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NEW YORK—How many movies depict both the hardness and beauty of marriage? How many of them can pull that off in 10 minutes?
Head Over Heels is a 10-minute claymation film about a broken marriage and how it comes unbroken. The short has no dialogue, and the lack of a language barrier has given it appeal in festivals around the world—and an Oscar nomination.
In the film a middle-aged husband and wife live in the same house, but they have two different gravities—one lives on the floor and one lives on the ceiling, depending on your perspective. They share the same refrigerator, sliding it back and forth down the wall as needed, but that's the only thing they share. The resentment is tangible, and the husband's initial attempt to seek forgiveness is misunderstood, creating more resentment.
It's a simple and mature story, packing the evocative punch of some of Pixar's best animated shorts, but it comes from a 26-year-old, unmarried filmmaker. Timothy Reckart wrote and directed the film (starting at age 24), and did much of the painstaking stop-motion animation along with his crew of film school graduate students. Reckart is based in New York, where we talked over coffee after he returned from showing the film at the Sundance Film Festival. At the end of February, he and his crew will attend the Academy Awards, where their film was nominated for Best Animated Short.
Stop-motion films are enjoying a resurgence. One other Oscar-nominated animated short, Fresh Guacamole, is stop-motion, and three stop-motion feature films—Frankenweenie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and ParaNorman—received nominations for Best Animated Feature Film.
In the 1990s, Reckart recalls, hardly anyone was making stop-motion films. "When [computer-generated animation] came out, a lot of people said, 'Well, there goes stop-motion,'" he said. "I think people are longing for that handmade feel after seeing, for so many years, stuff that looks digital." Still, he's been a student of Pixar's films for their storytelling power.
The image of two people living in two different gravities came to Reckart after he saw a painting by Rembrandt, "The Philosopher in Meditation," that depicts a stairway going from floor to ceiling, with stairs both upside-down and right-side up. But the germ of the story came from watching the 56-year marriage of his grandparents—two very different people who remained committed to one another even after the romance had faded.
His grandfather, who died a few years ago, was gruff, sarcastic, and practical. His grandmother is a piano teacher—artistic and not practical. His grandmother is in a wheelchair, so he watched how his grandfather sacrificed to care for her. "It was never mushy. It was always heroic to see how they loved each other," Reckart said. "The relationship does not need to be symmetrical. … I think it's great to communicate this theme, which certainly has a resonance in Christianity, but also everyone can resonate with it."
The theme of a marriage, to Reckart, is bigger than just marriage. He thinks the principles that undergird a good marriage also undergird a healthy society. "We live in the same country, we're basically married to each other," he said. "A lot of times people expect [a relationship] just to work, and it doesn't. … If the film has a message, it's that relationships require effort."
Reckart is a Catholic, but he isn't trying to be preachy with his films. He said his faith informs the ideals in his films, but he mainly tries to live his faith by being an excellent filmmaker. He started making films when he was 12, but he eschewed film school initially to do his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, where he studied history and literature. He wanted to understand "story" before he attempted storytelling through film. "Liberal arts—I recommend it to every film student that asks me," he said. "If you only know films, you're only going to make films about films."
At Harvard he first started fiddling with stop-motion animation. "I only got into stop-motion there because everyone was too busy to act in films," he said. "So I made films by myself in a closet." He spent a month interning at Aardman Studios, the claymation studio famous for the series Wallace and Gromit and feature films like Chicken Run. Reckart worked with Aardman on its latest feature film that came out last year, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. He guesses he made about 300 pirate eyebrows for the film, along with working on the set. Reckart went on to graduate school at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in London, where he produced his Oscar-nominated short over 15 months with the school's financial backing and a team of other graduate students. NFTS is known for its stop-motion program—Wallace & Gromit animator Nick Park, who won multiple Oscars, attended there.
Stop-motion animation is a more physically involved art form than computer-generated animation. Reckart recalls standing on his feet for 12 hours at a time doing animation, reaching his arms into the 2½-foot tall set to do the minute adjustments that become motion on film. The film may be only 10 minutes long, but Reckart feels like he lived on "puppet time" with the characters. When the husband and wife finally reunite in the short, he was on the verge of tears while animating the scene over the course of two hours. "It's like living that in slow motion," he said.
The short will show in select theaters around the country in the lead-up to the Feb. 24 Oscars, but will also be available on iTunes starting the week before the awards.


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When Cpl. "S." came upon Cpl. Netanel Yahalomi, she knew he was finished.
"I ran under fire until I reached Netanel, but when I saw his condition, I told my commander there was nothing we could do to save him and we must move on," she said.
Cpl. "S.," who's identity is anonymous for security purposes, and her unit closed with the enemy.
Shots were exchanged. Two terrorists lay dead.
From a distance of at least 100 meters, Cpl. "S." and fellow soldiers had dispatched the enemy. Later she'd get an award for her heroism, but she maintains the shot was pretty easy for her. She said what they all say: she was just doing her job.
That job: Infantry Sniper.
While America prepares to let women into combat roles for the first time, Israel has been doing it for years, and it seems to be working.

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About Yusune Yoru
Name: Yusune Yoru 幽音夜 ゆすねよる
Model number: 03-1
Type: Trans-loid
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Weight: 35kg
Height: 141cm
Voice Range: C4 or higher
Genre: Any
Character Item: Strawberry Sundae
Birthday: October 8, 2011
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Voice Source: Asahina Yoko
Likes: All with strawberry stuffs, anime, manga, novel, video games and her brother, sister and friends.
Dislike: Spicy food, people who dislikes otaku
Personality: Yoru is a 100% otaku. She was one of the youngest triplets among the Trans-loid. Being the youngest she loves to hog around her big brother, Yusune Sano and her big sister, Yusune Asa. She was also said to be over-pampered on everything. Her studies weren't that good which she could fail almost every subject. She was a good video gamer.
About Yusune Asa
Name: Yusune Asa 幽音朝 ゆすねあさ
Model Number: 02-1
Type: Trans-loid
Age: 14
Weight: 45kg
Height: 166cm
Voice Range: C3~C4
Genre: Any
Character Item: Ice Blended Bubble Tea
Birthday: October 8, 2011
Release Date: March 27, 2011
Voice Source: Asahina Yoko
Likes: Books, bubble tea, study, her younger sister, elder brother and her friends
Dislike: Spicy food, people who bullied her younger sister, Yoru and elder brother, Sano Personality: Asa's a typical nerd, she studies and studies all day and score a very good marks in her examination. But she was an expert karate fighter and she also loves her sister, brother and friends more than anything.
About Yusune Sano
Name:Yusune Sano 幽音佐野 ゆすねさの
You can get Yusune Sano by pitching Yusune Asa to g+20
Model Number: 01-1
Type: Trans-loid
Age: 16
Weight: 50kg
Height: 179cm
Voice Range: A3#~A3
Genre: Any
Character Item: Cheese Flavour Pizza
Birthday: August 6, 2011 (in Chinese calender his birthday falls on the day of Tanabata Festival, also known as the Chinese Valentines day)
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Voice Source: Asahina Yoko (was pitched down from Asa's VB)
Likes: Pizza, his sisters, girlfriend, best friends and sing
Dislikes: Spicy Food, loud noises, thunder, sports, doctor and medicine
Personality: Sano was Asa and Yoru's elder triplet brother. He was elder than them by 2 years were cause his sisters were unable to born on the date they were suppose to born except Sano, they were born after 2 years. But Sano was a pre-matured baby, he has a very weak body and bad health. He has Anemia, Astraphobia (fear of thunder) and Phonophobia (fear of loud noises). He had typical sister complex too.
