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Manic Monday #2
Its a blaaa kind of day.
Half-Nekkid Thursday #1
Wet Wednesday #1
TMI Tuesday #1
Two days in a row...
Manic Monday #1
Something to do...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Manic Monday #2
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Its a blaaa kind of day.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Half-Nekkid Thursday #1
Labels: Half-Nekkid Thursday
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Wet Wednesday #1
Labels: Wet Wednesday
I don't know what the hell I am doing at this point. I think I might need to get myself a really good vibrator before I hurt someone(or end up with carpal tunnel).
OK, off to find a way to anonymously read blogs and explore the 'net in search of something to make my Wednesday less boring.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
TMI Tuesday #1
Labels: TMI Tuesday
Two days in a row...
Please do not ask me why or how it got stuck in my head, because I haven't the foggiest idea. I downloaded it onto the iPod the other day, thinking that the ability to hear it again and again would get it off my mind but that plan backfired. I now hear it even in my sleep. I guess it could be worse. It could be like the time I walked around singing Elmo's World for a week.
Other news. After peeking at various other blogs, too freaking timid to comment and draw attention to myself and my blog, I saw many bloggers use nicknames and acronyms when trying to anonymously refer to people in their lives. So the guy that once I called 'man in my life' and is now NOT in my life needs a catchy nickname. I can think of a few, but then I might have to change the settings on my blog to say 'adult content'...so I will be thinking about that for a bit.
OK, I am running out of things to say. I'm going to go do a Tuesday meme now.
Daily Confession: I am finding myself more drawn to the sexy memes, and I wonder if it is because I am so freaking sexually deprived that I am slowly turning into some horny old lady.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Manic Monday #1
Something to do...
Monday, February 18, 2008
Well, it ain't 2010 yet...
The Least Successful Blogger Award goes to...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A democratic lawmaker could be bumped off the ballot, as a voter challenges whether she has enough signatures to run in the primary June 3rd.
Larry King of Crownpoint is challenging whether Representative Sandra Jeff has enough valid signatures on her petition.
The case was previously thrown out, on the grounds that Jeff had not been served notice of the lawsuit but that ruling was overturned on appeal.
The case will be heard in district court in Gallup on Friday.
Jeff has two challengers in the District 5 Primary.


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To sum it up, Gaia's guild system is fairly dated. It has bugs. One of them, is that it has an issue with older sub-forums. Seemingly at random, they will begin "hiding" any page after the first.
To give you an example, look at HoH '08. Here.
Looking at it, you just see one page, the last thread being "Aekea Towering Framework." But of course, it's the glitch at work. If you add &start=20 or start=40 to the address, here is the 40 option, you'll see there are actually quite a few more threads.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no clean way of fixing this except for making a new sub-forum for every page before 2010 (which seems to've been when this stopped.) Obviously, we won't do that. Instead, for your convenience, here's an easy list.
[Heaven or Hell 2006]: 1 ---- works fine.
[Heaven or Hell 2007]: 1 x 2 ---- Needs &start=20 added on to see several threads.
[Heaven or Hell 2008]: 1 x 2 ---- needs &start=40 to see several threads.
[Heaven or Hell 2009]: 1 x 2 ---- needs &start=40 to see several threads.
2010 - 2013: As far as I am aware, these are not affected.
Will be updated if this issue arises more.
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text: WBO Cruiserweight World Champion Marco Huck (36-2-1, 25 KOs), and top challenger Firat Arslan (33-6-2, 21 KOs), held open workouts as both of them are pumped and ready to go on January 25 in Stuttgart, Germany. They previously faced off in a controversial match in November of 2012. Huck won a twelve round unanimous decision, but many fans felt Arslan did enough to win. Both fighters are hungry to set the record straight.


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Britain's Adam Gemili breaks new ground in Moscow
Nineteen-year-old smashed personal best in 200m semis to make final
Adam Gemili of Great Britain (centre) competes in the Men's 200 metres semi-finals at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images
Adam Gemili ran the fastest 200 metres by a Briton for 19 years as he broke the 20-second barrier to roar into the final at the World Championships.
The 19-year-old obliterated his personal best for the second time today by clocking 19.98 seconds to win his semi-final at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
It catapulted Gemili into medal contention as he went through to Saturday night's final as the second fastest qualifier, quicker than Usain Bolt.
Gemili is only the second Briton after John Regis to dip below 20secs.
Only American Curtis Mitchell, who ran 19.97, went quicker than him.
The teenager has now taken a staggering 0.32s off his previous best in 10 hours, having gone into the championships with a PB of 20.30 and lowered it to 20.17 in the heats.
It raises the exciting prospect of what he might be capable of in the final.
Gemili, who finished 0.02 ahead of Jamaica's 100m finalist Nickel Ashmeade, told BBC2: "I can't believe it. Honestly that is the best feeling in the world. Twenty seconds, to break that, I'm over the moon.
"I didn't realise it was me. I was looking across when I crossed the line and I didn't know if I had qualified. I made the final and I have run a PB and I am so grateful to so many people who I have to thank, but I still have to stay focused for the final tomorrow.
"Whatever happens now, I've put myself in amongst the best 200m guys in the world. I can't ask for more than that. It's crazy, I'm speechless."
Bolt continued his smooth progression toward a seventh World Championship gold medal as he won his semi-final ahead of South Africa's Anaso Jobodwana.
The Jamaican, running in the lane outside Jobodwana, looked across to smile at him as they crossed the line, Bolt getting there first by just 0.01 in 20.12.
He said: "I was trying to take it easy, trying to pace myself. At the last minute I heard footsteps so I had to change gears a little bit."
James Ellington and Delano Williams, the 19-year-old from the Turks and Caicos Islands who has transferred his allegiance to Great Britain, both bowed out.
Ellington was fourth in Bolt's race in 20.44.
Williams, the world junior champion, who will link up with Bolt's training group in the autumn, was drawn in the outside lane and was never in contention, coming home seventh in 20.61.


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The House voted to lift the debt ceiling temporarily in return for Senate passage of a budget. The House bill lifted the ceiling and also stipulated that senators will not be paid unless they fulfill their budget-law obligations.
Now I'm hearing that Senate Republicans may not be going along with this bill because it lacks spending cuts. The Senate has just rejected two amendments by Senator Rob Portman, which will make Republicans more reluctant to support the bill. (Portman's amendments would have made it harder for the Congress to raise the debt limit without spending cuts and provided that failure to pass appropriations bills would result in lower spending rather than a government shutdown.)
House Republicans generally think of themselves, and speak of themselves, as to the right of their Senate colleagues. Most House Republicans voted against the fiscal-cliff deal while most Senate Republicans voted for it. This time, Senate Republicans, who do not feel that they have any responsibility for the House Republicans' debt-limit gambit, may reverse these roles.
Among the Republicans who are considering no votes, I hear, are John Cornyn of Texas (the second-ranking Senate Republican) and even Mitch McConnell (the first-).


