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A new season has arrived
We can feel it: fall has arrived. The crisp breeze, the leaves that are starting to turn and long summer days that are becoming noticeably shorter. A season of transition from summer to winter that once again puts our outdoor gear to the test.
For the upcoming season, our development team has once again ventured out into the wilderness to come up with reliable products for unforgettable outdoor experiences. One of our exciting pieces of news is our new high-end synthetic insulation G-Loft Supreme that can be found in our new Keb Loft Jacket and Övik Loft Jacket W. Other newcomers include Keb Down Jacket, Sarek Winter Jacket W, Övik Knit Sweater W, Abisko Trail Trousers, Övik Down Skirt and timeless classics such as the Greenland Backpack and Greenland No. 1 Down Jacket.
G-Loft Supreme
Exclusively developed for Fjällräven, G-Loft Supreme is our new high-end synthetic padding with exceptional insulating properties, even in wet conditions. It is light, compressible and with a great down feel.
Learn more about G-Loft Supreme
Technical trekking with Keb
For the highpoints of your outdoor life – the Keb series has been developed for demanding trekking with an emphasis on freedom of movement, fabric functionality and durability.
Have a look at the Keb Family
Keb loft Jacket
With the same high level of functionality as the other Keb series products, this reinforcement jacket is padded with the new synthetic G-Loft Supreme that feels like down and has an exceptionally high insulating ability, even when damp.
Övik Loft Jacket W
A timeless jacket with G-Loft Supreme padding that works just as well on the way to work as on cold days in the forest when the temperature is around zero and the weather can't decide if it is going to be above or below freezing.
Our down process is highlighted
We are the first outdoor company, selected to contribute to the UN Global Compacts annual global yearbook. Especially appealing is the supply chain management of our down flow – setting an example for the whole industry.
The Global Compact International Yearbook is a product of macondo publishing in support of the UN Global Compact and the advancement of corporate sustainability globally. Here you can read the article.
Three different types of shorts
We develop all our products based on how you use the product in the outdoors and for a certain usage in mind. All our shorts are practical for their purpose and durable.
Abisko and Nikka shorts, for the active trekker
From left to right: Abisko Shorts are technical briefs for the active walker, a combination of durable G-1000 and stretch. Te
Karl and Karla Shorts, clean and simple
Clean, uncluttered design suitable for the outdoor recreation and leisure in general. Sewn from durable G-1000 Silent with soft brushed surface. Spacious map pocket with flap and bellows on the right leg, two side pockets and two back pockets. Read more about Karl Shorts. Or the women's version Karla.
Shorts No.5, workhorse
Made-in wind and water resistant G-1000 Eco with recycled polyester and organic cotton with extra strong G-1000 Heavy Duty at inner leg and hem on the leg pockets. As in all the Numbers garments, materials and details selected to minimize environmental impact and to make it easy to replace the working parts, after years of use. Learn more about Shorts No. 5
Keb Trousers Regular vs. Keb Trousers Long?
What exactly is the difference between Keb Trousers Regular vs. Keb Trousers Long? And the women Keb Trousers W Short and Keb Trousers W Regular.
It is all very simple. The length is the only difference.
Keb Regular "original" inseam: 82 cm
Keb Short inseam: 77 cm
Keb Trousers Regular inseam is 92 cm
Keb Mr. Long "Original" inseam: 97 cm
Keb Gaiter Trousers and women's version Keb Gaiter Trousers W is only in the length "original" ie. 97 cm and 82 cm.
How to keep nature clean
Often when we are out in nature we see many tracks from people we rather had not seen, it's pretty simple to to something about these things.
We have put together an instructional video on how-to keeping our environment clean with some simple tips.
Fjällraven Abisko Trousers Review
The Abisko Trousers, our technical trekking trousers that combine stretch and G-1000 for high mobility and durability has been tested by one of the leading outdoor magazines in the UK Trailblazer Outdoors.
Fjällräven Polar 2014
Finally Fjällräven Polar 2014 has finally started, 20 participants from all over the world have gathered in Stockholm for onward transport to Signaldalen north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, where Fjällräven Polar starts. Follow the adventure!
Akka Endurance 3, "gear of the year" 2013
We are happy and proud, our tent Akka Endurance 3 was selected as the outdoor product of the year by the leading outdoor magazine, Utemagasinet, in Sweden. In recent years, Kajka and Akka Dome has won these awards as well. Functional and easy to use was the main reason.
Akka Endurance 3, "gear of the year" 2013 by Swedish outdoor magazine Utemagasinet.
Storm Test; Akka Endurance
Fjällräven Polar 2014, the application is open
Cold, dark and windy. Far, far from home. We believe that everyone can enjoy Fjällräven Polar, and now it's time again, why not take the opportunity to apply for the experiencing adventure of a lifetime!
Ps. The new grants with the most votes between 12 and 12 every day have the chance to win a Nordic Heater. Ds
Father's Day is approaching
Father's Day is approaching in Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia and Norway – how will you celebrate your outdoorsy dad?
We have a tip: look up a nice place in nature, make a big bonfire, bring good food, and gather the whole family and maybe some friends. Warm clothes hot drinks in thermos and sandwiches or hot dogs to cook over the open fire – that's a perfect recipe for a great Father's Day.
But it is also fun even with surprises and gifts! We have collected some ideas for gifts for the outdoorsy father. From warm wool hats to durable shirts, trousers – warm and functional for outdoor family days in the forest.
Hat: Byron Hat Thin, Shirt: Sarek Heavy Flannel Shirt,Trousers: Greenland Jeans, Belt: Murena Silver Belt


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Five Track & Field, Cross Country Bears Earn Team Awards at Banquet
Nov. 19, 2013
SPRINGFIELD - Five Missouri State track & field and cross country student-athletes earned individual awards at the team's second annual banquet and alumni reunion celebrating the 2012-13 season Saturday at the University Plaza Hotel.
Senior of the Year honors went to Kimsue Grant, while Pernell Joseph, Althia Maximilien and Shavonne Husbands were tabbed Junior, Sophomore and Freshman of the Year, respectively. Maximilien also earned Track Athlete of the Year, while Grant took Field Athlete of the Year. Emily Beaverclaimed Cross Country Athlete of the Year.
Grant was named All-MVC in the long jump and triple jump during the indoor season, while being all-conference in the triple jump, long jump and 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays. She made her fourth trip to NCAA championships in her final outdoor campaign.
Maximilien earned the second All-American honor of her career last season, finishing 13th in the 400-meter prelims at the NCAA indoor championships. She also was named All-MVC in the 200 and 400 meters indoors and in the 200, 400, 4x100 and 4x400 outdoors. Joseph was all-conference in the 60 meters indoors and 4x100 outdoors on the year, and Husbands followed in the 100, 200, 4x100 and 4x400 outdoors.
Beaver led the cross country team to a ninth-place finish at last season's Missouri Valley Conference championships last season, posting her best five-kilometer time of the year in the event.
