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Naiore was born into a time of peace within Gil-Galad's court in the fourth year of the Second Age. From the outset, she was known to be different. She was a singularly beautiful child, with the fair hair of Finarfin's folk and eyes of living emerald. Naiore was quiet and self possessed from birth. She seldom smiled, and laughter was rarer still, yet she was not a sad or angry child. To her mother, Naiore seemed merely far older than her years. Beautiful as her eyes were, they looked on a world about which she seemed to know too much. Naiore was but two years old when her kinswoman, Galadriel, warned her parents and Gil-Galad to approach Naiore with caution. Though she could not see all ends, Galadriel sensed a powerful shadow lay over the child's future.
Naiore's childhood was thereafter spent under the ever watchful gaze of her parents. No one, not even Galadriel, could have known what they had set in motion. Naiore was born with an unusual gift that grew as she did. She was highly sensitive to the emotional states of others. As a child, she sensed the distance of her parent's love though they strove to overcome that within themselves. She sensed how different this was for other children. Naiore's young mind drew the most logical conclusion. She was loved less because of some flaw within herself. It is no small wonder that it became true.
Naiore turned ever inward. She sought no childhood friends and held herself apart, fearing somehow that the thing that flawed her so would be discovered, her sensitivity to the emotional landscapes around her. Naiore found it extraordinarily difficult to withstand the pressure of other's emotions. She began erecting barriers behind which she could shelter. To those around her, Naiore seemed aloof. This withdrawal came to be seen as arrogance as she matured into a woman accounted beautiful by lofty Noldorin standards. Many of Gil-Galad's court could not help but observe her beauty and mystery and vied for her attentions. Naiore found this intolerable, for she knew that those that sought her had no concept of who they were attempting to win. The entire social façade of Gil-Galad's court was something Naiore began to build a great store of contempt for.
The High King's court was a happy one in those days, but a court all the same. Individuals vied for position, rank and advantage all the while. Naiore abandoned her parents and Gil-Galad's court in II – 936, seeking the peace and solace of lands less populated. Naiore eschewed all others for a great while, however in II - 1004, she did permit the Lord of Eriador to espy her as she rode through his realm. Celebrimbor was utterly fascinated by her from the outset. Naiore was similarly transfixed by the grandson of Feanor.
Celebrimbor found a woman of equal intellect and keen perception. He found her quietness refreshing and her mystery alluring. He did not conceal these things from her and he did not flatter her to attempt to beguile her with artiface. Naiore found a man of utter honesty. He was the first and only to truly understand who she was and he loved her deeply for her gifts, seeing her abilities as something to be nurtured and tended rather than a flaw to be concealed and eradicated. Despite his brilliance as a smith, Celebrimbor sought humility, a rare trait in the Noldorin, as a measure of atonement for the pride of his forbearers. Naiore delighted in Celebrimbor and to him gave her heart when it was yet whole, unblemished and hers to give.
In II – 1249 Celebrimbor and Naiore both found themselves drawn to the mysterious Annatar. His lore was deep, his ways charming and the lovers were irresistibly gathered to him. Annatar delighted in the teaching of two such as Celebrimbor and Naiore. For Celebrimbor and his smiths, Annatar instructed them on the forging of rings and devices of power. For Naiore, Annatar stoked the temporarily banked turmoil of her upbringing and deepened her gifts so that she could not only sense the emotional states of others, but influence them them. Annatar's teaching combined with Celebrimbor's unflagging love saw Naiore come to view something she had considered a flaw as a gift. In time, Naiore came to resent those who had attempted to shape her in the past. She started to feel how deeply wronged she had been. She loved her parents too much to blame them but the same could not be said for Galadriel and Gil-Galad.
By the time Sauron's true identity and purpose had been unveiled, Celebrimbor were enmeshed beyond all saving in his webs. Celebrimbor managed, at least, to save the West through the secret forging of the Elven rings. He could not, however, elude Sauron's wrath. War spread across Eriador, obliterating his people. Sauron let it be known that none other than Naiore, beloved of Celebrimbor, was responsible for the smith's capture and death in II – 1697. Galadriel, who had forseen something of the shadow that lay of Naiore, had no reason to suspect Sauron lied.
Naiore was disavowed by her people. They refused to offer her aid and accounted her complicit in the tragedy that had befallen Celebrimbor's people. Her voice had been one of the strongest arguing in Annatar's favour and Sauron's lies about her involvement in Celebrimbor's capture only proved what had been feared for so long. Utterly betrayed, Naiore's rage at her people only propelled her toward the harbour that Sauron offered her. Though she knew something of his malice, for her the betrayal of her people scored her all the deeper. It pleased Sauron greatly to have seduced a Noldorin Elf. However, Sauron never enjoyed Naiore's full loyalty. Naiore turned to Sauron for one purpose – to retrieve her beloved Celebrimbor, who lingered in his dungeon. She could not countenance leaving her beloved to his fate. She now had nowhere else to go.
The first hint of the difficulty Sauron faced with Naiore came when she secreted Celebrimbor from his dungeon and hid him. Naiore was forced to return to Sauron, there was no succour elsewhere and a price had been set upon her head by Gil-Galad for her alleged treachery. Survive she had to, for Celebrimbor now depended on her entirely in his broken state. Sauron exacted a terrible vengeance for her disobedience. On the rare occasions that she was permitted to escape her terrible master, it was to Celebrimbor that she went.
Now freed from his guise as Annatar, Sauron no longer had to hide his hand. His power reigned free over Naiore and ultimately shaped her into the terror she would become, only confirming his position as Middle Earth's new Dark Lord. As Melkor had corrupted Maiar to form Balrogs and the Avari Elves to form orcs, Sauron shaped Naiore. Sauron was not given to recording his acts, and Naiore never spoke of it. We can only guess at what she endured in this time. Not once, however, did she give up the location of her beloved or his three Elven Rings. Not once did she permit her master to sense that last remaining warmth that is true love within her. Not once did Naiore openly disobey or refuse her master again. There was but one road left for her to walk and it led into the heart of evil. She took it freely in the end.
It was through Naiore that Sauron seduced the nine Black Numenoreans into his servitude. Sauron used Naiore to quell and press three realms of lesser men into his service: Harad, Rhûn and the exterior fringes of Khand. Though mortals held no interest for Naiore, she found them easy to bend to her will. Their fear of death, their desire for glory, their lust for power provided the Elf with easy thing to manipulate. Such tasks also provided Naiore with the opportunity to go to Celebrimbor. Despite her efforts, however, she could not heal the smith. Celebrimbor died in her arms in II – 3434. The death of her beloved robbed Naiore of any last vestige of hope.