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The intersection of policy and technology
"When you're part of a community, you want to leave it better than you found it," says Keertan Kini, an MEng student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, or Course 6. That philosophy has guided Kini throughout his years at MIT, as he works to improve policy both inside and out of MIT.
As a member of the Undergraduate Student Advisory Group, former chair of the Course 6 Underground Guide Committee, member of the Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI), and of the Advanced Network Architecture group, Kini's research focus has been in finding ways that technology and policy can work together. As Kini puts it, "there can be unintended consequences when you don't have technology makers who are talking to policymakers and you don't have policymakers talking to technologists." His goal is to allow them to talk to each other.
At 14, Kini first started to get interested in politics. He volunteered for President Obama's 2008 campaign, making calls and putting up posters. "That was the point I became civically engaged," says Kini. After that, he was campaigning for a ballot initiative to raise more funding
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental
One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient mathematical relationships, you may be able to perform useful analyses on it that would be prohibitively time consuming on the full set.
The methods for creating such "coresets" vary according to application, however. Last week, at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the University of Haifa in Israel presented a new coreset-generation technique that's tailored to a whole family of data analysis tools with applications in natural-language processing, computer vision, signal processing, recommendation systems, weather prediction, finance, and neuroscience, among many others.
"These are all very general algorithms that are used in so many applications," says Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and senior author on the new paper. "They're fundamental to so many problems. By figuring out the coreset for a huge matrix for one of these tools, you can enable computations that at the moment are
How about computers that explain themselves
Machines that predict the future, robots that patch wounds, and wireless emotion-detectors are just a few of the exciting projects that came out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) this year. Here's a sampling of 16 highlights from 2016 that span the many computer science disciplines that make up CSAIL.
Robots for exploring Mars — and your stomach
- A team led by CSAIL director Daniela Rus developed an ingestible origami robot that unfolds in the stomach to patch wounds and remove swallowed batteries.
- Researchers are working on NASA's humanoid robot, "Valkyrie," who will be programmed for trips into outer space and to autonomously perform tasks.
- A 3-D printed robot was made of both solids and liquids and printed in one single step, with no assembly required.
Keeping data safe and secure
- CSAIL hosted a cyber summit that convened members of academia, industry, and government, including featured speakers Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency; and Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Researchers came up with a system for staying anonymous online that uses less bandwidth to transfer large files between anonymous
Contest for her work fighting bias in machine
When Joy Buolamwini, an MIT master's candidate in media arts and sciences, sits in front a mirror, she sees a black woman in her 20s. But when her photo is run through recognition software, it does not recognize her face. A seemingly neutral machine programmed with algorithms-codified processes simply fails to detect her features. Buolamwini is, she says, "on the wrong side of computational decisions" that can lead to exclusionary and discriminatory practices and behaviors in society.
That phenomenon, which Buolamwini calls the "coded gaze," is what motivated her late last year to launch the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) to highlight such bias through provocative media and interactive exhibitions; to provide space for people to voice concerns and experiences with coded discrimination; and to develop practices for accountability during the design, development, and deployment phases of coded systems.
That work is what contributed to the Media Lab student earning the grand prize in the professional category of The Search for Hidden Figures. The nationwide contest, created by PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox in partnership with the New York Academy of Sciences, is named for a recently released film that tells the real-life story of three African-American women at NASA whose math brilliance
Learns to recognize sounds
In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos posted to Facebook.
But recognition of natural sounds — such as crowds cheering or waves crashing — has lagged behind. That's because most automated recognition systems, whether they process audio or visual information, are the result of machine learning, in which computers search for patterns in huge compendia of training data. Usually, the training data has to be first annotated by hand, which is prohibitively expensive for all but the highest-demand applications.
Sound recognition may be catching up, however, thanks to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference next week, they will present a sound-recognition system that outperforms its predecessors but didn't require hand-annotated data during training.
Instead, the researchers trained the system on video. First, existing computer vision systems that recognize scenes and objects categorized the images in the video. The new system then found correlations between those visual categories and natural sounds.
"Computer vision has gotten so good that we can transfer it to other domains," says Carl Vondrick, an MIT graduate
The target technique
When it comes to protecting data from cyberattacks, information technology (IT) specialists who defend computer networks face attackers armed with some advantages. For one, while attackers need only find one vulnerability in a system to gain network access and disrupt, corrupt, or steal data, the IT personnel must constantly guard against and work to mitigate varied and myriad network intrusion attempts.
The homogeneity and uniformity of software applications have traditionally created another advantage for cyber attackers. "Attackers can develop a single exploit against a software application and use it to compromise millions of instances of that application because all instances look alike internally," says Hamed Okhravi, a senior staff member in the Cyber Security and Information Sciences Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. To counter this problem, cybersecurity practitioners have implemented randomization techniques in operating systems. These techniques, notably address space layout randomization (ASLR), diversify the memory locations used by each instance of the application at the point at which the application is loaded into memory.
In response to randomization approaches like ASLR, attackers developed information leakage attacks, also called memory disclosure attacks. Through these software assaults, attackers can make the application disclose how its internals have been randomized while the application is
Automated speech recognition
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files and their transcriptions, and learns which acoustic features correspond to which typed words.
But transcribing recordings is costly, time-consuming work, which has limited speech recognition to a small subset of languages spoken in wealthy nations.
At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference this week, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new approach to training speech-recognition systems that doesn't depend on transcription. Instead, their system analyzes correspondences between images and spoken descriptions of those images, as captured in a large collection of audio recordings. The system then learns which acoustic features of the recordings correlate with which image characteristics.
"The goal of this work is to try to get the machine to learn language more like the way humans do," says Jim Glass, a senior research scientist at CSAIL and a co-author on the paper describing the new system. "The current methods that people use to train up speech recognizers are very supervised. You get an utterance, and you're told what's said. And you do this
System finds and links related data
The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be applied, the target data has to be aggregated, organized, and cleaned up.
That turns out to be a shockingly time-consuming task. In a 2016 survey, 80 data scientists told the company CrowdFlower that, on average, they spent 80 percent of their time collecting and organizing data and only 20 percent analyzing it.
An international team of computer scientists hopes to change that, with a new system called Data Civilizer, which automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows users to perform database-style queries across all of them. The results of the queries can then be saved as new, orderly data sets that may draw information from dozens or even thousands of different tables.
"Modern organizations have many thousands of data sets spread across files, spreadsheets, databases, data lakes, and other software systems," says Sam Madden, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and faculty director of MIT's bigdata@CSAIL initiative. "Civilizer helps analysts in these organizations quickly find data sets that contain information that is relevant to them and, more importantly, combine related data sets
Unexpected career path in the medical field
During January of her junior year at MIT, Caroline Colbert chose to do a winter externship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Her job was to shadow the radiation oncology staff, including the doctors that care for patients and medical physicists that design radiation treatment plans.
Colbert, now a senior in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), had expected to pursue a career in nuclear power. But after working in a medical environment, she changed her plans.
