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Building on the importance of family and community gathering, the open plan TRTL house features a flexible dining and living area that fosters family relationships. The two bedroom home can be assembled quickly and can also be easily modified to accommodate more space. The modern kitchen encourages family cooking, and it is outfitted with energy-efficient appliances and ventilation to discourage humidity when cooking.
The home's distinctive turtle-shaped "shell," is made up of highly durable steel and TitanWall SIPs (structural insulated panels), which are fire and mold resistant and can last 75 to 100 years without maintenance. While we like the rounded shape of the house, the judges seemed to be less enthused, as TRTL placed at the bottom of the pack in the architecture category. The SIP panels encase the rounded solar panel array that covers the south-facing portion of the curved roof. The 8.7kW solar array produces enough energy to power the home all year round with excess energy to boot, making TRTL a net zero home. The photovoltaic system is made up of 37 P235PA panels by Conenergy, and it operates at 93 percent of its optimal efficiency.
Interestingly, one of the stipulations for building on Native American reservations is that if the building has a permanent foundation, it becomes the property of the government, which gives residents of reservations little reason to invest in building a home. Team Canada wanted to use their Solar Decathlon house to create a structure that would encourage Native Americans to build their own homes, so they partnered with the native tribes that of Treaty Seven to ensure that the house would be suitable for reservations in Canada. To avoid the issue of a permanent foundation, TRTL is based on a system of screw-piles for its foundation, making it a temporary modular home that can be removed with no effect on the land.
Many of the homes on reservations in Alberta are powered by coal burning power plants, which are responsible for tremendous amounts of CO2 emissions each year. TRTL eliminates the need for this polluting power source while encouraging Native Americans to own their own homes and foster family relationships.
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September 30, 2011 at 4:23 am
What you call "excess energy" is perfect for the emerging electric car market. Quick change car (and bike) batteries that can now be solar charged will easily use this energy. The judges would be wise to give additional consideration for this feature.
September 29, 2011 at 4:38 pm
The SIPs panels they use in this project is Magnesium Oxide Boards sandwiching EPS foam. This is a new product in the SIPs world. It is fireproof and mold proof. A little harder to work with but very good alternative to the standard OSB SIPs. I think this is one of the 4 student-built projects. They did an awesome job with it.


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It's a little bit backwoods and a little bit street.
Southern sound with an urban beat.
It's known as hick-hop — country narratives that add rap's heavy bass and aggression to storylines about pickup-driving, beer-swillin', chicken-and-biscuit-eating good ole boys.
"Just when you think everything's been done in music, you look up and here's a new amalgam," country music singer-songwriter John Rich said.
The genre is getting attention as a grass-roots gig moving toward mainstream recognition — albeit with an unconventional approach.
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While Red Bull and McLaren hogged the limelight on Friday at the Qantas Australian Grand Prix, there were some long faces at the tail-end of the paddock.
Backmarkers Marussia Virgin and HRT both endured horror days to kick off their second season in Formula One.
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That performance level may see them excluded from Sunday's race if it is repeated in Saturday's qualifying session.
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The team's 2011 car, the F111, missed the four pre-season tests in Spain altogether and HRT have a mountain to climb if they're to be on the grid come Sunday.
Glock, fourth at Albert Park for Toyota back in 2008, was despondent as he slumped in the Virgin hospitality unit on Friday evening, with his best time of 1min 32.135secs over six seconds adrift of Button's benchmark time.
"We made a little bit of improvement from P1 (first practice) to P2 (second practice), but in general it's disappointing," the 28-year-old said.
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Glock admitted that he was taken aback by the speed of the teams at the front of the field, and admitted to being concerned that Virgin's best efforts in qualifying might still not result in a place on Sunday's grid.
"The top teams never show really what's going on in testing. (The final test in) Barcelona didn't look great for us, but I was surprised about the gap to the top guys – it was slightly more than I expected at the end."
The only positive for Glock on Friday came from his own health. The German was rushed to hospital to have his appendix removed just three weeks ago, but was pleased that he was able to make it through Friday without physical difficulties.
"I had no problems, and it actually feels quite OK in the car," he said.
"The first couple of laps felt OK, and at the end of the two sessions there are no problems, which is good."
Glock was disappointed but still talking on Friday evening; that wasn't the case at HRT.
