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Tasteless as it may sound, the Arab Spring may have enabled your spring break, driving down demand and prices right along with it. The drop in demand has another benefit: smaller crowds. The Egyptian pound is sinking like a stone in recent futures trading, foreshadowing a devaluation of up to 50 percent or more.
All of the turmoil in Greece has weakened tourist demand and, in turn, prices — for the present — but it's uncertainty about the future that's really driving down travel costs. The euro fell to a 16-month low against the US dollar earlier this year, a trend that Viloria sees continuing as debt concerns mount.
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I spend a lot of time in the bathroom, and it isn't because I'm vain and concerned with my appearance.
No, it's that most natural of callings that brings me there, the bowel movement, or BM for short, the #2, the deuce, or whatever your preference is for referring to the action in question.
Whether I'm in a hurry or leisurely reading a book or checking emails, not all dumps are created equal. So allow me to share with you, the five varied pit stops of mine from the past two days:
1. The Whiskey Shits: Friday night I was on a bit of a bender, as I frequently am on Friday nights. My drink of choice tends to be whiskey because I find it a) delicious and b) not that filling. Plus, it usually gives me the kind of drunk I'm in the mood for, no offense to vodka, tequila and all my other alcohol friends. The one kicker with whiskey that I actually thought I'd grown immune to is the morning-after diarrhea. Not so immune it appears. Two watery dumps, a six mile run, and a third dump later I was set for the day though...until...
2. The Mild Constipation Aka No-Poop Poop: Okay, so it isn't really constipation because you aren't sitting there bursting blood vessels in your brain from the strain. Instead, your body is so depleted after its whiskey escapades that it couldn't dream of letting anything else exit rectally. You eat food, you get full, but you know you are a long way from your next BM.
3. The Big Bertha: For all that I'd pooed my brains out Saturday morning, the nature of diarrhea is that it is none too solid. Around all that liquid, something solid certainly lurks. In fact, there's a good chance that only whiskey was coming out then. The diarrhea has limited my food intake, but by dinner, half a pizza and some ice cream cake sounds like a great idea. By 11:30pm or so, your face gets a bit too hot, you've sort of got the chills, and it's time to take a seat. This is over so quick, but the deposit so large you are left wondering where it really came from.
4. The Fake Hunger-Panger: Okay, I don't know if anyone else really gets these. Sometimes I wake up and I've got what I think is a terrible hunger, those sharp pains in the stomach. But I really don't want to get out of bed and, after maybe a half hour's wait, I realize I'm not hungry at all and, on the contrary, I have the intense urge to drop a deuce. At this point, I feel great and head out for a jolly 13.5 mile run.
5. The No Wipe: After all of the trials and tribulations and mixed signals my poo had been sending me, I closed out this four-day period with the pinnacle of healthy bowels, the no-wipe dump. Maybe it was the dehydration and cleansing of the 13.5 miles, maybe it was three recovery bagels...hell, could have been a lot of things. Whatever the cause, I know to cherish these rare moments of excretory perfection, and I suggest you do the same.
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DOBSON — In true military fashion Surry Central Air Force JROTC cadet Nick Zagurski has gone over or around obstacles in his life to become a valuable team member in the program.
Zagurski's mother, Salina, said he went deaf at the age of two as a result of an ear infection. She said at the time, his favorite show was Star Trek The Next Generation. She indicated she noticed one morning Nick had stopped reacting to sounds on the show.
Nick has a high tolerance for antibiotics, so there was nothing the doctors could do to stop the ear infection from taking his hearing. She described the slow process of watching her child become withdrawn and developing high functioning autism. He did not want to learn sigh language or be touched.
Today the sharply dressed cadet honored with a color guard shoulder cord for successful performances, with a quick smile and firm handshake is, in Star Trek terms, light-years away from that difficult chapter of his life.
"When Nick was little, he saw soldiers," explained Salina Zagurski. "He told me he wanted to be a soldier." As a freshman he finally got his chance to be a soldier through JROTC.