She stayed at MGH to work on building a model to automate the generation of treatment plans for patients who will undergo a form of radiation therapy called volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT). The work was so interesting that she is still involved with it and has now decided to pursue a doctoral degree in medical physics, a field that allows her to blend her training in nuclear science and engineering with her interest in medical technologies.
She's even zoomed in on schools with programs that have accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Graduate Programs so she'll have the option of having a more direct impact on patients. "I don't know yet if I'll be more interested in clinical work, research, or both,"
Light on purpose of inhibitory neurons
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.
The model describes a neural circuit consisting of an array of input neurons and an equivalent number of output neurons. The circuit performs what neuroscientists call a "winner-take-all" operation, in which signals from multiple input neurons induce a signal in just one output neuron.
Using the tools of theoretical computer science, the researchers prove that, within the context of their model, a certain configuration of inhibitory neurons provides the most efficient means of enacting a winner-take-all operation. Because the model makes empirical predictions about the behavior of inhibitory neurons in the brain, it offers a good example of the way in which computational analysis could aid neuroscience.
The researchers will present their results this week at the conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science. Nancy Lynch, the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering at MIT, is the senior author on the paper. She's joined by Merav Parter, a postdoc in her group, and Cameron Musco, an MIT graduate student in electrical
Combines art and technology
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other a stage manager. But by the time he reached high school, Parrish had branched out significantly, drumming in his school's jazz ensemble and helping to build a state-championship-winning robot.
MIT was the first place Parrish felt he was able to work meaningfully at the nexus of art and technology. "Being a part of the MIT culture, and having the resources that are available here, are what really what opened my mind to that intersection," the MIT senior says. "That's always been my goal from the beginning: to be as emotionally educated as I am technically educated."
Parrish, who is majoring in mechanical engineering, has collaborated on a dizzying array of projects ranging from app-building, to assistant directing, to collaborating on a robotic opera. Driving his work is an interest in shaping technology to serve others.
"The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people problems. I sincerely think that the biggest problems we have are how we deal with each other, and how we treat each other. [We need to be] promoting empathy and understanding,
Analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points
People generally associate graphic processing units (GPUs) with imaging processing. Developed for video games in the 1990s, modern GPUs are specialized circuits with thousands of small, efficient processing units, or "cores," that work simultaneously to rapidly render graphics on screen.
But for the better part of a decade, GPUs have also found general computing applications. Because of their incredible parallel-computing speeds and high-performance memory, GPUs are today used for advanced lab simulations and deep-learning programming, among other things.
Now, Todd Mostak, a former researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is using GPUs to develop an analytic database and visualization platform called MapD, which is the fastest of its kind in the world, according to Mostak.
MapD is essentially a form of a commonly used database-management system that's modified to run on GPUs instead of the central processing units (CPUs) that power most traditional database-management systems. By doing so, MapD can process billions of data points in milliseconds, making it 100 times faster than traditional systems. Moreover, MapD visualizes all processed data points nearly instantaneously — such as, say, plotting tweets on a world map — and parameters can be modified on the fly to adjust the visualized display.
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Automation and mobility to create a smarter world
Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk about her research conducted in Singapore, her face starts to relax in a big smile.
Her story with Singapore started in the summer of 2010, when she made her first visit to one of the most futuristic and forward-looking cities in the world. "It was love at first sight," says the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). That summer, she came to Singapore to join the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) as the first principal investigator in residence for the Future of Urban Mobility Research Program.
"In 2010, nobody was talking about autonomous driving. We were pioneers in developing and deploying the first mobility on demand for people with self-driving golf buggies," says Rus. "And look where we stand today! Every single car maker is investing millions of dollars to advance autonomous driving. Singapore did not hesitate to provide us, at an early stage, with all the financial, logistical, and transportation resources to facilitate our work."
Since her first visit, Rus has returned each
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Is the Internet old or new? According to MIT professor of mathematics Tom Leighton, co-founder of Akamai, the internet is just getting started. His opinion counts since his firm, launched in 1998 with pivotal help from Danny Lewin SM '98, keeps the internet speedy by copying and channeling massive amounts of data into orderly and secure places that are quick to access. Now, the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) has recognized Leighton and Lewin's work, naming them both as 2017 inductees.
"We think about the internet and the tremendous accomplishments that have been made and, the exciting thing is, it's in its infancy," Leighton says in an Akamai video. Online commerce, which has grown rapidly and is now denting mall sales, has huge potential, especially as dual screen use grows. Soon mobile devices will link to television, and then viewers can change channels on their mobile phones and click to buy the cool sunglasses Tom Cruise is wearing on the big screen. "We are going to see [that] things we never thought about existing will be core to our lives within 10 years, using the internet," Leighton says.
Leighton's former collaborator, Danny Lewin, was pivotal to the early development of Akamai's technology. Tragically, Lewin died
Popular compiler parallel programs
Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines.
But there's more than one way to implement a given computation, and modern compilers extensively analyze the code they process, trying to deduce the implementations that will maximize the efficiency of the resulting software.
Code explicitly written to take advantage of parallel computing, however, usually loses the benefit of compilers' optimization strategies. That's because managing parallel execution requires a lot of extra code, and existing compilers add it before the optimizations occur. The optimizers aren't sure how to interpret the new code, so they don't try to improve its performance.
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming next week, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a new variation on a popular open-source compiler that optimizes before adding the code necessary for parallel execution.
As a consequence, says Charles E. Leiserson, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a coauthor on the new paper, the compiler "now optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open-source compiler, and it also compiles where some of these other
Reproduces aspects of human neurolog
IT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain's face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models have missed.
The researchers designed a machine-learning system that implemented their model, and they trained it to recognize particular faces by feeding it a battery of sample images. They found that the trained system included an intermediate processing step that represented a face's degree of rotation — say, 45 degrees from center — but not the direction — left or right.
This property wasn't built into the system; it emerged spontaneously from the training process. But it duplicates an experimentally observed feature of the primate face-processing mechanism. The researchers consider this an indication that their system and the brain are doing something similar.
"This is not a proof that we understand what's going on," says Tomaso Poggio, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM), a multi-institution research consortium funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at MIT. "Models are kind of cartoons of reality, especially in biology. So I would be surprised if things turn out to be this simple. But
System that automatically handles the database
Today, loading a web page on a big website usually involves a database query — to retrieve the latest contributions to a discussion you're participating in, a list of news stories related to the one you're reading, links targeted to your geographic location, or the like.
But database queries are time consuming, so many websites store — or "cache" — the results of common queries on web servers for faster delivery.
If a site user changes a value in the database, however, the cache needs to be updated, too. The complex task of analyzing a website's code to identify which operations necessitate updates to which cached values generally falls to the web programmer. Missing one such operation can result in an unusable site.
This week, at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory presented a new system that automatically handles caching of database queries for web applications written in the web-programming language Ur/Web.
Although a website may be fielding many requests in parallel — sending different users different cached data, or even data cached on different servers — the system guarantees that, to the user, every transaction will look exactly as
A wide range of shapes and structures
This fall's new Federal Aviation Administration regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren't exactly what you want?
