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You've traveled this far
October 14, 2012
Fall is here! It's my favorite time of year yet I feel like I haven't really been enjoying it that much. Why not? A sudden "episode" of anxiety has seemingly come out of nowhere and hit me like a truck running over my head at 80 mph. Well, okay I guess that analogy isn't that great because if a truck really ran over my head I would be dead right now and I'm obviously alive. But this anxiety has been really debilitating and I haven't been living life as I should because of it. I suppose realizing that my dreaded birthday is coming up is what triggered the anxiety attack. I started thinking about my age and where I am in life and what I've done and more about what I haven't done (marriage, kids, grad school, career, my art, moving abroad again, etc). And that's been really worrying and upsetting me. I know I've been beating myself up, unfairly, and way too harshly. But despite my efforts to be rational and chilled-out about things, the same obsessive worries and fears and regrets keep going round in circles in my head. But I think that once I start to really make progress and improvements in at least one area of my life, these feelings will get better and go away. God, I hope so. Regret is such a miserable, self-loathsome, sickening feeling. I've struggled enough with it already over the years and I thought I had finally let go of some things until this latest crippling bout of it. I know regret is extremely counter-productive because you can't go back and change things. Looking back, dwelling, getting sentimental and nostalgic to the point of extreme sadness – this has always been a problem of mine since I was a kid, really. How do you stop thinking this way? If anybody has any good tips, please feel free to share them. I'm so tired of it.
Anyway, in other good news, I just started a new photography blog – http://aclundberg.blogspot.com. I'm really happy with how it's looking so far. Hopefully as I add more posts it will start to look more professional and will help me land some jobs or something. But despite using it as a job tool, I've just been having a lot of fun working on it.
Regarding RA stuff, my troublesome ankle is a lot worse again over the last week – swelling, painful. Why? I have no idea. The thought of going back on prednisone again is a depressing one and I'm fighting hard to not give in to it. I also just received a letter in the mail last week from the Mayo Clinic saying that an appointment has opened up with the orthopedic foot/ankle doctor I've been trying to get in to see since August. Bad news, I have to wait until December 13th for the appointment. December is cutting it awfully close to when my health insurance goes back to being crap as of January 1st. I am grateful that I actually got an appointment though. This doctor is kind of my last hope at trying to figure out what's really going on with my ankle and to hopefully find a way to fix it. Otherwise I'll have to start looking outside of Minnesota and realistically I can't do that because my health insurance only covers me in the state (which is ridiculous).
Well anyway. Before I sign off, here is a poem I really like and recently discovered by Dorianne Laux. You've walked those streets a thousand times and still you end up here….
Yes, indeed.
By Dorianne Laux
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who killed the cook, not
the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark,
in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication, not
the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot,
the one you beat to the punchline, the door or the one
who left you in your red dress and shoes, the ones
that crimped your toes, don't regret those.
Not the nights you called god names and cursed
your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch,
chewing your nails and crushed by loneliness.
You were meant to inhale those smoky nights
over a bottle of flat beer, to sweep stuck onion rings
across the dirty restaurant floor, to wear the frayed
coat with its loose buttons, its pockets full of struck matches.
You've walked those streets a thousand times and still
you end up here. Regret none of it, not one
of the wasted days you wanted to know nothing,
when the lights from the carnival rides
were the only stars you believed in, loving them
for their uselessness, not wanting to be saved.
You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake,
ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house
after the TV set has been pitched out the window.
Harmless as a broken ax. Emptied of expectation.
Relax. Don't bother remembering any of it. Let's stop here,
under the lit sign on the corner, and watch all the people walk by.
(Check out the poem featured on Brain Pickings' site: "Antilamentation: A Poetic Antidote to Regret by Maria Popova")
6 Responses to "You've traveled this far"
October 14, 2012 at 2:31 am
I don't know how to say this without sounding nuts but I feel you must be a kindred spirit of mine. I overanalyze everything and constantly punish myself for things I should have done better, differently, or not at all… I found out I have RA earlier this year and I feel like it has beaten me into a bloody mess. And the worst part has been that I can no longer push myself far beyond reasonable limits to accomplish what I feel I must. But then that becomes the silver lining of this abhorrent disease. I have to slow down, have to rest my body, have to control stress and in doing all these things we learn to accept ourselves along the way. It's not easy or immediate, but slowly we learn to appreciate what we can do.
