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"Stop, stop! I'll do anything!" I cry. "Anything?" Frank asks.
Everyone pretended to ignore my little outburst yesterday. Good thing, too, because I was going crazy thinking about all the different ways to apologize. We had to stop at a Mini Mart to get some tampons for my person LoL but nobody seemed to mind. I also grabbed some more sushi. Originally, none of us were gonna buy anything, because we were so tired, but in the end:
Mikey - 2 Monsters
Bob - 5 Chunky Monkey ice cream cups (the pints)
Ray - 2 bags of Skittles
Frank - Soy Chips (wtf?)
Maggie - Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Taylor - Sushi
Jeremy - 10 Monsters (yeah, wow)
Connor - a tooth brush
Gerard didn't get anything, and I, of course, (as written earlier) got some sushi :) MINE! I made sure to write my name EXTRA LARGE on there.. That way nobody would get it. And nobody touched it. Well, that's not true. Jeremy touched it, the smart ass. Probably because I threatened to leave a hickey on anyone who came near it. So he's got a nice sized hickey on that pretty little neck of his, and he took like five pics of it LoL He's so weird! But I luff my little Fiddle-Stix.
Oh oh oh! We should be in Portland by tomorrow, mid morning. I'm really excited, but yet I'm really nervous. I mean, we've never done a full concert before, with like a bunch of people. The My Chem guys have been practicing with us and stuff, and Gerard's assured me that it'll be fine. Like I didn't know that? Ha ha. So we'll be opening for the guys, playing about mmm maybe 5 or 6 songs max. You know what? Now I'm excited! I can't wait to play, and hear the screaming and cheering(if they like us, that is, altho the guys say they will) and all that jazz. I wrote a paper on being famous once, back in my freshman English class. My teacher really liked it :)
Oooh, BRB I gotta go change my uh.. "thing" haha.
K, now where was I? Eh..
Gerard made waffles this morning, and Frank ate most of them. Then I made some pancakes and Jeremy ate most of them. I swear, these boys are gonna eat everything! Taylor had cereal, Maggie had toast, and Mikey drank a Monster. Out of all the food we made, I only got one waffle and two 'cakes u_u Freaking MEN! UGH! Oh well..
Huh, what other news can I think of ... OH!
Eliza a.k.a The Girlfriend is going to come to our show. Good God, I almost screamed when I found out. Why? Because she stressed Gerard out. Yeah, first they fought, then hung up, and then she called back and apparently cancelled her friend out. Yay for us (note the sarcasm!) Wait.. why am I all mad? Psh, like I care what she does.. But I do, because Gerard's my buddy, and I don't like hearing him yell. Actually nobody does. Like, they got in a fight early this morning and Bob yelled(the loudest and scariest of all the guys when he wants to be) "SAVE THE SCREAMING FOR THE TOUR!" and then went back to snoring. We all clapped and cheered and Gerard glared and hung up after yelling a bit more.
I painted my nails again, for like the first time in a couple months. I thought about painting my toes but then I remembered how my mom's toes looked (all chipped and almost brown ewwuh) and put the polish away. They're black XD and they're smexxi :)
I just realized I made FACES a LOT! But it's.. all.. good XD
Anyhoo, I'm gonna eat some sushi and watch some good ol' t.v.
After I put away my journal, I walk over to the t.v. where Mikey and Taylor are playing Zelda. It's the older one, which is to say the "cooler" one. "Alright, you guys. Save it before I shut it off."
"But I-"
"Amy, we're-"
"Better hurry," I warn, inching my hand closer to the 'off' button. They click a few buttons and I shut it off, pick up the remote, and click the ON DEMAND button. Man, I'm so happy that our bus guy or whatever got us this amazing cable! I watch a couple videos and then then go back to the regular channels, and that's when I see it. "Oh my God, it's Daisy of Love!" I click on it and see that the episode is just starting. I smile and sit down where Taylor was sitting a few seconds ago.
"Oh come on, you're seriously gonna watch this gay crap?" Taylor complains, sitting down next to me. I smile and nod.
"Yup! I think this is the last episode, and I wanna see who she picks!"
"Ugghh, fine! But.. you have to give me a bite of that sushi later."
"Because other wise, I'm shutting off the t.v, and throwing the On Demand box thing out the window."
"You can't," I say, smirking. "Other wise you have to pay Brian back." She frowns and turns to the t.v.
"Well, it was a good plan before you told me that.. Thanks a lot!" I laugh and then watch Daisy prance around like the immature princess she is. During the commercials I watch a few videos, and channel flip, and when it's the end and Daisy has to chose between London and Flex, I turn up the t.v. and lean in, not wanting to miss a single thing.
"...even though you're what I need, Flex.. I want London."
"Yes! Woo!" I shout, jumping up and down in a happy dance. "Daisy chose the hu-unk, the sexy emo hu-unk," I sing, and Taylor cracks up laughing, then joins in with my dancing. We spin around in circles until we're both tired of it and collapse on the couch. "Man, this sucks."
"Daisy chose London.." I pout. When she raises a brow at me I say, "Well, you have to admit that even though they 'love' each other, it's not gonna last. These things never do I mean look at Brett Michaels!" She laughs.
"But he was a man, Amy. Men are dumb." She says this and Frank giggles.
"Hey, I take offense to that!" Mikey says, nudging her shoulder. "I am a smarticle bunny, and I shall eat you, RAWR!" He pounces on her and they fall on the floor, rolling around and making growling noises. I reach for my camera and record them. Eventually they stop, laughing as Taylor crawls off of him and stands up, her knees popping in response. I stand up and point the camera at her face.
"So, Miss Taylor Kantana, what say you in a rematch?" I ask in this really stupid announcer voice. She giggles.
"I'd say 'Hell yesh, bring it on Nikaa!' and slap the dummy," she says, then slaps the camera away. I point it at Mikey and ask the same question to which he replies, "I'd eat you for supper." He makes a slurpy noise and I crack up laughing, then point it at Bob, who's not paying attention due to a really interesting game of cards. I record him for about ten minutes before Frank nudges him.
"Look Bob, Amy's got a camera." Bob looks straight into the camera and glares, flipping me off.
"Say hi, Bobby!"
"Get that thing off of me!" he snaps, and hides his faces behind his cards. I giggle and turn it on Gerard, who has just walked out of the bathroom.
"Ello, Guv'na!" I say in a fake Brittish accent. He looks at me funny before answering.
"Why ello, there, Poppet! Nice weather we are 'aving, eh?" He smirks and walks to the back of the bus.
"Tune in next time for 'Life on the Bus!'" I say all cheerfully, and then shut it off and put it in my bunk on the way to the back. Gerard's sitting by the window, drawing again. I walk over and sit down, careful not to mess up his lines, and peak at what he's drawing. It's a drawing of.. me? "Uh, why are you drawing me?" He finishes a line on my face and looks up.
"I dunno. You have like.. a really good face, you know? Like uh, your cheek bones are very model-like, and your eyes are just.. Wow, I dunno how to explain it." He shrugs and puts it up on the tiny desk in front of us.
"That's cool. And I totally get what you mean, by the way. My aunt used to say I should model because of my facial structurea and stuff. At least it's just my face," I joke. He doesn't laugh.
"Why is that a good thing? I mean, I'd draw your whole body if I knew how to get it right." I blush.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, you have uh, curves, in the right places, and uhm, the way you walk it's just- I really dunno how to explain it." He chuckles awkwardly and runs a hand through his hair. I giggle. "What?"
"You really should brush your hair more often, Gee," I say, and pull one out of my jacket pocket. "May I do the honors?"
"Uh, sure," he says. I tell him to sit on the floor, and once he does I move over and sit with my legs on either side of him.
"You have nice hair, by the way." I brush my way carefully through a knot. For some reason, guys get really irritated and bitchy when someone else is brushing their hair or doing their make up. It's weird. Us girls love it when we don't have to do it ourselves.
"Thanks? Ah, that feels really good." I giggle.
"Your welcome, Sir Geetard." He turns around at the nickname.
"What did you call me?" I smile.
"Geetard. Gerard and retard. Do you like it?" I bite my lip. "I could come up with something else, I mean if you want me to. But Geetard is like, unique or something." He doesn't say anything, he just smiles.
"No no, I actually kind of like it. But you only get to call me that when the other guys aren't around. I can handle you saying it, but the guys will like totally over use it. So you're safe.." He frowns. "Huh, I guess now I'll have to make a name for you." We laugh.
"Yeah, but it's gotta be as cool as yours. Other wise, I can't call you Geetard, and I'll get sad and cry little tears of blood," I say in my little kid voice.
"Awwuh, don't cry my little Emokins," he hugs me. "Hey, Emokins totally works!"
"Dude it totally does!"
We laugh and he turns back around so I can finish. Ten minutes and about a thousand brush strokes later, his hair is super soft and my hands are in pain. He turns around again and just stares up at me from his postion on the floor. I slip the brush back into my pocket and stare at him back. He blinks, and I blink back. He smiles, and I smirk. He wiggles his brows, and I twitch my nose. He giggles and I chuckle, then we both crack up laughing, and no matter how many times we try neither one of us manages to stop. I hold my stomach and fall on the floor next to him, and he pretends to faint and falls on top of me.
