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EXACTLY. I completely agree.
Mothman looks great!
Have always been following your Snake Men's color-schemes, man. They are all so beautiful. Well done lot!
YES! more vintage customs! so awesome! VERY WELL DONE! I have that same tiki head and have been planning on making a TIKI-TORTURER, lol! :)
After sharing so much praise on FB for this one, I cannot believe to find it on the 'Org! This is so awesome! :) Nice to see vintage customs on the forum again!
LOL I love it! Love the fight with Puncho, too! hahah!
Those are REALLY nice customs! Very smart ideas about the colors, man!
Man, the clear LooKee is a must-have for any Filmation fan that tries to find him in the cartoons. Well done!
Yup! I agree with my pal Chris....because I own one (and a ghost one from the same customizer):
Yeah, that looks great!
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Well done, pal!
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makes TOTAL sense, man: the Cosmic Enforcer symbol on Wundar's armor: he's a Cosmic Enforcer! The gun and helmet MAKES SENSE. I like it!
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WELL DONE! I like it!
that head is really cool....this is a good custom!
Let me be the 40th view and the 1st comment: "OH WOW! A VINTAGE CUSTOM! IT'S NOT A MOTUC CUSTOM THAT'S A REPAINT OR PART-SWAP!" lol :) This is fantastic! You flocked certain parts, used vintage...
LOL! thanks guys! :) Appreciate it!
Thanks, Chris! Yeah, those Remco legs have the same texture as the Rattlor arms, so it was a fine fit....and accidental, too! :)
the blue Snake Man is so cool....but yeah, MEURTO IS FREAKING AWESOME.
OHHH! Cool, thanks! I can see that!
Thanks a lot, Chris :)
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Ik ben helemaal nieuw op Centos but I like Centos very much. I use it on a VPS.
Can anyone explain what needs to happen to the RH programs before they become Centos programs ? What is necessary for the conversion.
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I just graduated last friday, so I have now official the "Realschulabschluss" in germany. Germany's school-system is quite complicated, so lemme do a fast explaination: Basically we're all starting in the "Grundschule" you're going into Grundschule for 4 years (starting with 6yrs (age) nowadays I think). Right after Grundschule you're going to one of three schools:
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When I went to school back ago 9-10 years, the Hauptschule in our "state" (schleswig-holstein) had only 9 years. Nowadays all three schools got a minimum of 10 years (if I remember correct) however, usually Hauptschule is the worst and Gymnasium the best. I've been on a Hauptschule and I did only 9 years. I came out with an average grade of 3,4 (which is really really bad, on a already bad school). Grades in germany go from 1 to 6 where 1 is the best and 6 the worst.
Nine years later I redid Hauptschule with an average grade of 1,0 (the best), and last friday I got my grades for Realschule. Average grade of 1,5.
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Dependency hell
Dependency hell (англ. Ад зависимостей) - это разговорный термин, обозначающий раздражение от некоторого программного обеспечения, которое зависит от специфичных версий других ПО.[1] Проблемы с зависимостями возникают у общих пакетов/библиотек, у которых некоторые другие пакеты имеют зависимости от несовместимых и различных версий общих пакетов. Если установлена одна версия общего пакета/библиотеки, для решения этой проблемы пользователю/администратору понадобится получить новые или старые версии зависимых пакетов. Это, в свою очередь, может нарушить работу других зависимых пакетов и добавить проблем в другой набор пакетов, таким образом образуя настоящий ад.
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Often, rather than "reinventing the wheel", software is designed to take advantage of other software components that are already available, or have already been designed and implemented for use elsewhere. This could be compared to how people building a house might buy off-the-shelf components, such as bricks, windows, and doors, rather than producing everything themselves.
Even for a builder, it can be a problem if a building is designed for a certain door type, and only doors with different specifications are available. However, in the software world, where components evolve rapidly and depend significantly on one another, this problem becomes more pronounced.[2]
The issue of dependency hell may be regarded as an anti-pattern, where the fault lies less with the suppliers of the products than with the framework into which they have to fit.
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"Dependency hell" принимает несколько форм:
- множество зависимостей
- An application depends on many libraries, requiring lengthy downloads, large amounts of disk space, and not being very portable (all libraries must be ported for the application to be ported). It can also be difficult to locate all the dependencies, which can be fixed by having a repository (see below). This is partly inevitable; an application built on a given platform (such as Java) requires that platform to be installed, but further applications do not require it. This is a particular problem if an application uses a small part of a big library (which can be solved by refactoring), or a simple application relies on many libraries.
- длинные цепочки зависимостей
- app depends on liba, which depends on libb, ..., which depends on libz. This is distinct from "many dependencies" if the dependencies must be resolved manually (e.g., on attempting to install app, the user is prompted to install liba first. On attempting to install liba, the user is then prompted to install libb.). Sometimes, however, during this long chain of dependencies, conflicts arise where two different versions of the same package are required[3] (see conflicting dependencies below). These long chains of dependencies can be solved by having a package manager that resolves all dependencies automatically. Other than being a hassle (to resolve all the dependencies manually), manual resolution can mask dependency cycles or conflicts.
- конфликтующие зависимости
- Если app1 зависит от libfoo 1.2, а app2 зависит от libfoo 1.3, и различные версии libfoo не могут быть одновременно установлены, то app1 и app2 нельзя одновременно использовать (или установить, если установщики проверяют зависимости). When possible, this is solved by allowing simultaneous installations of the different dependencies. Alternatively, the existing dependency, along with all software that depends on it, must be uninstalled in order to install the new dependency. A problem on Linux systems with installing packages from a different distributor (which is not recommended or even supposed to work) is that the resulting long chain of dependencies may lead to a conflicting version of glibc, the single most important library. If this happens, the user will be prompted to uninstall thousands of packages.
- циклические зависимости
- If appX, version 1 depends on app2, which depends on app3, which depends on app4, which depends on the original appX, version 0, then, in systems such as RPM or dpkg, the user must install all packages simultaneously.[4] - hence on Linux circular dependencies are often the result of a user misunderstanding the packaging system. On other platforms, however, the packaging system may not be able to resolve the circular dependency.
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- Нумерация версий
- The most obvious (and very common) solution to this problem is to have a standardised numbering system, wherein software uses a specific number for each version (aka major version), and also a subnumber for each revision (aka minor version), e.g.: 10.1, or 5.7. The major version only changes when programs that used that version will no longer be compatible. The minor version might change with even a simple revision that does not prevent other software from working with it. In cases like this, software packages can then simply request a component that has a particular major version, and any minor version (greater than or equal to a particular minor version). As such, they will continue to work, and dependencies will be resolved successfully, even if the minor version changes.
- Параллельная установка различных версий ПО
- The version numbering solution can be improved upon by elevating the version numbering to an operating system supported feature. This allows an application to request a module/library by a unique name and version number constraints, effectively transferring the responsibility for brokering library/module versions from the applications to the operating system. A shared module can then be placed in a central repository without the risk of breaking applications which are dependent on previous or later versions of the module. Each version gets it own entry, side by side with other versions of the same module. This solution is used in Windows operating systems since Windows Vista, where the Global Assembly Cache is an implementation of such a central registry with associated services and integrated with the installation system/package manager.
