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Disease Prevention in Men (cont.)
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP
Dr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx, where he served as chief resident.
In this Article
- Disease prevention in men introduction
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hypercholesterolemia (hyperlipidemia, dyslipidemia)
- Type II diabetes mellitus
- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
- Cancer of colon and rectum/polyps of colon and rectum
- Prostate cancer
- Glaucoma
- Melanoma and other skin cancers
- Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the most commonly occurring non-skin cancer in men in the United States. Among the non-skin cancers, it is also the second most frequent cause of cancer death in this population.
Although screening tests (see below) are available, there is no scientific consensus on effective measures for reducing the incidence of prostate cancer. Additionally, there is no agreement on the effectiveness of screening or that the potential benefits of screening tests outweigh the risks.
Tests or procedures for prostate cancer
- Digital rectal examination (DRE)
- PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test
Who to test and how often
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening in men younger than age 75 years and that screening should not be carried out in men age 75 years or older.
The controversy regarding screening tests
The purpose of the screening is to detect early, tiny, or even microscopic cancers that are confined to the prostate gland. Early treatment of these malignancies (cancers) can stop the growth, prevent the spread, and possibly cure the cancer. However, the evidence is not conclusive that screening and treatment of early and localized prostate cancer is beneficial; some elderly men may live with prostate cancer for many years and die from other conditions rather than from the prostate cancer, and the measures undertaken for diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer (surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or hormones) can have side effects and serious complications such as pain associated with the biopsy procedure, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, bowel dysfunction, and death. For this reason, screening of men over age 75 years is not recommended, and younger men must consider the potential benefits and risks of prostate cancer screening and discuss these with their health care practitioner before undergoing screening tests.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Trading and Learning Styles
She told me that she would fail for sure. What should she do?
Digging into my solution-focused playbook, I pointed out that this had no doubt happened before. After all, not all textbooks are available as audiobooks.
She nodded and explained that she went to college near her parents' home. When she couldn't get a book on tape, her parents read the chapters to her.
It made sense.
So, for the next couple of hours, I read the book to the student and she asked questions. She passed the test with flying colors and ended up graduating near the top of her class.
It was a dramatic example of learning styles in action. My student had a learning disability in the area of reading; visual processing was not her strength. But if she heard the information and had the opportunity to talk about it, she could comprehend and retain the material quite well.
Even those of us without formal disabilities have certain learning strengths and weaknesses. When I need directions to an unfamiliar location, I find maps only minimally helpful. I translate the map into a set of verbal instructions--"Right on Rt. 43, left at 34th St."--and then memorize those. Reading and writing the written word is my learning strength.
Educators describe four dominant learning styles:
* Visual
* Auditory
* Reading/Writing
* Kinesthetic
Together, these form the acronym VARK. Here's a quick, simple questionnaire to see where your learning style falls on the VARK dimensions.
Perhaps the different approaches to trading are mere reflections of the learning preferences and strengths of their proponents. Many technical analysis strategies--from chart reading to the CCI patterns championed by Woodie--rely on visual processing. The market maker at the investment bank who is constantly on the phone with customers--or the local standing in the pit assessing activity by crowd noise--is processing information through auditory channels. A market quant, researching ideas through financial publications and assembling data to test hypotheses, leans toward reading and writing.
But how about the kinesthetic learner? I recently had a humbling experience working with a kinesthetic trader.
Kinesthetic learners learn from direct, hands-on experience. My son Macrae would never think of reading a manual to assemble a new piece of electronic equipment. He looks it over, holds it, tries a few things out, and figures out how to put it together. He learns by trial and error. (He also assembles the item long before I've finished the manual!)
The kinesthetic trader I worked with came to me with issues of performance pressure. He was relying on setups that, I observed, depended on trending markets. He was profitable, but his win/loss ratio of trades was not especially high. I suggested a simple trend filter that would eliminate many of the losing trades. When he tried it, his stress level rose considerably.
What went wrong?
It turns out that he *needed* his losing trades. Not because he had a desire to lose, but because he--like Macrae--learned through trial and error. The losing trades gave him information about whether the market was trending or not. Feeling his way through the market early in the day with small trades gave him the information--and confidence--to place larger trades when his setups were present in a market that was moving.
Ironically, it was his attempts to improve his P/L by eliminating "bad" trades--a trap I also fell into--that was creating his performance pressure. He was working against his own learning style, and his anxiety was a warning sign that he was not playing to his strengths.
How many other traders are stressed out in trading because they're attempting to process information in ways that don't work for them? How many coaches fail to help traders because they offer information in one format and traders need to process it in another?
Traders are in the business of processing information. How much do you read? How much do you rely on charts? How much do you discuss ideas with others or get ideas from videos, TV, and other media? How much do tiptoe into the market, getting a feel for the action with small positions? Like my medical student, you're most likely to find your success if you stick to your strengths as a learner.
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- Brandon Wilhite said...
Dr. Brett,
This isn't entirely in line with this post...(but not too far off topic)
I had a thought and a question this morning. You usually view trading through the lense of trading as a performance activity. Maybe a slightly different approach would be trading as a decision making process. In other words, traders are decision makers. So the question is whether or not there are certain qualities that make some people better decision makers than others? And also how can decision-making be enhanced?
I realize this has a lot of overlap with the topics of trading as performance and trader expertise, but maybe it's another facet worth looking at...
I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this.
- x said...
Dr Brett,
This is on a comment you made on twitter. You mentioned about intermarket relation and how bond strength is tracking with stock market weakness. I'm not too clear about this though. I had thought that bond yield coming down is good for the equity market or not?
- mOOm said...
Very interesting. I scored strongest on visual and zero on auditory. If people give me spoken travel directions I have no idea what they are talking about and usually will get lost. I just ask for the address and find it using a map. I scored about equal on the kinesthetic and reading/writing. I learn things by a mixture of trial and error and reading the instructions together. I write computer programs by just writing some lines and then debugging what happens.
- peter said...
I was a +12 on the Kinesthetic scale.. Given my trading style, it fits.. I learn much more from doing than being told. And there have been more than a few learner trades I've done to see how they play out. Thankfully I've kept them small enough to not matter in the long run.
Same goes for my other passion, Photography. At most events I shoot (clubs, concerts, parties) I typically end up with a slew of bad photos at the beginning of a night before I find the groove that works. In fact, I'm very very nervous about a wedding I'm doing in Aug, as it's my first, and there's no time to ramp up while the bride is walking down the isle.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Brandon,
Thanks for the comment; it's a great point. Trading certainly is a decision-making process, which is why the behavioral finance/neurofinance research is so relevant. Could we help people become better decision makers by helping them rely on their cognitive strengths during periods of heightened perceived risk, uncertainty, frustration, etc? That would be fascinating--
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Jordan,
When you have Treasury instruments rising and lower quality debt falling, it represents fear in the fixed income world--a kind of risk aversion that is associated with a withdrawal of capital from other assets perceived as risky (including equities).