Half an hour after the end of practice, Liuzzi and Karthikeyan were joined by senior team personnel in a closed-door meeting in the F1 paddock.
With just 60 minutes of practice to iron out their problems before tomorrow's qualifying session, HRT's prospects look bleak.
On Thursday night, the team used up one of its four exemptions for the season to work on the cars late into the night, with personnel still at the Albert Park circuit after 2.30am local time in a frantic rush to be ready for practice.
Another long night loomed on Friday, and before heading into the team meeting Karthikeyan admitted the situation was "touch and go".
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"(The mechanics) have been working very hard and we always knew it would be a last-minute thing. It's going to be very difficult, to be honest."


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Rainforest Sky Rides St. Lucia Encourages Learning Vacations With Its Summer Family Special
MIAMI (June 1, 2010) – Rainforest Sky Rides St. Lucia welcomes explorers of all ages with its new Summer Family Special, valid June 1 – September 30, 2010. Children under 17 receive one complimentary excursion at the remarkable rainforest park, located in St. Lucia's vibrant Chassin highlands.
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Summer Family Special at Rainforest Sky Rides St. Lucia is limited to one complimentary excursion per family, and is limited to select days. Children must be accompanied by two parents. Minimum age for zip lines is 12 years.
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Serves 6 as a starter or 4 as a main course
|6 fl oz (175 ml) Italian carnaroli rice
|2½ oz (60 g) butter
|1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
|3 fl oz (75 ml) dry white wine
|18 fl oz (500 ml) vegetable stock (made with Marigold Swiss vegetable bouillon powder)
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|4 oz (110 g) skinned young broad beans (you'll need about 6 oz (175 g) unskinned weight)
|4 oz (110 g) asparagus, cut into 1 inch (2.5 cm) pieces
|1 bunch spring onions, trimmed and chopped
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Begin by melting the butter in a medium saucepan, then add the onion and let it cook over a gentle heat for 5-7 minutes or until the onion is soft and golden.
Meanwhile, place the baking dish in the oven to warm through. Now add the rice to the saucepan, stirring it around to get a good coating of butter (it will look like there's not nearly enough rice at this stage, but it swells up during the cooking), then add the white wine and vegetable stock. Next, add the chopped sage, half a teaspoon of salt and some freshly milled black pepper and bring it up to simmering point, then transfer the whole lot from the pan to the warmed dish. Stir once, then place it on the centre shelf of the oven (without covering) to cook for exactly 20 minutes – a timer is useful here.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a small frying pan. Add the whole sage leaves, a few at a time, and cook for 30 seconds to a minute until crispy, then remove with a slotted spoon to a plate lined with kitchen paper.
After the 20 minutes are up, remove the risotto from the oven and gently stir in the broad beans, asparagus and spring onions along with the 2 tablespoons of Pecorino cheese, turning the rice grains over. Now put the timer on again and cook the risotto for a further 15 minutes, then remove the dish from the oven, stir in the chives and put a clean tea cloth over it while you invite everyone to sit down. Risottos won't wait, so serve presto pronto on warmed plates and finished with a couple of crispy fried sage leaves and the extra grated Pecorino.
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Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Andre Iguodala scored a team-high 17 points and pulled down 10 rebounds as the Denver Nuggets earned their first win of the season with a 109-97 triumph over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday at Pepsi Center.
JaVale McGee scored 16 points off the bench, Ty Lawson added 15 points and nine assists and Kenneth Faried netted 15 points to go with eight rebounds for the Nuggets, who avoided starting 0-4 for the first time since the lockout- shortened 1999 season.
Kosta Koufos and Corey Brewer contributed 14 and 11 points, respectively in the victory.
"We had really good energy to start the game," Iguodala said. "We had some ups and downs, but it was a good test for us to see if we could hold a lead."
Greg Monroe dropped in a game-high 27 points and grabbed 10 boards, while Rodney Stuckey added 17 points in the setback for the Pistons, who are 0-4 for the second time in the last three seasons.
Denver came out of the gates on fire, hitting six of its first nine shots from the floor while building a 17-7 advantage with 4:50 left in the opening quarter.
The Pistons answered with an 11-2 run, capped by a Kyle Singler layup with 2:24 to go. A pair of free throws by Stuckey tied things at 21, but Brewer closed the stanza with a 3-pointer to give the Nuggets a 24-21 lead after one.