The Bears open their 2013-14 indoor track & field campaign on Dec. 6 with the Holiday Preview, hosted by Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.

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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly ski hotel with an indoor pool
Located near the slopes, this Kalispell hotel is in the mountains, within 1 mi (2 km) of Hockaday Museum of Art and Museum at Central School, and close to winter sports such as cross-country skiing and skiing lessons. Woodland Water Park and Buffalo Hill Golf Club are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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After a day on the snow, enjoy a relaxing soak in the spa tub and an invigorating swim in the indoor swimming pool. When the sun goes down, sip après-ski drinks in the hotel's bar.
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The new US energy secretary could delay further approvals for US companies seeking to export LNG, saying he wants to review whether studies of the issue are adequate. Some 19 export facilities have pending applications with the department, taking advantage of rising domestic production.
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WASHINGTON -- The new United States energy secretary raised
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The comments by Ernest Moniz, who was sworn in as energy
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Some 19 other export facilities have pending applications
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Mr. Moniz showed caution about the existing studies.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - For 14 years, Dwayne Pielech, the Director of Belmont County Job & Family Services has been a man of many hats.
As director, Pielech has oversaw the work of four different departments under the umbrella of Job & Family Services - five once Senior Services of Belmont County was added to the fold after taking over for Belmont Senior Services, a private company, in 2011: Children's Services, Senior Services, Child Support Enforcement, Workforce Development and Public Assistance and Medicaid Programs.
"I have a difficult job as director," Pielech said. "After 14 years as director, helping to create 1,000 of jobs in this area and obtain millions for development purposes, I'm ready for a change.
"I love working with the commissioners and our staff and we have a great union staff. But after 14 years, I'm prepared to do something different."
Pielech tendered his resignation to Belmont County Commissioners Matt Coffland, Ginny Favede and Chuck Probates recently and the board voted to accept his resignation at last week's regular meeting.
Pielech's last official day with the county will be July 12.
He wished to help close out the fiscal year and assist whomever the commissioners hire as his replacement with the transition.
"I w ant to take some time, take them up to Columbus to meet the state leadership and also the eastern district association people," Pielech said. "I want them to be able to hit the floor running when they take over.
"At the end of the day, it's not about me rather the people that are still working for Job & Family Services.
"We have some great managers and union people and I want them to be looked after."
Pielech's resignation was accepted with a 2-1 vote, with Coffland voting against it.
The dissenting commissioner has enjoyed working with Pielech, believes he's done an admirable job and doesn't want to see him resign.
"I support Dwayne 100 percent and I think he's done a great job but I don't want to see him resign," Coffland said.
Coffland is just one of eight commissioners Pielech has worked under during his tenure which began, ironically enough, with a 2-1 vote of approval in May of 1999.
Pielech managed 15 annual fiscal year budgets totaling nearly $2B in local, state and federal funding.
That is just a small sampling of a number of accomplishments Pielech was able to make happen during his 14 years of service.
Despite handling more than $2B in funding during this time, DJFS always passed state and federal audits and program reviews including recognition by the state auditor's office for the work being done.
"Thankfully, I am surrounded by competent people," Pielech said with a laugh. "I really appreciate the opportunity to work with many good commissioners, community leaders, judges, prosecuting attorneys, mayors, school superintendents ... the list goes on. I've worked with some great people."
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History Professor Kelly DeVries was named the recipient of the 2008 Nachbahr Award by Loyola's Center for the Humanities, and will deliver a lecture around the theme of "The Life of the Mind" during this fall's honors convocation.
DeVries, who joined Loyola in 1991, has published numerous books and articles on historical military techniques and weaponry. He has presented on many of his papers and has appeared in several documentaries and television shows. DeVries has held several advisory positions, including secretary-general and then trustee to the United States Commission on Military History from 2000 - 2005.
"The committee was deeply impressed by Kelly's facility with languages, his thorough knowledge of sources in medieval military and technological history, his central place in some of the most important debates in medieval military history and his staggeringly prodigious output of scholarly books and articles," said Tom Pegram, who chaired this year's selection committee. "Kelly's mastery of Dutch, medieval Latin, medieval French and several other difficult languages make him a uniquely qualified scholar to explore the medieval military history of the Low Countries. He is a sought-after speaker and commentator at conferences around the world."
Given annually, the Nachbahr Award recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship or creative work by a faculty member in the humanities. It is named in honor of the late Bernard Nachbahr, a long-time and much-beloved Philosophy professor at Loyola and the first Director of the Center for the Humanities.


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This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 07:45 AM EDT shows clouds over Florida and Georgia associated with Tropical Depression Beryl as it will slowly move northeastward and into the Atlantic Ocean the next few days. Areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms can continue to be expected. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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To correct Lincoln somewhat, he should have said, . . . that government of the people, by the politicians, and for the politicians shall not perish from the earth.
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
-- Alexis de Toqueville
Here, I'm referencing a USA Today article which can be found at USA Today, March 10, which describes North Korea's threat to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. If I were president, I might consider just the threat itself AN ACT OF WAR, and launch a preemptive strike on Pyongyang. Would you?
An official statement by a government needs to be taken seriously. An atomic bomb, detonated within the boundaries of a large American city, such as Los Angeles or San Francisco, would kill millions and badly disrupt the entire economy of our country. While North Korea probably can't make a warhead that would fit into one of their missiles, and there's a good chance the missile might not be reliable enough to hit an American city, it's still possible they could. We might shoot down such a missile, or not. Should we take the risk?
North Korea's new dictator, Kim Jong Un, is very young and appears to be a dingbat. Like a certain current American president, he's probably unqualified for the job. He may actually be less qualified. However, I think his threats are therefore more believable. He might really mean to attack South Korea or the United States.
According to USA Today, North Korea's blustering is in response to joint South Korea and U.S. military exercises, which they hold every year. They have cancelled the armistice between North Korea and South Korea, which has been in effect since 1953. But, some analysts think the threatening talk is really for the benefit of North Korea's people, to keep them in a state of hysteria.
Taking all the above in consideration, I still believe that North Korea has taken an action, by issuing the threat to attack the United States with atomic weapons, that should not be ignored. Even if we don't think much of their missiles, there are other ways they could attack us. They could slip a bomb in on a freighter, for example. They could attack South Korea, which we are pledged to defend. I would strike North Korea – not with an atomic weapon, because the North Korean people aren't to blame, but I would hit every military installation I could find with whatever conventional weapons I could put over their country. In other words, I'd call their bluff.
Or rather, if I were president, I'd call in my advisors. They would point out the risk of starting a dangerous war, no matter how justified, and probably talk me out of it. They might tell me either use an atomic weapon on Pyongyang, or don't do anything. I'd probably end up by just imposing sanctions. Stopping the flow of Hershey bars to North Korea might be the end result. That's about the kind of thing we do now to prevent wars.
We have a similar situation with Iran and Mamoud Achoomadinejad (spelling?) who also makes crazy and irrational threats. We respond by imposing sanctions. This has been going on for many years, and the situation just gets worse – they are very close to developing long range missiles, with warheads that work and can hit anywhere in Europe. When they have them, we should have lots more threats to worry about.
