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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- School district officials and members of the Manhattan community are hoping that local students can better understand the negative impact of bullying through the eyes of those who have been victims of it.
Eisenhower Middle School students attended a screening of the movie Bully Tuesday at Manhattan's Seth Childs 12 Cinema.
"It follows five kids who experienced bullying and two of those kids ultimately died by suicide and so it's a real emotional documentary that helps the kids really get at the root of the negative impacts of bullying to help them have some decent conversations about what we can do to stop this and create some awareness about it," said Michael Welsh, Executive Director at Cornerstone Family Counseling Center in Manhattan.
Dr. Welsh organized the showing of the movie with local businesses. He says it's important kids know that the community is behind them when it comes to stopping bullying- a problem being fueled in part by social media.
"Bullying has been around forever. We do know that to some extent it's getting worse because of social media. It's allowing kids to have access other kids 24 hours a day and someone can say something about another person and it spreads to the entire school within minutes. It's a bigger discussion about treating other people right. It's a bigger discussion about community support. We have 30 volunteers that are here today and 30 businesses that stood up and got behind these kids, creating community," Welsh said.
Bully prevention programs have been in place at Eisenhower since 2006, and the school's principal, Greg Hoyt, thinks they've made some strides in the culture and climate within the school.
"It takes constant vigilance and you just can't ever stop. We don't want any student or any individual to be treated poorly, to feel left out, to feel targeted and insignificant so we're constantly working at it," Hoyt told WIBW.
The students spent the afternoon doing team building exercises after the movie and discussing its emotional impact.
"This isn't a school problem, this isn't a family problem, this is a society, a community problem and we have to work together as a society to create some real change," Welsh said.
Since the release of Bully, the film has been shown to thousands of kids, teachers, parents, and advocates- a national movement to end bullying.


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Does a long sleeve jersey add a lot of warmth for riding during the winter months, or does a short sleeve jersey suffice during the cold. I want a jersey for my commute to work and back and I can't decide if I should get a long sleeve or short sleeve. I am in Seattle, WA so the weather goes down to around 35-40 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter. My commute is all down hill going there (I hit around 35 mph), and all up hill going back. So I do not want a jersey that will get me too hot on the ride back, but will keep my warm riding to work. Any tips or recommendations?
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Start with short sleeves, arm warmers and a light jacket and layer.
Everybody has different tolerance for temperature changes, but here is what I normally wear on my upper body.
My primary decision on whether to use arm warmers or a long sleeve jersey is what the temperature it is forecast to be when I head home. If I think it's borderline or will be warm enough I pick the arm warmers in the morning so I can ride in the short sleeve on the way home. I have about 25 short sleeve jerseys, 2 lighter and 2 heavier thermal fleece long sleeve jerseys. I rarely wear the LS above 35-40°F.
Also - for flexibility you may want to look at a convertible cycling jacket where the sleeves can be removed. That gives you additional options like using the full jacket in the morning, and using it as a vest on the ride home.
I also live in the Pacific NW climate.
Here's what I do....when it's not summer...
I currently use the Gore Windstopper jersey, but that is not to say that other manufacturers don't have similar products.
And as others have mentioned, layering is key. I have a variety of base layers (Craft, UnderArmour, etc) to utilize depending on the conditions.
One other note...back in the 90's my commute was from the top of Capitol Hill to the Seattle Center area. My morning attire was usually a base layer, short sleeve jersey, arm warmers and a somewhat water repellent wind shell (and maybe a fleece layer on really cold days). I subtracted whatever necessary for the ride back up the hill in the afternoon.
All other things being equal (similar material, etc.) then a long sleeved jersey is going to be much warmer than a short sleeved one, especially down to those temperatures.
If you're wavering in the middle, I'd say to use arm warmers. Certainly for those days when it's colder in the morning (perhaps it's still dark) but warmer in the evenings, it allows for a wider flexibility.
I try to keep my clothing layered, and in such a way that I can re-configure mid-ride. I'm always colder when I start, so I will often start my ride with arm-warmers and a short-sleeve jersey, and peel off the arm-warmers after I warm up.
As the temperature gets lower, I'll use a long-sleeve base-layer with a short-sleeve jersey over that (my base layer is black, so i keep a jersey on to add color / visibility), and also start to add a nice warm vest (keeping your core/chest warm makes a lot of difference), and/or a long-sleeve fleece.
All these layers can be removed and stuck into or onto my hydration pack (or tied around the bike frame) so even if I start my ride with a fleece, jersey, and arm warmers, I could stop and peel down to just the jersey in 30 seconds.
So anyway, my overall suggestion is to keep a short sleeve jersey, and add arm warmers and a long-sleeve outer shell (fleece or a wind-proof jacket)
I can't imagine riding in the winter with short sleeves, even with a jacket over them. Perhaps I'm just too sensitive to the cold or perhaps the climate here is just a lot colder than the northwest, but short sleeves don't come out of the closet until April.
I don't think I have ever seen,let alone heard of arm warmers. It doesn't get as hot here, but in summer I wear a t shirt or vest and in winter a long sleeved top over that. If it is raining I will wear a waterproof top as well but any more layers would make me overheat on anything over a ten minute cycle.


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Creatures Of The Night {Open RP} - 01-01-2010, 01:39 PM
1. Anyone can join. Just PM Silver_Wolf_Kitty with your profile and intro paragraph if you either haven't RPed before, or if you are not experienced on this forum. Please don't post until you have been okayed.
2. Please abide by the main RPG forum rules. That means no godmoding and no Mary Sues or Gary Stus.
3. Absolutely NO Meyerpires or Meyerwolves. If you attempt to join this RP with one, you will be told to change your character. Refusal to do so will mean that you are removed from the RP. Please follow the rules laid out for whichever group your character is part of.
4. Please do not ask questions in the RP. If you have any queries about characters or plot, please PM Kitty or myself. If you desire feedback on how you are doing, also PM us. Don't send PMs just to catch up on what you have missed; read the RP!