The depth of her grief and ensuing despair was demonstrated in the terrible slaughter of the Silvan Elves of Greenwood and the forces of Lorien in what would become known thereafter as the Dead Marches. Word of the event and its architect came inevitably to Elendil and Gil-Galad: an elven woman. Noldorin and perilously fair; cold as northern ice. The Battle of Dagorlad endured over several months. Naiore was rarely sighted in this time. However rumour of her eddied through the Last Alliance until Gil-Galad was left with no option but to conclude that this horror was none other than Naiore Dannan – the woman held responsible for the fall of a Eriador and treachery of the man who loved her beyond all reason. Gil-Galad tripled the price on her head for any who needed such motivation.
Open battle was never to Naiore's taste. She found such excesses as distasteful. She considered common violence as beneath her. Such acts she left to Sauron's lesser forces of orcs and men. Naiore continued to prey insidiously upon the Last Alliance, in particular Gil-Galad's forces, across the seven year siege of Barad – Dûr. The infamous deadliness of the siege arose in no small part to Naiore's activities. It was a simple thing for her to manipulate the emotions of those arrayed against her master. War grinds the most noble, the most loyal, the brightest of men and Elves down. She could easily inspire them to fall on their own weapons in the night, or to fall on each other in fits of sheer madness. However, it had to be said that Naiore did not take any overt act to break the Last Alliance though it remained in her grasp to do so. Her abilities by this time were fearsome and prodigious.
Sauron's fear of Numenor's remnants grew, amusing her greatly. It was only Cirdan's presence that kept her at bay in Barad – Dûr across the seven year span of the siege. Why the mariner inspired fear in her is unknown. In desperation, Sauron offered combat against Gil-Galad and Elendil on the slopes of Mount Doom to bring the impasse to an end. Naiore's hand was in that, counselling Sauron softly, manipulating her master with the skills he had taught her. This was not idle entertainment on her behalf. Naiore held her master as accountable for Celebrimbor's death as she did her own people. If they slaughtered each other, so much the better to her.
As Sauron went to meet with his defeat and the end of the Second Age, Naiore went to the dungeons of Barad – Dûr. She easily installed herself amongst the many prisoners Sauron had taken during the siege. In the turmoil of their victory and the death of Gil-Galad and Elendil, the Last Alliance flung the dungeons of Barad – Dûr open and Naiore was freed. She fled and was lost to those of the West that later thought to look for her. It was easier to consider her extinguished and any pursuit of her was soon given up.
Sauron did not return to Dol Guldur alone in III – 1100. Naiore met him there and reunited they set about re-establishing his work. Why she did so is of some mystery. Clearly she had no love for Sauron. Perhaps, however, some path is better than none at all. Naiore had sporadically kept the Nine in some control, during Sauron's absence, along with the servitude of the southern realms. Gandalf secreted himself into Dol Guldur twice, but Naiore was seeing to matters elsewhere and was not seen by the Wizard
Sauron had plans for Dunland and Rohan, and in particular with the palantíri of Numenor. Conflict between Dunland and Rohan spilled over on more than one occasion due to Naiore's activities, but her chief work was in subverting the palantíri of Minas Ithil that had been captured in III – 2002. By the time Sauron returned to Mordor, Naiore had suborned the Ithil palantíri and sowed the seeds to destabilise the White Council and Minas Tirith both.
Naiore's tangible role in the War of the Rings was, thankfully for the West, minor. Sauron used her cautiously, in this time, and Naiore had never claimed any interest in the realms of Men. An eternity of nothingness stretched before Naiore and into that maw vanished all meaning. She was becoming increasingly unreliable, but she was too valuable to cast aside. Sauron had started to comprehend how dangerous the tool he had created could truly be. It was Naiore that stole Gollum from Mirkwood for interrogation. It was Naiore who interrogated the pitiful creature. By this time she was capable of instilling indescribable pain that transcended physical boundaries. She made short work of Gollum. The wretch was weak before she got to him, stretched so thinly by her master's Ring. It was Naiore that gathered the wraiths to be sent north in pursuit of Baggins.
Mistrustful of Saruman, Sauron reluctantly dispatched Naiore to Rohan to seek the ring directly. Sauruman's orcs however had raised the hackles of a nation already fighting a war with itself and its eastern neighbour. She narrowly escaped detection by the Rohirrim by taking flight into Fangorn. Her presence in Fangorn did not go un-noted and it was this which so roused the terrible Huons of Fangorn, to Saruman's regret and Helms Deep's relief. When Gandalf revealed himself as the White Wizard, Naiore retreated to the far north, utterly forsaking Sauron to his destruction. The mistakes that were made at the end of the Second Age were not repeated at the end of the Third. Her body was not found in the ruins of Mordor. This time her fallen master's enemies actively sought for her. The surviving peoples of Middle-Earth faced an unprecedented possibility of eliminating all Shadow. They would not let one so dark as Naiore survive.
Naiore's future as a fugitive was a bleak one. She could not return to Valinor, where her parents had fled long ago. She would slowly fade on mortal shores, an ignominious end. She was bereft of purpose, people and place. Galadriel's departure from mortal shores robbed Naiore even of vengeance for the long list of sorrows she had lain at her kinswoman's feet. Naiore had nothing but the dark memories of her life and she started to wish for death. She resolved to journey a final time to Celebrimbor's cairn. This required Naiore to venture south, to Eriador. In a rare instance of carelessness Naiore was sighted by a Ranger of the North, Hanasian, and pursued. She eluded the Ranger and his men, those of the Black Company, but did no more than that, intent only on reaching her beloved's grave. She lost them long enough to bid her farewells at Celebrimbor's cairn. What passed there, what was said to the silent stones no one can tell, but when Naiore went south to Pelagir the final piece of her tale had fallen into place.
She knew that the Black Company had been hunting her since the fall of the third Age and so why she allowed herself to be found there is a mystery that she took the grave. Hanasian and his men closed the net around her as they had many times before and this time she made no attempt to escape. It is this last encounter with Naiore Dannan of which a tale survives in the most complete detail, due to Hanasian's habit of recording his experiences. This is what he said:
It was a bright day on which terrible deeds unfolded. I know not what hand she had in any of them, but suspect she had some involvement in all of it. I was surprised to see her reveal herself on that morning. She simply removed her cowl and stood on the dock. She made no move to defend herself. She could have hidden. She could have used her terrible powers to force us to undo ourselves. She did none of these things. She merely considered us for a long moment, and then turned her back. I hesitated, for it seemed to me that something else was afoot.
The shadow of Freja Fireborn loomed over us all that day, as did that of Berendil of Cardolan. I gave orders that she was to be taken alive so as to answer for her crimes but Videgavia fired the first arrow in his grief. The rest of my men followed suit and by the time I could put stop to it the matter was already decided. Perhaps my own grief guided my hand that day. Berendil, and the woman he had loved, haunted me also down the years.
The Elf fell to her knees . I thought it some trick or treachery of hers and so I was careful in my approach. Despite her evil, she was fair beyond any measure. She watched me approach and said nothing. She felt pain. It showed in her eyes, but she seemed relieved also. Some of the arrows had pierced her through. I could the bloody red points where they emerged from her chest and stomach. I did not know how it was that she was still alive, though Elf she be. "'Ware," she warned me.