One of these days, we should learn to take crazy dictators seriously.


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text: A month or two ago, I gave the LANL guys an overview of IU's goals with respect to OMPI. There were several "Ohhh! So *that's* why you guys were asking for X, Y, and Z..." from the LANL guys during my presentation. As such, I think it was really helpful for everyone to understand our motivations. It's not that we were previously hiding them -- we just never got around to explicitly sharing them. I think we should have similar presentations at the upcoming meeting. Can someone from each core organization (LANL, IU, UTK, HLRS) give a 10-15 minute presentation (or whatever) listing all your goals and ambitions with OMPI? Separate them into short- and long-term goals, if possible. For example, I'll talk about IU's MPI-2 one-sided efforts, our plans for PBS and SLURM, and our future efforts for fault tolerance/checkpoint restart. Thanks!


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COPPERAS COVE (December 19, 2012) --- After increasing security at all the schools in the district because of a series of bomb threats, Copperas Cove school officials said they've had an increase in the number of parents offering to volunteer.
The district is hoping to work out a plan to address the offers.
"Because this type of volunteer position would mean observing students, supervising and such, these persons would need to go through some of what teachers do, such as fingerprinting and FBI check," district spokeswoman Olga Pena said in a statement Wednesday.
"Also, the district would need to draft legal policy for such a position, including liability," she said.
A message was put out to parents on the CCISD Facebook Page Tuesday that asked them to hold their requests and questions until after the Christmas break.
Pena said the district has always had a volunteer program for parents who want to help in classrooms or during events under the supervision and direction of a certified teacher.
"These parents go through a background check and fill out parent volunteer paperwork," the statement said.
On Monday extra security at the Copperas Cove High School delayed students from getting into classrooms about three hours.
Pena said the students were only delayed about two hours on Tuesday and that the security process on Wednesday went more smoothly.


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What are the wave functions of the ground state of Integer Quantum Hall (IQH) and Fractional Quantum Hall (FQH) electrons?
Consider the lowest Landau level, and the simplest FQH state (namely the Laughlin state of 1/3 filling). The IQH ground state wave function is $$\Psi_1=\prod_{i<j}(z_i-z_j)e^{-\frac{1}{4}\sum_i|z_i|^2},$$ and the FQH state wave function is $$\Psi_3=\prod_{i<j}(z_i-z_j)^3e^{-\frac{1}{4}\sum_i|z_i|^2}.$$
A few extra words complementing Everett You's answer.
The ground state depends on the "filling fraction", which is the number of electrons per flux quanta that thread the 2 dimensional electron gas, $\Psi_1$ is the ground state expected when the filling fraction is exactly 1, that is one electron per flux quanta, $\Psi_3$ is the ground state expected when the filling fraction is 1/3, that is three flux quanta per electron.
The ground state in principle depends on the details of the inter-particle potential too, but it is believed that for a vast class of repulsive interactions the ground states should be very similar to those Everett wrote down.
It is worth saying that nobody really knows the exact form of the fractional ground states for very relevant interactions like the Coulomb potential, even after projection into a single Landau level, but there has been enormous amount of evidence, including detailed numerical studies, showing that the Laughlin state is a very good "trial state", perhaps even the exact ground state in the thermodynamic limit, but no rigorous proof of that yet.


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Two compelling and new juvenile novels about living with loss: One has real-life grit and magical elements for a girl caught in the hard-to-imagine challenge of Hurricane Katrina where not everyone survives; the other is the very realistic and insightful account of the first year of life for a middle-school girl following the death of her mother to cancer. Two different tales of survival and both are good reads.
Lanesha has known loss and she's about to know some more. Her mother died when she was born and neither side of biological relatives keeps contact with her. The family that she knows is an elderly woman called "Mama Ya-Ya" who has been midwife to many a birth in her long life including Lanesha's birth. Mama Ya-Ya has "the sight"-a gift for seeing beyond the surface of things which means she sees ghosts and can sometimes anticipate what the future is bringing. Lanesha has the sight, too, which is a mixed blessing. At age twelve, it makes her automatically different and separate from her peers, but it also connects her in a deeper way to Mama Ya-Ya and to her own mother whose silent ghost she sees frequently. Trouble is coming with the predictions of Hurricane Katrina coming toward their home in New Orleans, but not even Mama Ya-Ya can fathom the what the storm will bring. Lanesha will be tested as never before and much will be lost. Much will also be found as Lanesha will find unexpected friendship, strength and connections to family in a dramatic, but not overly so, struggle for survival.
The story is told in Lanesha's voice and along with the compelling and down-to-earth narrative, it is a bonus to have a book where the protagonist is a contemporary African-American girl. The author does nicely mixing themes of family, adolescence and loss in the context of storm of what had been unimaginable magnitude. The fifth-grade class to which this was recently read was engaged from start to finish.
What would happen if someone was very experienced with adolescents, who had experienced the death of a parent, could remember what it felt like to be in the 8th grade and had an ear and feel for contemporary young teens, and was a gifted storyteller? If all those factors come together, you would have Carole Geithner's extraordinary debut novel,
If Only.
As if 8th grade is not challenging enough, Corinna begins the school year reeling from her mother's death from cancer over the summer. Corinna narrates the story of this first year in a new world without her mother's physical presence to comfort, guide, listen and keep the family running smoothly. Challenges are many as Corinna deals with well-meaning friends who don't "get it," a father who tries hard but is struggling himself, and the typical dramas of early adolescence. Corinna is a keen observer of her middle school social world and the clumsy reactions of friends and relatives to the death of her mother. Friendships change as her best friend has difficulty understanding while she finds a new friend who has experienced the death of her father. Adult responses vary from sensitive to clueless which rings true to the testimony of many grieving teens. Corinna's school counselor leads a time-limited support group during the lunch hour which Corinna finds helpful and illuminating as she hears the experiences of others and sees some of their commonalities and differences. Along the way Corinna discovers her mother's journal which exposes some important and distressing family secrets and shows her mother's struggles with expressing her concerns to her own family.
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Judging the judges
S.L. Frisbie
For many years, all judges in Florida were chosen by popular election, like other elected officials.
There was always the concern that popularity was not necessarily compatible with being a good judge, though we generally had pretty good judges.
Over the years, courts in Florida and many other states began devising "merit selection" and "merit retention" plans. Florida has a hybrid system with popular election of trial court (county and circuit) judges, and merit selection and retention at the District Court of Appeals and Florida Supreme Court levels.
(Incumbent trial court judges sometimes thwart this system by retiring in mid-term, opening the way to appointment of their successors to fill their vacancies.)
Let us understand one thing: merit selection does not "take the politics out of selecting judges."
It takes the political process away from the voters and puts it into the hands of whatever judicial selection body is appointed for that purpose. A lawyer who is well qualified vis a vis understanding of the law but unpopular with his peers is no more likely to be selected by a judicial nominating commission than a lawyer with similar characteristics is to be elected by the public.
