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5 Reasons Superhero Movies Are a Bubble That Will Soon Burst
If you're a lover of comic books, fantasy novels, or sci-fi, you should be in heaven right now. All of Hollywood caters to your tastes. Hell, if you're under 20 years old, you don't even remember what it's like not to have Hollywood throw $2 billion worth of blockbuster movies at you every summer (while the rest of us remember that as recently as 1994 they made a Fantastic Four movie so bad, it couldn't even be released).
That brings us to the bad news: The explosion of big-budget superhero movies is a bubble that seems poised to burst. How do we know? Because it's happened before.
It all starts when ...
(Star Wars isn't a bubble, it's eternal. Hence our new Adventures in Jedi School mini-series.)
#5. A Surprise Box Office Success Makes Everyone Jump on the Bandwagon
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First of all, we're not necessarily saying that there are too many superhero movies out there -- lots of us are excited about Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel and the seven or eight others that are coming out this summer.
But right now, Marvel alone has in production (deep breath) Iron Man 3, Wolverine 2, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four (reboot), The Avengers 2, and Ant-Man. In the course of these films, Thor is going to fight elves, Captain America is going to fight a cyborg, and there's going to be a whole movie about the "Guardians of the Galaxy," which, you may not know, look like this:
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"Are you two sure you don't want guns? 'Cause I have like 30 in the ship."
Are you seeing the raccoon?
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We'll forgive everything if there's a scene where he uses garbage like Popeye uses spinach.
Oh, and by the way, the new X-Men movie -- called Days of Future Past -- revolves around Kitty Pryde sending her brain back in time. So we're saying that we might just possibly be reaching a tipping point here.
Let's back up a bit:
While no one bats an eye today when The Dark Knight Rises pulls in a bajillion dollars at the box office, that would've been unthinkable just 15 years ago. In the '90s, all of the major money-maker movies were Die Hard knockoffs (Con Air, Broken Arrow, Face/Off), sober explorations of tragedies (Dances With Wolves, Schindler's List, Titanic), Adam Sandler being a dumbass, and Tom Hanks doing things that usually didn't involve having superpowers.
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Which is incredible considering that the Whizzer was there for the taking.
This changed in 2000 and 2001 when X-Men, Spider-Man, and the first The Lord of the Rings came out. Remember that back then those geek-centric movies were all pretty risky investments for the studios. Not only was this the first time that either of those Marvel superheroes would be seen on screen, but the last superhero movie to come out at that time had been Batman & Robin, which, you know, we'd rather not talk about. As for The Lord of the Rings, the last attempt at an adaptation was a godawful cartoon that was made in the 1980s.
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How long did it take you to realize that Gandalf isn't jacking off a fire-dick?
All of those movies opened at No. 1 at the box office -- Spider-Man actually set the box office record at the time, and The Lord of the Rings is still going on with its Hobbit prequels. Naturally, all the Hollywood money men had their goddamn minds blown, and today they'll throw a quarter billion dollars at any project that involves a hero in a mask. That's what we're referring to as a bubble.
And It Has Happened Before ...
A similar bubble happened more than 40 years ago. They called it the "New Hollywood" era, and it gave us Star Wars.
It started in 1967, with Bonnie and Clyde. It's considered a classic now, but at the time everyone thought it would bomb because it was heavily influenced by star/director Warren Beatty's interest in weird French movies, it confusingly mixed sex, violence, and comedy, and it ended with all the main characters dying. But like the movies above, it rocked everyone's fucking faces off.
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"Sex + Violence = Money. Got it." -Hollywood, 1967
In both 1967 and 2000, a risky movie based on nerdy, obscure sensibilities was given a big release and paid off enormously. Next ...
#4. The Geeks Take Over, and Everything Goes Great for a While
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So next comes the heyday: Geek directors who truly love the source material are suddenly getting the green light to make these movies the right way.
We've documented Peter Jackson's obsessive attention to detail while making The Lord of the Rings, but it's also worth noting that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man contains tons of nods to the actual comics, like the fact that the climax is almost identical to "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," if you change Gwen Stacy to Mary Jane and, you know, don't kill her.
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And change chest impaling to dick kebabing.
Likewise, X-Men was pretty faithful when it came to characters, pretty much only changing the costumes -- and even that gets a nod when Cyclops suggests that Wolverine wear "yellow spandex." The people who made these movies made it a priority to keep the geeks happy (probably not realizing what a dong-punchingly difficult task that is).
Compare that to 1989's Batman, directed by a guy who said he didn't like comics and written by a guy who thought Batman's origin story was too dumb to work in a movie. It was a new era. The geeks had ascended to the throne!
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"Come to me, brothers of Warner! Kneel before Rod!"
And It Has Happened Before ...
The New Hollywood era was all about film geeks taking over -- a bunch of weird, experimental directors known as the "movie brats," with names like George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Stanley Kubrick.
They stood out because they were the first generation of filmmakers to grow up watching and loving movies, which is why their films are full of little references to the past. If you know your shit, you can recognize these homages -- in Taxi Driver, when Martin Scorsese has a super-stressed-out Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) stare into the bubbles of his drink in search of meaning ...
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... he's referencing another scene (as pointed out in the documentary The Story of Film) in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, where a man stares at the bubbles in his drink for the same reason.
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Yup, those are bubbles alright.
Which, in turn, is referencing Carol Reed's Odd Man Out:
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"Waiter? There's a mustachioed personification of anxiety in my drink."
These were the defining qualities of the New Hollywood era, and they're all present in the contemporary era as well -- which we're gonna call the Nerdywood era (so go mingle and use that term among yourselves until it catches on). This passion and excitement about already-existing art that defined the movie brats is also what makes post-X-Men sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero movies stand out: They're excited about their source material.
Nerdywood was the first time that nerds were being openly appealed to, and our response was to lose our collective shit and started dumping our wallets out on the movie studios' front lawns. So, of course ...
#3. The Studios Start Throwing ALL of the Money at Them
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Remember when Christopher Nolan was announced as the director of a Batman reboot? Of course you don't, because back in 2003 no one knew what a reboot was or what a Christopher Nolan was or why we should care about a new Batman movie because the last one had sucked.
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Think about how many people had to sign off on those costumes before this picture was taken.
But, oddly enough, that's probably why he was chosen: In that story we linked up there, Nolan talks about being passionate about the character (one of the hallmarks of Nerdywood, as explained above), and he had a weird, borderline crazy idea for the new series: Batman would be gritty and realistic. That had never been done on film before, but Nolan was young, nerdy, and excited, so the studios gave him an insane-o-copter ride to the money castle, and holy shit did it ever pay off.
Fast forward 10 years, and you can see that The Avengers is pretty much the same thing, except even more so. No, it's not gritty or realistic, but it sure is weird and risky: It expects audiences to follow one story across two sci-fi action movies, a fantasy movie, a fugitive movie, and a World War II era adventure film. Most movies treat you like you can't even tie your own goddamn shoes, but The Avengers took that risk and ended up going home with 1.5 billion nerd-dollars lining its pockets.
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What The Avengers did to the box office.
Now the entire fortunes of studios hang on how these gambles pay off.
And It Has Happened Before ...
Coppola's Apocalypse Now was a weird, morally complicated exploration of war based on a nigh-impenetrable 19th century novel, but it dominated the box office. Jaws was the first ever summer blockbuster, and Star Wars only turned out the way it did because Lucas refused to compromise and made the movie himself.
All these risks paid off hugely, and to the studios things looked pretty simple: big risks, big beards, and big egos mean big profits.
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Beards are to directing what steroids are to athletics.
Well, shit, what's the problem? So what if Hollywood created a kind of "bubble" around a few creators and franchises and continued to pour more and more money into them? That's the thing about bubbles! They never, ever burst!
Well, there's just one problem ...


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5/4 XCel Drylock (2012)
4/3 and 3/2 O'Neill Psycho 2's (about 4 years old - time for new ones soon)
I absolutely love the Xcel... Warmest I've ever been in the winter and was broken in after 1 session. The Psychos are awesome suits as well. The other companies are catching up but to me the O'Neill rubber is the most advanced as far as weight/warmth/flexibility go. That's not to say they are the absolute best suits but their rubber is ridiculously stretchy.
My main complaint about ALL wetsuits and their manufacturers is their sizing. I am 6-4, 230 lbs and am an XL in everything and a 36 long... I take a 3XL wetsuit. My XCEL fits great but the tag claims to be sized to fit up to 6-6 260... NO WAY. Same with the O'Neills. I realize most surfers are little gnats (no offense - it definitely helps to be smaller in the water most of the time) but come on... Plus... people on the whole are getting bigger anyway so it would behoove the wetsuit companies to size up... Rant over. Waves for Jersey tomorrow.