The uniform proved to be a catalyst for changes in the young man.
'The minute he put on the uniform he was a new man," said Salina Zagurski. "I was very surprised and pleased with how the color guard has accepted Nickolas. He never wanted to learn sign. Now after class he comes home and tells me military history. He researches about uniforms and tells me about it. It's been something to watch him come out of his shell."
Zagurski's attention to details that high functioning autism affords him makes him a natural for a cadet. He has even become fast friends with color guard commander Darren Brown.
"He came in the first day and I thought, Oh Lord, how do I do this," recalled Brown. "Just took him out and started showing him the movements and he learned it very well." Brown said Zagurski has learned the drills for spinning rifles as well as the flags and is next learning to use the sabers.
Brown said he has grown so comfortable with Zagurski that they both carry notebooks and paper to write back and forth for communication.
"I like ROTC and I love the blue uniform. Me and Darren are in the color guard," signed Zagurski. "Darren is the commander and he's good at it." He also signed in detail all the criteria a uniform is judged on at inspection.
Brown's JROTC officers Lt. Col. Brian O'Connell and MSgt. Greg McCormick spoke highly of Zagurski's accomplishments.
"The kids in the program do all the training," said McCormick. "They just all came together around Nickolas and took him in. It was truly, truly a team effort."
O'Connell indicated he valued Zagurski's curiosity. He said JROTC is really about a program for educational experiences. He said the program is about students learning life skills for success.
"He's (Zagurski) very inquisitive as well as dedicated," began O'Connell. "He peppers us with questions. The units I taught him recently were astronomy and space exploration. I appreciate how you don't need to say please ask questions to Nick."
McCormick explained how JROTC must have 10 percent of the student body involved which typically amounts to 80 students. He said the program at Central has 237 students involved, so he and O'Connell typically rotate teaching half the students for classes.
"Nick has been amazing. He came to a program a lot of kids are scared of," added McCormick. "He has been embraced by the group, leading and excelling in spite of deafness. He wouldn't be in color guard if he wasn't. He never shows frustration and this is tough for him. He has to react because of deafness."
McCormick also said future units for Zagurski involve writing papers and giving speeches. He said Zagurski will do this just like everyone else in the class. More challenges will be added to every level as he progresses.
Those who know him say important player in the story has been Zagurski's interpreter, Penny Mears. She said Zagurski and she had to literally invent signs to represent color guard routine movements.
"I was so nervous in the beginning. I worried how do I sign this. When I messed up they have always been very positive. It's like a family, " said Mears. "Darren has learned signs and had a lot of input on quite a few things. Before ROTC Nick was so hands off. Of course, there are times I showed up in six-inch heels and found out we had practice on the field that day but we learned to roll with it."
Early on in the process, Brown asked her why she was signing Zagurski's orders backwards. Mears said she'd forgotten she is facing the color guard on the field. This means they not only had to invent the signs but had to translate the directions backwards so the cues she gives Zagurski would be correct because he's facing her. His right is her left.
"She (Mears) was just as proud as Nick when he received his color guard honor chord," said McCormick. "She's a big part of this too. She has had a huge impact. Kids learn from him as well. They don't leave him out of anything. We forget he's deaf."
Salina Zagurski is complementary of changes she has seen in her son for the past two years.
"They told me they were excited about Nick a the first open house we attended," remembered Zagurski. "I thought as a parent wow, this is going to be great."
"I've really seen him change. He's a young man now, more independent and that has been wonderful for Nickolas," said Salina Zagurski. She said his interest in military history has really been kindled by the program and might be a direction he pursues.
McCormick said Nick and Penny feed of off each other's energy and that is contagious. He said he looks forward to seeing what Zagurski will do next because he is not intimidated by a challenge.
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16 May 2013 – Malaria will be on the agenda of the Sixty-sixth session of the World Health Assembly (20-28 May 2013). Member States will review progress in the implementation of the most recent World Health Assembly Resolution on malaria, and will deliberate about challenges facing malaria control and elimination programmes. The two key background documents for the discussion are the latest Report by the Secretariat and Resolution WHA 64.17.