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- Some package managers can perform smart upgrades, in which interdependent software components are upgraded at the same time, thereby resolving the major number incompatibility issue too.
- Many current Linux distributions have also implemented repository-based package management systems to try to solve the dependency problem. These systems are a layer on top of the RPM, dpkg, or other packaging systems that are designed to automatically resolve dependencies by searching in predefined software repositories. Typically these software repositories are FTP sites or websites, directories on the local computer or shared across a network or, much less commonly, directories on removable media such as CDs or DVDs. This eliminates dependency hell for software packaged in those repositories, which are typically maintained by the Linux distribution provider and mirrored worldwide. Although these repositories are often huge it is not possible to have every piece of software in them, so dependency hell can still occur. In all cases, dependency hell is still faced by the repository maintainers.[5] Examples of these systems include Apt, Yum, Urpmi, ZYpp, Portage, Pacman and others.
- PC-BSD (an operating system based on FreeBSD) avoids dependency hell by placing packages and dependencies into self-contained directories, which avoids breakage if system libraries are upgraded or changed. PC-BSD uses its own "PBI" (Push Button Installer) for package management.[6][7]
- Настройки установщика
- Because different pieces of software have different dependencies, it is possible to get into a vicious circle of dependency requirements, or (possibly worse) an ever-expanding tree of requirements, as each new package demands several more be installed. Systems such as Debian's APT can resolve this by presenting the user with a range of solutions, and allowing the user to accept or reject the solutions, as desired.
- Easy Adaptability in Programming
- If application software is designed in such a way that its programmers are able to easily adapt the interface layer that deals with the OS, window manager or desktop environment to new or changing standards, then the programmers would only have to monitor notifications from the environment creators or component library designers and quickly adjust their software with updates for their users, all with minimal effort and a lack of costly and time-consuming redesign. This method would encourage programmers to pressure those upon whom they depend to maintain a reasonable notification process that is not onerous to anyone involved.
- Software appliances
- Another approach to avoiding dependency issues is to deploy applications as a software appliance. A software appliance encapsulates dependencies in a pre-integrated self-contained unit such that users no longer have to worry about resolving software dependencies. Instead the burden is shifted to developers of the software appliance.
- Портативные приложения
- An application (or version of an existing conventional application) that is completely self-contained and requires nothing to be already installed. It is coded to have all necessary components included, or is designed to keep all necessary files within its own directory, and will not create a dependency problem. These are often able to run independently of the system to which they are connected. Applications in RISC OS and the ROX Desktop for Linux use application directories, which work in much the same way: programs and their dependencies are self contained in their own directories (folders).[8]
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On specific computing platforms, "dependency hell" often goes by a local specific name, generally the name of components.
- DLL hell - A form of dependency hell occurring on Microsoft Windows.
- Extension conflict - A form of dependency hell occurring on older versions of Mac OS.
- JAR hell - A form of dependency hell occurring in the Java Runtime Environment.
- RPM hell - A form of dependency hell occurring in the Red Hat distribution of Linux and other distributions that use RPM as a package manager.[9]
См. также[править | править вики-текст]
- Coupling - Forms of dependency among software artifacts
- Configuration management - Techniques and tools for managing software versions
- Software appliance
Примечания[править | править вики-текст]
- ↑ Michael Jang Linux annoyances for geeks. — O'Reilly Media, 2006.
- ↑ Donald, James (2003-01-25). «Improved Portability of Shared Libraries» (Princeton University). Проверено 2010-04-09. (недоступная ссылка)
- ↑ Stevens, Al (2001-05-01). «It's Good Work When You Can Find It; The Dependency Carousel». J-DDJ (www.drdobbs.com/blog) 26 (5): 121–124. ISSN 1044-789X. Проверено 2010-04-10.
- ↑ Dependency hell
- ↑ Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions. linux.com (22 декабря 2008). — «All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible. Suppose you upgrade Firefox, and your package manager decides that you need a newer version of GTK as well. If the new GTK is not quite backward-compatible, then other applications on your system might suddenly break. In the Windows world a similar problem is known as the DLL hell, but dependency hell is just as much a problem in the Unix world, if not a bigger one, because Unix programs tend to have many external dependencies.» Проверено 22 мая 2013.
- ↑ Package Management. Проверено 12 февраля 2013.
- ↑ The PBI Format for 9.0 and Beyond (Modified on 9 November 2012 when retrieved). Проверено 12 февраля 2013. PC-BSD Wiki page.
- ↑ Application directories. Проверено 7 сентября 2013.
- ↑ Weinstein, Paul Is Linux Annoying?. linuxdevcenter.com (11 сентября 2003). Проверено 10 апреля 2010.


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To sum up my position, theres a lot of confusion out there about black holes, mostly caused by so many people repeating the illogical argument that black holes are a point singularity. They use the incorrect argument that anything within the event horizon (Schwarzchild radius) must have energy greater than mc^2 if it is not to proceed to the center. This is getting facts backwards. The maximum gravitational energy of a star is (0.6GM^2)/R. If ALL a stars energy goes into creating pressure, that energy would equal Mc^2 maximum. Setting Mc^2 = (0.6GM^2)/R results in the minumum radius R for anything, or any star, including the star in a black hole, of R(min) = (0.6GM)/(c^2). This is 30% of the Schwarzchild radius. Any smaller radius would mean the gravitational energy would have to exceed Mc^2.
Actual stars in nature have density profiles of about 1/(r^2), resulting in a gravitational energy of almost exactly (1.0GM^2)/R, or simply (GM^2)/R. And if all (or almost all) the mass inside a black hole were to go relativistic (I hate using that term), the total energy creating pressure would be (Mc^2)/3. The viral theorem, which is used to calculate the size of gravitational objects, says the energy creating pressure equals half the gravitational energy, or (Mc^2)/3 = (GM^2)/2R. This gives the radius of a star inside a black hole of R = (1.5GM)/(c^2), which is 75% of the Schwarzchild radius. It doesnt matter what this star in a black hole is made of, quark matter, radiation, whatever; thats the size. Other basic math shows that the core density and core pressure of a star in a small black hole (of a few solar masses) is about 8 times the core density and core pressure of a neutron star of a few solar masses. Nothing profound or unrealistic about this. Also, if the star inside a black hole has a atmosphere of radiation, it would be small and would not affect the above calculations. This hypothetical radiation wouldnt come anywhere near the Schwarzchild radius and would be contained in much the same way the earth contains its atmosphere.
An interesting result of the above is if two EQUAL mass orbitting black holes merge, there can be a huge ejection from them or even annihilation of the 2 black holes. Hmmm. Its only a matter of time before black hole mergers will be observed. Lets hope some observed mergers are of equal sized ones.
