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Lizzy Lenchner, a junior psychology major and founder of UB Greeks for a Cure, hopes the group's event Wednesday will make the UB community aware of the impact college students can have on the lives of children with cancer. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum
Before her death, Talia Castellano, makeup blogger, Covergirl and Internet celebrity, said, "In a hundred years, I want to be remembered as the bubbly girl who wanted to do something about childhood cancer."
In September 2013, The Spectrum reported on Lizzy Lenchner's passion for raising money and awareness for childhood cancer research. Lenchner, a junior psychology major and Castellano's counselor at Sunrise Day Camp, was inspired by the 14-year-old to make a difference in the lives of kids fighting against cancer and their families.
Wednesday at 6 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall, Lenchner will continue her journey to make a difference in the lives of children with cancer. UB Greeks for a Cure is hosting its first event of the semester, sponsored by UB's Inter-Greek Council (IGC). The goal of the event is to show the UB community the importance of helping children fight against cancer, because they do not have the power to fight alone, Lenchner said.
"Childhood cancers are different than adult cancers," Lenchner said. "They have different causes, so they need different research to find a cure. There is a huge misconception about government funding for cancer research. Let's fix that."
Lenchner is helping to ensure Castellano is remembered as that "bubbly girl" and is living out her dreams of doing something about childhood cancer, because Castellano isn't here to live them out herself.
All types of childhood cancers combined receive only 4 percent of federal funding for cancer research, according to the St. Baldrick's Foundation, which raises money for pediatric cancer. Lenchner said this percentage is "completely unacceptable" and "needs to change." Founding UB Greeks for a Cure in Dec. 2012 was one of Lenchner's initial steps in making that change.
On Wednesday, there will be tables in the Student Union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. devoted to increasing student awareness about pediatric cancer, raising money for research and getting a petition signed.
The petition, created by The Truth 365, a social media campaign supporting children fighting cancer, aims to make childhood cancer research a national priority. Lenchner has close ties with the organization; she believes strongly in its mission, which is to "educate and mobilize millions of people through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social networking sites," according to its website.
Shawn Kobetz, a junior communication major and president of IGC, said he "basically forced" Lenchner to run for the IGC e-board so she could help push Greek Life toward participating in philanthropy events dedicated to childhood cancer.
"Last year, AEPI and Phi Sig joined to start Greeks Against Cancer with Talia Castellano as the inspiration," Kobetz said. "We raised $2,700 and knew we wanted to do it again. [Lizzy] has been truly amazing. This event would be nothing without her."
Kobetz said it's inspiring to see how much work Lenchner puts into each event IGC hosts. Lenchner, as well as Castellano, inspire Kobetz to continue fighting.
Megan Williams, a "cancer mom," according to her blog, will be a guest speaker at Wednesday night's event. In Jan. 2009, Williams' son was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of pediatric cancer. Williams finds writing to be an "excellent way to express her feelings, share [her family's] story and make connections with some amazing people from the comfort of [her] own home," according to her blog.
Lenchner looks forward to Williams' speech. She believes her words will inspire the UB community to become involved in making a difference in the lives of children with cancer.
Wednesday's events will also feature an emotional video about pediatric cancer and a raffle to help raise more money toward research, along with a "secret ceremony," according to Lenchner.
Lenchner encourages students outside the Greek community to become involved in her fight. She is also president of UB's Pre-Dental Association and a part of the psychology program at UB.
Jacquie Kreckel, a senior art history major and aspiring dentist, sees Lenchner's passion to fight against cancer and to make Castellano's dreams come true inside and outside of the classroom.
"Lizzy and I both want to become dentists so I spend a decent amount of time with her," Kreckel said. "I see her need to find a cure for children's cancer every day. I don't think she will ever stop."
Castellano solidified Lenchner's desire to become a dentist. When Lenchner was her counselor, Castellano always said she would feel more confident and beautiful if she had nice teeth. That touched Lenchner's heart, and now she is devoting her career to give children like Castellano the smiles they want and deserve.
Kreckel is helping Lenchner table in the Student Union. She baked cupcakes with gold icing ribbons on them to represent the importance of children's cancer. Even those small gestures - like using gold icing - make Lenchner feel as if her efforts are impacting others.
Kreckel said if it weren't for Lenchner, students like herself might not have become so involved with pediatric cancer.
Lenchner's dad, Mitchell, said his daughter has always been empathic and caring, even though she has a full course load and responsibilities. He said she still finds "ample time for this special cause to help eradicate childhood cancer."
Lenchner's dad said he has never seen his daughter's heart so broken they way it was when Castellano passed away.
"She told me she had to do something to help defeat this malevolent disease," Mitchellsaid. "Last year as Philanthropic Chairperson of her sorority, Phi Sigma Sigma, she organized a drive to raise money for childhood cancer research and raised about $2,700."
This year, as Vice President of Educational Programming, Lechner's goal is to raise $5,000."
Mitchell has no doubts his daughter will fulfill her goal.
Each year approximately 13,500 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer, according to The Truth 365. Lenchner said she will never stop fighting, the same way Castellano never gave up on her battle, until that statistic is completely diminished.
The biggest point she wants to get across to UB students on Wednesday is that "college students have the power to make a difference."
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ARIA 328 Memorial Foundation - June 2009
ARIA 328 Memorial Service
The ARIA 328 Memorial Service at the National Museum of the Air Force was held on May 6, 2009. I want to thank Bob Beach and Terry Moore for their dedication to the annual services.
ARIA 328 Memorial Flower Arrangements
Each year a beautiful flower arrangement is provided for the ARIA 328 memorial service at the National Museum of the Air Force. Before the transfer of the wing to Edwards Air Force Base it was decided that there would be an annual service held to pay respect to the crew and passengers of ARIA 328. From those early days Terry Moore has been instrumental in ordering the flower arrangement and seeing that the arrangement is at the ARIA 328 Memorial for the May services. This year is no exception and we thank Terry for all of the years of dedicated service.
If it wasn't for those that have donated to the ARIA 328 Memorial Flower Fund we would not be able to provide these annual flowers. Thank you.
An Encounter with Apollo 8
The following article is from "The Intercom" of Cape Canaveral Chapter of TROA, and is written by Lt. Col Robert Mosley, Retired. Submitted by Charles Hinton.
Thirty years ago, on Christmas day 1968, I hurried the family through a very early gift exchange and headed for Base Operations at Patrick AFB, FL to file my clearance for a flight to the Pacific for the purpose of photographing Apollo 8 upon its return from the moon. The plane was a C-135 (a Boeing 707 in the civilian world) with a very large camera mounted on the left side of the fuselage; the whole system being called "ALOTS," (Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System). We had used it very successfully for photo coverage of space flight launches, but no one had thought seriously of using it to photograph a re-entry until this flight was conceived.