And in most, if not all, merit selection systems, the final appointment is made by the governor. If that is not a political selection, I don't know what is.
Politics is not an evil term, or an evil institution. It is the process by which government operates.
In Florida, trial court judges are subject to re-election, which means they can draw an opponent at the end of every term. Few incumbent judges face opposition, and even fewer are defeated, but there is a salutary effect in a system in which trial court judges can be required to answer to the voters.
At the appeal and supreme court levels in Florida, judges appear on a merit retention ballot, meaning that voters decide whether or not the judge shall keep his or her position. There is no opposing candidate.
If a judge gets a "no confidence" vote from the public, the position is vacated, and a successor is chosen through the merit selection process.
Any incumbent appellate level judge will receive a certain number of negative votes from the "don't re-elect anybody" crowd in any election. But removal from office almost never happens.
In next month's election, an organized effort has been mounted to end the terms of three Florida Supreme Court judges. It is based on charges of "judicial activism," and most of the publicity it has received is coming from the judges themselves, who object to the opposition to their retention.
Whether the charges of "judicial activism" are valid, and for that matter, whether they are grounds for removal, will be decided by the voters.
That is what the merit selection/merit retention process is all about.
If voters do not retain the authority to remove judges, the system is meaningless.
If appeal court judges are required to answer to the voters for their conduct on the bench, perhaps there is more merit to the merit retention process than some of its staunchest proponents are comfortable with.
(S. L. Frisbie is retired. He finds great merit in the observation of some public officials, among them former County Commissioner Frank B. Smith, Jr., better known as Bubba: When it comes to the elective process, "The people are never wrong." That's what the elective process is all about.)


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"A well-tailored three piece suit gives a more refined appearance, without the image of stuffiness or dressing above the occasion," said Michael Salamanca, Senior Marketing Manager for Hart Schaffner Marx. "It makes a powerful impression as well as suggests a strong appreciation of style." Read more for how to master the look.
Here are some tips to nail the three piece look:
1. Fit is the most important element to make your three-piece suit look modern. Take it to a tailor and have him fit the vest and create a slim and body-hugging silhouette. This will prevent the many layers from making you look bulky.
2. Never to try to "color match" a vest with a suit to make a 3-piece suit. The suit jacket, the pants and the vest should be made from the same color and same fabric.
3. Most men overlook little details that complete an outfit. One overlooked detail is the bottom button of your vest, which should always remain unbuttoned. In fact, never button the bottom button of the vest or jacket on any suit.
4. Stick to small patterns, such as a minimal plaid. Too large of a pattern could border on clownish and dated.
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The Michigan Humanities Council is pleased to present the title of the 2013-14 Great Michigan Read. Selected through a grassroots campaign involving more than 55 librarians, literary enthusiasts and educators throughout the state, the 2013-14 Great Michigan Read is "Annie's Ghosts."
"Annie's Ghosts" is part memoir, part detective story and part history. As the author, Washington Post associate editor and Detroit native Steve Luxenberg, tries to understand his mom's reasons for hiding her sister's existence, he takes readers on a journey into his mother's world of the 1930s and '40s, where he explores how a poor, immigrant family manages life with a child who has special needs.
This is a story about family secrets, personal journeys, genealogy, mental disability and illness, poverty and immigration. It is a story of re-framing one's self-understanding once a family secret is revealed, providing insight into how our identities are shaped by learning something shockingly new about our family history.
The Great Michigan Read is a statewide reading initiative by the Michigan Humanities Council that aims to connect us as Michiganians by exploring our history, our present and future. In 2012, we partnered with 300 schools, libraries, religious organizations and other nonprofits throughout the state to bring 118,000 residents into community programs.
Each partner can receive supplemental materials – such as reader's guides, teacher's guides, bookmarks and more to help create discussion around the topics and themes in "Annie's Ghosts." Select nonprofits qualify for free copies of the book.
Pre-registration is now open! Sign your organization up today for this free discussion program – visit www.michiganhumanities.org.
About the Michigan Humanities Council
The Michigan Humanities Council is a private, nonprofit organization created to foster a better understanding of each other and our state through local cultural, historical and literary experiences for all. The Council was founded in 1974 and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and individual donors. For more information on future programs, upcoming grant opportunities or how you can support these efforts, please visit www.michiganhumanities.org or call (517) 372-7770.
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Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, Inc. began in 1977 when St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Ill. joined with area physicians and community members to become actively involved in meeting the needs of parents who had experienced the death of their baby due to pregnancy loss, stillbirth or early infant death. According to it's website, the Share philosophy encompasses supportive hospital care and follow-up support as well as mutual-help support.
Colleen Howard, president of Share of Northeast Louisiana, encourages anyone who has been touched with the death of a baby to attend the newly-formed group and be a part of a network that knows exactly what you are going through and can help with not just support from others who have dealt with the same type of loss but also can give resources such as grief counseling.
The Northeast La. chapter will meet at 6 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at the Morehouse Community Medical Center, located at 518 Durham St. The first meeting will be held April 1.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
(CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.)-Columbia College campuses in Elgin, Crystal Lake and Lake County will confer four associate and 72 bachelor's degrees to students at a commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10 at the Evangelical Free Church of Crystal Lake, 575 East Crystal Lake Ave.
Dr. Gerald Brouder, Columbia College president, will be the featured speaker and will confer degrees.
"Columbia College is committed to helping working adults and others earn college degrees, and we are proud to celebrate each student's accomplishment at this commencement ceremony," Brouder said.
Columbia College of Missouri has served northern Illinois for more than 30 years. Columbia College-Lake County was established in 1973. The Crystal Lake campus followed in 1989, and a campus at Elgin Community College opened in 1997.
Columbia College serves nearly 25,000 students each year at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Online Campus, Graduate Studies Program and its more than 30 Nationwide Campuses.


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I am participating in the closed beta of Vindictus Europe and have been enjoying the game so far.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- The final chapter in a decade-old double murder case was written Monday in Shawnee County District Court. Chief Judge Nancy Parrish sentenced Dana Lynn Chandler to serve two "hard 50" life sentences, consecutively.
The sentence stems from a trial in March, in which a jury convicted Chandler of two counts of premeditated murder, for the deaths of her ex-husband Mike Sisco, and his fiance, Karen Harkness. The murders happened in the summer of 2002. The victims were found shot a dozen times total, in a bed in Harkness' southwest Topeka home.
The sentencing date fell on what would have been Chandler's 30th wedding anniversary with Sisco. Chandler represented herself at the sentencing, her former counsel, Mark Bennett, having resigned from the case after the trial. The state was represented by District Attorney Chad Taylor, and Assistant DA Jacqie Spradling.
Six family members read victim impact statements at the sentencing hearing, including Sisco's brother, sister, mother and daughter, and Harkness' daughter and son.
