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Brad DeLong publishes a very thought-provoking piece on the persistent failure of the economy to live up to its potential post-crash. Here's the key graph, which should terrify anyone who gazes upon it:
After almost five years, real per-capita GDP is still well below its pre-crisis level. And this is not a distributional issue, where the median is dropping because the rich are hoarding too much. The amount of money available per person has actually fallen. We are not as rich as we thought we were.
Professor DeLong argues that the problem is deleveraging--we are all trying to save money rather than spend it, and in the process, we are getting the economy stuck at lower levels of output and employment than they would be if we just calmed down a bit about the future. Or rather, if the government would get off it's butt and make us calm down.
So we remain far short of full employment for the third reason. The issue is not that governments and central banks cannot restore employment, or do not know how; it is that governments and central banks will not take expansionary policy steps on a large enough scale to restore full employment rapidly.
And here I reflect on the 1930's, and on how historical events recur, appearing first as tragedy and then, pace Karl Marx, as yet another tragedy. Keynes begged the policymakers of his time to ignore the "austere and puritanical souls" who argue for "what they politely call a 'prolonged liquidation' to put us right," and professed that he could "not understand how universal bankruptcy can do any good or bring us nearer to prosperity."
This is not a new argument, though it is particularly nicely laid out in this piece; DeLong, along with Krugman and Stiglitz and a host of other folks, has been making it for a while. It's a very plausible argument. But I have some questions.
Since the financial crisis hit, we have borrowed and spent $5.7 trillion, or 41% of 2008 GDP (7.8% of total GDP over the period). That is an enormous sum. Presumably, it has raised output somewhat higher than it otherwise would have been--just as an accounting identity, it would almost have to--and yet it has left us with unemployment in the range of 8%, and per-capita GDP that is still below the pre-crisis trend. How much would have been needed to force that growth back up to trend?
On Professor DeLong's chart, the output gap seems to be about $4,000 per capita, or $1.25 trillion. In the context of our ongoing debt, that doesn't actually seem to be so much. If you assume a multiplier on the high side, we would only need to have spent something like $600 billion dollars, perhaps over a series of years.
But this seems simultaneously too much and too little. Can it really be that adding $125 billion a year would have solved all of our economic woes? The US government has consistently gone over its projections by at least that amount several times over the last four years, and yet we are not better.
So I'm not sure I understand the counterfactual. Is it that without the $900 billion worth of stimulus that we did, plus a few later add-ons, per-capita income would now be just north of $36,000 a year? That's a Great-Depression-sized decline, without the catastrophic banking errors.
Either stimulus displays declining returns to scale, or I think we're talking about a much larger number having been needed--something closer to $1 trillion. Maybe something a lot higher than $1 trillion. After all, the output gap is an annual event; it's not something that just happens once. It's possible that we might have to spend $600 billion or $1 trillion a year, for years at a time, in order to close that cursed output gap.
Or is it that we did the stimulus too slowly--did we need it all at once, along with another $600 billion or so?
Either way, was such a thing feasible?
Would any country agree to spend an additional $1 trillion worth of stimulus in a single year, or $2 trillion (or more) in aggregate? Would markets support it? And even if they did, could the US government actually move the money through the system? Presumably, we didn't want to give out an additional $600 billion worth of food stamps. But the alternatives are either harder to move out the door (there were no shovel ready projects), or deliver less bang (tax cuts) or both.
In short, I'm wondering if rather than being tried and found wanting, Keynesianism hasn't been found impossible and left untried. Whether the amount of stimulus needed to jolt the economy back to trend isn't simply too large to pass political muster. It's hard to see a situation short of total war where that kind of money could be authorized or spent in the requisite period of time.


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Mayor Ed Lee yesterday answered a series of five questions from the Board of Supervisors about CleanPowerSF, the renewable energy program it approved last year on a veto-proof 8-3 vote, but which three of Lee's appointees on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission are now blocking.
Lee reaffirmed his opposition to the program and support for the three commissioners who are refusing to approve a maximum rate for the program, while making a series of statements that were misleading, contradictory, and, according to Sup. John Avalos, some outright falsehoods.
CleanPowerSF would group tens of thousands of city residents into a renewable energy buying pool, a system called Community Choice Aggregation authorized by state legislation, which would compete against Pacific Gas & Electric's illegal local monopoly. Initally, the energy would be purchased under a contract with Shell Energy, but the main goal of the program is to build city-owned renewable energy facilities by issuing revenue bonds supported by the program's ratepayers.
Yet the program Lee described has little resemblance to CleanPowerSF — and his statements of support for the concept belie his longstanding opposition to the program and support for PG&E, whose union is leading the campaign to kill CleanPowerSF.
"I know that many members of the Board of Supervisors are upset," Lee began in his first answer to similar questions posed by Sups. Eric Mar, David Chiu, London Breed, David Campos, and John Avalos, who all represent the odd-numbered districts whose turn it was to submit questions to the mayor for this month's appearance.
Lee then explained that one of the duties of the SFPUC is to protect ratepayers, which he called "the overriding concern they have when faced with any issue," adding that, "The commission ultimately decided that the rate wasn't a fair rate."
Ironically, the top rate that the commission is being asked to approve in order to finally launch CleanPowerSF was just 11.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, only slightly more than current PG&E rates and a substantial reduction from the rate that was discussed last year when supervisors approved the program.
PG&E, Lee, and other critics of the program had attacked its high cost, so SFPUC staffers tweaked the program to allow the initial use of Renewable Energy Credits, which support the creation of renewable energy projects, rather than being purely juice directly from solar, wind, and other renewable sources, which is more expensive.
So Lee criticized that change as a departure from what the board approved last year, telling the supervisors that the program should be at least "95 percent renewable on day one," saying that, "This is what a green power program should look like."
Yet when it did look like that, Lee opposed it, something he didn't mention yesterday. And yet he still made the argument that the SFPUC was simply exercising its fiduciary responsibility in blocking a program that has gotten cheaper than when the board approved it.
"The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission did its job in protecting ratepayers," Lee said. "I agree with the majority of the PUC."
So, on one hand, Lee said that CleanPowerSF has "gotten progressively more expensive as time goes on," citing statements made years ago about the goal of trying to meet-or-beat PG&E's rates, which have been subsidized by taxpayers over the years.
And when the program then got close to matching those rates, he criticized the use of RECs to get there, saying the climate change benefits "need to be real and tangible and not based on vague promises."
Yet even city-commissioned studies have shown that San Francisco won't meet its own greenhouse gas reduction goals without substantially changing the energy portfolio of city residents, and CleanPowerSF is the only plan on the table to get there, except for PG&E's vague promises to offer more renewable energy in the future.
While Lee touted city efforts to improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings and the recent launch of a regional bike share program — neither of which will come close to meeting city climate change goals — even he acknowledged the "need to expand our in-city renewable energy generation," citing the $4 million SolarSF as an example.
But Lee never made reference to CleanPowerSF's plan to build up to $1 billion in renewable energy projects whose impacts would be far more impactful. Instead, he said the program "creates no local jobs," which wouldn't be true during the buildout phase.
While praising PG&E, Lee also glossed over the fact that a majority of supervisors still support CleanPowerSF, and that the SFPUC vote was supposed to be on the rate and not these ancillary issues, raising fundamental democratic issues when three mayoral appointees can override the decision of elected supervisors who represent all city residents.
"When a final project is so vastly different than the original intent, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has to intervene," Lee said.
Avalos called many of Lee's statements "lies," so I followed Mayor Lee back to his office after the hearing and we had the following conversation as several reporters from other media outlets listened in:
SFBG: Supervisor Avalos just said that you've made a number of statements that are not factually accurate, and certainly misleading, including saying that the program has changed substantially. Given that you opposed the program initially, and you seem to make statements that criticize those changes, and clearly the majority still supports it, how can you make the argument that the PUC is acting against it because the program has changed?
Mayor Lee: Well, you know, I know that elements of this are somewhat complicated cause you have to actually read a lot of volumes of materials to understand the choice aggregation program, cause it has those three aspects and I would….
SFBG: As guidelines, not as rates….
Mayor Lee: I would point to those numbers that were discussed at the board and presented to the [SF] Public Utilities Commission, because that's what I'm quoting from. I'm taking it, not from even verbiage, I'm taking it exactly from facts that were presented at the commission at the Board of Supervisors and I specifically lifted quotes from the board about their comments about local jobs and all the other things, so, I don't think I'm inaccurate at all. I think I'm actually quite on point.
SFBG: But the rates have come down from when they approved it and you made it sound like the rates have gone up.
Mayor Lee: The rates were up and they came down in trade off with less green.
SFBG: Right…
Mayor Lee: That's about the point I was trying to make is that we wanted these other goals to happen and they couldn't happen cause people were trading off things in order to set the rates and that was going to become a bigger and bigger gap as to what the original goals were. That's the way…
SFBG: But the board clearly wants this program. Why, as a matter of policy, as a matter of city procedure, why isn't the elected body the one to make this decision, instead of your appointees?
Mayor Lee: Well, I think that's the whole reason why they presented it to the Public Utilities Commission. They're charter mandated to set these rates. It's not just an automatic acceptance of what the board says. They also independently review what the board has said. And in their independent review, they said they had gone well beyond what they stated their goals were and so they couldn't set the rates and still honor all the goals that the board was suggesting.
SFBG: But those rates are less than what the Board has approved. How can they be exercising fiscal oversight… I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
Mayor Lee: I think we have a big disagreement there. They're mandated by the charter to set those rates responsibly, not just to follow what the board has stated and so, in their independent review, they went and reviewed all the goals that the board has said and said 'This is not the program that they have stated should be fulfilled.'
SFBG: Even though the majority of the Board of Supervisors disagree with that statement that you just made?
Mayor Lee: Well, you know, then again, are we not respecting peoples' right to disagree over what is being done here?
SFBG: But your argument that the program changed from what they approved, a majority is saying 'that's not true,' that you're misrepresenting that.
Mayor Lee: No, I don't think that I'm misrepresenting that. I disagree with that.
SFBG: A majority of the Board of Supervisors who approved it says you are.
Mayor: Well, I disagree with that assessment.