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25 April 2013 – World Malaria Day was instituted by WHO Member States during the 2007 World Health Assembly and is held every year on 25 April. This year, WHO highlighted the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for global malaria prevention and control. The Organization also warned about the threat of emerging drug and insecticide resistance. On 25 April, WHO launched an emergency response to artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion at an event hosted in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian Minister of Health.
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23 April 2013 – The WHO Global Malaria Programme has released a new operational manual on indoor residual spraying (IRS). The manual has been developed to enhance existing knowledge and skills in this field. It is intended to assist all stakeholders – whether they focus on programme management, entomology, vector control or public health – in the design, implementation and maintenance of high-quality IRS programmes.


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Howard was a true gentleman, unfailingly polite and quiet spoken. We had a series of local guides in Beijing, Harbin and Hong Kong. They were all very good but sometimes Howard found it difficult to let them just get on with it. He was so keen that we should have the complete picture. Howard was our local guide in Xian, his home town. He was very efficient at ordering food in restaurants and handling payments. He was also very efficient in getting us through crowds. If we had a local guide Howard was at the back making sure nobody got lost and if we didn't have a local guide (as at the Hong Kong festivities), Howard went in front. Fortunately he was tall and that helped.
What tips would you give to someone else booking this tour?
Be prepared for the cold. It was cold in Beijing and it snowed on two mornings we were there. Conditions underfoot could be quite slippery, especially at the Olympic Village where there was fresh snow over ice in places. In Harbin It was very cold, many layers required, and also good head, hand and feet protection. I used ice grips on my boots and they were quite effective where it was just slippery but where the roads and pavements were as smooth as glass (which was frequently) they didn't help at all. The best thing is probably to do as the locals do and adopt a kind of soft shoe shuffle.
Do you have anything else to add?
The included sightseeing was all good as were most of the optionals. I was a bit disappointed with Hong Kong but that's a reflection of how it's changed, not the tour. Even if you don't think it's your kind of thing I definitely recommend the Kung Fu show in Beijing. I've been in Beijing and Xian before but appreciated them much more this time round. The train journey from Beijing to Harbin was very comfortable but very hot and the internal flights efficient. Howard said we wouldn't like the hard beds in the hotels but I found them perfectly acceptable. The breakfast in mainland China could be a bit strange at times but nobody starved. Overall I would not hesitate to recommend this tour. It was busy, varied and interesting. We could have done with more time in Xian though.


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Snackbox, opened by Jonathan Morr of Republic and Bond St., offers high quality American street food with a menu that includes hot dogs, pretzels, milkshakes, espresso, and a variety of baked goods. Snackbox is located at the Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets, with prices that range from $1.50 to $6. Make sure to check out the stand's unique design, with the entire setup contained within an easy-to-move shipping container designed by Monteal company MUVBOX.
Nuchas, opened on the Broadway plaza between 44th and 45th Streets offers a delicious sampling of authentic empanadas and pastries baked fresh in the morning. It is the first storefront location for owner Ariel Barbouth, with prices set a $3 an empanada.
Rickshaw, opened on the Broadway plaza between 42nd and 43rd Streets offers a top-notch array of dumplings made from natural and local ingredients. Rickshaw already has permanent locations in the Flatiron District and at 45th and Lexington, and a fleet of food trucks that have already made it a Midtown lunch favorite. Dumplings are priced at $6 for six.


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Like, he's really, really pissed off. It all started a couple of years ago with an April Fools joke PETA did where we pretended that some scientists in Louisiana had discovered genetic evidence of the link between hunting and unusually small penis size. Gene, who's the Outdoors columnist for The Washington Times, was taken in by the prank and, since he's one of those people who gets a big kick out of killing animals himself, he got uppity as hell about the whole thing. Unfortunately for Gene, it was all about to get a lot funnier, since we pitched the story about his angry reaction to Howard Kurtz, the media editor at rival newspaper The Washington Post, who loved it and ran this little piece (scroll down to the bottom) about it in his column, essentially calling ol' Gene out for being a bad sport—and a dupe, to boot.