"Ah! Nuu, I'm being attacked by the evil hair monster!"
"Mwahaha, I am the evil hair monster, and I shall tickle you to death!" and he starts tickling my sides, and I scream.
"Help! Somebody help!" Taylor, Mikey, and Frank all run in, and are quickly followed by Jeremy, Ray, and Bob. "Please, get him off me!" I plead, and when I see Taylor smirk I know I'm in for it. "Ah, no!" I scream as they all start tickling me. I kick out and someone holds my feet down and pretty soon they're being tickled. I scream and try to get loose, but for all it was worth I might as well have tried to read minds. "Please, please! I'll do anything, anything!" I beg, and a Jeremy stops tickling me.
"Anything?" Frank asks.
"Yes yes, anything, just get off!"
"Well we'll get off but.. you have to do something for each of us," Mikey says, smiling. I groan and nod, and they let me go. I stand up, fix my hair, adjust my bra, and sit down on the couch.
"Alright, what do I have to do?" I gulp, knowing that Taylor would have me do something really nasty. Mikey smiled, along with Frank, Bob, and Gerard. "Oh God, I'm gonna regret this.."
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About twenty minutes, five complaints, and two slaps later, I have everything I gotta do. Monday through Friday I make Taylor sandwiches whenever she wants one. Tuesdays I brush through Ray's fro and wash it afterward. Wednesdays I help Bob shave his back(ewwuh!) and then again on Saturdays. Thursdays I rub Mikey's feet. Friday's I don't do anything other than the whole Taylor and the sandwiches, and on Sundays I help Frank relax as he worships Pansy. And then, of course, whenever I'm free and bored I get to sit with Gerard while he draws my face perfectly. Jeremy's task? I get to be his special buddy, which basically means when he's got.."issues"..I get to help him a little. Not physically, of course, just with my words and whatnot. I really dunno how that's going to work, but again Jeremy's the master of kinky shit happening. I'm sure he'll enjoy it. And besides, he never said I had to be nice about it. Mwahaha.
"Right, well, I'm gonna go take a nap. I'll be waiting for tomorrow, Amy," Bob taunts as he makes his way towards his bunk. I shudder and make a gagging noise, and Taylor laughs.
"Well, I'm hungry, so I'm gonna go make some vege noodles." Frank hugs me and skips to the front. One by one everyone except Gerard and Jeremy hug me and leave.
"So, Amy, you're free right now," Gerard says, smiling. I smile and turn to Jeremy.
"What do you want, Stix?" He smiles innocently and my stomach gets all knot-like.
"Well.. I'm feeling kinda.. lonely," he says slowly, and I smirk.
"Jeremy, the tasks don't set in till later. Go watch t.v. or something," I say and turn towards Gerard. "Of course I'm free, Gerard. Now, where should I sit?" Jeremy mumbles something and walks out, and Gerard winks. When Jeremy's far enough out of ear shot he giggles.
"Well, now that they're all gone, I gotta make a call. Do you mind?" I shake my head.
"No, you're not calling that evil woman."
"Actually, I have to call my mom. I think I was supposed to call her yesterday, but with all that drama with Lizzy and you breaking down and the guys going crazy like usual, I didn't have time."
"Oh, okay. Well, I'll just take a nap then," I smile and lay down.
It's nice and cool in the back, and it's also pretty quiet if you ignore Bob's snores and Gerard's convo with his madre(which I'm doing, a little unsuccessfully since I can still hear Gerard talking). I can't really fall asleep, so instead I stare up at the ceiling, feeling the little bumps in the road.
"..trip's going great, yeah. These guys are amazing, and I'm pretty sure they'll go far. Hey, maybe they'll get bigger than us!" Gerard says quietly, and I smile. Hm, more famous than My Chemical Romance? That will be the day..
"Tell your mom I say hi," I mumble and he nods. He's got good hearing. I sit up and lay on my stomach, head resting on the palsm of both hands, elbows on the couch. I stare at him, watching his lips move. Don't ask, I just like studying people.
"Oh uh, Amy says hi. No, she's not my girlfriend she's the band's singer." I notice he's blushing, and when he sees I'm watching he smiles quickly and turns to I can't watch his lips. I frown and sit up the rest of the way, staring ahead at the wall in front of me. "Yeah, Eliza told me that too. No, I don't know if she's lying, but I wouldn't put it past her- of course I'll pay for it!" I look over at him again and he's facing me, most likely talking about how 'Lizzy' might be pregnant. But.. pay for what? An abortion?
"Hey, has anyone seen my-"
"Sh, I'm on the phone. Oh, okay mom. Yeah, here he is." He hands the phone to Mikey and walks down the hall to the bathroom. I giggle and Mikey walks up front. So, I'm all alone, there's no one here beside me. Ha ha, I luff the Shrek movie! I yawn and lay back down on my stomach, and doze off. I'm awakened suddenly by Gerard sitting on my back.
"Hey hey hey, you asleep?" I groan.
"No, I'm not," I say, my voice slightly muffled by the cushions. I move side to side, trying to get him off, but it doesn't work. "Get off, Gerard!"
"Nope! Not till you say the magic words!"
"Uh, please?"
"Those aren't them!"
"Please get off me?"
"Try again!"
"Get the fuck off me before I fucking castrate you, Gerard!" He's off in a heart beat, and I giggle. I sit up and look at him and he's giggling. "Kidding!"
"Yeah yeah, I don't trust you. By the way, your face is all red." I roll my eyes.
"Yeah, and so is yours. Still blushing, perhaps, over the fact that your madre thought we were dating?" I laugh when he blushes again.
"Uh no, I was just.. well.. It's freaking hot up front!" he whines in this little kid voice. I giggle and throw a pillow at him.
"Oh yeah? Well why are you blushing so much then?" He pouts and throws the pillow back.
"Cos cos cos I can, that's why!" We laugh and he sits down, grabbing his drawing. "So uh, since you aren't busy yet, can I-"
"Amy!" Jeremy squeals, and I find myself sprawled on the floor with Jeremy hugging me to death.
"Okay okay, what do you want?"
"Well.. you said later and.. It's later!" He smiles and I shake my head.
"I meant later as in-"
"Amy! Make me a sammich, betch!"
"-when it's dark and everyone's asleep. Not-"
"I want a sammich!"
"Shut up, Taylor, I'll make you one in a little bit!" I hear her laugh and then the t.v. gets turned up. Jeremy's still laying on me, and Gerard's occuppied with the drawing, adding stuff to it. "Jeremy, I promise I'll visit you later, okay? I have to make Taylor some food." He pouts and gets up, pulling me with him. My body slams into his and he wraps his arms around me. "Jeremy," I whine.
"Okay, but I'll miss you," he says softly. I roll my eyes and he pulls away, then sits next to Gerard and proceeds to look at the picure of me. I smile and make my way to the front, then make Taylor one of my famous peanut butter and banana sandwiches. She wolfs it down and asks for another one. I grin and make it, but add some wasabi to it. As soon as she takes a bite and swallows, her face has this expression on it. She frowns and pulls the bread apart, and then glares at me.
"You meanie face!" I laugh and hand her a different one.
"That's for tickling me earlier," I say, sticking my tongue out at her. She returns the look and munches down her sandwich. I smile, make myself one, and sit on the floor in front of the t.v. They're watching Batman re-runs on Cartoon Network. I giggle and get hushed by Mikey, who's leaning close to the screen, mouthing each word Robin says. I look at Frank, who's mouthing each word Batman says, and Maggie's mouthing the Joker's words. I shake my head, finish my sandwich, and get up. I pause by the bathroom, thinking about how long ago it was that I changed my tamp, then walk in. Man, I can't believe it's been almost eight hours! Boy does time fly when you're on the road..
"Amy, you in there?" Taylor calls, knocking on the door, thus scaring the shit outta me.
"Yeah, why?"
"Your dad called. I told him you were busy shoving a tampon up your vagina and then when you were done masturbating you'd call him back. He said okay and hung up, so yeah. Here." She opens the door and hands me the phone. I glare at her and dial my dad's number.
"Hello there, Angel Girl!" my dad's cheery voice answers, and I smile.
"Hi Daddy. Sorry about Taylor, she never learned manners."
"Oh it's okay, I knew you weren't masturbating." I make a weird face when my dad uses that word. "Anyway, how's it going? I heard you'll be in Portland soon."
"Yeah, we're supposed to be there tomorrow. I can't wait!" He chuckles.
"I bet you can't, Amy. Your mom and I miss you, and so does Mike. He wants to know if you've used the gameboy yet." In the background I hear my little brother Michael asking if I have, and I laugh.
"Tell him I haven't, but I will soon. I've been busy relaxing and bleeding." Dad relays this information to Mike, and he yells something about TMI. I smile. "Hey, I gotta go. I'm tired and it takes for forever to fall asleep on this bus. Luff you, Daddy. Luff you, Mike!"