About Hideki Shinra
Name: Hideki Shinra
You can get Hideki Shinra by pitching Yusune Yoru to g+18
Model Number: 04-2
Type: Trans-loid
Age: 14 or 15 (around there)
Weight: 50kg
Height: 161cm
Voice Range: -
Genre: Any
Character Item: Mangosteen and a round bomb
Birthday: December 25
Release Date: -
Voice Source: Yusune Yoru (pitched down by g+25)
Likes: His friends, play around his bomb, eat his mangosteen and hog around with his tag team, Makoto Irie.
Dislikes: Not much things... Personality: A Bishota (was bombed), which usually hogs around Makoto Irie, his tag buddy. He looks cold from the outside but actually very shy and innocent in the inside. He was a typical Tsundere?
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One mechanism for ensuring the reliability of JMS message delivery is for a client to acknowledge consumption of messages delivered to it by the Message Queue broker.
If a session is closed without the client acknowledging the message or if the broker fails before the acknowledgment is processed, the broker redelivers that message, setting a JMSRedelivered flag.
For a nontransacted session, the client can choose one of three acknowledgment modes, each of which has its own performance characteristics:
AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE. The system automatically acknowledges a message once the consumer has processed it. This mode guarantees at most one redelivered message after a provider failure.
CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE. The application controls the point at which messages are acknowledged. All messages processed in that session since the previous acknowledgment are acknowledged. If the broker fails while processing a set of acknowledgments, one or more messages in that group might be redelivered.
DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE. This mode instructs the system to acknowledge messages in a lazy manner. Multiple messages can be redelivered after a provider failure.
(Using CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE mode is similar to using transactions, except there is no guarantee that all acknowledgments will be processed together if a provider fails during processing.)
Acknowledgment mode affects performance for the following reasons:
Extra control messages between broker and client are required in AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE and CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE modes. The additional control messages add additional processing overhead and can interfere with JMS payload messages, causing processing delays.
In AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE and CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE modes, the client must wait until the broker confirms that it has processed the client's acknowledgment before the client can consume additional messages. (This broker confirmation guarantees that the broker will not inadvertently redeliver these messages.)
The Message Queue persistent store must be updated with the acknowledgment information for all persistent messages received by consumers, thereby decreasing performance.


text: This time compared to a loaner AMD shanghai 2.3 GHz (same one I did the rzf tests on a few weeks ago). From the mpihmmer mailing list: --- A new release of GPU-HMMER is available at www.mpihmmer.org. The most notable change in the new code is support for multi-GPU systems. We have tested the current GPU-HMMER with up to 3 GPUs, and have achieved over 100x speedup with sufficiently large HMMs. A few bug fixes have been applied as well, so I would encourage users to update. Users who update should be aware that several command line options have changed, and should check the GPU-HMMER user guide for details (http://www.mpihmmer.org/userguideGPUHMMER.htm). While the system requirements haven't changed from the last version, users who intend to use multiple GPUs should be aware that they will need a substantial amount of system memory in order to do so. The 3 GPU system I've been using has 16GB RAM. This is probably a bit overkill, but 8GB or so would probably be appropriate. As always, any comments, bug reports, etc. are welcome. best regards, JP Walters --- Updated mpiHMMer results were shown at SC08, the graph I saw showed maxing out about 180x over a single thread, though I think the parallel IO version can scale higher still. Cudos to JP and the team for doing a great job on this! -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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How Not to Solve Cruise Problemsby Paul Motter
Understanding the hierarchy of cruise ship staff and crewmembers helps you solve cruise problems.
Crewmembers aim to please - when they can.
|How NOT to Fix Cruise Problems
Having worked aboard cruise ships in the past I have noticed something about passengers that many don't seem to realize about themselves, and I suspect it is because they do not understand the true dynamics of ship life for crewmembers.
Many guests assume that every crewmember they meet automatically knows everything there is to know about the ship they are on - as if the crewmembers live in a passenger-like existence. I often see passengers asking a bartender what time breakfast starts, for example, or asking their room steward what night of the cruise the ship's dining room serves lobster.
The truth is that most cruise ship crewmembers only have enough knowledge to do their their own jobs, and if you need help in any other area it rarely works or even helps to ask for answers from anyone who is not directly responsible for your specific area of concern. In fact, you may be complicating your own problem in ways you didn't expect.
The logistic reason is that most cruise ship jobs are very detail oriented. Department managers want every task done a specific way, so it only makes sense to keep crewmembers focused on their own jobs. Not only are their jobs already complicated enough, but in fact it can hinder the efforts of a department manager to have too many outsiders involved. Things change all the time, and a manager cannot notify the entire ship everytime something is different. It is better for a crewmember to say "I don't know," than to tell a passenger the wrong thing.
Chances are your waiter does not know anything about the ship beyond food services; he has never been to the pool, the fitness center, the bars, the waterslide or seen the comedian playing tonight in the main showroom.
By the same token, your room stewardess has never eaten in the alternative restaurant, booked a baby sitter, planned a shore excursion or tasted the martinis in the Crows Nest lounge.
Another reason for this is more social in nature. Cruise ship crews are comprised of many diverse nationalities. All of them use English as the Lingua Franca of the ship, but for the vast majority of them English is a second language. In fact, many of them are only well versed in English when it comes to their own jobs. A Czech room stewardess, for example, may not even know what the word "lobster" means in English.
In the crew area, most crewmembers only socialize with people from their own departments, and they further limit their friendships to those of the same nationality. It is something of a myth that all of the crewmembers onboard know each other, socializing in the crew bar night after night, for example. In fact, most crewmembers live more solitary lives with only a handful of friends. There are exceptions, of course, some are more outgoing and popular than others, but in general most crewmembers' only ship-related concern, both on duty and off, is doing their own jobs.
So - to solve cruise problems, or even just to get your most basic questions answered, it is always important to go to the correct source. Information on cruise ships is generally only given on a need to know basis, and most crewmembers are only trained in their own jobs.
Please do not get upset if someone on the staff does not know the answer to your question - and don't ask them to find the right answer for you. In the long run, when it comes to getting correct answers or solving problems on your cruise, you are better off just finding the right person to talk to in the first place.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — After taking a little summer vacation from the negotiating table, the Bulls and coach Tom Thibodeau have resumed talks about a long-term extension for the fastest coach to 100 wins in NBA history.
The Bulls have been standouts in Thibodeau's first two seasons, leading the league in wins during the regular season both times. Thibodeau was Coach of the Year after his first season and finished second last season. You'd think there was nothing to negotiate but how long Thibodeau wanted his contract. But somehow, things broke down earlier this summer.
But with the start of training camp just weeks away, Nick Friedell of ESPNChicago.com reports that the two sides are back at work on an extension:
Reports surfaced last season that Thibodeau was unhappy he did not have an extension secured. Forman then appeared on "The Carmen, Jurko & Harry Show" on ESPN 1000 and stated that talks had begun before last season and would resume after the season.
Thibodeau and Forman did not immediately return phone messages.
Bulls players, notably Derrick Rose, have been vocal in support of their coach. While Thibodeau has a hard-charging mentality, Bulls players respect the way he prepares and appreciate his work ethic.