Fast-forward to two years later, and Gene is still really effing mad at PETA. Some impish soul in our Communications department dug up his e-mail address yesterday to send him a link to our latest April Fools prank on hunters and ask if he'd be interested in running a story about it. Here's Gene's response:
"I wouldn't waste one gram of printer's ink publishing your drivel about the April Fool's joke. You people need to lay on a psychiatrist's couch and pour your beleaguered hearts out; then go and eat a wonderful medium-rare venison steak with sauted onions and mushrooms.-Gene Mueller, Washington Times"
Aw Gene, honey, you're still a very grumpy little hunter over that small penis joke, aren't you?
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Buccaneers start nine new softball recruits Dawson Community College welcomes nine freshmen to campus in 2011-12 who will lend momentum to the upcoming Buccaneer softball program.
On a roster that currently features seven Sophomores, the Buccaneers continue to add to their foundation players. Among the 2011-2012 recruiting class are many Montana grown talents.
When she was a student at Dawson Community College, Britany Fleck needed a horse to break for a class she was taking. A filly named Dasher Dude filled the bill.
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Riding Dasher Dude - also known as Rootie - Fleck became the first North Dakota woman to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo in barrel racing. The 10-day event begins Thursday.
Dawson Community College Buccaneers Head Softball Coach, Jim LeProwse, is pleased to announce that Jamie Aiken and Bryce Mitchell have given verbal commitments for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. Both are from Roy Utah.
This season, Aiken pitched and played third base for the Roy High School Royals. Touted as calm under pressure with a strong desire to win by her Utah high school coach, Mandy Koford, Jamie will be a positive force for the Lady Bucs.
After volunteering around 500 hours in the month of October at various events like HarvestFest and Haunted Hollow, Montana Campus Corps is ready to host the 2nd Annual Bucky's Turkey Trot! Last year, it consisted of a 1 mile run for children, and a 5k/10k run for adults wherein families could either donate canned goods for admission or pay in cash. In this manner, we raised food for the Dawson County Food Bank.
Dawson Community College and Sheridan College will meet for the annual Dig Pink,breast cancer awareness game October 25th at 7pm in Toepke Center.
The Dig Pink game was originally planned for October 8th against Casper but was rescheduled for later this month against Sheridan College.
"This is an important cause and we were not going to let it go." said DCC volleyball Coach John Marble "We would like to thank the community for their continued support as the Lady Bucs battle on this season and invite all to attend the game."
Lady Bucs drop a hard fought battle to NDSCS in 4 sets with scores of 18-25, 25-22, 19-25, 16-25. Shelby Jessiman and Lindsey James led with 8 kills each. While NaTasha Mathis led with a .250 hitting efficiency and 5 blocks. Katie Lyons dished out 22 assists, 3 Service aces, three blocks, including 2 block solos, 11 digs, and 2 kills. Desiree Schauman led the team with 16 digs.
It has been four years since Dawson Community College started a women's volleyball program. And though the team's current record of 4-15 fails to impress, it does not tell the whole story.
The team is now made up of mostly new players, as 10 of 14 women joined the team in the beginning of the season. Undersized and out-numbered, they now struggle to find the confidence needed to secure wins.
Still, these athletes consider themselves underdogs, fighting to establish a winning tradition for future Lady Buccaneers.
The Dawson Community College women's volleyball team continued their road struggles this past weekend as they finished 1-3 in the Western Wyoming College Tournament.
With the losses, DCC fell to 4-15 on the season. They lost to Snow College on Friday in their first match, with scores of 7-25, 24-26 and 19-25, head coach John Marble said.
"[Snow College] was big, our pre-match cheer was David," Marble posted on the Lady Buccaneers' Facebook page.
Sophomore Desiree Schauman, 5'5", out of Helena, MT, is ranked #19 in the nation in Digs per set. "Pretty cool stuff" said Women's Volleyball Coach John Marble.