"Love you too, Sweetheart. Mwa."
He hangs up and I set the phone on the small sink counter, so that it won't fall anywhere near the toilet. I would HATE to have to find it if it did. I finish my business and walk out towards my bunk, only to be pulled down into Jeremy's. I groan.
"Jeremy, what-"
"Okay," I say in a whisper. "What are you doing?" His light is turned off, it's dark on the bus, and I can't see his face.
"What does it look like? I have needs, you know."
"Oh uh, about that-"
"Not those needs, Amy." I can tell by his voice that he's smiling. "I just don't feel like sleeping alone. And I was smart and grabbed the biggest bunk, so you can sleep with me and be comfy."
"Oh. Well then uh, thank you Jeremy."
"No problem."
We lay there in silence for a while. I'm thinking about what he could possibly have me do, dreading the moment when that little bone of his decides he wants some attention. Okay ew, that's just ew!
"What are you thinking?" he whispers.
"Come on, tell me. You stutter when you lie." He giggles.
"Okay then uh.. I was just.. Thinking.."
"About what I'll have to do?"
"Oh, that! I was uh, just kidding about you helping me out. I have a hand, you know." I smile.
"So.. you just wanted a cuddle buddy?"
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Aw, Jer, all you had to do was ask me to sleep with you. Sure, I would have looked at you pretty weirdly, but I might've done it eventually. You know, you've been acting a little funny lately."
"I have?"
"Yeah. Like yesterday, and Sunday, and Saturday."
"How so?"
"Let's see: You kissed me, got all cuddly, and then ignored me almost completely when you woke up to me waking you up. I mean, I don't mind the whole 'You slept in my bed' thing. It's just.. I dunno, never mind."
"Alright. You'll tell me eventually." I roll my eyes. "So do you like Gerard?"
"What?" I squeal, and he sh's me again.
"Well it's just.. I dunno. I mean, you guys obviously have something going on."
"No," I say, shaking my head even though he can't see me. "I don't like Gerard like that. He's already got a bitch, and I'm not the type to date him anyway."
"You're saying you don't like him because you're not his type? Dude, you guys are like perfect for each other!"
"Uh no, that's not why. It's because.. well.. I dunno, it'd just be awkward falling for him after writing all those fan fictions about him, you know?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Who gives a shit? He'd probably get a kick outta reading those." My eyes go wide.
"Oh no, he's never gonna find those. At least I hope he doesn't, that would be so embarrassing!" My mind wanders for a second and I see what I think would be his ideal reaction. I shake my head again. "I deleted them, so there's no way anyone besides me would ever find 'em."
"So why are you worrying?" I hear a smile in his voice again. He's teasing me, the little meanie face!
"I'm not?"
"Sure, uh huh. Okay."
"Shut up." I playfully nudge him. "Be nice or I'm leaving."
"Aw, I'll be nice. I don't want you to leave me," he says softly, wrapping his arms around me. For some reason I find myself getting all tingly inside, and I try to ignore it. So I smile and pull the covers over us.
"Never mind." I close my eyes and cuddle against him. I can hear his heart beat, and it calms me. I don't know why, but I think people get calm when they hear a heart beat because the mind, somehow, remembers being in the womb. It's weird, I know.
A pause.
"Never mind." I smile and he gently strokes my hair, then kisses my forehead. And just like yesterday with Gerard, a little voice inside my head is telling me something, but I tune it out. Right now I don't care if this is possibly too much, too friendly, I just want to sleep. And cuddle with Jeremy.
Alright, I think that's a good place to stop :)
Thank you guys so much, again, for rating and reviewing!!
It makes me all tingly inside LoL
So what do you think: would Amy and Gerard make a good couple? Or would she be better off with Jeremy, one of her best friends?


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ID the Desk on the FLOR Catalog Cover?
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Q: The summer 2012 FLOR catalog has a beautiful desk on the cover. Can you tell me how to find this desk?
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I've located prop items featured in catalogs and advertisements before by contacting the corporate office. Sometimes you get turned away, but not always.
I agree that it it's a knockout desk.
Past posts about Flor catalogs have stated that the photo shoots take place in people's homes, so Flor won't be able to source the furniture for you.
I saw a gorgeous table and four chairs for a dining area in a FLOR catalog. When I contacted them, they did indeed say it was shot in a private home, but they were nice enough to contact the owner in order to identify the manufacturer for me, so I was able to track it down. Worth a shot to ask - the worst they can say is No!
I found something with similar feel on the Esty site. Perhaps they could help with a designer's name.
Ok, I cannot find an other one like that desk but it looks like something made by Mastercraft. Here are the two examples that I could find to illustrate, but sadly no similar tables http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=671962
Also could it be a table, that someone has added a wooden top/box to? Just a thought.

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Political Science
Area of Social Learning
The political science major is designed for those who wish to understand politics, effectively engage the world around them, and make a difference. It prepares students to study law, work in government service, research, or teach in a school setting. The political science curriculum provides a broad foundation in the study of American political history, the institutions of government and governmental agencies, and the relationships among levels of government as well as the peoples served by those governments and their agencies.
There are two emphases available: the General Track and the International Politics Track. The General Track is designed for those students who desire a broad foundation in all areas of politics within the United States, while the International Politics Track prepares students to engage political realities within the context of global studies. Students may also choose to participate in the American Studies Program (see American Studies Program) in consultation with their adviser.
Graduates with a major in political science are expected to:
- Demonstrate a broad knowledge of American politics, international politics, and political theory,
- Use diverse methods to understand and analyze political institutions and political conflicts,
- Be prepared across the political science discipline for a wide range of careers, not limited to but including law school, graduate school, and government service, and
- Demonstrate an awareness of the roles and responsibilities of citizenship at the local, national, and international levels
Political Science major – B.A. (39 hrs)
General Track – Required Core Courses (33 hrs)
International Politics Track – Required Core Courses (33 hrs)
The following general education requirements are fulfilled in both tracks of the major:
Total number of required hours:
General track: 39 hours
International Politics track: 39 hours
To earn a bachelor's degree, a student must complete 128 semester hours in courses with course numbers at the 100 level or above. In addition to courses in the major (and minor, if chosen), students must complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree as described on Pages 41-43 of the 2013-2014 catalog. The B.A. degree requires foreign language through the intermediate level.
Senior Major Exam
The senior major exam, which is required of all baccalaureate degree-seeking students and evaluates the students in their major fields of study, is administered during the semester in which the student plans to graduate. Students pursuing double majors must complete a majors exam in each major. The majors exam for political science is the Major Field Test. All political science majors must complete this test prior to graduation.
Licensure is pending approval from the State of Tennessee. Students seeking teacher licensure should take either POLS 203 or POLS 360 as an American Politics elective and POLS 350 as an International Politics elective. Additional education courses and student teaching are required.
Political Science minor
The political science minor is designed for those who wish to study law or prepare for government service. Political science might be taken as a valuable adjunct to a major in history or business administration and economics.
The political science minor supports the following goals of Milligan College:
The political science minor provides a broad foundation in the study of the political process, the function of government and governmental agencies, and the relationships among levels of government as well as the peoples served by those governments and their agencies.
Students completing this minor will:
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The following general education requirements are fulfilled in the minor:
Total number of required hours: 18
History majors pursuing secondary teaching licensure
History majors pursuing secondary teaching licensure may add a government endorsement by adding this minor and appropriate student teaching experience to their program of study. For more information concerning teaching licensure, view the Education: Licensure programs section of the catalog.


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I wonder if that was a original intention or a change made due to guest feedback.
I was under the impression that the coaster was just having an overlay to suit the new theme. I guess Disney are really going all out to make this new expansion a wonderful new experience, which makes me even more excited to see the finished product.
Don't underestimate the power of a parent whose toddler has been scorned. I'm surprised that Disney even closed the "old" Dumbo before this new one was ready. I feel for anyone working Guest Relations on a day when Dumbo is down.
They needed the capacity.
I have been an AP holder and lived in Orlando for 12 years and I've gone to the park on many ocasions prior to that. I have NEVER seen the park as busy as it was yesterday. True - I would not be caught dead at Disney on New Years' Eve or at any time during week 52. I know it's Spring Break season, but I didn't expect it to be at full tile yet. The line for Haunted Manasion was over 45 minutes and the extened queue was set up down on the water front in the old Mike Fink Keel boats area. The line for It's a Small World began between the Columbia House restrooms and the jelly shop. 120 minutes for Splash Mountain. 45 for Snow White. 75 for Peter Pan. 50 for Pirates...during the 3:00 Parade. Crazy!
It was crazy!


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Top of the Line: Beautyrest Black
High Point Spring Market 2013
In addition to the all the sofas and chairs we road-tested while at Market, we gave a few mattresses a try. At Simmons we tried out four lines and their "Black" series is top of the line. They are blinged out, not crazy expensive and comfy.
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"They are blinged out, not crazy expensive and comfy."