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi mOOm,
Knowing oneself seems very important in this context. I'm not sure all traders have given much thought to how they process information and how their decision making processes draw upon their strengths. Thanks for the note--
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Peter,
Great observations re: being a kinesthetic learner. A lot of trading education material is written for visual and verbal learners and is not very helpful to someone who learns through personal experience. It would be fascinating to tailor trading education to the learning strengths of traders.
- Toon said...
I took the test and got this result:
Visual: 6
Aural: 5
Read/Write: 8
Kinesthetic: 7
Not strong at anything!
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Hi Toon,
Perhaps balance--and the ability to process information through multiple modalities--is itself a strength!
- AnaTrader said...
I thought I was Kinesethic but I scored most ie 7 for Visual. Perhaps, I am both.
All teachers would do well to have their students tested with VARK questionnaires.
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What a shame - the voters of Jefferson County have slammed the door on a great opportunity for our youth. Everyone knows the state funding for our local schools has been drastically reduced, yet school levies were soundly defeated Tuesday. If we do not support our local schools, where are the students going to go? A single, Jefferson County consolidated school? Then we will hear the whining and complaining about how far the students have to travel.
Today's uncertain financial times are an often used excuse to not support our schools. However uncertain the financial times may be, one thing is absolutely certain - this area's children deserve the best education we can supply. As far as undue hardships ... give me a break. People cry about facing undue hardships using their high-speed Internet connection or their smart phone while surfing through the 150-plus channels on their TV.
Be glad you had a safe and modern school to go to, but remember the school that was modern for you is severely outdated now and many are still in use.
What a shame the voters of this county are so apathetic. No wonder the kids are leaving the area as fast as they can. It's become pretty obvious not enough people are concerned about them.
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Fascinating papers that likely presage work in the pipeline from multiple groups for schizophrenia. Truly groundbreaking work by some of the best groups in the business. Required reading for those interested in psychiatric genomics.
The identified loci provide important new windows into the neurobiology of ASD.
The results also pertain to the longstanding debate about the nature of ASD: does it result from many individually rare, Mendelian-like variants (potentially a different one in each person) and/or from the summation of the effects of many different common variants of subtle effects?
The multiple rare variant model now seems unlikely for ASD as, contrary to the expectations of some, ASD did not readily resolve into a handful of Mendelian-like diseases. (This comment is of course qualified by the limits of the technologies - which have, however, identified causal mutations for many monogenetic disorders.)
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The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Video Game Accessories Ever
#3. The Power Glove for the Nintendo Entertainment System (1989)
The idea:
Wearing this glove will make you a god among 10-year-olds. You would be able to kill those impossible bosses with your pinky finger and go through puberty three years early because of how manly this piece of hardware would make you.
The Reality:
The Power Glove was the most awesome looking accessory Nintendo had ever made. It looked especially awesome in the feature-length commercial/movie The Wizard (starring Fred Savage). Movie villain Lucas Barton had the memorable catchphrase, "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!"
Just like the Activator, the Power Glove had sensors, in this case three clunky sensors that you had to attach to your TV: two on top and one on the side. Once they were in place and stayed there for more than five minutes you could start calibrating the orientation of the glove by pointing your knuckles at the sensors for a prolonged length of time.
The finger controls themselves either didn't work at all, or they worked and never turned off making a game of Super Mario Bros. an experiment in trying to keep a suicidal Mario alive as he constantly jumped in front of goombas or down deep dark holes while you flailed your glove around in frustration.
The Japanese manufacturer of the glove went bankrupt, though Mattel (the US manufacturer) did better thanks to The Wizard convincing kids to buy it (that is, forcing their parents to buy it for them). That year many a child learned a hard lesson that trusting Hollywood product placement when making their buying decisions.
#2. The Atari Mindlink
The idea:
You can kill pixels with your mind.
The Reality:
The Mindlink was a headband made for the Atari 2600 and other Atari consoles. The Mindlink advertised that it could read your mind. It didn't.
That's probably a good thing, since it was likely you didn't want your parents to see an on screen interpretation of your adolescent mind. What the Mindlink actually did was read the movement that your head made when you shifted your eyebrows. And no, not even in the '80s was it cool to play a video game with your eyebrows.
During testing most gamers got headaches from having to concentrate hard enough to move their eyebrows in just the right way so that the headband's infrared sensors would detect the movement and project it back to the console. Don't believe them? Turn on the radio and try to move your eyebrows in time to the beat for a half hour or so. We'll wait.
The Atari Mindlink was intended to be released in 1984. Yes, "intended." It was so awful it never even made it to production. Another fun note was that this controller was being designed during the great video game crash of 1983-'84. We suspect if this thing had made it to the market, the gaming industry would have died forever.
#1. R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy)
The idea:
It's a robot.
The Reality:
It's a ingeniously designed marketing ploy to get people to buy the Nintendo Entertainment System. R.O.B. was a cute robot that didn't really do much. By pushing a button on the regular NES controller you could get the R.O.B. to move his arms, turn from side to side or push a button on the base of his frame. During a game, the action that R.O.B. performed would cause something to happen on screen (maybe).
This would be very entertaining for a while until you realized that the R.O.B. was so slow, you could just hit the buttons on the R.O.B. yourself and move his arms and head and save time. He was there more to impede the game than anything else. So what was Nintendo thinking?
Well, the R.O.B. and the NES came out in 1985, in the wake of the North American Video Game Crash of 1983-'84. The market was flooded with at least 14 different consoles, each with their own separate line of games, each of them mostly horrible. Most consumers simply walked away.
The NES came along, bundled with R.O.B., and immediately stood out. What other console came with a robot buddy? Kids imaginations ran wild. By the time they figured out the robot was worthless, they were already addicted to Mario and Legend of Zelda.
Nintendo sold one million consoles in North America in their first year. Having established a foothold in the market, Nintendo quietly stopped selling the R.O.B. bundles and sold the NES on its own.
We're still waiting for somebody else to try this, and 23 years later they could actually include a robot that works--maybe one that talks and can sit on the sofa and play games with us. And is female.
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5 Animals Who Live Through a Horror Movie Every Day
We all know that nature is mankind's archnemesis, all scheming down there in its volcano lair, nursing a mad murderection for all of humanity. But we often forget that man is an apex predator, and we get to play the survival game on easy level. As many unimaginable horrors as Mother Nature enjoys throwing at us, there are other, less fortunate animals out there who live their entire lives hunted by the kind of creatures that make horror movie villains pale in comparison.