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mShred wrote:TL:DR.
Dude.. I respect your opinions and all, but I this IS a hacking forum.. Idunno, maybe it's just me, but there are plenty of ethical forums out there...
But nah, capitalism, runs the world, don't like it, deal wid it. Yeah. Idunno if this was more of a informative posting or not.. If you want, you could probably actually contribute some of your ethical knowledge through an article. Hence theWill be continued...
weekend hacker wrote:There is in my opinion modern day slavery, but this is usualy based on debt, not capitalism in itself. The principle of this is that if someone owes you money, you own them until they pay it back. Make the debt large enough so they can't possibly pay you back and then you own them for life. If you're one of those people who wants to own someone else then this method is best done on a large scale: give a country a loan and demand the money only be used on development of corporations of your own nation, along with overstating how much growth that development will create and no mather how many generations pass they will owe you money and will have to follow your rules.
This is done time and time again to countries who have natural resources by countries who want them often with horrible consequences.
This always passes as capitalism but as stated before is simply legalized crime.
On the other hand, making loans illegal like in medieval times also seems like a bad idea.(based on religious rules: jews had no problem with it and is part of the cause of the irrational hate. knights templar also didn't care which is why they had money and why the king of france who was hugely in debt had them.. taken care of)
People should be able to get loans, or give loans. Just make sure they are rational and informed choices.
Don't indiscriminately loan to anyone, but hear them out and make an informed decision. If they end up not being able to pay you back it can be because of your lack of judgement or interest in their situation, or because they lied and overstated their future proffits(possibly because they have bad judgement in their own situation).
And don't get yourself in debt because you want the fancy car, you're just screwing yourself over and I have no sympathy for these people.
weekend hacker wrote:The ruining of countries is ofcourse an extreme example, so lets look at another extreme like old world communism.
This was truly modern slavery: you own nothing, you will work where told, you live where you are told, you will eat what you are told and you will speak what you are told. Break any of those statements and you will be 're-educated'. During re-education you will basically have to follow the same rules but in worse conditions and they get to hurt or kill you if its not good enough. I dislike the idea that if everything belongs to everyone, everyone is rich. People stopped caring, stopped taking pride in their work and did the absolute minimum required to not get killed. The basic human nature of improving your life in every way possible was stomped out of people, some not even having basic survival instincts and would rather die from a lack of handouts then plant some potatoes.
footyfrak wrote:Well... It is true that Communism was a totalitarian dictatorship. No communist world has never truly existed. There are only people, the so-called revolutionaries, who get the support of the majority of people with the idea of communism. Then they set up a dictatorship without interest in anything but their power.
footyfrak wrote:Yes, that is slave machinery. Its a slavery on a large scale. It's like a new way to conquer the world. Well, in my opinion its a capitalism - not something that is not part of the capitalism. Its more accurate to say that the modern slavery is based on debt which is caused by private banking system - true. But it IS capitalism - If there were no private banks then there would not be capitalism.
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Police in St. Clair Shores have confirmed they discovered 2 bodies inside a home on Jane Street Tuesday afternoon.
The discovery was made around 3 p.m. on Jane Street near 12 Mile and Little Mack.
Although no names have been released, Local 4 has learned the victims are middle-aged adults. One victim is a male, the other is a female.
Initial reports are there are no signs of foul play.
Stay with Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit.com as details on this story continue to unfold.


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ROCHESTER — For some people, the technical aspects of weather forecasting may be a dry subject, but Kevin Skarupa, Channel 9's morning meteorologist, with his sunny smile and infectious enthusiasm, was able to make the topic engrossing for School Street School students, during a recent visit.
He held the attention of dozens of youngsters for well over half an hour, with a visual presentation and a fact-packed talk. This included details of his forecasting tools of the trade — six computers, and the occasional glance outside — plus a rundown of weather features that can impact this region.
Skarupa described the information provided by each of the computers in the TV station's weather room — one is able to provide 200 maps per hour providing meteorological details from all over the world.
"Half of them are wrong, and it is up to us to make our predictions," said Skarupa, who starts absorbing all this information in the office at around 2 a.m. each morning, in readiness for his first appearance on screen just a few hours later.
He told the students there are 50 different cloud types (but didn't complicate matters further by mentioning Undulus Asperatus, which the Cloud Appreciation Society is lobbying for as an additional species).
Skarupa described the differences between the most common clouds — cumulus, stratus, nimbus and cirrus — and what might be expected when they are in the sky. He went on to describe the evaporation-precipitation water cycle, and noted that forecasters have to predict when precipitation will arrive, how long it will last, how much will fall, and if it be in the form of rain, hail, sleet, ice storm or snow.
"Nor'easters are very difficult to predict — they can switch to rain," he told the students.
He went on to talk about thunderstorms and major rain events leading to flooding, and recalled back in October 2005, western New Hampshire was doused with 18 inches of rain in two days. Skarupa, noting the danger of lightning, which is attracted by tall objects, metal and water, warned the youngsters to shelter inside if it approaches.
He explained how hailstones are formed — they usually only reach a maximum of golf ball size in New Hampshire — and asked the students what is needed to form a rainbow. Sun and rain, they responded, and he reminded them that they can achieve the same effect with a garden hose.
Tornadoes were up next, and Skarupa recalled that four years ago one touched down in New Hampshire and was on the ground for 50 miles.
"It took two and a half days to assess the damage," he said.
Next, Skarupa showed a slide of a weather station and briefly mentioned some of the instruments assembled there — a thermometer to record the temperature, an anemometer to measure wind speed, a barometer to gauge the atmospheric pressure and a hygrometer to ascertain the moisture content in the environment. He also explained the presence of a plastic owl among the instruments — to deter the presence of other birds whose droppings might distort readings, particularly in the rain gauge.
At the end of the presentation, the weatherman asked if anyone had questions.
Kindergartner Hayley Peace-McClelland asked, "How do you make rain?" After Skarupa explained the formation and content of clouds, and what triggers rain from them, he said that sometimes clouds travel great distances before releasing their content. He gave as an example, storm clouds coming over the Atlantic all the way from Africa, and, over Florida, releasing rain that contained copious amounts of Saharan sand grains.
Another kindergarten student, Michael Jeffrey, asked "How does a twister start?'
Skarupa detailed the most common scenarios (tornadic cells embedded in severe thunderstorms) and the conditions required to trigger them. He also mentioned small versions of tornadoes common in desert areas, known as dust devils, and their Australian equivalent, willy-willies.
At the conclusion of his program, Skarupa took out a hand-held camera, panned around the room as students waved enthusiastically, and told them they would appear on his Channel 9 TV segment the following morning.