5. Try to post a few sentences at a time and make sure that you interact with everyone else. Do not try to take the RP over. You can have two characters; however, they can not be in the same group. If you post a vampire character, then balance it out with a werewolf or a human. If one group is getting too full, then it will be closed.
The world is a different one to the one you know, or think you know. As you walk the corridors of your high school, what do you really know about your classmates, your teachers? Could they be hiding a secret? Don't be so sure that they're not; this particular secret is one that if you are a human, you are never going to be allowed to find it out. Vampires and werewolves are not just a legend, they are real. They are all around you. Your best friend could be one, and so could your boyf. Your favourite teacher could be one, and so could the woman who drives your school bus. Unless you know what to look for, you wouldn't ever know. They are so good at hiding themselves amongst humans, as well as interacting with and preying on them. They've had centuries of practice, after all. Both the vampire and werewolf races have good reasons for doing so. For one, there are hunters who back in the past, hunted them down and killed them. For another, it's all about the thrill of the chase. After all, what would be the fun of hunting if the prey was aware that it was being hunted? Some of the creatures of the night actively seek out humans to toy with, to play with their hearts, to lead them on to believe that they are in love. It's all part of the thrill; to trick the humans, and also to enjoy their companionship while hugging the all important secret to themselves. It is for that reason that they attend schools and pass themselves off as humans.
The vampires and werewolves are not friendly. They have been waging a war against each other accross the centuries, a war that's been ongoing for so long that no-one can remember how and why it started. All they know is that they hate each other, and never mix. Both species run in different gangs, and make different friends, but they stick to their own. The werewolves mainly prey on wild game and livestock, as killing humans attracts unwanted attention. The vampires feed from the humans, but can do so without killing them. They merely trance their prey so that they may have a strange gap in their memory, but do not remember the attack where a blood meal was taken from their veins. Some will attend school and mix with humans; others will shun such activities as pointless and instead, hang around the school in their various groups. Werewolves tend to form packs, whereas vampires are more solitary. But one thing is certain; neither tends as a whole to see humans as equals. For one thing, it's hard to see your dinner as being a friend. For another, terrible punishments are visited on those who fraternise with humans; especially those who fall in love with them. Using humans is considered to be fine, tho; and of course, there are those rare night creatures who, despite the risk, may grow fond of humans. But the penalties are too harsh for these night creatures to forget themselves easily.
Things are changing. The Old Order of vampires has run the show for as long as anyone can remember; however, their influence is weakening. Some of the oldest vampires are refusing to follow the old rules any more, and wish to do as they want. The younger ones are more numourous now, and are rebelling against the old fashioned rules and regulations that the Old Order lays down. Some have banded together and formed a New Order; a group that is set apart from other vampires due to the fact that they firstly allow werewolves to join; and second, they feel that the only way to deal with the humans is to persuade them to join. If they agree, they are changed; sometimes, against their will. If they refuse, they are killed. The killings are done in secret, but the bodies are displayed openly, and the humans are beginning to realise that something terrible is going on. The police however are baffled by the killings; there are no marks on the bodies, save two tiny marks like pin pri'cks on the throats, and no indication of what killed them, save that the all the blood has been drained out. There also might well be a New Order member or two on the police force, to falsify evidence and mislead his or her collegues.
Characteristics Of Species.
Vampires come in two types, made and lamia. Lamia are born that way, to vampire parents. They will age up til adulthood, then stop aging. Lamia can also choose to stop their aging at any stage in their lives. However, made vampires are stuck forever at the age they were made at. Vampires can not be made after the age of twenty; after that, a human body just burns out and dies during the change. To make a vampire, a human has to exchange blood with a vampire; this can be done against their will by the vampire's use of mind control. Lamia generally give their children natural names, such as flower, animal, tree, element or jewel names. Made vampires will of course keep their human names. Vampires look human, save for the fact that their skin is paler than normal and their eyes go silvery whenever they extend their fangs. They can be hurt or killed by wood and fire. Vampires have psychic powers; mind reading, mind control, being able to put humans into a trance, and a "mind bolt" which is a force of psychic energy sent from the mind which attacks their victim's body and mind simultiniously. They also have superhuman senses and strength. They are immortal.
Werewolves make no different between those who are born into packs and those who are bitten. They will age up to adulthood, then stop aging. Werewolves can change into wolves whenever they like; however, if a werewolf bites a human during the full moon, that human will change into a werewolf. Werewolves tend to give their cubs names that mean either "wolf", or that mean wolf characteristics, for example "strength", "wisdom" etc. Werewolves look human save for their hair having a gloss on it like that of an animal's fur, and moving like animals. Their eyes go jewel like when they change into their wolf shape. Werewolves have superhuman senses and strength. They can also sense life force; which means that hiding from a werewolf will have no effect, as they will be able to sense their victim's life force and find them. They tend to form packs, and are immortal.
Humans are unaware that vampires and werewolves exist, save in horror movies and creepy stories. They also are wrapped up in their insular high school lives; which clique they are in, what homework they have to do, what to wear at the dance, what crushes they have. Humans also may well be friends with vampires and werewolves but not know their nature. Tho the humans may find out eventually the secret, right now they are in blissful ignorance. Vampires and werewolves are unlikely to tell human friends and lovers about themselves and their world; the penalty for doing so is death. It is also the penalty for daring to fall in love with a human. So a human would be in blissful ignorance that their boyf was a vampire or their best friend a werewolf. To find out accidentally would also mean that their very life would be in danger.
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Flynn Hart
Dolph Blake
Ariella Weathers
Bethany Rodney
Alana Childs
Character Form.
Please include at least three weaknesses, and no more than three strengths. They must be realistic, and mesh well with each other. Appearance only merits a couple of sentences; a personality description on the other hand should be fairly extensive. The bio is mandatory, and should include a brief history of your character. Please include whether, if vampire or werewolf, your character is a member of the New Order or not. Characters must be aged 14 - 16 if werewolf or human; vampires can be any age, but those who have lived a long time would appear a certain age. If you are unsure about making a character, then PM Kitty or myself and we will help you.