#5. The Monster Next Door
Jim Rorabaugh via Reptiles of Arizona
Everybody likes Jeff. He's such a cool guy! He's always up for a good time, he knows the best bars, he offers to give people a ride home if they've had too much to drink. But lately, you've been noticing something: Everybody who leaves with Jeff ... never comes back. Now, we know what you're thinking, but surely that's crazy. This is Jeff, right? You've known the dude since kindergarten -- he's the best! He's Jeff, Jeffy, Jeffman, the Jeffreak! He's not, he couldn't be ... a monster ... could he?
That's exactly what the spadefoot toad tadpole is wondering right now.
David Pfennig via New Scientist
"Nice to eat you."
Before its graduation to frogginess, the entire existence of a spadefoot toad tadpole is a monster-next-door horror flick. By nature, they're cool and lucid little guys, subsisting on the algae they find on the bottom of a pool of water. However, their youth is spent in one small, often quickly drying puddle in the middle of a desert. They need to grow legs and a whole host of internal organs in a hurry, before the puddle dries and the sun scorches them. There's precious little time for them to grow up, and equally little food for the energy required. That's why some of the tadpoles take a look at their surroundings, say "Screw this noise," and go full horror.
They start out small, experimenting with eating a bit of meat by munching on the tiny shrimp that also occupy the pond. Within days, they graduate with honors from Carnivore College and begin their transformation from Tadpole Jekyll to Froggy Hyde. They grow much faster than their algae-chomping counterparts, and their jaws get bigger and stronger. Their digestive tracts shorten in preparation for an all-meat diet, and their tails grow more powerful. Within a week, the normal tadpoles have mutated into 'roided up monsters.
Which is when the cannibalism begins.
David Pfennig
Lookin' good.
These killer tadpoles now see anything that moves as food, up to and very much including their own kin. And they couldn't stop even if they wanted to -- they are slaves to their hunger. It's like some sort of gypsy curse: forced to keep eating meat, any meat, family meat, or they'll quickly revert back to their smaller, weaker state and fall prey to the other monsters.
The weaker tadpoles are essentially powerless. They're almost a whole different animal. They're just down there, sucking algae at the bottom of the pond, thinking all is well, and then Jeff comes over to borrow a cup of sugar ...
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"Nice liver. Mind if I borrow it?"
#4. The Seductive Monster
Ah, we've all been there. You hit up a bar and find some hottie drunk enough to overlook your glaring personality flaws. You really start to hit it off, and then it turns out she's a giant demon that is eating your face oh God not the face you need that face to live!
No? In that case, congratulations! You are not a male cicada (we're sure you're very proud of your remarkable achievement).
In order to secure a mate, cicada males sing complicated seduction songs. If the female cicadas are, to put it technically, "down to clown," they respond with a specific set of clicking noises. It's a simple, fairly reliable deal. But just like every one of your drunken bar crawls carries the danger of waking up next to a fat dude named Loogie, the cicada mating ritual has its risks. Occasionally, the male cicada will hear a hot little female clicking and snapping all sexily and rush to the source, only to discover that he's been seduced by a massive predatory monster. Possibly named Loogie.
The monster in question is called the spotted predatory katydid, and yes, of course it hails from Australia. It employs a particularly dickish variation of aggressive mimicry, having developed a knack for recognizing the subtle nuances of a male cicada's boning song. It replies to these calls with spot-on imitations of the "Come get me, hunk" reply clicks of a female. Upon hearing what he perceives as a sultry siren's call to action, the male throws caution to the wind and rushes to meet his girl out in the old abandoned barn, only to find out -- surprise! -- it's a guy with a hockey mask and a machete. The katydid then grabs its unlucky suitor, bites a chunk out of his head to stop the struggling, and eats the rest of the body whole.
D. Marshall and K. Hill
The only 100 percent effective protection is abstinence, but who are we kidding?
Leave it to Australia to invent murder by cockblocking.
#3. The Evil That Eats You from the Inside
Picture a jolly termite going about his termite business -- crawling around, eating wood, shooting poison glue at enemies from his terrifying face-gun (oh, you didn't know they did that?). He may not be the biggest badass of the animal kingdom, but if your list of prey includes one guy with a face-gun and a bunch of dudes without face-guns, you'll probably opt to mess with the latter. So the termite's life is relatively stable.
"Live, love, shoot things with a face-gun. Just another day on the job."
One day, ol' Freddy Face-Gun notices a weird pile of gunk that seems strangely irresistible, yet somewhat ... off. Being a termite and thus lacking in the art of self-restraint, he shrugs, strolls over, and eats his fill of the delicious swill that should not be. Full and content, he heads home to tell his friends about the awesome, if somewhat disconcerting new food source he found!
Now, fast forward a bit. Freddy Face-Gun (who we hope nobody got too attached to -- we shouldn't have named him, should we?) is now a festering mass of horror and devastation, as what turned out to be his last meal is growing out of his body and devouring not only him, but his entire colony.
Paul Stamets via American Chemical Society
"Wasn't I just saying that Freddy would be the one to bring about the apocalypse? Mike, what'd I say?"
Said colony is just one of the many that have fallen victim to Metarhizium anisopliae, a peculiar fungus that kills insects in the most gruesome manner possible. In its dormant form, M. anisopliae is the Baconator of the insect world: It is unnatural, even unholy, and yet they still eat it -- presumably because it's 2 a.m. and they're drunk on little termite-beers.
A few hours, days, or even weeks pass without incident -- and then shit goes all Pinocchio and starts getting real. The spores that have been sitting dormant in the termite's body suddenly germinate. The fungus starts burrowing through the softer bits of the exoskeleton while eating the helpless insect from the inside out. Imagine you're a termite, just hanging around, all confident in your full suit of armor, staring people down with a gun that is also your face, when suddenly, the Double Down you ate a month ago starts spewing battery acid in your stomach and eating you right back.
Rob Graham and Jon Darbo, via Discover Magazine
And of course it doesn't end with the death of just one termite. The delay effect in M. anisopliae means that the insect is back at its colony when the fungus starts to consume it. This was the fungus' intention all along. After consuming "patient zero," it uses the drained corpse as a base of operations and releases more spores into the vicinity, murdering everything that ventures near -- again, much like your bathroom the day after 10 PBRs and two Baconators -- until eventually, the entire colony is nothing but hollow, cracked exoskeletons.