The game remained close throughout the second quarter, which featured six lead changes and four ties. A deep jumper by Danilo Gallinari ignited the Nuggets on a 17-10 push to end the half with a 58-51 lead.
A driving layup by Lawson less than three minutes into the third quarter gave Denver a 65-56 lead, but the Pistons responded with an 11-2 spurt, capped by a Jason Maxiell jumper, to tie the game at 67 with 5:07 left in the stanza.
The Nuggets though, outscored Detroit 18-9 over the final five-plus minutes to take a nine-point cushion into the final 12 minutes of play.
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Gun Control: 'Only Modest Change' In Opinion Since Newtown Shootings
Originally published on Fri December 21, 2012 9:25 am
"The public's attitudes toward gun control have shown only modest change in the wake of last week's deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.," the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported Thursday afternoon.
Pew's latest national survey of 1,219 adults was done Dec. 17-19 (Monday to Wednesday). So the Dec. 14 attack that took the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School was on most respondents' minds. Pew's Andrew Kohut tells All Things Considered that polling shows the Newtown attack "has drawn as much public attention as the entire presidential election at the end" of last year's campaign.
The post-Newtown poll showed that:
-- 49 percent of respondents agreed with the view that it's more important to control gun ownership than it is to protect the right of Americans to own guns.
-- 42 percent said the right of Americans to own guns is more important than gun control.
-- While this was the first time since President Obama took office that "significantly more" respondents make gun control a higher priority than the right to own guns, the shift was not dramatic. Following the July mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., "47 percent said it was more important to control gun ownership, while 46 percent said it was more important to protect gun rights."
The new survey comes with a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percentage points on each of those major results.
Pew's findings underscore what we noted on Saturday: that polling in the past has shown that public opinion won't necessarily shift much after mass shootings such as those in Newtown, Aurora, Tucson or on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
The modest change in opinion can be explained in large part, Kohut said, by the depth of most Americans' feelings on the issue. Eighty percent of respondents, he said, told Pew "I fell strongly about this."
"It's not easy to move strong opinions," Kohut added.
Also a factor: Just under half of those polled believe gun ownership does more to "protect people from crime" than it does to "put people's safety at risk," Pew reports. For many Americans, said Kohut, that's just "fundamental."
One exception to that general view: Pew found that 65 percent of those polled believed "allowing citizens to own assault weapons" makes the nation more dangerous, not safer.
More from Kohut is scheduled for today's broadcast of All Things Considered. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show. Later, we'll add the as-aired version of the interview to the top of this post.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block.
The mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has shifted public attitudes toward gun control, but only a little. That's the conclusion of a new poll out today from the Pew Research Center.
And director Andrew Kohut joins me to talk about what they found. Andy, welcome back.
ANDREW KOHUT: Happy to be here.
BLOCK: Your poll was taken earlier this week, just a few days after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. And as you say, you find a modest tilt in the public opinion but not much.
KOHUT: Yeah, 49 percent said it's more important to control gun ownership than to protect gun owner rights, 42 percent. That's the first time over the past four years that we've had a plurality, a clear plurality, saying controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun owner rights.
BLOCK: So, 49-42, but if you compare that with before Barack Obama took office, you actually see there's more support now for the right to own guns, less support for gun control.
KOHUT: Yes, we did 10 surveys over the course of the period 1993 through 2008. And in every one of those surveys, a majority of the people, we said, said it was more important to control gun owner rights. The last time we did it, pre-Obama, was April of 2008 and we had a 58 to 32 percent majority saying more important to control gun ownership.
Obama came to office, the Democrats took control of the Congress and public opinion changed.
BLOCK: And, Andy, what in the other questions that you asked helped explain where the public is right now on gun control?
KOHUT: Well, we find that most people have very strong attitudes about this question of controlling guns or protecting gun owner rights. Eighty percent of the people who gave us an answer, one way or another, said I feel strongly about this. But the second thing is - and this is an element in the robustness of support for gun owner rights - is a 48 to 37 percent plurality saying that gun ownership does more to protect the American people than to put American lives at risk.
BLOCK: It's interesting, though, Andy, because when you honed in on certain weapons and ammunition, the numbers do shift in interesting ways. Most Americans say they would not support banning handguns or semiautomatic weapons. But they would support a ban on bullets that explode, that penetrate bulletproof vests or on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
KOHUT: Majorities of Americans expressed support for both of those reforms. But on more basic things, like handgun control, there's very little movement. And, you know, we're not the only poll to show this. The ABC/Washington Post survey earlier this week also found that just a modest increase in people saying - since this summer - saying that there should be stronger laws that control guns. I think 51 to 54 percent.