In her judgement of Chandler, Parrish candidly spoke on the pain Chandler caused her entire family, saying it was inconceivable that Chandler emotionally abandoned her two children, Hailey and Dustin. Parrish also said Chandler acted smugly, perhaps believing that she'd gotten away with murder in the ten years after the killings, but Parrish said that was not the case.
Chandler was appointed an attorney from the Appellate Defender's office for further court action.
CBS' 48 Hours crew was in Topeka for the sentencing. Producers say their second episode on Chandler is tentatively scheduled for beginning of September, possibly to be the season opener.


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Lucy Jorik is a champ at never embarrassing her familynot surprising since her mother is one of the most famous women in the world. But now Lucy has done just that. And on her wedding day, no less.
Instead of saying "I do," Lucy flees and hitches a ride on the back of a beat-up motorcycle plastered with offensive bumper stickers. She's flying into the unknown with a rough looking, bad-tempered stranger.
While the world searches for her, Lucy must search for herself, and she quickly realizes that her customary good manners are no defense against a man who's raised rudeness to an art form. Lucy needs to toughen upand fast.
Her great escape takes her to his rambling beach house. Here, she hopes to find a new direction . . . and to unlock the secrets of this man who knows so much about her. She'll also encounter a beautiful, troubled beekeeper; a frightened young boy; a modern-day evil queen; and a passion that could change her life forever.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the New York Times bestseller list with Dream a Little Dream. She s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is also a hiker, gardener, reader, wife, and mother of two grown sons.
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With brilliant dialog, sassy humor, and laserlike insight into what makes people tick, Phillips gifts readers with an engrossing, beautifully written romance that satisfies on all levels. Another winner from a stellar writer who never disappoints.
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(December 4, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) Multi-platinum American rock bands Daughtry and 3 Doors Down, currently on a 19-city co-headlining tour, will broadcast LIVE from 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado exclusively on AXS TV.
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On this highly anticipated tour, Daughtry is playing their new single "Start of Something Good" from the gold certified Break The Spell album, along with smash hits and fan favorites including "Home," "It's Not Over," "Feels Like Tonight" and "No Surprise" from platinum-selling Leave This Town and their blockbuster-selling and record-breaking self titled debut.
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3 Doors Down will bring their nine #1 hits and chart topping songs to life in this special rock concert experience. The Greatest Hits, their recently released album of remixed and re-mastered tracks and three new songs including "One Light," will be the AXS TV live soundtrack for this one of a kind night in music.
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The projects involve upgrades at two oil refineries and construction of the proposed Al Zour refinery. Companies to win bids include JGC, Petrofac, Fluor and Foster Wheeler.
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Kuwait National Petroleum Corp. (KNPC) has awarded several
contracts in the construction and development of the
company's clean
fuels project and the proposed Al Zour refinery
The $12-billion project entails the expansion and upgrading of two
existing KNPC refineries and the construction of a new
state-of-the-art 600,000-bpd refinery.
KNPC is a state-owned company and operates the third largest
refining capacity at 936,000 bpd in the Middle East. Present
KNPC refining capacity is:
All three refineries are located along the coastal zone, south
of Kuwait City.
The clean
fuels project is focused on raising refining capacity and making
production more environmentally friendly, according
to the company. Project work will be done in three parts; much
of the revamping is focused on reducing sulfur and carbon pollutants.
Construction is forecast to begin in
April and to be completed within in five years.
Contracts awarded
Companies receiving project awards are Japans JGC,
Britains Petrofac, US-based Fluor, and UK-based Foster
JGC Corp received a tender worth $4.82 billion for the 460,000-
bpd Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery revamp/expansion.
Meanwhile, The Mina Abdullah I project was awarded to a
consortium led by Petrofac valued at $3.7 billion. The
consortium includes Petrofac, Samsung Engineering, and
CB&I. The lump-sum contract includes provisions for 19 new
refining units and the revamping of
5 existing process units.
Mina Abdullah II was awarded to the Fluor-led consortium and is
valued at $3.4 billion.
The contracts are expected to be signed within the next six
weeks and work to commence in April, according to a KNPC
At the end of the project, the capacity of the Mina Abdullah
and Mina Al-Ahmadi refineries will increase from 700,000 bpd to
800,000 bpd.
In December 2012, Foster Wheeler was awarded the management and
service contract for the overall project, worth $500
New refinery
In addition to the clean
fuels project, Kuwait is planning a new refinery called Al
Zour with a capacity of 600,000 bpd. The refinery is expected
to be onstream within five years and will allow KNPC to shut
down the Shuaiba refinery.
When all projects are completed, Kuwait's refining capacity will reach over
1.4 million bpd, up from the existing capacity of 930,000
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Richard Albert Gomes
I am interested in working on this project
I am a BE in Biotechnology, Manipal University, India. Would love to be part of the bio fuel project. My contact no.69016157 or 99272553
mohammad jawed alam
I am working in equate petrochemical company through IMCO Eng.since 2008 at E&C Department.i am looking a job an instrument site engineermobile# 97245395
Mohammad ilyas
i am working as a safety officer in ARABI ENERTECH KSC KUWAIT if any job related to the HSE pls kindly contact me on above mantion email or +965 60704838 thank u
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sir,i am interested for QA/QC MANAGER/INCHARGE E&I.CURRENTLY IWAS IN ABUDHBAI AS A QA/QC MANAGER E&I.NOW THERE IS NO JOB IN HAND.CURRENTLY I AM IN INDIA AND READY FOR IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE.CONTACT NO IS:+91-9546765187,+91-9122836942.WAITING FOR YOUR SWIFT RESPONSE.
Respected Sir,I desired to apply for the position of HSE Officer.Currently I am working in BS-171 Project (KOC Project).I have 8 years of experience.mobile.0096551521512.
im waiting for any chance in this projects , my position instrumentation and control engneer ( construstion, maintanance, commissioning, start up) ,thanks
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i have interested for this job...im waiting for this moment,like to share my 10 years experience I am QA/QC Inspector E&IMOBILE NO 00965 51388911
Dear sir/madam, Currently I am doing work in IOCL Noida for piping engineer under Vaulter Engg. Service Pvt. Ltd. I have 04 years experience in IOCL in piping engineer & piping layout engineer. But now I want to change this company. If any job opening is there in your company. Please give meone chance for interview and job.Best regards, "Waqar"Mob:- +919717443516
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Respected sir,I am interested for bright my careers if i will get the job in this project, as i have same experience in same field for 7.5 years from p recommissioning to normal start up and smooth running. mob +919724347385
Mohammad zaffar imam
i have interested for this job...im waiting for this moment,like to share my 18 years experience I am QA/QC Inspector E&IMOBILE NO 00919771264958
NarendraSinh Jhala
Currently working in clean fuels project start up activity & i am interested to work in same project.+966563978600 my contact Number
Sir, i am currently working in CFP Project (clean Fuels project) i like to work in this project. i have same project experience with Total 12 years experience in Refinery & petrochemicals . Regards.