So....didja really mean to say that they are not comfy? Ah, for want of a comma.... LOL
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I dared to peer around the corner, and swore aloud as I saw they were moving towards me. There was nothing else for it- I was gonna have to kill my parents. I raised the fork, and lunged, forcing it into my mother's blonde haired skull. She collapsed and began to twitch, things thicker than blood beginning to seep out of the wounds. My father advanced faster, letting out a moan of hunger? Anger? Whatever, I raised the pitchfork, now stained red and slippery with blood, and swung the heavy metal into his face. I felt the metal connect with bone, felt the bone give way into soft flesh. I did all this with an odd sense of detachment- these were not my parents, after all, just moving sacks of meat with their faces.
I watched their bodies until they stopped moving, and began to walk. As I got further away from their corpses, a thought occurred to me. I could go and get my bike. I touched my pocket in an automatic gesture, feeling the keys there. After a moment's deliberation, I decided to wait to get my bike. I could go back for it when this was all over, but until then, it was not a priority. I began to head towards town, making slow progress on foot, but good progress all the same. It wasn't long 'til I found myself in the center of town, and wondering where to go next. I consulted my mental shopping list. Bike jackets. Right. I made my way towards the closest bike shop I knew of, and found it virtually untouched. I snorted in disgust. Clearly people hadn't been watching enough horror movies. Surely people knew that they had to protect themselves?
I slung two jackets that looked as though they would cover the most skin over my shoulder, and made my way out. I wondered what next. The place seemed fairly deserted, I should make the most of it. I wandered into the convenience store straight ahead, stepping through the broken window. Glass crunched under my Docs, and I was grateful for the thick boots. One glance around the shop showed that anything valuable- TVs, DVD players, mobile phones- that aisle looked as though it had been hit by a plague of locusts, whereas everything else was virtually untouched.
I began to search the aisles for non perishable, packaged food. I turned a corner and slammed straight into a body. "Shit!" I yelled, and raised my fork, about to drive it home when I realised that my yell was echoed by the other body. I staggered backwards rapidly, fork still raised. The other person raised what looked to my freaked out mind looked like a guitar, and yelled "Gerard!" Another person came running, raising a large scary knife. "Whoa, there!" I cried, raising my hands. "I'm not a zombie!"
They stopped, lowering their weapons, and stepped into the narrow band of sunlight that fell across the blood smeared shop floor. One was a tall skinny boy with floppy, honey coloured hair and thick rimmed glasses that he pushed up his nose in a practiced, habitual movement. The other was a shorter boy with black tangly hair and a suspicious expression, coated in eyeliner. The taller boy was carrying a guitar, which made me smile. He slung the gore incrusted instrument back over his shoulder. They stood and stared. It was starting to get quite creepy.
"So, this place is deserted?" I asked, more for the sake of conversation than anything else. Anything to break the silence. "You have intestine in your hair." The taller boy pointed out. I pulled the slimy chunk out with barely a shudder, whereas the other two turned shades of green. I dropped the piece of organ on the floor with an unpleasant splat.
"Well, if that doesn't turn me vegetarian, nothing will." I said aloud. They laughed unexpectedly, which made them seem a lot more human, and a lot less threatening. I smiled, and the shorter boy said "Sorry about nearly stabbing you in the face. I'm Gerard, and this is my little brother Mikey." I smiled, a little half heartedly. "I'm Will. Where you guys from?" The guy with the knife, Gerard, gestured vaguely with the knife.
"Its not really anywhere anymore. Some guys burned it down. FYI, zombies will keep on coming no matter how many fires you start." I nodded, and shivered slightly. "Thanks for the tip." I could imagine it all too well. The moment of silence that had fallen was quite dramatically broken by a thumping from inside the nearby caretakers cupboard. We all whipped round to stare at the rattling door. "Not entirely deserted then?" I said, and we all gulped in synchronisation. It would have been funny in any situation but this one.
"That lock looks like it's gonna-" Gerard started to say, before the door flew open and crashed against the wall with a resounding bang. "Can't I have a fucking break!?" I shouted at the ceiling, hoping that god might hear and know that when I died, I was going to have a serious bone to pick about all the bullshit he was putting me through. That bastard.
I raised my fork and impaled the armless zombie. By some miracle, or maybe just a lucky stab, I managed to pin the zombie, still wearing his overalls, into the thin wall. He stuck there, and I held the jerking corpse in position while Mikey began to slam his guitar repeatedly into its face. It began to go pulpy, but still wouldn't quite die. He made one last huge effort, bringing the solid instrument down on the top of its head. The force of the impact made liquidised brain shoot out of the eye sockets, taking the eyeballs out on its way past.
The corpse sagged against my fork, and I tried to wrench it out, growling in frustration when it got caught on the ribs. I began to yank, and the accompanying snaps and cracks and scraping sounds made Gerard and Mikey wince. They still seemed a little queasy about brain matter, I noticed, as Mikey leaned over to vomit into the frozen peas. I realised with a kind of dull surprise that not even chunks of human body in my hair fazed me anymore. I could watch as what used to be people were bludgeoned to death, without even bad dreams. I shook my head. I could obsess over my potential jadedness later, right now, we had to get the fuck out of here.
I turned back to Gerard and Mikey. Gerard had a protective arm around his younger siblings shoulder, who seemed unable to tear his eyes away from the mangled body and seeping pool of gunk. I nudged it with my toe, causing the remains of the skull to collapse into an unrecognisable mess, sending the gunk shooting out of the mouth. Mikey turned green again, and I thought that perhaps it was time to leave. I did a quick sweep of the store, stuffing everything I thought could possibly be useful into a huge bag swiped from under the counter. "Come on, guys, lets get some air." I said, ushering them towards the shattered window. They stood, waiting for me as if shell-shocked.
I patted my pocket. "Cigarettes!" I remembered. I'd grab some for Frankie and Mandy too. I had just finished sweeping pretty much the whole lot into my bag, when I heard a shout. I dropped the bag and race outside, just in time to see a zombie kid, about six years old, launching himself at Gerard. "NOOOOO!" Mikey yelled, reaching for his guitar, but it was useless. The kid sank his teeth into Gerard's shoulder, tearing it away with surprising speed, sending geysers of blood shooting skywards. Mikey began to scream, the sound high and piteous as he struggled to tear the creature off of his brother. All I could hear was fleshy crunching and chewing sounds.
I ran a hand through my hair in helpless bewilderment. There was nothing I could do- either way, he was gone. In the end I settled for trying to yank Mikey back- a task easier said than done, the guy was deceptively strong despite looking like an underfed ballerina. I ripped the knife out of Gerard's convulsing hand, shoved Mikey to the side, and ripped the kid's head back. I began to cut, sawing through bone with an hideous, ear-splitting screeching noise. Abruptly the kid stopped struggling in a bid to get back to Gerard's still warm body, as I twisted his head off with a grotesque squelch. I threw it as hard as I could, letting it roll and come to rest in the gutter.
I decided to let Mikey have the last of his moments with his brother in privacy. I tried not to listen, but couldn't help hearing as Mikey cried over his brother, begging him to be okay. Tears welled up in my throat and threatened to choke me as I heard Mikey plead in his broken voice, and spilled over when I heard Gerard say his last words to his brother- "You were…the best….brother….I could have...ever asked for….Mikey…." I tried to swallow past the lump in my throat. I gave it a few more seconds before I turned around, pulling Mikey off of his brother's rapidly cooling shell. Gerard's blank eyes stared at the clouds, the hazel reflecting the blue perfectly. I swallowed, and reached over to close them, so aside from his fearful wounds, he could be sleeping, at peace. I grabbed Mikey's hand, pulling him gently to his feet. He didn't resist, instead turning to sob into my shoulder with the unashamed tears of the broken hearted.
After a few moment's I knew that we really had to go, because Gerard wasn't going to stay dead forever. As I thought that, I looked over. His eyes were open. "Mikey-" I started, but he turned of his own accord. Gerard sat up, one arm dangling limply by a few shreds of muscle. I tasted acid as I watched the meaty way it flapped around. "Mikey, lets go." I said firmly, but he didn't seem to hear. "Mikey-" I was cut off by Mikey's voice, the dreamlike quality scaring the fuck out of me more than his words.
"He's back! Will, Gerard's back." He took a step. I grabbed for him, and missed. "Mikey!" He took another step. How did he not see the emptiness in his brothers eyes? Gerard didn't move- all new zombies need a moment to adjust. "See, Will? He's fine, he came back to me." I shuddered. "Not in the way you want, Mikey- That's not your brother, there is nothing left of him in there! MIKEY THAT'S A ZOMBIE MIKEY NO NO NO NO!" I began to scream helplessly as Mikey closed the distance to his brother. I tried to pull him back, but Mikey was determined that nothing would stop him. I kept screaming, kept pleading, kept crying but to no avail. "It's okay, Gee, we'll get you some bandages for that shoulder." Mikey said in that scary dream-voice. "That was quite an accident you had…" I gripped my hair in useless, but nevertheless violent frustration. I watched, helpless, as Mikey wrapped his arms around the shorter zombie, a his face filled with bliss. He seemed to have lost all grip on reality, and I was powerless to help. I was forced to admit painful defeat when Gerard bit into his brother's skull, cracking it like an egg and exposing Mikey's brain through the hole.