By the way, science has recognized the destructive and repellent properties of the fungus and is looking into ways to employ it as a pesticide. So get a termite infestation, and this thing will soon be calmly sprayed into your house by surly dudes with prominent butt cracks. Don't be concerned: There's certainly no indication that M. anisopliae is harmful to humans. But then again ... isn't that exactly what the termites thought at first?


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I've heard or seen all of them in real life situations, some of them seem to be exclusively for hostels, others only for larger hotels, but some verification would be nice.
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酒店 usually means restaurant only, but it refers to the hotel with restaurant advertised or the larger hotel too.
宾馆/旅馆/旅店 is hotel, same exactly meaning, including the hotel with restaurant. But you never call a restaurant only as 宾馆. And you don't call a very good hotel as 旅馆/旅店.
旅社/招待所 is often used by mid aged people in China, when they say 旅社 they meant those hotels that are nation sponsored (国营的) in the planned economics time. Mostly it is equivalent to 宾馆/旅馆, but 旅社 refers to the smaller cheap hotel on the street nowadays, 招待所 is still for the nation or organisation sponsored hotels.
旅舍 means the accommodation for travellers, mostly in country side, specifically means the small and cheaper hotel. It refers the building rather than the function of the hotel.
YHA can be translated as 青年旅馆 or 青年旅舍, rarely with other names. Bagpacker's can be translated as 背包旅馆 or 背包旅舍, nobody calls it as 背包宾馆. Hilton hotel can be translated as 希尔顿酒店 or 希尔顿宾馆, nobody calls it 希尔顿旅馆. Novotel like business hotel can be translated as 商务旅馆, 商务酒店, 商务宾馆.
My understanding as a Mandarin speaker:
酒店 mostly refer to multi-functional fancy hotels, or at least they want to refer themselves as fancy and pricy. Normally there are pricy restaurants attached to 酒店. You would also be expected to see conference centers, gyms, bars inside a 酒店. For example Hilton will be a 酒店 - 希尔顿大酒店。 (I feel that the word 酒店 has some relation to higher social status.)
Then after that comes 宾馆. It mainly refer to some nice hotels more or less just for sleeping. So an international conference will likely to be held in a 酒店, not a 宾馆.
旅馆 & 旅舍 seems like an inn/motel to me. 旅 in Chinese means to travel, so it translates to travel-accommodation - a Motel. I say Holiday Inn would be called a 旅馆. 旅舍 is similar in some sense, but it has the nuance of independent-organization. If my mom decide to open a hotel we might call it 旅舍, but this difference is very subtle and maybe ignored in some situation.
青年旅舍 as a phrase, means hostels.
旅舍 & 旅社 maybe used interchangeably as in "accommodation". Although 旅社 sometimes short for 旅行社, is a "travel agent".
Usually 酒店 refers to larger hotels. 宾馆 can have the same meaning, but some smaller hotels are also referred to as 宾馆. 旅馆 always refers to smaller hotels. 旅舍 is not very commonly used; it appears in some hotel names near tourist attractions. In most situations, 旅社 is not usually used to refer to a place for temporary accommodation; instead it refers to a travel agency.
If you don't like things to be too complicated, simply using 宾馆 is ok.


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|Yes that is my pillow case in the freezer
- Air conditioned pillows. Cool like the other side of the pillow only works for like 3 flips and then both sides are too warm
- a way to call my keys. Seriously, I must lose my keys at least once a day!
- a shock collar for kids. just joking. Well kind of...
- Scratch and sniff TV and computer monitors. I mean you watch all these cooking shows and they tell you it smells good, but I want to know for myself. (Especially when they give that having to fake it face because they wanna gag)
- Car cup holder coolers so when you run an errand you come back and your cup is still icy cool. (I am sure some luxury car has it out there, but it needs to be in the typical vehicle to count right)
- Memory conversion system. A way to just think a memory and it comes out in a beautiful scrapbook!
- Pause button. Sometimes something happens so quickly I just need to be able to pause and call my husband for a quick smart butt response. (course it probably better that I don't have that ability)
- A dashboard for all my social media. You feel like you need to be apart of each one so you don't get left out, but it is starting to become a work out just to keep up!


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Miss TDP Mary Sue Round 3 {Handdrawn} - 11-03-2010, 12:08 PM
The entrants for the next round of the competition are as follows:
New entrants are allowed, but remember that by not entering the first and second rounds, you've missed out on forty potential points.
Name: Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor.
Age: Fourteen; she's in fifth year tho cuz she was moved up a year due to being so clever.
Fandom: Harry Potter.
Drabble: Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor had known that there was something wrong about Harry's vision the moment she was told. Of course, cuz she was now dating Harry Potter, having dumped Blaise for him the previous week, Harry confided in her before he told anyone else that he had seen Sirius being tortured at the hands of Lord Voldemort. Of course, Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor had no problems at all in saying the name out loud, something that Harry admired her for. Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor was sure that there was something wrong about what Harry had seen, and told him so herself. She said that there wasn't anything to be gained in jumping to conclusions and took charge of things herself. First she sent her own owl Midnight, who was coloured black with a slight purple tinge and a white front, off to Sirius with a letter. She wasn't at all worried about Midnight being attacked by Umbridge; Midnight was cleverer than any other owl and would easily escape.
Once they received Sirius's reply that same day, since Midnight flew so quickly, it was only an hour or so before he returned. Sirus promised Harry and Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor that he was perfectly alright and that he'd stay in his house until they gave him word. He was, like everyone else, completely dazzled by Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor's beauty and kindness, and only wanted to do as she said. Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor then turned to Harry and said that they would go to the Ministry and fight. Harry agreed with her and said that he would go with her. The pair of them flew a Thestral to the Ministry; Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor could see Thestrals, despite not having seen death, due to her angel powers. Once at the Ministry, they were immediately attacked by Death Eaters. Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor courageously defended Harry, who didn't really do much of anything, against the attackers. When Voldemort came, well, he didn't stand a chance. Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor dueled with Voldemort, using her special angel powers to the fullest, and he was soon defeated. He fled the Ministry out of fear of Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor's anger. Harry was overjoyed and very proud of his girlfriend. However, Rowanna Mystick Angel Demetor was thinking of Sirius Black, and wondering whether she should go and see him personally...
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Round 3: The Mary Sue's Trials And Battles.
This round is to show your Mary Sue in battle, perhaps fighting for her loved ones, or fighting in a war, or even battling the top villain of the series. Go mad with pointless description, shouldering aside the canon hero in order to gain glory for your Sue and of course, purple prose. Any questions, feel free to PM me.
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Doll Critique.
This is a really beautiful doll. I love the highlights and the attention to detail. Your selection of a completely inappropriate set of "armor" for a battle works well for this Sue, who clearly suffers from "The Littlest Bra Stops ALLLLL Weapons" syndrome. What better thing for a Sue to wear than her undergarments into battle?