Thanks for this post and the poem, all things I really needed to hear tonight.
October 15, 2012 at 6:19 am
I am a 45 year old male. I was diagnosed with R.A. about 6 years ago. This disease has changed my life. When it started, I knew little of what to expect and how this disease would progress. I started reading about it but since the symptoms, etc. didn't match my condition at that time, I relaxed and had a false sense of relief. I assumed it must be a mild form and that I will be fine.
However my body started to feel the full power of R.A. after about a year and I started consuming a cocktail of allopathic medication. My body started to crumble – pain, inflammation in all possible joints, lack of strength, mental fatigue, confusion about the future and a total surrender to the disease. I also lost a successful business and that hurt me mentally and financially.
The allopathic medication proved to be of little help and was almost (I was able to move with great difficulty) bedridden for about 18 months.
This is when I decided to fight. I had to. The doctors were not able to give me a satisfactory recovery plan. I decided to try alternate routes to recovery. First with Ayurveda and then with Homeopathy. This new combination helped me. My body started to respond and this fuelled my quest for more alternate medical therapies.
Today I use combination of Ayurvedic & Homeopathic medicines, I do Accunpucture, Yoga & Urine Therapy besides exercises to strengthen my body. It's been more than a year since I stopped allopatic medication and now depend solely on natural remedies. Besides natural medicines, I also stick to diet that's suitable to my body.
My ESR (sedimentation rate) which was 130 has come down to 30 & CRP which was 80 is now 11 in about a years time.
I believe that our body is capable of healing itself but sometimes we just have to provide the right stimulus for healing. If the stimulus is nature based (non chemical) the impact maybe slow but definitely long lasting and without any side effects.
I have benefited from natural remedies and hope this information is useful to people with problems similar to mine. Also if anyone does benefit, please pay it forward and educate others.
October 26, 2012 at 8:35 am
I don't know, I'm not a Type A overachiever at all. I am a relaxed on the spot scheduler of what takes priority. I guess that's because I have 4 teenagers now and rolling with the punches. Crazy life. I am so busy and trying not to be. I'm simply like you both because busy moms are forced to be overachievers. LOL
I was just diagnosed yesterday after feeling bad for about 5 yrs. I LOVED the doc. She really listened to my situation and feel she will help me find a way to live this way. Kryssie, I'm going to join your blog too. I really feel I need support and friendship at this point. I'm 43 and feel like I'm 80yrs old. ;( Thanks for writing. Angela, I have a 17 yr old daughter who was born with only one hand. If I start to feel sorry for myself I watch her plow through life in her positive I-can-do-everything attitude and it helps. Her name is Angela. :)


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Meeting Notes 2011 09 27
HOWTO run a meeting.
Pick a moderator, and a note-taker. The note-taker should:
- write notes in this page, put them back up online when they're done,
- edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is decided to be up for consensus next week (stuff raised for consensus this week should be publicised for a final decision next week)
- edit the Consensus Items History if anything was consensed or failed to consense this week.
- tell firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com if there are new members.
Moderator should:
- make sure everyone gets a chance to speak
- speak minimally themselves
- keep the meeting moving! you're in charge of summarising the consensus, and/or suggesting things that need to be done!
- get the membership binders and ensure they are returned to the black desk
The 180th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE
Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE
Introduction and Names
- What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
Short Announcements
- Power and Rack updates - SuperQ
New or Stale Events
Is there anything new happening at the space? Is there anything that has stopped happening at the space?
- October 1st 20:00 to late - Noisebridge 3 Anniversary Party & Hacker Prom
- October 2nd 14:00 to 20:00 - Arse Elektronika Workshop - Screw The System! Innovation through Pronovation
- October 12th 19:30 - dorkbot - People doing strange things with electricity
- October 15th - 16th - Hackmeet - A two-day unconference and skillshare
- *nix on Thinkpad Anonymous 21:00 every Tuesday
Financial Report
Funds in bank: $20,251.08 We just paid rent, and we're still over prudent reserve! Very exciting. However, I still haven't reconciled all of the Tor project earmarks, so probably a bunch of that is their money. In some ways, this is good, because their prudent reserve will always be a part of our buffer now. If there is someone there from the Tor project who can give a balance of funds collected (minus the recent service they purchased, which we paid for and that's reflected in the current balance) then we can subtract that and have a better idea of how much is in the noisebridge general fund. Usually at this time of month we would be at a lull, so I think any way you slice it we're doing quite well. I'm currently in Spain (next week London!) but feel free to email treasurer@ if you need anything. I'm still pretty reachable. --User:Hurtstotouchfire 23:07, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Membership Binder
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.