Name: Dolph Blake.
Age: 15.
Race: Werewolf.
Appearance: Average height and build, dark blonde hair, blue eyes
Personality: Dominant, tends to be a bit bossy, can be rude and overbearing. He's loyal to his pack and to his friends, and also brave, tho he can be impulsive.
Bio: Dolph grew up in a pack that settled down in the middle of the town. He went to school along with the others from his pack, mainly cuz his pack did not want to attract any unwanted attention to themselves from the humans who were all around them. Dolph has clashed with vampires a few times, and generally has little time for humans, save as toys to play with. He is fiercely loyal to the werewolves, and dislikes the vampires intensely due to the belief, fostered in him by his pack, that the vampires started the war and are to blame for all of it. He's moderately good at his lessons, but better at sports.
Name: Flynn Hart.
Age: 450 years old, looks 16.
Race: Vampire.
Appearance: Tall, thin, dark brown hair, amber eyes
Personality: Cold, distances himself deliberately from others, selfish. Flynn is creative, and is clever, tho he tends to be impulsive at times and act without thinking.
Bio: Flynn is a loner. He tends to move from place to place, never staying around for too long. This rootless drifting existance came into being mainly cuz when he was born, his father took off, leaving his mother to raise her child alone. Flynn has never settled anywhere, and joined the New Order mainly to have a family and to belong. He hates and despises both humans and werewolves, and picks fights with werewolves whenever he can. He sees humans as being nothing better than vermin, and has killed on occasion. Despite his stance that he has no feelings, his father's desertion deeply hurt him, and continues to have an affect on him.
Last night...
A young girl walked down a dark street. She knew that it wasn't safe to do so, had been told umpteen times by her parents and by others that she should never take such a risk with her safety. But she had been inside the club til it closed at four am, and she had been so caught up in the fun as she danced with her friends that she had forgotten to put aside money for a cab for the journey home. Still, the walk back was not far, and altho her feet hurt in her new kitten heels that she'd bought especially for this night out, she was sure that she'd make it back. Many young girls have this mentality; the thought that, "It won't happen to me." It wouldn't happen; the monster would not strike, she would make it back home unharmed with only an early morning at school the next day to worry about. As she walked down the street, her eyes fixated on a dark bundle lying accross the pavement. She at first thought that it was a rubbish bag, then, as she got closer, she thought it a shapeless bundle of old clothes. It was neither. The girl stopped dead, her mouth opening in a scream of horror as she saw that what lay accross the pathway was the body of a girl, who lay too still to be merely asleep or passed out. Her face had the paleness of death upon it; there was no mark upon her visible to show how she had died. The young girl could not do anything; she backed away, stumbling on her heels, screaming over and over, until running footsteps signified that someone at least had heard her and was running to her aid.
Next day...
Dolph groaned as his alarm went off. School again; he thought briefly about not going, but gave up on that thought. After all, there was very little to do in the town, and especially in the collection of trailers where his pack had made their home. The locals tended to avoid this area, calling it a commune of weirdos and perhaps worse, which was just how the werewolf pack liked it. No-one had the authority to move them, and no-one would try, anyway. He sat up in bed, pushing a hand thru his hair, which stuck up haphazardly in spikes. Dolph attempted to brush it flat, abandoned the task as being useless, and got out of bed. About half an hour later, he was walking towards the school. He knew he was early, but prefered to make the journey at this time, avoiding the vampires for one thing, and the teeming crowds of humans for another. He had already hunted the night before; still, he might be able to fit in another hunt at lunchtime. It depended on whether or not he'd be able to get out of the school unseen. If there had been another murder, there'd be a security clampdown on the school and no student would be allowed to leave the grounds at all. Dolph thought it was stupid, what this new group were doing; sooner or later, it would come to the ears of the Old Order, or even a hunter, and then all hell would break loose.
Name: Bethany Rodney
Age: 19
Race: Human
Appearance: Bright, bright dyed orange hair; natural hair color is a light brown. Blue eyes, not pale and not tan either. Has freckles.
Personality: Bethany is very straight-forward and isn't afraid to get in people's faces to get their attention; this isn't out of being nasty, it's out of necessity as she is deaf and hates it when people don't look at her when they're talking to her. Very friendly and loves jokes.
Bio: Beth wasn't born deaf; she became very ill when she was a kid and lost most of her hearing. While she does use hearing aids to an extent, she finds them basically useless. Knows sign language, but as most people don't, she writes in a notebook that she takes with her whereever she goes. Has been held back in school several times due to her hearing disability as well as her recent rebellion against several school policies; is in junior year. Her dad died when she was 14, which is why she acts out as much as she does; when he was alive, he fought to let her go to school without a sign-language interpreter, and now she has one following her around everywhere even though she doesn't see the need for one.
Name: Ariella Weathers
Age: 132, looks 18
Race: Werewolf
Appearance: Similarly to Bethany, bright orange hair, only with Ariella it's natural. Gray-blue eyes, same skin tone.
Personality: Not at all friendly; tends to snap a lot at those in her pack and gets into trouble in school frequently. A very few close friends are the only ones who escape her wrath, but even then she snaps at them as well. The few times she is even friendly is right before and right after the full moon; she doesn't know why.
Bio: Ariella was bitten when she was 18; and she's hated being a werewolf ever since. At first, she went to extreme lengths in the hopes that she'd be killed, but it never seemed to work. As a result, she's a very sour person and would much rather be left alone, but the whole pack-mindset thing was with her when she was a human; she was part of a very large family and misses the feeling of belonging. She doesn't have this feeling with her pack, which is part of the reason she snaps at them so much. She also used to sing for the church her family attended, but hasn't sung in years.
Name: Arik Roarke
Age: 216
Race: Vampire, lamia
Appearance: Short brown hair, grass-green eyes. Tanned skin because of genetic heritage. Usually wears leather jackets, jeans, and tshirts of varying colors. Is also rarely seen without his guitar case and duffle bag. Is around 6'3".