Now flying an airplane to the Pacific at that point in my flying career was not an overly exciting event (particularly on Christmas Day), but the idea of an intercept between two vehicles with such a tremendous speed differential added a sense of urgency and a touch of drama from my point of reference that I would always remember. I had a feeling of "come on fellas let's get going, they're coming." And when I would actually think of how fast they were coming and how slow we were moving it only heightened the anxiety, Lt. Col Walt Milam was the co-pilot and Maj. Charlie Hinton (the world's greatest navigator) was giving the directions. Additionally, there was an ALOTS crew of about five members to operate the camera from its remote control station back in the fuselage of the aircraft.
We were required to take a minimum crew rest after arriving at Hickam AFB (Honolulu International Airport), but that feeling of "let's get going" persisted because the Apollo 8 crew was certainly not doing any crew resting. Well, a remarkable thing happened about midnight as we gathered for departure from our downtown hotel; the crew transportation arrived on time, no traffic jams were encountered getting to the base, the weather was beautiful, and all four engines started with no problems (the latter not always being a given when you were really in a bind) and we were airborne on time for the final leg of our rendezvous with Apollo 8. We flew to a position about 1,200 miles west and a little south of Hawaii climbing eventually to 43,000 feet. It was a beautiful clear night in the Pacific.
Charlie Hinton gave me a heading change from southwest to north east precisely as he had planned. I held that heading for approximately two minutes, much like a holding pattern, and then Charlie said, "Look to your left, they should be there right - now-w-w." It was a moment I will always remember. It should not have surprised me, but it did. They were there, over my left shoulder I could see a faint light coming from the west at horizon level, getting noticeably brighter with each passing second. It seemed unreal. Could this be happening?
In the fashion of a Bob Newhart comedy routine it could have been made to sound humorous, e.g. - You are where? You say you are in the center of the Pacific in the middle of the night, at 43,000 feet, and you are going to photograph this space ship coming back from the moon, you see it now? etc.
The initial shock was over and I got back to business hurriedly because Apollo 8 was really moving. It was still bothering me however, that it was coming from just over the horizon. Some how coming from the moon I expected it to arrive from somewhere "up there" . The space craft was really getting bright. The sky began to light up as the command module separated from the service module. They arched apart much in the same manner as the old Roman candle fireworks tubes would send their discharged balls arching though the night.
It was difficult, but at that moment I had to quit being a spectator and get back to flying the airplane and commence the required right turn so as to keep the camera on the passing spacecraft. This necessary action caused me to miss the real spectacular of the service module breaking up with the attendant generation of light that turned night into day momentarily. All of the other crew members in the cockpit got to enjoy it however. The camera crew in the back of the plane became so fascinated with the big flash of the service module that they even centered the camera on it momentarily rather than on the command module which was our primary target.
I had started making my turn using the auto pilot but because I had become overly fascinated watching the spectacular light display or perhaps I simply underestimated the crossing speed (it wasn't a thing that you got to practice) I quickly realized that the maximum 38 degrees of bank that the auto pilot was providing was not going to give a sufficient rate of turn. I punched off the auto pilot and started increasing the bank.
Now at 43,000 feet that old girl did not have a lot left over and objected to that steep turn I was forcing her into. She let me know about it with a shudder or so. The crew was so fascinated with the whole show that I could have probably slow rolled it and they would not have noticed.
I was able to get off of the gauges again and followed visually its diminishing light into an eastern horizon that was just beginning to show the faintest indication of the coming day and the successful return of Apollo 8. It was a very memorable experience. I considered myself very fortunate to have been on the scene of such an eminently successful achievement; man returning from the moon for the first time. The fact that I had known Col. Borman, the Commander of the mission, when we were test pilots at Edwards AFB earlier in our careers, made the event even more meaningful.
Dear ARIA Friends,
Many of you may not get the Florida Today newspaper or one of its inserts, USA Weekend. They had an article this Sunday, in that insert, on free vacations in America. One of the destinations was the Air Force Museum in Dayton. They had a picture of 374 in the article on page 8. To see back issues, go to usaweekend.com or call 800-872-5178. They also have a convenient home delivery number, 877-424-0156. This particular weekend is for May 15-17. Their email address is email@example.com.
Joe Hauser
I find it interesting that out of all the aircraft that the National Museum of the Air Force has it was a picture of ARIA 60-0374 that made it on USA Weekend. Chris Miller has sent a scan of the Las Cruces Sun-News version of USA weekend with the article. You can access the article in Adobe PDF format on flyARIA.com.
It has been a number of years since I have heard of any progress in getting ARIA 60-0374 under roof. If you have any information that you have on this issue please send me an update. email@example.com
Remembering Aircraft 61-0311
I placed the first ARIA 328 memorial online in 1999 before there was a flyARIA.com or ARIAMemorial.com. It wasn't too long after the memorial went online that I received an email from Hawaii from a person wondering why I hadn't also included the other ARIA aircraft that crashed on 13 June 1971 on the web site. In my reply I told him that there was only one ARIA aircraft that had crashed; It took a few years for me to put it all together and make sense of the email.
The United States Air Force aircraft 61-0331 was a TRIA, Telemetry Range Instrumentation Aircraft, prior to the "Project III" conversion at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 61-0331 was most likely included in the 11 ARIA photograph on flyARIA.com as it was configured prior to 1971 with the "Droop-Snoop" radome at Patrick Air Force Base Florida. 61-0331 operated as a TRIA from 1967 until its 1971 transfer from the Air Force Eastern Test Range to the 4950th Test Wing Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. There were a total of 4 TRIA aircraft produced.
The most noticeable feature of the TRIA aircraft was the large radome mounted on the front of the aircraft. The TRIA shared this style radome with the ARIA, Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft. At the time the only major difference between the two Programs were that the TRIA aircraft were not equipped with voice communications for the Apollo Missions. There were a total of 8 ARIA aircraft produced.
LTV Corporation modified 61-0331 prior to arrival at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base by removing the TRIA nose and installing a large radome atop the fuselage for a new series of test designed to detect and analyze nuclear explosions and their related electromagnetic pulses (EMP).
The 4950th Test Wing operated 61-0331 for the Space and Missile System Office (SAMSO). The aircraft deployed routinely to the "Burning Light" Task Force located at Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii to monitor French atmospheric nuclear test conducted at their Center d'Experimentation du Pacifiqua (CEP) including Polynesian blast sites at Fangataufa and Mururoa Atols.
61-0331 disappeared on 13 June 1971 while returning to Hawaii after observing the French Encelade atmospheric nuclear test at Mururoa. The aircraft was enroute from Pago Pago to Hickam Air Force Base. All 24 crewmembers were lost, 12 of them civilians.
The publication History of the Miami Valley (1994) listed a few of the crew that was on 61-0331 and with the help of a fellow webmaster Christopher Freeze I was able to compile the complete crew list. I thought it would be fitting to include an online memorial for 61-0311 on the ARIAMemorial.com web site. Less than a week after the online memorial was posted I received an email from the son of one of the crew members. He told me that 61-0331 did not have a memorial in the memorial park at the National Museum of th Air Force. He came across the flyARIA.com web site looking for cold war history and was grateful of the online memorial for his father and the crew of 61-0331.