Finally, I dont know why so many people use the Tolmann Volkov equation for a black hole. Not only does it give the wrong answer (neutron star collapse at 0.7 solar mass), but its conclusion of infinate pressure at the Schwarzchild radius is kind of obvious nonsense. But I do agree with Tolmann Volkov that the contents of a black hole can be analyzed as a gas, but one where the "gas" pressure P = (rho/3)c^2. Sorry for the length of this. If anyone has any questions on the above email Berniepie at aol.com.


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Amazing professor! Lectures are clear and he makes the problems funny and entertaining! He gets to know everyone and tries to make sure they understand the lectures. The quizzes are hard and you really need to understand the reasoning behind the formulas and models to do well. Take this class, you'll end up learning a lot and loving it!
I joined so I could review Dr. Fullenkamp. He is simply the best teacher I have ever had at Duke. Taking a class called Financial Risk Management doesn't sound too alluring. He made it extremely interesting and more than that he cultivated a fun and eclectic classroom. Every student at Duke should take a non-required class taught by Dr. Fullenkamp.
Great teacher but totally nuts. Pretty hilarious in lectures, making attendance worthwhile. The lessons are videotaped, so you watch them at home at your own pace, take notes, and then ask questions about them during class. Interesting format, but I ended up liking it. It's a lot of work, but if you do it/show up, you'll do well. Great overall.
What a boss. I took Econ 101 without ever taking an econ class in high school, and Fullenkamp's class pretty much alone convinced me to major in Econ. He is smart, engaging, and actually really nice. Put in the time (admittedly is quite a bit), watch the video lectures, and you'll get a good grade. Curves generously.
Fullenkamp is extremely intelligent and the material for 101 is interesting; however, the flipped classroom approach is a huge time-waster and leads to a big workload. Getting a good grade is manageable but you have to be prepared to work for it.
This class is rigorous and time consuming so do not take it unless you are serious about econ. However, it was very interesting and is a valuable tool to get students on their way down the econ path. Fullenkamp isn't the nicest most accessible teacher, but hes a great teacher. Lectures are done via video outside of class, which I liked.
Prof. Fullenkamp is a really funny, very intelligent guy. His tests are near impossible (a 40% is usually around an A). The grading is very arbitrary and it can be frustrating that you only have 3 grades. Doesn't always seem fair. You don't use the textbook AT ALL so don't buy it. Also, you don't actually need to buy the newspaper. You learn a lot!
Great teacher and hilarious guy - he happens to love making fun of students as well. Definitely a class worth taking but pretty difficult and tests on grading can be arbitrary. Don't bother buying textbook or going to lectures because you will get nothing from either
Hard Intro class, funny guy. Extremely intelligent but arrogant at times. Over all still a good teacher who wanted you to learn as much as you could.
Everyone needs to take a class from Fullenkamp. He makes difficult material seem simple (though his tests are very hard) and keeps students engaged during lectures. You have to work hard to do well in his class and some people simply don't grasp econ, but he's very funny and EXTREMELY organized which is helpful when preparing for tests.
Very good professor, class is extremely interesting and entertaining. One of the best professors at Duke. If you aren't willing to work hard though, you wont do well.
Probably the funniest, most sarcastically awesome teacher I've had at Duke. Although it's a difficult class, Colonel Fullenkamp makes it interesting with many humorous examples.
Possibly the worse professor at Duke, makes you watch hours of pre-class lectures, does absolutely useless teachings during class time. Unhelpful and extremely full of himself.
Fullenkamp is absurd. He is casual and relaxed although he completely knows the material. He sees through bs completely which is what makes him so great. Hilarious and entertaining professor that will ensure you leave his class educated if thats what you want.
He make a HUGE change this year and we have to watch lectures from past year before going to classes. So the workload is doubled but I don't really feel it's necessary. I reviewed my notes and ps before taking midterm 1 and I got one point over avg. The second time I just went over my test and I got one point below avg. So I was really depressed
His ECON 51 class is an example of a class where you get out what you put in. You don't have to go to lecture or do the problem sets yourself, but you would be well advised to. He is a good lecturer, but does not teach by the textbook. The tests are hard and material difficult to understand at first, but remember the class is heavily curved.
I've never taken 51 with him but his 181 is definitely worth taking! Very clear and a good combination of quantitative and qualitative learning.
This class is terribly hard but at least Fullenkamp makes it interesting. If you're an Econ major or minor, you have to take it, and he's definitely the best to take it from. The class is more Fullenkamp 101, but he's awesome!
Fullenkamp is the BEST. He is clear, knowledgable, and you will laugh your ass off in his class. Expect a busy semester though.
Don't bother with the textbook just watch Fullenkamp's lectures online and u'll learn a lot. The exams are VERY difficult (some questions near-impossible) and the averages tend to be around 35-40%. Grading is done by a combination of TAs and a random number generator. If a multiple choice question seems easy u've got it wrong.
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Japanese Ceramics Gallery
The history of Japanese ceramics begins with Jomon earthenware, said to be the earliest earthenware in the world. The earthenware was followed by Yayoi earthenware and then in the Kofun period (fourth-seventh centuries) Hajiki (Haji ware) and haniwa terracotta figures were produced. In the fifth century, importation of new pottery techniques from the Korean Peninsula led to the birth of Sue ware (early stoneware). Natural ash glaze was found around this period. During the Asuka and Nara periods (538-794), green-glazed ware and Nara sancai (three-colored glazed ware) developed under the influence from pottery of China and the Korean Peninsula. As time moves in to the Heian period (794-1185), Sanage kiln in Aichi Prefecture started producing ceramics.
From around the end of the Heian period, mass production of yakishime or unglazed, high-fired ware was practiced in different regions such as Tokoname, Atsumi, Echizen, Shigaraki, Tanba and Bizen.
During the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185-1568), people valued Chinese products calling them "karamono" and a large number of imitations of Chinese ceramics were produced especially in the Seto and Mino regions. From the latter-half of the Muromachi period, however, new original values derived from chanoyu or tea ceremony gradually dominated the minds of the people of this time and thus the status of domestic wares improved dramatically. Consequently, in the Momoyama period (1568-1615) tea bowls and tea utensils became the prior items for production in many regions, including the Raku ware produced by Chojiro under the supervision of Sen-no Rikyu (1522-91), Kiseto, Setoguro, Shino and Oribe as well as Bizen, Shigaraki, Iga, Tanba and Karatsu. In Kyoto of the Edo period (1615-1868)the elegant Kyo-yaki, a type of stoneware started by Ninsei and Kenzan (1663-1743) which is decorated in overglaze polychrome enamel, swayed the whole nation.
During the 1610s, porcelain was made in Japan for the first time in the Arita region, utilizing the techniques of the potters from the Korean Peninsula. Arita initially headed for blue-and-white porcelain, but later absorbed the overglaze enameling technique as well. According to the archaeological findings from the 1980s onwards, the opinion that the so-called Ko-kutani or early Kutani, which had been believed that it had been produced in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture, was in fact produced in Arita is now the most convincing view. In addition to this Ko-kutani style, an array of magnificent polychrome wares was produced in the Arita region, including the Kakiemon style, Ko-imari style and Nabeshima style.