Personality: Arik is a very amiable man and gets along with most everybody; a singing comedian by night and a music teacher by day, he spends most of his free time lazing in the park as he doesn't give his students homework unless they're misbehaving horribly (therefore, he doesn't have to grade anything and has plenty of free time on his hands). Homework in his class has yet to happen, as for the most part the kids he works with behave well. He doesn't party as much as he used to and misses it a bit, but knows that if he over-does it he'll lose his job. Also has no problems with werewolves; there were a few in the reservation he grew up in and he sees no reason to hate them.
Bio: Arik was born Jackrabbit on a Native American reservation in the western U.S.; however, as he grew up, the name became an embarrassment to people who weren't familiar with the culture and he changed it to Arik; he earned the last name when he was living for a short period with a human family during the Great Depression. The reason he'd taken pity on them was mainly due to the fact he has a daughter of his own, Jesie; they used to travel together, but when he finally told her that her mother hadn't died in childbirth and had actually up and left, she disappeared and he hasn't seen her since. While he knows she can handle herself and isn't a foolish vampire, Arik still worries about her - and that's why he helped the human family, the Roarkes, because their only daughter was very sick and everybody was working to try and pay for her medical treatment. After she recovered, he was unofficially adopted into their family, and a few years later he left to continue his travels. He did run into Jesie once during the 1950's, but as the encounter was less than friendly, he doesn't talk about it and still has scars from it (chairs being thrown is not conducive to a healthy father-daughter relationship.) as a result. To date, he hasn't seen her again and has come to this city for work and entertainment - and maybe, he might run into her again.
Bethany stretched out on the floor, having rolled out of bed when she'd woken up, and stared up at the ceiling. "..mmph." She rubbed her eyes and sat up, cracking her wrists a bit before standing and walking over to her closet to grab her clothes. Did I do the homework this weekend? Bah, forget it. She pulled a pair of jeans on and felt somebody walking on the floor; heavy footsteps, probably her stepdad. She knocked twice on the door to let him know she was awake and grabbed her jumper, checking her hair in the mirror before pulling the sweater over her head. This effectively messed up her hair, but she didn't mind much as that was the general idea of what she was going for today. She stared absent-mindedly at her reflection, thinking, Hello, world, here I come. B*tchy had better not be following me around today, hope she's sick again.
Ariella was already at school, sitting on a staircase and trying to light a cigarette; either her lighter was dead or her hands were just shaking too hard in her anger. She'd gotten into a fight with somebody in the pack again, and this time it was likely to be the last straw before she was kicked out. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Why the hell am I the one getting in trouble, she's the one who started it, ransacking my room like that when I was out! She snorted and finally got the lighter to work. Her hair was pulled back in a sloppy ponytail and her clothes - torn jeans, a tshirt with Led Zepplin printed on the back, and old runners - were the ones she'd worn the day before. Thinks I'm falling for a human, stupid b*tch. I'm not an idiot. 'sides, humans are stupid. They all are.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
Name: Alana Childs
Age: 16
Race: Human
Appearance: Dark brown hair, brown eyes, Average height though she has broad shoulders and a more manly build.
Personality: She is a control freak, detail-oriented, intelligent, practical, and analytical. She is also a major worried and tends to be a bit negative, though if everyone is being negative, she will be the positive one, even if she doesnt believe herself.
Bio: Alana just moved to the town in time for the new school year. She moved from California to escape her drunk of a mom and moved in with her dad, a local police officer. She normally has a realistic view for most things; however, she has this wild imagination. She is one of those girls who wishes she was a Harry Potter or a Zoey Redbird. She lives and breathes fantasy. Because of this, she is more book smart and street smart therefore she is very good in school subjects. However, in some sports, she can do very well. She is better at basketball and softball than anything else.
Alanas alarm clock went off later than she expect. Crap. Im going to be late for my first day. Alana jumped out of bed, tripping over a brown packing box. Ow! She shouted, jumping on her right foot. Stupid boxes! She said walking into the bathroom. She looked at her big toe. It was red but other than that it was fine. She jumped into the shower. She was still tired from getting in so late.
The LA airport had to delay her plane because of some bad weather in Denver. Her five oclock plane turned out to be a midnight plane ride. She didnt get home till 2 am and she had school in 5 hours. When she arrived home, she decided to lie down to get some sleep but her alarm went off an hour later than what she had thought she set it for.
When she got out of the shower, Alana grabbed the first clothes she saw. She had on a black skirt that was mid-thigh with long black and white striped tights and black flats. She threw on a solid black tank top with a white jacket. She threw her hair up into a messy ponytail, put some eye-liner on, and ran downstairs to grab breakfast.
Hey Dad! Whats for breakfast?
Well, I dont have much but I did make you some bacon and eggs.
Oh ok. She sat down at the table and started to eat. She looked at the time. Uh Dad, we need to get going. Im going to be late.
Oh, yeah. Well, go grab your backpack and lets get going.
Alana ran upstairs and grabbed her backpack and ran back down to the running car.
30 minutes later, she was walking into the main office to get her class schedule. Once she had that, she started to walk around the school trying to find her way.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Name: Nora Ilene Pinesword
Age: 16
Race: Human
Appearance: Nora has dark brown hair often mistaken for black that she manages with a lot of hairpins and a scrunchy. Her skin is pale but not of the unnatural shade- it just looks as if she doesn't bother to go to the beach on weekends like other girls. Her eyes are a warm brown which have brighter patches in rings, like the tree stump. Her face is long with soft cheekbones, and she has a small mouth. Her body is lanky without much shape, and it has been noted that she has pointy elbows. Her approach is usually quite timid, but her eyes are always up and aware. She'd be the type to watch from afar and then tiptoe closer for a better look- kinda girl.
Personality: Nora is shy and timid, and isn't very streetwise. Her booky intelligence seems to take up a lot of her brain capacity so that she is bad at learning much in practical work. She has a sort of elegance to her without really realizing it, and is a very good listener.