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Consider a regular holonomic D-module (or a perverse sheaf) $M$ on a smooth variety $X$. Let $f:X\to A^1$ be a polynomial (or holomorphic) function.
Question: Is it true that the $\lambda \in A^1$ such that the vanishing cycles $\phi_{f-\lambda}(M) = 0$ is a dense open set?
Here are my thoughts:
If $M = O_X$ (or the constant perverse sheaf $A[dim X]$), this is just the fact that the critical values of $f$ are isolated.
In the general case, we can factor $f$ through its graph $X\to X\times A^1$, $x\mapsto (x,f(x))$, reducing to the case where $f$ is the (smooth) projection $t:X\times A^1 \to A^1$. Our sheaf $M$ on $X\times A^1$ has a characteristic variety $\bigcup_\alpha T^*_{S_\alpha}(X\times A^1)$ for a stratification $X\times A^1 = \bigcup_\alpha S_\alpha$. My guess is that $\phi_{t-\lambda}(M) = 0$ when $\{t-\lambda = 0 \}$ is transverse to all the $S_\alpha$ and that this is a generic condition but I'm having trouble making this intuition precise.


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Bad Feelings and Good Friendships
It can also help to explain that some children have had such bad experiences because of racial prejudice that they feel angry toward white people or people from groups different from their own. This should not be said to excuse a particular behavior, but to help the white child understand some of the larger social issues. And white parents should never allow their children to accept abuse from other races or ethnic groups because they feel guilty about being white. Healthy relationships between races can't be based on guilt. Good friendships need to be based on mutual respect and equality.
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Whenever I want to print a PDF document in evince, I'm always slowed down with the "Getting printer information" process. I was wondering if there was anyway to save the "printer information" locally somehow so I'm not slowed down by the network lookup.
Disable Listening on /var/run/cups/cups.sock in cupsd.conf, keeping only "Listen localhost:631". See comment #29 in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/475845
If your application doesn't show any printers any more, restart it.
Set a static ip for the printer and put the printer in the hosts file.You could try fiddling with http://localhost:631


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UWM's College of Letters & Science (L&S) provides academic advising for all students interested in pursuing an L&S major, minor, certificate and/or degree. Students who are undecided about their major are also assigned to the College of Letters & Science and an L&S advisor. If you are unsure who your advisor is, log into your PAWS account and look for your advisor's name in the lower right hand side of your home page.
Students are matched with an advisor whose specialization best coincides with their specific needs. For example, there are advisors for Pre-Med students, and others specifically for freshmen.
Working with your advisor, you will be provided with guidance, insight, and advice, as well as challenge and support. Your advisor will help you choose courses that match your academic goals and educational program. They will also provide a listening ear, answer general questions, and direct you to other services, as necessary.
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Many students begin college undecided on a major. By taking a variety of classes during your freshman year, you should be able to identify areas of strength and interest that align with a major. Students are encouraged to declare a major by the middle to end of sophomore year in order to stay on a track for a timely graduation.


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Velodyne has just thrown its proverbial hat into the arena of personal audio products. The incredible reception to vPulse is exceeding all of our expectations. And as we gear up for some amazing new releases in the near future, our brains are filled with visions of technology that may have seemed like an impossible dream 100 years ago. But we've become so accustomed to technology in our daily lives that it sometimes loses its zing. It's almost impossible to remember life without it.
How did this evolution happen? Pondering the history of personal audio has started some great conversation in the hallways of Velodyne, as well as blissful reminiscing about the good old days.
The Invention of headphones
Born in 1878, Nathaniel Baldwin was a natural tinkerer and inventor throughout his life. He was also a devout Mormon and reportedly, grew frustrated when he couldn't hear Mormon sermons over the noise of the crowds at the vast Salt Lake Tabernacle. Baldwin began experimenting with sound amplification , which led to the invention of the first modern headphones in 1910. Baldwin sold his invention to the U.S. Navy. His headphones were made by hand in his kitchen and, despite the Navy's suggestion; he never patented his invention because he considered it to be trivial.
It's not incidental that his imagined headphones were first thought of as a way to block out crowd noise. Workers and soldiers have long used them to mute the din of machines or artillery while receiving one-way orders from someone with a microphone.
Baldwin eventually started the Baldwin Radio Company. He became quite wealthy and used his success to help support the post-manifesto polygamous movement in the 1920s. Many officers in his company were leading polygamists who assisted in creating the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Baldwin himself actually only married once. Sadly, this celebrated genius was bankrupt by 1924 and impoverished when he died in 1961.
That last part had nothing to do with headphones, but I found it interesting.
The first audio cassette player
The idea for this product came from Masaru Ibuka, the founder of Sony. He challenged Sony engineer Nobutoshi Kihara to come up with a simple, playback-only stereo version of the small Pressman tape recorder. Kihara certainly met that challenge.
The first Walkman model was unveiled on June 22, 1979. Journalists were invited to Yoyogi (a major park in Tokyo) and given a Walkman to wear. They listened to an explanation of the product in stereo while Sony staff members carried out various demonstrations, including a young man and woman listening to a Walkman while riding on a tandem bicycle. Many journalists predicted the product would never take off since it didn't include a recording device.
In 1986 the name Walkman was included in the Oxford English Dictionary. By 1995, the total production of Walkman units reached 150 million and over 300 different models have been produced.
A single product that changes the course of music, media, and entertainment
On October 23, 2001 Apple publicly announced the introduction of their iPod line. The initial reaction was somewhat hostile because of the $400 price tag, the unconventional scroll wheel, and the lack of Windows compatibility. It was only a few months later that Apple introduced iTunes, the first legal way for the public to download music. It was the perfect companion to the iPod. A decade later, the iPod is a household name along with a small army of other gadgets attached to its legacy.
The iPod was named by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter who was called by Apple for advice on how to introduce the player to the public. After seeing the prototype, Chieco thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door, Hal," which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods and the relationship between a personal computer and the music player.
At the unveiling of the iPod in California, Steve Jobs told journalists; "No one has found the recipe yet for digital music. And we think not only can we find the recipe, but we think the Apple brand is going to be fantastic, because people trust the Apple brand to get their great digital electronics from…we're introducing a product today that takes us exactly there, and that product is called iPod."
The rest, as they say, is history.