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MonsterTrimble writes "At the Linux Collaboration Summit, Google and Linux Kernel Developers are meeting to discuss the issues surrounding the Android fork and how it can be re-admitted to the mainline kernel. From the article:
"James Bottomley, Linux SCSI subsystem maintainer and Novell distinguished engineer, said during the kernel panel forks are prevalent in embedded systems where companies use the fork once then "throw it away. Google is not the first to have done something like this by far, just the one that's made the most publicity." Bottomley said. "Hopefully the function of this collaboration summit is there is some collaboration over the next two days and we might actually solve it.""
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Sexual predators are getting more inventive these days. A Jacksonville, Florida English teacher pretended to have a son so that she could have boys over for sleepovers without raising suspicion.
Police say Danielle Reed, who taught at Atlantic Coast High School, had a four-month-long relationship with a student that was between 12 and 18 years old. She had told the victim's parents she had a child named Josh and picked up the boy for a sleepover with her fake son.
Reportedly, the teacher-student pair wanted to spend the night together, but the kid knew that his mother wouldn't go for it, so he made up the friend he was supposedly planning to visit. He claims Reed was more than happy to go along with the rouse. The unbelievable lie was exposed when her alleged teen lover finally told his mom the truth.
More from The Stir: Husband Catches Teacher Wife Having Sex With Foreign Exchange Student
Reed was arrested on felony sexual battery charges and her bail was at $150,000. Despite the claims, many students still can't believe it's actually true. "She was the sweetest woman ever. I was shocked. I was appalled," student Justin Pera told News4Jax. "I don't know. I don't believe it. Well, I kind of believe it. We'll see if she's proven guilty. I will give her the benefit of the doubt though."
As expected, the principal has released a statement saying that this behavior would not be tolerated at the school. But teacher-student affairs are certainly nothing new. There have been many cases exposed in recent years and they usually involve the couple fooling around in the class after hours, in a car in a darkened parking lot, or at the teacher's home. But -- if guilty of what this boy claims -- Reed took it to another level. She looked in that mom's face, made up a ridiculous lie, and drove away with her son. It's troubling and bizarre. I just can't believe the lengths this woman went to in order to have sex with her student. Did she really think she could get away with that?
Are you surprised a person would create a fake son to get away with sleeping with a student?
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I am sorry American Expat, are you saying that teen boys don't deserve protection whereas teen girls do? That is a disgusting double standard. Adults should not have sexual relationships with minors, all teens males included have undeveloped brains and are not fully able to understand the ramifications of this type of thing. Just because they 'enjoy' it does not make it right.
@MommyBoha - cause she's not a teacher there anymore. Besides, just because there's one bad one, that doesn't mean there aren't any good ones.
that's just my thoughts...
OKAY.. Let's actually READ & understand the article, because our crazy ass country can't take a second before they judge & plant the "sexual predator" flag in someones forehead. Save the torches for worse crimes, seriously....
1.) Yeah, the mom should be upset but it wasn't a kidnapping. Yett he was a willing participant for 4 months.
2.) She was 23, not exactly old. Let's get realistic with the age gap.
3.) The article vaguely states he was 12-18 .So he COULD be(18) or able to consent by law (16).
4.) It was a High School, which is home to students Grades 10-11-12. If you do the math, realistically he is actually 16-18 based on the fact that most high schools start at grade 10.
5.) It seems as if no one was harmed, except the student who confided in his mother enough to call it his "relationship" only for her to turn around & call the cops.
6.) So at a minimum age of 16(age of consent) to a max of 18(adult) the gap is from 5-7 years, the average is 5 years for the majority of couples.
So, I think this was blown out of proportion, the mom flipped out & dialled 911 before talking to her son calmly. He went along with it, probably helped with the "fake kid to spent the night" thing so he could do his teacher for 4 months. Teens have sex & most have no idea the age is under law until too late. But I still see no harm, except for the mother who probably made sure her son will never confide anything in her again.
It has everything to do w/ the gap in age.. he being a freaking MINOR! Get you head out of your butt! She is a position of POWER, he is a STUDENT!!!! Even if they were a professor and a college STUDENT you just don't go there! Let's face it BOYS do not even mature mentally until way later then girls. She SHOULD be in Jail! And if he is 18, what makes you think next time he wont be 17 then maybe 16 then maybe your 11 year old!?!!


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February 19, 2014 By: Tomek Kondrat
Before Motorola was acquired by Lenovo, the OEM released two very interesting smartphones. The Moto X and Moto G were the first and probably the last devices made by the formerly American OEM in a cooperation with Google. Not so long ago, we talked about the Moto G receiving an unofficial CyanogenMod port. Now, however, the G and a few other Motorola devices will receive official CyanogenMod nightlies.
The CM team has released three unified builds, which is a bit of a surprising move, considering that the list of supported devices is quite long. The "mysterious" moto_msm8960 build will work with the Photon Q, Atrix HD, Razr M, and Droid Razr HD. The second build, dubbed moto_msm8960dt, should work with dual-core devices like the Moto X, Droid Maxx, Droid Mini, and Droid Ultra. You need to figure out which phones are which, as builds for other devices will simply not work properly or even can brick your device. So be sure to double check before flashing, and check your home forum here on XDA to get the necessary info.
A build for the Moto G is separate due to its internal hardware. And I can't can't write about official nightlies for device code named falcon without mentioning XDA Senior Member dhacker29, who did a terrific job bringing up the device tree for this phone.
Motorola devices aren't the only receiving these new unified builds. A couple of Samsung devices will receive unified builds as well. The list of phones is quite long and includes following devices:
Builds include only Qualcomm-based devices, as Exynos devices are still using platform-specified builds.
As you can see, the CyanogenMod team are on fire and make things as easy as possible both for developers and end users. The builds are located over on the official CyanogenMod download page. You can also check out the source code by visiting team's Github and typing the name of the device in the search box.
[Big thanks to XDA Recognized Contributor herna for the tip!]
January 14, 2014 By: Will Verduzco
Google-owned Motorola keeps courting us by making all of the right moves, as they have been updating all of their current devices to KitKat left and right. We first saw the update make its way to the Verizon Moto X, even before the Google Play edition devices received their updates. And then a little under one month ago, Android 4.4.2 started rolling out to the Moto G.
Now, Googoorola has released the GPL-mandated kernel source code files for the well liked Moto G running KitKat. Back in early December, we saw the release of these same open source files for the device's initial Jelly Bean firmware release. And now, they have been updated for Android 4.4, enabling your favorite aftermarket kernel devs to do what they do best. If you're a kernel or ROM developer looking to get in on building a KitKat-capable kernel for the Moto G, make your way over to the SourceForge link below.
And in other Motorola news, the KitKat rollout that began on the Droid Maxx/Ultra/Mini as a preliminary soak test is now seeing a widespread rollout to the greater population of Verizon Droid users. This comes nearly one month after the initial soak test, and comes in at the same software version 19.5.3. Unfortunately, as we've seen from Verizon as of late, it also packs a little more bloatware. This comes in the form of a newly integrated NFL Mobile app, as well as the new "SSO client."