Bio: She was born to a middle class family in the suburbs. A real strict bunch of nutters that strongly instilled in their two children that kids should be seen, not heard. Her older sister became a real rebel in her teen years and when she went off to college, her family never heard from her again. When calling the university, they told Nora's parents that her sister had said she was leaving education, but to do what and where, they weren't sure. The disconnection from their child hurt her parents badly, and at seeing their reaction, Nora decided she wouldn't hurt them further by coming home with a bad report card, or going out at night to clubs. Nora was going to put her head down to the books. Nora was going to monitor her free-time. Nora was going to be seen, not heard.
Nora sat on a bench just outside the school entrance, a book of physics open on her lap. She read and reread the lines carefully with a smile, trying to embed newtons laws into her mind. She loved this time of the morning, and the quietness of it. The chill in the air only seemed to make her more aware- which was a good thing. Nora liked being alert and focused. There was something admirable about standing (well, alright she was sitting) at attention like a soldier waiting to be called into battle. Or maybe she was just a bit of a freak for exciting over that physics test first period.
Name: Omarosa du Chateau (Rose)
Age: 16
Race: Human, of African descent
Appearance: Dark, coffee-colored skin, full figured, a fancy term for a girl who some might label as Fat (think Jennifer Hudson), super poofy/curly black hair, brown eyes, a wide nice, fat lips
Personality: Nosey. She loves to know whats going on and cant resist butting in where she shouldnt. Though nosey, she values her friends and the rights of people in general, and wishes the world was a better place. She can be a bit rude at times to those she takes a dislike to, or when shes made angry. And if its that time of month, RUN AWAY.
Bio: Rose spent a good part of her childhood in the Cote dIvoire (the Ivory Coast), but eventually her parents divorced, and she became the custody of her mother, who moved away. She is now separated from her older brother, Djimon, whos still in Africa. They talk a lot through e-mail and over the phone, but Rose still misses her terribly. Roses parents split because Roses mom had married her father under false pretenses; Roses mom was actually a l3.sbian, and had married her best friend to appease her parents. Later on, Roses mom revealed the truth to her husband and divorced him and moved away with Rose. This is rarely brought up however.
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As computing becomes more communal or social there will be more women involved in computing. This field is optimized for anti-social males and it has saved my imperial/corporate life because of it. I would not last long playing air hockey and hackey sack, trying to socialize my way up the * order.
The optimism here is that we will realize that software can't go further without sociological and technical studies. We need sensitive people that can advocate for the end user—people that can intuit the unspoken and articulate it into silicon-based solutions. The stereotype is that women have these qualities more than males. Let's check back on this "super important" initiative in five years and see what's up.
yea I think its really stereotypical to say women talk too much.
Samuel, misogynist
Geez, men are the same no matter where you go...
Anyway, hooray for Sarah. I've been into computers since around 1973, since my father was a programmer back in the day. Worked on the earliest versions of Pascal. I remember him bringing me a baby tee, with a picture on it showing a baby working with baby blocks that had the letters PASCAL on them. I loved that t-shirt. Back then, we had a home computer...a big box, with no lid, a lot of circuit boards exposed, and a little black and white tv hooked up to it. If he hadn't been an alcoholic, he may have ended up hanging with Mr. Gates and others. Oh well.
Anyway, originally, I wanted to be an oceanographer, but things never worked out that way, and I'm heading back into computers. It's the only way to mix the analytical and creative parts of me. Well, that is, until I figure out how to knit a program...
I believe that I have echoed this sentiment before in response to some of Sara Fords video here at channel 9 but I will say it again
In my own experience here locally with a technical college I found that the actual course matter was lacking in any definitive energy. The connection between what was being done in class to real world application was broken and there was just no fire there. By the time 3rd or 4'th quarters had rolled around most of the woman had bolted for greener pastures. Some of this observation was echoed in this piece when the examples of just making the courseware more applicable to real world application rather than the contrived and seemingly pointless exercises present in so many texts and courses that I have been subjected to through the years.
For the record I met my wife in this technical college, she was taking the same courses I was taking. Her reasons for sticking around in the course I have come to understand was because I was there or she was going to leave it also. (I guess I am grateful for that at least but I am saddened to think that something as simple as some real world applicability might be what is stopping some woman from perusing a carrier in computing sciences)
Keskos wrote:Her last statement didn't make sense to me though. She said these new programs will help universities to recruit more women and minorities. That doesn't make sense, because throughout the conversation she focused on how to get more women on computer science programs, at the end she mentioned the minorities. Miniroty men are not women.
Frankly, it is a mistake to recruit more women for the sake of it. I wish there were more women, but what I have seen is that, they are less likely to work in front of a computer like males for long hours. I guess it is against their nature. Artificially increasing women participation may work against the women themselves, maybe you are encouraging them in the wrong career.
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A relative ate peanut butter and gave my son a few kisses on the cheek. A little while later (15-20 ins), we saw a bunch of red bumps on his cheek. We can't rule out every other possibility but I wanted to see if its possible if this could be a sign of a peanut allergy?
I am not a doctor, but I believe so. I would call your pediatrician and do some google-ing in the meantime. And, keep your baby away from peanuts for now.
I know people have varying degrees of sensitivities and I've known friends that can have a reaction from contact with someone else that had contact with whatever they are allergic to. I don't see why babies or children would be different.
Edit: I just asked my partner, a nurse, and she says that people can react simply from the breath of another person.
I wonder if it is peanuts or something else? But still, I would be very aware of the potential for concern.
While life would be easier if you could always connect A to B, things usually aren't that simple. It's quite possible that the "bunch of red bumps" you describe were a) there already but you didn't notice, b) related to something entirely different, or c) essentially random (which describes most baby acne).
If you want to make sure, I'd just dab some peanut butter on eg. his back (basically anywhere he can't touch or lick) and leave it there for a minute. If he gets bumps again, then he's allergic; if he doesn't, then it was a fluke. And yes, this should be fairly safe to do, as severe reactions generally require contact with the eyes, nose or mouth (source, source). YMMV, I'm not a doctor, disclaimers apply, etc.