ESPN analyst and Thibodeau friend Jeff Van Gundy recently told ESPNChicago.com's Melissa Isaacson that Thibodeau's potential new deal "seems like the easiest negotiation of all time."
"If I was (the Bulls) and Tom agreed to what (Oklahoma City's) Scott Brooks got (a reported four-year deal worth approximately $18 million), the whole thing would take 25 seconds," said Van Gundy, who hired Thibodeau as an assistant with the New York Knicks. "It's a no-brainer … My thing is he's an elite coach and should be paid like one."
There's no doubt about that.
Thibodeau is absolutely an elite coach, one of the very best in the business. And he'll have to prove it this season with the uncertainty surrounding Rose's return (and just how healthy the Bulls' superstar will be this season).


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In the last couple of weeks, Duke is really doing better looking out the window and not spazzing out. He can quietly watch the neighbors now without barking - a real accomplishment.
That said he is digressing outside. He now thinks it is his duty to bark at anything that moves - including cars driving down the street, four wheelers, the neighbor a street over, and god forbid the occasional chicken that gets out, oh and don't forget motorcycles, he really hates them. We take him out with a pinch collar, or he would be dragging us like rag dolls. It works well until one of the 'distractions' gets his attention then the collar doesn't really stop him, whether we correct him, or if he corrects himself. He goes into a barking trance and doesn't even know anything else exists.
Looking for some suggestions - maybe locking him in the bathroom with me, clicker, and treats trying 'look at me'? I'd have to drag out some of the videos, I don't know the first thing about clicker except timing is key.
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European Commission - Press release
Aviation: Progress reports show key targets for European air traffic management "at risk"
Brussels, 25 November 2011 - Progress reports published today on the Single European Sky – far-reaching proposals to put in place a pan-European air traffic management system by 2030 – "set alarm bells ringing." "There is a genuine risk that we will lag behind and find ourselves unable to satisfy the rising demands of air travel, which is set to nearly double by 2030", said European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport. "2012 is a make or break year for the Single European Sky and there is a lot at stake. Despite efforts that have been made, the Commission's "traffic light" assessment shows a large majority of Member States in the orange or red zones and at risk of not meeting critical targets for 2012" (see "traffic light" tables attached).
2012 is a critical year for the Single European Sky – there are four key deliverables:
The "traffic light" assessments published today by the Commission – based on two progress reports – highlight serious cause for concern in relation to two major elements which go to the heart of the Single European Sky project: the performance scheme and the functional airspace blocks.
1. On the performance scheme:
The result: Only 5 out of 27 Member States (Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) get a "green light" and are on track to meet both targets (for cost and capacity/delays) for the period 2012–14. The Commission has today issued recommendations asking Member States to revise these targets. If necessary the Commission could adopt a binding decision requesting the Member State(s) concerned to implement specific corrective measures, although a short time remains available for the targets to be met without recourse to this action.
Existing plans by Member States would fail to meet the EU-wide capacity target of 0.5 minute delay per flight in 2014. If this target were achieved, some €920 million would be saved over 2012–14 due to fewer and shorter delays.
In addition, national performance plans would miss the EU-wide target for ATM cost efficiency by 2.4% in 2014. This would have a a major impact, both on airspace users and on the credibility of the Single European Sky. To meet the target, additional measures are needed to achieve a €250 million saving over the entire three-year reference period (2012–14).
2. On the functional airspace blocks (FABs)
The result: All FAB blocks, except for one, the Danish/Swedish FAB, are in the orange or red zone and give serious cause for concern. The Commission is urging Member States to step up their actions. Failure to take measures at national level could oblige the Commission to re-open the SES legislative packages to introduce a more radical solution.
For detailed information on the two progress reports, performance targets and FABs see: MEMO/11/831.
Key Facts and figures: the Single European Sky
European skies and airports risk saturation. Without substantial investment to modernise Europe's air traffic management system (the Single European Sky), our skies and airports will be jam-packed.
Single European Sky implemention – the European Commission, Member States EUROCONTROL, SESAR and the aviation sector.
See video clip "The future of flying" for background on Single Sky:
European Commission "Traffic light assessment" of progress on functional airspace blocks.
Target: All 9 FABs to be fully operational by end 2012.
Result: All FABs in orange or red zones except for one (Denmark/Sweden)
European Commission "traffic light assessment" of Member State performance plans for ATM cost and capacity (delays)
Target: Performance scheme meeting EU-wide targets to start early 2012.
Result: Only 5 Member States have submitted performance plans which would enable the EU wide targets to be met. All others are in the orange or red zones.
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So, I tried to get the EVGA Hybrid KIT, which only seemed to be available for like 2 hours, lol.
Then I searched, and found a Corsair block bracket, that would allow you to fit the cpu block to a gpu just by buying the new clamping mechanism, and a new shroud: http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-s...ooling-bracket
Well, I cant tell if that will work with my OLD H70, with the round cpu block on it, since the pics and everything show the square blocks only (the NEW coolers).
So, aside from a custom loop, which wont fit in my case, does anyone know any kits out there for the Titan X (NOT Pascal Titan X 1000 series one, the old original Titan X) ?


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View talks from UX Week
Designers often talk about empathy and being human centered, but to a therapist, these principles have long been fundamentals. What else might we learn from this parallel discipline? And in what ways might we apply design to the experience of self-improvement? Could Design Therapist be a job title in the near future?
Design, as the tangible manifestation of intention, has the power to shape how we think and feel. Conversely, how we create and what we design are the culmination of who we are as individuals coming together to make something for others.
Visit the UX Week Vimeo Channel for our archive of main stage speaker videos from previous years.Click to view
In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren't hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people's education.
At first glance, the phrases "federal website" and "designed for kids" seem diametrically opposed. After all, how could one of the world's most complicated bureaucracies ever hope to communicate with children? But that's exactly what the Every Kid in a Park team did.
A big promise of the Internet of Things is that by analyzing millions of new sources of data from embedded, networked devices our experience of the world becomes better and more efficient. The environment automatically predicts our behavior and adjusts to it, anticipating problems and intercepting them before they occur.
The Beam telepresence robot has been making waves in our culture, from The Big Bang Theory's "Shelbot" to Edward Snowden's remotely-delivered TED talk. But how do you create a product experience that allows anyone to become a robot pilot? Join Suitable Technologies' Director of Marketing, Erin Rapacki, in a talk about the unique user design challenges behind the Beam system.
TL;DR: it's not great. This talk is about how food stamps work (and don't work).
Existing design work treats emotion as a snapshot -- distinct, moment-based -- when real emotion is a moving target that progresses over time. What is your product's core emotion? When beginning, sinking into, and finally leaving your experience, what states are you evoking in your user, and in what order? Why do we call them "users", and what starkness of experience fills our foundational assumption space as a result? When we begin to detect what a user is feeling across time in a product experience (hint: even the latest science on this admits it's really hard), it's like seeing color for the first time: dynamic ranges that flow across your product landscape, palettes that differ between users, discords and harmonies as user action intersects with intent.
Embodied cognition, or simply embodiment, is a big idea. It challenges some of the most fundamental ideas in cognitive science.
Every year, a city of 70,000 people rises up in the remote Nevada desert for a week-long celebration of human creativity and self-expression, before vanishing back into the dust. Many participants say their experiences at the Burning Man festival have transformed their lives.
Jimmy Stice will take guests on a journey to reimagine how we occupy the places where we live, along with our relationship to nature and each other. What started as an urban design challenge quickly grew to encompass the complex issues which have formed the limitations of how we design our cities.