A new system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the first to allow users to design, simulate, and build their own custom drone. Users can change the size, shape, and structure of their drone based on the specific needs they have for payload, cost, flight time, battery usage, and other factors.
To demonstrate, researchers created a range of unusual-looking drones, including a five-rotor "pentacopter" and a rabbit-shaped "bunnycopter" with propellers of different sizes and rotors of different heights.
"This system opens up new possibilities for how drones look and function," says MIT Professor Wojciech Matusik, who oversaw the project in CSAIL's Computational Fabrication Group. "It's no longer a one-size-fits-all approach for people who want to make and use drones for particular purposes."
The interface lets users design drones with different propellers, rotors, and rods. It also provides guarantees that the drones it fabricates can take off, hover and land — which is no simple task considering the intricate technical trade-offs associated with drone weight, shape, and control.
"For example, adding more
Media Lab faculty
Fadel Adib SM '13, PhD '16 has been appointed an assistant professor in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the new Signal Kinetics research group. His group's mission is to explore and develop new technologies that can extend human and computer abilities in communication, sensing, and actuation.
Adib comes to the lab from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where he received his PhD and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, supervised by MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science Dina Katabi. Adib's doctoral thesis, "Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses," demonstrates that wireless signals can be used as sensing tools to learn about the environment, thus enabling us to see through walls, track human gestures, and monitor human vital signs from a distance. His master's thesis, "See Through Walls with Wifi," won the best master's thesis award in computer science at MIT in 2013. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, the country of his birth, where he graduated with the highest GPA in the university's digitally-recorded history.
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How the system can detect a conversation
It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions such as Asperger's, this can make social situations extremely stressful. But what if there was a more objective way to measure and understand our interactions?
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) say that they've gotten closer to a potential solution: an artificially intelligent, wearable system that can predict if a conversation is happy, sad, or neutral based on a person's speech patterns and vitals.
"Imagine if, at the end of a conversation, you could rewind it and see the moments when the people around you felt the most anxious," says graduate student Tuka Alhanai, who co-authored a related paper with PhD candidate Mohammad Ghassemi that they will present at next week's Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in San Francisco. "Our work is a step in this direction, suggesting that we may not be that far away from a world where people can have an AI social coach right in their pocket."
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What to do when kids at school reject my autistic son? - He is 10 years old
Hello everyone,
My son (who is mild to moderate autistic), used to have more friends when he was younger. Since the end of last school year, he has increased speaking about himself all the time and approaching his peers while speaking about subjects not related to the conversation. Therefore, kids see him as odd. and don't want to play with him. He had only one friend, but that kid no longer wants to be friends anymore.
The situation is that, now, at school recess, my son has no one to play with and worst than that, all his friends play happily together. Today, we went to a field trip and I saw pain in his eyes when he saw all of his "old" friends hanging out together.
I am in so much pain right now, I don't know what to do.
Next week, the behavioral therapist will start him in social skills therapy at home. Meantime, how can I handle the pain to know that he goes to school to have a horrible time with classmates?
Thanks for any input to this problem.
I'm sorry your son is having problems. My DD (10) has Aspergers and has never had any friends. PM me if you want to chat. Hope things get better.
Sorry. I have a 12 year old son who is high functioning and his main issue is that he is a pleaser. We are scared to death that kids will pick up on this and use him. Luckily so far we have not had that problem. I hope things get better for him.


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Date: 23/05/2008 Category: Arts and Libraries
The Brook Theatre, Chatham hosts a double treat for children on Saturday, 7 June, as part of the Fuse Medway Festival. Proceedings begin with a childrens tea party and continues with an award-winning children's theatre show. The double treat runs twice - at 12noon and 3pm. The tea party is a great chance for children to tuck into some hearty snacks and make new friends. Then they will be whisked into a world of colour by German company Erfreuliches Teater. The Queen of Colours mixes shadow puppetry, drawing and film. Based on the children's book by Jutta Bauer, the show charts the little queen who lives all alone in a black and white world. She calls on Mrs Courtpainter and Mr Courtmusician to bring some colour into her life. Not an easy task, as the little queen is hard to please. Tickets are £6. To book phone box office on 01634 338338, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.fusefestival.org.uk. Fuse Medway Festival is a celebration of arts and creativity in Medway. Spanning three weekends of great live performances and exhibitions, the festival includes theatre, indoors and out, cabaret, music, visual arts, dance and a hamper-full of fun for families. Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk to download a free brochure and uncover the full line-up. Alternatively, call box office on 01634 338338 to request a hard copy.
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8.572421 - TANEYEV, S.I.: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 2 (Carpe Diem String Quartet) - Nos. 2, 4
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915)
The name of the Russian composer Sergey Taneyev steadily continues to emerge from relative obscurity in the West. A composer who is greatly admired and revered in his native Russia, he is remembered as a student and close friend of Tchaikovsky and teacher of Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner. Taneyev was a devout scholar of counterpoint and early music, a passionate promoter of Esperanto in Russia, a scholar of ancient Greek history and literature, an owner of a brilliant mind always ready to fire a joke, a closet Wagnerian and an object of Sof'ya Tolstaya's unrequited love.
As a composer Sergey Taneyev was undisputable master of chamber music in Russia. His string quartets, trios, piano trio, and piano quintet made an invaluable addition to the chamber music repertory in Russia. The Russian music critic Boris Asaf'yev wrote: 'With [the appearance of] Taneyev's works Russian chamber music finally left the phase of lonely, more or less successful compositions, as well as the phase of salon music-making, and entered the sphere of highest musical self-realisation.' A reviewer E. Gunst believed that 'It would be difficult, almost impossible, to find a composer of the post-classical period who has such a tremendous mastery of chamber ensemble style as Taneyev.'
Taneyev's compositions for chamber ensembles were a great gift to performers in search of new repertoire, such as the famous Czech Quartet, which championed his works, performing them to great acclaim. Taneyev himself frequently joined the Czech Quartet in performing the piano part in his compositions for chamber ensembles with piano. Throughout December 1908 Taneyev gave concerts in Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Prague concerts were particularly successful, earning him great popularity and bringing him close to many Czech musicians and performers.
Taneyev began to compose string quartets while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory but left some of his early works unfinished. He composed only two movements for his First String Quartet (1874-76) and, although he completed the next three quartets (between 1880 and 1890), he did not show them to anyone and did not give them opus numbers. Thus, his first numbered quartet is actually his fifth, and his last quartet is unnumbered and incomplete. Understandably, this has led to some confusion.
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 5, is the first quartet Taneyev composed after completing his musical trilogy Oresteia (1894), finishing it during his stay with the Tolstoy family in Yasnaya Polyana. The next two decades saw the emergence of the rest of his quartets, Piano Quintet, Op. 30, two string quintets, piano and string trios, and a Sonata for Violin and Piano. During this time Taneyev produced only two large-scale works: Symphony in C minor, Op. 12 (1898) and a monumental cantata At the Reading of a Psalm (1915).