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Ushnisha Sitataputra, better known as the White Umbrella Goddess, is one of the female manifestations of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. It should be noted that Ushnisha Sitataputra, although she has similar traits with Kuan Yin, is not Kuan Yin. Kuan Yin is literally Avalokitesvara as female Bodhisattva. To understand this better I suggest you read my earlier post entitled – UNDERSTANDING MERCY AND COMPASSION: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AVALOKITESVARA TO KUAN YIN.
However, Ushnisha Sitataputra is a female manifestation of Avalokitesvara, the difference is Kuan Yin has retained all the exact character traits of Avalokitesvara, while a Ushnisha Sitataputra or The While Umbrella Goddess serves a slightly different purpose.
Ushnisha Sitataputra directly translates as the 'The Victorious Goddess of White Parasol', and she does signify victory over all harm and danger, especially those of supernatural causes. According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, reciting the mantra of Ushnisha Sitataputra will help illnesses, bring auspicious luck, prevent harm from happening, and drive away evil and negative energies. The Tibetan Buddhists regard Ushnisha Sitataputra or The White Umbrella Goddess as one of the most powerful deity.
The famous image of Ushnisha Sitataputra is the one where has a thousand face, thousand arms, and a thousand legs. Each of the face has three eyes, and she also has one eye in each of the palm of her hands and sole of her feet. This is to represent that she watches and protects all sentient beings. Her body as in her central faces glows in white, her right faces are yellow, her rear faces are red, and green is the color of her faces on her left. At the top of her head is another tier of blue faces. Her right hands hold the Dharma chakra, while her left hands hold arrows. She also has a white parasol on her left, which symbolizes the blessing of protection. This particular image of The White Umbrella Goddess can be likened to the Thousand-Hand Kuan Yin or Thousand Hand Avalokitesvara.
Another image of Ushnisha Sitataputra or The White Umbrella Goddess is the simpler and can be likened to the White Tara.
In this subdued image of Ushnisha Sitataputra, she has 7 eyes, very much like the White Tara. Also white in color, she has one face with three eyes, two hands with one eye each on each palm, and 2 legs with one eye each on each sole. Her right hand is in the mudra of supreme generosity and also holds a Dharma chakra, while on her left she holds the famous White Parasol or White Umbrella of protection. However, in this version, the parasol is adorned with various jewel and ornaments.


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I discovered something recently… there are very FEW male birthday party ideas out there. Apparently our male counterparts aren't as interested in theme parties or "frou-frou". Who knew? (snicker, snicker)
So.. what I did find? I'm sharing today!
Like this adorable… er, totally masculine "bbq cake", from Scissors and Spatulas. What a FUN idea for an outdoor weekend birthday party. And the great thing is that this cake is surprisingly easy to make. TRULY! Those hamburgers are actually rice cakes sprayed with red food coloring. Read the post to learn how to make one yourself for your manly man!
I was able to find a great example of a dessert table for the man in your life, from Kara's Party Ideas. Can't go wrong with browns and oranges!
This gallery from Hostess with the Mostess is for a 2 year old fishing birthday party, but I think it could totally be re-worked for the fisherman in your life. She has some great ideas that are sure to spur your own. For Diva Entertains – we thought "Fish Cupcakes" would be fun and found these wonderful, colorful, edible fish decorations to put on top of homemade (or store bought) cupcakes:
The next two are cake inspiration, not how-tos. But if you really like the look, print off a picture and take it to a bakery to see if they can create.
I found several "handyman" type cakes…which could be a good theme, if your guy is a handy fellow. Love this tool belt cake from the Sugar Syndicate. Take time to look through their portfolio of cakes – so many great ideas!
And how about combining everything a guy loves into a theme or cake? Check out this topsy turvy cake from the Pink Cake Box. Even if Golf, Nascar and Palm Trees aren't your guy's favs – create one that incorporates those that are! I love a topsy turvy cake and they seem to be the rage at most bakeries these days:
And that's about it! If YOU have original party ideas for the men-folk, help us out by leaving a comment!


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This week, there's not a lot new in the PlayStation Store, but there's plenty of old games just now making their PSN debut. Old ones, and rare imports from across the pond. As for new content, PS Vita actually gets more new content than the PS3, even with Guacamelee! being a cross-platform game. Note: We've done a major revamping of our Coming Soon Section to make it even more useful, as it's now packed with separate columns of coming soon content for PS3, PS Vita, PlayStation Plus, and even the PS4. Check it out!
Guacamelee is a fun little side scroller. Gotta get that for the PS3 and the Vita.


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While on the marketshare front, Windows Phone still lags behind iOS, Android, and even RIM, it has surpassed Android and tied with — but in some categories, surpassed — iOS according to readers of PC Magazine.
According to the results of their 2012 Readers' Choice Awards (the smartphones and mobile carriers category), Windows Phone gained 0.6 points from its rating of 8.1 last year; a pretty substantial jump, to say the least. Apple's score gained 0.3 points from its score of 8.4 last year, and Android remained at 7.9. In terms of overall satisfaction, Microsoft and Apple have tied at 8.7, but Windows Phone slightly beat iOS in reliability, text messaging, web browsing, and gaming. iOS, however, was substantially favored over Windows Phone for its app quality and availability, along with its music playing functionality.
Windows Phone also boasted the lowest rate of 20% when it came to users needing technical support with their device, compared to 25% for iOS and a whopping 32% with Android. Here is how PC Mag summed up the Windows Phone platform:
You may not see many people using Windows Phone handsets yet, but those who chose this route are very happy. Clearly, Microsoft needs to get more app developers on board to gain traction, but in every other aspect we measured, it's providing a winning experience.
However, despite people's satisfaction with the platform, they didn't seem too keen on recommending the devices to friends compared to Apple and Android users. In terms of how likely users were to recommend their device to others, Apple received a 9.2, Android received an 8.2, while Windows Phone was only 0.1 points higher. This may have something to do with app quality and availability reasons; perhaps people using Windows Phone now are early adopters, and know that their smartphone-seeking friends would hate to not be able to use apps such as Instagram or Path.


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text: Toxic barbs on a cucumber's skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse's technicolor eyeball (above) are just a few of 2011′s top science visualizations. A panel of judges picked the best of more than 200 entries from 33 countries for the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. "I think because information technology tools and visualization tools have advanced, people have found ever-increasingly clever ways to display difficult scientific concepts," said competition judge Thomas Wagner, a cryosphere scientist at NASA, in an interview provided by the contest. Contest judges made their picks based on visual impact, originality and clarity. The winners, which include "people's choice" awards as well as honorable mentions, were published online Feb. 2 in the journal Science. The entries weren't just limited to photographs. Contest categories also included illustrations, informational graphics, videos and even interactive video games. See the best of these science and engineering visualizations in this gallery. Images and videos courtesy of AAAS/Science Above: Mouse Eyeball Cells Researchers stained ultra-thin slices of a mouse's eye to create this first-place photography winner. The stain was made of three antibodies that bind to three different molecules present in all cells, but in differing concentrations. Assigning red, blue and green to each antibody allowed the creators to depict more than 70 different cell types in the organ. Image: Bryan William Jones/University of Utah/Moran Eye Center [high-resolution]Nanoscopic Cliffs In this electron micrograph, which won a "people's choice" award in photography, ultra-thin layers of a titanium compound make a convincing canyon-like cliff overhang. When dunked in hydrofluoric acid, a compound known as Ti3AlC2 loses its aluminum to form five-atom-thick layers of Ti3C2. The result is a nearly two-dimensional compound that researchers call "MXene." Image: Babak Anasori/Michael Naguib/Yury Gogotsi/Michel W. Barsoum/Drexel University [high-resolution]Cucumber Skin Barbs Under 800X magnification, this honorable-mention-winning photograph shows toxin-filled barbs called trichomes on the skin of an immature cucumber. The trichomes bear sharp points 40 times thinner than a sewing needle and help protect the growing fruit from predators. The toxins they release are called cucurbiticins and are the most bitter compounds known. Image: Dr. Robert Rock Bellivea [high-resolution]Simpler 3-D Cells The crushing complexity of cells can make realistic depictions difficult to understand. To better communicate important information about cells, a team of researchers designed a program — shown in this video — to reorganize cellular contents for students and educators. The entry won first place in the video category as well as a people's choice award. Video: Graham T. Johnson/The Scripps Research Institute/Andrew Noske/National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research/Bradley Marsh/Institute for Molecular Bioscience/University of QueenslandWhat's a Jellyfish? Jellyfish aren't the creatures you think they are, but a fabulous array of wildly diverse creatures unfairly grouped under one simplistic name, argues this honorable-mention-winning video. Video: Steven Haddock/Susan Von Thun/MBARI/jellywatch.orgSelf-Assembling Energy Storage Alternative energy raises hopes of combating climate change, but making efficient, inexpensive means of storing green energy hasn't proven easy. This video, which riffs on Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, shows how self-assembling nanostructures might lead to the next generation of fuel tanks. Video: Christopher E. Wilmer/Omar K. Farha/Patrick E. Fuller/Northwestern UniversityFoldit and Velu the Welder Games Nearly sweeping the interactive games category was a web-based game called Foldit. The program harnessed the brainpower of 200,000 players to outperform computers in figuring out the complex folding pattern of proteins. The people's-choice-winning interactive game (below), called Velu the Welder was created for the Wii and standard computers to help school drop-outs in India develop a highly marketable trade skill. Images/video: 1) Seth Cooper/David Baker/Zoran Popović/Firas Khatib/Jeff Flatten/Kefan Xu/Dun-Yu Hsiao/Riley Adams/Center for Game Science at University of Washington 2) Muralitharan Vengadasalam/Ganesh Venkat/Vignesh Palanimuthu/Fabian Herrera/Ashok Maharaja/Tata Consultancy ServicesPowers of Minus Ten, Meta!Blast and Build-a-Body Games The game Powers of Minus Ten allows players to zoom into a person's hand, explore the world at different magnifications and learn about the human body (in the screenshot above, a cellular-level magnification shows dividing cells). In Meta!Blast (below), another zoom-in game, players save shrunken lab mates trapped in a plant cell. Along the way, they explore cell structures. Build-a-Body (last image) helps players build a human and learn about a menagerie of diseases. All three games earned honorable mentions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQYyUy8p3KE Images/video: 1) Laura Lynn Gonzalez/Green-Eye Visualization 2) W. Schneller/P.J. Campell/M. Stenerson/D. Bassham/ES Wurtele/Iowa State University 3) Jeremy Friedberg/Nicole Husain/Ian Wood/Genevieve Brydson/Wensi Sheng/Lorraine Trecroce/Kariane St-Denis/David Rowe/Ruby Pajares /Arij Al Chawaf/Shaun Rana/Nancy Reilly/Spongelab InteractiveThe Cosmic Web Dark matter outweighs visible matter more than 6 to 1, making it a crucial yet invisible galaxy component. To visualize dark matter's influence, artists visualized a 240-million-light-year-wide zone of space and depicted the universe's structure from the Big Bang (left) to the present (right). (The full image is too big to fit in this space, so be sure to view the high-resolution version.) Orange strings of dark matter coalesce along the edges of 10-million-light-year-wide cosmic voids, giving rise to the filamentous web of galaxies seen in space today. The image won first place in informational graphics. Image: Miguel A. Aragon Calvo/Julieta Aguilera/Mark SubbaRao/AAAS/Science [high-resolution]Ebola Virus and Electron Microscope Deconstruction From the artists who won last year's first-place prize for an illustration comes a new view of the deadly ebola virus. The image earned an honorable mention in the information graphics category. Below, a detailed chart shows how every piece of an electron microscope works. (Be sure to look at the high-resolution version, which won a people's choice award.) Images: 1) Ivan Konstantinov/Yury Stefanov/Alexander Kovalevsky/Anastasya Bakulina/Visual Science [high-resolution] 2) Fabian de Kok-Mercado/Victoria Wahl-Jensen/Laura Bollinger/NIAID IRF, Frederick, MD [high-resolution]Complex Functions and Cell Division Mathematical functions touch all fields of science, but some are notoriously difficult to understand — so researchers turn to visualizations to give themselves a break. The image above uses a technique called "domain coloring" to visualize one complex function. Zero-values appear as black, infinitely large numbers as white and everything in between a different brightness. Each color represents a specific complex number. Below, a 3-D image illustrates a cell undergoing mitosis, or cell division. Blue represents the cellular membrane while chromosomes are shown in yellow. A fluorescent protein used to tag chromosomes, called MiniSOG, is shown flying out of the cell (top left). The complex function image earned an honorable mention in the illustration category while the cell division image won the people's choice award. Image: 1) Konrad Polthier/Konstantin Poelke/Free University of Berlin [high-resolution], 2) Andrew Noske/Thomas Deerinck/National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research/University of California/San Diego/Horng Ou, Clodagh O'Shea/Salk Institute [high-resolution]Breast Cancer Cells and Carbon Nanotubes In this H.P. Lovecraft-inspired illustration, breast cancer cells bear tentacle-like projections. An antibody designed to combat breast cancer, called TRA-8, floats in the foreground (green blobs). Below, carbon nanotubes are depicted in a variety of shapes that nanotechnology researchers can now create. These unusual substances may aid the development of new transistors, sensors and other electronics. Both entries earned an honorable mention. Images: 1) Emiko Paul/Quade Paul/Echo Medical Media/Ron Gamble/UAB Insight [high-resolution] 2) Joel Brehm/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Research and Economic Development [high-resolution]