Design, as the tangible manifestation of intention, has the power to shape how we think and feel. Conversely, how we create and what we design are the culmination of who we are as individuals coming together to make something for others.
Designers try desperately to make work that's impactful—to create work that will leave people breathless and hungry for more. Young designers in particular are endlessly trying to impress, their designs scream "DESIGN!", their type choices are bold, their color palettes are disruptive.
When it comes to the tech industry and gender, intolerance and under-representation are daily news items. Yet, despite the glaring ugliness of scandals like Gamergate, the prime culprit in gender inequity is likely not overt sexism.
Our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a desktop computer.
We're living in a unique cultural moment. Tech is now completely immersed in our lives, while the contemporary female voice is rapidly gaining airtime.
Five years ago I sold my house in Silicon Valley and moved to an old farm deep in agricultural country. As a city boy, it was all new to me, but I was most surprised to discover how much the new lessons of farming paralleled the important lessons of interaction design.
Design thinking is ubiquitous. More and more companies are employing full time user researchers, even entire user research departments.
The tech world welcomes, supports and funds innovation and disruption in every area of our lives and work - except one: the one that has the potential to produce more unicorns, make more money and drive more profound social benefit than any other area of tech. Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, delivers a highly provocative, insightful, revelatory and wide-ranging examination of why we need to re-examine our attitudes towards and behavior around sex, and the key role sextech plays in redesigning the future of sex.
It's hard enough to lead change when you're the CEO. But if you need to lead change in a large organization, you must often do that without formal authority or even budget.


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Marquis de Sade
French novelist and philosopher
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography, as well as some strictly philosophical works. He propounded a philosophy of extreme licentiousness, unrestrained by ethics, religion or law, with the egotistical pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life. Much of his writing was done while imprisoned. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.
The 120 Days of Sodom (1785)Edit
- Le duc imita bientôt avec Bande-au-ciel la petite infamie de son ancien ami et il paria, quoique le vit fût énorme, d'avaler trois bouteilles de vin de sens froid pendant qu'on l'enculerait.
- The Duke soon imitated his old friend's little infamy and wagered that, enormous as Invictus' prick might be, he could calmly down three bottles of wine while lying embuggered upon it.
- The First Day
- Nos quatre libertins, à moitié ivres, mais résolus pourtant d'observer leurs lois, se contentèrent de baisers, d'attouchements, mais que leur tête libertine sut assaisonner de tous les raffinements de la débauche et de la lubricité.
- Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity.
- The First Day
- Le duc, le vit en l'air, serrait Augustine de bien près; il braillait, il jurait, il déraisonnait, et la pauvre petite, toute tremblante, se reculait toujours, comme la colombe devant l'oiseau de proie qui la guette et qui est près d'en faire sa capture.
- The Duc, pike aloft, closed in upon Augustine; he brayed, he swore, he waxed unreasonable, and the poor little thing, all atremble, retreated like a dove before the bird of prey ready to pounce upon it.
- The Second Day
Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787)Edit
- ...there is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people...
- Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
- Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
- I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)Edit
- Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you to happiness.
- To Libertines
- Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained.
- To Libertines
- You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.
- To Libertines
- And you, amiable debauchees, you who since youth have known no limits but those of your desires and who have been governed by your caprices alone, study the cynical Dolmancé, proceed like him and go as far as he if you too would travel the length of those flowered ways your lechery prepares for you; in Dolmancé's academy be at last convinced it is only by exploring and enlarging the sphere of his tastes and whims, it is only by sacrificing everything to the senses' pleasure that this individual, who never asked to be cast into this universe of woe, that this poor creature who goes under the name of Man, may be able to sow a smattering of roses atop the thorny path of life.
- To Libertines
- Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad—all these big scoundrels, all these big despots of our ideas knew how to bond their concocted divinities with their immense ambitions. Certain of captivating nations with the sanction of their gods, these villains, as we know, took care either to question their deities at an appropriate moment or to have them answer only whatever they believed could serve their purpose.
- Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
- The philosopher must teach these pupils [French students] that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
- Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
- The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
- Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
- You charming sex, you will be free; like men, you will enjoy all the delights that nature has made your obligations; you will not have to be constrained in any pleasure. Must the more divine section of humanity be clapped in irons by the less divine section? Ah, smash those chains—nature wants you to smash them! You should have no other limits than your leanings, no other laws than your cravings, no other morals than nature; stop languishing in those barbaric prejudices that caused your charms to fade and imprisoned the godly surges of your hearts.
- Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
"L'Aigle, Mademoiselle…"Edit
- I am a libertine, but I am not a criminal nor a murderer, and since I am compelled to set my apology alongside my vindication, I shall therefore say that it might well be possible that those who condemn me as unjustly as I have been might themselves be unable to offset the infamies by good works as clearly established as those I can contrast to my errors. I am a libertine, but three families residing in your area have for five years lived off my charity, and I have saved them from the farthest depths of poverty. I am a libertine, but I have saved a deserter from death, a deserter abandoned by his entire regiment and by his colonel. I am a libertine, but at Evry, with your whole family looking on, I saved a child—at the risk of my life—who was on the verge of being crushed beneath the wheels of a runaway horse-drawn cart, by snatching the child from beneath it. I am a libertine, but I have never compromised my wife's health. Nor have I been guilty of the other kinds of libertinage so often fatal to children's fortunes: have I ruined them by gambling or by other expenses that might have deprived them of, or even by one day foreshortened, their inheritance? Have I managed my own fortune badly, as long as I have had a say in the matter? In a word, did I in my youth herald a heart capable of the atrocities of which I today stand accused?... How therefore do you presume that, from so innocent a childhood and youth, I have suddenly arrived at the ultimate of premeditated horror? No, you do not believe it. And yet you who today tyrannize me so cruelly, you do not believe it either: your vengeance has beguiled your mind, you have proceeded blindly to tyrannize, but your heart knows mine, it judges it more fairly, and it knows full well it is innocent.
- This passage comes from a letter addressed to his wife. It was written during his imprisonment at the Bastille.
Quotes about SadeEdit
- Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
- Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1990) NY:Vintage, p. 235
- Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
- Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1990) NY:Vintage, p. 235
- It may seem to be a long way from Blake's innocent talk of love and copulation to De Sade's need to inflict pain. And yet both are the outcome of a sexual mysticism that strives to transcend the everyday world. Simone de Beauvoir said penetratingly of De Sade's work that 'he is trying to communicate an experience whose distinguishing characteristic is, nevertheless its will to remain incommunicable'. De Sade's perversion may have sprung from his dislike of his mother or of other women, but its basis is a kind of distorted religious emotion.
- Colin Wilson in The Origins of the Sexual Impulse, p. 90
- This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography -- and of "sexual perversion."
- Colin Wilson in The Misfits, p. 86


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When I first started working with Kevin Sargent, he was a freshman in high school, and I was his science teacher. I knew even then that he was incredibly bright young man, who possessed immeasurable potential and a wealth of information that lay stored away, almost dormant.
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Every year when the Pro Bowl rosters come out, we see past-their-prime players with recognizable names chosen, while less famous players who have had much better seasons are snubbed. So at this point it shouldn't come as a surprise.
Still, it was rather surprising to see a couple of blatantly bad picks on this year's Pro Bowl rosters.