The quartet was given its première in Moscow on 16 November 1895 by J. Hřímali, D. Krein, N. Sokolovsky and A. von Glen. Taneyev noted an unrefined, hastily put-together performance and lack of ensemble between the musicians, but the reviews were positive. A Moscow critic Nikolay Kashkin, a friend of both Tchaikovsky and Taneyev, wrote: 'Having heard this work, we can say that it must take a very high place in the new musical literature and surely it will attract attention of all quartet players. […] For a long time we have not heard a quartet written so well and with such accomplished mastery.'
Two years after the première, on 11 October 1897, the work was performed brilliantly in Moscow by the members of the Czech Quartet, Hanuš Wihan, Karel Hoffmann, Josef Suk, and Oskar Nedbal. Taneyev thought that their playing was 'the height of perfection', and Sof'ya Tolstaya, who was present at the concert, wrote enthusiastically in her diary: 'the quartet was a true victory of music. What a charming work! It is the last word of new music; it is serious, complex, with unexpected harmonic combinations, a wealth of ideas and great mastery.'
In the same year the Czech Quartet performed the work in Frankfurt, and the pianist Alexander Siloti wrote in a letter to the composer about its rapturous reception and enormous success.
The Second Quartet opens with a sombre and majestic theme, which develops throughout the first movement with a kind of Beethovenian inner energy. Beethoven's influences are clearly heard in an array of augmented intervals, octave leaps, daring harmonies, and spontaneous intonations. Taneyev built the main theme of the demonic, wild Scherzo on a motif close to the Dies irae, a later favourite of Rachmaninov. A lyrical and peaceful trio provides a huge contrast and emotional respite before the return of the tempestuous world of the Scherzo. The Adagio shows a broad range of intimate, sincere emotions, embodied within a kind of Wagnerian endless melody heard in the cello. The intense Finale abounds in a variety of inventive harmonic devices, contrapuntal techniques, enharmonic modulations, and chromaticisms. Taneyev is a virtuoso orchestrator—he assigns his melody to various instruments, masterfully charting its passage from one instrumental part to another.
The composition of the String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11, did not always come easily to Taneyev, who even wrote a poem describing his exhaustion:
Perhaps Taneyev was thinking back to his summer stay in Yasnaya Polyana during the composition of his Second Quartet, where he spent evenings playing chess with Leo Tolstoy. If Tolstoy won, Taneyev would play for him a piano composition of the writer's choice (usually Chopin or Beethoven), and if Tolstoy lost, he would read to Taneyev a chapter or a passage of a work he was currently writing.
The quartet had its first performance on 27 December 1900 in St Petersburg with the Czech Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. The Moscow première on 7 February 1902 was given by the quartet of Count Meklenburg-Strelitsky.
The Fourth Quartet is the most dramatic of all quartets written by Taneyev, opening with dissonant chords and an intensely searching melody. A short opening theme unifies the quartet by re-appearing throughout the whole work and giving birth to other melodic material. Taneyev was a master of his beloved technique of monothematicism, which is present in many of his instrumental and symphonic works. The Divertimento, Allegro vivace e scherzando, is a lively, graceful movement, written in an unusual 6/16 metre, with striking changes of instrumental colours. Taneyev's Adagios are all marked with a kind of elevated, profound emotion that is completely free of any exaggerated, made-up expression. Deep, meditative states and a sense of observing rather than experiencing them are the hallmarks of the emotional worlds of Taneyev's slow movements. The Adagio of this quartet is a majestic, noble movement, conceived as one endless melody. The Finale begins with the return of the opening intonations of the quartet, followed by a graceful dance in A minor. Taneyev treats his ensemble like a small orchestra that has all the power to impress the listeners and leave them with a sense of witnessing something grandiose, profound, and yet deeply personal.
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What does beeper mean?
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an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged
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"Beeper" is the debut single by British music producers The Count & Sinden, featuring vocals from American hip hop artist Kid Sister. The song was released via Domino Records in April 2008.
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Kristen Stewart in Allure: Bella is Addictiveby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Kristen Stewart doesn't crave fame or attention. It's one of the things we like most about her.
For all the magazines she and Robert Pattinson are plastered on, very few are by choice. Tabloids just stick a random photo of the couple on their covers and make up a false headline to run alongside them.
Sometimes, though, Stewart opens up on her own. She does so in the November issue of Allure, for example, touching on her style, fans and role in the Twilight Saga:
On her image: "I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' I'm like, Don't you get it? I'm not that girl! I never was that girl. It's not like I was really clean-cut last year."
On her fanbase: "What people told me (when I signed on to Twilight) was that there would be a lot of fan girls, people who love the books. But people don't tell you that as long as you're living in Los Angeles, it's a show every second of your day. It's like the Kristen show. And it's so boring!"
On being Bella Swan: "You're so very much with Bella. You're so in her shoes that it's a vicarious experience. It's addictive."
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Fifa's controversial process of picking World Cup hosts must never be repeated. No more secret ballots, please, no more collusion and no more double bids. For all his faults, Sepp Blatter does love the game and Fifa's president must close down this tacky market of affection-trading.
Football risks losing its primary focus. Fifa should be clearing the deal-makers and documentary-makers out of football's temple. Blatter and his 22 cohorts gathering here for Thursday's vote on 2018 and 2022 have taken their eye off the ball.
True football men like Michel Platini and Franz Beckenbauer, who so vividly embodied the game's most uplifting principles as majestic players, should be taking a stand in their roles as influential contestants in the ExCo Factor, raging against the machinations, particularly the cynical alliances that embarrass all of Fifa.
It is time to reclaim the game, to remind everyone that football must always be about Andrés Iniesta linking up with Lionel Messi, not Spain 2018 hooking up with Qatar 2022. It must be about Match of the Day, not Panorama.
The BBC's old allegation factory do not care about football, about the damage the shameless timing of Monday night's programme has wrought on England's bid, about how much sweet-talking the Prime Minister David Cameron must now do with Jack Warner on Tuesday.
Panorama have a right and duty to investigate, even into events a decade old, but sitting on the story until the eve of the World Cup vote smacked of cynical ratings-hunting. No wonder Andy Anson, the chief executive of the England bid team, is so incensed by Panorama's timing. He's also painfully aware of how the "brotherhood" of ExCo members will react. "If you hurt one of them, the others feel it," Anson sighed.
Whatever the provenance of Panorama's claims, Fifa is accountable for allowing a ludicrously long-winded World Cup voting system to develop that could be open to exploitation. Panorama is so late; sensible footballing observers, some within the BBC, have long argued for reform. Those who run the game have become too removed from those who play and watch the game.
People here in Zurich should be marvelling at spectacles like El Gran Clásico, at the phenomenal passion for football in England that sees huge away following, like Chelsea at St James' Park, Liverpool at White Hart Lane, Leeds at the Madjeski Stadium, and Manchester United at Upton Park on Tuesday night. It was disappointing to learn that lobbying here in Zurich would continue during Barcelona-Real Madrid, during Leicester City versus Nottingham Forest, even during Droylsden against Leyton Orient. Too many administrators forget what it's all about.