Drabble Critique.
Your story was marvelous, which is where my problem lies with it. For most of the first half of this chapter, I felt like I wasn't reading about a Sue, I was reading about a regular character who had some really strange interests and abilities. The Sue peeked through at moments, such as the letter, the silly armor, and the "romantic" moment with the djinn, but it wasn't as strong as it could've been. You got back on track in the end and the Sue definately reared her ugly head with her newly discovered sword skills, managing to kill the queen so easily and getting back her lover, because no ending is an unhappy one in Suedom.
Doll Critique.
I love this doll so much; from her wonderfully shinetastic hair to her hilariously ridiculous scanty armour! XD I adore the shading, and all the little details that completely finish off this doll so perfectly.
Drabble Critique.
Well written and no, it wasn't too long! It could have done with a bit more Sueishness to the character; perhaps some ridiculous description of her clothes and hair at a serious moment, or her slapping down someone offering advice; it definitely leaned too much towards original fiction. Tho, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Anyway, the ending was pure Sue and of course, the Sue would get her man!
Finally managed to type up my story! Sorry for the delay, I've been studying for an important test. I did this in a rush, so please excuse and grammatical and spelling errors, lol.
Plus, my story exceeds character limit, so I'm just going to do 2 posts. Hope that's okay?
Name: Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream
Fandom: Fairies Of Pixie Hollow, Peter Pan, and now, The Little Mermaid II:
Credits: Everything except the rock was created by me. Rock was found via Google and edited to doll-pixel form.
Previously, in the life of Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream:
During an errand to promote her mother's campagne of "Fairies Are Real", Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream happend across Peter Pan and fell instantly in love. Upon trying to gather courage to profess her love, she'd noticed that Tinkerbell had bewitched Peter with Evil Pixie Dust. As was the law, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream sent Tink into exile. After Peter was released from her evil spell, he was disoriented and confused, but knew that the love of the most beautiful creature would surely cure him. He held a contest across the universe, which originally had several intended contestants, but had diminished to only 3 once they all glimpsed the beauty and awe of Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream. Only those left were herself, Wendy, and a stubbornly plain mermaid. The contest for Peter's heart was shoved aside, however, when he glimpsed Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's eyes for the first time. They fell instantly in love and upon being married, Peter turned into a man-fairy.
It was a bright, cheerful day. All throughout Pixie Hollow laughter and joy could be heard from Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's loyal subjects. For today was the day that Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream finally took the throne. Her mother, Clarion, gladly stepped down from the throne a week after Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's fairytale wedding to Peter Pan. Clarion knew that, now more than ever, her daughter could rule all of Pixie Hollow a lot better than she was ever able to. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream has always been the most powerful fairy of all her land, but her already stunning beauty and powers were enhanced ten-fold the day her true love was made hers.
During the royal couple's week-long honeymoon, Clarion announced what everyone had known for eons, that it was time for her daughter to take her place, for all of Pixie Hollow to make known to the universe that, with Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream as their leader, they were most powerful of all. And with the announcement for change of power, all of Pixie Hollow, Never Never Land, Earth, and more, rejoiced.
All that is, except for the land under the seas. The land of the notoriously jealous and weak beings of the Mermaid race.
Once word of the coming change of power and order had reached the Mermaids they rushed to their leader, Melody, who incidently just lost to Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream in the contest of the universe for Peter Pan's heart. Melody was furious, naturally, as it was her nature to be jealous as-is, and she was determined to put an end to it all, to put an end to that magically beatiful, loved, and respected Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream.
Melody and her merpeople set to work straight away. Organizing their normally aloof colonies to prepare a strategy to take down the one they all hated most. The one they knew was about to become the official leader of power and beauty of all the universe, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream.
And so it was, that the night, a mere few hours before Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's crowning, screams were heard. Sobbing, terror, but above all remorse over Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's aching heart.
The Mermaids, in their jealous revengful rage knew that they had no chance against the most powerful of all beings. So they devised a plot to take away Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's newfound power and beauty. To take her heart, her happiness, her dreams, and her desire. The Mermaids kidnapped Peter Pan, and took him far below where any Fairy's magic could reach. They took him to their layer, in the darkest, deepest area of the sea.
What was once a bright and cheerful day was no more. The moment her heart shattered the skies turned dark, the clouds threatened fury, and the storm swallowed all of Pixie Hollow.
Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was at a loss for what to do. How could she go on to rule the Universe, when she couldn't even raise her head to look at her own people? She was ripped apart, empty, and cold. After a week, that seemed an eternity of happiness, of experiencing the newfound power she had through true love, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream felt weak, she felt powerless, but above all she felt empty aside from the ache in her heart, that seemed to twinge with more anger than ever known to man, fairy, or the like. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream took flight, and flew to the furthest territories of her lands.
Then the rain began, so angry was the rain, too, that she could go no further. While a Fairie's magic and wings could work in light rain, this rain was relentless. It was as though the sea itself were falling all around her. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream took refuge in old and dark cave. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream thought the cave seemed familiar, almost forbidden, but in her remorse she could not quite put her finger on why it seemed so.
As Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream sat and cried alone, warm and dry, as her hair and body was always somehow perfect, despite the elements, a light suddenly flickered faintly from the depths of the cavern. Distracted, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream stood in confusion and felt an unmistakable urge to go forth, to see the source of the faint light in a cave that was, at first, seemingly abandoned.
Cautiously and quietly as she could, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream tip toed down the cave, and what she came across she had not expected in all her wildest dreams. It was a fairy. Weak and disgustingly covered, wing to toe in grime, she seemed to be dying. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream felt sorry for the poor creature, and wished there was some way she could multiply her immunity to the only thing that killed fairies (When someone say's "I don't believe in fairies".). But Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream knew she could not. At least not without the power of the forbidden Evil Pixie Dust.
And then it dawned on Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream why this cave seemed familiar and forbidden, because it was. This must have been an entrance to what was once the cove of Hook's Skull Dungeon, which, unbeknowest to Hook, incidently housed both the Evil Pixie Dust and it's protector, the evil crocadile of Hook's own nightmares. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's pity for the poor creature in front of her suddenly turned to fury. This creature was looking for the power of the Evil Pixie Dust, to use it to fufill her own selfish needs and desires. No doubt she was so disgustingly filthy and weak because she'd been looking for it for quite some time.
And so, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream pushed aside her own personal heartache to fufill the duty that was now to be her's alone. She was to punish and exile this pety creature. But as she marched forth the creature looked up and froze, as did Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream. It was Tink! The creature already exiled not more than a mere week ago! Before Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream could unleash her fury, Tink spoke. Quiet and timid at first, but more strong as she continued:
"I have what you need. I have what will make everything better, what will make your people overjoyed once more, but most importantly, I have what you need to get your Peter back."