The worst pick of all is Packers center Jeff Saturday, who has had such a bad season that he got benched last week, being chosen as one of the NFC's two centers. Vikings center John Sullivan would have been a much, much better choice. Sullivan had a particularly strong season on an offensive line that went totally unrecognized by the Pro Bowl selectors despite helping Adrian Peterson threaten the NFL record for rushing yards in a season. Falcons center Todd McClure has had a good season and also would have been a much better choice than Saturday. Frankly, most of the starting centers in the NFC could justifiably complain that they were snubbed, when their play is compared to that of Saturday.
The three NFC defensive ends (Jason Pierre-Paul of the Giants, Julius Peppers of the Bears and Jared Allen of the Vikings) were also chosen at least as much for their reputations as for what they actually accomplished on the field this year. I would have taken Arizona's Calais Campbell over any of them. Campbell doesn't put up huge sack numbers (he has 5.5 this season), but he's better against the run than any of them, and the 6-foot-8 Campbell is as good as any defensive lineman not named J.J. Watt at getting his hands up and making it difficult for quarterbacks to pass over him. It's largely gone unnoticed because their offense is so inept, but the Cardinals' defense is good. And Campbell is as important a part of that defense as anyone. He deserved to go to the Pro Bowl.
And as we've previously touched on, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman deserved to go. It's possible that some voters didn't choose Sherman because of his pending PED suspension, but based on his play on the field, Sherman belongs: He's clearly had a better season than Arizona's Patrick Peterson and Chicago's Tim Jennings, both of whom made it.
There are good players at other positions who didn't make it, including Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, Redskins running back Alfred Morris and Buccaneers receiver Vincent Jackson, but in those cases it was more a matter of more players at those positions having Pro Bowl-caliber seasons than there were spots available on the Pro Bowl rosters. In the cases of Sullivan, Campbell and Sherman, they were clear Pro Bowl snubs.


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American Made Tools - Trail HeadPosted in News on December 3, 2013
Whether it's still true this day or not, I've always envisioned American-made tools coming out of a dingy factory in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, or some Midwest city with ash, coal dust, and slag piled up on the floor. Monstrous barking open-hearth furnaces spew out showers of yellow-orange molten steel before the honey-like high-carbon cocktail is poured into molds and then formed into rough shape on evil-looking hammer forges by guys named Mike or Al or Carl. They manhandle their work from side to side quickly and expertly while wearing dark protective aprons and heavy cowhide gloves covered with grime from years of hard manual labor. And after their shifts are done and the tools they created cool in bins post finish-grinding and polishing, they pile in their Buicks or Plymouths or Fords and make for the bowling alley to down a half-dozen or so Schlitz beers and a bacon sandwich or two. American tools made by Americans who unapologetically live the American way. At least, that's the mental image my noggin conjures. I'm sure it's no longer the reality of the tool-making process in this modern day and age, but if not, don't tell me. I like my version of reality better.
The bummer is that most tools today, even from long-trusted American brand names like Craftsman, Matco, Mac, and Snap-On, have moved much of their manufacturing overseas. Yeah, profits are maximized, but even if the quality isn't degraded, the romance is. I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling about my kids, grandkids, or great grandkids building Jeeps and hot rods with my old Chinese-built tools after I leave this planet. But for all my ranting and railing against imported hand tools, a peek inside any of my massive and overflowing toolboxes would reveal only a percentage of truly American-made products. So what's a gearhead to do? Start buying American.
There still are tool companies that insist on keeping their entire manufacturing process here in America. And even some of the larger companies such as Craftsman, Matco, Mac, and Snap-On still offer 100 percent USA-made tools. But there's a lot of digging, researching, and sleuthing required to find 'em. I've started going through the motions if it's a specialty tool I really need and insist on a USA-made product. But for more common socket sets, wrenches, screwdrivers, and other assorted hand tools, I've started shopping somewhere else: estate sales.
Many of you may already be well-versed on estate sales, but for those of you who aren't, the best usually involve an older dead guy and the stuff he left behind or maybe a couple needing to downsize into an apartment or nursing home. These are the ones you wanna look for and not the "moving out of state and need to sell these crappy Huffy bikes and kitsch lawn trolls we don't want to bring with us." Don't bother with Craigslist or any other online source. Buy a paper. Old folks are analog, not digital, so the best estate sales advertised in old-school black-and-white and nowhere else. You'll often find an arsenal of old USA-made hand tools that can range from the beautiful to the bizarre.
I'm still a noob at the estate sale thing, but so far I've stumbled across F-stamped tool kits that came with the purchase of a new Model T, weird square-drive ratchet sets, vintage Craftsman ratchets solid enough to double as a hammer, and even a bunch of cool old-school power tools. I've been a wrench-spinning, hands-on tool junkie since I was fresh out of diapers, and even I find things I never knew existed. These golden nuggets are the barn-finds of the tool world. So get yourself out there on a Saturday morning and grab some history to pass down before it goes to scrap…and gets turned into a Chinese hand tool.


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Author Notes: This dish was inspired by a recent wine tasting trip to Santa Ynez, California where my husband and I tasted the 2007 Anacapa from Rusack Vineyards, a blend that smelled like jalapeno and left a slight red pepper kick on the back of your tongue.
After buying a bottle we started brainstorming what might go well with it and tuna immediately came to mind. I also wanted to play up the southwestern flavors without putting too much emphasis on spice, so jalapeno blended with fresh basil became an elegant solution. The corn here is smoky but still sweet, and because it's pureed and infused into the stock, I find this technique better intensifies the flavor. - cookingafterfive —nicolecooks
Food52 Review: Cookingafterfive's Charred Corn Risotto with Seared Tuna and Basil-Jalapeno Oil is one of those recipes that sounds really, really good and then proceeds to exceed expectations! The smokey grilled corn adds a wonderful dimension to the risotto, and the basil-jalapeno oil is the perfect punctuation (although we heartily condone using more than one jalapeno for an extra kick!). While we could see using this risotto as an accompaniment to many main courses, such as chicken or shellfish, it was a perfect foil for sweet, meaty sushi-grade tuna. First time around, we prepared it as directed using a grill pan, then we succumbed to the lure of a fabulous summer evening and did the whole thing outside on the grill. Just lovely! - wssmom —wssmom
Serves: 4
ears white corn
jalapeno, seeded and quartered lengthwise
cup loosely packed basil
extra-virgin olive oil
cups chicken stock
tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
small onion, diced
cups cannelloni or arborio rice
pound tuna steak
Parmesan cheese
- Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat and drizzle the corn with a little extra-virgin olive oil. Sear the corn, turning occasionally, until sufficiently charred on all sides and most of the kernels are caramelized and dark brown. Set aside briefly to cool. Leave the heat on the grill pan and add the jalapeno slices. Cook for about three minutes, turning halfway through, until softened and bits of the skin have charred. (While you're grilling, put the chicken stock in a pot and bring to a simmer. Also, prepare the tuna steaks by seasoning both sides with salt and pepper.)
- In a food processor, add the jalapeno and basil and pulse to combine. Sprinkle in a pinch of salt. Stream in extra-virgin olive oil and puree until it resembles a consistency slightly thinner than pesto. Wipe out the food processor to use for the corn. Over a large bowl, carefully cut down each ear of corn, rotating your knife until all the kernels have fallen into the bowl. Reserve a few kernels for the garnish, and put the rest in the food processor and pulse until pureed but still slightly chunky. Season with a pinch of salt.