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When you must use your car, follow these guidelines to conserve gas:
- Service your car regularly.
- Keep your tires properly inflated.
- Don't let the car idle for more than 30 seconds.
- Accelerate gradually and stick to the speed limit.
- Use cruise control for highway driving, whenever possible.
- Turn off the air conditioner or dehumidifier when it's no longer needed.
- Reduce your load—empty your trunk of all unnecessary items.
- Remove a roof rack when it's not in use.
- When buying a new car, choose a more efficient model, or consider buying a hybrid car.
- Don't buy fuel with a higher octane than your car's manufacturer recommends—it won't make your car run faster or better; it will just cost you more money!
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Utah football report card: Utes slightly better than average in loss
Overall Utah again proved to be superb in making game-time adjustments, but it wasn't enough to overcome an extremely sluggish start and some untimely turnovers.
Grade: C+
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I give them a c-. According to Chris B, ekute and the likes the utes were
supposed to win by two td's or more and be ranked in the top 25. Instead
they gave up over 500 yards of offense and threw 3 interceptions. Wilson's
QB rating just tanked and Utah's SOS will drop again since the team that
just beat them lost, at home, to a div. 2 team.
But on the bright side all is right in the world now and Utah is back where they belong.
Even WSU is better then them this year, and probably Colorado too.
- 12:38 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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The Utes will be playing against a much better defense next week. Don't look for them to move the ball as well as they did this week. hey are better against the run than the pass, so this may be another classic. I think the Cougars will prevail 28-24.
- 12:54 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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Grade for the secondary? F! Not only did Mannion repeatedly toast the DB's,
but what should have been the game winning interception, instead went right
through the defenders hands! Seriously, get East highs secondary to come to
Provo next week with the team. Better yet, have the Ute DB's go watch pee
wee football to remember how they are supposed to play the position. All
upcoming Ute opponents, will throw the ball, and be rewarded handsomely for it.
Pressure on the QB would help, but the DB's were consistently letting their
guy behind them, and getting burned like Grandma's toast!
And why when we moved the ball so well with Wilson running and throwing in the tying drive, did we suddenly feel the need to run the same play into the middle of the line on first and second down in OT? That play hadn't worked all night, yet suddenly when it matters most, we think it will work?
- 1:40 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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If erickson called those plays in o.t. then you really need to worry about the competence of your o-coordinator. If johnson was allowed to call those plays in o.t. then you really need to worry about the competence of your head coach for allowing him to have anything to do with offensive play calling. I simply sat there and watched it in disbelief as osu had not stopped wilson from scrambling off tackle or around the end a single time the entire game. What an odd set of play calls that was.
- 10:32 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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OSU is not likely going to a bowl game this year. They will lose to Washington,
Oregon, Stanford, Arizona State and USC. I suspect at least one team of Cal,
Washington State and/or Colorado will provide the seventh loss (Washington State
the most likely to do it). This was about as easy as it will get for the Utes
this year.
OSU has no defense. That was proven over the last two weeks. The Utes should have had a field day if they were as good as Eastern Washington was. The OSU game was at home as well.
I think the grades given were inflated. On offense the Utes per quarter receive F, B, B, A, C which averages to a 2.4 GPA or C grade. The Defense per quarter earned C, C, D, D, F averaging 1.2 D grade. Special Teams overall were fine. I would give them a B. Coaching C. Overall the Utes earned a solid C-. Its as if they didn't study before the game!
- 10:47 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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"Oregon State is a good team"
Didn't they lose at home to Eastern Washington? This sentence screams PAC-12 homerism.
- 11:24 a.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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I'm really not upset about this loss at all. Slightly disappointed in the slow start offensively, and disappointed in Nate Orchard's showing (mostly non-existent, got a raw deal on a penalty early and then made a huge mistake committing a penalty late), but it's tough to be upset about a loss when the opposing team's coach is one of the classiest guys in the profession and you almost always know what you're getting from OSU's offense. They are a good squad with a few great players. Even with the Utes' mistakes, they still had a chance to win it and showed more heart than I've seen from them in a while, coming back from a 17 point deficit. There's plenty to be optimistic about, especially with Wilson STILL one of the top-rated QBs in the country. Anyone who thinks he "tanked" should actually look into it before making things up.
- 1:36 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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STGtoSLC- not upset by this loss? Dude, the secondary will be lit up by any QB that can make a throw, thankfully, Hill isn't one of those, but we have to respect his legs, and that will be cause for concern. Moving forward, any team watching our film will know that they don't have to run to set up the pass, they can just continually throw the ball over the top for large gains against the weakest DB's the Utes have seen in the last 20 years. To compete in the PAC12, we need speed on defense!
- 3:05 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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Great, the offense seems to be fixed and now the defense is broken.
So far hiring Dennis Erickson was a great move. Now Kyle needs to bring in a hired gun to help the Sheriff (our secondary coach, ex-attorney with no prior coaching experience).
I am just surprised how bad our defense has been since season one (18th ranked defense).
Anxious to see if our coaching staff can make the adjustments in order to compete with UCLA and Stanford. Both could come into RES as top 10 teams. BYU's weakness is the passing game, I don't think our secondary will be tested next week.
- 4:38 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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@Down under
We got exposed by one of the top QBs in the country (Mannion) and were able to beat the other (Keeton).
Wilson is still a top 20 QB in the nation both in rating and yards.
Rumors are Hill couldn't even pass against BYU's secondary during the bye week. He's still ranked as the 2nd worst passer in the nation (among QBs that qualify to be ranked).
Shouldn't you be more worried about your own OC? Unless you approve of his play calling ability against Virginia?
Thanks for the concern Cougar fans, but this Ute sees improvement as far as the offense is concerned. Last two years in this type of game we would have lost by 14+ points. That to me shows improvement. Now the defense is another story.
- 5:00 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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josey, no, not upset. Concerned about the DBs? Yes. Speed is not their problem, though, they have plenty of that, just light in experience. Mariota and maybe Halliday are the only other teams Utah will face that can throw absolute dimes like Mannion did. Hundley is a fantastic athlete a la Chuckie, but not the precision passer as the others. But losses like this happen. It's unfortunate, but it happens, even to the almighty Cougars, who lost to a much more dismal UVa team. Oregon State is still a respectable opponent, even with their embarrassing season-opening loss. But this loss does not rank anywhere near the CU upset of two years ago.
- 5:19 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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What makes osu a "much...more respectable opponent" than Virginia? They lost to a 1AA team, struggled against an awful Hawaii team, and barely beat a pretty mediocre utah team, that actually might be a bad team we just don't know yet.
utah "fan" deulsion is an interesting, and amusing, thing to behold. If utah plays them they are somehow "respectable" despite bad losses and lackluster wins over bad opponents, yet if BYU plays them they are "dismal".
- 9:42 p.m. Sept. 15, 2013
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"Despite yielding big plays, the front seven proved stout against the Beaver
ground attack."
That OSU offensive line was missing 3 starters lost to injury. Starting their first games were a true freshman and a walk-on OL as part of that unit that the vaunted ute front 7 was so stout against.
Now you know the rest of the story.
- 3:54 a.m. Sept. 16, 2013
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True, OSU did lose to an FCS team. But also true, Mannion has the highest
passing EPA in the entire country, while everyone knows our secondary is
inexperienced this year.
Tough, tough game to lose. But the Offense showed me enough to prevent me from throwing in the towel.
Go Utes!
- 4:48 p.m. Sept. 16, 2013
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"What makes osu a 'much...more respectable opponent' than
OSU has defensive issues and is inconsistent week to week. EWU was a bad loss for them, but EWU is a great FCS team with a very good QB that could beat a host of FBS teams. OSU has one of the most potent passing games in the country, even with their backup QB as you may have noticed last year, which can put them in a position to beat much better teams if they are not on point, but their defense can often put them in a position to lose games they should win with ease.
"blah blah blah yet if BYU plays them they are 'dismal'."
Now where did I say that? UVa is dismal whether BYU plays them or not. OSU for the last two years has been respectable (yes, even when BYU played them), although they weren't very good two years ago (when both teams played and beat them), mostly due to inexperience at the QB position, but it was apparent that the freshman Mannion would be a future star.
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"True, OSU did lose to an FCS team. But also true, Mannion has the highest passing EPA in the entire country, while everyone knows our secondary is inexperienced this year."
and Mannion has forged his highest passing EPA numbers vs an FCS team, the horrid Hawaii defense and the Ute defense.
"but it's tough to be upset about a loss when the opposing team's coach is one of the classiest guys in the profession"
I agree, I like Mike Riley a lot. He is a very underrated coach and to have as much success as he does having a school like Oregon in his backyard proves that.
"To compete in the PAC12, we need speed on defense!"
You have good speed in the secondary they're just inexperienced and not very well coached. The big problem is up front. Problem is, your linebackers would be considered slow in the MWC but in the Pac12 they're glacially slow (evolution works faster). BYU didn't offer Fehoko because of his lack of speed. Also your defensive front has no push.
Your secondary wouldn't look so bad if your front 7 could muster a sustained pass rush.
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Anybody here has this couple of camera and lens and NN5 ?
Did you have the position settings for the two arms?
I just receive my NN5 last week and will try to setting my NN5, and i want to confirm my settings
Hi all,
Anybody here has this couple of camera and lens and NN5 ?
Did you have the position settings for the two arms?
I just receive my NN5 last week and will try to setting my NN5, and i want to confirm my settings
Unfortunately we don't have the settings for this lens - it would be great if some out there did.
As we hear back from customers and learn settings we post the findings here on a temp page: http://www.nodalninja.com/html/settings.html
The manual also teaches you how to find these settings: http://nodalninja.com/nodal_ninja_user_manual.html.
I can tell you the lower "A" setting once found will never change.
It really is easy to learn how to find the no parallax point of a lens and we really encourage our customers to learn this. Once learned it will work for any camera/lens at any focal length.
Also here is another link that you might find helpful:
After you do finally learn the settings I hope you might share them with us so we can post them on the website.
Hope this helps.
Hallo everybody,
working hard on lensdatabase for nikkor i know the work to find out yourself.Though being a "Nikonian" I just googled, and i found this data in another forum for you:
Set up for K10D with NN3 Pentax 10 - 17mm:
Upper rail settings 10mm 90,5
17mm 89.9
6 shots at 0? pitch plus zenith/nadir at 10 mm, 12 shots at +/- 30? plus zenith/nadir at 17mm.
This data comes from Klaus Meyer Australia. I also read, that the lower rail settings for the Pentax K10D and K20D should be the same.
Hope this helps you a little bit and you can start to use your nn to take your photos. I had a manfrotto panohead before and i only can tell you, this is a new life with the Nodal Ninja 5. I was so eager to get it in last December, that i missed the new RD16 rotator. But the RD12 is brilliant too.
All the best
Hi Heinz,
Thanks for that. 89.9mm seems pretty exacting given the rails are in 1mm increments.
I see the K10 is same size as K20 - that said the settings may be skewed either from user or website :-(
I should touch bases with Klaus on this.
I was about to give you my settings for the K20D and 10-17 @10mm, but when the numbers were so out of whack I remembered that I have a Manfrotto RC2 quick-release system on the head, which alters both settings. My manual has "Upper = 96.5, Lower = 57" scribbled on it, so that must be what I came up with... but even that seems whacked.
However, I *can* say that the settings for the K10D and Pentax 10-17mm settings here: http://www.nodalninja.com/html/other_settings.html are not correct, as I spent a few days adjusting and tweaking until I got around to setting up the "big wire mesh and nearby pole" parallax test. The bodies are identical, and the lens hasn't changed, but those numbers did not correspond (obviously) for me.
After some tweaking on my NN5 with this tutorial: http://nodalninja.com.au/ninja_club/viewtopic.php?t=23
My result are:
Lower: 64
Upper: 89.5
I precise i have the quick release system on my upper rail
Hi, my panos are not really good with these settings.. i have a NN3 mkII + CP2
do you think John's method is also accurate to find nodal point with fisheye lens ?
Use these tutorials and you should be able to find your settings:
K10/20 H = 41,6 mm +13mm offset vertical rail = LRS 54,6 mm
Pentax 10 - 17 - in case this is your lens - L1 + L2 = 37,2 mm + 57,8 mm = URS 95mm
You may send a set of pics via www//ge.tt for example to check your results.
Last edited by hindenhaag; 01-17-2013 at 01:08 AM.
Sorry for taking 3 years to come across this post. Just in case anybody is trying to setup the K10D with Pentax DC 10-17mm on a NN3, my figures posted on panoguide were not correct. As far as I recall I only figured this out after applying a lot of scrutiny to get the settings to perfection.
Pentax K10D settings on NN3:
Lower Arm: 55.5mm
Upper Arm:
Sigma DC 18-50mm @ 18mm: 82.5
Pentax DC 10-17mm @ 10mm: 91.5
Pentax DC 10-17mm @ 17mm: 92.5