"I don't want anything from a criminal like you!" spat Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream.
"No, no! I am remorsed, I am disgusted at what was once myself before that evil soaked through! I want to make things right, I want to be useful and true to my High Queen! What's more is that I want her Queenship to know, to KNOW, that what is Dark Magic to all else, it is not so for her Queenship!"
"What are you talking about?" asked Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream.
And with a weak smile of hope, Tink told Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream that she'd been on a quest to restore her honor and dependability to her Highness. That she'd overheard the plot of the Merpeople and knew that no one would ever believe an exile, such as herself. So she'd gone to see what she could do to help Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream when her Highness needed her help most. She came back to the caverns of Skull Dungeon and tricked the evil Crocadile into defeat to get to the Evil Pixie Dust, not for herself, but for her Queenship. Tink explained how the Evil Pixie Dust looked different, that it was no longer a firery sparkle, but golden, just as brilliantly golden as her Highness!
"And that's when I knew, Magesty!" Tink proclaimed "That the Evil in this Pixie Dust would not infect someone as pure, beautiful, and powerful as her Highness!"
Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was stunned. She'd never before heard of Evil Pixie Dust changing form, for anyone, in all her thousands of years of living. Every being who ever sought the Dust had evil in their heart's desire. But Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream had always known, just as her people had, that she did not have the capacity to host evil intent, in whatever form, however small, she just could not. That Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was honorable and pure. If what Tink was saying was true, if the Dust had changed form in Tink's desire to give it to her, then surely that was to mean something?
Seeing that Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was starting to realize what this meant, Tink hurridly got up and spun on her heel deeper into the cavern to retrieve the Dust that she'd been protecting until this day came. After a minute she returned to see Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream sitting gloriously on a rock. How beautiful and bright this cave has become since her High Queenship walked into it, Tink thought. And she crawled forth, the Dust raised in her hands above her bowed head, stopping just short of her Queen's feet.
"May I present to her Honorable Highness, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream, the defender of Justice, and the defeater of all Evil, the revered Pixie Dust of Pixie Hollow!"
Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was speechless, it was true! The Dust had changed form! It was no longer an image of Darkness and Evil, but of Light and Honor, the color she'd been born into, a bright and brilliant gold! She reached her hand out, unsure of what to do, if she was to do it at all, when all of a sudden the Dust exploaded. The beauty and glory surrounded them both, swirling in majestic magic. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was entranced by it's beauty and wonder, and inhaled deeply. The power and magic filled her up, soaked through her soft skin, and neslted into her perfect hair.
What power! What knowledge! And it was then that Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream knew exactly what she had to do, to save her Peter, to save her Kingdom and her people. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream thanked Tink and asked her to await her return, for she will surely be honored for her good deed.
Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream raced through the rain toward the sea. Behind her she left a brilliant rainbow that overthrew the furious storm. As she passed over her Kingdom the fairies rejoiced and cheered on their majestic Queen. Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream knew that nothing, not even the sea could stop her now.
As she landed lightly on the shore, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream closed her sparkling dewy eyes and spoke.
"I am High Queen, immortal Fairy of all elements. Water, you hinder me no more. Spirit, take form, unleash the life of water that lies within."
And with her magic Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream changed form. She was no longer just a creature of the earth and sky, but a creature of all territories. She'd transformed into a glorious mermaid and slipped into the sea.
On her way to the deepest layer of the merpeople, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream passed several stunned creatures. All of which, after seeing their High Queen triumphantly in their own form, in their own world, bowed and honored Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream. All that is, except for Melody. She was floating beside an oxygen-masked Peter, a look of fury plain on her face, and evil in her soul. She wrenched Peter's body towards her and held her triton to his neck, and smiled as her triton began to glow.
Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream was not frightned, only relieved that the pitiful mermaid had not yet killed Peter, merely just taken him hostage. She raised her hand towards Melody and spoke.
"You will never again harm others with your evil ways, you or your people. There is a new Light and Law, and you will gladly bow before it, like everyone else, if you so wish to live."
And with that, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream's immensely powerful magic penetrated the boundries of water for the first time in history, and surrounded the sea and all it's creatures. Now they all were enlightend to the power, purity, and honor of their new High Queen. Melody's triton fell in defeat, and she bowed to Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream.
Her enemies defeated, her heart restored, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream gently took Peter to the surface and removed the oxygen mask from his face. As her sparkling tail began to fade, and her majestic wings began to appear, she kissed Peter, and the Kingdom of Pixie Hollow rejoiced once more.
Once Peter was restored to health, and in good hands, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream returned to the caverns of Skull Dungeon. She gracefully walked towards a bowed Tinkerbell and placed her hand on her head. As it began to glow, Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream pronounced Tink's welcome back into her Kingdom, and her place of honor in her board of directors. So speechless was Tink, that all she could do was cry in thankfulness.
And so they all lived on. The creatures of every land, sea, and sky gladly united together under Radiance Twinkle Bella Glorious Dream. With her immeasurable power all was well and right in the universe. And from then on, there was no Evil to be found. Not in the dust, nor in the heart, mind, and soul. From there forth, not a soul could deny the Fairies, and everyone lived on forever in happiness.
Please excuse any typo's grammar or stray pixels I too have been super busy, Lucky to get it in really.
Name: Xylia Maurelle Luella Fluer Lanthine Emerenta
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (Tolkein)
Xylia Maurelle Luella Fluer Lanthine Emerenta was very proud of the party she had created although they looked quite ordinary they were indeed quite extraordinary, it consisted of: A Dwarven berserker, Human warrior, Human wizard, Human ranger and 2 Elf archers myself & Legolas.
It was getting dark as the party sat drinking ale at the Empty Tankard Inn (Xylia decided not to partake of the amber liquid this time round, this Inn has too many bad memories she thought) Instead she went to the bathroom to admire herself in the mirror wearing her armour, I look astonishingly beautiful wearing this amazing armour, Its quite slimmimg too she thought, the craftsmanship is exquisite mentally thanking all of her forest friends for making it for her.
The Enchanted +15 Magic leather armour was made by the old witch in the forest, an enchantment of Stone skin was cast upon it, nothing can pierce it, The Golden cloak was fashioned with gold dust and made by the silk worms who gathered golden dust for many moons to craft it, The bow was given to her by Zagruk the father of their love child, he had obtained the bow after defeating a giant orc 7 moons ago, The bow glows when orcs are near and finally the +3 arrows where given to her by her beloved Legolas.