- Now onto the risotto. In a large sauté pan, add 1 tablespoon each butter and oil. When the butter is almost melted, add onions and stir to coat. Season with salt and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until translucent. Add rice and toast for two minutes. Add stock a ladle at a time, stirring frequently until most of the liquid is absorbed. This usually takes between 20 to 30 minutes. Halfway through the cooking process, add the corn puree to the risotto and season again with salt. Continue until rice is cooked through and tender but still has a bite to it. (You may have stock left over, so be diligent about testing for doneness so you don't overcook the rice.)
- About the same time you add the corn, heat the same grill pan you used earlier over high heat. Add a small amount of oil and when it starts to shimmer, add the tuna steaks. Cook for 1-2 minutes per side so that inside is rare. Rest on a cutting board for a few minutes, then thinly slice just before serving.
- To finish the risotto, turn off the heat and quickly add the remaining tablespoon of butter and a handful of grated Parmesan cheese. Stir vigorously until the butter is nearly melted. Serve immediately with slices of tuna and a drizzle of the jalapeno-basil oil.
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Linda Jones considered herself "incredibly lucky" to have had a father like Chuck Jones, the Oscar-winning animation director of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies fame.
"He was probably the best father anybody could have," said Linda Jones, an only child. "His father had a difficult time being a father, and he vowed he would never impose that kind of difficulty and challenge on a child."
Her dad, she said, "was pretty much a 9 to 5 guy. He didn't bring his work home with him."
That is until after he would finish one of the riotously funny 300 films he directed in his 60-plus year career starring such animated superstars as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
"When they had finished a picture and it was on its way to ink and paint, he would bring the story home and act it out for me," said Jones. "He would get up on the dresser and fall onto the bed."
Jones will be reminiscing about her influential father, who died at age 89 in 2002, at the "Chuck Jones 101: A Birthday Celebration" Saturday evening at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. His 101st birthday party will feature such classic Jones cartoons as 1953's "Bully for Bugs"; 1957's "Ali Baba Bunny"; 1949's "Fast and Furry-ous"; 1952's "Feed the Kitty"; and 1950's "Rabbit of Seville."
The benefit for the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity is also a family affair. Besides Jones, the program will feature his widow, Marian Jones, his grandchildren Todd, Craig and Valerie Kausen, as well as friends and co-workers such as George Daugherty, the creator and conductor of the popular "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony" concerts, which feature the cartoons projected on the big screen with their original scores performed live; David Wong, producer of "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony"; and film critic/historian Leonard Maltin.
There's also an afternoon tribute to Jones at the Egyptian with a screening of the 1970 live-action/animated feature "The Phantom Tollbooth," which he directed with Abe Levitow. Voice actress June Foray (Granny, Witch Hazel) will appear in person; the Egyptian will celebrate her 96th birthday after the screening.
"He was one of a kind," recalled Foray. "He could quote Mark Twain and then go back and talk about Aeschylus. He was a brilliant man."
Grandson Craig Kausen said Jones "loved what he did. The awards and the accolades were fine, but [he thought], 'What's next? What am I going to do now?' He was always playing with ideas."
Maltin, who had a long friendship with Jones, actually met him as "a fan" in the 1970s. "I was still living in New York and he came to a tribute at the Museum of Modern Art which I was involved in," said Maltin. "I had heard at the time he was happy to make drawings for fans at the drop of a hat. I didn't know how to muster the nerve to ask for one."
But Maltin finally mustered the courage after the screening and Q&A with Jones. "I said, 'Would it to be too cheeky to ask you for a drawing?' He said, 'No, not at all.' He whipped out an 8 by 10 drawing pad, which had his name imprinted on the upper corner, and said, 'What would you like?' I said, 'Bugs Bunny holding his carrot case?' He said great and immediately produced a wonderful drawing, which, of course, is framed and on my wall. How can you not be swept up in the aura of a man who spread cheer like that?"
Daugherty was also swept up in Jones' aura. He first met the animator back in 1990 at the opening night in New York of "Bugs Bunny on Broadway."
"Here we were opening night on Broadway, which was an incredibly nerve-racking experience for me. And then someone told me like 20 minutes before the performance that Chuck Jones is in the wings and wants to meet you! So I go over and meet Chuck Jones and it's like love at first sight. We became close friends."
Jones, said Daugherty, "loved the fact that his cartoons were being performed with their original musical scores. Sometimes at the Hollywood Bowl, he would sit on stage with us. We would put a chair out there and he would sit next to the concert master. It was like having Mozart or Charlie Chaplin out there with us while their scores were being done."
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"Chuck Jones 101: A Birthday Celebration"
American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.
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Supernova, plural supernovae or supernovas, any of a class of violently exploding stars whose luminosity after eruption suddenly increases many millions of times its normal level.
The term supernova is derived from nova (Latin: "new"), the name for another type of exploding star. Supernovae resemble novae in several respects. Both are characterized by a tremendous, rapid brightening lasting for a few weeks, followed by a slow dimming. Spectroscopically, they show blue-shifted emission lines, which imply that hot gases are blown outward. But a supernova explosion, unlike a nova outburst, is a cataclysmic event for a star, one that essentially ends its active (i.e., energy-generating) lifetime. When a star "goes supernova," considerable amounts of its matter, equaling the material of several Suns, may be blasted into space with such a burst of energy as to enable the exploding star to outshine its entire home galaxy.
Supernovae explosions release not only tremendous amounts of radio waves and X-rays but also cosmic rays. Some gamma-ray bursts have been associated with supernovae. Supernovae also release many of the heavier elements that make up the components of the solar system, including Earth, into the interstellar medium. Spectral analyses show that abundances of the heavier elements are greater than normal, indicating that these elements do indeed form during the course of the explosion. The shell of a supernova remnant continues to expand until, at a very advanced stage, it dissolves into the interstellar medium.
Historical supernovae
Historically, only seven supernovae are known to have been recorded before the early 17th century. The most famous of them occurred in 1054 and was seen in one of the horns of the constellation Taurus. The remnants of this explosion are visible today as the Crab Nebula, which is composed of glowing ejecta of gases flying outward in an irregular fashion and a rapidly spinning, pulsating neutron star, called a pulsar, in the centre. The supernova of 1054 was recorded by Chinese and Korean observers; it also may have been seen by southwestern American Indians, as suggested by certain rock paintings discovered in Arizona and New Mexico. It was bright enough to be seen during the day, and its great luminosity lasted for weeks. Other prominent supernovae are known to have been observed from Earth in 185, 393, 1006, 1181, 1572, and 1604.
The closest and most easily observed of the hundreds of supernovae that have been recorded since 1604 was first sighted on the morning of Feb. 24, 1987, by the Canadian astronomer Ian K. Shelton while working at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Designated SN 1987A, this formerly extremely faint object attained a magnitude of 4.5 within just a few hours, thus becoming visible to the unaided eye. The newly appearing supernova was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. It immediately became the subject of intense observation by astronomers throughout the Southern Hemisphere and was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. SN 1987A's brightness peaked in May 1987, with a magnitude of about 2.9, and slowly declined in the following months.
Types of supernovae
Supernovae may be divided into two broad classes, Type I and Type II, according to the way in which they detonate. Type I supernovae may be up to three times brighter than Type II; they also differ from Type II supernovae in that their spectra contain no hydrogen lines and they expand about twice as rapidly.