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I'm looking for the Z-Score for a distribution, where the integrated area sums up to 0.90. Unfortunately I always get an error from Mathematica,
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Solve[NIntegrate[PDF[StudentTDistribution[49], x], {x, -Infinity, y}] == 0.95, y]
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Last month, a puzzle here in physics.stackexchange asked to calculate the dynamics of the outflow in a loose (over rails, no friction) tank using Torricelli's law as a simplification. The simplification turned out to be problematic; one would prefer some solution where the height $h(0)=h_0$ starts decreasing with the usual condition $h'(0)=0$.
A first try to generalize is to use the potential energy stored in the tank to provide kinetic energy both to the CoM of the fluid and to the outflow. Consider for instance two horizontal equal nozzles, so that the CoM only goes down vertically. While this situation drives to a manageable second order differential equation, I am not sure if it is good enough. Particularly it seems that when we close the nozzle(s), so that the CM stops, this kinetic energy should change to be stored as internal energy, does it? We could imagine some configuration where we open the nozzle an interval $\Delta t$, close it, open it at the next interval, &c, so that we force this conversion to internal, not CoM, energy.
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One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself
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Marilyn Davidson: Lost opportunities
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How underwhelming. The great psychological minds of times and not on insight amongst them. One of them said: "In psychology, you are rewarded (1) partly for the research you do, and (2) partly for (a) the topic on which you do the research and (b) the methods you use". What happened to healing individual suffering? Making a difference to an individuals' life?ReplyDelete
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How skillfully they avoid revealing anything really personal about themselves and in many cases find a way to tout their virtues!ReplyDeleteReplies
They probably arent even aware of their own 'blind spots' -Others are, and they are the ones who should inform these individuals about their lack of self understanding and awareness.Delete
Another point to consider is it would actually be far too psychologically threatening for them to be truly authentic because they would run the risk of losing face amongst peers.
Ms. Gopnik's answer was quite disappointing. At least it wasn't self-promoting. On the contrary, it made me wonder what she's learned in all of her studying of parenthood. She was surprised by why we could love babies yet not want our young adult children with us, when they are utterly unlike babies--no longer wide eyed, filled with wonder and amusement, no longer dependent, but willful, difficult, uncontrollable, unconsolable? Seems pretty obvious.ReplyDelete
Her comment that the goal of parenthood is ill defined seemed even weirder. In most cases, the goal of parenthood is to create a person who can do right what we did wrong, whether that's be happy, or be faithful, or be bright, or successful, it's the general goal for most of us if we are honest with ourselves.
Here's my stab at it:ReplyDelete
In my research agenda I have become evermore convinced of the role of contingency, chance, as an "explanatory" event. It's now clear to me that many of our explanations about phenomena are simply ex post facto "Just So" stories tracing one path through an overdetermined--and highly random--sequence of events.
So, knowing that, why do I persist in making concrete plans for the future at all?
- Anonymous9:43 pm
I'm a sociologist, and not super psychology-prone, but there's an excerpt of this article in the November (I think) Harper's that piqued my interest. I like this article. Self-reflection and humility is interesting.ReplyDelete
Now the tired old joke we sociologists tell ourselves is that those people who get into sociology do so because they don't get people. (We have a tired old comparative saw for why psychologists get into their profession too, so laugh it up, fuzzball.) I may have some less-thoughtful reflections on myself; but as a sociologist, what I am always wondering when I'm on-line is why people (Americans in the 21st century?) so often revert to postures of aggressive indignation when commenting on others' thoughtful, self-revealing reflections. Should anonymity produce antisocial behaviors to the extent we observe on internet commentary? Is what keeps us civilized a lack of anonymity? Yet antisocial internet commentaries don't seem to differ much from contemporary standards of comportment and discourse on non-anonymous television. If we see in this the historical development of a culture, does it have to do with a context of rapidly-increasing economic and political inequality in a very large, class-conflicted country, and an attendant further normalization of displays of dehumanizing anti-sympathy and dominance? On the other hand, highly unequal societies (the apartheid Southern US, for example) where dehumanization is institutionalized are famous for their elaborate codes of interactional civility. Do you have any insight here?
I'm about to actively seek therapy and my key problem is that I don't know how to open up about the things that really disturb me, feeling like I'm so different from others. Intellectually I know that's not true, and have been telling myself not to worry about being judged by a shrink. But based on these responses, I am right to worry. They seem so superficial and "normal." No dark corners for these mental health professionals. Or like one says, are they too afraid of being judged? Meh.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:39 am
To "pityadd"--ReplyDelete
No, they aren't really any more "normal" than anyone else. And they're probably just as afraid of being judged as you are. Perhaps even more so, since they're supposed to represent the bastions of mental health. Don't worry. See the therapist, just understand that they're just as flawed and human as anyone else.


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I am trying to figure out what is the difference between "ist" and "es"? for example in the phrase "Mein Auto ist blau" vs. "Mir geht es gut", can you say "Mir geht ist gut"?
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"Ist" is 3rd person present tense of the verb "sein", English translation "to be".
"Es" is the 3rd person singular personal pronoun, English translation "it".
There is no situation where you could use "ist" instead of "es". Therefore, "Mir geht ist gut" is not correct, maybe you misheard.
"Meine auto ist Blau." Several issues with that sentence:
So, Mein Auto ist blau (my car is blue).
ist: English is (conjugated verb "sein" – "to be")
es: English it (pronoun, 3rd person singular neutrum)
You can't use one for the other because they're completely different word types.
In the first sentence, "Mein Auto ist blau," ist is the form of the verb "to be" that corresponds to "is," which links Mein Auto (the nominative)l, and blau, the predicate adjective. "My auto IS blue."
In the second sentence, "Mir geht es gut", GEHT is the verb, and "gut" is the predicate adjective. "Mir" is the indirect object, and es (it) is the nominative. A literal translation of the sentence would be, "To me goes IT well." or "IT'S going well with me."
If you've studied Latin or Spanish, it's easy to confuse the two, because in those languages, "es" is a form of the verb "to be," just as "ist" is in German.
But in German, the two are different word forms and therefore never interchangeable.