I would like to informing to you i am manish kumar . i worked in Abu Dhabi sub contractor company as a SAFETY OFFICER but presently i am in India looking for job .i have total experience in this filed 5 year .. As I want to proceed further in my career as Safety officer,i have worked with diff rents clients SAMSUNG, GS ENG, TSJ, ADCO , TAKREER ,EMAL, SK E&c I have decided to join your company that may offers more challenging job than what I am doing now.So I request you to consider me for the same post in your company. I wish to point out that I am ready to re-locate at any time. PLEASE FIND THE ATTACHED CV
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Respected sir,I am interested for bright my careers if i will get the job in this project, as i have same experience in Electrical maintenance field of continuous process plant.
Respected sir,I am interested for bright my careers if i will get the job in this project, as i have same experience in same field for 5 years from precommissioning to normal start up and smooth running.
Why do people post resume's on this post? It's doubtful any of the HR folks are reading through HP.com comment section looking for new hires.
Rajeev Jacob
As an ex-employee of KNPC-Mina Al Ahmadi, I wish them all success.
Asdrubal Prieto
These projects are very interesting to the refinning community. I would like to be a part of them. I would like the idea to help you do it as a 15 years of experience HSE Engineer.Regards.
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Fuel cavitation is one of modern and power savings processes today. Fuel gets in blending system to cavitation zone, at this moment biofuel, or various additives are supply to cavitation zone, this way molecules of components combine as a result we have a ready-made product without disintegration. Ethanol is one of fuels which is used today as a direct additive to gasoline and as initial raw material for creation air additives to gasoline. Other perspective renewable sources are bio air and bio butanol. High quality ethanol is a basis for its use both as fuels, and as initial raw materials for other fuel additives.
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#3. Escape Patents by Going Really Far Away
In many ways, it's no surprise that Hollywood is the unquestioned worldwide epicenter of modern-day filmmaking. With quick access to all types of physical terrain, an abundance of space to build studios and great weather year-round, it serves as a perfect shooting location. There is, however, an additional, less publicized reason why directors began to flock there in the early 20th century: they were all running from the law.
Crazy, loose-cannon law who didn't do things by the book.
At the time, Thomas Edison (a noted asshole) and his New Jersey-based company had a stranglehold on the entire cinema industry. With patents on the entire spectrum of available filmmaking equipment, he made it next to impossible for small filmmakers to function.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways to be an asshole."
Unfortunately for Edison, a small band of filmmakers just decided not to comply with the patents. Oh, and not only that: To make it a pain in the ass for Edison to catch them, they decided to move just about geographically as far in the U.S. as they could get from New Jersey: Hollywood, California.
As we all know, "Hollywood" is German for "HAHAHA, SUCK IT, EDISON!"
Seeing as this was the early 1900s and there was no way to get on an airliner, watch a shitty Adam Sandler movie or two and arrive across the country in six hours, Edison couldn't exactly just head over and confiscate their equipment. The distance was just too far for Edison and his infamous team of thugs to travel without sacrificing a huge amount of time and expense.
Unable to physically enforce his intellectual property, Edison decided to sue the filmmakers. Unfortunately for him, California's legal system wasn't exactly keen on enforcing those patents. Despite Edison attempting to sue Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures, a whopping 289 times, Laemmle walked away unscathed.
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He was buried while still extending his middle finger.
Edison was eventually slapped with antitrust lawsuits a few years later and watched his company fall into shambles as the bandits in Hollywood who defied him went on to create companies such as Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and MGM.
They've grown slightly fonder of intellectual property rights since.
#2. Cash in on Consumers' Hatred of Your Product
Let's say your name is Bob Smith, and one day you find out that the company you work for has registered the domain name BobSmithSucks.com. We're guessing you'd be more than a little hurt. But companies do this all the time.
Here's why. Open up another tab in your browser and try to go to Verizonsucks.com. You'll find nothing there. Odd, considering a company the size of Verizon has more than a few angry customers. Verizonblows, same thing. If you do a domain lookup, you will find that both of those insulting domains are owned by ... Verizon.
When Verizon was formed in the late '90s as a result of a merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE and the company came up with the name, the first step was of course to register Verizon.com. But they also thought to grab Verizonsucks.com and others like it. Back in 2000, 2600 Magazine noticed this and, out of curiosity, registered the domain "VerizonReallySucks.com." They immediately got a letter from Verizon's attorney's insisting that they turn over the domain, arguing that since it contained the company's name, it was a trademark violation.
It turned out Verizon didn't have a legal leg to stand on, but registration of critical domains has now become standard operating procedure ... to keep you from getting them. Any common domain that could host consumer complaints about a company is grabbed by that company before the angry customers can.
When WikiLeaks was threatening to publicize internal documents from Bank of America, the company bought hundreds of domains for all of the company brass. That's why CEO Brian Moynihan now works for a company that owns BrianMoynihanSucks.com (and BrianMoynihanBlows.com, etc.).
"No one at work likes me."
But that just squelches some criticism. If you want to be really smart about it, you make it so that you can actually profit from it. For instance, you've seen ads around the Internet for acai berries, the latest weight loss supplement. They usually have this lady's face on them:
You probably think it's a scam, and if so, the first step is to go to Google and search for "acai berry scam." You'll find that one of the first results is in fact an MSNBC news story pointing out that there is no magical berry that will replace diet and exercise. But that news story is sandwiched by links that are in fact sites that sell acai berries ... all with headlines clearly intended to trap people looking to call bullshit on the product.
You'll find that any kind of negative search for a weight loss program or supplement will give you the same. You've heard ads everywhere for the P90X workout program. If you Google the phrase "P90X doesn't work," the first page of results is full of sites selling P90X, while filling their text with that negative phrase in order to soak up skeptical Google searches.
In fact, there are companies that, for a fee, will bury criticism of your company by pushing negative websites to the third or fourth page of search results. There is a term for the practice: reverse SEO.
Of course, capitalizing on consumer hatred extends beyond the online world, and examples tend to be hilarious. Have you ever seen a hipster wearing this shirt?
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Yeah! Fuck you, George Lucas, for ruining the original trilogy with your tampering! Oh, one thing: That shirt was sold in the Lucasfilm store, and George gets a cut every time you buy one. Here he is wearing one on the set of Indiana Jones IV:
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Likewise, if you remember the late '80s, you remember famous NFL linebacker and asshole Brian Bosworth. After being drafted by the Seahawks in 1987, he didn't waste any time drawing up a storm of controversy before his first ever NFL game against the Denver Broncos. "The Boz" spent the week before the game trash-talking and hinting that he was going to injure local golden boy John Elway. The result was that Bosworth was greeted by a stadium full of irate fans verbally abusing the rookie for three straight hours and wearing T-shirts bearing anti-Bosworth slogans.
Who sold those anti-Boz shirts? You can guess: it was Brian Bosworth's own clothing company.
That's right, Broncos fans. You were outmaneuvered by a man who collects head injuries like Pogs.
#1. Find Something Your Rival Needs and Buy It All
Not that these tactics are always done by the big corporations in the name of squeezing out competition. Sometimes it's the little guy who figures out how to game the system.