Schauman plays the DS position for the Buccaneers in the back row only. She is a Defensive Specialist, both quick and a good passer.
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Updated, 8:30 p.m. | Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School takes on the positions of other panelists in this discussion. Scroll down to read his added comments.
In its most significant ruling on free speech rights in terrorism cases, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a crime to provide "material support" to foreign terrorist groups.
The case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, was brought by an American organization that sought to teach members of the Kurdish Workers' Party (known as the P.K.K.) how to resolve disputes under international law and engage in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds in Turkey. The P.K.K. has been designated a foreign terrorist group by the State Department.
In the 6-3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Robers wrote that barring such "expert advice or assistance" and "service" did not violate the First Amendment, "even if the supporters meant to promote only the groups' nonviolent ends."
What are the implications for the free speech and association rights of Americans?
- David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
- Andrew C. McCarthy, legal affairs editor at National Review
- Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
- Stephen I. Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law
- Robert Chesney, University of Texas School of Law
- Diane Marie Amann, law professor, University of California, Davis
Advocacy Is Not a Gun
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of "The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable." As a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, he served as counsel for Humanitarian Law Project in this case.
According to today's Supreme Court decision, advocating for human rights and peace can be prosecuted as a "terrorist" crime, punishable by 15 years in prison.
Under this ruling, President Jimmy Carter, in monitoring an election in Lebanon, would be providing "material support" to Hezbollah.
It does not matter that the speaker intends to support only nonviolent activity, and indeed seeks to discourage a resort to violence. It does not matter if the speech in fact convinces its listeners to abandon violence.
For the first time ever, the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment permits the criminalization of pure speech advocating lawful, nonviolent activity. The court reasoned that it is conceivable that such speech might burnish a designated group's image, and thereby "legitimize" it, and therefore Congress can make all such speech a crime.
A Common Sense Defense
Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and author of "Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad," is legal affairs editor at National Review. He co-wrote an amicus brief in support of the government in the case.
The Supreme Court's ruling is a smashing victory for the rationale of material support laws, which bar various forms of aid to formally designated "foreign terrorist organizations" (F.T.O.s) on the ground that any meaningful assistance — however, ostensibly innocent or virtuous — strengthens these groups.
Teaching terrorists how to manipulate the international legal system makes them more efficient, and more deadly.
The idea is that terrorism is barbaric, contravening international law's imperative to protect civilians and international norms that promote resolution of political disputes by negotiation, not assassination. Therefore, terrorist organizations must be treated as pariahs and suffocated, not cultivated.
This would seem to be common sense. Yet transnational progressives, under the auspices of "humanitarian law" have sought to collaborate with F.T.O.s in a way that subordinates national security concerns.
Speech vs. Other Support
Richard A. Epstein is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor at New York University School of Law.
Let me lay some cards on the table. On most foreign affairs issues I would admit to having hawkish sentiments. But on the question of individual rights against the government, my libertarian instincts cut in the opposite direction.
The types of support at issue here could well persuade some individuals that violence is not an answer.
I think that one has to be careful about limitations on private activity that is within the purview of specific constitutional guarantees, including the First Amendment. I therefore signed a brief prepared by the Constitution Project that urged the Supreme Court to be careful about the breadth of the material support provisions insofar as they applied to "pure speech" provided by organizations and institutions whose major function was to advocate and instruct in peaceful methods for dispute resolution.
The Supreme Court took a deferential approach to the government on this question, and thought that all contributions are fungible so that money spent on these activities would in effect free up resources for terrorist organizations to do work that everyone regards as criminal.
Closer to Guilt by Association
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. He has written several articles and amicus briefs on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism.
The Supreme Court decision has a "heads we win, tails you lose" quality for the federal government, and is one of the most significant legal victories that the government has obtained to date in the war on terrorism.
The Supreme Court opens the door to more aggressive prosecution of terrorism suspects, since the government will have to show even less of a connection to any terrorist group.