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text: Come join our special guest presenter, Jason Sparks of Appalachian Tenkara, as he introduces the newly popular form of traditional Japanese fly fishing, Tenkara. Topics covered will include history of angling style, equipment orientation, a unique perspective on Japanese flies (Kebari), and the ways and methods to use Tenkara in our local waters. Bring your own lunch, and afterwards they'll be a hands-on learning session. Limited to 15 participants. Ages 14 and up.


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In case any of you cake followers were curious to see our newest addition, here is Harlee Jo Taylor- 10.10.10 7lbs 13oz-20"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Even better than a cake...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
Ladybug Cake
This one I did a week or two ago. I've been lazy getting it on here. I've done this design before. It is really cute and fun. I also did a smash cake the shape of a ladybug but I accidentally deleted the picture. Now baby time. Looking forward to our new addition and hopefully I can get back to cakes soon!
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Robust methods for GMO detection ready at hand
A new Reference Report published today by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) lists 79 reference methods for GMO analysis which have been validated according to international standards. This Compendium, developed jointly by the European Union Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Food and Feed (EU-RL GMFF) and the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL), presents the technical state of the art in GMO detection methods. Each method is described in a user-friendly way, facilitating the implementation of GMO legislation by official control bodies.
Presenting the Reference Report today, the Director of the JRC Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP), Elke Anklam, said: "The JRC has been working for more than 10 years on the analysis of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and feed and has acquired internationally-recognised expertise in this field. The publication of this "Compendium of Reference Methods for GMO Analysis" represents a major milestone in GMO analysis and will be a useful tool facilitating practical implementation of the reference methods by GMO control laboratories".
International cooperation for harmonised reference methods for GMO analysis
In line with the EU legislative framework for GMOs, the "Compendium of Reference Methods for GMO Analysis" published today has been developed in close collaboration with the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL). This network is formed by almost 100 national laboratories active in GMO detection and provides a unique forum of European scientific expertise to support harmonisation in GMO analysis.
The following selection criteria were applied to decide on inclusion of GMO detection methods, which were validated in international collaborative trials during the period 1999 to 2009:
Considering the largest common denominator in the present global framework of GMO analysis, this first issue of the "Compendium on Reference Methods for GMO Analysis" focuses on Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) methods i.e. DNA-based detection methods.
Compliance with ISO 5725 international standard (Accuracy (trueness and precision) of measurement methods and result) and/or the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) "Protocol for the design, conduct and interpretation of method performance studies".
The 79 reference methods thus identified are described in a short executive summary which provides all essential information. For further details on some of the methods the relevant references are provided.
This user-friendly lay-out makes the Compendium a practical tool and facilitates implementation of the reference methods by GMO control laboratories.
Most of the methods have been developed by the biotechnology industry and validated by the EU-RL GMFF for their applicability according to EU legislation. They will be used by EU Member States to organise official controls on GMOs and the "Compendium of Reference Methods for GMO Analysis" will therefore contribute to the health and consumer protection of European citizens.
Inauguration of extended state-of-the-art laboratories
Over a hundred experts members of the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL), international partners from GMO control labs in China, India, Japan, Jordan, Zimbabwe and Latin America and several participants from the biotech industry participated today in the inauguration of extended laboratory facilities at the JRC Ispra. Equipped with unique instrumentation the European Union Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Food and Feed (EU-RL GMFF) can analyse contents of GMO in food and feed down to trace level.
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Mrs Belfry: "Dr. Elderly. He specializes in generic patients."
Dr. Grumpy: "Generic patients?"
Mrs: Belfry "You know. Old people."
Dr. Grumpy: "You mean geriatrics?"
Mrs. Belfry: "Whatever. Same thing."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I have a patient that always wants a re-do on his subscription instead of a refill of his prescription. I also get calls about genetic drugs instead of generics.
Geriatric-Schmariatric ....right?
Generic patients go to GPs...Generic Practitioners.
Oh, yes, like the old rock group Geriatric and the Pacemakers!
The weather channel here had a segment where they asked people on the street about what they thought about the weather; one said he was 'rather ambidextrous about it all'
lol im a cpht and i work in a retail pharmacy chain we get people asking if this rx has a genetic and if so can they get it :)
Generic, Geriatric, Genetic, If it starts with G and ends in IC it must mean the same thing, right? There can't be more than one word like that... Sort of like how "Idiot" and "Patient" mean the same thing.
Yeah... I need my "genetic subscription" refilled.... dumb-asses!
Back in the days when I worked in the warfarin (coumadin) clinic, I had one memorable lady call and ask whether she'd got through to the Anti-Copulation Clinic.
well the other day...I told my friend I "rewinded" my car...instead of reverse...
I stated that I was going to vacuum my lawn once...
My brain has issues
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Opening on April 3rd, an exhibition of architectural models created by Stanford students in Intermediate Studio will be on display. Taught by Allison Williams in winter quarter 2014, the students' assignment was to design the future School of Architecture to be located on the Stanford campus, near the Panama Street and Via Ortega intersection. Curated by Veronica Stamats, a sophomore majoring in Architectural Design (AD), this exhibition features ten models, including her own. She says that last year's model show inspired her to declare an AD major!
John Barton, head of the Architectural Design program, has contributed an opening panel with more details about this project. Each model includes the student's name and a statement about their design. This exhibition marks the second time that student models have been shown outside of the Engineering Department, and we hope to make this an annual event.
The exhibit is on view from April 3 – April 18 in the Art & Architecture Library, 102 Cummings Art Building.