I did not understand until the first wave hit me. It is difficult to describe, but I will attempt it. Emotions as strong as any flooding sea spilled out of her, like a sea wall that had been breached. Oceans of torment, pain, sorrow, despair, loneliness and, unbelievably, love. By the time my head cleared, I was lying on the ground. So too were my men and the Elf. By the third such wave, I had learned how to withstand it. I realised then that for each and every act she was responsible for, she also paid the price that she had locked within her across the centuries.
The walls she had built about herself were failing as she was dying. There was an image of a male Elf in my head. I don't know why, but I asked her who it was. She told me that it was Celebrimbor. I thought to try to save her so that she could stand to answer for her crimes. But there were many arrows and she weakened swiftly. She did not beg or speak or whimper. She went in silence, smiled at the last and went wherever it is that Elves go.
Once her spirit had fled her body, it was difficult to believe she had been responsible for so much evil. Even in death, bloodied and pierced, she was beautiful. I had her buried, unmarked and unnamed. I did not wish to create a place to draw other darkness to, nor create a beacon for those who may wish to despoil her remains. Anyone who felt her death understood the price she had paid already. I took her Noldorin sword as proof of her death, the others of my company took her daggers, but I will not claim the reward that has sat on her head since the Second Age.
Long indeed was Naiore's time in the Halls of Mandos. Great indeed had her evil been. She had fallen far, but she had not done so unassisted. By mortal count, it was many thousands of years before she emerged into the gardens of Lorien and there reunited with her beloved.


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From Twilight to Adam Sandler, Junior just wrapped work on Grown Ups 2 so, obviously, quality is the career priority here. To be fair, you can't fault his decision. Grown Ups 2 may have been his only option. Which I find very, very interesting. That even before the official conclusion of the Twilight era, never mind the pathetic Ashley Greene, even its #3 is having a hard time moving beyond. Five years from now, how many former Twilighters will still matter? Stewart and Pattinson (if he doesn't become Orlando Bloom) for sure. Anyone else?

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 26, 2009) - After winning the first set, the ETSU volleyball team dropped three-straight falling to Campbell on Saturday afternoon at Brooks Gym, 3-1 (25-20, 16-25, 10-25, 23-25).
Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) tied a career-high posting 17 kills in the match with eight digs, while Alysa Long (Romulus, Mich.) had 11 kills hitting .409 against the Camels. McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) also had double-digit kills as she tallied ten kills and five blocks on the day.
Senior Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) had 41 assists reaching the 40 plus assist mark for the fifth straight game, while Jen Niece (Allen, Texas) posted a season-high 23 digs.
Campbell took an early 5-1 lead in the first set, but the Bucs answered using a 9-1 run to take a 10-6 advantage. Later in the set, the Camels cut the ETSU lead to 18-16, but the Buccaneers held on to win the set on a Cogburn kill, 25-20.
In the second set, play was tight as there were six ties early in the match. With the scored tied at 12-all, Campbell went on a 10-2 run to go in front 22-14. The Camels won three of the next five points to take the set 25-16 tying the match at 1-all going into the break.
The Camels carried their momentum into the third set using runs of six and nine straight points to take a 16-3 lead. Campbell closed out the set 25-10 on an Ashley Weers kill to go ahead 2-1 in the match. Weers led the Camels with five kills in the set.
Play was back and forth in the fourth set as there were 11 ties and six lead changes. The Bucs jumped out to a 19-16 lead late in the set, but Campbell went on a 7-1 run to go ahead 23-20. ETSU cut the Camel lead to 24-23 after a couple Long kills, but Campbell went on to win the set 25-23 on a Weers kill.
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Brad Bird, the guy who directed "Iron Giant" and "Ratatouille" has gotten himself a December 19, 2014 release date for his new flick "1952". No real word on what the alien encounter type film will be about but George Clooney is attached to star so honestly who really cares what it's about. George Clooney. The guy craps ladies underwear. I have no idea what that means.
I have no idea what "Smiley" is about but I've seen the damn slasher from the flick all over the place. Well I mean not like out walking around or anything but on sites and stuff. I'm not crazy. Well the flick is finally finding its way onto DVD on February 12th. If I did see him in public I think I'd tell him to take off his silly mask and maybe we could enjoy some lunch together. I think we would split some wings or something.
A new show titled "They Came Back" looks to be coming to the mighty US sometime in the near future. The show is based on a French movie and TV series and focuses on a group of people trying to find their way home who also happened to have been dead for 7 years. FremantleMedia Enterprises has picked up the rights to the project and I would say if they change one thing about the show it's the whole french thing. They should definitely make everyone speak English.
Good news every half naked girl on twitter who calls themselves "Penny Dreadful", you're about to get a crap load more followers. Sam Mendes and John Logan, the guys behind "Skyfall" are confirmed to be creating a new show for Showtime with that name. The series will place some of the literary world's most famous monsters in Victorian London. I don't know if it would happen but how fun would it be if they put them all in one apartment together? So you know Dr. Frankenstein uses all the toothpaste and Dr. Jekyll looses his shit over it.


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From the experience of understanding there is wisdom ouside infinity beyond comprehension inside infinity to experience 4
As we are nourished so we nourish our animal vegetable and mineral bodies. The triple crown of the fools cap is a step on a journey. 5
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The Wizard Paradox I am. The new Archetype of the Age. I am human. I am animal. I am crystaline. I am vegetable and so are you 8
I am no Guru – I am no healer – I am nothing yet in that nothingness is all possibility. Your greatest gift is imagination. White Stone O 9
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Some Notes on Gerovital and Related Products
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Gerovital H3 (GH3) is one of many substances falsely claimed to retard aging. GH3 was developed by Dr. Anna Aslan (1897-1988), a Romanian physician, who began publicizing it during the mid-1950s. Injectable and oral products studied during the 1980s consisted of procaine chloride, with benzoic acid (a preservative), potassium metabisulfite (an antioxidant) antioxidant, and disodium phosphate (a buffering agent) [1].
The Romanian National Tourist Office, a few American physician, and a parade of independent marketers have promoted it as an anti-aging substance—"the secret of eternal vigor and youth." Claims have been made that GH3 can prevent or relieve a wide variety of disorders, including arthritis, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris and other heart conditions, neuritis, deafness, Parkinson's disease, depression, senile psychosis, and impotence. It is also claimed to stimulate hair growth, restore pigmentation to gray hair, and tighten and smoothen skin. The main ingredient in GH3 is procaine, a substance used for local anesthesia.