It's about the 90 minutes, about celebrating the achievements of Dimitar Berbatov and Gareth Bale. It's not about men in suits with agendas.
On the banks of Lake Zurich, football has lost its way. Fifa has permitted the World Cup hosting process to become about politics, not sport. Even dear old England, their bid battered by Panorama, have tried to run a clean campaign for 2018 but openly admit to tactical voting over 2022. The English standard-bearer in the ExCo Factor, Geoff Thompson, is expected to consider voting for Japan or the United States in the poll for the 2022; (you've guessed it: both Tokyo and New York have a vote for 2018).
The most compelling case for 2022 lies not with two nations who have hosted the World Cup recently, nor a fan-unfriendly event in steamy Qatar as the crafty Spanish would have us believe. Australia offers the most powerful footballing argument for 2022, but it's unlikely to win. Politics, you see. It's not about how good your bid is. It's about who you know.
"We're not surprised by collusion with blocks [of votes] being traded," observed Anson. "And it's so much more complicated with 2018 and 2022. There are nine countries bidding across the two campaigns."
ExCo members can hardly move here without being lobbied. Fifa should make it more transparent. Votes should be disclosed to the public. Don't hold your breath.
The World Cup can be such a power for good if awarded astutely.
Just listen to the South African Lucas Radebe. "We're still scarred from the days of apartheid but the World Cup soothed those negativities inside us," Radebe said. "It brought peace and serenity to the country and the continent. Racially, we have improved a lot. It made better understanding between black and white people. You see white people wearing Orlando Pirates jerseys, blowing the vuvuzela in the middle of the fans. That wasn't happening much before the World Cup. South Africa would have taken another decade to change. No World Cup has had such a legacy as South Africa."
His country's case was always strong yet they missed out first time because Germany, the eventual 2006 hosts, were far more skilled at football politics.
England believe that 2018 can have a major legacy at home, uniting the dysfunctional family of English football, and abroad. "We are playing the international legacy card as our main campaigning platform," added Anson. "We have two key things. One is that a World Cup here would be a spectacular festival of football, a great party. Two is our international legacy where we could establish centres [of coaching and player development] around the world.'
All very impressive. Less so is the perennially vexed issue of ticket pricing. The hundreds of thousands of visitors to a World Cup in England would respect the hosts more if the entry to grounds was less expensive; the cheapest ticket is £39. Again, the game is growing distant from concerned fans.
"We tried to hook it down to Premier League pricing," said Anson. "As former commercial director of Manchester United, we sold 75,000 tickets every week. So if are you going to tell me ticket prices are too expensive, I'll argue with you. We sold out."
Indeed. After some pressing, he conceded: "If we win, we'll revisit that. We could take the ticket price down. The biggest revenue is media and sponsorship than ticketing so we're less reliant on ticketing."
Such a sentiment encapsulated modern football executives, thinking of the broadcast and corporate classes before supporters. Those involved in the ExCo Factor here in Zurich need to take football back to its roots.


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YEAH. Its been crazy for the 'Chichis' lately. The Chicharones's anthem "Little by Little," was feature
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BUT…As long as the Blazers make playoffs, a second season begins, and so too does booking…Which is where the Chichis come in. As long as The Trailblazers make the playoffs, WE ARE IN, playing a playoff HALFTIME SHOW! In the meantime 6 Chicharones songs have been added to rotation for warm up music, playing in the concourse, and throughout the Rose Garden's many events. Respects to Blazers DJ OG ONE.an uncontested slam dunk. The Chicharones continue to tour constantly and are finishing off their new album: Swine Flew. The Chicharones continue to up their game. Camobear's finest hit the offices of Todd Bosma, the Portland Trailblazers marketing maestro, and pitched Portland, Oregon's own, The Almighty Chicharones, for an upcoming halftime show performance. The Blazers HQ is a well organized dream team, and after a delicious 3 course meal and many flutes of champagne, they told us, regretfully, they were already fully booked up for performances til the end of the season.
And to top it all off, Bosma tells Camobear, nonchalantly, should we ever need any Blazers tickets, just to let him know and he'd love to have us come through at the games. Martinez, Blazers superfan, and resident basketball nerd, who has already attended 15 home games this year, is officially in heaven. It will provide fodder for his upcoming track "I Love Sports", and ode to loving all sports all the time. Sleep, whose more into xbox and bong rips, was asked how he felt when he heard the news the Chicharones would have a song in the NBA2K11 video game, he replied "Its incredible. I love soccer."


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Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec
Frank Gibeau, label president for EA Games, recently spoke with Develop about the publisher's long term development strategy. Gibeau thinks developing major games without multiplayer modes is a passing fad: "…it's not only about multiplayer, it's about being connected. I firmly believe that the way the products we have are going, they need to be connected online. … I volunteer you to speak to EA's studio heads; they'll tell you the same thing. They're very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online services – as opposed to fire-and-forget, packaged goods only, single-player, 25-hours-and you're out. I think that model is finished. Online is where the innovation and the action [are] at."
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This Politico article and the video that goes with it are heartbreaking. After talking tough and acting brave a year ago, the Obama administration has conveniently forgotten about its pledge to help the Yazidi escape extermination by ISIS.
As Politico's Eliza Collins writes:
In an emotional, at times tearful, on-stage interview at POLITICO's "Women Rule" event Wednesday morning in Washington, Dakhil described a full-blown humanitarian crisis — 420,000 Yazidis living in refugee camps in tents with mud floors, women and girls continuing to be kidnapped, 2,200 girls in captivity as sexual slaves, and survivors returning from the horror of ISIL captivity with no resources for psychological support. Thousands of orphans have no homes.
How far have we fallen from our old ideal of offering refuge to the oppressed people of the world. People like the Yazidi, the religious minorities of the Near East, will never find safety where they live. ISIS will be defeated, either (hopefully) by us or (more likely) by Russia, but the idea of religious persecution and genocide are harder to stamp out. There may come a day when that region is free of those ideas, but I doubt we will see it in our lifetime. And how many will die before that day of enlightenment arrives?
It doesn't have to be this way. Our nation is vast and wealthy. We could rescue every Christian, Druze, and Yazidi in Syria and hardly break a sweat. I know Emma Lazarus's poem is not a part of the Constitution or the United States Code, but her words embody a part of America's character that centuries of nativists have not managed to stamp out. In times like these, with the wold in turmoil and a people driven to slavery and death, we should remember them.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
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On August 27th, the Monroe County Community School Corporation's Board of Trustees was joined by a crowd of community members angry about a lack of diversity in the Corporation's faculty and staff; In their meeting August 28th , the Bloomington City Council discussed proposed new rules the city police chief said would help recover stolen property; At its August 26 meeting, the Ellettsville Town Council delayed a vote on a contract that would change the way utility bills are sent to town residents.