The real issue here is whether Congress has the power to prohibit even the most benign forms of association with (and support to) groups that the Secretary of State has designated as "foreign terrorist organizations."
Yes, many of these groups are up to no good, and Congress is well within its prerogative when it prohibits support that might directly enable these groups to commit future acts of terrorism. But the activities at issue in this case are several degrees removed, and include the training of members of these groups to represent themselves before the United Nations, along with a host of other efforts to promote long-term peace-building in some of the world's most conflict-torn regions.
No Harmless Activities
Robert Chesney is a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law. He has written a number of articles about criminal laws relating to material support in terrorism cases.
This is a very big win for the government, after 12 years of litigation that had left the constitutionality of this important statute in doubt (at least in the Ninth Circuit).
The federal law against terrorism groups functions just like an embargo against a hostile state.
The key? Rejecting the notion that assisting a foreign terrorist group's socio-political activities is innocuous.
The court's majority recognized not only that some such aid can be diverted to harmful effect, but also that even non-fungible forms of well-intentioned aid (such as Humanitarian Law Project's desire to assist foreign terrorist organizations in conducting advocacy in international forums) can cause harm in various indirect yet significant ways.
Minimizing Harm to Speech
Diane Marie Amann is professor of law and director of the California International Law Center at King Hall at University of California, Davis, School of Law.
Considered within the narrow confines that the majority marks out, the court's decision simply accepts Congress' circa-1990s determination that there is no such thing as a dual-use terrorist organization.
The court attempts to strikes a balance between national security concerns and constitutional guarantees of individual liberty.
To the contrary, once the Secretary of State labels groups foreign terrorist organizations (F.T.O.s), by statutory finding, everything they do is "so tainted by their criminal conduct that any contribution to such an organization facilitates that conduct."
Everything means everything — from giving poor people soup to lobbying the United Nations. The court's acceptance of this premise leads to its conclusion that to give "expert advice" directly to such a criminal group may itself be punished.
Gather Facts First
Richard Epstein responds to other panelists:
In reading the other panelists on this topic, I think that the nub of the difference among us is just how these various human rights organizations will be perceived. David Cole shares with me the view that these groups could well work to reduce the level of violence by weaning some individuals at least from their aggressive activities, and defends their exemption from the overall rules.
Steve Vladeck pushes on the line that working with groups to get them involved with the UN and other activities is evidence that beneficial activities will take place. I am not quite as confident as either Cole or Vladeck that this will happen, but I would be willing to take evidence on the point. Andrew McCarthy regards all of this as idle speculation, but he moves too fast in that direction for my taste.


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Darkwing wrote:Of course I was correct lol!
There is nothing imaginary about matching theory to observation, that is how it is supposed to work. Every description of a physical system must obey the second law of thermodynamics at every level, but after that the correct theory to apply in a complex event is highly non-trivial, there are an infinite number of theories that may match any given observation at any given level of accuracy.
The problem lies in when you try to match observation to pre-selected theories. That is when the cracked imaginary things come in.
Theories, you should recall, are things of our minds, physical systems NEVER obey physical laws as we formulate them.
Physical laws are imaginary things conjured up match our observation physical systems which exist in reality. The universe no more obeys mathematical law than the spheres are actually producing musical harmony.
The problem has always been this transition you speak of. You start with a semi-rigid block that first has to be broken up...
...and then coalesce into a dense mass capable of performing a ROOSD style progression.
Actually there isn't even a problem with that, the way I see it.
The problem is this: Imagine you are pouring a lead bullet into a mold. The bullet is already liquid so it flows into the mold, increasing in density as it does so because the walls of container constrains its motion (assuming molten lead is compressible in this way for the sake of argument) and gravity forces it down.
So far so good, you now have your driver for ROOSD if you make the assumption that the fire somehow got the whole upper block to disintegrate completely and instantaneously so that it becomes quasi-liquid. As far as I understand it, this is OWE's concern.
But even if you grant this you have to contend the fact that our mold is being pushed open by the lead. The supposedly dense driver is splitting the sides of the mold, which in this case is the side of the building.