In 1977, a review commissioned by the National Institute of Aging concluded that although many uncontrolled studies describe great benefits from the use of GH3, controlled trials using procaine have failed to demonstrate any. Low blood pressure, breathing difficulty, and convulsions have been reported among users [2]. A recent Cochrane Review that examined studies of products identified as KH3, novocain, GH3, trofibial, Zell H3, Vitacel, GH7, or Ultimate 9 concluded:
This review suggests that the evidence for detrimental effects of procaine and its preparations is stronger than the evidence for benefit in preventing and/or treating dementia or cognitive impairment. There is some evidence from older studies that procaine preparations might improve memory in persons without cognitive impairment. However, the clear evidence of side effects suggests that the risks might outweigh the benefits. In the light of this, the strong marketing claims for procaine preparations should be withdrawn until trials of adequate size, duration and quality have been conducted [3].
Noting that para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) appears in the urine of people receiving procaine injections, a few American manufacturers have been selling procaine tablets containing PABA with false claims similar to those made for GH3. Federal agencies have taken regulatory action against several "GH3" marketers, and the FDA has issued an import alert [4]. But similar products are still widely marketed.
- Thomas R. Procaine: Will it keep you younger? Medical Journal of Australia 1:543-545, 1983.
- Ostfield A and others. The systematic use of procaine in the treatment of the elderly: a review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 25:1-19, 1997.
- Szatmáru S, Bereczki D. Procaine treatments for cognition and dementia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Oct 8;(4):CD0059, 2008.
- Gerovital (KH3 - GH3, Etc.). FDA Import Alert #61-01, Oct 2, 2009.


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What was the function of the secretaries Paul used when he wrote his letters?
What is the significance of the meal offering (Lev. 2)?
Why do we practice church discipline?
Why did God choose to save the human race, but not Lucifer and his angels?
What does Paul mean when he calls Jesus "the image of God"?
What is the mercy seat that is located above the ark of the covenant?
When I read the Old Testament prophets, there are so many references to judgment, punishment, and destruction that I wonder, What's the purpose of it all?
Does not the biblical emphasis on obedience lend itself to legalism (e.g., Deut. 4:1)?
Please clarify the law of slavery in Exodus 21:2-6. Wouldn't God be opposed to slavery?
What does the Bible mean when it refers to Jesus as "the Son of God"?
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Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Watch lights fade in every room: Cautions about commencement speeches
The rest of the committee found many things to dislike about his approach--the tone, the facts, the lack of a hopeful view--but I had the winning argument for putting this speech aside: I knew that the moment the speaker said, "Breathe deep the gathering gloom," the entire class of thousands of graduates would immediately respond with "WATCH LIGHTS FADE IN EVERY ROOM," the next line in the Moody Blues number. And then all hell would break loose.
Commencement speeches are fraught with all sorts of perils like this one. It may be the most focused audience out there--but they're not focused on you, for the most part. Commencement speakers may have the toughest job, even tougher than standing between the audience and lunch, because they're standing between seniors and graduation. It's easy to trip up as a commencement speaker and tough to be memorable on a day that's a happy blur for most of the participants. More likely, you'll be remembered for something like getting an entire stadium to chant lyrics like our would-be speaker might have done.
Maybe that's why this time of year brings an annual parade of parodies and advice on commencement speeches. The San Jose Mercury-News offers an approach that nods to the trite nature of most commencement speeches: a fill-in-the-blanks "Mad Libs" style speech, with words you can choose from to fill in the blanks, leaving almost nothing to choice. This one's geared to graduates, rather than those called on to inspire them. And faculty tips on commencement speeches -- remember, they have to sit through more than you ever will -- can be heard in this NPR 'Talk of the Nation' interview. Students call in and share their views, too. Politicians and Oprah don't fare well in this estimation, but Dr. Seuss and Mr. Rogers scored high. (In the Mr. Rogers example, he unified the audience and let them participate and use some of their high energy by suggesting they all sing his "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" song together.)
Have you given a commencement speech? Sat through many? What's your advice or best story about pitfalls and pratfalls? Share, too, any that inspired you or that remain memorable. It's a field where the speakers need all the help they can get.
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Look around the Web today and you'll see the buzz around a term that might be entirely new to you "gamification." Gamification is the use of game mechanics (such as badges, leader boards, and levels) in activities and software that are not themselves games. A good example of successful gamification is Nike's Nike+ community. Nike has turned fitness into a kind of game, in which participants track progress against goals with a "score" to improve health with every run. They can save their run data, share progress with friends, celebrate milestones and accomplishments, and motivate themselves and their social circle to attain a healthier lifestyle. Gamification is fun and engaging for consumers, and it also helps make sites, products, and brands "sticky." That is, users come back frequently and participate more actively.
Predictably, however, developers respond somewhat differently from typical consumers: they tend to respond better to gamification that works within specific constraints. This article provides guidelines for the gamification of developer sites and communities, based on our long experience developing such communities. However, much of what we suggest here is applicable with the appropriate changes made to all users.
Know Your Audience
Some developers love the idea of keeping score. They use sites such as Ohloh and GitHub to track their contributions versus their friends' efforts, and enjoy this sense of competition. Others are turned off by competing, but like to explore new things, meet and engage with new projects and people, and achieve their own goals. Software development is no different: Sometimes it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. Talk to your community and consider creating different rewards that appeal to competitive, exploratory, social, and goal-oriented developers so that everyone feels included.
For example, we've seen Ohloh's contributor spark-lines, commit counts, and kudos all appeal to competitively minded developers who claim they use these features to informally compare themselves and motivate each other. In comparison, StackOverflow's many badges reward valuable contributions and give community members something to strive for individually.
Create Appropriate Motivations
Whenever you add social rankings to the mix, someone will try to manipulate those rankings alas, it's human nature. Creating carefully constructed trophies and achievement recognition not only helps motivate developers to engage in the most desired behaviors, but also deters people from trying to abuse the system for their own advantage. Don't reward traffic for clicking a send button. Do reward new skills, capabilities, and significant and sustained success.
For example, awards at Coderwall are about language experience and open source participation. When Coderwall rewards activities such as forking and committing code to someone else's project, or using more than four languages across your own projects, it offers proof of both your technical chops and your community commitment and it is hard to fake.
Focus the Scope of Rewards
Sure, it is fun to see where you rank on the all-time list of most prolific Java developers but only if you're in the top ten. With millions of Java developers active, the developer ranked 2,474,673 probably finds such a list de-motivating. It could be much more meaningful and motivating for such programmers to see where they rank in productivity on their own projects, and how many more merged contributions it would take to "level up." Context is vital to gamification consider rewarding activities in narrowly scoped areas to give developers something concrete and achievable to strive for.
For example, GitHub's new "impact graph" shows who makes the biggest impact on a project and how the contributor community morphs over time. It is scoped to a single project and shows both individual contributions and diversity of effort over time in an easy-to-digest format.
Implement Wisely
Before you implement your gamification system, think carefully about how it will scale and take future needs into account. If you are defining your own trophy format, be especially careful in how you structure the system: You don't want to be maintaining different versions of your format for years to come. Plan for the inevitable abusers. Consider how you can gain wide adoption of people, adding new opportunities and awards to your gamification system, and make adding these awards a simple and easy contribution process.
Also consider how people can share and showcase their achievements the social and sharing element is what attracts and motivates many people.