BLOCK: Within these numbers, Andy, on either support for or opposition to gun rights, there is a sizable gender gap and also a sizable racial gap.
KOHUT: Very large - gender divide, 57 percent of women say controlling guns is more important. But 51 percent of men say, no, protecting gun owner rights is more important. We see on race, a majority of whites say its protecting gun ownership. But 68 percent of blacks say, no, it's more important to control gun ownership.
BLOCK: Another question, Andy, had to do with assault weapons. And by a margin of 3-to-1, people said they think assault weapons make the country more dangerous.
KOHUT: That's right. There's a strong view on that. But when we ask about banning semiautomatic weapons - and assault weapons are a class of that kind weapon - on balance, a small plurality say no. So even on the issue of semiautomatic weapons there's not exactly a groundswell to say: Let's take them out of play.
BLOCK: Andrew Kohut directs the Pew Research Center. Andy, thanks again.
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At Science Central, workers are putting the finishing touches on a new traveling exhibit, "Electricity," designed to showcase principles of electricity through early devices, most designed when human-harnessed electricity was still something of a novelty.
The exhibit will be part of the attractions at Science Central, 1950 N. Clinton St., from Saturday through Jan. 5, 2014. It is sponsored by BAE Systems.
Developed by The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the fundamental scientific principles behind electricity are explored and presented through hands-on units. Visitors can safely examine such concepts as static electricity and live current; motors, batteries and wires; attraction and repulsion; sparks, charge and discharge; voltage, AC and DC; magnetic fields and magnetic motion; lights, telegraphs and transmitters and more.
In addition to the Franklin Institute exhibit components, artifacts from the work of Philo T. Farnsworth during his tenure in Fort Wayne will also be on display. These artifacts are on loan courtesy of Exelis Corporation. Farnsworth is credited as being the inventor of television, and spent many years working in Fort Wayne for ITT, now Exelis.


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The former chair of the Harvard University physics department muses on how faith gives meaning to his scientific work.
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With From the Dust, it was our goal to help Christians see the complexity of the issues raised by modern science, as well as help them to courageously engage with the theological conversations happening within the sphere of Christian culture today.
It should be noted that indeterminacy does not imply that God does not have foreknowledge of future events. Christians ought not to be uncomfortable with the idea of God interacting with his creation through chance.
As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.
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On Conformality
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I teach cartography for a living, at UW-Madison, and last week I spent some time lecturing about projections. I think that this is probably the most difficult topic to teach — it's the most technical and abstract, and we tend to avoid math, even though the topic is entirely mathematical in nature. Many students do not have the necessary background to delve into the equations and transformations.
Eventually, it comes time for students to learn about conformal map projections. Several online resources, and even some textbooks¹ tell readers that a conformal map projection preserves shapes. It's what I was taught. It's a nice and simple way to understand conformality with wading into the messy and confusing mathematics behind it.
But it's also entirely false. If we could keep shapes perfectly preserved as we went from globe to map, we'd have no distortions at all. In reality, a conformal projection preserves local angles at infinitely small points. Now, that's a rather abstract thing to consider, and so I can understand that an instructor would like to explain what that means in real-world terms to students. But saying that conformality preserves shape is misleading and confusing.
Here's Greenland on three conformal projections:
Those three images are not the same shape. As an example, the little peninsula on the northwest coast (where the town of Qaanaaq is located), changes size and position relative to the rest of the island. Since conformal projections do not preserve areas, different parts of Greenland are being sized differently. If you take a polygon and inflate one part of it, it's not the same shape anymore.
This is not mere pedantry; this language has actual negative effects on students. I've been a teaching assistant in a class where students were taught that conformal projections preserve shapes. Later, they did exercises where they visually assessed distortions on map projections. Several of them failed to correctly identify conformal projections because they saw changes in shapes like those in the example above. They reasoned, like I do, that those three things were not the same shape anymore, and so couldn't be conformal based on what they had been taught. What they were heard in class conflicted with their experience, rather than being reinforced by it. This is a failure of the learning process.