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During World War II, the city of Kupang , formerly known as Koepang, on the island of Timor, was the hub for refueling and landing for long-haul flights from Europe to Australia. The historical El Tari airstrip that was first landed by an American pilot, Lamij Johnson, in 1928 holds many stories, more than being a mere transit lounge and fuel depot for the few fliersback then. Today, when visitors step on to the moderinising city, one can still find traces of Dutch occupation as well as a Portuguese inherited aura. For since long before Indonesia's Independence, Timor's western part had been colonized by the Dutch while the island's eastern part by the Portuguese. This division orginated from the time when these two powers fought for hegemony in the lucrative spice trade
Today, Kupang is the capital city of the province of East Nusatenggara , perched in the southwestern part of Timor Island. As one of the three largest islands in East Nusatenggara, (comprising Sumba, Flores and Timor), Timor island is now shared by two independent countries. The island's eastern part being the newly independent East Timor – or Timor Leste, while the island's western part is Indonesian territory. Its favorable position in the south-eastern most part of Indonesia, has made the city of Kupang into the first port of entry in Indonesian waters from Australia, if not yet as a tourst destination in its own right.
The Nusatenggara is a string of islands to the east of Bali, while Timor is its easternmost island in that string. Topographically, Timor differs from the rest of the East Nusatenggara islands. For the line of volcanoes that runs from Sumatra, Java, and on to other Nusatenggara islands, skips Timor and continues north to Maluku or the Moluccas. The cause of this is that unlike other Nusatenggara islands, Timor is in fact geologically related to Australia, and therefore has no volcanoes.While Its geographical location and long history and tradition make it culturally Indonesian.
Being closest than any Indonesian cities to the marinas of Australian yachts in Darwin, the lighthouse at the seaport of Kupang stands as the first milepost for participating yachtsmen in the annual Sail Indonesia event . Each year, hundreds of yachts cross the open seas from Darwin, Australia sailing to Kupang, and from here to visit many known as well as remote Indonesian islands, to finally dock in Singapore. The annual Sail Indonesia has brought the name of Koepang to the fore, recalling its fame in the early twentieth century.
"Indonesians laugh a lot", said Prooke of Marlborough, UK. It's the land of laughs and smiles.
People in Timor are friendly. They love to laugh as do most Indonesians on the whole. Traditionally, people in Kupang and West Timor were distinguished by their social positions. The nobility here used to be called Amaf, the rulers Atupas, the commons Too, and slaves Ata. Today, ata no longer exist. Each of the social class had its own role to play in society. Yet, these classes share a mutual sentiment when it comes to tradition. The root of its heritage is so deep, making it difficult to trace. These deep rooted traditions even persisted through centuries of teachings of newer religions that were brought by traders or colonial rulers.
Look at the motives and patterns of their woven cloths called tenun ikat, and one can sense its age old heritage. Tenun ikat is the local craftsmanship in producing beautifully and sometimes mysteriously formed patterns on traditionally woven fabrics. Not only are the people proud of these cloths, but all Indonesians share the pride that these cloths are one of Indonesia's most precious tangible national heritage.
Accommodation faclities here are much simpler than those in Lombok, Bali or Java, but the hospitality can equal if not better. For travelers who need to recharge themselves, one of the following accommodations offers a welcome rest:
Maya Hotel Jl Sumatera 31,Solor,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 820302
Susi Hotel Jl Sumatra 37,Solor,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822172
Jolly Hotel Jl Letjen R Suprapto 22,Oebobo,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821362
Setia Hotel Jl Kosasih 13,Bonipoi,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 831289
Surya Hotel Jl Tim-Tim,Oeba,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822014
Astiti Hotel Jl Jend Sudirman 166,Kuanino,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821810
Dewata Hotel Jl Tompello 17,Merdeka,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821409
Laguna Hotel Jl Gn Kelimutu 7-A,Merdeka,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 833559
Marina Hotel Jl Jend A Yani 79,Merdeka,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822566
Safari Hotel Jl Dr Moh Hatta 36,Fontein,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821595
Sylvia Hotel Jl Jend Soeharto 51-53,Naikoten I,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 825191
Anggrek Hotel Jl Gn Fatuleu 2,Merdeka,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 833707
Cendana Hotel Jl El Tari 23,Oebobo,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821541
Ina Boy Hotel Jl HOS Cokroaminoto 1,Bonipoi,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 826228
Kristal Hotel Jl Timor Raya 59,Oeba,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 820300
Maliana Hotel Jl Sumatera 35,Solor,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821879
Nirwana Hotel Jl Merpati 13,Bonipoi,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821617
Rachmat Hotel Jl Gn Lakaan 9,Solor,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822161
Charvita Hotel Jl WJ Lalamentik 30,Oebobo,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822676
Flabamor Hotel Jl Jend Sudirman 21,Kuanino,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 832560
I Nyoman Hotel Jl Lontar 36,Oepura,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 827340
Salungan Hotel Jl Nuri 14-A,Bonipoi,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 831531
Nusantara Hotel Jl Tim-Tim 12,Oeba,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 832434
Singosari Hotel Jl Hati Murni 4,Oebobo,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 832120
Dewi Indah Hotel Jl Anggur 3,Naikoten I,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 831003
Palm Beach Hotel Jl Tim-Tim 5,Oeba,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 822942
Tii Langga Hotel Jl Yohanes,Kelapa Lima,Kelapa Lima KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 881724
Cahaya Bapa Hotel Jl ER Herewila 20,Naikoten I,Oebobo KUPANG
Phone: +62 380 821094
Kupang has a type of local transport bearing a unique naming, called "Diskotik Berjalan", or mobile discotheque. It is in fact another type of public minibus, elsewhere in Indonesia known as bemo, the moniker from becak motor. The minibus is heavily decorated to attract passersby and potential passengers. Not only is it visually 'loud', but it is also audibly deafening in a safe and entertaining way.
Do not be alarmed when you find another type of local transport in smaller cities especially in rural area like those on Savu, as bemo turns out to be a truck with two long benches in it where you can sit with no roofs whatsoever. Adventure comes with travel.
Kupang is accessible by plane or ferries. Its historical airport, El Tari was formerly known as Penfui airstrip, having first served an American pilot, Lamij Johnson, in 1928. Penfui literally means 'bush of cornfields', since the airstrip's surroundings were heavily covered with cornfields.
El Tari connects western Timor Island with other large cities in Indonesia, which include:
Domestic flights:
Surabaya, East Java
Denpasar, Bali
Makassar, South Sulawesi
Maumere, East Nusatenggara
Waingapu, East Nusatenggara
Labuan Bajo, West Nusatenggara
Ende,East Nusatenggara
International flights:
Dili, East Timor
Darwin, Australia
Airlines serving the city of Kupang are:
The Airport: Angkasa Pura I, El Tari Airport
Phone: +62 380 881 668 or 883 031, 882 032, 881 121, 881 395
Fax: +62 380 881 263
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Source: Sekapur Sirih Bandar Udara El Tari, Kupang NTT, 2009.
An International seaport is found only in Kupang, called the Tenau Seaport. There are several ferries from PELNI (a national commercial shipping company). They are the KM Bukit Siguntang, KM Kelimutu, KM Sirimau, and KM Awu. Please refer to the website of PT PELNI for detailed schedules.