For example, in Ubuntu Accomplishments, all trophies are verified via an automated verification server to ensure they were not faked. This server enables a decentralized way for clients to detect accomplishments, while also providing a scalable means of verifying them.
Gamification is a rich and opportunity-filled trend, but it is a topic that needs careful design consideration and implementation. For any kind of social gamification (such as trophies in communities), a balance must be struck between opportunity and reducing the risk of abuse: You don't want people not to participate because the credibility of the awards is called into question.
While it is easy to build software to deliver rewards, it's important to think carefully about not only the social opportunities but the social implications, too. Individuals also perceive rewards very differently; in some cases, one person's reward is another person's discouragement. The goal is to get people to want to play the game and feel rewarded for doing so.
Although there is a lot to consider, the gamification of your technology, service, product, or community provides a great opportunity to increase participation, reward commitment, and build a sense of connection with your users and customers.
Fortunately, there are some pre-existing systems out there that have explored many of these challenges, and if you're interested in gamifying your community, the first step may be researching their approaches. Be sure to look at the examples we've mentioned, as well as others. Good luck!
Rich Sands was appointed Director of Developer Communities at Black Duck Software. Jono Bacon works at Canonical, where he is a community manager for Ubuntu.


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In this, the 7th instalment of the Isabel Dalhousie Series, otherwise known as the Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel is asked by some friends to look into a tricky situation. A successor is being sought for a headmaster position, but the board has gotten a letter suggesting that one of the candidates has a serious skeleton in his closet. Isabel is asked to discreetly look into it and what she discovers is surprising!
Alexander McCall Smith is himself a medical ethicist and through the main character of this series, he explores moral and ethical issues. But he does it in such an amusing and entertaining way! The author has a way of elevating and celebrating the ordinary, and Isabel Dalhousie is an ordinary, slightly nosy, Scottish lady. Because of her innate desire to help others, she ends up in some situations that she really shouldn't be in, and unlike Mma Ramotswe, who always gets things right, Isabel often gets things wrong. And that is why we love her.
McCall Smith is master at capturing everyday sorts of truths in his books, articulating that which we know to be true, but have never found words to describe. "She was well dressed…it was not ostentatious clothes that were really expensive, it was quiet clothes that exhausted the credit card…".
One of the things McCall Smith does so well is celebrate the little things in life…which, of course, are really the big things. Did you know that he plays bassoon in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra)? There is pleasure to be found in being amateur, for the author and for his characters.
To get into the series, start with the first one, The Sunday Philosophy Club, and watch an interview about the Isabel Dalhousie Novels from the link below. This website is also helpful for keeping all of his series straight, and knowing which book is next so that you read them in order. To see the videos, just click on Multimedia.


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An in-depth, field-based investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (on behalf of the UK's Sunday Times) found in February that "since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed including more than 60 children." The bureau notes that the drone attacks were started under the Bush administration in 2004 and have stepped up significantly under Obama. There had been 260 strikes by unmanned Predators or Reapers in Pakistan under Obama's administration—averaging one every four days.
The report echoes the July 2009 estimates of Daniel L. Byman, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy: "Sourcing on civilian deaths is weak and the numbers are often exaggerated, but more than 600 civilians are likely to have died from the attacks. That number suggests that for every militant killed, 10 or so civilians also died."
The bureau reported another aspect of the drone attacks that is perhaps just as alarming as the raw numbers of innocent people they slaughter: it found that U.S. unmanned aircraft had killed dozens of civilians who had rushed to help other victims. A three-month investigation including eyewitness reports indicates that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to the aid of others.
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RAMALLAH—Dr. Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that the Israeli government's announcement to build 1,400 new settlement homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank is a continuation of the colonial settlement war against the Palestinian people, their land and the destruction of the idea of the two-state solution.
Dr. Barghouti said that Israel's announcement coincides with the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, the third installment of prisoners released as part of the ongoing peace negotiations. This fact, said Barghouti, confirms that Israel's settler government manipulates and maneuvers in order to create facts on the ground.
The consequences surrounding Israel's release of the publication tenders are serious, added Dr. Barghouti. They show that Israeli is extorting and exploiting the negotiation process, using the talks as a cover for settlement expansion.
Dr. Barghouti emphasized that betting on negotiations with Israel's settler government is akin to betting on a mirage.
Barghouti called on the international community to impose a boycott and sanctions upon Israel in order to deter such actions, stressing that the appropriate response to Israel's actions lies in the escalation of popular resistance, to unite and end the division among Palestinian political parties, and to go immediately to the United Nations in order to complete Palestine's membership in all of its institutional bodies, particularly in the International Criminal Court, so that Israel may be held accountable for its crimes.
Barghouti said that it is no longer possible to be fooled by the actions of the Israeli government, as it continues to pursue its policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. On 24 December, Israel demolished Palestinian Bedouin homes in the Jordan Valley as well as in a village near Ramallah, displacing a total of 68 people. Israeli forcers also recently handed out demolition orders in the village of Beit Ummar near Hebron. All of this, said Barhouti, comes alongside the steadily quickening pace of Israel's settlement and Judiazation of Palestinian land.
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You might have seen the comparison pics—or even the video. The new PS Vita slim features a LCD display instead of an OLED display. But you know what, it's no biggie.
I've been able to play with the new Vita this week in Tokyo. It's not a bad redesign at all. In fact, it's pretty good.
When you don't have an OLED screen right next to the new PS Vita slim, the display seemed more than capable. Yes, it might have a slightly more yellow tint, and yes, the display doesn't handle dark colors as well as the OLED screen. But, for an LCD display, it certainly seems fine.
One of the things I liked about the new Vita is that the face buttons seem less mushy than the current Vita's. They're a tad clickier, which for some players is an attractive tweak. What's more, some of the button shapes have been improved—most notably the start and select buttons.
The new Vita seems light in the hand, which for current Vita owners, who are used to the heft, could feel strange. The handgrips on the back have nice, smooth plastic, which makes holding the machine pleasant.
The one design element that I don't like about the new PS Vita is how the LCD screen seems shoehorned in. On the current Vita, the face is a solid sheet of plastic.
However, on the redesign, you can see lines that seem to mark were the new screen has been put in. It's certainly not as slick looking as the current model. But it's not a bad redesign by any stretch. Many of the other tweaks, especially with the buttons and soft-touch plastics, are more than welcome.


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YouTube Analytics basics
You can monitor the performance of your channel and videos with up-to-date metrics and reports in YouTube Analytics. There's a ton of data available in different reports, like the Watch time, Traffic sources, and Demographics reports.
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By default, the top five line items are selected and displayed in differently colored lines, but you can customize your selection to view all the content you're interested in.
You can compare your selected items to the total value by selecting Show totals in the top right.
Note: In this view, it's not possible to add another metric.
Stacked area
The stacked area view shows how data you select relates to the total. This lets you easily compare performance and determine trends.