So, what to tell them instead? Local angles are still hard to grasp, and don't mean much in terms of looking at the big picture of the map. What I teach them is that conformality preserves the look of places on the earth, and I make clear that this doesn't mean "shape." "Look" is a fuzzy concept, but some visual examples help reinforce it — compare the three Greenland images above to two images on non-conformal projections:
The conformal ones, while a different shape, have a lot more in common with each other than the two non-conformal ones. The example I give in class is that rectangles and squares both have a similar look (and have the same angular relationships), even though they are different shapes. A triangle, though has a different look than either.
I do not understand why we persist in teaching that conformality preserves shape. Shape is a wonderfully concrete word, versus my own slightly vaguer alternative. It's easy say shape, but it's also wrong, and it quickly falls apart once the students spend ten minutes playing around with projections.
Perhaps I'm off base in my assessment, a fact which I partly suspect because I seem to be very much in the minority in avoiding the word "shape," when so many respected cartographers make use of it. If you can set me right, I should be interested to hear a counterargument.
¹Muehrcke, et. al. is a textbook I have recently seen refer to conformality as shape-preserving, though that edition was a couple of years old, so the latest may have changed language. Likewise, the 1993 edition of Dent also appears to refer to conformal as shape-preserving, though I can't speak for the most recent edition. Slocum, et. al., to their credit, make a point of explaining that conformal does not mean shapes are preserved. Robinson, et. al., do, too, but not quite as strongly. If you've got access to another textbook (or a more recent edition of Dent or Muehrcke), I'd be interested to hear what you find.
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Colleen 30th January, 2011 at 18:59
Thanks for this post! I had this question when we were going over projections in my GIS class the other day. Maybe people need to take more math classes so that we can talk about these kind of subjects in a more concrete manner, but hey that is just my opinion.
Don Boyes 31st January, 2011 at 09:18
Great post. I have had the same issue, and have resorted in the past to qualifying phrases like "it generally maintains shape, but really at only infinitely small points". Then in the past couple of years I have put in a section on Tissot's Indicatrix, based on the section and figures in Slocum (3rd ed.) which seems to clarify things a lot for my students.
Gretchen 31st January, 2011 at 10:51
I like your simple but informative graphics! And your point about shape is persuasive.
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Robin 31st January, 2011 at 13:41
Great post. I wish my professors had explained conformal projection to me in this way. It seems
David Medeiros 31st January, 2011 at 13:44
Hi Daniel, followed you over here from Cartastrophe, great blog (both actually!). Good write up on conformal projections. I must admit I have never given this much thought. I guess I always understood 'shape' in this context to mean that it remained easily recognizable which is how I would define your use of 'look' as well. But you are right, it can be misleading if not well explained. I don't often have to discuss projections in polite conversation ; ) but if I do I'll make sure to emphasize the 'look' aspect of conformal projections.
Diana Sinton 6th February, 2011 at 13:35
Your singling out of Greenland in the images reminded me of this recent article by Battersby and Montello (pdf) about some spatial cognition issues around the use of such projections. Not as much brain-washing as we've been warning all these years.
Greg 18th February, 2011 at 07:58
Hi Daniel,
Great post about conformal projections. I also teach GIS, and of course must go through projections. So I've come across the same dilemma in making these concepts sink in without showing the math. Have you been able to introduce some crude math concepts related to this subject matter, or found other resources to assist with this?
Chris 24th February, 2011 at 03:00
I entirely agree that 'look' is a fuzzy concept, which leads me to make one comment (entirely aimed to be constructive so please don't take this as criticism or pedantry):
The 2 images of Greenland: they don't 'look' to me as if they are actually equal in area! (meaning the number of pixels that make up the image. I'm guessing that (if I'm right) this is an issue of web page space rather than an optical illusion. If you use these images in class is the Cylindrical image bigger than it appears here?
I just know that my students would have been saying "but Chris those 2 images don't look to be the same in area!"
So I guess my point is it's a related message about getting the point across. the concept of equal area needs to be supported by images that look equal.
A minor point in an excellent post, but one that I hope is useful, particularly for students who will no doubt rely upon your posts for clarification and discussion.