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We already love using third-party keyboards such as SwiftKey and Swype on Android devices. But, Apple never had the option of installing third-party keyboards on iOS devices. The recently launched iOS 8 comes with a number of interesting features, however the one that caught our attention is the ability to install and use third-party keyboards.
Third-party keyboards such as SwiftKey, Swype and Fleksy are already available on the App Store. You will just need to download these apps and follow the instructions given below to use it systemwide. These apps will create an icon on your homescreen just like the regular apps. After installing the app, follow these instructions:
- Launch the "Settings" application.
- Then select General.
- Scroll down to keyboards.
- Select Keyboards.
- Select Add new keyboard
- Then choose your favorite keyboard from the list
You can easily switch between keyboards just by tapping the globe icon on the keyboard. To disable the default keyboard, just swipe to left on the current keyboard. To protect your privacy, Apple won't allow you to use third-party keyboards while entering passwords.
iOS 8 comes pre-loaded on the recently launched iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. You can even install these keyboards on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Mini 2 and the iPod Touch 5G after updating to iOS 8. If you have any queries, feel free to ask us in the comments section below.


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"You couldn't do everything forever" — Sir David Potter
"I founded Psion in 1980 and ran it until 1999, when I stood back partly for health reasons. During those 20 years the company was a synonym for innovation — in hindsight we created an enormous amount — from developing and publishing software, to the earliest microcomputers.
Now, when you've been chairman and chief executive for so long, your successor has a problem. You need to stand back and play the role of the company chairman. The style changed a little bit. I would criticise myself that we had not developed sufficiently wider commercial management in the company.
We'd developed a concept and the hardware or software was really secondary, it was a vehicle.
By the mid-90s we were involved in four areas. Organisers and PDAs; we'd found a big corporate market for enterprise solutions for mobile communications; we'd developed three generations of operating systems — which in the longer term was going to merge with cellphones so we formed Symbian with Nokia, Ericsson, and that became an industry standard — and the fourth was communications.
Unfortunately, I think we closed our consumer electronics side — which I think was in hindsight wrong — in 2001.
So the company focused on Symbian and on the enterprise side. And because of what happened in the telecomms industry when it went through a very bad recession, if you remember, we weren't able to ensure a balance of power in Symbian — because our shareholders and customers were the same. There was a conflict of interest, if you like. Unfortunately Motorola and Ericson were weakened by that while Nokia remained strong. There was concern whether the company could maintain not just market share but profitability for our shareholders as well.
Q: It's always been very hard for British companies like Psion with our historically high interest rates, and a class of experts who say Britain must become a service economy. Did you feel you always got the support of the City of London at Psion?
I have several issues with your question — or at least the premise behind your question. We haven't had high interest rates in Britain for 10 years, following the Bank of England's independence.
I think what is true is that governments, Conservative and Labour, in contrast to say Germany, have followed the idea that a service industry is fine.
They haven't said that in their speeches and their policy statements, but by the policy actions they've taken, that's been the effect. For the last 25 years the manufacturing sector in Britain has declined massively. In fact it's been declining for 50 years; from more than 50 per cent of employment in 1951 to 14 or 15 per cent.
Now in the global world we live in today that doesn't necessarily mean you have to make things — we live in a complex outsourced world. Today Psion is still a manufacturer, but it does that with a lot of partnerships, in China and a lot of other countries around the world. But the service sector, and particularly the financial sector, has attracted huge numbers of very able and bright graduates, and there's been very little strategic policy to encourage the other sectors in the country. In contrast to Germany and quite a lot of Europe.
It's an Anglo thing, and I think it's mistaken, because in the long run we need all these things. You need the ability to design and innovate and create the way you address markets. If you don't control the design and innovation of those business processes — hardware and services and software — then you don't really keep a hold on the ownership — and the realisation of where the profits and values comes back to. That's been the failure of Britain.
"Britain lost its taste for commanding the heights of innovative new areas."
To our credit we have a successful financial sector — but then you have to ask how long that is durable. And look at the very large current accounts defecit and ask whether that really can be filled by the financial sector alone. I would question that, but history will have to decide.
What's really happened in our industry has been automation: robots have replaced people. If you make things like computers it's automated by amazing technology, produced by companies like Siemens.
I would contrast how America has benefited, not so much from design but by its huge scale, and massive government investment in the defence industry. The science came from Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It was America who eventually drove the technology because of the need for very light and powerful and robust electronics in the defence sector. That's true of a lot of areas where America has been very strong.
So Britain lost its taste for commanding the heights of innovative new areas. You can look at a lot of the infrastructure in our country; we were building steam engines when the French were building electric trains following the war. Look at the railway systems France has now compared to ours. Other countries have picked up the pioneering great project.
Q: What consumer electronics could Psion have done if it hadn't pulled out? You looked at digital radios, navigation, music, push email…
While Psion originated some of the concepts, it couldn't have played in all of those markets.
The BlackBerry is the key one. The volume of BlackBerrys out there is tiny compared to Symbian — it has a base of more than 100 million units out there. What we and Nokia saw in telecomms was not this very small market of a limited number of executives, but a mass market of billions and billions of people. Something over two billion people. That is where the genes of Psion software is — in all the smartphones. That's the high ground it has, and that's its sucesss.
Q: But I can think of three. The digital radio, the iPod — 100 million- the SatNav system. Psion looked at all three, and only launched into one area.
You make your decisions and the world moves on. I think the issue on some of these areas was it was a question of whether we have the scale to deal with them across the world. It's an error to try and compete on the sense of scale of the entire world if you don't have that scale. It might be that our base in Britain and Europe wasn't big enough, while Americans had the advantage, during that period, of a much wider market.
It's also very difficult for outside companies, non-American companies, to break into that market — they're very possessive of their own. There's a networking effect in America. You can't quote me many examples of European companies that can have really broken in and dominated in an IPR area…
Q: I can think of individual products — the Dyson?
That's true. I think the world is changing. Lots of areas where it is different is the Japanese companies, who in many consumer electronic areas, dominate. The original science behind the LCD came from Britain, but it's to their credit that Japan and more recently Korea have invested these giant sums in producing them. The LCD is a marvel of today's world: a million cells on the screen and they all have to work — what an achievement. Especially when I think of the first Organisers.
Q: Do you wish you'd just stayed in that bit longer? One thing I noticed with Psion is it put in a lot of investment, and the first product wasn't always that great. But it stuck in there, and the successor product — the Organiser II, the Series 3a — was the hit, and created a new market. With hindsight you didn't reap the reward from those new 32bit platforms
Yes you're right, you have got to evolve like that and learn from the market all the time. I'm a great believer in the market.
That's to Steve Jobs' credit when he came back, he did that with the iPod. He took the Walkman and synthesised the whole thing down — into a disc based machine with a great library of music.
Q. Psion investigated doing an iPod, too — a "PsiPod". When you said you regretted withdrawing from consumer electronics too early — did you have that in mind?
One couldn't do everything forever. You had to deal with the reality and move on.
Q. One thing I notice today, the engineering values were quite different to what we see now on the internet. Software is supposed to be a service today, but these Web 2.0 sites can barely stay up. Now this is quite a contrast with Psion, where you never lost any data, and there was this almost moral imperative to wring the performance out of every byte. Was that something you tried to engender — directly or through the hiring?
During that time memory was expensive, remember. We were obsessive at the beginning when memory was a few kilobytes and we were obsessive with the Series 5 when there were many, many megabytes. It was a necessity particularly in a small device.
Perhaps it had to do with the culture I engendered in the company, which was perhaps a sort of Calvinistic culture. We have a set of values — one was the passion in the products for the market; we had to put our energy, skill and commitment into making really great products.
The other was frugality — frugality in terms of how we engineered things. We did so with quality but not over-engineering, while cost was very important to our markets; It's a fine balance.
Integrity was another of those core values. Integrity in engineering terms and in other ways. I think these were good values, and these are durable ones.
The core of the company really came from being contrarian — from not following the market wisdom. To be successful you need to be a bit contrarian. ®
Sir David Potter founded Psion in 1980, with £70,000 of his own capital; he resigned as CEO in 1999, but continues today as chairman. He is a non-executive director of the Bank of England.


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Beautiful newcomer Dove Cameron has been cast as identical twins in "Liv & Maddie".
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It's a Laugh Productions and Oops Doughnuts Productions are now in pre-production on a brand new multi-camera comedy series titled "Liv & Maddie". The Casting Society of America Artios Award nominated Disney casting directors for the show are hiring actors for recurring, guest starring, and day player roles. The extras will be cast throughout production which begins on April 8, 2013 in Los Angeles. There will be a large number of young actors hired to play high school students, as well as adults to play teachers and parents. The show is set for a Fall, 2013 premiere on Disney Channel.