- Anyone up for joining this week (ie have four checks by their name + have two sponsors) should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.
Consensus items
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Items
End of Meeting
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Put back the membership binder in the black desk.
- Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
- Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
- Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.

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- First, what determines the strength of an RF signal?
- Why is it said that a cellphones radiates more energy when the reception from signal tower is lower in strength.
- Why is it said that RF gets transmitted along wires such as in wired headsets making them act as antennae?
- Is it then safer to use bluetooth headsets over wired headsets or direct usage?
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Great information. I agree with you, tying it into your business goals is crucial to success.
Nov 6 2012
By Joanna Fay Leis (@JoannaFayL)
Starting a corporate foundation is a huge undertaking. It's a responsibility that requires people, money, and a number of other resources. But most importantly it requires a purpose. Any company can start a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative but creating a foundation takes CSR to another level. It is when the need to do social good goes beyond what can be done within the organization. It turns the CSR commitment into a permanent one that has to sustain itself.
The most successful corporate foundations are ones that are authentic and integrate with their core business, showcasing the organization's true passion and commitment.
Here are the basic steps companies need to take in order to start a successful corporate foundation:
1. Do the research
This is the first and most important step when creating a foundation. Our client BISSELL Homecare decided to start a foundation after a great deal of research. The company knew that over the past years they made donations to more than 100 U.S. pet charities totaling over $200,000 annually. They also conducted proprietary research that pointed to pet clean-up as a significant barrier to adoption – 38 percent of Americans said they would adopt a pet if clean-up were easier.
Starting the BISSELL Pet Foundation, which seeks to find every pet a home, made sense for the company as it was a natural extension to a space they were already in. BISSELL had an already established commitment to providing pet owners with effective, easy-to-use pet clean-up products developed with pet owners' needs in mind, ultimately seeking to increase adoption rates.
Research has also helped guide funding strategies for this undertaking. Beginning this year, when a BISSELL pet clean-up product is purchased and registered, the company will donate up to $10 to the BISSELL Pet Foundation. Furthermore, the mission tied into their corporate culture — 72 percent of BISSELL employees are pet owners.
Photo Credit: BISSELL Homecare
2. Find your purpose
The most successful foundations have a stated purpose. This statement outlines what the foundation seeks to accomplish and how to go about doing it. The Starbucks Foundation used the company's niche in the market of caffeinated beverages to find its purpose. The foundation works to support social development projects (access to education and agricultural training, microfinance and microcredit services, and improving biodiversity conservation) in communities that produce its coffee, tea and cocoa.
The foundation also supports projects such as water sanitation. Water is a main ingredient in Starbucks products and they've been able to successfully tie this staple ingredient into their foundation efforts by donating money to sustainable water programs around the world. For every Ethos® Water bottle sold in the United States a donation is made to Ethos© Water Fund to help finance sustainable water programs around the world. To date, Starbucks, with the help of its customers, has raised more than $6 million for the fund.
Photo credit: StarbucksMelody.com
3. Connect with your core business
Salesforce Foundation is a perfect example of successfully integrating the core business into foundation efforts. The foundation started by Salesforce founder, Marc Benioff, intertwines with the core business by donating one percent of salesforce.com equity, one percent of employees' time, and one percent of its product in order to improve the communities it serves.
The foundation has donated and given salesforce.com product discounts to nonprofit organizations around the world. So far, the foundation has used the company's expertise in cloud computing and customer relationship management (CRM) to help more than 15,000 nonprofits focus on their mission rather than on spending time managing technology. Through its products, time, and equity, the Salesforce Foundation has successfully deepened its connection to its business within its communities.
Photo Credit: Salesforce Foundation
4. Create partnerships and implement supporting tactics
Once you've done the research, found your purpose and connected with your core business, it's time to create partnerships and implement supporting tactics. A successful example of aligning a campaign with a partner comes from Charles Schwab Foundation's and Boys & Girls Club of America's (BGCA) Money Matters: Make It CountSM initiative. This personal finance education program is available at Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, and to date more than 400,000 teens have successfully completed the program since its launch in 2004.