Mark 6th April, 2011 at 10:36
I sometimes think that we start to learn about projections in the wrong way– by looking at maps. We should start by looking at a globe. Every year I teach a science class at a friend's 4th grade class room. I have found that they grasp the concept of projections easier by going a bit backwards. I take a basketball and ask someone to wrap it as neatly as possible as a present. It is hard but it gets 25 4th graders engaged really quickly. I then show them a globe, and how they can peel away parts of it to make flat. They can then see how difficult it is to take a sphere and represent it on a flat surface. Once they understand that, we can talk about the different high level types of projections and how they can be useful. I *think* this works for 4th graders, but they have much more fun when we then do an exercise using layers of maps and the best way to get from A to B, and how that changes as layers are added representing water, topography, bridges, etc.. (but I digress).
Projections are the hardest thing to understand in mapping, and the novice user typically has no clue and everyone things Greenland looks much different that it is. Personally, I think that globes should be used much more in schools than paper maps, but that would require a lot of change….
Perhaps a globe is a better way to start with when teaching projections– start with the original sphere and then move to the map, rather than starting with the different shapes and types of projections. Once the basic concept is understood, the context is set for a better understanding of the math reqired to flatten the earth.
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This recipe was really easy and really tasty too. However, instead of using water, I substitued beef broth and added potatoes!
i am normally a very generous person when it comes to rating but this recipe has to be altered quite a bit to get a truly good soup. the addition of the beef broth is the most important. i also added worcestershire sauce. which i cannot believe was not included in the first place. i only had frozen corn so i used canned italian green beans and sweet peas. with the few changes that we have all made it turns out great! thanks for the base
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I also used 1lb of ground beef, browned it with 3 cloves of garlic and a small chopped onion. I exchanged the water for beef broth. I chopped up a green pepper and 1/3 lg box of mushroom too (to clean out the fridge)and added that to the frozen veggies (which were also chopped into smaller bites). I added 1/3 can of kidney beans and two hand fulls of ditalini. The 1/2c of red wine really topped off the stock. It was super easy to prepare and I will certainly be making it again! Thanks
This soup is awesome! I made a few changes. I used stew meat instead of ground beef, diced tomatoes instead of stewed. Stewed are too big and also added 1 large potato cut up.
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I was a little apprehensive that this soup would not have much flavor, but was pressed for time, so decided to try it. I browned the ground beef with onions and fresh garlic. Instead of water, I used beef broth and also added a 1/4 cup of white wine. I added frozen mixed vegetables with pasta shells. I also didn't have any tomato sauce, but had pizza sauce, so used that instead. This soup turned out very delicious! Even my finicky 7-year-old and 3-year-old loved it. Thank you for a quick, but delicious soup.
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One can only imagine the fictional non-libelous scene yesterday morning when Redskins owner Dan Snyder opened The Washington Times to find a story about how the Redskins' mega-trade with the Rams to go after Robert Griffin III could revive the team's moribund fan base. If that didn't make Snyder cackle over his eggs Florentine, this account of one fan's reaction to the trade, almost surely would have:
Aneesh Mehta had a weird feeling Friday. With his beloved Washington Redskins pursuing a franchise quarterback just days before the start of NFL free agency, he sensed something big was about to happen. That was why he continually refreshed the Twitter feed on his phone while at a birthday party Friday night.
About 10:30 p.m., he learned that the Redskins had executed a blockbuster trade to position themselves to draft one of two highly touted quarterback prospects: Stanford's Andrew Luck or, more likely, Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III out of Baylor.
"I screamed it at the dinner table, 'We got RG3!'" Mr. Mehta recalled with a laugh. "Then [my best friend] and I just went straight to the bar and started taking shots."
Mr. Mehta's joy took him a step further Saturday. He wrote the Redskins a check for $2,580 to renew his two season tickets, something he previously told a team sales representative that he would not do unless the Redskins traded up in the draft to acquire a quarterback.
Redskins fans keep buying the same bottle of snake oil every year. Griffin is undoubtedly an elite quarterback with a great chance of being successful in the NFL, but that chance drops when playing for the Redskins and their child dictator of an owner. The Redskins traded their first and second round picks this year, along with their 2013 and 2014 first round picks to move into the number two position in the draft. They've mortgaged the farm, again, to sell tickets, jerseys, and false promise. But don't take my word for it. Here are football players weighing in on the trade (via Dan Steinberg):
LMFAOOOOOO the Redskins gave up that ricky williams shit. LOL a whole draft for RG3 LOL I'm dying LOL I'm gonna wear a skins hat tonight!