With the help Mike Mauro, Todd Efaw, and Christopher Freeze over at Check-Six.com we were able to bring together the information needed to place the 61-0331 memorial on ARIAMemorial.com. I want to thank everyone involved for without your help it would not have been possible.
June 13, 2009 marks the 38th anniversary of the crash of aircraft 61-0331. For the crew list and additional information go to http://ariamemorial.com/61-0331.html.
Remembering Demon 51: June 8, 2009
Air Force officials dedicated a memorial Jan. 13 at the Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, Ark., to the six airmen who perished in the crash of an Arkansas Air National Guard C-130 transport during a training flight June 8, 1988. The aircraft, assigned to the 189th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., went down near Greenville, Miss., killing Maj. Andy Zwaan, 2nd Lt. Mark Brandt, 2nd Lt. Thomas Leece, MSgt. Ed Smith Jr., MSgt. Danny Holland, and SSgt. David Bingham. About 150 family members, friends, and current and former military members were on hand for the dedication to the crew of the aircraft, which had the call sign Demon 51. The memorial includes a plaque with the six airmen's photos and a single propeller blade from one of the aircraft's engines.
Submitted by Richard Beard
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Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion July 19-22 Canberra, Australia
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flyARIA.com/ARIAMemorial.com Updates
May has been a difficult month for the ARIA web sites; it started with ARIAMemorial.com. Both sites were served from a datacenter located in Chicago, Illinois and have been relatively free from problems over the past 6 years. That was until ARIAMemorial.com was going down upwards to 40% of the time. flyARIA.com started to have issues with redirections when accessed through a Google search. Unfortunally, the problems existed outside of my control and the service provider was not able to remedy the problems permanently.
It was a difficult decision to move the sites to another service provider. The web sites are now served from a datacenter in Kansas and hopefully we will have an uneventful relationship with the provider.
I have configured the new server with the latest version of the operating system and web server. I have installed the highest security features and the system is monitored 24/7. The downside to this is that it is possible that some of you may not be able to access the sites do to your IP address being blacklisted. I use two independent services to provide information on known abusing IP addresses and this information is automatically updated daily throughout the day. Although this process eliminates a lot of problems it does have it's flaws. If you cannot access the ARIA sites please email me.
For those of you with a flyARIA.com email address email service was not affected.
ARIA Newsletter
Starting in July I will be sending out the ARIA Newsletter from the new mail server. This should cut down on a number of issues that I have been having sending out the newsletter. Since this is going to be the first time that the mail server is used please email me if you haven't received your copy of the newsletter.
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Airbus and Yemenia Airlines yesterday morning signed a memorandum of understanding covering 10 Airbus A320s, the first of which the official carrier of Yemen expects to arrive in Sanaa in 2011. On hand for the signing ceremonies, Yemenia board member Saleh Alawaji said the airplanes would replace some of the airline's aging A310s and fill a gap in capacity while it waits for delivery of the first of 10 A350s by the end of 2015.
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Alawaji added that he needs to return to Yemenia's board, members of which represent the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, for their blessing. Meanwhile, Yemenia has yet to choose an engine for the airplanes. "Our technical teams are working on it," said Alawaji, "but we expect to make a decision soon."
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A little funny...
So, on my strange tangent, I happened to come across this video - Wierd Al Yankovic's latest video, "Skipper Dan." And I dunno.... its just silly and funny and I thought I'd share it because I got a kick out of it! Hope you do, too... lol
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Authorities arrested a man in connection with a shooting in Manchester that left another man dead in December.
Manchester police said Jesus "Scoobie" Fernandez, 27, was arrested Sunday evening on charges of reckless second-degree murder.
Investigators said Fernandez gunned down Daniel Langlois, 25, with a handgun on Dec. 27.
Fernandez's arraignment is expected to take place at the Ninth Circuit Court on Monday, authorities said.
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With only three books in print in English translation, it seems no one reads Juan Jose Saer (1937-2005). Believed by many to be the greatest Argentine novelist of the 20th century, Saer's work, like his more well-known contemporaries Cesar Aira and Roberto Bolano, toys with the limits of genre, ultimately expanding our sense of what a novel can be. Befitting a novelist whose work straddled so many genres, Saer's voice ranges from the lyrical to the hard-boiled.
Proof of his voluptuous lyricism is evident in the following passage from his novel of cultural dislocation and cannibalism, The Witness (trans. by Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Saramago and Javier Marias):
Amongst so many strange things: the predictable sun, the countless stars, the trees that resolutely put on the same green splendor each time their season mysteriously comes round, the river that ebbs and flows, the shimmering yellow sand and summer air, the pulsating body which is born, grows old and dies, all the vast distances and the passing days, enigmas which we all in our innocence believe to be familiar, amongst all these presences that seem oblivious to ours, it is understandable that one day, in the face of the inexplicable, we experience the unpleasant feeling that we are just voyagers through a phantasmagoria…. But, despite its intensity, that feeling, which we all have sometimes, does not last and does not go deep enough to unsettle our lives. One day, when we least expect it, it suddenly overwhelms us. For a few moments familiar objects are totally alien to us, inert and remote despite their nearness.
And his hard-boiled, gritty realism is evident in the opening of the recently published translation of Cicatrices (Scars, trans. Steve Dolph):
There's this filthy, evil June light coming through the window. I'm leaning over the table, sliding the cue, ready to shoot. The red and the white balls area across the table, near the corner. I have the spot ball. I have to hit it softly so it hits the red ball first, then the white, then the back rail between the red and the white ball.
In addition to Scars, Open Letter Books has also recently published The Sixty-Five Years of Washington, which leaves us with the hope that we will one day be able to strike Saer from the roll of Writers No One Reads.
For more, see this appreciation in The Nation or this obituary published in the Guardian.
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A pastor in Seoul, South Korea has created a "baby box" for people so that people who would otherwise abandon or kill their newborns can leave them somewhere safe instead. The box has a light, a towel lining, and a bell rings as soon as a baby is placed in it so the pastor, his wife, or one of his staff can come and get it right away.
Lee Jong-rak started the box in 2009, and has welcomed all babies, often disabled or the children of single mothers, that have been placed in the box since. The babies are given a loving home, food, and shelter in his orphanage. Currently, an average of 17-18 babies are placed in the box every month.
One mother who had considered poisoning her baby before she heard about the Baby Box left her baby in the box with a letter pinned to his clothing that read:
'My baby! Mom is so sorry.
I am so sorry to make this decision.
My son! I hope you to meet great parents,
And I am very very sorry.
I don't deserve to say a word.
sorry, sorry, and I love you my son.
Mom loves you more than anything else.
I leave you here because I don't know who your father is.
I used to think about something bad but I guess this box is safer for you.
That's why I decided to leave you here.
My son, Please forgive me.'
- 'A single mother's tearful letter'
Lee Jong-rak is the subject of a documentary called "The Drop Box", which I haven't seen - but I can recommend this 13 minute Dateline video. You can find the Facebook page for the BabyBox here.