To increase participation among BGCA members, last year the campaign launched the Money Matters Music Mogul contest. BGCA teens were challenged to write original song lyrics about tackling personal money issues for the opportunity of a lifetime: to have award-winning hip-hop producer Kevin "Khao" Kates professionally produce the winning song as a music video. Additionally, the five finalists for the grand prize each received a $500 college scholarship grant from the foundation. The contest created huge internal excitement at BGCA and made an even bigger difference throughout America when it was written about in The New York Times and other national media outlets.
Photo Credit: Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
5. Help the community
The one thing all corporate foundations have in common is that they seek to help the community. Like the examples shown above, there are many ways to give back by tying into your current business. You just need to have the passion as well as the ability to allocate the proper resources for a successful foundation.
Not every company will want or be able to start a foundation. In these cases, companies should look at expanding their current CSR platforms. Just because you don't have a corporate foundation doesn't mean you can't do more to help.
While every company will have a different CSR journey, the starting question of "how can we help?" for all organizations remains the same.
Emily is fascinated by every aspect of food: How it's grown, how it's prepared and how it impacts our perceptions and behaviors. Described by her colleagues as a voracious learner and energetic worker, she thrives on helping companies achieve their purpose through strategic communications and creative executions. Emily's home base is in Washington, DC, where you'll find her running, writing, biking, planning her next trip and shopping at Whole Foods whenever she has the chance.
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A dewclaw is a vestigial digit on the foot of some mammals, notably dogs.
Here's a picture of a dog's paw with an arrow pointing to the dewclaw.
The claw part is obvious enough, but why dew?
I'm afraid that no one knows for sure. The word is some four hundred years old. Dictionary.com maintains that it may be related to the kind of dew that appears overnight, but it cannot fortify the claim.
Etymonline says:
Dewlap is further down in the same entry:
Dictionary.com is virtually identical on dewclaw (it refers to dewlap too), but there is a little more in its origin entry on dewlap:
YourDictionary.com cites American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Ed. for a claim that "dew" may be an alteration of "toe", but it also says prob. so called because it does not touch the ground, but only the dew on the surface.
Dog or dew may be cognate with Scots dewg/Old Scots duig, always used in the plural and having the meaning "small pieces, shreds, fragments" (see Dictionary of the Scots Language), suggesting "fragmentary claw". This connection was proposed in a thread on the subject at The Straight Dope.
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Three State University of New York at Geneseo faculty members have won prestigious Fulbright Awards. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's flagship international exchange program.
Denise Benoit Scott, associate professor of sociology, has received a Fulbright-Nehru Award to teach in India from July through December, 2010. The award will support her project "Politics, Development and Gender in India." She will teach at the H.N.B. Garhwal University in Srinagar, Uttarakhand, on the topic of women and empowerment.
"India is a fertile ground for the study of economic, political and cultural changes that have an enormous effect on people in that country and around the world," said Scott. "My experience will enable me to learn and grow as a scholar and teacher and forge fruitful ties that will both benefit students in the classroom and lay the groundwork for future student and faculty exchanges."
Scott earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Hartford. She has published two books: "Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence" (with Dan Clawson and Alan Neustadtl) and "The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Politics and Power in the United States," which won runner-up in the Association of Humanist Sociologists Annual Book Award competition.
Linda Steet, associate professor of social foundations of education and women's studies, received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the academic year 2010-11 to teach at the University of Jordan in Amman in the American Studies and Women's Studies Center.
"Serving as a Fulbright scholar will be an exciting and valuable experience that will enrich my life and professional work," said Steet. "I am pleased to be going to Jordan, which is a critical area of the world where we need channels for mutual understanding. One of my goals in Jordan will be to build relationships that can develop into a permanent connection between our college and Middle East faculty and students."
Steet earned her doctorate at Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree at the University at Buffalo. She has published on the cultural foundations of education related to race, gender and multiculturalism, including authoring a book focusing on National Geographic's representation of the Arab world.
Steve Derne, professor of sociology, has received a U.S. Dept. of Education Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program fellowship to conduct research in Dehra Dun, the capital of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas. His project, "Well Being in India," will identify Indians' conceptions of well being through in-depth interviews with people in the area. Derne's award is a five-month program starting in July, 2011. This will be Derne's fifth funded research project in India.