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You can use a bar chart to display the data you choose in horizontal bars that represent their values by length. If you select the date as a dimension, the bar chart will show as a line graph.
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Skin can really sing the blues in winter. The combination of exceptionally dry, cold air, which indoor heating makes even drier, over bathing and the use of harsh soaps can strip the skin of moisture. Dry air also sucks the water out of skin like a sponge. So how to keep a radiant glow in the face of blustery winds and parching heated air? These winter skincare tips can help.
1. Shun drying skincare products. Steer clear of products that contain alcohols, harsh soaps or astringents. While they may claim to moisturize, these products strip the skin of natural oils leaving it dry and unprotected. Also, stay away from unhealthy synthetic ingredients like sulfates, parabens and mineral oil.
2. Skip the soap and hot water. When you're chilled to the bone, a hot and bubbly bath or steamy shower may seem like just the thing. But hot water (and those bubbles!) can do a number on your skin. Stick to a lukewarm water and a body wash with natural oils that remain behind to protect the skin. Also, never air dry. Pat skin gently with a soft towel instead.
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You can make your own natural exfoliating scrub by mixing 2 teaspoons organic Argan oil with 1 teaspoon granulated sugar. Add a drop of lavender oil for a soothing scent. Massage into skin with a gentle buffing motion, and rinse off with warm water to reveal a radiant glow.
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7. Get in those ZZZZZs. A good night's sleep simply makes for healthier skin. That's because your body uses that time of rest to repair cells and tissues. Use a few drops of organic Argan oil on your face before bedtime to wake up with soft and supple skin.
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It's the most wonderful time of the The Voice's third season: The battle rounds!
The NBC hit series is chugging right along and the four coaches' teams are starting come together. In the Oct. 15 episode, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton continued to make some hard decisions between two members of their teams.
Oh, and the coaches got their steal on! (How awesome is the new steal option?!)
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Missed last week's episode? Catch up with our recap!
Team Blake
The first battle of the night is between Julio Cesar Castillo and Theresa Griffin, whom Blake pairs against each other on "Conga!" After their duet, Blake admits, "I don't really know who won," before choosing mariachi singer Julio because he put in the most work from rehearsals up until the performance. Don't worry about Theresa, 42, though as Cee Lo steals her from Blake, keeping her in the game.
For his team's second matchup, the country crooner pairs Lelia Broussard and Suzanna Choffel. "It's the most obvious pairing of a battle I've ever seen," Blake says of teaming the two indie artists up on "Dog Days Are Over." Christina calls the duet "really beautiful" and says the girls "are a great match," Cee Lo says their talent is "overflowing," and Adam regrets not fighting for Suzanna in the blind auditions.
Blake says this decision "sucks," but chooses Suzanna as the winner of the battle; Surprisingly, no one steals Lelia as Adam explains they have a limited amount and he's saving his for someone special. Hmmm...
Check out all of The Voice's musical memories from this season
Team Christina
Dez Duron, The former football player who came back to audition after being sent home by the coaches in season two, is set to go up against Paulina, a 16-year-old diva-in-the-making. The attractive duo is singing "Just the Way You Are," because it's a "sweet song," Christina explains. Cee Lo says Dez is the "total package," while Adam says both performances on their own were "a little inconsistent," but gives the edge to Dez. Blake commends Dez for all the progress he's made. In the end, Christina agrees with her coaches and chooses to keep Dez on her team. Cee Lo, Adam and Blake pass on stealing Paulina.
For her next battle, Christina pits quiet teen Joselyn Rivera against Egyptian-born Sylvia Yacoub on "Best Thing I Never Had" because it's a "song that requires pretty powerful vocals." After their performance, Cee Lo commends both ladies; Adam calls their duet "great" and says they're "gnarly good singers," and Blake agrees, saying both artists great, but picks Joselyn as the winner. Though she's upset with pairing them together, in the end Christina picks Sylvia.
Fret not Joselyn fans, as Adam and Blake both want to steal the teen with the powerhouse vocals. Blake points out that he tried to get her during the blind auditions and Adam says he can envision her on the radio. Blake's final statement: "I love you." Joselyn chooses Adam as her new coach. "It's the end of her career!" Blake says of her decision.
Carson sounds off on Christina and Cee Lo's season four exit: "It'll keep things fresh!"
Team Adam
The Maroon 5 singer decides to pair Benji, the ex-race car driver, and Sam James, a bartender who wants to play music full-time, together. Adam chooses "a wild card" of a song to keep it entertaining: "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi.
After a rocking duet, Blake says Benji won the battle and Christina agrees, saying she loved his yelling and screaming. Cee Lo compliments Benji, saying he was the "clear lead." Adam decides to advance Sam onto the knockout rounds and although all three of the other coaches showered Benji with praise, no one decides to steal him.
And the official co-host of The X Factor is...
Team Cee Lo
The Midwest "beard crew" Todd Kessler and Nicholas David are up next and the two have clearly developed a friendship already. Cee Lo gives them Hall &Oates "She's Gone." Nicholas admits it's hard for him to be competitive with Todd. (Awww, BFF alert!)
Adam calls their performance "awesome" and tells the guys their voices "sound amazing together." Christina and Blake also praise both singers, but highlight Nicholas' "unique quality." According to Cee Lo, the winner of the battle is "Saint Nick" aka Nicholas. Again, the three other coaches don't utilize their steal option.
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Frank: "Yeah?"
Craig: "You need to help more. You're not doing a fair share of the work."
Frank: "But we haven't started! You haven't even told me what we're doing for the present yet!"
Craig: "What does that have to do with it?"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I see a career in upper management in Craig's future.
I guess its no longer a secret since Daddy found out.
Wow, how is the workload imbalanced if nothing is being done yet? That's funny.
So, in the eyes of Frank, Craig isn't doing enough nothing.
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Los Angeles Vegan Meet-up ... Friends, Fun and Fluffernutter dessert
I was thinking of going to this Vegan Meet-up Saturday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. at The Must Bar in downtown L.A. , 118 W. 5th Street, (5th@ Spring St.).
Drinks and a tempting Fluffernutter Vegan dessert on the menu.
Anyone interested in going?
Fluffernutter – Smoked almond & roasted peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and bananas on grilled brioche with dark chocolate ganache $10
Anyone interested in going?
More details below and on this Facebook link.
Los Angeles Vegan Drinks 1 Year Anniversary Party!!! We found a cool bar downtown called The Must Bar that has a number of impressive VEGAN items on the menu, from Simple salad / Farmers Market Veggies / General Tso Fu (must get the tofu grilled or plain they use egg to bater it) / tater tots / soft pretzel / and portobella sliders (must get on the vegan bread) & they have a Vegan Fluffernutter Dessert. Its a beer and wine place with seemingly every wine also offered by the glass. Check out the menu's here - http://www.themustbar...
http://www.themustbar... (We need help sorting out the vegan wines! If anyone can pin point a few sure bets that would be awesome!)
http://www.themustbar... (ditto)
No cover charge - just show up and socialize!