Once you observe that you can't assume that the bullet you are trying to pour will maintain it shape and density, like a hole in a damn wall it will prefer to spread and widen. This, essentially, is my issue.
If ROOSD was in fact occurring as the main driver you would expect the walls to be pulled inwards not shoved outwards.
The fact that they are being shoved outwards indicates that the driver is expanding, flattening out like a bullet hitting a cinderblock and thus providing the lateral force.
The fact that it is flattening out in the first place means that it isn't maintaning its shape in a through and through manner, nevermind coalescing. Put another way: A bullet fired straight downwards into a block of wood will lose energy and expand as it progresses.
So the question is, how can you keep the lead in the mold once the crack appears. How does the driver stay in the chute for ROOSD to be maintained once it starts providing this lateral force.
*Edit* It is, truth be told, possible that there is some amazing heretofore unobserved resonating dynamic equilibrium between the infalling material and the lateral force at the terminal velocity of the collapse.
But seriously postulating that means leaving the world of physics behind and entering the domain of absurdist pataphysics. As Russel said: "Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities".
Such a supposed dynamic equilibrium falls well into the domain of unknown entities as far as I am concerned, since to the best of my knowledge such a thing has never been observed in a natural collapse of any kind.
OneWhiteEye wrote:.. it may be possible to supplement any analytical work with obvious meaningful physical experiment, not just simulacra.
SanderO wrote:This too would need to be explained and we might be scant on survey data about the pile as you call it.
Say, are you God? Or djinn? I mention "entropy" once and BAM there you are.
I don't know what happened, so it would be a little sleazy to pick a theory out of preference.
I don't have a problem with it because I don't understand it.
I've seen evidence of this in multiple domains, so it doesn't seem absurd to me at all. The question of whether it applies here is a major focus of this investigation. It may go nowhere. In all likelihood, that's how it will be.
Darkwing wrote:Hehe, not a djinn last I checked, "gin" may be more like it, though I'm a single malt man myself most days.
You and I have a difference in theoretical approach probably becuase you think like an engineer and I don't:
The way I understand it though is that this isn't an engineering problem but a physics problem. We are not trying to reconstruct the collapse, we are trying to find out if there are any forces required to produce the collapse that cannot be accounted for by gravity.
The way I read Occam's razor it says you should do the exact opposite to this. Once you understand a part of the mechanism it is no longer of interest and you should ignore it. The only things that are of interest are the things you don't understand.
ROOSD has gotten to the theory and prediction part but in my mind it is not a satisfactory explanation because it cannot formally decide between the infalling and push-out scenario's which (to me) is really the central issue here.
I agree, but if you look carefully at domains where this sort of thing happens it is usually a highly sensitive process. If you blow into a bottle like an occarina you get a nice dynamical equilibrium, but open a small hole in the middle of the bottle and the state is very quickly disrupted and cannot be regained. [I should say: cannot be regained by chance processes in terms of the second law]
In short, I don't think it is reasonable to expect these idealized sorts of conditions to have pertained in this case, too many loose ends.
People often think of thermite as an unknown element in this context, but it isn't. We know that using thermite in the way way demonstrated by Cole will produce the effects we are witnessing.
But I would love to test things like fall-in/push-out experimentally somehow. I still want to build that spaghetti/macaroni tower we discussed some time ago. You would need a big box of spaghetti, a vernier caliper, something to represent the floors and joints, and a truckload of patience. I fear the blocks experiment stretched my model building capability already, so don't hold your breath.
Darkwing wrote:Any physical process that has a runaway character that consumes itself in the process would do. The only ones I can think of are explosive. So maybe that is why it seems that the building "exploded".
I would be satisfied with any explosive analogue using gravitational potential rather than chemical potential I suppose, or maybe a nuclear chain reaction analogue would be a better description. It can't just release the latent potential, it must "activate" it too to model the rubble compaction required by ROOSD (like a candle "activates" the wax by vaporizing it, which then allows ignition).
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