— DARNELL DOCKETT (@ddockett) March 10, 2012
Wow skins never to be outdone its great to get RG3 but whos gonna help him the next 3yrs?
— Clinton Portis (@TheRealC_Portis) March 10, 2012
For the Redskins next trade how about Redskins park and Fed Ex field for a bridge or team to nowhere!
— Mark May (@mark_may) March 10, 2012
And here's some number-crunching from our friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, who conclude in no uncertain terms that "this trade is awful for the Redskins." If you'd like to understand all the acronyms and numbers in the excerpt below, visit the HSAC site for complete analysis. The important takeaway is in bold:
But let's not jump to conclusions. RGIII could be better than the average second overall pick. In fact, he could be the best second overall pick ever. So how good does RGIII have to be to justify this trade?
Given the discounted value of the future draft picks, the total price the Redskins paid was 753.5 eCAVOA. That price translates to a CAV of 113.0, comparable to Tom Brady's current production to date (109 CAV). For the Redskins to get the equivalent value from RGIII as they spent acquiring him, he must produce at least as much as Tom Brady. If RGIII merely lives up to his eCAVOA, he'll finish his career having slightly outperformed David Garrard (61 CAV). Because all-time-great quarterbacks are rare commodities, the Redskins likely lost value both on paper and in reality.
Zounds. Does Griffin know this? I realize he's already producing money for Dan Snyder, but as Portis and May point out, football still happens to be a team sport. Does anyone think Brady would have been so great if Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft hadn't put a deep, talented roster around him? There was a time long ago when the Redskins used to build teams like that. They often did it by trading down in the draft to get more picks.
A few weeks ago, before the Rams trade, a Shepard Fairey inspired Robert Griffin III knockoff of the famous Obama campaign poster started circulating online. The poster scared me, for it represented not only the longing in Washington for a savior to liberate the team from 20 years in the football gulag, but also the exact kind of emotional agitprop that Dan Snyder and his gang of flimflam men have so effectively deployed for so long:


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Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The true problem?
I just finished listening to this while I worked. It kinda blew my mind.
If what is said in this book is true, then any kind of injustice in our industry pales compared the issues we really should be focusing on.
Shouldn't the idea that artists should "just have a job" not be an option?
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Re: Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The true problem?
Well, if everyone was a pioneer and did it themselves who would they hire to do the work needed?
seriously. Everyone plays a roll. Not everyone is a leader. Nor wants to be.
But with that said, I would say for me I am not an employee or someone looking for a job so all this is awesome!! I mean, a lot of this applies to people who just want jobs too. the way we look at money etc. But for me its not an option. Hasn't been for a long time..
But going back to the larger problems. There is a mentality that we could all get over. It goes deep though. In my opinion. SOcial paradigms in general are the problem. Not to sound esoteric or f*** the system...although there is that part of me too ...but wealth and success and the ideas around those need to evolve.
All I need is to sustain. My wealth comes from other outlets and satisfactions outside of money...although, in this life, I'll take money too! HA!
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Thanks for posting the Robert Kirosaki videos Luis. I'm familiar with his books and his outlook on money and finance. This was a good review. Everyone should take the time to listen to this and take in his wisdom and advice. Very helpful.
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I honestly think what Kirosaki is talking about here, is the "real" solution.
SNAKEBITE, I don't think what he's talking about is about becoming a leader so much as he's trying to get people to start realizing they should stop working for money and start having money work for them.
We artists REALLY need to hear this. We can "draw assets." The way the Beatles used to talk about, "writing up a swimming pool."
I just heard a guy giving a lecture to entrepreneurs, tell his audience, to NOT listen to any suggestions from the Graphic Designers they employ. His reasoning? "Because they're all poor."
It's an idiotic thing to say for tons of reasons, but the implication in clear.
The Graphic Designers might be able to make the thing look better but if any of their ideas and skills where truly valuable to the market place, they'd be rich.
This isn't true, but it's difficult to disagree when the designer manages his money poorly. It reflects badly on the whole art community.
The financially independent artists are the exceptions, not the rule.
We need to stop thinking about money not being important. THAT'S where we are failing.
Money IS VERY important. It's very important for everything that money is important for. Which is A LOT of stuff.
Is it THE most important thing in the world? No. But it's up there.
I saw an ad last week that read:
I want to have the freedom to create what I want without worrying how I can feed my kids. I like the idea of not dealing with bad producers to be able to pay my expenses.