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Replacement Classic Fender Installation - Original Tin SinWritten by on December 1, 2006 When Repairing Fenders 'N' Boards Is Beyond Budget, Replace!
Like many people, I prefer to have good ol' original tin on my trucks. Recently, though, after seeing the cost of even decent OG sheetmetal rising faster than the price of gas, I also noticed a wide variety of excellent-quality replacement sheetmetal available on the market. Rumors of ill-fitting parts made from paper-thin material aside, the stuff I was seeing could easily pass for N.O.S.-heavy-gauge steel, matching contours/shapes, and most importantly, near-perfect fit. Forget original tin-I'm sinning with replacements.
The replacement sheetmetal came from Goodmark Industries-rear fenders, running boards, and upper splash aprons. On the '53, these parts were beyond used and abused. Repairing them would have meant untold hours of welding up tears in everything from mounting tabs to corners to places where tears shouldn't have been in the first place. As a result, the panels were very fatigued, making repair that much more difficult-not impossible, just time consuming, which as we all know translates to mucho dinero! I'm sure someone out there in truck land will be more than happy to take the weary parts off my hands. Knowing what I now know about early replacement sheetmetal, I was more than comfortable unbolting and bolting them on, leaving the added effort of minor bodywork (mainly pre-paint prep) to the individuals who'll be painting the truck in the near future (JBC Customs).
With the Goodmark parts passing the visual test, it was up to me to verify the fit test for all of you to see. After the bed was completed and snugly secured to the chassis all straight-like (the fenders were hung on temporarily at the time for photo purposes), I was able to remove the remaining old parts and begin installing the new. Fortunately, this turned out to be one of the easier jobs, requiring less than a half day's effort to install, adjust, and walk away smiling. This time, though, it helped that I was fully prepared with all the various "associated" parts. I had acquired a stainless clutch-head fastener kit, welting, and support rods for the fenders, carriage bolts, and rubber seals for the running boards from Brothers. On top of that, I also had all the right tools, namely the clutch-head drivers.
You'll notice that all the sheetmetal is shown installed with the "shipping primer"-I would not recommend running parts in this finish for any length of time, as it's not sufficient to seal the metal. After final fitting, the fenders, boards, and aprons were removed in order to be properly prepped for paint. You'll only create more work for yourself-or worse, your body/paint man-if you try for the instant suede look. Just don't do it!
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Forgive me, for I have sinned-I'm replacing my original tin with new aftermarket parts! Upon discovering the quality and fit of certain offerings, like these AD rear fenders from Goodmark Industries, I never thought twice about my original tin sin, either.For starters, the OG fenders were in need of plenty of bodywork. Moreover, they were torn pretty bad in numerous spots, so repair was out of the question for me.Same goes for the running boards-why repair when replacing puts you that much ahead of the game, not to mention possibly saving you some needed coin as well? The boards from Goodmark equaled the fenders' quality in form and function.Years of abuse and neglect will do it every time. Basically, the running boards were held on (each side) with two out of six fasteners.Actually, if you recall when the truck was first featured, tie-down straps were also used to hold the panels in place. Shape-wise, the same tears and dents found on the fenders were evident on the boards, too.Removing the fenders, boards, and splash aprons is very straightforward; that is, unless your truck's underbelly is coated with an inch of gunk like mine. In that case, a good washing might be the first order of business.Once rid of the old tin, all that should remain protruding from the framerails are the riveted-on board braces. You'll also notice the running board-to-body seals beneath each door (if they're still intact). Now's the time to replace them.A series of clutch-head sheetmetal screws holds the seals in a pinch channel on the bottom of the cab. Generally, new seals will come as one long piece, so keep the old ones for attachment hole and length reference.
This is how the fasteners should fit the slots, unlike the old boards suggested. Having the right-size carriage bolts (1/4-20, 3/4-, or 1-inch length) helps ensure the boards' proper security.I found it was much easier to drop the carriage bolts into the braces first, then set the running boards on top and finagle the bolt heads into the board's slots instead of trying to guide the threads into the brace holes.You can either fasten it to the apron first, then the board, or the other way around, whichever is easier.There are two mounting points on the apron and one on the running board, which uses the same carriage bolts as the board braces.Install, but don't completely tighten, the three 10-24 bolts and nuts along the bottom edge of the apron to the top of the running board edge, and this part's done for now.If you're not 100 percent concerned with Chevy authenticity, forgo the stainless clutch-head fasteners and use standard Allen or hex bolts to mount the fenders. I just like the looks of them, not to mention I've got a full set of clutch drivers and sockets!
A good thing about a pre-made fastener kit, like this stainless one from Brothers, is that you get the right-size flat washers. You'll notice the mounting holes on the fenders are slotted large to provide the most adjustability; large washers ensure a good, secure fit once the nuts are tightened down (which you don't want to do just right yet).While the fender and running board are still awaiting final adjustment, squeeze the rubber seal between the two, then guide the three fasteners in place and secure finger-tight, as there's still a step or two remaining before you can torque everything down.In most cases, fender tears result from weak or no support braces. You can avoid this by simply putting them to their intended use.Welting usually comes without cutouts for mounting hardware, so it's up to you to accommodate. I took the welting to the back side of the fender before it was mounted, marked the appropriate areas, and cut with scissors.With the fender still loose, start the welting from one end and work it into place all the way to the other, just snugging the nuts.Even though this step is a lot easier with another set of eyes/hands, if you're still on your own, make sure to step back and ensure fender alignment before fully tightening everything up. Once you're in the ballpark, take one hand to hold the welting in place while you tighten each nut, working your way from one end to the other for a uniform fit.With the fender finally in place (and yes, tightened down), go back and make any adjustments to the running boards and aprons, and then tighten them down. Make sure all the gaps are as even as can be from the front fenders all the way back.It's a shame knowing that before long, all the new parts will be back off the truck, but at least I'm confident of their proper fit and won't be fussing around with freshly painted parts in an attempt to do so later on. At least I have a good idea of how the Apple Green and black two-tone will look!