"I'm excited to have the opportunity to return to India to conduct this research," said Derne. "I was able to do 87 preliminary interviews in 2007 on well being in India and was pleased with the results. I think Americans can learn a lot from Indian conceptions of well being."
Derne received his doctorate and master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
The three awards bring to 14 the number of Fulbrights Geneseo faculty members have received in the past 25 years.
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Prove that the equation $x^{10000} + x^{100} - 1 = 0$ has a solution with $0 < x < 1$.
This is a homework question. I know I could probably find a solution that would complete the proof, but I don't think that is what this question is asking. What proof-techniques should I use to prove this is true?


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Majority Of Judges Hearing Drilling Moratorium Appeal Attended Oil-Funded Junkets
Last month, Judge Martin Feldman, a federal trial judge in Louisiana, handed down a poorly-reasoned opinion lifting the Obama Administration's temportary moratorium on new oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Feldman's most recent financial disclosure form indicates that he is heavily invested in oil companies.
Today in New Orleans, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will consider whether to stay Feldman's decision. According to a new report by the Alliance for Justice, however, it is unlikely that these Fifth Circuit judges will approach the case without the perception of bias.
Judges Jerry Smith and Eugene Davis, both of whom are assigned to today's panel, attended expense-paid "junkets for judges" sponsored by an oil-industry front group:
[Judge Smith] attended a seminar hosted by the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) in Big Sky, Montana, for which he was reimbursed transportation, lodging, and meal expenses. FREE is a think-tank that promotes free-market environmentalism rather than environmental regulation and is funded largely by corporations like ExxonMobil and conservative foundations. FREE hosts industry-funded seminars for judges, often including leisure activities such as golf and horseback riding, to "explain why ecological values are not the only important ones." The year that Judge Smith attended the seminar, FREE received $70,000 from ExxonMobil, of which $20,000 was for "Federal Judicial Seminars," $30,000 was for "General Operating Support," and $20,000 was for a "Climate Seminar." . . .
Additionally, in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008, Judge Davis attended the same seminar as Judge Smith run by the FREE Foundation, the free market environmentalism group described above, and sought corresponding reimbursement for transportation, food, and housing. Judge Davis has attended another of other judicial seminars, and in fact, was ranked tenth in the country on a list of judges who accept free trips.
Both men also worked as oil-industry litigators before their appointments to the federal bench, and Judge Davis owns as much as $30,000 in oil investments. The third judge on the panel, Judge James Dennis, has not received any free trips from the oil industry, but he is heavily invested in oil stocks with investments that may total as much as $305,000.
Should this oil-soaked panel nonetheless decide to reinstate the drilling moratorium, the industry may appeal that decision to the full Fifth Circuit. Of the sixteen active judges eligible to hear such an appeal, ten of them have oil investments, including the court's Chief Judge. In addition to owning as much as $330,000 in oil investments, Chief Judge Edith Jones ranked fourth of a list of judges who have attended junkets.
A full list of the Fifth Circuit's judges and the extent of their financial holdings in oil companies is copied below:


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porous metal because it is cleanable and durable, and has
uniform porosity. The unique nature of the porous structures,
coupled with the high-strength, high-temperature and
corrosion-resistance of refractory metal alloys, make these
materials ideally suited for extreme applications. Mott
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Inspection reporting software makes dig sheet
production easier than ever
A new proprietary inline inspection reporting software,
Interactive Report 2013, has been designed with inline
inspection (ILI) services customers in mind. This data
visualization tool is claimed to make it easy for users to
filter and view their pipeline inspection data, with the goal
of helping them to more intuitively assess where problem areas
This software makes inspection data more accessible
than ever before, said Ron Lundstrom, supervisor of
software engineering for TDW. It features a very
user-friendly Windows-based environment that makes it easy to
choose from a variety of views, including interactive charts,
graphs, tables, and even a three-dimensional pipe
With the special snapshot feature, users can
save customized views of potential trouble spots and share them
with others for review or comment. Once the most critical
anomalies have been identified, creating a dig sheet is an
automated process.