The party partied through the night:
Gimli son of Gloin known for his love for the golden liquid sat drinking & telling stories of his kin & far off homeland, When I was a young lad......hicccup I hicccup ..boredom set in for many as they moved to other locations around the Inn, Gimli in a drunken stupor started abusing his fellow patrons as he slumped to the floor under the table and finally succumbed to slumber
Boromir son of Denethor II sitting casually on a bar stool seemingly unaware that anyone was watching him continued to sweet talk the local barmaid as she sat on his knee giggling flirtaciously with the ever so handsome Warrior, The two excused themselves saying that they needed to tend to the horses in the stables, Hmmm likely story Xyllia thought to herself.
Gandalf the Grey The ever so powerful wizard sat in a comfy armchair beside the fire smoking his pipe, Gandalf started showing off producing great shapes in many colours with the smoke from his pipe he had the small children entertained as they gathered around to hear his amazing stories, full of intrigue they sat wide eyed listening in wonder.
Aragorn the party ranger sat in the corner of the Inn alone, he sat and polished his blade while he pondered the coming battle, he chose not to drink this night, he wanted to keep his wits about him at all times, scouring the inn suspiciously with his eyes he made sure his party was safe.
Legolas well what can I say, The incredibly handsome and perfectly skilled archer had all of my attention, I sat plaiting his long hair into braids, nobody knew of our secret liasons but plaiting hair was a ritual that many took so nothing looked suspicious, or so we thought until we spotted Aragorn seated in the corner smiling surreptitiously at us, He is to be trusted she reassured Legolas.
The next morning:
I smell orc said Gimli snorted and it stinks, The party was assembled atop a mountain looking down the valley of Rohan.
Poor Poor Gimli in his hungover state, Boromir with straw in his hair, Aragorn with his sharp shiny blade, Gandalf coughing & spluttering whilst smoking his pipe and of course the ever so perfect Legolas looking immaculately groomed as usual and of course myself I am sure that I was in absolute awe of everyone there. Everyone was armed and ready for battle until they actually looked over the crest of the mountain and saw the multitude of stinking orcs sitting waiting for what looked like lunch, Loads of body parts were cooked on spits over open fires, the stench of rotting flesh was unbearable.
This is the perfect time for an ambush, Orcs do not fight well when they are hungry, Lets go!
Kicking the horses into motion the party sped down the hill to ambush the unsuspecting hungry orcs, Arrows were fired, Fire balls were cast many were struck down from a distance with missile weapons. Legolas & I let go a stream of arrows which put several orcs out of their misery, Gimli surging forward started hacking away at orcs, many a limb went flying through the air, one such limb landing on Gandalf as he simply but effectively threw it away whilst cursing the unfortunate dead orc whos putrid blood now stained Gandalf the whites pure & pristine robes.
Orcs were going down everywhere, The beautiful Valley of Rohan was quickly becoming a blood bath, Aragorn spotted one of the orc leaders, as quick as a flash & ever so efficiently took his head right off clean at the shoulders, he scowled as he looked down at the dismembered head whos eyes seemed to be looking back at him with intense disdain, Enjoy hell you scum of the earth!
With the battle almost in its dying stages and the Orcish leader still yet to be destroyed Xylia Maurelle Luella Fluer Lanthine Emerenta decided to show everyone was she was made of so wearing her + 15 Magical leather armour that was to die for and the gold cloak that shined like 100 suns she took off down the hill with her red mane of hair flowing behind her she sped past the few remaining orcs & blinded them with her golden cloak, The orc leader saw her coming and sliced at her with his crude blade, His target Xylia yelled a War cry that would make your toes curl as she fired an arrow straight through the orcs temple killing him instantly, seeing the arrow protruding from the other side of his head Xylia felt victorious and then fell to the ground, she lay there motionless.
Legolas seeing this from a great distance saw Xyli lying on the grass in what seemed to be a large pool of red blood around her body, speeding down the hill to rescue his loved one he stopped short of her and let out a gasp, Xylia lay there crying unable to move as she surveyed the damage of what the great orc had done to her, Legolas...sob...he sliced straight through my hair....sob.... and cut it all off it is strewn all about me sob...sob, Legolas kneeled down beside her and wrapped her in his arms, Xylia to me you are still the most beautiful elf in all of Lothlorien, No-one compares to your beauty, your hair means nothing to me my love ..at that moment Xylia Maurelle Luella Fluer Lanthine Emerenta sat up and brushed herself off, she could not believe what her pointed ears were hearing, You Legolas may not care about my hair but to me it is my crowning glory, my strength, my beauty and my all .It is everything! I will not have this talk and with that she walked away to congratulate her fellow party members on one amazing victory.
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Lovie's and Ness's critique and scores is here, cuz of that darn character limit! XD
Doll: 8/10 Drabble: 10/10
Doll Critique.
My first thought when looking at this doll was "mermaid? Where did that come from?", so thank god I read your story first to find out. I like how you have kept up with the whole theme of pure gold in this doll and the story. The background, her hair, and the fin are beautifully done, however her butt is looking a little square and strangely bulgy at that. Sneaky with the butterfly top detail, I almost didn't catch it, and using her body for the antennas, so amusing! Also, as a generally helpful tip, think of mermaids as not having knees. Instead, draw their fins smoothly without the knee bend because it would be awful to have a joint there for mermaids--imagine the swimming issues!
Drabble Critique.
One word: overdone. Just like a Sue deserves. I couldn't help but laugh all through it. The perfection of Radiance even in the most absurd of circumstances, the rainbow breaking apart that storm behind her, everything bowing to her, it was just too much. The real kicker was her mother giving up the throne for her because her daughter was more powerful, what an interesting notion that she held the throne just for the day her perfect daughter became more perfect through love!
Doll Critique.
At first, I wondered what the heck was with the mermaid; then I read the drabble. XD This doll is very nicely shaded, and her hair just looks so soft. And of course, no Sue would be complete without the vapid beauty queen smile!
Drabble Critique.
This was truly vomit enducing; a perfect Mary Sue drabble. Overdone, so much self praise and purple prose, and of course, everyone loves her even her worst enemy... who she of course forgives, cuz she's just that wonderful. XD
Doll: 6/10 Drabble: 6/10
Doll Critique.
Your doll is very nicely detailed. The belt, the stocking swirls, remembering the often forgotten quiver, its clear you were very thorough in planning the look of this doll. You still need to work on palettes and shading skirts because there is way too much usage of your dark colours. Most of your skirt should be medium shades. Also, the shaping of the top needs work. You probably would've been better off keeping with a simple curved neckline since the base stance isn't too great for doing more intricate necklines. Overall, you have been improving a lot with your skills!