'My sun and stars… '
i found our wedding rings
i like how they lock in together, i wonder what ancient & otherwordly powers that will grant us besides lawful contractual matrimony in the eyes of the State
this show was so f**ked up
Snow white and the seven bitches
When Glee does things right, they do them E X T R E M E L Y right.
Not a fan of the show but WOW
Oh shit.
one cake to rule them all.
One cake to find them
Ummmm Totally making this. It doesn't even need it be for a birthday party.
I will buy some cake mix and have at it.
Oh lord
It began with the baking of the Great Cakes.
Three cakes were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings.
Seven cakes to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.
And nine… nine cakes were gifted to race of Men who, above all else, desire sugar.
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another cake was made. In the land of Mordor, in the ovens of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron baked in secret a master Cake, to control all others. And into this Cake he poured his vanilla, his chocolate and his will to consume all cakes. One Cake to rule them all.
One Cake to rule them all:
One c. sugar to flavor them,
One c. flour to bring them all,
and an egg to, in the oven, bind them.
I just kept reading and it just kept getting better
- Where are you going?
- To get my reward.
your bra strap is showing please hide it because it is suggestive. also your boobs are producing lumps in your shirt please hide them. your butt is in the same situation please get rid of it. also your legs. your arms. your face.
I can see your feet and it's very distracting and slightly arousing.
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According to a report in Billboard earlier this month, Arcade Fire plan to release the follow-up to 2007's Neon Bible in May 2010. That gives the members of London's Fanfarlo approximately six months to endear themselves to American listeners before said listeners start getting their literary psych-folk jams from a superior source. OK, that's kind of harsh—but there's definitely no denying the Arcade Fire comparisons that have greeted Fanfarlo's buzzed-about debut, Reservoir, on which frontman Simon Balthazar croons anxiously about ghosts, comets, and drowning men over his bandmates' elaborate twee-roots arrangements. Local openers Freelance Whales just signed to local indie Frenchkiss Records, which will reissue their self-released debut, Weathervanes, next year.
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Historians tend to be a bit snooty about Herodotus, because he hammed it up to keep his audience entertained with tales of dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes. Cicero dubbed him the "father of history", for which historians ought to be grateful, says Justin Marozzi, even if Plutarch later called him the "father of lies". What Marozzi most admires about Herodotus is his "life-grabbing energy", which he shares. On his travels through Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and Greece clutching his copy of the Histories, his enthusiasm is everywhere apparent. He even occasionally cries "Eureka!" - once when the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor invites him to lunch at Kardamyli, and again when he finally tracks down his lost notebook at the feet of a statue of Pythagoras. We never really learn from history, says Marozzi, although in Iraq he observes how one of Herodotus's favourite literary devices is the wise adviser, popping up regularly to counsel against war ("Haste is the mother of failure", etc). Every leader needs one.
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French authorities take lead in grilling Google on 'Right to be Forgotten'
...told you so!
I believe I said this would happen in my response to news of the ruling itself. It's a dumb ruling that charters a dumb notion and attempting to implement it is raising about a bazillion interlinked, often contradictory issues. The whole situation makes the European bureaucracy sound like a flock of acephalous chickens.
Web firms, DON'T PANIC: The Euro Google 'right to be forgotten' isn't a problem
I read the ruling, did you?
I read the ruling, as recommended, and I don't see any reason not to panic. The basis for the decision is that the INTERNET is important in everyday life, not that Google is.
This is going to be a plain, straight-up, unmitigated weasel knot and no doubt about it. Everyone who can afford a data-cleaning company will have a squeaky clean internet profile and the rest of us will just have to live with our youthful indiscretions.
Gazillions will be spent on lawyers, which makes sense because the ruling was made by lawyers and no one is more concerned with the employment prospects of lawyers than other lawyers.
Europe's shock Google privacy ruling: The end of history? Don't be daft
I KNEW it, Google really is the Anti-christ
I know ranting about anti-Google rants won't do a thing in a Reg-iverse where Google invented war and the Black Death so I'll just pre-position my "I told you so" now for when, in a few years we discover all the things that people have had expunged from view (because you know there's no defensible line around Google that's going to prevent this ruling from being applied to any web search or scraping service). Business opportunity: be one in the legion of companies that will soon spring up to work what ever system gets set up to implement this ruling, all making money from rich people, politicians, and companies who will pay to bury their past, airbrush out any trouble. The negative press about our product? How dare you link to that! The suit my ex filed over my domestic violence? Out with that! Photo of corporate boss vacationing with politician? Piffle! The only people who will have to live with their past will be the rest of us who can't afford these services. I know I won't convince you now, but mark my words..., we will rue this decision and the google-noids will ask me to pass the gravy so they can choke down their big, feathery dish of crow.
Most Americans doubt Big Bang, not too sure about evolution, climate change – survey
bad questions
I don't think this survey is very good. People could be unsure about the age of the universe being 13.8 billion versus 16 billion. Same thing with the question about the earth being 4.5 billion years old. If you went to school a few decades ago you might think it's 5 billion.
I'm not saying Americans aren't as dumb as dishwater, because they are. Just that some of the lowest questions could be artificially low because of badly phrased questions.
Is it barge? Is it a data center? Mystery FLOATING 'Google thing'
tax and court dodgers
I like the idea that they're going off-shore to avoid court orders and taxes.
Shark-tooth war cutlery reveals tale of fishy extinction in Pacific
work in historical museum collections
Work in historical museum collections lives and dies by the quality of the accession records and unfortunately the paper referenced here doesn't provide much information on their use of museum records for the sharktooth swords, just for the shark specimens themselves. These objects would have been tourist pieces from at least the 1920s on and that opens a host of problems for using them as records of species. On the other hand, it isn't impossible to control for the most obvious problems...by using only well provenanced pieces with indications of local use before collection, or at least by factoring in a history of local tourism. Regrettably, the authors don't provide much if any info on the circumstances of collection for the pieces analyzed, just the results of their physical observations. Regardless, it's a clever piece of scholarship that shows there is often good data sitting in plain sight if you're clever enough to spot the potential. It reminds me of the study of changing fish size using snapshots of the trophies of Caribbean sport fishermen.
Brits, Germans, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italians ALL to probe Google
Re: what did google ever do to you?
"And about another million ways of tracking where you are, who you know, what you're doing, what you're saying and who you're saying it too....but I think most people would like to have at least some semblance of privacy"
I strongly disagree that "most of us would rather have some privacy." I doubt whether 1 in 100 members of the general public could care less about the kind of privacy that google stands accused of violating.
I drive back and forth from my crackerbox house in the suburbs to my deskjob in an office park; my kids go to school down the road with all the other kids. I wear clothes I buy from catalogs that still get shoved through my mail slot, I read books I hear about on the radio. I take vacations in the same places everyone else does (witness the traffic getting to and from). I have interests and talk about them over beer with my friends. I hope I save enough money to retire and take up a hobby like stamps or model boats.