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The Department of Consumer Protection says half the 28 Walgreens stores tested by their agents failed state standards. The department says the overall error rate exceeded five percent compared with two percent as an acceptable rate.
Overcharges averaged $2.40 at the stores. The average undercharge with $1.28. Wisconsin law requires stores to issue refunds for overcharges. Walgreens says the company does not admit to any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
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Sony recently released a couple of new videos providing us with a window into the complex relationship between the two girls. The first is what appears to be the DLC's opening cinematic while the second is an interview with Ellie and Riley's voice actresses Ashley Johnson and Yaani King where they drop some hints regarding the DLC's plot. Take a look below:
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What exercise builds your internal fortitude the best? the ability to mentally prepare you for life, exercise, encounters, etc.? Is it weight lifting that gives you the physical strength and appearance? Extreme aerobic that gives you endurance and stamina? If you had to choose, which would it be?
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Unfortunately, just participating in any kind of sports can't help you with determination (internal fortitude) by itself. I've tried mountaineering, running, aikido and yoga, and each of them can help with this goal if you have the right state of mind, but each of them can make you even weaker (mentally), when you are practicing with wrong thoughts.
My own method to improve determination is to state goals for yourself, which are just a little above your skill/strength, as you are feeling it. And successfully accomplishing these goals. For example, if you are in the middle of your (say, 10 km) running workout and sprain your ankle, you can choose to run home (though slower) or even to take a slightly longer route, instead of calling for help. I mean no torturing yourself, but just fighting with difficulties which are hard, but have no real danger (I've been in this situation a couple of times, last time yesterday, and all was well afterwards, but "your mileage may vary").
Being on the mountain and having to climb on and on because storm/night is coming, you find that you can go further (and even make right decitions) even when yor last sleep was 30 hours ago.
All this can make you believe, that you can handle a lot of difficult situations, and shows you that your effort gives its result, even if it takes time. So in the next difficult situation you'll just fight longer - this is internal fortitude.
On the other hand, this "going over your head", if overused, can be unsafe and lead you into trouble (or plainly make you feel weaker, if you fail to accomplish your goal again and again). Here you should use your common sense and wisdom.
You can begin experimenting with this by exercising longer. In particular, when you feel that you can endure no more, give a promise to yourself to exercise +10% of what you have done already. Running is ideal for this type of experiments.
As steed says, goal setting is one of the keys. One of the other things that I've found to develop that inner confidence is competition. Doesn't matter what kind, and in fact, the more varied the better. Doesn't necessarily have to be physical competition, mental and business lend themselves to the same structure in different ways.
When you are just working out, even if you push yourself, you may not always face the same adversities as you would during a competition. Plus, there is a certain immediacy to competition that promotes the ability to think on your feet, adapt to changing situations, fluid thinking, etc.
Team sports will generate one dynamic and way of thinking, individual sports another. You can develop leadership skills while in a team situation, as well as being able to excel within a role for the good of the team. Individual sports give you a chance to test your self reliance and adaptability.
Even if you don't win, do horribly, do average, you should always be able to learn something about yourself every time you do a workout or enter a competition. It's the accumulation of all of this over many many repetitions that gives someone that confidence in themselves, and points out places that you may need to work on for greater confidence.


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A warning as our season gets underway
Anyone who was around here on Aug. 13, 2004, can easily empathize with the feelings of loss and disorientation experienced this week in Moore, Okla. We also recognize the challenges that lay ahead for residents as they try to rebuild their lives and their community.
Again, sadly, we've seen a city reduced to rubble in a matter of minutes by the extreme forces of nature. As of Thursday, the official death toll from the ferocious Oklahoma tornado was at 24 people, with a handful of others still missing. Another 240 or so were reportedly injured. Some 12,000 to 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. Two schools and a hospital were flattened. Monetary damage was estimated at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. Some 33,000 people were affected in some way by the storm, according to news sources.
What seems remarkable — given the extraordinary destruction — is that even more people weren't killed or injured. Entire suburban housing tracts were demolished; cars and tankers were whipped through the air and left in heaps. The winds, recorded above 200 mph, had enough force to strip bark from trees. The power of the storm was frightening.
Try to keep that in mind as we enter hurricane season in Florida. The Oklahoma City area is Tornado Alley; residents are familiar with twisters. While fewer than 3 percent of the homes in the county have storm cellars, residents have been trained by experience to pay close attention to the early-warning alerts and act wisely. Whether an individual's response was a simple as wearing a bicycle helmet or huddling in a bathtub, the defensive actions undoubtedly saved lives.
Thankfully, we have a lot more warning about approaching storms here. Forecasters watch hurricanes cross the Atlantic and the Caribbean, cut across the Florida peninsula or rumble up the coasts and often threaten us here in Central Florida.
We can heed the warnings and prepare. We can try to make our homes hurricane-resistant. We can follow the warnings of emergency operations officials and get out of storm surge areas. We can plan to take shelter in storm shelters or evacuate as early as possible. We should remember the potential consequences if we don't take big storms seriously.
Those in our area who lived through the intense devastation of Hurricane Charley in 2004 also realize how much affected communities rely on the kindness and generosity of strangers as they struggle to rebuild. It can be done — we've seen that in Lake Wales, Bartow and other communities in Polk County — but it takes a monumental amount of work and money.
We can help a little. One of the easiest ways is by donating to disaster relief efforts. The American Red Cross is a good place to start. Go to the website, www.redcross.org, or call 1-800-REDCROSS.
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A frequent flyer is a person who is to be considered crazy and a regular at the Office of the Mayor.
A bald sweaty guy walks into the mayors office yelling and flailing his arms. After a couple of minutes of yelling you understand that he is yelling something about the American flag not being made in America.. (I checked it is made in America) and how the Indiana state flag should be removed and replaced with the POW flag.... continues to tell how he fought in the Vietnam War.. Police record shows he was born in 1983.. hmmm.. now return on a regular basis and you are a frequent flyer
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A person who comes to the Emergency Room on a regular basis for non-emergent complaints, particularly those relating to chronic pain. Refers to someone who wastes the ER doctor's time and/or tries to get unnecessary narcotics from the doctor.
Harriet is here again, what a frequent flyer. She said in triage,"I have menstrual cramps and ran out of my vicodin again. I hope Dr Smith is here"
by ERDoc2 August 09, 2007
Known to EMTs and paramedics, an individual who calls 911 often for an ambulance. The caller may be a mental patient or one who seeks attention or a ride to the hospital where he/she will acquire free food, air-conditioning in the summer, or pain medications. Occasionally, a frequent flyer is an individual who has a serious ongoing medical problem but doesn't take care of him/herself and frequently becomes ill to the point where 911 must be summoned.
Mrs. Jones is one of our frequent fliers; we've responded to her house at least once a shift for the past two months.
Every call we get from the public phone at Main and Oak Street is from a frequent flyer.
Every call we get from the public phone at Main and Oak Street is from a frequent flyer.
by Artmedic2 April 22, 2010
Someone who is always high
Dude: Yo man, last time I wasn't high was six months ago
Friend: Nigga, you are definitely a Frequent Flyer
Friend: Nigga, you are definitely a Frequent Flyer
by FrequentFlya October 20, 2011
adj. term indicative of one who habitually consumes mind-altering substances such as pot, LSD, PCP, cocaine, etc.
Man- Randy smoked a half ounce of chronic, dropped 2 tabs of Purple Jesus, burned 3 parsley specials, and snorted an 85% pure eightball all in one night. Dude is totally trippin'- and he parties like this all the time! Hell, he's such a frequent flyer that he doesn't know when to leave the damned airport!!!
by fugitive247 March 20, 2006
A student who asks to leave class to go to the bathroom, get water, go to the nurse, etc. so often that their true motives must be called into question. Most likely a boy with ADHD.
"Don't let anybody leave the classroom."
"Not even to go to the bathroom?"
"Well, we've got a few frequent flyers in here."
"Ah, I see what you mean."
"Not even to go to the bathroom?"
"Well, we've got a few frequent flyers in here."
"Ah, I see what you mean."
by araparseghian June 05, 2015
A mental patient that gets admitted to the psychiatric ward frequently.
A mental patient that gets admitted to the psychiatric ward frequently.
Betty knows her way around the floor because she is a frequent flyer.
by Anonymous October 13, 2003
Individuals who repeatedly call 911 for minor issues are known as frequent flyers.
its a noun.
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Overcoming Back-to-Work Anxieties for New Moms
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Super working-mother syndromeHow to Prevent Super Working-Mother Syndrome
The "Super Working-Mother Syndrome" is a major trap that many working mothers fall into. In order to protect their families from the physical, mental, and social effects of their return to the workplace, many women feel compelled to "overload" their lives by doing too much in too little time. This trend for perfectionism is driven by guilt and anger. The maternal guilt basically comes from not living up to your own expectations of yourself, and the anger comes from having to self-sacrifice all day long, week in and week out.
It is important that you get past these destructive attitudes and projections. Try to dispel the notion that you can, and should, do everything perfectly: be a perfect mother, a perfect wife, and a perfect employee. It's not humanly possible. Until you acknowledge to yourself that it's okay to be less than perfect at everything, you'll carry a heavy burden of tension, a feeling of inadequacy,and disappointment. Being a balanced woman is an ongoing processit is not a destination.
Here is a list to help you rid yourself of the symptoms before they lead to frustration, and eventually, depression:
- Learn to recognize warning signsPhysical symptoms, irritability, yelling, tears, etc., may indicate you need (and deserve) emotional sustenance. Accept the validity of what you're feeling, of the fact that you have needs that must be met if you are to function as a working mom.
- Alter your expectationsAsk yourself whether they are realistic and try to come to terms with them. Constantly remind yourself that you cant be all things to all people. Make a list of every last thing you feel bad about that you didn't do for your child. Feel really awful about all of them for a day, then ask forgiveness of yourself and sweep them away. Tomorrow is another day.
- Understand that guilt comes with the territoryUse it as a motivating force to do something positive; for example, find the best child care available. Make sure you're not projecting your own feelings of guilt and frustration on your child or she will start believing that everything is her fault, and she is the cause of your grief. Let negative comments go in one ear and out the other.
- Become a happy, fulfilled personSomebody who is taking care of her own needs. This is the most important thing you can do to promote your child's future welfare. Engage in any worthwhile activity that brings you a sense of satisfaction.
- Separate your feelings from your actionsFeeling like hitting your child is not something to feel guilty about; hitting your child is.
- Set prioritiesDecide which are most important to you and which you can live without. These can be tough choices, but not making them deprives you of the time you need to really enjoy your life. Once you've set your priorities, don't add a new activity unless you subtract one.
- Slow down at work and at homeYou don't have to be number one in your department or have the cleanest house on the block. Drop the fantasy that you can come home after an easy day's work and bake delicious cookies for the family. Give them store-bought ones. Your family will love you just the same, and you'll be more fun to be around. Learn to delegate chores you loathe or pay someone to do them. (see Working Mothers: Organizing Your Life)
- Seek counselingIf you feel your life is unmanageable, a therapist can help you put things into the proper perspective and enable you to find balance in your life. If you're single, find a good support group. Your insurance company can be a good place to start. Many feature a variety of self-improvement programs at no cost to you. Your local library is another great place for info on support groups in your area as well as searching the Internet. Your local church or synagogue may also have a group that would be the right fit for you.
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March, 2012
The March issue of InfoTech & Telecom News reports on the erosion of Congressional support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) after growing evidence of immense public opposition to the measures.
Also in this issue:
- The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in federal court against Salem, Missouri and the town's library board, claiming the library unconstitutionally blocked access to Web sites related to Wicca, Native American, and other religions.
- A Long Island school system is attracting controversy by ordering electronic monitors for students to track their exercise habits.
- The City of Seattle has sued a defense attorney for requesting police dash-cam footage.
- Profanity uttered during televised awards ceremonies nearly 10 years ago resulted in Federal Communications Commission fines the networks are still challenging.
- The international hacker group Anonymous launched what it has labeled its biggest cyberattack ever, temporarily shutting down Web sites of the Department of Justice and entertainment industry titans.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Michigan Gas Stations Introduce Drivers' License Swipes for Cash Purchases– February 10, 2012
Commentary: Current Copyright Law Is Enough– February 9, 2012
Consumer Electronics Future Bright—If Government Doesn't Interfere– February 8, 2012
DoJ Opinion May Clear Way for Online Gambling– February 7, 2012
Online Poker Site Co-Founder Enters Guilty Plea– February 6, 2012
DHS Approves Government Collection of Social Media Info– February 6, 2012
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in FCC Obscenity Case– February 3, 2012
FCC: Comcast Discriminated Against Tennis Channel– February 1, 2012
Seattle Sues to Suppress Dash-Cam Disclosure– January 31, 2012
Open Range Bankruptcy Costs Taxpayers $73 million– January 30, 2012
Missouri Library Under Fire for Internet Filters– January 27, 2012
Indiana, Amazon.com Reach Sales Tax Agreement– January 26, 2012
Cell-Phone Towers on California Schools to Enhance District's Bottom Line– January 25, 2012
Schools' Electronic Monitors to Track Student Exercise– January 24, 2012
SOPA Strike Erodes Congressional Support for Anti-Piracy Bills