Type II supernovae
The so-called classic explosion, associated with Type II supernovae, has as progenitor a very massive star (a Population I star) of at least eight solar masses that is at the end of its active lifetime. (These are seen only in spiral galaxies, most often near the arms.) Until this stage of its evolution, the star has shone by means of the nuclear energy released at and near its core in the process of squeezing and heating lighter elements such as hydrogen or helium into successively heavier elements—i.e., in the process of nuclear fusion. Forming elements heavier than iron absorbs rather than produces energy, however, and, since energy is no longer available, an iron core is built up at the centre of the aging, heavyweight star. When the iron core becomes too massive, its ability to support itself by means of the outward explosive thrust of internal fusion reactions fails to counteract the tremendous pull of its own gravity. Consequently, the core collapses. If the core's mass is less than about three solar masses, the collapse continues until the core reaches a point at which its constituent nuclei and free electrons are crushed together into a hard, rapidly spinning core. This core consists almost entirely of neutrons, which are compressed in a volume only 20 km (12 miles) across but whose combined weight equals that of several Suns. A teaspoonful of this extraordinarily dense material would weigh 50 billion tons on Earth. Such an object is called a neutron star.
The supernova detonation occurs when material falls in from the outer layers of the star and then rebounds off the core, which has stopped collapsing and suddenly presents a hard surface to the infalling gases. The shock wave generated by this collision propagates outward and blows off the star's outer gaseous layers. The amount of material blasted outward depends on the star's original mass.
If the core mass exceeds three solar masses, the core collapse is too great to produce a neutron star; the imploding star is compressed into an even smaller and denser body—namely, a black hole. Infalling material disappears into the black hole, the gravitational field of which is so intense that not even light can escape. The entire star is not taken in by the black hole, since much of the falling envelope of the star either rebounds from the temporary formation of a spinning neutron core or misses passing through the very centre of the core and is spun off instead.
Type I supernovae
Type I supernovae can be divided into three subgroups—Ia, Ib, and Ic—on the basis of their spectra. The exact nature of the explosion mechanism in Type I generally is still uncertain, although Ia supernovae, at least, are thought to originate in binary systems consisting of a moderately massive star and a white dwarf, with material flowing to the white dwarf from its larger companion. A thermonuclear explosion results if the flow of material is sufficient to raise the mass of the white dwarf above the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.44 solar masses. Unlike the case of an ordinary nova, for which the mass flow is less and only a superficial explosion results, the white dwarf in a Ia supernova explosion is presumably destroyed completely. Radioactive elements, notably nickel-56, are formed. When nickel-56 decays to cobalt-56 and the latter to iron-56, significant amounts of energy are released, providing perhaps most of the light emitted during the weeks following the explosion.
Type Ia supernovae are useful probes of the structure of the universe, since they all have the same luminosity. By measuring the apparent brightness of these objects, one also measures the expansion rate of the universe and that rate's variation with time. Dark energy, a repulsive force that is the dominant component (73 percent) of the universe, was discovered in 1998 with this method. Type Ia supernovae that exploded when the universe was only two-thirds of its present size were fainter and thus farther away than they would be in a universe without dark energy. This implies that the expansion rate of the universe is faster now than it was in the past, a result of the current dominance of dark energy. (Dark energy was negligible in the early universe.)
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Piraeus to pay $678M for Greek units of Cypriot banks
ATHENS, Greece Greece's Piraeus Bank reached an agreement Tuesday to buy the Greek operations of three Cypriot banks for $673 million, as stock markets in Athens were hit hard by the crisis in Cyprus.
Piraeus, which was selected last Friday to take over the Greek units of the Bank of Cyprus, Laiki and Hellenic, will see its share of loans in the Greek market rise from 19 percent to 27 percent. Its three new additions have combined assets of $21.1 billion and take Piraeus' branches up to 1,600 with 24,000 employees.}
Greece's conservative-led government pushed aggressively for the deal, as Cyprus remains in crisis over a bailout that will see large depositors on the island hit by a levy.
Piraeus Bank said Cypriot bank branches in Greece would re-open Wednesday, a day earlier than in Cyprus.
Despite the deal, the Athens Stock Exchange closed down 4.9 percent on Tuesday as traders returned to their desk following a long weekend. Many European markets, particularly those at the forefront of Europe's debt crisis, fell sharply Monday amid worries that big bank deposits may be raided in future financial bailouts. Greek banking stocks recovered from earlier losses but were still down 1.8 percent.
Markets have been rattled by reported remarks by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads eurozone finance ministers' meetings, that the Cyprus bailout could serve as a template. He later modified the comments, describing the Cypriot agreement as "special."
- Q&A: Cyprus' bailout package explained
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- Markets steady after being roiled by EU confusion
In Athens, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras reiterated that assurance: "The agreement reached by the Eurogroup regards Cyprus alone - no other country."
Stournaras visited Greece's president, Karolos Papoulias, who was publicly critical of the Cypriot bailout deal, describing it as "unacceptable" and "selective."
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Schaeuble said that the measures were making up for decades of policy "lapses," and rejected the notion that Germany is dominating the eurozone and dictating its policy.
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On June 11, a man claiming to be aboard a yacht called the Blind Date triggered a massive search when he reported three people dead, nine injured and 21 abandoning ship after an explosion 20 miles off Sandy Hook. Officials believe the hoax originated on land in either New Jersey or Staten Island, N.Y.
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Gillipig wrote:john9blue wrote:^ well said
i often wonder what percentage of people would acknowledge a biological and scientific proof that there are inherent differences in abilities between different races.
we've done the same thing with gender, and some people still think males and females can do everything that the other gender can do equally well. so i don't have much hope.
just because judging people primarily as individuals is a good idea doesn't mean that we can't study differences between groups.
Unfortunately not many.
It should be pretty obvious to people that such differences can exist, but many choose not to take it seriously or simply dismiss it as prejudice. That's just a brain fart on their part.
Nothing is prejudice if it's true. So if you can showcase the existence of such a variety you're not being prejudice. Prejudice is to claim things without having logical reasoning to back it up.
When for example I say white people are better at enduring low levels of sun exposure I'm not being prejudice, because I back it up with logic and a scienctificly oriented mindset. I would claim fair skin has less protection against sun light and is therefore better at absorbing the sun light it's exposed to. Being exposed to the rays from the sun is critical to us because it provides us with vitamin D, without which we are at risk to a variety of diseases.
In this case I took the example of fair skin's positive attributes in areas with low levels of sun exposure on earth, but I could've choosen to highlight the advantage of having dark skin in areas with high exposure to the sun. Either way it would be equally none prejudice. Whatever criticism directed towards the argument should be dealing with the factual statements, because that's the way you discuss scientific matters.
If a scientist disagrees with the studies conducted by another scientist he doesn't get all personal and say something on the lines of "Your face is ugly!" or "Racist pig!", that just reflects badly on himself and makes him look like the idiot (which he would be if he said that)
The same thought process should be used when for example discussing differences in IQ between races. The argument should be about how much of our intelligence is due to our environment and how much is genes, because that's the only way to even remotely explain the measured difference in IQ between races. The wrong way to conduct the argument would be to blame one part for bringing this statitsic up or denying it's existence or just jump staright to the a la natty claim "You're racist!". I'm glad he's gone btw. It's no secret we didn't get along, my problem with him is that he had no integrity. He never hesitated to use cheap tactics to smear others, morphed his opinions just to win an argument and then refused to acknowledge that it changed at all.
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According to the stupid definition of the word "racist", any and all claims of difference between races is considered racist. So you can't even state obvious truths like black people are better at enduring high exposure to the sun, without being racist. That's why I consider to word hollow and pointless.