The Sycamore Landtrust's Hillbilly Haiku jump starts a Bloomington Labor Day weekend full of festivals. The annual 4th Street Festival of the arts runs Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm along 4th and grant streets, featuring area artists and local non profits. Also this weekend in Third Street Park: the second annual Bloomington Garlic Festival will be offering food, live music and art, on Saturday and Sunday beginning at 10am. All foods will feature garlic and there will also be a Healthful Garlic Cooking Contest with cash prizes awarded on Saturday sponsored by The Runcible Spoon, and featured speakers on the topic of buying and preparing healthy foods. Event Organizers Dave Cox & Tim Haas stopped into the studio earlier this week, and speak with WFHB Board President about the weekend happenings, here in today's WFHB feature exclusive.
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A Colorful New Orleans Home
This home has a sense of style and life lived large. It's not shy or retiring - it's all about color - powerful colors used in subtle ways. It's pink and purple and green and melon and turquoise and plenty of other brave, beautiful colors. More photos:
The walls in the living room are Benjamin Moore's Driftscape Tan, a mauve tone.
Venetian mirror and blue commode.
Gray green sitting room with a blue green secretary.
Mahalia Jackson portrait by Richard Thomas in the dining room. The chairs feature a toile called Louisiana Purchase.
Green walls are Benjamin Moore's Castleton Mist.
We love the look and had to share it as a little bit of color inspiration for the upcoming Color Contest here on AT (yes, it's that time of year again - details will be posted soon!). Designed by Hal Williamson for a client who loves "Pucci. Painted furniture. Parties." - he says the house "looks a lot like her".
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How to Gybe
- We start on beam reach (1.). We put the back hand further back on the boom and start to lean the sail forward (towards the wind) (2.).
- As the board starts to bear away, we move our front foot behind our back foot and place all our weight on it (3.).
- We keep leaning the mast forward and down towards the water.
- We pass through the downwind course and continue sailing clew first in the new direction.
- At this point we move our feet forward so that the new front foot is next to the mast and the new back foot a shoulder width behind (4.).
- As soon as the feet are in place we shift the sail remembering to bring the mast forward quickly as it shifts.
- We bear up again so we get back to half reach again on the new side (5.).
Important throughout the whole manoeuvre is to really lean into the wind as we are going to have the while area of the sail available to the wind and therefore a lot of power in the sail.


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Looks like somebody is growing up Kardashian and that somebody is going to make herself (and her mafia family) a boatload of dollars.
Kendall Jenner hit the beach big time over the weekend in her now quite regular bikini displays, following in the tracks of her older half-sisters and I suppose leading the way for her newly born half-niece, who don't think at the tender age of less than a month hasn't already been given the Glengarry Glen Ross speech about her ABC's from grandma.
When land-bound, the tall teen model Kendall and her sister Kylie Jenner took to the malls and stores of Calabasas in gear that was tight enough to keep the paparazzi highly on their tail, or tails, which is the point, and why we can bring you such Jenner sights here today.
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Pre-Construction opportunity in Portsmouth! Now is your chance to work with a local, reputable Builder and design your dream home on the Seacoast! Nicely wooded lot on .49 acres. House plan shown is the "Opal Marquise", a fantastic home design for those looking to be in a not-so-big house, while maintaining functionality and comfort! Open concept living space on first floor, including kitchen, dining room, and spacious living room. First floor also includes an "away space" den or office, tucked away in the corner. Working your way upstairs you'll find the master suite with full bath, and walk-in closet. Two additional bedrooms upstairs, and a half bath. Many other plans and options to choose from to meet your needs! Come home to Portsmouth, a historic and culturally rich community, regularly landing on "best places to live" lists. Minutes to downtown, and the Seacoast's finest shopping and dining establishments. Short drive to the area's best sandy beaches, and everything else the Seacoast has to offer!
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The San Juan Royal Curitiba offers a variety of amenities for a price that won't empty your wallet. Located on a heavily trafficked street in Curitiba's city center, the San Juan Royal is just 2 blocks from the mall Shopping Mueller, where you can browse in stores, buy a meal, and even dance inside a nightclub.
When you want to get outside, take a 15-minute stroll to Rua das Flores. This pedestrian-only street is one of the Curitiba's oldest, and its combination of flower vendors, street performers, and restaurants guarantees a fun afternoon of people watching. You can toss a busker a few coins to help finance his meal before stepping into an eatery for your own food. For an easy tour of the city, you can hop on the Linha Turismo, Curitiba's bus line designed just for tourists. (This university town's rapid bus system is an international model for innovative urban planners.) Pay once, and during the 2.5-hour tour you can get off and explore 4 different sights; the bus leaves every 30 minutes and goes by more than 20 attractions.
There's plenty to do in the Centro area, but if you feel like staying in, you can sip a cocktail and challenge your traveling companion to a game of billiards in the bar. Or, you can fit in a workout in the fitness room before you head into the hotel restaurant for dinner. Prefer swimming? You can take a dip in the indoor pool, then spend time in the sauna if you like to linger in the heat. Use the business center if you want to email family back home. Mornings, fill your plate from the complimentary breakfast buffet.
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Jennifer Walden Moves Back To Texas To Help Everyone Look Good
People often ask what it takes to be a super doctor. If it were up to most people the super doctor status would be given to doctors that prove themselves as caring and successful doctors. Doctors that are putting themselves out there for their clients. Doctors that go the extra mile for their clients. This is what a super doctor is. Many people believe that Jennifer Walden is a super doctor. She is doing all of those things and more since she moved back from New York. Texas is lucky to have her back in their community.
Jennifer Walden grew up in Austin Texas. She is the daughter of two successful parents. Her father is a longtime Dentist and her mother is a surgical nurse. Both of her parents are very proud of their daughter and the way she has turned out. The moment she made her decision to become a surgeon, Jennifer began working towards proving herself worthy. She won all-state in the soccer league in high school. She won several awards in her medical career. She won a descriptive title of one of the best beauty surgeons in America and the title of Super doctor.
Austin Texas is lucky to have her back. The need for plastic surgeons and beauty advisers is high in Texas. Jennifer works really hard to help the people of Texas. She also works hard to help the people that are asking for the mommy makeovers and minimally invasive procedures such as laser surgeries and botox. Botox is very useful to men and women that have large groups of wrinkles on their face and necks. Botox is injected into the wrinkle. The botox swells up the wrinkle so that the face appears smoother and younger. It is very important that the person performing the Botox injections knows where and how to inject the formula so that the person is happy with the results.
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With the budget talks at a stalemate, several Senate and Assembly Democrats took time to weigh in on the biggest national story – the Arizona Legislature's controversial immigration enforcement bill. Senators Jose Peralta and Jose Serrano publicly denounced the new plan today. They say it would promote racial profiling. And Senator Peralta went a step further, calling the decision to sign the bill by the Arizona Governor a slap in the face of the federal government.
With a stroke of the pen, she spit in the face of the federal government. By saying to the federal government, who has exclusive powers, exclusive rights to regulate immigration laws through the supremacy clause, that you are not relevant. She spit in the face of people of color in this country by legitimizing racial profiling. That is unacceptable.