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MIAMI — For the Atlanta Braves, eight innings were absolutely futile offensively.
The other one was more than enough.
Evan Gattis drove in two runs to highlight Atlanta's highest-scoring inning in more than a month, and the Braves snapped a four-game slide by beating the Miami Marlins 5-2 Monday night. All five of the Braves' hits came in the fourth, as did all their runs.
"Five-spots are great," Braves second baseman Elliot Johnson said. "It'd been nice to put on a few more, but we're going to take it. Anytime we end up with five and they get four or less, obviously we're going to take it.
You're not trying to go out there and score 10 every night. You want to get as many as you can, but as long as you get more than they get, that's all that matters."
Justin Upton, Freddie Freeman and Gattis all doubled to lead off that fourth inning, Atlanta's highest-scoring frame since a five-run fifth against Philadelphia on Aug. 2. Kris Medlen (13-12) was the beneficiary that night against the Phillies and again on Monday, getting the win after allowing six hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Atlanta (86-57) passed idle Boston (87-58) for baseball's best record. Medlen — who went 10-1 last season — got his record over .500 for the first time in 2013.
"It's pretty fun to look back and see that I started 1-6 and kind of turned things around," Medlen said. "I'm not the one scoring the runs, and they had a huge inning for me today. It's kind of what's gotten me to this point this year."
Chris Coghlan tied a career high with four hits for Miami, which lost for the 24th time in its last 34 games. Ed Lucas added a two-run double in the seventh for the Marlins.
"I was able to get some good pitches to hit and had some good counts," Coghlan said. "I was able to find some holes."
Marlins starter Henderson Alvarez (3-4) rolled through the first three innings, before Atlanta got to him in the fourth. Upton got it started with a double to right, Freeman followed with one to left, Gattis drove both home with another two-base hit, and the Braves were rolling.
Chris Johnson and Elliot Johnson both had run-scoring singles, and Chris Johnson later scored on a wild pitch for a 5-0 lead.
That was enough for Medlen and three relievers, with Craig Kimbrel working the ninth to get his 45th save in 48 tries for the NL East leaders. Atlanta has not lost more than four straight at any point this season.
The Braves had some good news pregame, with manager Fredi Gonzalez announcing that slugger Jason Heyward — out since last month with a broken jaw — had some of "the hardware" that was surgically inserted to assist with the healing process removed.
"He can eat," Gonzalez said.
And more good news came afterward, given that the Braves — who scored 10 runs during their four-game slide — got their groove going at the plate again, if only for one inning.
"Five hits and five runs on one frame," Gonzalez said. "And we made it hold up."
The Marlins, meanwhile, remained on pace for a 100-loss season, and played without right fielder Giancarlo Stanton (ankle) for a second straight game. Stanton worked out pregame Monday and the Marlins are hopeful he could return to the lineup as early as Tuesday, though will let him make the decision on when to get back on the field.
"Guys want to finish strong," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "They want to take advantage of every at-bat that they can and every opportunity they get to play. This time is so important for guys. I think you learn the most about your ballclub in the last three weeks of the season because guys have a lot to play for. They're playing for next year. They're trying to finish off good years, maybe finish up a not-so-good year."
NOTES: Miami sends RHP Tom Koehler (3-9, 4.70) to the mound Tuesday against Atlanta RHP Julio Teheran (11-7, 3.01). ... The Braves recalled C Christian Bethancourt from Double-A Mississippi before the game. "We think the world of him," Gonzalez said. ... Marlins RHP Jose Fernandez, who will start Wednesday before getting shut down for the season, hit a ball off the center field statue in batting practice. Since June 1, Fernandez is 9-3 with a 1.51 ERA. ... Coghlan had Miami's first three hits. ... Marlins C Jeff Mathis left after five innings with a bruised right thumb, and is day to day.


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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team competed at the University of Connecticut Open on Saturday in Storrs, CT. The Blue Devils earned three first-place finishes, kicked off in the first event of the day by senior Taylor Friedmann, who gold medaled in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 5:03.08. CCSU also took two bronze medals to total five top-three finishes for Central on the day.
In addition to Friedmann's win in the event, the Blue Devils boasted four more swimmers in the top ten. CCSU took fourth, fifth and sixth in the race with junior Kasey Chilton touching the wall in 5:12.59, sophomore Karen Novak in 5:13.35 and senior Lauren Shortell in 5:15.88. Novak's time was just under two seconds faster than her previous season-best. Senior Christine Smith rounded out the bunch, touching the wall in 5:18.95 for eighth of 19.
In the 200 yard IM, senior Katie Lang took the second victory of the day for Central. She paced the race and touched the wall in 2:10.91. Lang finished just under two seconds behind second-place Gillian Walsh of Boston College and was followed by classmate Lauren O'Kelly who touched in 2:14.65 for sixth place and a new season-best time in the event. Also competing in the 200 IM was junior Kathryn Kiely who placed 11th (2:16.57).
The final gold performance by the Blue Devils came in the 200 yard backstroke. Senior Allison Rasile topped the field with a time of 2:07.55 and was followed by senior Hannah Packer in fourth (2:09.40). Packer earned a new season-best time in the event, cutting her previous time by over a second.
The Blue Devils earned two bronze medals on the day, one from junior Kellen Power in the 100 yard butterfly (59.51) and a season-best time of 24.68 from classmate Helene Neuhaus in the 50 yard freestyle.
Neuhaus was followed by junior Erin Massey in ninth who touched the wall in 25.39 and Power was trailed by freshman Selene Chilton in 12th (1:01.75).
Other notable Blue Devil performances came in the 100 yard backstroke where junior Kristina Gulia came in sixth with a time of 1:08.13 and was followed by freshman Alaina Papiro in 10th (1:10.81).
For complete meet results, click here.
With the regular season completed, Central will next gear up for the Northeast Conference Championships held in Boston, MA at MIT. Competition will begin Wednesday, Feb. 27 and continue through Friday, Mar. 1.


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After weeks of rumors & speculation, it's official — Halle Berry and French actor Olivier Martinez are engaged.
A rep for the Oscar winner confirmed the news to Access Hollywood on Monday morning.
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Over the weekend, Olivier himself was reportedly first to confirm the news, following widespread rumors the two were set to walk down the aisle.
According to the Miami Herald, while in Florida to promote the opening of his restaurant, Villa Azur, over the weekend, he said of the engagement rumors, "Yes, of course it's true."
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Olivier reportedly also clarified reports about the engagement ring, allegedly saying, "There is a jeweler taking credit for doing the ring and it's a lie! They have nothing to do with this."
Olivier added that the ring was actually designed by legendary Parisian jeweler Robert Mazlo, who the actor described as "a real artist," whose family has been designing jewelry "for kings and queens for many centuries."
The impending union will be Halle's third marriage.
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The 45-year-old actress – who has a 3-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry – was married to baseball star David Justice in 1993 and split four years later. She then wed singer Eric Benet in 2001 and they finalized their divorce in 2005.
Olivier previously dated singer Kylie Minogue and split with the pop star in 2007.
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State-of-the-art LED lamps give you a superior view of the road. And ensure other road users see you coming. Flexible lighting around the truck dramatically increases your field of vision.
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The Volvo FE's LED lamps are powerful, but have a low working wattage and power consumption. They're tough too – highly resistant to wear and tear, but simple to remove and change.
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The headlights comply with European regulations for Daytime Running Lights (DRL), and switch on automatically when the truck moves forward. And to avoid disturbing others, the LED lights automatically dim when parking or when the low beam lights are activated.
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Below is our complete Deadmanswake news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Dame-Nation 2011 Lineup Announced
The lineup has now been announced for Chicago's female-fronted rock and metal festival Dame-Nation. The festival will take over Reggies Rock Club on Friday, July 29th and features the following lineup:
Avariel (Boston, MA)
Deadmanswake (Downers Grove, IL)
The Unvoiced (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Losing Scarlet (Chicago, IL)
Angelical Tears (Oklahoma City, OK)
Shield of Wings (Chicago, IL)
A Sound of Thunder (Washington DC)
Solarsphere (Chicago, IL)
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Forest Park settles with firefighter over tattoo policy
Woman claimed sexual, racial discrimination
Forest Park has reached a settlement with a female firefighter in a sexual and racial discrimination lawsuit, and taxpayers may never learn what it cost them.
Firefighter and paramedic Linda Goetz sued the city, claiming that she was the only employee of 10 with tattoos who was ordered to cover up her ink.
Court documents show Goetz was ordered to wear turtlenecks in 100-degree heat and was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
Goetz claims that Trish Brooks, the fire chief at the time, forced her to do so because of her skin color.
Goetz is white, and evidence from the case includes a photo of a black woman who served as a firefighter while her cherry tattoo was visible.
The suit claims this woman was never ordered to cover her tattoo.
Goetz eventually refused orders to cover her dandelion and dragonfly tattoo and was reprimanded, according to court documents.
Brooks claims Goetz was suspended for insubordination, not discrimination.
City officials and the fire chief declined to comment on the case, along with Goetz and her attorney, citing a confidentiality clause in the settlement.
The fire department's tattoo policy says that body art may be required to be covered at the fire chief's discretion.