Are you happy with Motorola's efforts to appeal to the aftermarket development and enthusiast communities? Let us know in the comments below, and don't forget to visit the Moto G and Droid Maxx/Ultra/Mini forums!
[Source: SourceForge, Verizon (1, 2) | Via Official Motorola Blog]
December 19, 2013 By: Will Verduzco
Earlier today, we commended Motorola on its efforts to work with the development community on the Moto X. Now, we're going to congratulate them once again on a very expedient Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Droid Maxx/Ultra/Mini devices.
The update bumps up the software version to 19.5.3, and packs all the expected Android 4.4 goods. Curiously, while the Droid Mini is explicitly named on Verizon's official Twitter page, only the Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx show up on their support docs. Unfortunately as we've seen from Verizon as of late, it also packs a little more bloatware. This comes in the form of a newly integrated NFL Mobile app, as well as the new "SSO client."
The update is currently starting to roll out in the form of a staged OTA update, and the OTA has not yet been captured. But once it's captured, we'll update this post with the download link!
What are your thoughts on this update? Are you a fan of how fast Verizon and Motorola pushed this out, or are you more bummed that there is yet another piece of bloat? Let us know in the comments below, and share your thoughts in the update soak test thread!
[Source: Verizon Support Docs | Via Twitter]
October 24, 2013 By: Will Verduzco
Hardware capacitive buttons seem to be a love-it-or-hate-it affair. While many of us seem to prefer the versatility of the on-screen buttons most commonly seen on modern Nexus devices, others instead favor the increased usable screen real estate made possible by having dedicated keys outside of the display.
If you happen to own an HTC device, you are probably a fan of dedicated hardware buttons. But that's not to say that you can't tweak them to make them work better for you. XDA Senior Member denversc created an app called Capacitive Buttons Brightness, which does… Well, you guessed it. It allows you to change the brightness of your capacitive buttons.
Currently, the app officially supports the HTC One X (dual- and quad-core variants), HTC One X+, HTC One, and HTC One S. That said, many users have found that it also works on other devices such as the HTC One V, HTC Desire HD, HTC Evo 3D, Motorola Droid MAXX, and LG Optimus G.
The app allows you to change brightness in 3 steps: dim, bright, and off. The default on most Sense-based ROMs seems to be bright, whereas it is usually set to dim on most AOSP-based ROMs. Please note that the "off" setting does not work if you have the GV Integration app installed. Naturally, root access is required… But who here isn't rooted anyway?
Make your way over to the application thread to get started. And if you wish to build from this app, head over to the project's Google Code page.
September 16, 2013 By: Will Verduzco
When the Moto X was released, many were upset to learn that despite Google's positive influence during development, the device was still not truly open. And let's be honest, there were never any false pretenses about the state of Motorola's state of developer friendliness. However, it looks like master hacker and XDA Elite Recognized Developer jcase has done it again.
Not too long ago, jcase created MotoRoot for the Droid lineup. This used the previously covered Android bug 9695860 to gain system user. Then, a symlink attack created by jcase himself was used to obtain root access. Today, however, a better solution has appeared.
Courtesy of jcase once again, PwnMyMoto begins by using bug 9695860 (just like its predecessor) to gain system user. It also uses the symlink attack featured in MotoRoot to gain root access. New to PwnMyMoto, however, is what happens next: After gaining root, a bootloader vulnerability is exploited, allowing for write protection on the /system partition to be bypassed. And in the process, the stock recovery is removed, preventing unwanted future OTAs from interfering with the rooted state.
Naturally, any unauthorized modification carries with it an inherent risk. However, if you wish to root, you must take these risks in order to free your device. To get started, head over to the linked threads below. Congrats to jcase on the great work once again!
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The gastric brooding frog existed 30 years ago, but the extraordinary amphibian is now extinct.
In a world first, a team of Australian scientists has taken the first major step in bringing it back to life.
They have successfully reactivated its DNA and produced an embryo.
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I remember, years ago, reading an article lamenting the passing of species that could have benefited mankind, but which were now extinct. One of the prime examples it quoted was exactly the frog mentioned above - a frog that could turn off the gastric/digestive juices in its stomach to safely incubate its brood before turning them on again for normal life function. There had been some small hope that studying this process would allow scientists new ways of controlling and treating stomach-related issues such as ulcers or heartburn … but, of course, the frog was no more and couldn't be studied anymore.
I never thought that, one day, I'd be reading about its potential return!
Planet Earth, narrated by kids
Earth Day is April 22nd. It's a day where we take a moment from our human-centered lives to stop and smell the roses, and the wildebeests, and the whales, and even the bugs. Focus on the planet for one day a year, and maybe we can learn to respect it on the other 364 days.
BBC America let these cute-as-hell kids narrate scenes from Planet Earth. Celebrate Earth Day through the eyes of a child, which apparently are focused on liking cheeseburgers :)
They're right, David Brabrendroroh is pretty good, too.
(via kottke, and dedicated to nature-loving kids, old and young)
Researchers use Lego to help build artificial bones! Don't miss the video.
A great look into science and the scientific process - that is, the innovative, creative, and outside-the-box thinking that should be encouraged in order to carry out the scientific process.
(via emergentfutures)
Gamers outdo computers at matching up disease genes
The hope that swarms of gamers can help to solve difficult biological problems has been given another boost by a report in the journal PLoS One1, showing that data gleaned from the online game Phylo are helping to untangle a major problem in comparative genomics.
Full Story: Nature
It doesn't have to be just fun and games! \o/
It doesn't have to be just work and no play! \o/
Woolly mammoth cloning deal signed.
A joint research deal was signed yesterday between North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic in Russia and South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, marking the beginning of a project to clone cells from woolly mammoth remains recovered from Siberian permafrost.
As previously reported here, a mammoth could be born in five years if successful. The team will replace the nuclei of Indian elephant egg with the cloned mammoth DNA. The fertilised egg will then be placed in the womb of the Indian elephant for 600 day gestation period and birth.
While cloning extinct animals is controversial enough already, the team also includes Hwang Woo-Suk, who was found to have falsified data in a past stem cell research "breakthrough".
Wooly mammoths … what further excuse do you need?
(Source: ibtimes.com, via emergentfutures)
Mark Pagel is Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. His forthcoming book is Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
I want this book.
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One of the first things to be aware of when talking about social learning is that it plays the same role within our societies, acting on ideas, as natural selection plays within populations of genes. Natural selection is a way of sorting among a range of genetic alternatives, and finding the best one. Social learning is a way of sifting among a range of alternative options or ideas, and choosing the best one of those. And so, we see a direct comparison between social learning driving idea evolution, by selecting the best ideas —we copy people that we think are successful, we copy good ideas, and we try to improve upon them — and natural selection, driving genetic evolution within societies, or within populations.
I think this analogy needs to be taken very seriously, because just as natural selection has acted on genetic populations, and sculpted them, we'll see how social learning has acted on human populations and sculpted them.
What do I mean by "sculpted them"? Well, I mean that it's changed the way we are. And here's one reason why. If we think that humans have evolved as social learners, we might be surprised to find out that being social learners has made us less intelligent than we might like to think we are. And here's the reason why.