No extensive knowledge or training is required to use
Interactive Report 2013, which will be included with delivery
of all TDW inline inspection reports. T.D. Williamson
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Hydrogen-resistant carbon-monoxide sensor offered for
multigas detectors
MSAs hydrogen sulfide/carbon-monoxide
(H2S/CO) hydrogen-resistant XCell sensor for ALTAIR
4X and ALTAIR 5X multigas detectors is reportedly ideal for
monitoring CO in areas of likely hydrogen presence. The sensor
provides ranges of 0 ppm to 200 ppm of H2S and 0 ppm
to1,999 ppm of CO with 1-ppm resolution on both channels. The
sensor offers identical performance to MSAs standard
H2S/CO two-tox sensor plus enhanced hydrogen
resistance with industry-leading hydrogen < 5%
cross-sensitivity. The sensor's fast t(90) < 15-second
response time provides bump tests in less than 10 seconds and
full span calibration in 60 seconds. MSA
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Fire-insulation product provides up to 30% weight
The FireMaster Marine PlusBlanket is a lightweight fire
insulation that reportedly provides weight savings of up to 30%
compared to standard FireMaster blanket and traditional
mineral-fiber fire-insulation products. Through its weight
savings, it can achieve improved fuel efficiency and faster
speed, or even increase available cargo capacity. The product
is also an excellent acoustic and thermal insulator.
Engineered to meet the most stringent performance
requirements, the FireMaster Marine PlusBlanket provides both
cellulosic and hydrocarbon fire protection. Certified
systems include Class A steel and aluminum bulkheads and decks,
high-speed craft constructions built from 2-mm
aluminum plate, and 30 minute- and 60 minute-rated composite
sandwich-panel bulkheads and decks.
In addition to being lighter than traditional mineral-wool
insulation, FireMaster Marine PlusBlanket is easier to install.
Available in rolls rather than sheets, the product can be
installed in larger areas without having to make joints. When
installed in conjunction with stiffeners, the flexible material
can be profile-wrapped, improving performance and reducing
installation costs.
Morgan Thermal Ceramics
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BT ball-tipped sphere launcher improves
bidirectional liquid
WFMS Inc. has made a major improvement to its WFMS straight
calibrated section (SCS) bidirectional liquid prover (patent
applied for) with the introduction of BT ball-tipped launching
chambers. The launching chambers are tipped to allow the sphere
to easily launch into the pre-run and calibrated section
without the use of a ramp. By tipping the horizontal launchers
as little as 2º, the sphere returns to a position where it
easily launches into the prover piping during proving, and at
low water-draw flowrates during calibration in the shop and in
the field. Eliminating the previously used launching ramp also
reduces cost, and saves valuable time when cleaning the prover
in preparation for future water draws.
The SCS prover is available in line sizes from 3 in. to 42
in., and ANSI flange ratings from ANSI 150 to ANSI 900.
Water draws in the shop and in the field by independent
third parties have shown repeatability of 0.002% to 0.007% for
WFMS, Inc.s SCS provers. The spheres overinflation
needs to be only 1%2%.
Prover advantages include:
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Pressure transducers receive international
explosion-proof rating
Brooks Instrument has received International Electrotechnical
Commission (IECEx) certification for its SolidSense II pressure
transducers, confirming their suitability for use in hazardous
environments regulated for
explosions caused by flammable liquids, vapor, gases or
combustible dust. The approval certifies that SolidSense II
pressure transducers have been manufactured under systems
subject to ongoing inspections by IECEx certification bodies,
assuring buyers of continuous conformance to this independently
established, worldwide standard.
This certification now makes it easier for engineers to spec
SolidSense II pressure transducers into gas cabinets, gas
panels, valve manifold boxes and distribution valve boxes.
These are typically part of the processing and handling
equipment found in industrial markets like oil and gas
refineries, gas distribution facilities and chemical plants.
With full-scale pressure ranges from 0 psia30 psia to
0 psig3,000 psig and various electrical and mechanical
options, the transducers are reportedly well suited to
industrial applications that require highly reliable pressure
measurement. They function as stand-alone transducers and
function as integrated sensors in thousands of Brooks
high-performance thermal mass-flow controllers. Brooks
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Hastelloy version of the TCM Coriolis
The 1-in. 28K TCM Coriolis flowmeter is the first in the TCM
Coriolis flowmeter series to be made available in Hastelloy.