I was just going to cut and comment on your IQ section, but realized that would change what you said.
The problem is not just how much is environmental and how much is biological. A far bigger problem is what constitutes IQ and whether it is an actual indicator of anything .. or whether IQ is really measuring the attribute we think is important (ability to aquire new information readily).
IQ has historically had a couple very well known bias. One is the example of asking inner city kids to match a cup with either a spoon , a saucer or some other implement. Inner city kids did not see saucers, so tended to say spoons and not saucers. That's a dated example anyway, since mugs are more the standard now, but it illustrates the point.
Another bias is when men create the tests and just innately consider "male" type thinking to be superior. This is far more subtle and complicated. It has been well studied. The impact is changing because girls and boys now have more equal education than they did in the past, but at the highest assessement levels there is apparently still a bias that has to do with those tests heavily targeting a kind of specific linear thinking.
BUT, you bring up a very good point. If you look hard, you can find that just about everyone is in some way racist or sexist or otherwise prejudiced. Most of us could do with such introspection, just to improve our own thinking. However, whe someone else takes it upon themselves, then we have to be much more careful.
For my part, I am not sure that doing away with racism/sexism, etc is really the goal we should achieve. Rather, I think the goal should be to make such things just realtively unimportant in daily living. When you get to the point that gender and race are no more of a bias than judging someone by their accent, style of dress, etc.. we have come a long way.
There is, of course, such a thing as having too much uniformity. It is good to recognize that we can be repulsed by ideas, yet also recognize that just having people who think in particular ways (not unchallenged, but present) is of value. The extremes help define the middle.
In fact, that is one big change we have seen in the past decade. People get so much more information off the internet now that they talk far more to people who think like them.. and far more rarely wind up changing thinking, unless they are of the sort to go out of their way to challenge.


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Take a bow, Louisville!
You – and the KFC YUM! Center – impressed the heck out of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee.
As a result Louisville will be a regional site in the next few years, said Xavier athletics director Mike Bobinski, who will be the chair of the NCAA Selection Committee next year.
He told Jerry Tipton, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame writer for The Lexington Herald-Leader, that the committee would seriously consider a Louisville bid, which he expects.
"This place was clearly built with this event in mind,†said Bobinski.
"I don't know if I have seen a site with (fewer) issues. There have been no media and team issues of any consequence.â€
Take a bow, Jim Host, the man from Lexington who was responsible for every idea that sets YUM! Center apart.
Dan Gavitt, associate commissioner of the Big East Conference, said, "Frankly, I've never seen a better one. This building takes it to a whole other level.â€
Gavitt particularly liked the nearby hotels.
Jim Host knew
Host, chair of the Arena Authority, said that 4,300 hotel rooms were accessible via pedways.
Gavitt added that the UK Wildcats always should play here in the NCAA Tournament.
Host, being a member of the media, knew exactly what the working press needed.
Some of the best seats in the arena were removed to make the best possible media work areas.
Also, the auxiliary basketball gym was turned into work and dining areas for the media.
You no doubt saw a lot of empty seats at other NCAA Tournament sites. Not at YUM! The NCAA likes fannies in seats more than anything else.
Whose got next?
With all of the glowing reports about Yum! Center, one has to ask: Will Louisville replace Greensboro and Charlotte as just about automatic spots for NCAA regionals? The North Carolina cities are favorite NCAA sites.
Skinny staffs
Did you notice The Lexington Herald Leader refuses to use the exclamation mark when mentioning the YUM! Center?
Speaking of newspapers: I am really proud of the job that the Lexington and Louisville papers are doing with NCAA Tournament coverage – despite their often "skinny†staffs.
I learned a lot of things from Norman Isaacs when he was Executive Editor of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times. Said Isaacs: "Readers don't care how much trouble reporters and editors have to go through to get news in the paper.â€
I agree with that, but both The Courier-Journal and The Herald-Leader have been skinnied down so much that their staffs are near the breaking points.
Yet both have performed magnificently so far in their coverage of the NCAA Tournament, but it gets harder and harder to produce the quality we expect.
Central copy desks
Silly typographical and factual errors are a result of too few reporters, copy editors and editors. Most papers now have a central copy desk instead of sports departments having their own editors who know sports.
All newspapers are suffering because of cut, cut, cut orders from out-of-town chain ownership.
The bottom line is that The Courier-Journal and The Lexington Herald-Leader reporters and editors deserve our praise and gratitude in such busy times.
The Lexington paper particularly deserves praise for its college and high school coverage.
During the State Tournament, the Lexington paper published separate sections of just high school coverage.
I slipped up. Make that The Lexington Herald Leader.
Old guy Miller
Jerry Tipton, who covers UK basketball like no other college team is covered, reports even on birthdays of past and present Wildcats.
Last Sunday he reported that senior Darius Miller turned 22 Wednesday. Yes, the Cats do have a senior—and he's a good one.
He has saved the Cats several times both this season and last. In fact, he was MVP in last year's SEC Tournament, and has been on a hot streak in the NCAA.


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What do you think is holding your career back?
That's the question Star Jones, spokeswoman for National Association of Professional Women, asks her audience at the organization's "Spark: Ignite Your Network" National Networking Conference. "Tell the person next to you," she says, and then, moments later, instructs everyone to also whisper it into their hands.
With that, she has everyone "throw it." "When you pay attention to something, that's the direction you're going," she says. "Throw it away. It's gone. You don't have room for it."
Instead, Jones says, we should spend our mental energies envisioning what we want: from our jobs, personal lives, networks, even just our day. Not that's keeping us from them.
Instead, she advocates for zeroing in on seven "I's" for success.
1. Investigate
It's a classic interview question for a reason: where you want to be in 5 or 10 years says a lot about your values, as well as your thought patterns for you career path.
So "investigate": where do you want to be, eventually? What do you need to get there? Get specific, Jones advises: "A mentor? More education?" Put it in no uncertain terms what could help move you along your path.
2. Initiate
Now that you know what you'll need in your toolbox, how do you go about getting it? It could be interpersonal, like changing your social circle, or as Jones notes, breaking up with your significant other. Or maybe you need to move to a new area, where there are more opportunities for your field. Whatever it is, identify your next steps and take them.
3. Insight
There is a time for reflecting on what's held you back, and that's before you take new actions. If you failed the last time you tried something new, why do you think that was? Did you focus on the wrong things? Hold back? Choose bad allies? It's important to really learn from and process your missteps if you hope to do better.
4. Intuition
As Jones says, "Trust the hunch." If something feels right, but you're not sure why, go with it. Alternatively, if you get the emotional "red flashes" (that too many of us tend to ignore when things look good on paper), trust those instincts too.
5. Intention
Just as Jones's exercise at the conference illustrated, concentrating on the negative doesn't really advance your progress towards anything positive. Instead, she says, "Focus on the result you want." You may have to end up making sacrifices (less time with your family as you get a master's degree), but if your eye is on the prize (a better job with more flexible hours down the road), you can't go too wrong.
6. Inspiration
Still focusing on the positive, think about the things that "give you joy," suggests Jones. While trying to work out a direction to move it, it can be too easy to try to shape a path around avoiding the things you're afraid of, or find unpleasant. But you won't find true success or career satisfaction that way.
7. Innovation
Sometimes you don't know what you want. In that case, Jones suggest throwing any kind of experience up against a wall and seeing what sticks.
"Go someplace. Take a risk. Bust out. Do something."
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