Honestly, I don't think most of us lead lives that are nearly as interesting as we think they are. I'm sure that google is directing corporation x towards me and not corporation y and I figure sometimes corporation x manages to trick me into buying something I wouldn't otherwise, but so it goes. Salesmen used to come to my door, now they come to my inbox...where google helps me filter them out. I think the scenarios where the gov't gets taken over by space aliens or socialists and begins to round up free thinkers using data coerced from google are fantasies of the overly self-important.
what did google ever do to you?
I'm still not getting why everyone's always hellbent on sticking it to Google. All they ever did to me was give me a simple way to surf the internet, personal email, email for my entire business, calendars that sync with all my friends', a contact book that syncs with my cell phone, powerful online office productivity software, maps of the entire world, sketch-up, and about a million other things...all for free. I suppose they might be selling information about my online habits to various people, but who isn't?! And those other companies don't give me any free stuff for the privilege. If you don't like Google, DON'T USE IT. I'm sure AOL's still got some of those introductory CD-ROMs still kicking around that they can send you so you can get on line.
Ten serious sci-fi films for the sentient fan
A lot of comments, not much variety
Just to change it up a little, how about "Idiocracy" (2006)? Okay, it's a comedy, but the main point is totally serious and in being so, a little alarming.
'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands
death star economics
Interesting petition but hardly original. A number of us participated in an exhaustive discussion of the politico-economics of deathstars in http://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/04/25/star-wars-death-star-economics/. I came away from that with the feeling that whether death star construction was a good investment or not had more to do with the economic patterns and organization among star systems, not on the direct benefits of construction contracts and hiring all those storm troopers, even if you figure in construction of shield generators and garrisoning small forest moons. In fact, the discussion was such a smashup discussion that the readers of overthinkingit voted it the most popular discussion of 2011.
Fanboi beats 'e-trespassing' rap after using GPS to find stolen iPad
common sense at last
Glad to hear someone finally acknowledge that the airwaves are public. It's why companies wanting to use them have to buy the right from the gov't. The way things have been going, if the theft-victim listening to the iPad from the sidewalk had instead been a neighbor using an unsecured wi-fi connection emitted into his house by the same device, the law would have arrested HIM! Ridiculous. I never understood why I'm forbidden to listen in (if I can) to electro-magnetic radiation that's propagating through me.
Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual
Re: Evidence?
This is possibly the first sensible post in the whole bunch. What IF the anthropogenic global warming fans ARE right? Won't all you skeptics feel dumb. So what if they're wrong? At least we've curbed our ridiculous waste, which is something we should be doing anyway.
And one more question for all the skeptics out there...what's your end-game on all this fossil fuel-CO2 into the air thing? Even if I accept that the peak oil people are utterly crazy, I find it hard to believe there's INFINITE fossil fuel. Also, even if I accept that the CO2 causes warming people are utterly crazy, surely there's gotta be something that happens when you put infinite CO2 in the atmosphere? So let's say there's 2 orders of magnitude more fossil fuels than previously estimated and that CO2 is 2 orders of magnitude less likely to cause bad changes than previously thought...with fuel use increasing exponentially, even those limits will be hit pretty soon. So what's your plan? Come on...what's YOUR plan?
Zabulon Skipper: Butterfly harbinger of climate biodiversity DOOM?
Re: Electrical engineer tries hand at brain surgery
Again with the brain surgery...
F.A. Lutz, Field Book of Insects, Putnam's Sons, 1918. "Its (giant swallowtail's) normal range is from Virginia and Missouri to Florida and Texas."
Alexander B. Klots, Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Rockies, Houghton, Mifflin, 1951. "Zabulon Skipper...More widespread southward than hobomok. As noted above, many old records and life history data cannot be trusted because the two species were confused."
You're just sore because the papers' results are inconvenient to your own theories.
Oh, and which exactly were the ad hominem remarks? Knocking Ron Paul supporters? He's a public figure who gets worse walking to the mailbox. A quippy remark connoting that I think climate change skeptics are in the same category of conspiracy theorists that wear tinfoil hats? El Reg uses that trope all the time. What else you got?
Electrical engineer tries hand at brain surgery
Lewis Page writes great biting commentary on the achievements and excesses of the military industrial complex. He should leave the climate change conspiracy paranoia to the experts...the religious far right, Ron Paul supporters, and other junior high dropouts.
I've been involved in collecting and processing the aforementioned data on zabulon skippers and giant swallowtails in southern New England and I can say that they tend to be more southern species and that they are much more common than they used to be. I don't think this proves or disproves the theory that the globe is warming. But it is consistent with that theory. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the article and it doesn't contradict the conclusions of the other articles as described. Certainly there is nothing here that justifies Page going off on the science in the articles. Pull your tin-foil hat down snug and get back to writing articles on IT.
'Apple is corrupting App Store downloads', warn angry devs
surprised? I don't think so
Sounds like apple got caught adding their own little packages within the apps. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you access that app...until Steve Jobs gets done tinkering with it." I wonder how long before someone reverse engineers the mods and we find out why apple won't talk.
World+dog discovers hi-res aerial maps, thanks to Google and Apple
get over it already
The only people to whom this is a news story are people who've only just discovered that high resolution imagery has been publicly available through your state government for at least 40 years. In the northeast US at least, Google itself often uses imagery taken by state government for resource management and emergency preparedness, offering us all a great convenience. States have been taking this imagery for decades. The ONLY things new are now:
a) you don't have to sit in the basement office of the state EMA going blind looking through a stereoscope
b) pay $100/square mile for prints of orthophotos
c) train for months in GIS and then shell out a couple thousand bucks to ESRI for software that can open files that have been publicly available states' websites for at least a dozen years
d) get a private pilot's license or charter a plane and take your own imagery.
I say "you go Google, thanks for democratizing aerial imagery." And to the privacy paranoids, if you don't like what your yard looks like from above, tough. Who says you have a right to invisibility when viewed from higher than street level?
Google Street View Wi-Fi data slurper named
would somebody please explain why this is bad?
Okay, I give up. I've followed this whole google slurping thing and I'm sure I'm missing something. Aren't the airwaves public? At least in the U.S.? Wasn't that why part of broadcast license fees went to pay for the Public Broadcasting Service? To recompense the public for use of its airwaves for private commerce? Isn't that why the courts okayed the sale of police scanners? So why can't google drive around listening to broadcasts that make it out into the public street? We won't even get into why I can't use my neighbor's Wi-Fi if it trespasses into my house. Well, okay, lets. In some towns I can sue my neighbor for light trespass if his driveway light shines on my bedroom window. Why is his Wi-Fi okay? Or if its okay, why can't I use it in recompense for having to put up with it? Am I missing something?