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I've seen plugins and snippets on how to set a new default avatar for a site. I'm wondering if this can be done network-wide, such that every new site on the network will have the network's avatar as its primary default. from there the plugin's that allow the user to upload a new avatar will be sufficient to let each site define it's own. But until they do I'd prefer they have my avatar than the mystery man or some of the others which are downright ugly.
The avatar_default is the better option.
Simple. Stick that in a mu-plugin and you're good to go.
Edit: If you want to still allow site owners to change the default avatar, use the
Must Use Plugins will anable functionality global. And actualy functionality is pretty simple... only prefiltring default_avatar value.
Use this code as plugin which you can install to anable default avatar.
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In my mu-plugins folder I now have the following code, which adds a custom avatar as the default network wide, but allows each individual site to change it thereafter.
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WEIRTON - There are many types of addiction, and one local organization is trying to provide residents with a better understanding of its problems and solutions.
On Tuesday, Never Alone West Virginia hosted an educational health fair and informational workshop focused on addiction as well as some of the local agencies and professionals who can assist those fighting an addiction.
Never Alone founder Patti Barnabei explained there are many types of addiction, and many things to which people can become addicted. The event, dubbed "The Many Faces of Addiction," was organized with the goal of providing information to residents, in particular young people.
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"It could be food, alcohol, drugs, technology," Barnabei said. "It could be anything."
Assisted by Weirton Medical Center and Sports Radio 1430 WEIR, as well as local law enforcement and court officials, Weirton Area Ambulance and Rescue Squad, Healthways, Family Connections, Wellspring Family Services, Northwood Health Systems, Jefferson Behavioral Health Systems, and other agencies, visitors to Tuesday's event were able to learn about resources available locally to help fight addictions.
"Anything we can do to save someone's life is worth it," Barnabei said.
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WORKSHOP HELD — Never Alone West Virginia held an informational workshop Tuesday at Weirton Madonna High School focused on the issues of addiction, particularly in adolescents. The event also included an educational health fair featuring area agencies and professionals presenting information on local resources. -- Craig Howell
The evening also featured a presentation by Frank Kros, a former child care worker, child abuse investigator, children's home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney and writer, currently part of the Upside Down Organization.
Kros' presentation, titled "Trouble Letting Go," focused in particular on the sensitivity of the adolescent brain and its vulnerability to addictions.
Kros explained he focuses on what he calls "The Five Why's," discussing the effects of a drug or substance on the brain in the early stages of addiction, from the initial high, to the increased cravings for the substance, as well as ways to fight back, including early intervention, medications and abstinence programs.
"They say addictions formed in adolescence are more difficult to fight," Kros explained.
Kros said he also gave a presentation for the students of Weirton Madonna High School Tuesday afternoon, adding he was impressed by their attentiveness and questions on the subject matter.
Barnabei noted Never Alone was unveiling new red and white survivor bracelet support wristbands during the event.
"They're giving them out tonight, but we're going to be taking orders for them," she said.
Working with area businesses, Never Alone also is working on a project to provide bookbags to all incoming fifth-grade students at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year.
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I signed up for Blockbuster online through Kongregate to earn the 140 kreds and after successfully signing up I did not receive the kreds in my account. If the offer didn't say the kreds would appear instantly I would be a little more patient, but the offer did say it would be instant.
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Shrinking the College Tab
The most effective way to shrink college expenses is to think big. Aim for merit awards or fat financial aid packages. There are plenty of other opportunities, however, that you can seize to whittle down costs. Here are some to get you started:
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Graduate in Four Years
It's shocking how few college kids graduate in eight semesters. Millions of students are now taking five or six years or more to earn their diplomas.
In the hall of shame, many California state universities possess dreadful four-year graduate rates, including San Jose State University (7.1%), California State University-Long Beach (10.9%), and San Diego State University (13.9%). Dismal rates are hardly confined to the West Coast. A tiny sampling of schools with terrible four-year rates include Kennesaw State University (8.3%), University of Hawaii at Manoa (11.5%), University of Louisville (12.6%), Georgia State University (13.7%), University of Utah (15.4%), University of Oklahoma (19.3%), and Western Michigan University (20.1%).
You can't just blame the terrible graduation rate on academic dead enders. At some schools, particularly public universities, classes are overloaded, and some popular degree programs require kids to spend far longer in school than they ever imagined. If a child switches a major or decides to earn a double major, the time clock can also get pushed back. The cost of college will also delay graduation because many students must work full or part time to pay the tab.
When shopping for schools, inquire about a school's four-year graduation track record. Unfortunately, the graduation rate is frequently reported as a six-year figure. As mentioned earlier, the Education Trust provides a quick way to find four-year graduation rates through its College Results Online (www.collegeresults.org). Also ask schools for the average graduation rate for particular majors. Find out why kids experience difficulty graduating on time and how the successful ones pull it off.
The following table provides a breakdown of graduation rates from a study conducted by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. As you'll see, different types of institutions in the study enjoyed greater success at getting their graduates out the door in a timely fashion.
|Institution Type
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|6-Year Grad Rate
|Public university
|Private university
|Public college
|Nonsectarian college
|Catholic college
|Other Christian college
|All institutions
After you've chosen a school, make sure you meet as soon as possible with an academic advisor. Learn what the requirements are for an intended major including the number of credits the degree program requires. Take at least 25% of those credits each year. Also enroll in the required courses as soon as possible since some of these essential classes may only be available once a year, and even worse, could be a prerequisite for other higher division classes.
If you fall behind, consider summer school at your own college or university or at a community college for general education classes. Making sure you don't linger unnecessarily will save more than college costs. Graduation delays also keep you from earning a living!
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From The College Solution Copyright © 2008, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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The Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College boasts a long tradition of excellence in undergraduate education for women. Throughout its history, it has afforded students a solid preparation in both Spanish language and the literatures and cultures of Spain, Spanish America, and the Spanish-speaking United States.
The keystone of our integrated curriculum is linguistic and intellectual continuity from the elementary language level to the most advanced literature and culture courses.
Our language courses are not only skill - and proficiency - oriented, but anchor the rigorous academic preparation that students will need for advanced study, either at Barnard or in college-level study abroad.
Our upper-level courses guide students in acquiring the necessary historical and theoretical tools to understand the cultural and aesthetic production of the Hispanic world. Through our strong collaboration with interdisciplinary programs at Barnard, including Comparative Literature, Africana Studies, Women's Studies, and the Forum on Migration, as well as our teamwork with the Columbia Department of Spanish and Portuguese, we are ideally poised to train students for a wide range of post-graduation experiences, be they in MA/PhD programs or in the professional sphere.
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Playing computer games during the breaks would not certainly be productive to do between the long study hours. Watching TV will also not be a good idea (it will jam the brain further, I guess). Similarly reading novels may pose distraction.
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Breaking through the glass ceiling can be tough, especially when you are a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field. This week's episode takes a look at women in chemistry. First, we learn about the brave physicist after whom meitnerium is named. Then we talk with Donna Nelson, a chemistry professor and spokeswoman for women in the sciences. Finally, producer Catherine Girardeau shares an interview with her grandmother, a dietary researcher credited with changing the eating habits of Americans in the mid-20th century. Element of the Week: Meitnerium.
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01:19 Element of the Week: Meitnerium
03:21 A Conversation with Donna Nelson
07:30 Feature: The Career of Helen B. Brown
11:31 Quote: Abigail Adams
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I am trying to have a looped task for a To Do item that has to happen for a member of the team, how do I make that happen? So in essence, when it is done, we need to start again from the beginning?
There's no way to add recurring tasks at the moment.
The team is finishing work on card copy, which may be similar to what you want. It allows you to create new cards based off old cards, with the same checklists, member, attachments, etc.
As was previously mentioned by Bobby Grace, the team is working on implementing a card copy feature.
However, if you want to clone/copy cards in the meantime and are using Google Chrome to access your Trello boards, there is a Chrome extension called "Trello Clone" which can perform this task for you. Sometimes, you have to refresh the page for the clone options to come up.
I've been using this extension quite happily for several months. I just clone a new card for each iteration of the repetitive task.
EDIT: The Trello "Card Copy" feature went live as on June 15th. The official blog post explaining the changes is here.