If I'm living in a population of people, and I can observe those people, and see what they're doing, seeing what innovations they're coming up with, I can choose among the best of those ideas, without having to go through the process of innovation myself. So, for example, if I'm trying to make a better spear, I really have no idea how to make that better spear. But if I notice that somebody else in my society has made a very good spear, I can simply copy him without having to understand why.
What this means is that social learning may have set up a situation in humans where, over the last 200,000 years or so, we have been selected to be very, very good at copying other people, rather than innovating on our own. We like to think we're a highly inventive, innovative species. But social learning means that most of us can make use of what other people do, and not have to invest the time and energy in innovation ourselves.
Now, why wouldn't we want to do that? Why wouldn't we want to innovate on our own? Well, innovation is difficult. It takes time. It takes energy. Most of the things we try to do, we get wrong. And so, if we can survey, if we can sift among a range of alternatives of people in our population, and choose the best one that's going at any particular moment, we don't have to pay the costs of innovation, the time and energy ourselves. And so, we may have had strong selection in our past to be followers, to be copiers, rather than innovators.
Followership is part of a vast meta-genetic pattern of human culture, where we need fewer innovators as our networks grow better at transmitting innovation. As social density increases, social learning increases, and the very best ideas can reach everywhere: or better, everyone.
I've had this bookmarked for a while because it's a long-ish article and I haven't had a chance to catch up, but I think it's worth reading through on a top level as it has some interesting ideas which I've pondered myself in the past. However, I don't think it pushes far enough on certain points:
- I agree on the point that there doesn't need to be "more innovaters" to help sustain an expanding, socially-connected group - just as there still only needs to be one seed to generate a whole crystal from a solution, no matter how much volume there is to the solution. I don't necessarily see that this is any different from past models in the human population, however - I don't think social learning has made us less intelligent. We are inherently lazy creatures - that's how evolution designed us, because energy is a precious resource and difficult to harvest - and I can't see how that would change over a few short centuries so that we become even more lazy (at least, on a genetic level). In the past, two geographically and socially remote groups may have independently come up with the design for a spear, but that does not make them any more or less intelligent than a group that is the equivalent of their combined numbers coming up with only one individual who creates the spear … perhaps there were several individuals in the large group who could have come up with the spear. However, there can only be one first place winner - the one who advertises his product before all the rest. This, by default, makes all the other "would-be geniuses" mere "social learners" after that. Science is full of examples of multiple people who developed similar theories, and who then may or may not need to compete for credit as the original innovator.
- Social learning itself has its own place in the evolution of ideas. On the micro-scale, say in a company that is trying to generate new IP and patents, there are often individuals who stand out as the "big thinkers" - the ones who come up with truly revolutionary ideas. However, there also needs to be a supporting group who not only polishes those ideas, but they frequently provide some of the incremental advancements which the big thinkers need and use to then make the next leap. (Not only that, there is sometimes a backlash - witness the king of copying, the Chinese. Yes, they copy blindly, and most often are associated with inferior products due to that, but this has often resulted in an eventual market rejection of such products, and companies have now learned to watch for signs of such rejection and poise themselves to take over with new products when it happens.) No true innovator lives in a vacuum - they are influenced as much by social learners as social learners "copy" from innovators. In fact, entrepreneurs often take their cue from general population trends - I don't know how often I've heard an inventor or entrepreneur say that the reason they started a business or thought of an invention was because there was a clear need that wasn't being addressed in the market, or because the usual modus operandi clearly wasn't working after they were subjected to constant and identical frustrations.
- As for the topic on the randomness of innovation - I not only whole-heartedly agree with this, but I have a name for it: guess and check. Musical instruments are a prime example of this - through centuries of painstaking guess and check, guitars have evolved into nearly the perfect shape for producing the acoustics that it needs to. These days, we can use fancy simulation software and engineering principles and equations to come to the same conclusions, but guess and check had worked well enough, if over a much longer timespan. There is also the epiphany - where a series of seemingly unrelated or random facts percolate in the subconscious, until one day, suddenly, it all seems to come together into a single, elegant solution. I think any innovator understands all too well how random such insights can be, and quite often optimize their environments to encourage such happenings. All the thought and development that comes after is usually spent on polishing it, making it, and/or proving it.
In conclusion, I think it's not so much that we're getting dumber due to larger groups of social learners, but that there is now competition arising between the innovators themselves. As we become more and more globally connected, it will be harder for anyone to claim the truly independent and genius idea, and on top of that, earlier than anyone else. Not only that, but our body of knowledge is so huge - witness our current problems with trying to filter out information overload, rather than struggling with information scarcity - that innovation time is potentially eaten away by the time it takes to process the necessary data to see where innovation can take place. Of course, a true innovator's genius lies in this subconscious, knee-jerk ability to identify these very holes without going through the number-crunching … and that, I think, is something which will always be present in a population to varying degrees, and it's only whether the current environment will support these people that will matter the most.
Make a culture hostile to entrepreneurs and start-ups? Yes, you will see a decline in innovation. Make it hospitable to such endeavors? You may very well see an explosion in revolutionary ideas.
(Source: underpaidgenius, via emergentfutures)
theanimalblog: juvenile Greater Anglehead Lizard (Gonocephalus grandis)
* aka Giant Forest Dragon, found in SE Asia. Diurnal. Occur in primary and secondary tropical forests.
(photo by Camera Trap)
This sure is a cute pokemon.
Actually, funny enough, this lizard reminds me of when I was in fifth grade or something and had this swimsuit that was black and white, but the upper half was patterned with polka dots and the lower half was patterned with stripes. Well, who knew, but I actually TANNED in those patterns, so I pretty much looked just like this lizard whenever I showered.
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Psychedelic Bacteria: fluorescent Bacillus subtilis (No photoshop) by Fernan Federici on Flickr.
Pattern formation with fluorescent bacteria (TagBFP, mKate2 and sfGFP).
I can't stress enough that you should go check out Fernan Federici's full set on Flickr. Truly amazing stuff.
Federici isn't just in it for the art, though. He's a synthetic biologist using the "biofilm" building properties of bacteria to build defined forms in architecture, as well as using them as living biosensors. More at Synthetic Aesthetics.
Reminds me of these "photographic" bacteria developed here at UT-Austin years back.
Do Dolphins Speak Whale in Their Sleep?
Captive dolphins have picked up some new vocabulary. Not from each other, but rather from a "sounds of the sea" tape played during their performances.
When their handlers noted strange sounds coming from the tanks at night, they compared them to known calls and discovered they were mimicking and practicing whale calls they had heard on tape.
When the researchers used a computer program to compare auditory recordings of the whale calls with the mysterious nighttime noises, it showed that the two sounds were very similar. And because the dolphins had been captive their entire lives, they couldn't have picked them up from real whales.
To get a second opinion, the team asked 20 human volunteers to listen to humpback whale sounds and wild dolphin sounds. Then the researchers played the nighttime vocalizations and asked the volunteers whether the sounds came from a whale or a dolphin. About 76% of the time, the volunteers classified the imitations as sounds from real whales
The dolphins were last reported to be working on whale disguises, surely as part of their world domination plan.