Senators Peralta and Serrano put forth a resolution denouncing the bill. But the Senate didn't take it up in session today.
Meanwhile, City Hall is reporting several Latino Assembly members are going to travel to Arizona and chain themselves to the border fence. Among those heading south, Felix Ortiz, José Rivera, Naomi Rivera, Adam Clayton Powell, Carmen Arroyo and Peter Rivera.


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Hi Please respect Reply-To/Mail-Followup-To, which is set to firstname.lastname@example.com, thanks. As people who followed the recent Call for Papers/Registration for DebConf7 may have seen we are now using a new system (Pentabarf) to manage the attendees and talks. This system is written in Ruby (and a bit Javascript), using the RubyonRails framework, storing its data in a postgresql database. While upstream is nice and usually responds quickly and also helps a lot if one has issues, the thing is currently very dependant on myself. Which is a thing I dont like. There should be other persons who know how to deal with it, just in case the magic bus finds me... So, Im looking for people who want to help. What you need to know: - Ruby and RubyonRails, obviously :) - SQL - a bit Javascript and HTML What you have to do: - deal with me. And also with the DebConf teams wishes for changes. - adapt PentaBarf to our needs. Most things we needed for the Registration phase are done, but there are some open tasks for the schedule, some reports can be done, etc. The whole work will be done in an svn, so we can easily track changes, merge in upstream changes, etc. As said earlier upstream is nice and helps wherever possible, so we give back everything thats not too DebConf-specific. If you are interested in helping out either reply to this mail or talk to me on irc (irc.debian.org, #debconf-team). -- bye Joerg I read the DUMP and agree to it.
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Davis was preceded in death by siblings Maryellen Theaderman and James Davis.
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SU Sport Spotlight: University of Lincoln Men's Futsal
Lincoln's Men's Futsal 1sts have sealed their fate as their 6-2 loss to East Anglia 1sts has led them into relegation.
SU Sport Spotlight: University of Lincoln Women's Badminton
The University of Lincoln Women's 1st team took on that of Oxford Brookes University today and won 5-3 overall.
Men's Football cup match to be replayed
The University of Lincoln's Men's Football 2nds have rearranged their cup match against Oxford Brookes 2nds due to the poor facilities presented at the initial fixture.
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The University of Lincoln Men's Football Team have launched a campaign video to persuade students to join the society.
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Lincoln Lakers, the University of Lincoln's basketball team, have made an unbeaten start to the season and remain confident of a promotion push. Captain Matty Barwell spoke to The Linc.
Outlaws too strong for plucky Colonials
University of Lincoln's American football team Lincoln Colonials started their season with a defeat after losing 25-7 to an experienced Nottingham Outlaws side.
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American football team Lincoln Colonials lost 13-6 to Leicester Longhorns in a shortened pre-season friendly last week, but the team remain upbeat about their chances this season.
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The University of Warwick were trounced by Lincoln's rugby union team on Wednesday as Jake Dobson's side continued their unbeaten start to the season.
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My first "blog" was a Livejournal, which I started near the end of my senior year of college (2002). Did anyone else have one of those?
It was basically a place for me to write random thing, and fill out LOTS of surveys. I was looking around at my Livejournal (which is still "live!") and could not stop laughing at the things that I wrote about. Boy, has life changed a lot in 10 years. Just for fun, I'm pasting a survey below (and filling in commentary/updates) that I posted (almost exactly) 10 years ago! Just to catch you up to speed, I was 22, living in Baltimore, and about to graduate from UMBC with a degree in Graphic Design.
Here goes:
Four CDs from your collection that you will never get tired of:
Anything by – Radiohead
New Parade – The Sheila Divine
Whatever and ever amen – Ben Folds Five
Abbey Road – The Beatles
(Present day: I still agree- and haven't gotten tired of any of them!)
Four places you just have to go:
Rome and Florence, Italy
Sydney, Australlia and the great barrier reef
Toledo and Barcelona, Spain
San Francisco
(Present day: San Francisco is the only place I've been to from that list (twice). I'd still like to visit the other three.)
Four things you'd like to learn:
use Flash
swing dance (better)
to speak spanish fluently
how to drive a stickshift
(Present day: I have not learned how to do any of those things. Wow- that's bad!)
Four beverages you drink frequently:
Unsweetened Iced Tea
Diet Coke
Skim Milk
(Present day: The only thing I still drink regularly is water. I haven't had a diet coke in about 4 years. And I'd swap the skim for almond milk.)
Four TV shows that were on when you were a kid:
The Cosby Show
Classic Concentration
You Can't do that on Television
Salute your Shorts
(Present day: Obviously, that hasn't changed…)
Four TV shows you watch now:
Six Feet Under
Will & Grace
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(Present day: Ahhh… I miss Six Feet Under. Best show ever! I do still watch Survivor- and I love it!)
Four places to go in your area:
930 club
The Brewers Art
(Present day: That list makes me miss living in Baltimore! And going to DC to see shows on a regular basis at 930 club. On a typical weekend, I'd either be at 9:30 club, or hanging out at Brewer's Art in Baltimore and getting sushi at Kobe after the bars closed. Now I'm usually waking up at that time…)
Four things that never fail to cheer you up:
Alex, Jacob and Patrick
my dog
a Mike Taylor style joke (anything thats completely not PC)
dancing around singing Superdrag at the top of my lungs
(Present day: The three boys listed above are my friend Betsy's kids, and I haven't seen them in years. Gosh, they're all grown up now! My DOGS still cheer me up. And I haven't danced around to Superdrag in way too long.)
Four dream guys/girls:
Peter Krause
John Cusack
Jude Law
Zack Galifiganfogus (however you spell his name, the guy who hosted Late world with Zack)
(Present day: Peter Krause is still dreamy- but Paul Rudd is my #1 celebrity crush. And whoa- this was pre-Hangover… I thought Zack G was dreamy?!?!)
About 20 years ago:
I was 2 1/2 years old
My hair was so blonde it was almost white
My parents were married
My brother would tell me bad words and make me say them to my parents
(Present day: I was 12 1/2, my hair was curly and brown- I had a perm! My parents were NOT married, and my brother probably still tried to get me to curse.)
About 10 years ago:
I got my first kiss
I was in middle school
My dream was to be a photographer for National Geographic
My dad was dating a woman who was 22 (and is now my stepmom)
(Present day: I was a college graduate and just started substitute teaching- and was about to start a Master's program in Art Education. I was about 50 lbs heavier than I am now, and HATED exercise. )
About 5 years ago:
I went to high school half day and college half day
I was obsessed with Reel Big Fish and the Bosstones
I went to Raves
I drove the "woody"
(Present day: Greg and I had been dating for about 6 months and were already living together. The Red Sox won the world series. I was already hating my teaching job, but LOVING exercise, and had lost those 50 lbs.)
Well, that was entertaining.
What were you doing 5, 10 or 20 years ago? Did you have a Livejournal?