'Seas will rise, flood millions of homes' warns Eric Schmidt ecologist
Re: ostrich, ostrich
Sorry folks, 88 years ain't so far away when you're talking about buildings and infrastructure. The built capital upon which the economy of my present city (once a port in the colonies, now a medium-small city on the U.S. Atlantic coast) depends is probably roughly 40% post-1970, 30% 1870-1970, and 20% pre-1870 (by either square footage or current value), to say nothing about the 200 year old sewer system and street grid. This charming metro area is fortunate to be situated between hills that make a hurricane barrier economically and ecologically feasible and such a thing was build decades ago. Assuming it keeps working, we're probably all set for just the additional cost of a few extra pumps to handle the river flow when the barrier has to close on most high tides instead of just when storms approach. But if we were one of our nearby sister cities without such an advantage, how do you figure 2100 is so far in the future? Almost half the buildings are older than the 88 years you think is forever. And old buildings must not be entirely disposable because people keep paying good money to gut them to the walls and completely rebuild the interiors. I think SOME people live in crappy pre-fab cities and are sore about others who live in nice historic ones and the former wish the latter to have their smugness be washed away by divine wrath but please to do it quietly.
ostrich, ostrich
Lewis Page is being a ridiculous demagogue. So what if it's 1 meter of sea level rise that inundates 2.3 million homes or 60 cm of rise that inundates 1.7 million homes? It'll be a huge disruption. And he talks about it like it's in the distant future. Kids born today will live to see it. If you live in south Florida, don't bother willing your house to the baby you're looking at in his crib today. Why so skeptical? What have you got to lose by hedging your bets and working energy sustainability into the economy over the coming years. "Oh no! Driving my F-350 to the mall is costing me too much in gas, someone save me by denying anything even remotely like consequences for a hydrocarbon economy!"
RIP: Peak Oil - we won't be running out any time soon
Oh for pete's sake people, put down the hyperbole; you're all right
So peak oil has been rescheduled to a slightly later time. So what? Unless you come equipped with a tinfoil hat and a penchant for abiotic oil theories (AND don't believe in anthropogenic global warming) peak oil's going to happen some time. I don't think it's newsworthy that Citibank has decided the oil industry can hang on a little longer. Jeez, I can't imagine why Citibank would want to tamp down instability in the bluechip equity market unless they had a lot of money invested in big, oil-driven companies... ...duh
Even if we use those magically refilling oil wells, toxic frack gas, sinfully inefficient renewables, and nuke plants on every street corner that hasn't already be rendered uninhabitable by a nuclear accident, we'd still need plenty of luck to avoid the collapse of civilization once all those Chinese start to consume like Americans. Hey what do you know...everyone's right. Now go home and do something useful.
1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife
really dumb
My first thought was the same as many others', that this will last until your first trip through airport security. My second thought is why not just tape a micro-SD to a regular mini-swiss army knife and save about $1,900?
Latest El Reg project: Rise of the Robot Sheep
Re-consider Sheep
You know, you might reconsider the sheep. You could use sheep to do the mowing and build the robot to pick up their poo. You know, something with a dustpan and broom on the front...it'd be cute!
of sheep and mowers
I was thinking a reel mower would be safest until I read Dan Paul's idea for a hedge clipper. Either could work and you'd want to go with whichever is easiest to keep at the right height given your lawn's micro-topography and the mower's wheels/suspension. Everyone knows that lawns need less fertilizer if you leave the clippings on them rather than bag and remove them, so that should be your goal. Reel mowers work best if you mow frequently and that would be best for mulching. If you find yourself building up thatch, you'll have to invent a robot aerator/de-thatcher, which could be a lot of fun in and of itself. As to guidance, my first thought was to use a system that triangulates using those mirror balls people put in their gardens. If the robot had a bright light on it, the spherical mirror would reflect it at a very precise point, no matter where the robot was. Use three different color balls and lenses with three different filters to allow the robot to distinguish among them. If the cameras were at the top of the robot pointed up and there were rotating 45 degree mirrors mounted above them, then the camera would get a flash whenever the mirror pointed at its ball. The bearing to that ball could be read from the rotor on the mirror and a computer should be able quickly to determine the mowers location every full mirror rotation. I believe that early IR seeking anti-aircraft missiles used similar devices.
Intellectual Ventures wages patent war on Motorola
Carp. Carp on toast.
This story is part of the whole messed up system the Wall Street occupiers are aggravated by. We've been told not to worry that the country doesn't actually MAKE anything any more because we'll all be employed in higher paid "knowledge" jobs, like designing things. When a country made STUFF, the ruling class had cops to defend bricks and mortar factories. Now that the country makes nothing but designs for things, the rulers have lawyers to defend them from the revolution. Maybe it will work...or maybe it won't and the patent lawyers will be the first ones against the wall.
LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed
terrific plan!
I think this all looks terrific (taking into account the suggestions to reverse the thrust arrow on the diagram, include an internal temperature sensor, bring it to "altitude" slowly, and tether the lid to the rig).
Remember folks it isn't the burn profile your testing, but the ability to ignite at all. And ignition is probably controlled by pressure at the reaction face, not the "air" in the rocket or the interstices of the propellant, as some people seem to think. The only reason it's rocket propellant in the first place is because it has oxidizer built right in (like the intel ad...oxidizer-inside).
There were a couple of commentators who worried that the rig wouldn't test ignition correctly because it's so small and the vacuum would be lost so quickly; they were worried that there would be a slow start with the burn coming up to regular pressure more slowly than at sea-level and that this wouldn't be detected but the test. I think that might not be so bad a result. If you look at the thrust graphs provided in an earlier post, they all start with a dramatic spike. Anything that levels that spike out will be kinder to the air frame and other components and give the control system a bit of time to get stabilized as the craft accelerates. Just sayin'...
LOHAN eyes hardcore partner's impressive girth
DIY is indicated, you bet!
This is definitely a case for a diy vacuum chamber. I like the 10 m pipe idea, but a 10 m high column of water's going to weigh a ton and be pretty unwieldy, leading to its own problems before you even get to evaluate the rocket's. I think you can get enough information by using a compressor tank and pulling as much air out of it as you can with a hoover or a hand pump of some sort. Cold is also important but you just need to ice down the motor with dry ice before you install it.
To the person who commented about plugging the motor being dangerous, unfortunately, pressure is important for proper ignition of gun powder (which is what the propellant is). Pressure is why gun powder just goes WOOF if you light a pile of it on a table but does BANG if you light the same pile while it is bottle up in the chamber of a firearm. Once the motor is burning, the back pressure from the nozzle will sustain the reaction, but it might be difficult to get going in a near vacuum.
LOHAN team buried under ballockets
Holy hardware, Batman!
Nice discussion. There are a couple of failure modes that seem likely enough to warrant fool proof avoidance plans. A vertical launch through the center of a cluster of balloons seems sensible given the craziness of schemes to launch from below the rocket. A system that retards or accounts for the swing of the balloon should be paramount. Look at how much PARIS was swinging. Regarding thrust vectoring, I read the Armadillo Aerospace blog for years as they developed their attitude-maintaining, thrust-vectoring vehicle. An alarming number of sensors fed into a remarkably complex amount of code and it took scores of tries to work it all out. I don't believe for a minute that you'll be able to get software and hardware to work well enough to use vectored thrust, especially as all the sensor inputs, calculations, commands, and reactions have to be done in milliseconds if you're going to get through any significant number of cycles before a black powder model rocket motor burns out. I also think you should use the popping of the balloon(s) as the trigger to launch because if you trigger before the pop by even a little, you'll be throwing away far more altitude than you'll get from any normal sized rocket motor.