Drabble Critique.
Way to hit a big Sue characteristic by including the completely out there histories of how she obtained her outfit, as well as their special properties. Way to steal canon too for her quiver! You had me laughing at Gandalf tossing that limb that hit him so nonchalantly, as if this was a normal occurence in the life of Gandalf. I was concerned about the lack of focus strictly upon the Sue. You gave a lot of time to the other characters and the story would've benefitted from more connections to herself in the middle. The "death" at the end really won me over--only a Sue would be upset about a man not caring about her hair and then basically forget it all in an instant. As a side note, I found the formatting and style a bit difficult to follow. The story would've benefitted from a good editing to check the flow.
Doll Critique.
I love this doll very much; so much attention to every last little detail, and the hair is fantastic. Especially since this is obviously a very difficult base to work with. My only criticism is that the shading looks a little weird; maybe use a different pallette next time? But anyway, this is a Suedoll in the very frightening flesh.
Drabble Critique.
I know there was a rush to get this in before the deadline; and so there wasn't the editing and proofreading this drabble needed. However, despite that, this is a very ridiculous Sue story; the ending is pure Sue. There needs to be a bit less focus on the other characters; after all, who is more important than the Sue in a story? XD
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Google MyMaps KMZ is limited compared to Google Earth by Google Maps servers (file sizes are also limited to 10mb)
Is your KML/KMZ publicly accessible? you should be able to overlay your data in google maps
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I can't understand: what's the difference between complicated and complex?
They seem to be used interchangeably. Are they actually different at all?
I can't understand: what's the difference between complicated and complex?
They seem to be used interchangeably. Are they actually different at all?
Complex is used to refer to the level of components in a system. If a problem is complex, it means that it has many components. Complexity does not evoke difficulty.
On the other hand, complicated refers to a high level of difficulty. If a problem is complicated, there might be or might not be many parts but it will certainly take a lot of hard work to solve.
I am forced by my nature to add a more pedantic answer to the list. The content of this answer does not reflect my personal opinion, nor does it reflect common usage, but it does explain why the two words are not precisely interchangeable in all circumstances.
Complexity is intrinsic. Something is complex if it involves a lot of [metaphorical] moving parts even when considered as a Platonic ideal.
Complication is extrinsic. Something is complicated by external influences, or because of external influences.
Pedantically, something can be complex without being complicated, or complex because it is complicated. (Things are rarely complicated without also being complex.) In realms where precision is important, there is often a distinct division between the terms. In medicine, for instance, a broken bone may be described as a complex fracture because the fracture is complicated by breaking the skin, inviting the risk of infection.
Here endeth the pedantry.
In common use, complex is more usually used in a technical sense. Complicated is more likely to appear in everyday language among the general population since most complexity in everyday life is complicated in some way. Complicated may not always be precisely correct, but most people don't spend their lives with a dictionary in one hand and a thesaurus in the other looking for le seul mot juste -- they already have a word that means what they want to say.
In the Zen of Python, we have an aphorism
It's a handy guideline when you are designing something.
One subtle distinction between the two is that where the complexity was in some sense introduced, it is probably more common to use "complicated" than "complex." For example,
It is of course true that the instructions were also complex, but the silent implication in using "complicated," the past participle of "to complicate," is that somebody caused the complexity, as opposed to it being inherent in the subject. As a result, "complicated" sometimes has a negative connotation, effectively meaning "unnecessarily complex."
However, as others have said, there is a large overlap in the use of the two words.
Also, the idiomatic retort "It's complicated" is a sort of defense or apology for not being able to give a simple, and often expected, answer:
These words have a really large overlap, but they each have some distinct uses.
Complicated can refer to things that are difficult to explain because they are unclear rather than because they have a lot of parts. For example, Facebook's "It's complicated" relationship status could refer to a relationship that is one-to-one, but not well-defined.
Complex also has some technical meanings, as in "Complexity theory". This is related to the idea that the behavior of a system cannot be fully understood even if the parts are understood. This meaning is much more specific than what is conveyed by "complicated".
As reported by the NOAD, the meaning of those words are:
The meaning of complex partially overlaps the meaning of complicated; the difference is that complex is also used as noun, and in specific contexts with a specific meaning (see Chemistry, and Mathematics).
You can use them interchangeably.
Complicated: consisting of a lot of different parts or details and therefore difficult to understand. Examples:
Complex: a complex process, relationship etc is difficult to understand because it has a lot of parts that are all connected in different ways. Examples:
Complex is generally used in technical situations, where a problem has a lot of components and aspects.
Complicated is more used in social situations.
Of course, you could say that "I am in a relationship and it is complex" and "This project's architecture is complicated". It would not be wrong, but it sounds a bit off to the ear.
The usage of these terms is different, that's all.
There can be no better explanation than in this TED talk by Eric Berlow (only three minutes, so go watch it!).
To quote the salient bit:
(That said, I actually disagree with Eric Berlow on the topic of network complexity. I'm a bioinformatician, we deal with complex interaction networks (mainly of the cell), and let me tell you: are they ever complicated. It's safe to say that we (the scientists) understand almost nothing about these networks and reducing or interpreting these complex networks like Eric Berlow does in his talk is simply not possible. I suspect that this talk is more show than anything else.)
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I have two gateway to access internet, somehow I want to load balancing it, so far its working, but some connection or service need persistent gateway IP to be used, so the client should never change its gateway once it have connected to dest., my current implementation seems to be round-robin or whatever it is.
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nexthop via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 weight 1
nexthop via 192.168.1.2 dev eth0 weight 1
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I am trying to factorize $\sin(x)\over x$ which by Taylor series expansion and using the roots is $$a \cdot \left(1 - \frac{x}{\pi} \right) \left(1 + \frac{x}{\pi} \right) \left(1 - \frac{x}{2\pi} \right) \left(1 + \frac{x}{2\pi} \right) \left(1 - \frac{x}{3\pi} \right) \left(1 + \frac{x}{3\pi} \right) \cdots$$
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Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied skills of individuals. This data set allows us to construct an indicator that measures skill balance in the uantity (skill scope) and quality (skill level) dimension. Our results show that employees working in large businesses tend to have a lower skill balance than those working in small businesses; yet, the skill balance of entrepreneurs remains the largest. The impact of human capital formation on skill balance also varies among employees of different business sizes and entrepreneurs. Finally, the estimated returns to balanced skills are largest for entrepreneurs whereas, for employees, these returns decrease as business size increases. However, we find no relationship between balancing skills at lower skill levels and income, indicating that both dimensions - skill level and skill scope - are relevant. We end by discussing the policy implications that can be drawn from our results in regard to skill balance.
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