He was dead, and messily so, I knew he was dead but that didn't stop me from trying to yank his body away. I pulled with all my strength, and with a sickening wet pop, I jerked backwards, leaving Gerard with Mikey's dislocated arm. His body smacked into the ground, the force of the impact causing his brain to splatter across the concrete. His eyes, as dead as any I'd ever seen, seemed to stare accusingly into mine. "I tried to save you." I whispered, fresh tears cutting tracks into the blood on my face. I stood up.
Gerard was distracted, chewing on his brother's arm. I got up, grabbed the bag, jackets and my fork, and ran. As I ran, I cried. I had tried to save them both, tried so damn hard, and for what? Suddenly all I wanted was a hug from Mandy, the one who stopped me falling into the trap, the one who stopped me giving up and letting myself be taken by the infectious undead. I slowed to a walk as I approached the church, breathless from all the extra stuff, and to be honest, my smoking habit. I quickly checked all around the outside, and seeing that the coast was clear, hauled myself and the bag and my weapon in through the window. The door felt too exposed right now. I dropped in, and was greeted by the beautiful sight of Mandy smiling at me, her hair damp and spiky and soft.
I felt a smile creep over my face. "You washed your hair in holy water?" I asked, amused. She nodded. "Felt a bit sinful, to tell the truth, but you know what? I love having clean hair so much, I just don't give a fuck." I laughed, and dropped to sit beside her. I let out a yawn. "Where's Frank?" I asked. "Over here." A voice called, as I dumped all the stuff. I looked over, his tattooed back to me as he rinsed his shirt. "I got tired of smelling like death." He shouted over, and hooked it over the back of a pew to dry. I smiled. Odd, how things felt so normal, despite what had happened… I should tell them what happened.
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Tony Parker has absolutely no fear of flying. And it's a good thing. Friday morning he was boarding a flight to Lithuania.
That's nothing for him. This time last year he was bound for Argentina. It comes with the territory when one plays basketball on an international level.
Parker, a 6-foot-9, 250-pound rising junior at Lithonia's Miller Grove High School, made the USA U17 Men's World Championship team after a tryout in San Antonio, Texas, last weekend. Friday, he and his 11 teammates from all over America — click HERE TO SEE ROSTER — headed to Europe for two weeks of practices, exhibition games and world championship tournament play.
Team USA will practice on Saturday, play Russia's U18 in an exhibition game on Sunday, practice Monday, play Lithuania's U17 team in an exhibition on Tuesday, then head to Hamburg, Germany, for more practices before the tournament commences.
It's a whirlwind tour. But Parker's not complaining.
"It's great to be going to another country and especially playing for my country and representing my family, my school and my community," said Parker, shortly before boarding his flight Friday. "It feels like yesterday I was just flying to San Antonio for the tryouts. It all happened kind of fast."
But it's nothing new for Parker, who will be taking a break from his Georgia Stars team AAU to represent his county. Last year he went to Argentina as a member of the USA developmental team. All but two of those players make up the U17 squad that will be competing in the world championship tournament over the two weeks.
"It's basically the same team as last year," Parker said. "We have a lot of chemistry. That's why we play so well together."
Parker's accomplishments have Miller Grove coach Sharman White absolutely busting his buttons.
"It's just a credit to Tony for the hard work he has put forth his whole career," White said. "I'm elated not only for him but for his family, our school and our community. I can't think of a better representative for us."
Meanwhile, while Parker is traipsing the globe, his college basketball recruitment remains on hold. It will probably come as no surprise to know that virtually every team in the country would like to have this well-seasoned and polished basketball player represent their school.
"I'm hearing from a lot of colleges," Parker said. "But I don't really have a favorite or anything at this point. I haven't really had a lot of time to think about it."
That might be the understatement of the year.
Parker said he has "narrowed" his list of schools to 11, including Georgia and Georgia Tech. The others are Alabama, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
Clearly, whatever school wins the "Tony Parker Sweepstakes" is going to get an experienced, polished basketball player.
"The thing about it is he's getting better and better," said White, whose Miller Grove team has won the last two Class AAAA state championship teams. "He works really hard with a personal trainer. He just wants to be the best. That's his specific goal, to be the best player. He's his biggest critic, so if he feels like there's something he needs to work on, he works on it — hard."
At this rate, best seems possible.
June 25th, 2010
11:54 am
Is he the son of SA's Tony Parker and Eva Longoria?
Just kidding, Congrats, represent Georgia well, sounds like bright kid
June 25th, 2010
12:14 pm
Soounds like a helluva player. Love to see him come to Tech or at least stay in state. Good luck to you young man..
June 25th, 2010
12:19 pm
I believe that he is just a rising Junior in high school.
June 25th, 2010
12:20 pm
One and done? Where have I heard this before
June 25th, 2010
12:24 pm
Best of luck. Can't wait to see you in the Orange and White!
June 25th, 2010
1:04 pm
Once fox's dawgs roll through the sec and tourny next season, Parker will see the light and join what's new and happening with the other GA talent right here in Athens! No doubt where the excitement will be. UGA!
June 25th, 2010
1:09 pm
What kind of student is he or does that matter to colleges now?
June 25th, 2010
1:20 pm
He is a great student. He has well over a 3 point grade point average. Whether it matters to the colleges or not it matters to him and his parents! Tony works hard on and off the court.
June 25th, 2010
1:23 pm
Cracker…..about the same as Reggie Ball…..worked out for Reggie at one of the finest higher learning places on earth…….Where's Reggie working….I mean what firm is he with?….LOL
June 25th, 2010
1:24 pm
to go along with the grades….it probably looks good for getting into college that he has spent time abroad…that is a huge learning experience in itself
June 25th, 2010
1:26 pm
Kid will be a star….Hope it's at UGA……..But he'll do anybody proud, especially Mrs. Parker and Dad.
June 25th, 2010
2:05 pm
Great kid from a terrific family. Go get 'em, Tony!
June 25th, 2010
2:27 pm
For those of us who are negative towards people that strive for greatness I hope you aren't adults… and for the record you are the commentators\haters who do just that stay in your place. You make him famous. Unlike yourselves!!! Cracker and JB!!!
June 25th, 2010
2:32 pm
June 25th, 2010
3:07 pm
Sounds like a great kid and a great athlete! Hope he considers UGA, but i'm sure he will be successful at whatever school he chooses.
June 25th, 2010
3:48 pm
Congrats Tony! MGHS is full of bball talent and we are extremely proud to have a player like Tony in our mist. He's definately goin places in the future and can't wait to see him develop even more in his college career!
June 25th, 2010
4:10 pm
My great-nephew is a wonderful young man that God has blessed to be a great student, both academically and athletically. Whereever he decides to go, you can bet he will do his best and represent us all, family, friends, community, and America. GO TONY!!!!
June 25th, 2010
4:20 pm
If he has a high IQ he will play for the Jackets otherwise he is a dog.
Buzz Buzz Buzz. Feel the sting!
June 25th, 2010
4:25 pm
I think that his comments and the comments by probable family members on here attest to this kid being a young man of character. Good luck and continue to make GA proud.
June 25th, 2010
4:54 pm
Sharman White is one of the top 5 worst coaches in the game.
June 25th, 2010
5:01 pm
Great job Tony! My nephew works hard for what he wants that includes his grades. I willing be ready for my front row seat to see my little big guy play. Just keeping moving forward Tony.
June 25th, 2010
5:04 pm
Would be a nice addition to the Coach Fox " Dream Team ".
June 25th, 2010
5:17 pm
I would like to say congratulations Tony for a job well done. You have worked hard academically and in the game. I know you will represent the family and our country well. GOOOO TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2010
5:20 pm
Tony is one of the best basketball players I've ever seen. I want to say congrats to him. Do great tony!
June 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Outstanding job Tony, keep working hard and continue to stay focused on being more than just an athlete. Everyone is very proud of your accomplishments!
June 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
I am so proud of you Tony! You're a true inspiration to all, continue to remain true to yourself and rise closer to your dreams! Your HARDWORK in every aspect is paying off! Disregard negitivity, this is about YOU and your outstanding accomplishments! Half of the people out here would NEVER be able to walk in your shoes,they just dont have what it takes, Believe That!
Notice to Writers: Keep your negative comments to yourself, I mean seriously, take care of your own…get a hobby…do something…Just don't share your ignorance with us! Thanks!
June 25th, 2010
10:25 pm
Congrats Tony!!! Stay positive and continue to work hard.
To Tony's family members that have posted on this blog I congratulate you on circling the wagons, supporting and protecting the young man against evil, negative, neoconservatives forces that feel justified in attacking a kids character and intelligence because he's black and athletic.
May God con't to bless him and all of you.
June 26th, 2010
12:43 am
Tony, way to represent all the great Georgian's across this state! We're cheering for you. Hopefully in a few years you'll take your talents to Athens and represent the State again as a Georgia Bulldog.