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Associate Professor Sonja Macfarlane
Sonja Macfarlane (Ngai Tahu, Ngati Waewae) is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at UC, working as a Senior Research Fellow. Her research and teaching collectively focus on culturally responsive evidence-based approaches in education, psychology, counselling and human development. Sonja has previously been a classroom teacher to RTLB, a special education advisor, and the national Professional Practice Leader: Services to Maori in the Ministry of Education, Special Education.
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The term 'positive education' conjures up notions of happiness, success, fun, and wellbeing – all of which are the types of educational experiences and outcomes that parents want for their children. As the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, many Māori would argue that many education contexts promote cultures that only serve to counter these positive notions; particularly when bereft of the cultural realities and values that resonate for Māori.
Māori children come into this world adorned with gifts and potential; qualities that are handed down to them by their ancestors. It is incumbent upon adults who are responsible for their care to provide contexts for engagement and learning that enable a strong sense of self-worth, belonging and identity to flourish.
It is argued that positive education must reflect the notion that everyone belongs, everyone has a place, everyone has a voice, everyone has aspirations, and everyone can contribute. This requires educators to minimise and/or remove any potential and actual barriers that might obstruct this vision. This presentation will explore positive education from a kaupapa Māori position.
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The Berlin and Zurich based designers Valerie Otte and Agnes Ögren cultivate something you could call a long distance studio. Collaborating via Skype and e-mail the two managed to develop their ideas and realise a hormonic series of furniture, which they presented at this year's Greenhouse during the Stockholm Furniture Fair for the first time.
"The project explores both the mechanical-physical and the metaphysical aspects of opening and closing and of open and closed states. Both designers are fascinated by products which refer in some way to this and other grey zones of transition."


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The Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) publishes symposia that address important issues concerning management and business. A distinctive aspect of AMP articles is a focus on evidence rather than the development of
theory. The journal publishes work that synthesizes and translates theoretical and empirical research such as reviews of what we already know; integration of diverse theories and empirical findings that inform in a new and interesting way; forward-looking expositions that integrate and articulate existing theory and findings with new and provocative ideas; and integration of theory and research in management with related advances in other non-management sciences and disciplines. We are calling for new symposia ideas that meet these types of work. Symposia consists of 4 to 6 papers discussing a well-defined topic. Unlike special issues, contributions to symposia are vetted by the symposium organizer, and curated so they complement each other. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to, advances in the neuroscience of decision making, business strategies from data science, the impact of contingent labor force on organizational sustainability, the limits of private/public partnerships on organizational growth, and so on.


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My friend, Naxos Loon, sent me this bit of news posted by Linden Labs on their website.
"MTV's Catfish is Seeking Second Life Stories
by Community Manager Linden Lab on 02-26-2013 10:49 AM
MTV's Catfish: The TV Show brings together couples that have online relationships to meet offline for the first time, often with surprising results as the differences between online personas and offline lives are revealed.
MTV is now casting the show's second season, and they're interested in hearing from Second Life users who have fallen in love inworld, and would now like to meet their love in person. If you'd be interested in being on the show, you can apply online here."
Now I am not going to try to encourage or dissuade anyone from signing up for this, but I thought I would put down a few feelings on what this suggested to me in some areas. Somebody somewhere said that all media coverage was good in the end.. even bad media. It brings exposure etc. So I can see why Linden Labs would promote this as a bunch of people will no doubt see the episode(s) and potentially will bring in some new users. Makes sense. No problem. However I am a bit wary of tv shows and the perceived image of Second Life. First of all it should have been named Avanet, the Grid or something equally cool as the name Second Life suggests to some that people who use this virtual world are not so happy with their "first" life and thus need a second one as a backup. Kind of similar to the idea that people who use Facebook have no face.
But anyway, I think I might be a little jaded with the ethics and intentions of TV. Here are a few reasons why. A while back I saw a tv show called Cheaters. Essentially they would spy on a spouse to find out if they were cheating on their partner. They would bring the partner to a motel room and expose the cheating in real time while filming the reactions of the hurt partner. Capturing the moment of nausea and sadness at seeing your partner with another, perhaps if they are lucky its even a friend. Then they step back and hope there is some fighting because that is also great TV. Jerry Springer is all about the fighting bit. On a show like American Idol some of the most popular aspects are when a really bad performer sings and is sliced up by the judges. Somehow a person with little talent, yet blissfully unaware of this, is brought onto the show. Their dream seems to be coming true to them and they have attempted to achieve this goal.. which should be applauded despite the lack of talent?.. seems so because you know .. people improve over time.. yet there is no morally responsible person who encourages them yet kindly prevents the inevitable prime time public humiliation that awaits them, because then the networks couldn't count their money.
Simon Cowell made a name for himself by having little empathy and understood that some in the audience at home secretly were now addicted to the extreme emotions shown on TV. Reality TV has desensitized many in the population where now we can only really get a deep reaction to emotional extremes. Watch Dr Phil some day. Does anyone not cry on that show? You can see the wheels turning in his head as he prods and pries at his guests in an attempt to make them weep on tv. That is TV gold. Watch his body language.. he will often lean back into his chair when someone begins to cry. He can relax now. Fighting, crying, humiliation/shame and betrayal all work well for the voyeur at home. Networks seem to think its a form of emotional Attention Deficit Disorder we all have.
I watched a movie this weekend with my Dad called "Marty". He always makes me watch old movies, and even though I grumble they usually are pretty good. Marty is a simple character study of a lonely unmarried man working as a butcher, living with his mother in the Bronx. It was very poignant but nothing really happened in it. However, I really enjoyed it despite its lack of explosions and special effects. This leads me to believe that those behind network programming and the movie industry really don't know us at all despite their focus groups. They just follow a formula that they believe works. My university friend ended up being a 2nd Assistant director for movies and he was telling me that it is standard for TV networks to have a say in the storylines of their shows. So they can take the creative work of the person who designed the story and change it should they have enough voting power. It is crazy to think that some guy in a suit can adjust the story arc as though they knew better than the original creator. The only exception to this was for the show Simpsons. Fox could not change anything and look how popular that show became.
Pretty much all the reality shows are watching each other to see what is successful, and then editing their shows to try to gain a similar degree of success. I think it is common knowledge that in a show like Survivor or the Bachelor, where each is filmed over a long period of time, that the editors design "characters" by creatively editing footage. They design a sweet girl or sneaky guy, the loner and the drama queen etc. all to fit into a season long narrative.
Having said all this.. what do you think the odds are that this MTV show will depict a normal couple who met in Second Life? If they get 20 couples to choose from where one is just a messed up situation involving adultery, vampires, BDSM and hopefully (from their perspective) a complete misrepresentation of body types.. which will they choose? And how will they edit it?
Anyway just a few thoughts. Be careful if you signup for this. Perhaps they are an ethical program but just remember that how you see your relationship may not be how they wish others to see it.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
An unshared machinima
I made this machinima about three years ago and I didn't get around to actually ever sharing it with anyone, so I thought I might today as I don't really have much else to talk about. It is perhaps my quietest video and was made at a time when I was a bit overwhelmed by people always wanting something from me, and the desire to put up barriers. I kind of liked the idea of making something very still and quiet that might also be able to capture the imagination and create a distinct emotion. It is housed within a beautiful song by Radiohead. Perhaps my favorite ever done by them. The machinima has only been seen by a handful of people but anyway here it is, hope you like it.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
LEA artist in residence and Happy Valentines
Ever read about the greatest slogan of the 20th century? "A diamond is forever". It's an interesting history of marketing manipulation. Can read it here if you like.
So I was reminiscing, as I am wont to do, and thought back to the exciting Valentines days of my youth when we would tape a brown paper bag onto the front of our school desk. Then, at a signal by our teacher, they would (hopefully) be filled by adoring schoolmates.
I recall one year a Valentines letter was included inside a card which asked me whether I wanted to date the person who wrote it. And if so I was to check "yes" or "no" in a hand drawn box below the question. I picked "yes" and we dated for a month or so without ever actually speaking or touching. We simply made eye contact a few times a day and those glances were like electricity through my body.
Later that year we were both at a birthday party for a boy who lived at a Funeral home (we attempted to get in the morgue), and at one point everyone demanded we go inside a darkened closet to kiss. We came out after a few minuites and it was assumed we had, but in reality we stood silently in the dark and touched fingertips.
But well before that were the Puritans who, no doubt, struggled mightily with Valentines day and here are a few humourous cards to mark the occasion.
And in other news...
The LEA is now accepting applications for the fourth round of its Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme. Complete details and information, time frame and how to apply are available here, deadline February 19th!
The LEA AIR programme seeks to promote and nurture the arts in Second Life, through providing limited term full-sim land grants to be used for creative projects and art installations over the course of a few months. Recipients can be individuals or groups interested in creating or curating art, or proposing cultural projects which would require/utilise a full-sim build and can be completed within the allotted time frame (5 months). The LEA is able to offer land grants through the generosity of Linden Lab.
While many well-known virtual artists have received grants, the LEA has also had the pleasure of hosting 'younger' AIRs and hopes to continue in that tradition. You need not have a great deal of experience, just some good ideas. The application is a bit more detailed to help guide you in thinking through your project, which we do expect at this point to be an idea in progress and not necessarily a portrait of the final result - more like a loose sketch! We also welcome applications from across the spectrum of the arts, for example performance groups that might want to embark on a bigger/longer term project than we can support at our performing arts space!
If you still need a little more inspiration, take some time to visit the current artists-in-residence, which will be open until the end of the month.
Monday, February 4, 2013
"Because I am not here" Thesis work on four SL artists
"Because I am not here" Selected Second Life-based art case studies: subjectivity, autoempathy and virtual world aesthetics.
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Today we have great veteran talents such as Glyph Graves, Selavy Oh, Rose Borchovski, Nessuno Myoo, DB Bailey, Maya Paris and others who are quite active. The big names in art companies have changed from Rezzables to Madpea, and some of the newer artists on the scene making an impression are those like Claudia222 Jewell, Yooma Myoo, Romy Nayar and quite a few others. Stellarc has even been working here recently.
The problem with naming names is that there is always someone annoyed they were not mentioned. So just to clarify these are only artists I can remember at this particular moment and in an hour I could recall someone who I have forgotten. Actually to prove that I am going to think of someone right now. Eupalinos Ugajin. A very talented and unique artist. Oh and of course Marcus Inkpen. See I can keep going, but I have stuff to do dammit. One thing I have to do is return a tv series to the library, suggested to me by Caer Balogh, called the singing detective. I had no time to watch it unfortunately and it now also has late charges... grumble. Those librarians they'll break your knee caps so I better get over there.
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Dinner Tonight: Long Beans and Tofu Stir Fry Recipe
Healthy and delicious recipes from Serious Eats
Me and tofu don't have much of a history, but I'm happy that this recipe brought us a little closer. The extra-firm tofu sucks up the spicy sauce, and transforms into impressively flavorful little bites that are far from the cardboard squares I sometimes find them as. They are paired with Chinese long beans, which are very aptly named. Regular green beans could probably be substituted, but they certainly aren't as much fun. These are longer than a foot and can stand up well to the high heat of the stir fry.
The recipe is supremely healthy, and a nice respite from the feasting I did last weekend. But I'm almost more intrigued by where I found it—theCanadian Food Network, which has a few different hosts and a different website altogether. Anyway, I don't know how I got there or what rabbit hole I went down, but I'm glad I came out with this recipe.
- 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 package (14-ounce) firm tofu
- 1 tablespoon Canola oil
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 3/4 pound Chinese long beans, ends removed and chopped into 2 inch segments
- 1/2 red bell pepper, stem removed and thinly sliced
Mix together the vegetable broth, fish sauce, chili garlic sauce, and sugar in a large bowl. Set aside.
Place an large skillet over high heat. When hot, add the oil and the onion. Cook, stirring constantly, for about 30 seconds. Then dump in the long beans and cook, continuing to stir, for about 2 1/2 minutes.
Pour in the sauce, the red pepper, and the tofu. Stir occasionally, and cook for 3 minutes, or until the long beans are tender.
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Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family
On this Page
Many questions may go through a parent's mind when a child is diagnosed:
- How will this affect my family?
- My spouse?
- My other children?
- Extended family?
- What about me?
This section on taking care of yourself and your family offers some answers to these questions and ideas for supporting your family—and yourself—as you deal with the challenges of caring for a child with special health care needs.
Caring for Yourself
Parents of children with special needs often forget to take care of themselves. On the Caring for Yourself page, we will discuss the importance of taking good care of you so you can continue to be the best caregiver possible.
Caring for Your Marriage or Relationship
Managing the every-day issues associated with parenting children with special needs can cause couples to forget to prioritize their relationship with each other. Couples can manage these stressors together and stay close by focusing on ways to stay connected. The Caring for Your Marriage or Relationship page is about how to work with each other and keep your relationship strong.
Caring for Your Other Children
Brothers and sisters are the best! They have feelings and concerns about their sibling, and need to understand these feelings. The Caring for Your Other Children page will help parents understand more about how their other children might feel and how they can help all their children thrive.
Caring for Your Family and Friends
Family and friends are also affected by the diagnosis of your child. How can you help your family and friends to understand the diagnosis, understand your child, and also understand their own feelings about this new information? The Caring for Your Family & Friends page discusses common issues families of children with special needs face with their family and friends.
Tips for Single Parents of Children with Special Needs
Parenting a child with special needs is challenging enough, but doing it as a single parent has its own set of challenges. On the Tips for Single Parents of Children with Special Needs page, we offer suggestions to make things easier for when you're doing it on your own.
Fathers of Children with Special Needs
Dads are an important part of the family, and often the apple of their child's eye. Yet, sometimes they may feel like the only guy who faces the challenges of caring for a child with special needs, but there are actually many, many dads who take on and enjoy this role. The Fathers of Children with Special Needs page is about these dads.
Everyone needs a little time away… The Respite Care page has information about respite for families of children with special needs.


