have it all, and some neighborhoods have very little, but only one Chicago neighborhood, Greater Grand Crossing, has Stephanie Hart and her Brown Sugar Bakery.
'Louder Than a Bomb' still crackles with young poets' ideas
February 22, 2013
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November 16, 2012
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November 9, 2012
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October 26, 2012
Jim Belushi is sitting with his son Robert and mulling the matter of genetics.
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October 19, 2012
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October 12, 2012
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August 24, 2012
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August 10, 2012
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August 5, 2012
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April 10, 2011
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March 27, 2011
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March 21, 2011
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March 8, 2011
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Calorie labeling on menus may help customers count calories, but it doesn't necessarily result in customers consuming fewer of them, according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Management and New York University. The study examined the initial results of New York City's July 2008 legislation mandating restaurants to post calorie counts on menus. The findings may influence future efforts to address obesity through legislation.
Researchers gathered data before and after the calorie labeling went into effect, analyzing sales receipts and survey responses from 1,156 adult customers of four of the biggest fast-food chains—McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC. The researchers gathered data in New York City and, as a comparison, Newark, N.J., which does not require calorie labeling.
In New York City, 27.7 percent of customers reported that the calorie information influenced their food selection, and of these, 88 percent claimed it led them to buy more healthful items. According to sales receipts, however, customers did not actually purchase lower-calorie foods. New York City customers purchased 825 calories on average before calorie labeling went into effect and 846 calories on average afterward.
But the authors of the study don't believe the results necessarily demonstrate the futility of calorie labeling.
"The take-away isn't that menu labeling doesn't work, it's that it might not be effective in isolation," said co-author Victoria Brescoll, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. "There needs to be other concurrent interventions, such as educating people about daily caloric intake."


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Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Story of Nordic Noir
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- Tales from the Birch Wood. said...
A S Byatt discussed her preference for Norse tales over Greek myths on Radio 4 this morning. It helps to explain the relative darkeness of much of her own work for me.
Here's wishing you and yours every success for 2012. - January 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I agree with Jonathan Meades that we should stop looking for archetypes in the sunny Mediterranean when there are more appropriate ones in Scandinavia or even at home in the rich folklore of the British Isles. I wish more people would read The Golden Bough.
Happy New Year to you too! - January 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- seana said...
I wonder where Americans should look for our archetypes?
I really enjoyed that BBC show, so thanks for that, Adrian. I had forgotten about Smilla, which I liked a lot at the time.
Funny, I was talking about Larsson, Nesbo, and Sjowall/Wahloo with my young coworkers this very day. It was fun to see all or nearly all of them in the video.
Happy 2012 to all who pass this way. - January 1, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I'm still not convinced Sweden is this hotbed of vice: this is the country that arrests the Johns and lets the hookers go free and judging from Dragon Tattoo their prisons seem quite lovely. Just the other day a friend told me that its illegal to own one guinea pig in Sweden because its considered to be animal cruelty. Guinea pigs are social animals so you have to own two. - January 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM
- seana said...
Well, I do love that about the guinea pigs. But I think that whole thing about having one's prime minister killed as he walked down the common streets could make anyone feel that the halcyon days were over. If they ever were.
I think this is more or less what happened in the U.S. with the assassination of JFK, though I was in 2nd grade so I wasn't up for much political analysis at the time. - January 1, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I have to admit that I quite enjoyed the movie version of Dragon Tattoo although it was still a little too violent for my tastes. - January 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- seana said...
Isn't it too violent for anyone's tastes?
And I'll admit that I am a bit intrigued by the Fincher version, if only because this is a very different idea of Lisbeth than the Swedish movie, which seemed more or less what I pictured Salander being.
Though I still say she may be a novel figure in Sweden, but I meet her every day in downtown Santa Cruz. - January 1, 2012 at 4:24 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I'll probably see the Fincher version too. I've seen every Fincher movie even when I havent really wanted to. There's always something interesting in them. - January 1, 2012 at 5:24 PM
- seana said...
I don't really know his movies, except for Panic Room, which I watched by accident fairly recently. It was good for what it was trying to do.
- January 1, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- Simon said...
Just finished Collusion by Stuart Neville. Very impressed. Will continue with Irish noir, next is Orchid Blue. Best wishes for your writing in 2012 and beyond.
- January 1, 2012 at 8:21 PM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Some of the best crime fiction of recent times is about appalling exploitation of the vulnerable by the powerful, but it comes from France, and it's written by Dominique Manotti and Jean-Patrick Manchette.
Their stories are just as shocking as Larsson's but they manage to tell them without hitting the reader over the head with statistics.
And no, I don't think Sweden is quite the hotbed of vice it might like to think it is. But if it agreed with me, would we work ourselves into this much of a froth about their crime fiction?
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http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com - January 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- seana said...
I am happy for French crime fiction to get a nod, but I want Irish crime fiction to get the recognition first. It seems long overdue in the English speaking world.
Of the Nordic crime writers in that documentary who I haven't gotten around to yet, I found Hakan Nessur very appealing. He doesn't have much of that brooding Scandinavian outlook in him. - January 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Seana, I've met and interviewed a number of the people in that documentary, Nesser included. He's a bit of a wise-cracker, as you can guess, and more comfortable in English than some of his fellow authors. (He lived in New York for a few years.)
I may put up a post that will link to the documentary and discuss the weirdness of the Nordic phenomenon, along with bits from some of my own interviews that address the phenomena discussed in the documentary.
I tended to talk more about features of their books other than the heavy, serious ones.
Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/ - January 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM
- seana said...
Wisecracker? Then I probably wouldn't like him at all...
- January 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Well, wisecracker by comparison with his solid Nordic brothers and sisters. He was not averse to a joke or two.
- January 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- seana said...
And as you know, neither am I.
- January 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
The expression "a mischievous twinkle in his eye" might have been coined for him. Maybe that's why he fled Sweden for New York. And his books have lots of deadpan jokes.
My first meeting with him was at a group event that included four Swedish crime writers. The question of what these four authors have in common came up, and one of them said, a concern more for the individual than with, say, police procedure.
Jo Nesbo expressed caution about the suggestion that he and all the other crime writers from his part of the world have all that much in common, so I'll be especially interested in what he has to say in the documentary. - January 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Peter, Seana
I havent actually read most of the writers in the doc but it certainly makes me want to which is job done as far as I'm concerned. - January 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
I listened to just bits and pieces of the doc earlier. After work clears out, I'll watch and listen to the whole thing.
I did catch Val McDermid's comment that Larsson read voluminously in crime fiction and combined features of the different sub-genres in unprecedented ways. If she means revenge thriller plus locked-room mystery in the first book, I'm not impressed. - January 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM
- Tales from the Birch Wood. said...
I have to admit that "The Golden Bough" has never been on my list, probably thanks to an overdose of T S Eliot years ago.
Also, its worth thinking about the stereotypes that myths sink into our unconscious views of the world.
It's often sweltering hot in the Nordic countries in Summer.
And thanks to this discussion I've just looked up the Greek goddess of snow, Khione. - January 5, 2012 at 4:32 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
One of Jo Nesbo's novels opens during a sweltering Oslo summer. I took this as a bit on fun on Nesbo's part, defying the stereotype. The opening will certainly have that effect on many readers outside Nesbo's part of the world.
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well im kinda having trouble accessing dream world, i created my account on the pokemon global link, entered my sync ID thing in the pokemon global link and it says it's already in use?! what should i do? i really wanna use the dream world, please help?!
You might have it registered and just dont know it. Try accessing it by putting a pokemon in the dream world from your game. If that doesnt work you can restart you game and get a whole new id and register that instead.
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