Congrats to you and your very proud family
June 26th, 2010
3:44 am
Tony, continue your aspiration to be the best that you can be. You have shown us in both academics and athletics that you have what it takes to be a winner. Let no one define U but U. Continue your dream! God Bless You. Remember to always keep the ball in your court!! We are soooo proud of you. Go and bring home the GOLD!!
June 26th, 2010
7:43 am
Tony thank for being such a great and humble young man. you talent although great does not compare to your character. your parents,teachers,coaches, and community are proud of you. luv ya
June 26th, 2010
10:42 am
Curiously, in a supposed anti-incumbent year, most of the departing are not retiring but seeking higher office. We may recycle more than we replace. The bad news is that a frustrating 114 seats still have but one contestant. Two of them aren't even incumbents, meaning they will affect state policy without being vetted by voters. And I have to think that we'd be better off if many had run instead for the Legislature — and cut down on the number running unopposed. Georgia's problems are numerous. They aren't going away. There's too much stale thinking at the Capitol, on both sides of the aisle. New voices would be welcome.
June 26th, 2010
11:14 am
Go Tony!!!! Represent USA!!!!!! Great Job! WOW! This is amazing man!
June 26th, 2010
12:50 pm
Morrus, wrong room for politics.
June 26th, 2010
1:48 pm
Best of luck to a fine young man. Make us all proud!
Then come join the FUN northward in Knoxville just like
GA natives – Cameron Tatum (Tucker), Kenny Hall (Stone Mountain),
Trae Golden (Powder Springs), Jordan McRae (Midway), and
Kevin Ware (Conyers)
June 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
This kid is a rare talent on and off of the court. I had the pleasure of teaching him his freshman year at the school. In the beginning he was a bit shy, but he quickly emerged as one of the top performers in the class. I can recall on game day, against one of the schools biggest rivals, Tony came in for a 30-minute tutorial, to get clarity on the lesson and get help on his project.Now that's dedication! In the end, Toney finished with one of the highest grades in the class. I knew then, that this kid was special. Toney, keep working hard.
June 27th, 2010
1:32 am
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Congratulations Tony!!! Ur humble and gracious spirit r exemplary of ur upbringing instilled by ur parents. All of the Parker children exhibit this same spirit. Kudos to Mom n Dad! Go Tony!!!
June 27th, 2010
12:36 pm
Tony, I am extremely proud of you and ALL of your accomplishments. Your hard work is and will continue to payoff. God has truly blessed you. Keep up the good work and don't let anyone deter you.
June 27th, 2010
1:41 pm
Congratulations lil cuz!! I'm soooo proud of you:-) Anybody who needs a lesson on working hard to achieve their dreams should take notes from you! You are a true inspiration. Keep working hard and making everyone proud:-) I love you! XOXOXO
June 27th, 2010
10:37 pm
Fantastic job Tony! I saw your DAD play many times and he is one of the greatest long range shooters and complete players that I have ever seen play basketball!
June 27th, 2010
10:43 pm
What are you talking about? Neoconservatives? The term refers to a stand on foreign policy and does not pertain to a race issue. It seems like you are the one on her with a race issue. Please keep that to yourself. I wish this young man the best of luck no matter what color his skin is! I'm proud that we have great young/smart athletes that are willing to show their patriotism and represent the US. Please don't drag the race issue into this! Congratulations Tony!! Can't wait to see where you end up in college and the pros!
June 27th, 2010
10:53 pm
June 28th, 2010
10:25 pm
The family is about education. Sister graduated from Tuskegee University. Is now in Law School. Middle sister is due to graduate in 2013 with a major in Chemical Engineering. The young man comes from a family of educators. Why do we as a community have to continue to try and destroy a young African American Male trying to live the American Dream.


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Five positive lessons MTV is teaching teens
Yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research came out with a study saying that MTV's show "16 & Pregnant" is contributing directly to a drop in the teen pregnancy rate. And it actually sounds legit. Researchers found that areas in the U.S. where the show had the most viewers had the lowest teen pregnancy rates. Since the show premiered in 2009, teen pregnancy rates have dropped 9 percent and are the lowest they've been in more than 10 years.
This made us wonder what else MTV is subliminally teaching teens.
1. Stop pretending to be someone else online. Thank you, Nev and Max, for exposing how not cool it is to mess with someone's emotions online. It's safe to say that most "Catfish" viewers won't be tempted to start any fake Facebook profiles anytime soon. Not only do they know their photos can be dragged into Google to turn up other pictures of themselves, or with other tricks of the "Catfish" trade, but they see just how much it can hurt someone. "Catfish": spreading empathy one episode at a time.
2. With your real friends, nothing is off limits. The casts of "Girl Code" and "Guy Code" spend episodes talking about things you might not feel most comfortable bringing up with your own clique. But between the talks about bikini waxes and asking someone out, the real lesson that emerges is that you shouldn't be afraid to share whatever's on your mind with friends. If it's a true friendship, they have your back.
3. Your weird family is totally normal. MTV has a knack for normalizing things some people don't know much about. "Generation Cryo" shows what it's like to be a teen with lesbian parents, who was conceived with the help of a sperm donor. Several episodes of "True Life" have been devoted to kooky parents, like ones who dress up as clowns or party more than the average college student. But in the end, all these families are just different versions of the same thing: people sitting around the dinner table who want what's best for each other.
4. It's always possible to reinvent yourself. You have to love the kids on "Made." Despite being the dorkiest person at school or terrible at sports, they think they can score a hot Homecoming date or make the varsity team — and they often do! The real life lesson here: By surrounding yourself with life coaches and refusing to give up, you can turn your dreams into reality.
5. "Don't try this at home" is always good advice. No one wants to end up in a "Ridiculousness" video. If Rob Dyrdek has taught viewers anything, it's that skateboards and slim ledges don't go together, and that trampolines and pogo sticks in general are not a good idea. Here's to a safer America!
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Fact: Michael Bay initially planned to direct 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' in accordance with the Dogme 95 manifesto.posted by titus-g at 1:33 AM on January 18, 2012 [9 favorites]
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.-- Thomas Jefferson
It's behavior like Chris Dodd's that makes it rational not only to be cynical about our political culture, but outright jaded. What makes Dodd's shilling for this censorship law so galling is that, during the 2008 presidential campaign, he postured as the candidate who would devote himself first and foremost to defending core Constitutional freedoms and civil liberties. ...posted by Trurl at 5:39 AM on January 18, 2012 [4 favorites]
Furthermore, one of the bill's chief Senate sponsors is a liberal Democrat from Vermont, Pat Leahy, who during the Bush years flamboyantly depicted himself as a stalwart defender of Constitutional liberties — and whose "top 3 campaign contribution sources [are] lawyers, entertainment industry, lobbyists." Those industries are, of course, also major donors to Leahy's House GOP counterpart. ...
In the face of pervasive, sleazy conduct like this, it's not only tempting to be jaded about partisan activism: it's rational. Watching Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy join equally compromised Republicans in crusading for an Internet censorship bill — not even out of sincerely held authoritarian impulses but just base, corrupted subservience to industry — reveals most of what one needs to know about how the political class functions and who owns and controls it.
"That's what the almost-21,000-strong group NY Tech Meetup fears could happen if so-called SOPA and PIPA legislation gets passed. The group is holding an emergency protest outside of the offices of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who co-sponsored the Senate bill, at 780 Third Ave. from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in a bid to defeat the legislation."Also his Twitter is getting mighty defensive about this:
[S]ocial media sites like Facebook or YouTube -— basically any site with user generated content —- would have to police their own sites, forcing huge liability costs onto countless Internet companies.The "'have said en masse" link leads to a turgidly written 28-page PDF at Booz & Co.; however, here are relevant excerpts from the Executive Summary:
This is exactly why venture capitalists have said en masse they won't invest in online startups if PIPA and SOPA pass.
It is estimated that the Internet has represented 3.4 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) and 21 percent of GDP growth in mature countries over the past five years.posted by Herodios at 8:08 AM on January 18, 2012 [6 favorites]
[F]urther investment will be needed to support the creation of new technologies in social media, mobility, cloud computing, and the streaming of video and audio content.
The companies at the heart of these innovations depend heavily on investment from angel investors and venture capitalists [who] invest an estimated US$20 billion and $23 billion, respectively, into early-stage companies in the U.S. annually. . .
[W]e surveyed 189 U.S. accredited angel investors and interviewed 24 prominent venture capitalists.
[O]ur principal findings:
- Increasing liability for content providers would have a greater negative impact on early-stage investment than would a weak economy and an increased competitive environment combined.
- Holding DCIs liable for the content uploaded by users would. . . reduce the pool of interested angel investors by 81 percent.
- Regulations making users more easily prosecuted for copyright violations would . . . reduce the pool of interested angel investors by 48 percent.
- A large majority of angels and venture capitalists support increased clarity in copyright law, especially if it would decrease the level of ambiguity surrounding the probability of facing a lawsuit in cases of copyright infringement, as well as the size of damages in the event of liability.