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Anti-government protesters march past one of their roadblocks made of tires in central Bangkok, Thailand.
Women show their inked fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in Cairo. Egyptians are voting on a draft for their country's new constitution.
People look at an "upside-down house" attraction displayed at the VVTs All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow.
A bird sits on a frozen crane sculpture fountain with icicles hanging from its wings at a Tokyo park. Cold weather sent temperatures plummeting to the lowest levels this winter in many parts of Japan.
Lightning flashes over the Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Breitling Wingwalkers fly over Durrat Al Bahrain ahead of the Bahrain International Airshow 2014 which opens Jan. 16. Durrat Al Bahrain is a 21-km-square development created across a cluster of 15 islands.
Pakistani girls wait in line to receive free food during a rally marking the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Rawalpindi.
Three protesters from the animal rights organization PETA show posters against use of furs in the fashion industry prior to the launch of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Autumn Winter 2014, in Berlin, Germany.
A Palestinian student jumps through a burning ring during a graduation ceremony for a military-style training program in Gaza City.
A man holds a pin with a picture of Egypt's Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he waits for his turn to cast his vote in the country's constitutional referendum in Cairo.
A Kashmiri Muslim girl plays with a balloon as women offer prayers at the Hazratbal shrine on Eid-e-Milad, the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, in Srinagar, India.
Swans swim near riverside properties partially submerged in floodwaters at Henley-on-Thames in southern England. More than 1,700 homes and businesses have been affected by the floods in England since late December, Jan. 13, 2013.
A Hindu woman takes blessings from a Naga Sadhu or a Hindu holy man after taking a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganges River and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of the Makar Sankranti festival at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India.
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I have one iTunes account and I have one iPod. My daughter now has an iPod too. How do I get the music from my iTunes library to her iPod?
Regardless of the kind of iPod your daughter has, you can add songs to her iPod by connecting the iPod to your computer and dragging the songs, playlists or library to her iPod. After it is finished syncing, it will be ready to go. If the iPod was previously synced to another computer and not set for "manually manage music", syncing with the new computer will replace the songs on the iPod. If the iPod was set up for manual management, you can drag songs to it from the libraries on different computers.


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TEMPLE (January 15, 2013) --- A Temple concealed handgun license instructor says he's seen an increase in the number of local teachers interested in CHLs in the wake of the deadly December school shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn.
In response to the increase, Big Iron CHL Instructor Johnny Price said he has put together a class for local teachers to qualify for their CHL for free.
Price said he hopes to give teachers training that could allow them to approach any dangerous situation and come out alive.
"That's what our training does its ways to handle different situations, most of them you hope nonviolently, without ever having to pull a handgun and especially without having to pull the trigger; we try to teach using de-escalation techniques," Price said.
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The specific "sub questions" I'm asking are:
- When you are looking at clouds just on the horizon, how far away would they be?
How wide (in km) is that total field of vision at roughly cloud height.
- Let's assume that the clouds being viewed are of the high family form which range from 5-12.2km (16,500 to 40,000 feet) in altitude.
- Let's assume flat or nearly flat ground at an elevation of 0-100 metres (328 feet) above sea level.
- Let's also assume the viewer is human and approx 170cm tall (5'7").
I understand if the answers can only be approximates. Looking for both a general way to think about this question as well as how to measure the field of view in question. If it's difficult to take all the variables into account then can anyone explain what the absolute maximum distance would be in a best case scenario?
Similar but not the same question: How much sky do we see at any one moment?


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G is the set of all subset of A. (For example - Say $A=\{1,2,3\}$ than $G=(\{1\},\{2\},\{3\},\{1,2\}...)$. ($A$ is at east two different elements).
the binary operation $*$ is intersection. I need to prove this is a group .
Identity element - will be the empty set.
Inverse element - Yes . I need that For each $g\in G$, there must be an element $g^{-1}\in G$ so that $g^{-1}*g=g*g^{-1}=e$. I think the empty set do that as well.
until here I hope I was right.
Now I want to show if this is finite or abelian.
Abelian - Yes- easy to show.
But now Im not sure if this is finite and how to show that...


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The Cypriot cabinet approved plans to sign for a deal with a US-Israeli partnership to build a LNG plant on the island, seeking to exploit the area's untapped energy riches.
NICOSIA -- The Cypriot cabinet approved plans to sign for a
deal with a US-Israeli partnership to build a LNG plant on the
island to exploit untapped energy riches.
"The cabinet has approved the decision to sign the memorandum
of understanding between Cyprus and companies Noble Energy,
Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration for liquefaction
terminal for natural gas," said government spokesman Victor
This month, Noble started confirmation drilling off the
southern coast to ascertain whether there is enough untapped
gas to make the venture commercially viable.
Based on initial test drilling in 2011, the estimated amount
of gas in Block 12 is 142 billion 227 billion cubic meters, the
Houston based company said. Noble owns 70% of the drilling project, with Israeli partners Delek
and Avner each holding 15%.
The almost bankrupt Mediterranean island is hoping its
untapped offshore energy resources can pull it back from the
financial brink. It hopes to commercially export its gas, and
maybe oil riches, by 2020.
Dow Jones Newswires
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