More flowmeter sizes will follow this year. Designed with
chemicals in mind, the new material is said to open a broader
application range for this product family, including chemical
injection, blending and batching, and chemical processing. The
28K flowmeter is extremely accurate and can go up to 5,000 psi
with accuracies of 0.10% for liquid and 0.50% for gas. The
flowmeter has ATEX Ex IIC TI-T6 certification, with approval
CSA/cUS Class 1 Div 1 expected in February 2013.
TRICOR flowmeters are available in two styles: the A Series,
incorporating a diamond-shaped tube; and the T Series, designed
with a U-shaped tube. TRICOR Coriolis Technology, a brand of
AW-Lake Co.
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Transmitter displays and controls conductivity,
resistivity or salinity for process monitoring
The CX-3000 transmitter monitors changes in process fluids,
displaying conductivity, resistivity or salinity, along with
temperature, for process control in water, chemical,
environmental and wastewater applications, and more. A simple
push-button interface enables user programming onsite for
desired monitoring, with a password-protected option for added
security. The dual-output design, with a dedicated
(0)420mA output for temperature measurement, eliminates
the need for a separate temperature transmitter. The CX-3000
transmitters large backlit LCD screen displays selected
parameter and temperature simultaneously.
Conductivity is measured over an extended range of 0.000
uS/cm200 mS/cm for extreme applications. The resistivity
measurement range extends from 0.00 m-ohm/cm20.00
m-ohm/cm; salinity measurements cover from 0.0 ppt70.0
With a NEMA 4x, IP65 enclosure, the CX-3000 can be wall,
panel or pipe mounted for easy integration in most installations.
The line-powered unit meets 100-VAC to 240-VAC power
requirements for use internationally. Two adjustable hi/lo
relay contacts deliver results to automated process-control
systems. Sensorex
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High-precision, wide-range temperature and humidity
data logger
The wireless data logger RTR-507/507L is a new model in the
RTR-500 Series, enabling wide-range high-precision measurements
of temperature and humidity. The manufacturer has reportedly
achieved a humidity measurement accuracy of ±2.5%, as
well as wide-range measurements of temperature from
30ºC to 80°C and humidity from 0% rh to 99%
By using the RTR-500 Series base unit, the recorded data in
the RTR-507 can be collected via wireless communication, and
can also be used for data monitoring, warning monitoring and
data management through networks to construct a data-logging
system to match the users needs and environment.
The RTR-507s logging capacity is 8,000 data sets
consisting of both temperature and humidity.
A second model, the RTR-507L is available, offering an
extended life battery. TandD Corp.
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Heavy-duty oil filter line and value calculator now
A new line of heavy-duty time-release technology (TRT) oil filters from
Luber-finer oil filters is said to go beyond filtration by
providing users with an oil-management system that helps to
maintain oil quality and reduce maintenance costs associated with
oil-change intervals.
Design changes in emission-controlled, heavy-duty diesel
engines have placed increased stress on engine oil. Luber-finer
TRT oil filters help to reduce escalating fleet-maintenance
costs and help heavy-duty fleets extend oil-change intervals by
increased protection against oil degradation in modern diesel
engines. The oil filters provide a controlled release of a
specially formulated, highly concentrated liquid additive into
the oil supply. This maintains the oil quality longer. The oil
filters patent-pending release mechanism dispenses the
additive in a linear manner to help combat harmful acids that
build up over time.
Additionally, the new oil filter TRT value calculator, found
at www.luberfiner.com/value-calculator, is claimed to help
fleet managers better understand current maintenance costs
associated with oil changes and determine potential fleet
savings by effectively using Luber-finer TRT filtration
products. The oil filter TRT value calculator is going to be
part of the Luber-finer mobile website and online parts-look-up
and cross-reference tool. It can be downloadable for free at
www.luber-finer.com/app. Luber-finer.
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Secure central data storage and operations
management solution tailored to smaller chromatography
OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications, an out-of-the-box
solution for smaller laboratories, reportedly provides secure
central storage of the data produced by Agilents OpenLAB
chromatography data systems. The software also streamlines the
management of laboratory operations, assets and regulatory
Like their larger counterparts, smaller laboratories face
demanding information-management challenges driven by the
complexity of managing and securing huge amounts of data
produced by their chromatography systems. At the same time,
they are challenged to achieve increasingly higher levels of
productivity in managing laboratory workflows, assets and
regulatory requirements. However, unlike large laboratories,
smaller chromatography laboratories cannot afford the overhead
associated with multiple enterprise-level solutions.