- Fully 80 percent report being uncomfortable investing in business models in which the regulatory framework is ambiguous.
Tense scenes here outside the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, after goateed hipsters and schoolchildren clashed early this morning over access to the library's limited number of copies of the concise edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.posted by nangar at 8:49 AM on January 18, 2012 [6 favorites]
NYPD officers are attempting to restore calm by randomly arresting uninvolved onlookers.
I am once again delighted that my representative is on the right side of things, and I refuse to take responsibility for the rest of the jackasses Texas has elected. (That's the only way to maintain sanity, living here.)Ron Paul's against SOPA! Of course, he would have been against the early funding that helped creating the internet as well....
Doesn't seem to offer much hope for getting more moderate GOP Senators if he's going to lose after one term.It's hard to imagine that a "Moderate GOP Senator", one who's used his position as a swing vote to win concessions for major banks would be more valuable then having Elizabeth Warren in the senate.
But it would be better to have a GOP Senator like him than Jim DeMint. Scott Brown in, say North Carolina would be a lot better than Scott Brown in MA.Right, but that has to do with the character of the voters in those states. Republican primary voters in MA want to vote for moderates because they might win. Republican primary voters in NC don't, because they don't need to worry about it.
it is that if Brown, who is a moderate Republican by today's standards, can not win reelection that implies that only radical Republicans stand a chance of being elected d still rather have him in the Senate than say Cornyn, or Corker, or DeMint or Enzi or...Right but again, that's what happens when the voters in those states vote. Scott Brown's election was the result of a particularly awful democratic candidate, someone even I would have had trouble voting for. Martha Coakley was just awful. Had I been in MA there's a chance I would have voted for Brown. But obviously I'd be jumping at the chance to vote for Warren.
the man of twists and turns: "I'm going to vote against Sen. Marco Rubio for entirely different reasons, but I guess I won't call him tomorrow."No, please, do still call him. It's still worth it—after all, now is when people get to start calling him a flip-flopper and commie pirate-sympathizer.
jessamyn: Amusingly one of the reasons there are so few libraries participating is that for organizations with 501c3 status, coming out against legislation can be considered forbidden political activity, especially if there is someone with an axe to grind against your organization.I took a spin around some university sites--places like Carnegie Mellon and Michigan, which are known as major tech schools and sites of development of the internet and the Internet2 initiative--and was pretty disappointed, especially in so-called "Information Schools" like the University of Pittsburgh's, where I hope to start the MLS program soonish. So I was quite pleased to see this page from the Syracuse iSchool ...
I am telling myself that this is why the ALA has done basically nothing."
A Declaration of the Independence of CyberspaceAnd, OK, it is slightly tweer than a kitten in mittens singing "I Will Survive", but...
by John Perry Barlow
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996
No senators were found for your zip code.Oh, the irony.
Democracie (or democracy) is a poleetical form o government in which governin pouer is derived frae the fowk, either bi direct referendum (direct democracie) or bi means o electit representatives o the fowk (representative democracie). [..]posted by desjardins at 11:26 AM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]
In the Unitit States, separation o pouers is aften cited as a supportin attribute, but in ither kintras, such as the Unitit Kinrick, the dominant philosophie is parliamentarie sovereigntie (though in practice judicial independence is generallie maintained). In ither cases, "democracie" is uised tae mean direct democracie. Though the term "democracie" is typicallie uised in the context o a poleetical state, the principles are applicable tae private organizations an ither groups an aa.
I'm tired of having to stringently enforce antipiracy policies in an effort to respect the rights of content creators. I'm tired of our community being a beacon of somewhat decency in a sea of whiny brats who just want everything for free.posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 12:13 PM on January 18, 2012 [6 favorites]
So you know what, Maidens of the Kaleidoscope will hereby endorse the current efforts in Congress to eliminate all those nasty loopholes criminals exploit like "fair use" and "safe harbor" and that sort of nonsense. Clearly every single piece of work, every single note, line, still, video or object created by the wonderful people representing the RIAA and MPAA and Max Hardcore Productions deserve every penny from their work now until the next millenium so their children and their children's children and children's children's children can live safe and happily. And only freedom hating communists want to take food off Dr. Dre's table right?
Plus, everyone knows anime and visual culture fans are just all dirty pirates anyways, stealing viewership from hardworking American actors and shows and media. I mean we all clearly know if such evil sites like nicovideo.jp (communists) and danbooru.donmai.us (how cute they put .us in their name to try to hide their communist ways) didn't exist, they instead would be purchasing the latest Eminem/Fabio duet single and watching Real Housewives of Milwaukee and reading Captain George W America and the League of Capitalists.
So if you're a freedom loving American, you already know the answer, you need to tell your Senator and your Representative right now to pass this bill ASAP to protect America from foreign influence corrupting our pure American ways, and to protect American jobs from being taken by electronica nerds in their basements making chiptunes with old PC98s. If you're a communist, well, God help you because you'll be in jail with the rest of the Billy Idol impersonators.
I know, you want me to write my congressperson. This is my congressperson. Do you still want me to write her about this?Yes, write in to thank her, and consider donating to her! We should reward good behavior when it happens! (looks like you did that. Awesome)
Dear Ms. West:I am curious about that last paragraph because that was not, at all, my impression.
Thank you for contacting me about the PROTECT IP Act. I appreciate hearing from you.
In drafting this legislation, I have been committed an open process and have heard from all third parties that would be asked to take action under the bill. It is because of this process that a majority of third parties support these actions. However, an open process has also allowed me to hear a number of concerns from engineers, human rights groups, and Vermonters. Because of these concerns, I am prepared to hold back and study the Domain Name provision of the bill as the Senate moves forward to consider it on January 24, even as I remain confident that Internet Service Providers would not support this measure if it created the problems that some have suggested.
It is important to note that mainstream websites such as Reddit, YouTube, Wikipedia, and others are in no way targeted by this bill. Most importantly, this is because they are based in the United States and the PROTECT IP Act targets primarily foreign websites. This is also due to the fact that in order to meet the definition contained in the PROTECT IP Act, websites must have no significant use other than infringement. There is no doubt that each of these sites do have significant uses other than infringement, even as some of them contain infringing content, and would therefore never satisfy that requirement.
Thank you again for contacting me. Please keep in touch.
United States Senator
To be perfectly clear, the sites that the bill is meant to be targeted at are sites like filestube.com (oh how i love it so), megaupload, and the Pirate Bay, and probably private trackers and a lot of blogs and messageboards that primarily link to files hosted on those sites.The difference is between who the bill "targets" and who it "effects"
As you may know, several popular websites, including Wikipedia, have gone black today to protest SOPA, a bill with sweeping language that could lead to censorship on the Internet. Hundreds of constituents have contacted me by phone, email, Facebook and Twitter over the past few days to voice their opposition to the legislation.GO, CHELLIE!
I wanted to let you know that I am strongly opposed to SOPA and will vote against this legislation if it comes before the House. The companion bill could come before the Senate as early as next week.
SOPA sounds like it has a noble purpose—stopping online piracy—but its sweeping language could have a chilling effect on free speech online. It gives big corporations far too much power in censoring what can be shared online, and the penalties it sets go way overboard. You could face up to five years in prison just for posting a video of your child singing a pop song. That's not what the Internet is all about. You can find out more about the legislation here.
To share your feedback on this legislation, please contact me or comment on Facebook.
Best wishes,
Well, it's heartening to see some of the various scumbags members of Congress come around on SOPA/PIPA ... even if in most cases it's with about the same level of sincerity that my cat displays when he's caught sitting on the kitchen counter. It's a great act, but we both know the next time I'm not looking he's going to be right back up there.Well, the thing is though that a lot of the opponents to SOPA are also corporations, Google, Facebook, Reddit. Wikipedia and Mozilla, as non profits are a type of 'corporation', just typically without the money. Unfortunately, that's what makes this fight winnable, there is big money on both sides of the issue.
And that's my concern. Not to diminish the efforts of today's blackouts, or everyone who has called or written to oppose SOPA/PIPA, but there's a huge risk -- I'd say its a near-certainty -- that the companies underwriting SOPA/PIPA are just going to keep trying, over and over and over, until something slips through and becomes law. That's essentially what they did with the DMCA, and it passed on a voice vote so that nobody would be able to point fingers, exactly, afterwards.
Why is the RIAA and MPAA being given such a huge voice in the government? (Well: lobbyists obviously.) What is it going to take for the goverment to finally wake up and say "Ok you guys at the **AA have been getting away with your crap for over 20 years now. Enough is enough."I doubt the average artist out there is a big fan of SOPA/PIPA. It's the people who run the companies, who want more control over the internet.
I honestly can't believe the content industry is populated by such a ridiculous bunch of cavemen. Honestly.
Congressional negotiators are looking at radical revisions to the DNS provisions, but lawmakers may decide the resulting legislation is too neutered to pursue, aides from both parties say.