P.S. Welcome back Lex! (Thanks!)
Jason and I previewed the Must Bar this Saturday and its a really hip venue. There are plenty of garages and meters to park at. The best part is the happy hour menu! $3 beers and glasses of wine and deals on tater tots and soft pretzels! Incredible prices! We are going to have a blast!
We'd also like to point out that the LA/Santa Monica Walk For Animals is earlier this day. (10am Santa Monica City Hall) http://www.walkforfar... Here is the flier.
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A mysterious figure in red… Something's driven everyone away from Linden Shades.
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As many of you know, I'm currently mired in the search for a new car. Unlike last time, it's not going so well. Last time was easy. I simply drove to the Cadillac dealer and announced that I was there to buy the slowest-selling turd of a vehicle they've ever offered, to which they responded that they were sorry, but the ELR hadn't arrived yet.
But then I told them I wanted a CTS-V Wagon, preferably for a few grand off their asking price. So they thought about it for a moment, and conferred for a while, and eventually they came back and said: Yes, that's fine, provided that you do not, under any circumstances, trade it in here when you're finished. So I didn't. Instead, I sold it to some guy in Dallas, who is probably driving it around right now and wondering why he keeps finding packing peanuts under the seats.
But things haven't been so easy this time. Part of the problem is that a large number of cars I've called on have already been sold, a tiny little detail that doesn't seem to prevent dealers from advertising these cars for days, sometimes weeks, after the car has already gone home with someone else. This happens a lot. For instance: just a few days ago, I found an exciting car that looked great in the photos, and included exhaustive paperwork, and had low miles, and I immediately thought it might be The One. So I eagerly dialed the dealer's number, and spoke to a salesman, my voice bursting with anticipation, only to hear: "That car? Oh, we sold that car a few weeks ago."
Now, in this sort of situation, I am generally very polite, and I typically say something like: "Oh, not a problem! Thanks!" But what I'm really thinking, what I believe we're all thinking in this sort of situation, is: "THEN WHY THE F*** ARE YOU STILL ADVERTISING IT ON AUTOTRADER, YOU MOTHERF***ING BASTARD?" I'd like to think these dealers will go to a particularly grueling section of hell designed specifically for them, and also for those people at the grocery store who block entire aisles with their carts as they search for fruit snacks.
But I'm getting off track here, because today's topic is even more frustrating than dealers who advertise cars that have already been sold. Today's topic is Carfax.
Now, before I get started with this, I'd like to stress here that I really love Carfax. This is especially true if Carfax happens to be a Jalopnik sponsor. Maybe it is, I don't know. If it is, then I must say that Carfax is the greatest tool known to man, and it's extremely useful, and those commercials with the fox are just so freaking funny that I sometimes think about going to a local park and adopting a fox of my own, just so he can wear a shirt and accompany me to car dealerships. In fact, I think a Carfax report is absolutely every penny of what they charge. I'm not exactly sure how much that is, because I just mooch them off my friends at dealerships. But you, the average consumer – you really should pay for it.
No, I'm just kidding. I actually do like Carfax for a multitude of reasons, the largest of which is that it means dealers can no longer hide accident damage from the average consumer, who typically couldn't tell the difference between an Acura and an electric blanket.
But despite all of its excellent qualities, Carfax has a problem: the calculated number of owners.
For those of you unfamiliar with Carfax, allow me to take you through the average report. Each one takes up about four pages, even though the amount of useful information is limited to approximately 74 words located somewhere in the middle. That's where it tells you how many miles the previous owners drove, where they lived, and whether the car was ever involved in an accident. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you things you really want to know, like whether anyone has ever licked the steering wheel.
However: Carfax also goes to the trouble of calculating, using its powerful computerized brain, just how many owners a vehicle has had. It then prints this figure in some enormous font, right at the top of the page, above all the meaty information. I believe this number is based on title transfers, or registration statistics, or possibly a random number generator designed to spit out a figure somewhere between 1 and 13. I say this because Carfax is laughably inaccurate with this information (or, if they are a Jalopnik sponsor, what I mean to say is "occasionally imperfect"), as I shall now demonstrate using a real-world example. Here goes:
Let's say you're Tommy, a bodybuilder who lives in northern New Jersey and therefore drives an automatic BMW 328i Coupe. ("But it has the sport package," you tell everyone.)
First, you lease the car, which makes you owner number one. That's fine. At the end of the lease, you realize you've gone way over your mileage limit because your main girl lives in Teaneck, but your son's mother lives on the Shore, and you still have to go see your momma in Parsippany. So you buy the car, meaning of course that you finance the car ("I got six grand cash down"). This, according to Carfax, makes you owner number two.
Well, three years later, you're holding a steady job at the local golf course ("I betcha fifty bucks I can hit this one over the parking lot"), so you finish paying off the car. Now the title is transferred to your name, and that – according to Carfax – makes you owner number three. This is in spite of the fact that you're still Tommy, the same guy who has owned the BMW from the beginning, the same guy who has occasionally used said BMW to distribute marijuana throughout Bergen County.
And, see, that's a problem, because eventually the feds come knocking on your door asking all these questions about how a guy who makes pretzels at a driving range can afford so much jewelry. So you follow the advice of your lawyer (DeAngelo, Moretti & Lombardi, Esq., attorneys and bailbondsmen) and you hide the BMW from your assets by transferring the title to your mother, even though you're still driving the car. Now she's owner number four.
A few years later, you've beaten the case, all thanks to DeAngelo, who gave the jury some free samples of your product. So you transfer the title back into your name, and the car is yours again. Except, you guessed it: Carfax now thinks you're owner number five.
Now, in many circles, this wouldn't be a problem. So what if a car has been around the block a few times? So what if a few different owners have graced the driver's seat? So what if the previous owner emptied an entire bag of packing peanuts into the cargo area, and some got into the hole for the trunk latch, and now you have to remove most of the interior trim in order to properly close the tailgate? You don't expect every vehicle to be a one-owner cream puff, do you?!
The answer, of course, is no – but some precision wouldn't hurt. Not that it matters anyway. All of those one-owner cream puffs you see advertised on AutoTrader? They were all sold last week.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He operates PlaysWithCars.com. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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HOUSTON – It's estimated one out of every eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. The disease does not discriminate between the very young or the very old.
Michelle Mahmud and Jean Atchison are in two very different stages of their lives.
Michelle, 29, is a busy mom of three and Jean, 76, is a retired nurse.
Both were diagnosed with breast cancer at The Rose.
Michelle told Local 2, "I gave birth to my daughter in 2011 and I stopped breast feeding about 7 months after that and about 7 months after that, I found a small line on the outside of my breast."
Michelle's doctors thought it was mastitis, a breast infection commonly caused by breast feeding.
She said, "I felt shy to be the person who came in and said, 'I know you have a medical degree, but I'm pretty sure this is wrong' and it turned out I was right which is rare, but it happens."
A biopsy confirmed her fears.