For instance, what kind of soap do you have next to your bathroom sink? Statistically, it's probably not a bar of soap, but one of those little pumps of liquid. It's neater and more convenient, and soap companies sell billions of dollars' worth of them every year now.
Via Funnycoolstuff.com
You know, the ones we all have in our bathrooms.
But back in the 1970s, liquid hand soap was sold by one guy: Robert Taylor, and his small company Minnetonka. It was his invention, and he knew he was on to something big. Test audiences loved the product and, despite barely having enough resources to do so, Minnetonka decided to go all in and make a push to take the product nationwide.
There was only one problem: Nothing he was selling could be patented. The concept of liquid soap wasn't new, and simple pumps had been around since the dawn of civilization. As a result, Taylor knew several huge soap manufacturers were ready to happily steal his idea the very moment it looked like it could succeed on a large scale. Armed with superior resources and the ability to quickly R&D an imitation product, the industry giants were ready to crush tiny Minnetonka.
"Yeah, if you could hurry this up, we have other dreams to destroy."
Taylor, however, was ready for this. Before any other company had the chance, Taylor decided to go shopping one day and bought a few plastic pumps. And by a few we mean FUCKING ALL OF THEM. There were only two companies nationwide manufacturing those little pumps, and Taylor ponied up $12 million -- more than the total net worth of his company at the time -- and ordered 100 million of them, effectively buying every single pump these two companies would be able to manufacture for the next year or two. We don't know exactly how Taylor broke the news to his competitors, but we imagine him standing atop a hundred-foot pile of plastic pumps in the shape of a middle finger while yelling, "I'M KING OF THE PUMPS, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!"
"Tell you what -- you fuckers can have this one on the house."
Anyway, without the part required to dispense the soap, there was nothing the major companies could do but sit and watch Taylor slowly own the entire market. His product would become known as SoftSoap, and a bunch of you reading this have a bottle of it next to at least one of your sinks. Two years after his little stunt, Colgate-Palmolive would be forced to just buy SoftSoap from Taylor ... for $61 million.
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5 Ways High School Really Does Suck (According to Science)
Adults tend to remember their teenage years as easier, since they only remember it as a time when they didn't have three kids and a mortgage. But ask any teenagers who are considering suicide over a bad relationship or SAT score and you'll find them just wishing that the shit would end so they could be grown-ups already. So who's right? Both of them.
Because while 16-year-olds don't have decades of debt and regret weighing them down, they do have a long list of biological and social pitfalls making their lives hell. So before you find yourself longing for those simple teen years, consider that ...
#5. Teen Brains Haven't Developed to Fully Understand Risk and Reward
Here's how stupid adults are: They all know that a human body goes through massive and often grotesque changes during the teenage years, but can't grasp that the brain is just another organ in the body, and as such, it's also undergoing horribly awkward changes. During the teenage years, every little calculation the brain makes is affected by a system that is in the process of trying to upgrade itself to adulthood.
So while grown-ups like to bemoan how modern teenagers are always running around doing stupid shit while high on bath salts, it's not totally their fault -- the teenage brain is hardwired to make it crave what adults write off as "idiocy." It's not that the teenage brain doesn't understand risk; when teenagers look at a dangerous situation -- say, riding a shopping cart down a steep hill flanked by cacti -- they know that there's a risk of winding up in the emergency room having barbs removed from their asses. But whereas an adult is likely to consider this an unacceptable risk, teens consistently put more weight on the possible positive outcomes, like impressing everyone and getting laid.
You can still bone with broken legs, right?
That's because, by design, the teenage brain is built in such a way that impressing other people is more or less the prime imperative, and when you combine this with the thrill of risk-taking, their brains are flooded with excitement. They literally get high off it. In general, this is a good thing for the continuation of the species since, you know, otherwise kids would never move out of their parents' basements and into the real world full of STDs and paperwork.
But before you say "This isn't a downside to being a teenager! This is what makes the teenage years awesome!" keep in mind that this same mechanism makes the brain predisposed toward mental illness and addiction. Advertisers know this, by the way -- that's why they pour millions into specifically advertising alcohol to teens, even though they can't legally buy it. They know that teenagers are insecure by nature and employ psychologists to help design their ads specifically to exploit those insecurities.
"Yay, consumerism!"
And holy shit, does it work. The meager reward that an adult might get from, say, taking up smoking doesn't compare with the thrill that a teen gets out of it, thanks to brain chemistry. So the period in your life when you're most likely to try a crazy new drug is also the period when you're most likely to develop a chemical dependency that could last the rest of your life. And even worse, the urge to seek some kind of chemical escape is stronger because ...
#4. Teenagers Experience Stress as Being More Stressful
Like Grandad always says, these damn kids today don't know how good they have it. They act as though their lives are so hard even though they've never had to deal with a mortgage, or with yelling at people to get off their lawn. But there's a reason why teens are so whiny about their relatively insignificant problems -- quite simply, they actually do feel stress more strongly. It's another symptom of the not quite fully formed "risk vs. reward" part of the brain we mentioned above.
The part of the human brain that makes you stop and reconsider doing stupid shit is called the prefrontal cortex. It regulates decision-making and helps control impulses. So let's say a girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with you, and in your emotional distress you are considering doing something that could get you thrown in jail (such as spray painting the word "SLUT" on his or her car). It's the prefrontal cortex that lets you stop and look into the future and weigh whether or not a criminal record is worth the short-term satisfaction of turning that Honda Civic into the Slutmobile.
"Dude, quit fucking around and hand me a dictionary. If we do this, we do it right."
Now, when the cops arrest an adult who has done something like that, there's a good chance he or she was drunk -- alcohol messes with the prefrontal cortex. But in a teenager's brain, that part is still growing. It's more fragile and sensitive to stress -- you can put a stressed-out teenager under a brain scan and watch his prefrontal cortex activity shut down. And with it goes his ability to accurately calculate risk.
So when the dad goes to pick up his kid at the police station after hearing that he got caught pooping on the lawn of the math teacher who gave him a bad grade, the dad may be tempted to say something like "What are you, high?" (since narcotics also mess with the decision-making part of the brain), but he doesn't realize that a stressed-out teenager's brain is working with impaired judgment. It's not just a failure to listen to all of Dad's lectures on the subject.
"What did we tell you about dongs and babies?"
#3. The Adolescent Brain Can't Process Multi-Step Instructions
Remember when your parents used to tell you to do the dishes, take out the trash, brush your teeth, feed Uncle Ernie and then go to bed, and how you would never get around to all of that? Remember how pissed your parents were when they found out that Uncle Ernie got out and ritualistically murdered your neighbor's cat?
Or if you're too old to remember your teenage years, do you at least remember the last time you bought a cup of coffee and had the pimple-faced kid behind the counter seem to get really confused trying to keep track of both the size and flavor of your beverage (until you finally just rolled over the counter and made it yourself)?
"I swear to God, if there's cream in this, I'm funneling it into your rectum."