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By DAVID GREEN
It isn't exactly what Monica Pennington had in mind when she received her federal economic stimulus check.
The Morenci resident cashed the check, placed the money in her purse and later the purse was stolen.
But it's much worse than that. The purse was in her car, and that was stolen, too.
The incident that started May 6 came to somewhat of a close last Friday with the arrest of Miles Lancelot Thompson, 23, of Alvordton, Ohio. He faces five counts ranging from carjacking to unarmed robbery.
Pennington was driving home about 7 a.m. May 6 from her nursing job in Adrian when she saw an approaching car swerve on Sand Creek Highway.
"He swerved and I thought, 'That's going to be an accident,'" she said.
The driver seemed to gain control of the vehicle but suddenly the car was airborne and overturned off the road.
Pennington dialed 911 before she came to a stop and noticed smoke coming from the crashed vehicle. She couldn't see any movement from inside the car and was asked by the 911 dispatcher for details about the location.
Pennington got out of her vehicle and started to walk toward the nearest intersection to read the street sign. That's when she heard someone furiously kicking against the back door trying to get out.
She thought it was probably a passenger and maybe a child of the driver. A young man emerged with blood running down his cheek.
"He was in pretty bad shape," she said. "He tore off his jacket and came running toward me. He looked confused, a little delirious."
By now she was wondering, "Where is the ambulance? Why haven't the police arrived?"
"He grabbed ahold of me and started stomping on my foot," she said.
He reached his hand inside the partially lowered window of her 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix, trying to break open the window. She knew then he wanted to steal her car.
Another passerby arrived, comforted Pennington and walked her away as the accident victim sped off in the Grand Prix.
She received reports about the investigation—the driver stole gasoline in Montpelier, Ohio, was spotted in Blissfield a day later, was last seen in Alvordton—but the story went cold until she heard from police in Sherman, Texas. Her car was found there with Illinois license plates and the driver was to be extradited to Michigan within 10 days.
After the theft, Pennington was visited by police from Pioneer, Ohio, and she identified the accident victim from a photograph. The night before the theft, she was told, Thompson had been stopped by police who suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol. He was released with a promise that he would return home.
Later they learned that he had stolen a car owned by the mayor of Pioneer. It was that 2008 Chrysler Aspen that Pennington watched leave the road and roll over.
And what about a future role as a Good Samaritan?
"I would probably stop again, but I think I'll stay in my car until the police come," she said. "I wasn't injured. It could have been a lot worse."
And she shudders to think about the situation had her children been in her car.
"He was desperate," she said. "He was in my vehicle and gone so fast that I hardly knew what was going on."
From now on, her purse goes with her rather than getting placed under the seat.


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aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. Although aerodynamics is primarily concerned with flight, its principles are also used in designing automobile and train bodies for minimum drag and in computing wind stresses on bridges, buildings, smokestacks, trees, and other structures. It is also used in charting flows of pollutants in the atmosphere and in determining frictional effects in gas ducts. The wind tunnel is one of the aerodynamicist's basic experimental tools; however in recent years, it has been supplanted by the simulation of aerodynamic forces during the computer-aided design of aircraft and automobiles.
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Tim Clark has worked in the software industry for over 15 years, and believes that data has never been more important to the success of a company. At the moment, he says, data truly is king, because it enables companies to understand what they have today that can help them to improve tomorrow.
Tim specialises in understanding data and how his customers' data can deliver greater value to the organisation. Tim has a wealth of experience across B2B industries, and works to help customers introduce the technologies needed to meet their business goals. He joined SAS UK & Ireland in the middle of 2015 as an Industry Solution Specialist for the commercial team covering retail and manufacturing.
Prior to joining SAS, he worked at IBM as an Industry Solution Specialist focused on the B2B and manufacturing markets for eCommerce, order management and supply chain optimisation.