(via ScienceNOW)
Amazing just on its own, but it also reminds me of the famous Lyre Bird, which has an extraordinary repertoire of chainsaws, car alarms, and camera shutter clicks (WITH motor drive)!
Now I wonder if the dolphins are simply mimicking the whale songs for fun (that is, with no new meaning ascribed to them), or if they're actually incorporating the new sounds into their own "language", just as the internet created its own lolspeak and language based off of onomatopoeia. (I can't believe I spelled that correctly on the first try)
Anonymous asked: Are women's mental abilities any greater or less than men's? What do you think? Plus is there any latest studies/researches that prove so? :)
There are no scientific studies that I know of that say men and women differ in "mental abilities", which is an awfully broad term on its own.
There are anatomical and developmental differences in male and female brains, but these differences have resulted in much myth and little truth. For instance, men have larger brains, on average, than women. But if having larger brains was a sign of greater mental faculties, then whales would have beaten us to fire and spaceships.
It's important that we acknowledge that there are genuine genetic and biological differences in male and female development, but it's equally important that we don't extend these differences into myths of superiority. I'm a fan of what Stanford neuroscientist Josef Parvizi says about it:
"…if we are to entertain the idea that humans 'experience' life differently, and that different experiences mold the brain function differently, then we must also seriously consider that gender (along with class, ethnicity, age, and many other factors) would also contribute to this experience, and that they will contribute to molding of the brain…
So if women and men have systematically different life experiences and face dissimilar expectations from birth, then we would expect that their brains would become different (even if they are not innately dissimilar), through these different life experiences. Even if neuroscientists see differences in the brains of grown men and women, it does not follow that these differences are innate and unchangeable.
For instance, if girls are expected to be more adept at language, and are placed in more situations that require communication with others, it follows that the networks of the brain associated with language could become more efficient in women. Conversely, if boys receive more toy trucks and Lego's, are given greater encouragement in math and engineering classes, and eventually take more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) courses, it follows that the sections of the brain associated with mathematics could become more efficient in men…
The tricky part is that we do not make the mistake of taking account of these differences as evidence for biological determinism."
Beyond the social implications of such a question (which has, is, and will be a topic of many a debate and paper), I am reblogging this for its acknowledgment of the underlying biological differences (differences, and not inequalities) and the elements of behavioral conditioning and environment, the latter of which is too often overlooked.
Drew Berry's astonishing animations of biology's invisible processes and structures
"That is the chemical signaling system, sending out the stop signal, and it has … walked away." (Taken completely out of context, but it nevertheless made me snicker even when in context.)
I wish I could spend the rest of my afternoon watching TED talks instead of wurking. :( But here's a talk focusing on molecular visualization systems with updated sims of the DNA winding/replication video I just reblogged.
(via jtotheizzoe)
The best visualization of DNA I have ever seen
Did you know you have 6 feet of DNA in every cell? You do. This is how it fits.
Short and sweet, and who doesn't love visuals! \o/
DNA Wrapping: I'm sorry, but seeing the flailing histones suddenly plonk down upon the DNA strand made me lol. But it doesn't detract from my wonder over the whole process!
DNA Replication: This, frankly, is just simply amazing. Just think - biology had pretty much perfected the basic tenets of the industrial revolution several million years beforehand! :P
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We were all undifferentiated, once.
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When it is possible I wish you would advise me two days before a shipment of your intention, as Napoleon is not always on hand to look out for them at short notice. In special cases you might advise me by Telegraph, thus: "One M. (or one F.) this morning. W.S." By which I shall understand that one Male, or one Female, as the case may be, has left Phila. by the 6 o'clock train—one or more, also, as the case may be.
Aug. 17th, 1855.
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HAMILTON, Sept. 15th, 1856.
DEAR FRIEND STILL:—I write to inform you that Miss Mary Wever arrived safe in this city. You may imagine the happiness manifested on the part of the two lovers, Mr. H. and Miss W. I think they will be married as soon as they can get ready. I presume Mrs. Hill will commence to make up the articles to-morrow. Kind Sir, as all of us is concerned about the welfare of our enslaved brethren at the South, particularly our friends, we appeal to your sympathy to do whatever is in your power to save poor Willis Johnson from the hands of his cruel master. It is not for me to tell you of his case, because Miss Wever has related the matter fully to you. All I wish to say is this, I wish you to write to my uncle, at Petersburg, by our friend, the Capt. Tell my uncle to go to Richmond and ask my mother whereabouts this man is. The best for him is to make his way to Petersburg; that is, if you can get the Capt. to bring him. He have not much money. But I hope the friends of humanity will not withhold their aid on the account of money. However we will raise all the money that is wanting to pay for his safe delivery. You will please communicate this to the friends as soon as possible.
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Alone of all the satellites in the solar system, Titan has a significant atmosphere. At the surface, its pressure is more than 1.5 bar (50% higher than Earth's).
Physical characteristics
Greek Mythology
In Greek mythology the Titans were a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaia, who sought to rule the heavens but were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.
Discovered by Huygens in 1655.
It was long thought that Titan was the largest satellite in the solar system but recent observations have shown that Titan's atmosphere is so thick that its solid surface is slightly smaller than Ganymede's. Titan is nevertheless larger in diameter than Mercury and larger and more massive than Pluto.
One of the principal objectives of the Voyager 1 mission was the study of Titan. Voyager 1 came within 4000 km of the surface. We learned more in the few minutes of that encounter than in the previous 300 years.
And yet our knowledge is frustratingly incomplete. Titan is surrounded by a thick, opaque atmosphere; the surface cannot be seen at all in visible light (below left). (The Cassini mission will map Titan's surface with radar as Magellan did at Venus.) All that the Voyager images show is a slight variation in color between the northern and southern hemispheres. Some surface detail is visible in the infrared with HST.
Titan is similar in bulk properties to Ganymede, Callisto, Triton and (probably) Pluto. It is not known whether it has any internal structure like Ganymede or is uniform like Callisto.
Titan is about half water ice and half rocky material. It is probably differentiated into several layers with a 3400 km rocky center surrounded by several layers composed of different crystal forms of ice. Its interior may still be hot. Though similar in composition to Rhea and the rest of Saturn's moons, it is denser because it is so large that its gravity compresses its interior.
Alone of all the satellites in the solar system, Titan has a significant atmosphere. At the surface, its pressure is more than 1.5 bar (50% higher than Earth's). It is composed primarily of molecular nitrogen (as is Earth's) with no more than 6% argon and a few percent methane. Interestingly, there are also trace amounts of at least a dozen other organic compounds (i.e. ethane, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide) and water. The organics are formed as methane, which dominates in Titan's upper atmosphere, is destroyed by sunlight. The result is similar to the smog found over large cities, but much thicker. In many ways, this is similar to the conditions on Earth early in its history when life was first getting started.
Titan has no magnetic field and sometimes orbits outside Saturn's magnetosphere. It is therefore directly exposed to the solar wind. This may ionize and carry away some molecules from the top of the atmosphere.