Once again this comes back to the fact that it's the awkward years for the brain, too -- a new study shows that teenagers' brains don't have the part that handles multi-tasking yet. The frontal cortex is the part of your brain that figures out what to do when you get a whole mess of information at once and how to sort through it all, and the problem is that it doesn't finish developing until after you're old enough to drive.
This doesn't mean that teens have trouble remembering all that information; your memory is just fine by the time you get to high school. But what's still developing is "strategic, self-organized thinking." That would be the ability to prioritize -- being able to juggle six different assignments while still training for the big game.
"Wait, do I eat it, or ... I'm confused."
And when they do it wrong, that's when the grown-ups start yelling at them. Now remember the previous entry about how stress completely wrecks the teenage decision-making part of the brain and you can start to wonder how any of us make it out of our teens alive.
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Improving Midget AerodynamicsWritten by on July 8, 2010 You May Think There Is Little That Can Be Done To Improve The Aerodynamics For Open-Bodied Sprint-Style Racers, But This Race Team Found That Just Isn't True
Sprint Cars are the model of simplicity. Straight front axles, open wheels and cockpit, and minimum weight often make for lots of fun, and some really intense racing. But one area where Sprint Cars haven't been given as much attention as their Stock Car brothers is in the area of aerodynamics. Yes, Winged Sprint Cars have those huge wings to provide plenty of downforce, but what about the "naked" cars? That's why when Dave Salazar, general manager of the A2 Wind Tunnel, told us about a Midget team coming to test, it definitely got our interest.
The race team is Brown & Miller Motorsports, which races USAC-sanctioned Midgets. "We really just went there the first time wanting to figure out where we were aerodynamically," says Brad Noffsinger, who manages the team. "But we really learned a lot, specifically about how air moves through the radiator-and not just getting a lot of air to the radiator. It turned out that exhausting the air out of the radiator and the engine compartment was a big issue with cooling. We did a few panel adjustments and added a few NACA ducts to move more air and it cooled the water temps 25 degrees on the racetrack. Once we learned that, we could go back to hopping up the motors and making more power."
Noffsinger hit on an area where Salazar stresses smart race teams can capitalize on during wind tunnel testing even if the rules on bodies and aerodynamics are very restrictive. In essence, a wind tunnel can tell you a lot more about how airflow is affecting the race car beyond downforce and drag (although both are important).
"If you take the time to look at pressure differentials, you can really do a lot of interesting things inside a wind tunnel," Salazar says. "So even though the Midget doesn't have any fenders you can move around, or even a wing like one of the Winged Sprints, there was a lot this team could do.
"Besides looking at different ways to get more air through the radiator, we also tried two different hoods. The hood shape is not only important for the obvious aero issues, but they also had different scoop designs and by putting monitors inside the air cleaner, we were able to see which design got more air to the engine's intake.
"So even though one hood may look sleeker on the car, if it is choking off the air available to the engine it could actually be costing you speed on the racetrack. And there's really no way to tell without some form of testing."
Noffsinger adds, "We also looked at ways to keep the air from buffeting the driver's head so much on big race tracks. That's something he won't notice until it goes away, but it will help concentration. But the interesting thing about that are the changes that we made I think also made the car safer. We moved some panels around and rounded the edges on them to get the air to track a different way. And getting rid of any sharp edges near the driver is always a good idea, so it is a benefit two different ways."
Although most wind tunnels are exclusively the domain of top-level race teams with mega budgets, the A2 Wind Tunnel in Mooresville, North Carolina, is designed to be affordable for Saturday-night level race teams. For example, instead of a rolling road setup or a mechanism that spins the wheels, A2 instead uses a unique system that blows and sucks air underneath the car to simulate how the track moving underneath the race car affects airflow. And while A2's staff does not give advice on what aero changes will work best (they are very careful about giving away aero secrets a previous race team may have already learned in the wind tunnel), they will work to help customers run their tests as efficiently as possible and learn as much as they can from the data collected. For most tests, data is collected in "counts" of downforce, but for simplicity's sake in this article, Salazar converted the data into the equivalent of horsepower required to push a Midget car to 140 mph. And when we give the horsepower numbers here, that's only what is required to overcome aerodynamic drag, we're not talking about weight, drag from the driveline, or anything else.
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With all of its exposed suspension and framework, you wouldn't at first think that there is much that can be gained from testing a Midget race car in a wind tunnel. As we've learned, that thinking is wrong.To keep prices affordable for Saturday-night level race teams, A2 Wind Tunnel does not have a mechanism for spinning the wheels like its larger Aerodyne brother. Instead, Salazar has developed a system that calculates the turbulence created by a "trip strip" taped to the tires 22 degrees behind vertical. The math working behind the scenes is a mad science, but the solution is accurate, effective, and best of all for racers on a budget, economical.Here's a look at a baseline run for the car. If a customer wishes, A2's staff can blow smoke over the car to help the race team to "see" how air moves around the car, although this isn't necessary for gathering data. Notice here how all the air coming off the hood is essentially directed right into the driver's helmet.One of the primary goals of the Brown & Miller Motorsports team's test was to find ways to maximize air going through the radiator. After getting a baseline, one of the first changes was to install an aluminum shroud around the radiator which will essentially seal off the gap between the radiator and the hood. By using pressure sensors, A2 can tell how much this changes airflow. The result is an 11 percent gain in air moving through the radiator core-the cooling equivalent of moving 2.8 mph faster at the 140 mph baseline.The team also tried taping up all the holes created by the front suspension. The exposed suspension is a dirty area aerodynamically on any Sprint Car, and this change did cut drag by 1.4 horsepower (in other words that's a 1.4 hp savings), but no changes have been made on this yet. Noffsinger says this will be a factor as the team designs a car in the future.After realizing that the visor in front of the cockpit doesn't do much to keep air off the driver, the team tried a run without it. Removing the visor however may not be a good idea. It only creates 1.7 horsepower in drag but is worth 13.5 pounds of downforce at 140 mph.Here's another very interesting test. The older-style hood looks a lot dirtier aerodynamically, and it is. Compared to the smoother orange hood in the previous photos, it requires an extra 5.7 horsepower to push the car to 140 mph, but-and this is a big but-it pushed 13 percent more air through the air cleaner and into the engine. Now that the team has this information, it will use a track test to determine if the extra air to the engine can overcome the aerodynamic drag. In the future, however, you can probably expect Brown & Miller Motorsports to develop a hood that melds the best aspects of the two together.One area that almost all non-Winged Sprint Cars struggle with is creating rear downforce. As you can see here, the exposed driver's seat creates a large area of low pressure. The low pressure area is strong enough to actually suck smoke from the wand against the flow of air through the tunnel where it pools behind the driver's headrest. This low pressure area creates lift on the racetrack.Look how the smoke is directed directly at the driver's head. And the turbulence you can see in the smoke after it strikes the driver's helmet means that the driver is experiencing a lot of buffeting. Noffsinger says future efforts will be made to keep the air off the driver to give him a more stable driving environment to help improve his ability to pilot the race car.


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