I'm a bit ambivalent about all this stuff with SOPA and PIPA because it's a little disheartening that what really gets people riled up is when you fuck with their internet, and not things like torture and assassination and vast media disinformation campaigns. But, on the other hand, these two laws are shit like the DMCA is shit and all are representative of numerous things that are wrong the US legislative process and voter awareness. Stopping these two laws is a good thing on its own terms.Part of the problem is that people just don't want to believe all that horrible stuff, so they tune it out, and the media doesn't cover it.
I started talking about PROTECT IP last May, back when the Kos left was all in favor of Internet regulation.He's talking about Net Neutrality, which is a really incomprehensible thing for anyone other then phone companies to be against. A lot of people, who knows why, seemed to think Net Neutrality meant enforcing political neutrality on websites, or something. It probably needs to be rebranded.
The attendees included veteran Washington policymakers and cyberdefense experts. But one person – an engineer named Dan Kaminsky who specializes in an arcane set of rules governing how people connect to the Internet – stood outposted by empath at 7:54 AM on January 19, 2012 [2 favorites]
That would be mefi's own Dan Kaminsky.
These engineers, of whom Kaminsky is among the most vocal, succeeded in making the case that the bills would adversely affect the technology intended to secure the Web against hacking attacks that hijack websites and trick people into visiting pages loaded with malicious software....posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:05 AM on January 19, 2012 [5 favorites]
One of the main problems engineers cited was that [the DNS blocking required by SOPA] is the same blocking mechanism hackers use to fool people into going to fake websites. The security system they had devised wouldn't be able to distinguish between blocking done by hackers and that done by governments and therefore wouldn't work. That could leave Web users open to hacking, they said.
So, essentially, what they're saying is, "Hey, Obama, if you pass this bill, we will give you a bunch of money; if you don't, we won't."In American politics? Hahahaha.
Isn't there a word for that?
Isn't it illegal?
Sys Rq: "Hollywood moguls tell Obama to go fuck himself.Salon: Dodd accused of "bribery" over SOPA remarks
So, essentially, what they're saying is, "Hey, Obama, if you pass this bill, we will give you a bunch of money; if you don't, we won't."
Isn't there a word for that?
Isn't it illegal?"
In response to his comments, a petition has been created on the White House website asking the Obama administration to investigate Dodd for "bribery." It hasposted by FlyingMonkey at 2:50 PM on January 23, 2012
17,000signatures after two days.


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1. Introduction
The Purpose of this document is to give a practical example of how to calculate the number of brake
rollers that need to be installed on a specific configuration of conveyor belt. In order to successfully understand the terminology used in this document the following basic concepts regarding
conveyor belt layouts and friction need to be understood.
1.1 Conveyor Belt Angle
The correct angle at which a conveyor belt operates is important in determining the correct number of
BELT-BRAKETM to install. Both the height of the conveyor as well as the height difference
between the head pulley and the tail pulley is required as seen in Figure 1 to determine the conveyor
belt angle. The angle can be calculated from normal trigonometric relationships.
Sinθ = (H/L) therefore θ = Sin-1(H/L)
1.2 Normal Force
A normal force is a force that acts perpendicularly to a surface. When the angle at which a surface is orientated is at a zero angle (θ=0°) the normal force is equal to the weight of the object that is lying on the surface. However as soon as the surface is raised at a certain angle the normal force is fractionally less depending on the angle at which the surface is inclined. The normal force can be calculated for the following four vector force combinations and layouts as seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Normal Forces [1]
The configuration that is applicable to the mass being distributed on a conveyor belt at a certain angle theta (θ) is
N = mgCosθ [N] (2)
Hence only a portion of the mass acts perpendicular to the surface of the conveyor belt and the other portion want to roll back down the incline.
1.3 Coefficient of Friction
Friction is the phenomena of the interlocking forces between the irregularities between two surfaces. These forces increase when trying to move the surfaces relative to each other until just prior to motion occurring when the forces are at there greatest. After there is relative motion the friction forces are found to be slightly less than the amount just prior to the relevant movement between the two surfaces.
The experimental Static coefficient of friction can be determined by placing a mass at an incline and determining the tangent of the threshold angle at which the mass starts sliding down the incline.
The experimental Kinetic coefficient of friction is determined by using the tangent of the minimum angle at which the mass will maintain a constant velocity down the incline when initially assisted to overcome the static friction threshold and set into motion. The Kinetic coefficient of friction is found to be constant for various velocities and is always less that the Static coefficient of friction.
Figure 3: Determining Friction Forces [1]
It is important to note that coefficient of kinetic and static friction is a function of the two materials which are being used and hence there is not a coefficient of friction for say wood or for glass. There is however a unique coefficient between say tar and a tyre. It is also important to note that the surface finish plays a big role in the coefficient.
1.4 Weight distribution
When there is certain average mass distributed over a load-carrying member, which in this case is the conveyor belt we need to know what the weight distribution in N/m is. The symbol q is used for the weight distribution. Both the mass being transported per hour and the weight of the conveyor belt in kg/m needs to be used in order to accurately determine the weight distribution.
To give an example of how we calculate the weight distribution we use the following example.
Example 1:
1) Velocity of Conveyor Belt (V) = 2 m/s
2) Tonnage per hour (T) = 1000 tons per hour
3) Mass of belt per meter (mB) = 30 kg/m
The mass distribution is calculated as follows:
1 Ton = 1000 kg therefore 1000 ton = 1.0x106 kg (1000 000 kg)
Mass transported per second = (1.103)/3600 = 277.78 kg/s
Mass distribution = Mass per second/ belt velocity (V) + Belt mass (mB)
= 277.78/2 + 30kg/m = 169 kg/m>
Weight distribution = Mass Distribution* Gravitational Constant
Therefore q = 1657N/m (g = 9.81 m/s2)
Mass Distribution (q) =g((T.1000/3600.V) + MB)) [N/m] (3)
This value is needed to determine the normal and horizontal force components that react through the BELT-BRAKETM rollers and hence its structure.
1.5 Configuration Factor
A trough will typically be a three or a five roll configuration and therefore a different percentage of the mass that is distributed on a section of the conveyor will act on the idler or on the installed BELT-BRAKETM. On average the percentage of mass that acts on the centre idler of a three roll configuration is 64% and on a 5 roll configuration approximately 38 %. The remaining percentage on a three roll configuration is then 18% per wing idler.
Figure 4: Roller Configuration
Figure 4 illustrates the approximate factor for both the three and five roller through. Therefore we need to incorporate a factor which will be used to determine correctly the normal force that will act on the BELT-BRAKETM. We will call this factor the configuration factor CF. The configuration is designate the subscript 3 to the three roll and 5 to the 5 roll configuration.
Configuration factor: CF3 = 0.64; 0.18 or CF5 = 0.38; 0.20; 0.11 (4)
2. Calculating the number of BELT-BRAKETM rollers to be installed.
The number of BELT-BRAKETM rollers that needs to be installed can be calculated as follows.
Firstly the amount of weight that needs to be stopped will be formulated as a function of the angel of the conveyor. This amount will be multiplied by a safety factor. The amount of braking force that can be realised by the BELT-BRAKETM will then be formulated as a function of the angle of the conveyor, the friction coefficient and the Configuration Factor. These two can then be equated to determine how many BELT-BRAKETM rollers need to be installed for a specific configuration.
2.1 Total mass that needs to be stopped.
The amount of friction force that is required to stop the mass that is lying on the conveyor belt is the component of mass that want to roll back down the specific incline. In the same way that the component of the mass that is acting normal to the conveyor belt is given by m.Cosθ so the component that wants to roll back is given by m.Sinθ
This total mass that want to roll down the conveyor is given by the total length of the belt (L) multiplied by the mass distribution (q). The total mass is also multiplied by the safety factor (SF). This total quantity is called the force required to stop (FRS) and is given in Equation 5.
FRS =(SF)LqSinθ [N] (5)
2.2 Friction force that can be realised by a BELT-BRAKETM
To differentiate between the friction force that is required and the friction force that can be realised we allocate FFB to the friction force that a BELT-BRAKETM is capable of producing. We assume that the total weight that acts on a trough is equal to the weight distribution that lies between two troughs. This distance will be designated the symbol LR. Figure 5 indicates LR more clearly.
Therefore the friction force that can be realised per BELT-BRAKETM is the normal force m.Cosθ multiplied by the friction coefficient µ multiplied by the Configuration factor given Equation 4 (CF). The mass that acts on any roller is the mass distribution q multiplied by LR.
FFB = CF.µ.q.LR.cosθ [N] (6)
Figure 5: Mass distribution between two troughs
The total amount of friction force that is required is the total number of BELT-BRAKETM rollers that will be installed (NBR) multiplied by the amount that each can stop or the friction force that can be realised by each BELT-BRAKETM (FFB). Therefore the friction force required is given the designation FFR.
All that is still required is to determine the number of rollers to install. This is done by noting that the friction force that is required FFR in Equation 7 should at least be greater or equal to the Force that we require to stop FRS in Equation 5.
CF.NBRLR.µCosθ ≥ q.L.(SF).Sinθ
NBR ≥ L.Tanθ.SF / LR.µ.CF (9)
3. Symbols
4. References
[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
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