At the surface, Titan's temperature is about 94 K (-290 F). At this temperature water ice does not sublimate and thus there is little water vapor in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, there appears to be a lot of chemistry going on; the end result seems to be a lot like a very thick smog.
There are scattered variable clouds in Titan's atmosphere in addition to the overall deep haze. These clouds are probably composed of methane, ethane or other simple organics. Other more complex chemicals in small quantities must be responsible for the orange color as seen from space.
It seems likely that the ethane clouds would produce a rain of liquid ethane onto the surface perhaps producing an "ocean" of ethane (or an ethane/methane mixture) up to 1000 meters deep. Recent ground-based radar observations have cast this into doubt, however.
Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope show remarkable near infrared views of Titan's surface (right and top). Voyager's camera couldn't see through Titan's atmosphere but in the near infrared the haze becomes more transparent, and HST's pictures suggest that a huge bright "continent" exists on the hemisphere of Titan that faces forward in its orbit. These Hubble results don't prove that liquid "seas" exist, however, only that Titan has large bright and dark regions on its surface. The landing site for the Huygens probe has been chosen in part by examining these images. It will be just "offshore" of the largest "continent" at 18.1 degrees North, 208.7 degrees longitude.
The observations by HST also indicate that Titan's rotation is in fact synchronous like most of Saturn's other moons.
Titan's Surface
This radar image of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time. It reveals a complex geologic surface thought to be composed of icy materials and hydrocarbons. A wide variety of geologic terrain types can be seen on the image; brighter areas may correspond to rougher terrains and darker areas are thought to be smoother. A large dark circular feature is seen at the western (left) end of the image, but very few features resembling fresh impact craters are seen. This suggests that the surface is relatively young. Enigmatic sinuous bright linear features are visible, mainly cutting across dark areas. The image is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) wide and 250 kilometers (155 miles) long, and is centered at 50 N, 82 W in the northern hemisphere of Titan, over a region that has not yet been imaged optically.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera. About 12 distinct haze layers can be seen in this image, with a scale of 0.7 kilometers (.43 miles) per pixel. The limb shown here is at about 10 degrees south latitude, in the equatorial region.
Titan on Nov. 11, 1980, spacecraft instruments found that the moon has a substantial atmosphere, far densert
Huygens at Titan 1
Huygens at Titan 2
Huygens at Titan 3
This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens. The left-hand side, behind Huygens, shows a boundary between light and dark areas. The white streaks seen near this boundary could be ground 'fog', as they were not immediately visible from higher altitudes. As the probe descended, it drifted over a plateau (centre of image) and was heading towards its landing site in a dark area (right). From the drift of the probe, the wind speed has been estimated at around 6-7 kilometres per hour. These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometres and a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel.
Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
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While this ten minute long footage will give you plenty of LOL and OMG moments, it also has its educational note. So learn your lesson and take it easy with alcohol on your wedding day or else you might end up on Youtube for the wrong reasons like this couple from Solin, Croatia.
I guess it's true: God protects fools and drunks. This sleeping beauty is lucky to be alive.
Run, Forest, run. But not without your glasses, Forest, not without your glasses.
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Not sure about it, but this could be a new record. If I did my counting right, at one point exactly 15 people were there to enjoy a New Year's Eve concert by an artist known as Tony Cercola at Piazza Mercato in Naples. Can't tell why, poor guy doesn't sound that bad, but certainly […]
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Time to look back at what made us laugh and which videos were shared the most in 2010. Like any best of video list, this one is also very subjective, though I really think you guys should have seen all of these. In case you missed something, here they are, in no particular order – top 50 of the best viral videos of 2010.


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I leveled my priest as a healing spec as a part of a warlock/priest duo - to 70 and then to 80. I got a dual spec shadow when it became available. While I heal well, that much leveling in a healing spec has left me with the solid belief that whatever mob it is... I probably won't be able to kill it in any reasonable timeframe and the best solution is to run away.
I had a built in tank (voidwalker) and dps (warlock) who were in charge of making things die. I was in charge of making them live and a smite or two if the situation warranted it. I still favor group play over solo. In fact, I only do Tol Barad dailies when I can go as "healer escorting 4 guildmates through the respawn rate on crack mini-dungeons". I consider "fun solo play" to be fishing and archeology.


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Marketers at Universal Pictures launch an effective teaser campaign with a purpose.
Everywhere I turn these days, I come across another dig at Sarah Marshall. I don't know much about the girl or what she did. Somebody really seems to hate her.
It says so on city buses and billboards in excess. Take a look for yourself. The signs display messages like "I'm so over you Sarah Marshall," and "My Mom always hated you Sarah Marshall," in black graffiti scrawled across a white background.
Things aren't any better for this girl online, given the scene at ihatesarahmarshall.com. There, 26-year-old Peter Bretter, a television composer, does his best to defame her. It seems he was dating Sarah, an attractive TV starlet -- until she dumped him for a British rock musician. Peter is responsible for all those billboards, too. He paid for them with the money he got for selling Sarah's engagement ring, which he never got a chance to give her.
If this all sounds pretty melodramatic, it's because it's the premise of a new Universal Pictures film, aptly titled "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." The movie won't be released for a few more weeks, but if it's half as clever as the marketing campaign Universal crafted to promote it, we should be in for a treat.
The megalith of an entertainment company has spared no effort or expense to pique consumers' interest in Sarah Marshall and uncover the story leading to her ex-boyfriend's plight. A colossal offline media buy that reflects the characters' actions in the film acts as an effective teaser, but the wiles of its marketers are in even better form on the Web. In addition to the official film site and the ihatesarahmarshall.com blog, Universal has registered and posted a Sarah Marshall fan site on behalf of those who feel the actress is getting a bad break from Peter's "offensive" graffiti ads. Reader comments, whether supplied by the film's marketers or not, are true to the ruse.
What's nice about this marketing effort is that it's a teaser campaign with a purpose. The ads reflect the film's plot and provide more of a consumer payoff once the advertiser is uncovered. The campaign also makes the most of consumer-generated media with a blog and a Flickr group, both of which encourage comments and contributions from consumers. A YouTube video offers further insight into the story and why Peter is so darn bitter.
The initiative also incorporates a paid search component -- essential to the successful execution of a teaser campaign (the ads don't do much good if consumers can't figure out what they're for, now do they?) Terms like "I hate Sarah Marshall" reveal sponsored links to the film's official site, with copy mimicking the text seen in the offline ads ("I'm so over you Sarah Marshall") to drive more qualified clicks.
We've seen a good many interactive marketing efforts on the part of entertainment and film production companies in years past. Indie flick "The Blair Witch Project" launched an online viral campaign of then-mythic proportions, while Warner Brothers's password-protected alternate reality game (ARG) reflecting the computer-hacking plot of the movie "Swordfish" remains a stellar example of sharp strategic minds at work.
My sympathies, Sarah Marshall, for finding yourself in such prestigious company. The odds are good that Peter's message will be heard far and wide, by countless consumers eager to take a side. You don't stand a chance.
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