At 29 years old, she was diagnosed with stage four inflammatory breast cancer.
She explained, "The cancer has spread to the bones at this point and now I am in the process of chemotherapy and I should be going to surgery after another 6 weeks or so."
Jean was referred to The Rose six years ago by the VA hospital after lapsing on getting her mammograms.
She laughed, "That's the easiest thing to forget."
Then 70, the radiologist told her the news.
He said, "It was so small, he couldn't even see it on the sonogram, it was so small and when he (magnified the image), he said, 'Here it is and it had its own blood supply and everything" and he said, 'You have cancer.' He said, 'You know, you probably wouldn't have felt this for another five years... It's so far back on your chest wall, you probably would've had it in your nose before you knew you had any cancer.'"
Today, Jean is a survivor and she's giving back to The Rose.
Jean explained, "For each year that I've been cancer free, I have given 100 dollars (to The Rose) for each year."
The Rose Founder and CEO Dorothy Gibbons said these women's stories are reminders for all women to get screened.
Gibbons said, "Our youngest breast cancer survivor is 19 years old and our oldest is 97. Don't put off taking care of me too. You need to take care of yourself."


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Luka Magnotta, Canadian Killer, Captured in Berlin Internet Cafe
Police have arrested Luka Magnotta, who is responsible for the brutal killing and dismemberment of Jun Lin. Authorities located him in Berlin, at an Internet café — a need they predicted would be his downfall.
Last week, police stated that they believe Magnotta may have fled to France before news of the story broke. Montreal Police Commander Ian Lafreniere told authorities that "what will hinder [Magnotta] the most is what he used to glorify himself, the web, with all the photos we have of him."
That prediction came true, as Magnotta was online at an Internet cafe when he police conducted the raid.
The case gained international attention two weeks ago, when two packages containing Lin's hand and foot were mailed to government buildings. Police then discovered Lin's torso stuffed into a suitcase behind Magnotta's apartment building.
Magnotta had posted a video of him killing Lin and dismembering his body. Authorities were able to identify the appendages as those of Lin and worked hard to find Magnotta.
They were worried that it would be hard to find Magnotta since he "is someone who can disguise himself. He can change into a woman, wear a wig." French officials had been briefed about the crime and aided in the search after reports of Magnotta's cell phone use led them to an area in France. By the time police were able to locate the cell phone signal, Magnotta was already gone and had fled to Germany.
It comes as a great relief to Europeans that Magnotta has been captured after a lifetime spent terrorizing animals and now humans. Videos of Magnotta killing innocent animals had been posted, as well as the actual video of him killing and dismembering Lin.
Magnotta will now be transported back to Canada, where he will face multiple charges and could end up with a life sentence.


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Every year we have to shoot photos and video of our top riders for our upcoming season. Due to their heavy schedules, we usually end up shooting each rider by themselves. This year we assembled all of our available riders in one location at one time. Having this many bad dudes in one spot usually only happens on race day. This time: no opening ceremonies, no racing, no motos, no training; it was time to have fun riding dirt bikes. Shooting photos for an entire catalog and a full video in one day is a tremendous task; but in between all of the chaos, the crew would stop and reflect on the how special it was to have this roster in such an amazing spot. It was a surreal day for everyone involved. It's only fitting the place is called Dreamland.
Your actions on and off the track have always motivated us to achieve greatness together. You have consistently been a positive force in the sport of motocross. Throughout your career you were always dedicated, always humble, always focused, always super-pumped; but from now on you will always be a legend. From all of your family at Fox, congratulations on an amazing career, Ryan. #ALWAY5


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Our philosophy is that it is through uniting experts, from our own material engineers to designers like Tom Dixon, we can reduce carbon footprint and develop products that can go back into the loop – starting already at the drawing board.
Tom Dixon
Industrial designer
Tom Dixon, OBE, is one of Britain's most successful designers. He discovered his passion for metal at a young age, digging through his local scrap yard. Today, his works are showcased by renowned museums all over the world.
"I've always liked metal just in general. Aluminium is non-corrosive, light. What can I say? I think it feels quite precious. For a designer, it's always really interesting to see new potential in a traditional material."
Read more about Tom Dixon here.
Malgorzata Chojak Halseid
Senior Research Scientist at Hydro
Malgorzata Chojak Halseid works with surface treatment of aluminium and advises engineers and designers on how to realize their ideas. By casting, rolling, forging or extruding aluminium, she knows from experience that you can transform it into almost anything.
"You can make use of aluminium in an infinite amount of ways. It is light but strong. It efficiently leads electricity, it's not magnetic, it's corrosion resistant, it can be recycled and it's incredibly easy to form."
Get to know Malgorzata better.
Jake Richardson
Design Engineer at Hydro
Jake has worked as a Design Engineer at Hydro for nine years, managing larger fabrication projects. Richardson encourages designers and engineers who are considering using aluminium to reach out as early as possible in the design process for advice and consultation.
"Collaborating from the start means we can offer sustainable solutions at better prices, and give guidance based on our experience with other companies. This is most likely information that the client isn't familiar with, that in many cases will define the success of the project."
Read the full interview with Jake here.
Stephanie Hornig
Furniture Designer at the Tom Dixon Studio
Stephanie Hornig is the mind behind all interior pieces and furniture at the Tom Dixon Design Studio in London and manages partnerships on behalf of Tom Dixon.
"We wanted to make an aluminium chair with the highest possible recycled content, while at the same time keeping it light, affordable, comfortable and beautiful. Our collaboration with Hydro shows how a designer and the industry can work together and learn from each other."
Read the full interview with Stephanie here.
Anders Helander
Head of Extruded Profiles
Anders has more than 40 years of experience working with extruded aluminium profiles, as he started working at the extrusion plant in Vetlanda, Sweden, as a summer intern in 1978. Anders knows that getting into a project in the design phase is critical to realize a product's full potential, and his deep knowledge of technical services and product development came in handy in the first phase of the project.
"You can do a lot with profiles. It's only your imagination that is the limit."
Do you want to know more about extruded profiles? Click here to read more.
Mattias Eriksson
Head of Rolled Products sales, Sweden
Mattias joined Hydro in May 2017 and is head of the Rolled Products sales office in Sweden. He is also responsible for the markets in Finland and Estonia, and participated in the project with his knowledge of the possibilities of rolled aluminium in design
"My expectations before the meeting with Tom Dixon was like a blank piece of paper. It was a very interesting project and fantastic collaboration around the table."
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caroline's room.
the happiest room in the house.
thanks to my wildly talented decorator friend cami wright.
[of the wright family dynasty].
some days i fling myself onto Caroline's bed and just lay there,
lingering in aqua blue bliss.
lingering in aqua blue bliss.
We (only me, actually) wanted to incorporate Caroline's great-grandma Stoker's chair in the room. McSlightlyHorrified found one of grandma's old knee-high stockings between the cushions.
He's over it now.
photos courtesy of Cathy Jones