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18 Aug 2007 7:31 AM #1
get/set PageSize for Ext.PagingToolbar?
Although that can be done in the beforeload event etc, I think get/set methods for pageSize in PagingToolbar would be great to allow setting the pageSize dynamically.
Alternativly, I also thought of pageSize being an "official" property.
18 Aug 2007 7:55 AM #2
isn't pageSize already an official config?
you can already do this currently
var paging = new Ext.PagingToolbar(gridFoot, ds, { // add a paging toolbar to the grid's footer pageSize: 20, displayInfo: true, displayMsg: 'Displaying Sequences {0} - {1} of {2}', emptyMsg: "No Sequences to display" });
21 Aug 2007 3:45 AM #3
Well i thought of get/set during _runtime_ do force a recalculating of the limit param.
Example: i resize my grid and want to get onyl 7 records, instead of the default 20.
Later i resize again and want 15 records instead of 7.
When using the 'beforeload' event, i can pass params / baseParams like start / limit directly.
But if i change pageSize, i would need to access at least one time the pagebar to let the pagebar recalculate the new value for limit or use a workaround like this:
PHP Code:
pageSize.on('change', function() {
pageBar.pageSize = parseInt(pageSize.getValue());
ds.load({params: {start: 0, limit: pageBar.pageSize}});
27 May 2008 1:21 PM #4
I Had the same problem... did you solve it???
19 Mar 2013 9:46 AM #5
You should do this
Hey Friend:
I guess you should fire your event from "store", and not from "page".
//this.getValue() => the page size you want
store.load({params:{start:0, limit:this.getValue()}});
After change the store from the grid, and you set pageSize, the panel will show you the correct count of pages.


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7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Publications
Previously we informed you about some of the most mind-blowing Easter eggs hidden in music albums, classic works of art, and movies and TV shows. Hell, we've done video games not just once, not twice, but three times. So it was only a matter of time before we turned our attention to the most diabolical industry of all -- the publishing industry. What other industry can claim to have smuggled product for both God and Hitler? These slingers of brain candy have been corrupting humanity for longer than the gun and oil industries combined, so it's not surprising that they've stashed a few bizarre secrets up their sleeves. For instance ...
#7. The Mysteries on The Da Vinci Code's Cover Are Cooler Than the Ones in the Story
Long before it was spawning some of the most mysterious hairdos in Tom Hanks' career, The Da Vinci Code became a literary phenomenon by giving history professors chest pain. Real historians were probably glad for the increased interest in the Bible as a historical document, and might even approve of Dan Brown's general depiction of history as a rich tapestry of mysteries, but they probably weren't quite as thrilled with Brown's promise that those mysteries have clear-cut right and wrong answers, discoverable by anyone resourceful enough to solve a USA Today crossword puzzle. While the mysteries that his protagonist encounters during the course of the book might be a little obvious, the cryptograms and word puzzles didn't stop inside the pages of The Da Vinci Code. In fact, Brown saved his most intriguing mysteries for the dust jacket.
If you stare long enough, it becomes an image of Dan Brown spanking it to a copy of Cryptonomicon.
Years before the publication of The Da Vinci Code, fans of Brown's novel Deception Point might have noticed a seemingly random series of numbers and letters on the last page of that book: "1-V-116-44-11-89-44-46-L-51-130-19-118-L-32-118-116-130-28-116-32-44-133-U-130."
While sane readers probably assumed that a mouse got stuck in the gears of whatever giant printing press spits out Simon & Schuster paperbacks, crazier fans may have checked to see what would happen if you replaced each number in the sequence with the first letter in the corresponding chapter in Deception Point. If you did that, you would have discovered the letter sequence "T V C I R H I O L F E N D L A D C E S C A I W U E" -- which you might recognize as also complete gibberish. But Brown's crazy fans didn't decorate their sheds with newspaper clippings and jars of urine because they're quitters. Those fans would have noticed that there are 25 letters, which is a square-able number, and realized that when you arrange those letters in a five-by-five square, you get:
... which, when read from top to bottom by column (instead of left to right by row like you just did), reveals the message: "THE DA VINCI CODE WILL SURFACE."
Of course, this being two years before the phrase "Da Vinci Code" meant a goddamn thing to anyone, they would have been just as likely to wonder who Dav Incico was and how exactly he was mixed up in the sinister sounding Dew-Ill Surface. Which makes it all the more impressive that Brown got away with crazying up the last page of his book two years before it meant anything.
When The Da Vinci Code finally did surface as promised, the book's dust jacket was riddled with crazy cyphers.
"The Greek letter delta gets its shape from a hand raising the middle finger. I think the meaning here is obvious."
That trail of clues led to two numbers written in light red ink on a dark red background on the back of the book, which, if you were somehow able to find them ...
*snicker* "No, no, I swear the text is there, just keep looking for it!"
... and plugged them into Google Maps, would reveal themselves to be the latitude and longitude of Kryptos, the sculpture outside the CIA headquarters. If you solved Kryptos, then you would find yourself in a dark room being interrogated by the CIA, because none of their code breakers have been able to solve it in the 23 years since it was put there.
Because fuck you, that's why.
Actually, the Krytpos reference would turn out to be a nod to the Washington, DC-based mystery that would anchor Brown's next novel, The Lost Symbol. When The Da Vinci Code became a huge hit, the publisher created a promotional game around the clues, and presumably laughed nervously while waiting to meet the lunatic who would be crazy enough to solve the damn thing.
While the sponsorship tie-in might make the whole thing seem like a capitalist hoax set up to sell books, it's at least a little impressive that Brown saved his most difficult and intriguing mysteries for his audience, and that he was doing it before he had any reason to believe that anyone would give a shit about any of it.