Reg readers ponder LOHAN's substantial globes
use a long string
I like the idea, mentioned earlier, of using a long line to dangle the payload well below the balloon. This will allow a rocket launched at 45 degrees to clear the balloon easily without any additional silliness (or any latex scraps from a burst balloon) and also stabilize the balloon from swinging. As I recall, wasn't there quite a swing developed by PARIS? Also I believe that a swing was a problem for the kid who launched an iPhone powered stratospheric balloon in NY state a couple of years ago. If your payload is separated from the balloon by a long string, you wouldn't have to launch at some preset altitude that was conservatively low (thus costing you ultimate mission height). Just let it go up until the balloon bursts and let the burst itself or the tension coming off the tether trigger the rocket launch.
Acoustic trauma: How wind farms make you sick
there's noise and then there's worrying yourself sick about noise
There was an interesting paper given last year by a doctor from Mass. General and Harvard Med. about the cause of health problems associated with wind turbines. There was a story on it in the Falmouth [Mass.] Enterprise newspaper in 2010. Dr. McCunney suggested that it isn't the sound that causes the problems but the stress that people give themselves when listening to the sound and worrying about it. This affect has been put forward before for other sorts of environmental "health" concerns: people are making themselves sick worrying about getting sick...sort of a reverse placebo effect, I guess.
LOHAN spaceplane project starting to shape up nicely
I think stabilization and attitude control at altitude (where almost no aerodynamic forces will be available) will be one of the biggest challenges. I like spin stabilization because of its simplicity.
Photography on spin-stabilized space probes is accomplished either with a stable photography platform, which won't be possible on LOHAN but also by using the spin itself as to move the camera's narrow field of view across the subject in successive strips, building up a photo through a raster-type system.
That said, I wonder if there's some fiendishly clever way to build a really crazy simple reaction control system using reaction wheels or set of simple thrusters. The X-15, an early fore-runner of LOHAN had reaction control thrusters to maintain attitude when it was flying too high to use aerodynamic control surfaces. You know, something made out of toy cars with their tyres replaced with metal flywheels or with aerosol cans pointed different directions and tiny actuators.
Rocketry to the MOOON!
I agree with the earlier posts about simultaneous ignition, whether in use in a tractor configuration or any other off-centerline multiple motor configuration. Don't forget, not only do the engines have to ignite simultaneously, they also have to come up to the same thrust along the same curve. Even small asymmetries will TOAST the mission. I like the short, fat configurations of several of the X-Prize entries that put the thrust above the CG by putting it in a hole in the middle of the craft.
I agree that deploying the wings as illustrated in the Pearson model will be difficult. As with the rocket motors, keeping all the forces simultaneous and symmetric would be tough. I'm very familiar with the Estes sissorwing model mentioned by Charles E as I have a finished but never flown example in my attic. I'd be willing to mail it to the LOHAN fab bunker if it would help the mission.
El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane
Revell called, they want credit for the design
First, I vote for Low Orbit Helium Aided Navigator.
Second, your LOHAN concept illustration, for illustration purposes only, no doubt, nevertheless bears an uncanny resemblance to the stealth fighter plastic model that was being sold (here in the U.S. at least) after the plane's existence was known but before anyone in the public had seen one (must have been in the mid-80s). A co-incidence? I bet not.
Psychology graduates remain poor for life, study shows
validates one of my employability axioms
If you want a job that pays, pursue a discipline with answers that can be checked. If your answer is as good as my answer, or if there's no easy way to assess the difference between your answer and mine, why should I pay you for yours?
How to build your own Watson Jeopardy! supermachine
lost but not forgotten
What about Dr. Theopolis? Surely it is now time to recognize the writers of the great 70's sci-fi extravaganza "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" for the visionaries they were!
US Airforce secret spaceplane launched successfully
X-51 plan B?
Couldn't this be another approach to the X-51 mission?...global response FAST!? So it has wings because after it's blasted into orbit, it deorbits and flies to its target where it unloads its payload of bombs, starship troopers, or whatever?
NASA flying car engineer shoots down Reg coverage
Propeller beanies all around!
Oh for crying out loud, Doc, you've just got to get it together. You can't rant back at English people like that, it just show us (Americans) as the unsophisticated louts they already think we are. You've got to keep your composure while you deliver some biting yet witty comeback. See the Oxford SCR scene in the movie Shadowlands for how this is done.
Vulture Central plans Brit-Yank dictionary
tips, skips, punters, tah, cheers, and all that
Great topic, although after living three years in Britain, I'm mostly bilingual now, nonetheless I am sure others will benefit. My list of interesting britishisms that yanks could learn?
"tip" (dump) including in expressions like "your room is a tip!"
"skip" (dumpster, what you send "rubbish" to the "tip" in)
"lay by" (rest area)
"punters" (I'm still not sure about this one but could be somewhere between "booster", "promoter", and "schill" which is itself a borrowing from Yiddish).
"tah" and "cheers" (largely untranslatable but something like "thanks, have a nice day")
"O-levels" and "A-levels" (no US equivalent though we're getting there with the no-child-left-behind mess)
"free-hold" at term of estate agents (real estate agents) which I believe means you have what in the U.S. is called fee ownership, and there are other property ownership types that are possibly relevant and definitely untranslatable.
"bespoke" (custom, custom made)
"engineer" which in Britain means a blue-collar technician who fixes your washing machine, but in the U.S. is someone with a wall full of diplomas who invents new kinds of washing machines
"washing up liquid" also "fairy liquid" which gave me great pause the first time I heard it
"pudding" (any dessert among the classes to whom pudding (US usage) would appeal)
"quid" (a blob of chewing tobacco...no, not that one, you mean "buck" as in slang for a dollar)
UK spectrum map uncovers mysterious emissions in Cumbria
interesting and logical
Actually, I thought this was quite interesting and a logical step. Why wouldn't you want a map of spectrum use? And I love the idea of google spectrum view, when can I start using it?
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"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
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Hi. My name is ikka and I no longer use this blog
This used to be my main blog but at one point, I realized that I wasn't using tumblr for fun anymore. This was supposed to be my personal blog. It was just here for me to post whatever I felt like posting but one day, I was promoted by a humor blog and I thought of something like, "What if people visit my tumblr and find out I'm not humor, then they wouldn't follow me." I changed my blog just for that. I honestly did it for followers. Then at one point, I was busy doing schoolwork and catching up with One Piece episodes. I lost about 8 followers. I honestly stopped everything and continued to blog for the next few hours, days, and weeks in the hopes that those 8 followers would come back.
I didn't make this account for that. I made this account for fun. Gaining followers blinded me. I wasn't having fun anymore. It seriously seemed like a job already. That couldn't have been what tumblr was for. I just knew I needed to stop but I didn't have the guts to delete my blog. In the end, I kept coming back. Then, I just did what was irreversible, no more hesitating. I deleted my blog. It was hard but it worked out.