The only way to get that sort of freedom is to know what the wealthy know about being wealthy and emulate the good bit, while throwing out the bad bits.
I'd like to be paid for my value not my time, and I'd like to have my money do all the work so I can concentrate on the REAL things that are important.
But to do that, I can't down play the importance of money.
...(sigh)...I don't know if I'm rambling here or if I'm getting my point across.
All I know is, that after listening to Kirosaki, I got so annoyed that I didn't know this stuff sooner.
But at least, now I know. I kinda want everyone else to.
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Comic 41
Title: in which Steve builds a time machine
Date: January 21, 2005
Summary: Steve meddles with the tender fabric of space-time by building a time machine.
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Future Beaver, Future Steve, World Peace Guy's Father
Onomatopoeias used: "SAW!", "WORNK!", "SHWIP!", "BZAKK!"
"Fin" style: Looking futuristically metallic and robotic
Number of panels: 10
Panel 1
Steve is SAW!'ing a machine.
Beaver: "Hey Steve, what're you up to?"
Panel 2
Steve: (revealing the machine) "I'm building a time machine!"
Beaver: "Are you sure that's entirely wise?"
Panel 3
A blue time portal appears with a WORNK! sound. Beaver and Steve look surprised.
Panel 4
Futuristic versions of Beaver and Steve appear.
Steve: "Yowzers! It's our future selves!"
Beaver: "Have you come to warn us not to meddle with time travel in order to avert an apocalyptic future?"
Panel 5
Future Steve's visor SHWIP!'s up.
Future Steve: "No way! The future is awesome! You've got to come and visit!"
Future Steve: "I mean, check out this cool laser!"
Panel 6
Future Steve BZAKK!'s a random person in the background with his laser.
Person: "YAAA!"
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The person's scorched corpse lies on the ground.
Future Beaver: "Uh, isn't that the father of the guy who brought about world peace?"
Future Steve: "Oop."
Panel 8
Future Steve: "Well, um, we'd probably better be going..."
Steve: "Ok, 'be' you later! Tee hee"
Future Steve: "In the future all puns are illegal"
Panel 9
The Future Beaver and Steve jump into a pink time portal with another WORNK! sound.
Beaver: "Oh wait! Why am I wearing an eyepatch?"
Panel 10
Beaver: "Oh well... by the way, have you seen my eyedrops?"
Steve: (blindly reaching for a bottle of bleach instead of the eye drops next to it) "Yeah, they're right here"
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- Quite incidentally, it is the very next comic (#42) to which Steve will later go back to from Comic 112, after finishing his work on the same time machine.
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Ranked 4th at the 3rd change, Filippo with an exceptional performance managed to bring the Italian team to the Silver Medal, just few 1/100 of seconds behind the team of the United States led by US-superstar Ryan Lochte.
Filippo Magnini: it was an exciting race, I'm happy that my hard training pays off now, my new HEAD material worked very well, in particular in the last 25 meters the suit gave me the compression and power I needed.
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Speaking of contacts (uh boy, is this a stupid question), do colored contacts color your view? If not, why? Is the center clear?
How do I get my dehydrator trays clean? I have soaked them in hot soapy water and scrubbed at them with a brush, but I cannot totally get them clean. Granted, if I went at every single little square with a toothpick or some such, I could probably do it, but that would metaphorically take forever. Is there a simpler way?(I have the grated, circular kind.)
I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.
Quote from: Mental Magpie on April 06, 2013, 03:59:00 PMI guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a dish washer unless you count me.That's the very same dishwasher brand my mother had for years & years when I lived at home. She did some dishes, Lil Sis did some dishes, and Lil VorFemme did some dishes every week. Until Not-So-Lil VorFemme got married and Lil Sis went off to college and my two brothers got handed the dishwashing chores.....talk about flabbergasted! Those two never saw dishwashing coming their way!But soaking in hot soapy water until the "stuff" softens, scrubbing with a dishwashing brush, and rinsing in HOT water would work. Rinsing in boiling water (scalding is the term Mom used when doing it to canning jars, in my youth) would probably be enough after getting them out to use again from storage. A sealed plastic bag to keep odd things from taking up residence in the trays never hurts........
Stupid question for contact wearers! These suckers feel weird and stuff keeps going out of focus. I have acuvue 2's and they are (i guess) soft plastic. Is this normal or what?
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