#6. Playboy Magazine Has a Bunny on Every Cover
By definition, Easter eggs require the artist to put more attention into tiny details than the people consuming it can be reasonably expected to notice. If that is in fact the definition of an Easter egg, Playboy magazine might be responsible for the greatest Easter egg of all. After all, movie directors and video game makers can be pretty certain that anything they hide in their work will be hunted down by attentive fans and posted on a website for everyone to see. The only thing Playboy can assume about its audience is that they're going to be doing or at least thinking about doing things that could get them arrested if done in public. Their fan base is less devoted and frenzied, more horny and then looking to get rid of the evidence.
This makes it all the more baffling that Playboy has been hiding cleverly crafted Easter eggs on the covers of its magazines all this time. Specifically, Hugh Hefner and company have been hiding the bunny logo on every single cover, starting with the second-ever Playboy magazine that hit shelves in 1953. We're not sure we can call Playboy covers art, but we are pretty sure that might be the most unnecessary attention to detail ever included in the history of anything ever.
The cover below has the bunny incognito on the ribbon on the young woman's chest.
It took a team of young men nearly eight hours to position it on her breasts.
On this cover, the bunny ears are visible on the shoe at the bottom.
This one has the bunny ears on the film in front of her.
Zoom it in enough, and it displays an old issue of Hustler.
On this cover, the bunny ears take the shape of the flower the woman is holding.
The flower, lacking a mouth, silently begs for death.
This one has the bunny ears hidden on the fork.
Here it is as a white splotch on the white sheets underneath the left boob of 1994 Playmate of the Year Jenny McCarthy.
Of course, this was before she found out that silk sheets cause autism.
There's almost a sad fatalism to that last one. Hefner took the time to hide the bunny head right next to something that would ensure that nobody noticed it, and made the bunny head look like the sort of stain that serves as an exclamation point marking the end of his audience's interest in the product he makes. That might sound pretty sad on the inside for someone who has that many wives, but we're pretty sure "hasn't changed out of his pajamas for over a decade" is a sign of serious depression.
#5. Autocar Magazine -- James May Sends a Message to the Readers
Staying in the realm of contradictions, up next we have an editor putting an incredible amount of planning into hiding a message that he apparently wrote while drunk (and 10 years old). Fans of the BBC's Top Gear might know James May as one of the three guest hosts of the quirky show. He's also an award-winning journalist and a stunt driver. But back in 1992, he was just a lowly editor for Autocar magazine, and wasn't the least bit happy about that fact. Standard protocol would have suggested that he put his head down, kiss a few asses, and wait for his shot at a job in the magazine industry that he didn't actively hate. That's how you keep your job, and it's not like the magazine industry was going anywhere.
Like the show he would go on to host, May wasn't a huge fan of standard protocol. So when he was given the opportunity to put out the magazine's special Road Test Yearbook issue -- which is apparently the Autocar equivalent of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue -- he did not take this as an opportunity to show off the ol' work ethic, and instead saw it as a chance to do this:
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The editors' suspicions were raised when May tried to turn in an entry starting with a drop cap apostrophe.
With punctuation added, that reads: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse." May was in charge of putting the whole supplement together, which took several months and was "incredibly boring." So he looked over his shoulder a couple times, snickered to himself, and went about the painstaking process of re-editing the first sentence of each paragraph to hide a secret message that reads as though it was written in 15 seconds.
Instead of moving up to the big leagues of Autocar magazine, May was promptly fired, which is probably for the better, since magazine editors are typically expected to write more carefully than that and not find the job of putting a magazine together "incredibly boring." May went on to a career test driving incredibly fast cars on Britain's Top Gear, co-hosting shows about drinking, and being told "well done" and "Good show, old chap" by everyone in England.
He budgets at least two hours a day for monocle adjustment.
#4. The Last Illustration in A Series of Unfortunate Events Has a Hint to the Next One
A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of novellas by Daniel Handler, writing as the fictional character Lemony Snicket. There are an unlucky 13 books in total, each one following the lives of three children whose parents are killed in a house fire and who are adopted by their old, greedy distant cousin who is looking to get at their fortune one way or another. In the first book, he tries to marry one of the little girls. The novels are apparently not ironically unfortunate.
As you might have picked up from the dark tone, Handler was an aspiring adult novelist when his publisher convinced him to write the novels for kids, and he packed the books with tons of allusions and details that would require a literary degree to get. Whether he was doing it intentionally or out of boredom, it made for a series of books that fans agree are best experienced once as children and a second time once you've read all the grown-up books required to get the jokes. But even adult fans probably missed the clues hiding in the illustration by Brett Helquist at the end of each book.
For instance, here's the illustration that was waiting at the end of the first book.
And just like that, a generation of children became deathly afraid of lampposts.
The presence of the snake might have seemed like a confusing non sequitur to the millions of children reading the books as they came out, until they learned that the next book in the series would be titled The Reptile Room. Similarly, they couldn't have known why the final illustration in The Wide Window contains an optician's sign until they read The Miserable Mill, where the children encounter Dr. Orwell, an optician who lives in an eye-shaped house.
So ... he lives in a ball. No need to church it up, the man lives in a ball.
In this way, each book's illustration hints at the events of the next book, while also suggesting the value of repeated readings and the intended twice-over the books were supposed to get. It's like Handler was hiding the playbook for how to enjoy his work in each illustration. That, or again, just really, crazy bored.


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A generally useful event scheduler class.
Each instance of this class manages its own queue.
No multi-threading is implied; you are supposed to hack that
yourself, or use a single instance per application.
Each instance is parametrized with two functions, one that is
supposed to return the current time, one that is supposed to
implement a delay. You can implement real-time scheduling by
substituting time and sleep from built-in module time, or you can
implement simulated time by writing your own functions. This can
also be used to integrate scheduling with STDWIN events; the delay
function is allowed to modify the queue. Time can be expressed as
integers or floating point numbers, as long as it is consistent.
Events are specified by tuples (time, priority, action, argument).
As in UNIX, lower priority numbers mean higher priority; in this
way the queue can be maintained fully sorted. Execution of the
event means calling the action function, passing it the argument.
Remember that in Python, multiple function arguments can be packed
in a tuple. The action function may be an instance method so it
has another way to reference private data (besides global variables).
Parameterless functions or methods cannot be used, however.
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