I saved the url (even though its sucky) as a remembrance.
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Definitions for BUFFbʌf
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word BUFF
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a soft, thick, light yellow leather with a napped surface, orig. made from buffalo skin.
Category: Clothing
a brownish yellow color; tan.
a stick, block, or wheel covered with leather or other soft material, used for polishing.
Category: Metallurgy
a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject:
Civil War buffs.
Informal. the bare skin:
in the buff.
Category: Informal
a short coat of buffalo or ox leather, worn esp. by English soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Category: Clothing
(adj.)of the color buff.
made of buff leather.
Slang.physically attractive; muscular.
Category: Status (usage)
(v.t.)to clean, polish, or shine with or as if with a buff.
Category: Metallurgy
to create a velvety surface on (leather), as by abrasion.
Category: Clothing
Origin of buff:
1545–55; earlier buffe wild ox, back formation from buffle < MF < LL būfalus; see buffalo ; (def. 4 ) orig. an admirer of firefighters, allegedly after the buff uniforms once worn by New York City firefighters
Princeton's WordNet
fan, buff, devotee, lover(noun)
an ardent follower and admirer
a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
bare skin; naked
"swimming in the buff"
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown(noun)
a medium to dark tan color
buff, buffer(adj)
an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather
buffet, buff(verb)
strike, beat repeatedly
"The wind buffeted him"
buff, burnish, furbish(verb)
polish and make shiny
"buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
sb who loves an activity; = enthusiast
a film/wine buff
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
A military coat made of buff leather.
A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
Heu2019s a history buff.
An effect that makes a gaming character stronger.
Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
To polish and make shiny.
To make a character stronger.
The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
: Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)
The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
Origin: From buffe, from buffle.
Webster Dictionary
a sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner
the color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown
a military coat, made of buff leather
the grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a
a wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc
the bare skin; as, to strip to the buff
made of buff leather
of the color of buff
to polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5
to strike
a buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
firm; sturdy
Buff is the pale yellow-brown colour of the un-dyed leather of several animals. As a quaternary colour, it is the darker colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet.
Translations for BUFF
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a dull yellow colour.
a buff envelope.
- dofgeel, vaalbruinAfrikaans
- اصْفَر، بُرْتُقالي اللوْنArabic
- бледожълтеникавBulgarian
- amareladoPortuguese (BR)
- žlutohnědýCzech
- lederfarbenGerman
- brungulDanish
- ωχροκίτρινοςGreek
- de color de anteSpanish
- tuhmkollaneEstonian
- زرد رنگ؛ چرمیFarsi
- kellertäväFinnish
- chamoisFrench
- בְּצֵבָע צָהוֹב עָמוּםHebrew
- बादामीHindi
- žućkastCroatian
- bivalybőrHungarian
- kuningIndonesian
- camosciato, scamosciato; color camoscioItalian
- 黄褐色のJapanese
- 황갈색의Korean
- tamsiai geltonasLithuanian
- dzeltenbrūnsLatvian
- sampul surat bufMalay
- vaalgeelDutch
- brungulNorwegian
- ciemnożółtyPolish
- زرد رنگ؛ چرمیPersian
- ژیړ رنګ، چرمیPashto
- amareladoPortuguese
- galbenînchisRomanian
- светло-жёлтыйRussian
- svetložltýSlovak
- svetlo rumenSlovenian
- svetlo mrkožutSerbian
- mattgul, brungulSwedish
- ที่มีสีน้ำตาลอมเหลืองThai
- soluk sarı; deve tüyüTurkish
- 淺黃色的Chinese (Trad.)
- буро-жовтийUkrainian
- زرد رنگ کاUrdu
- có màu nâu sẫmVietnamese
- 浅黄色的Chinese (Simp.)
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Grant Hill was the best player in the NBA. That was a long time ago. For his first six seasons with the Detroit Pistons, Hill was be compared to the great Michael Jordan. He scored over 1000 points in all six of his seasons in Detroit, even the lockout shortened 1999 season. In 2000, he averaged nearly 26 points per game.
He and the Orlando Magic worked a sign-and-trade deal worth mega millions. The Magic made the deal despite the fact that Hill had an ankle that was bothering him. It turned out to be a colossal failure on Orlando's part and the franchise never has really recovered.
Hill played only 47 games over the next three seasons after repeated surgeries and setbacks on both feet. Magic fans, still stung by the departure of Shaquille O'Neal to the Los Angeles Lakers and also reeling from Tim Duncan spurning them to remain with the San Antonio Spurs, began taking out their frustrations on Hill. To this day, he still gets booed in Orlando.
But he was injured. It's not like those broken ankles were self-inflicted. Those injuries cost Hill a lot. Sure they cost the team dearly, but Hill was on his way to a Hall of Fame career. After averaging nearly 20 points for the Magic in 67 games in 2005, he spent 2006 injured again. He played in only 21 games that season.
In his last season with the Magic in 2007, he played in 65 games, but his role had diminished. He averaged 14 points per game over the 65 games he played. It would be his last in Orlando.
He wound with the Phoenix Suns where he became a valuable player, starting for them nearly every game for the next four seasons. He averaged in double figures all four years, but only broke 1000 points one time. He was no longer the next Michael Jordan.
He played one very nondescript season this past year with the Clippers. He spent the vast majority of it on the bench in street clothes and in the 29 games he played, he scored only 93 points. If he never plays another game, a distinct possibility, he will be remembered as a "what if" kind of player. "What if he's stayed healthy?" will be the questioned first asked whenever Hill's name comes up.
But here are his career numbers:
Points- 17137
Assists- 1248
Rebounds- 6169
Those might be Hall of Fame type numbers. Will Hill get into the Hall someday? Yes he will. One thing that will help his cause is that the basketball Hall is not just for the NBA. The Basketball Hall of Fame covers college basketball, pro basketball, even foreign and women's basketball. Hill's college career was among the greatest of all time. So he will likely get in based on that.
Hill will also always be remembered every March for being the one who threw the pass to Christian Laettner to beat the Kentucky Wildcats in the Elite Eight in the 1992 NCAA Tournament. To be remembered in one of basketball's biggest moments is a very big deal. Nobody will ever become a basketball fan in the future and not hear of Grant Hill.
So how will Hill be remembered? He will be remembered, that's the important thing.
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text: "A breach of the tailings pond on Mount Polley Mine sent five million cubic metres (5,000,000,000 litres) of toxic waste into Hazeltine Creek, Quesnel Lake and Polley Lake, with fears it could spread far and wide in the coming days." -Global News Nature Canada has posted on social media about the disastrous events at Mount Polley Mine near Likely, BC yesterday. As the scope of the disaster spreads, it's worth asking: What are the risks that one of the hundreds of dams holding back highly toxic oil sands tailings will breach similar to Mount Polley, possibly eliminating aquatic nature in the Athabasca River from Fort MacMurray to Fort Chipewyan? Actually we don't know because the Alberta Energy Regulator and recent review panels for… read more →