For lab managers who oversee up to 15 Agilent chromatography
and Agilent single-quadrupole LC/MS systems, OpenLAB Data Store
with Lab Applications offers the following benefits:
Agilent Technologies Inc.
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By Kristopher Moore and Annette Smith
November 6, 2012
The demand for versatile, high-quality multimedia in higher education is rapidly increasing. As faculty, staff, and students across NYU's Global Network University embrace the diverse media options available to them, they are presenting new challenges and opportunities for the NYU staff who support their efforts to be creative and engaged global citizens. NYU Stream, a new service from ITS, provides NYU community members with a versatile and sustainable video streaming service to meet these needs.
NYU Stream was initially rolled out as a pilot project in the fall of 2011, with faculty from NYU Abu Dhabi, Tisch School of the Arts, Silver School of Social Work, and the NYU College of Dentistry using the service to integrate rich media and distance learning content into their coursework. The service has been modified and enhanced in response to the feedback of the pilot participants, and is now available to NYU students in degree and diploma programs, as well as administrators and staff at all of NYU's Global locations.
NYU Stream exemplifies the experience that the Global Network University strives for by providing the NYU community with an engaging, multi-dimensional, and collaborative communication platform. Using open source video technology from Kaltura, Inc., NYU Stream can prepare several different types of video formats for both standard and high-definition web streaming. The service allows 50GB of storage space and features a wide range of functions, including on-demand viewing and recording via web cam. NYU Stream offers multiple ways to manage content via access control, sharing capabilities, and tagging content. All of this is done through a sophisticated system handling the technical aspects of transcoding, compressing, and streaming high-definition video.
NYU Stream's innovative technology makes preparing and distributing video a do-it-yourself process. By simplifying the complicated codecs and formatting procedures that used to be associated with video distribution, this service allows faculty to concentrate on the instructional elements of video. NYU Stream videos can then easily be integrated into Blackboard, NYU Classes, NYU Wikis, and many other services by using an embed code that is produced with each uploaded video.
With NYU Stream, faculty members now have more ways to utilize media as a powerful teaching component, and to implement diverse pedagogical strategies that support media into their curriculum. For example, Jack Ford, a journalist and visiting lecturer at NYU's College of Arts and Science, made use of the NYU Stream pilot to enhance teaching and learning for his fall 2011 freshman seminar, "Trials of the Century." Using the embed code, Professor Ford incorporated engaging and instructional videos directly into a Blackboard course site. Because the NYU Stream platform allows playlists to be embedded, when he uploaded new videos he was able to tag them to automatically appear with the other videos in his Blackboard course site.
Tazuko Shibusawa (Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Dean, Professional Programs), used NYU Stream video as an observation and assessment tool by requiring students in her fall 2011 class, "Clinical Practice with Couples," to upload a 5-minute video analyzing different elements of couples therapy for their final presentations. She was able to critique each presentation and provide her students with valuable feedback using the video as a visual point of reference.
In addition to enriching curricula, NYU Stream can connect the greater NYU community via its public facing video portal. It provides a YouTube-like experience, allowing authorized NYU community members to upload and share content with the NYU community and beyond. NYU Stream helps form stronger connections between faculty, staff, and students by sharing experiences between all of NYU's Global Network University locations. For example, when NYU partnered with the Bickel & Brewer Foundation to host a global debate program, organizers were able to match undergraduates against each other in one of NYU's first student activities that spanned the entire Global Network University. Students in New York, Abu Dhabi, London, and Shanghai were all able to share their contest submissions from their local sites.
NYU Stream encourages and supports NYU's diverse student body, providing a forum where peers can illuminate ideas and share their academic endeavors. Students who are studying in different disciplines can now reach out to a global network to invite collaboration in new ways. The NYU Stream interface was designed to facilitate this type of communication by providing different academic categories and channels to help guide students to related areas of interest.
Because students, faculty, and administrators have such different needs, finding a video service that can support their various requirements has been a daunting task. The NYU Stream service team recognizes these challenges and is designing different training and support strategies to help guide all NYU community members, regardless of role, through the different stages of working with the service.
NYU Stream became a full-fledged NYU service this fall, and ITS continues to make improvements to the web interface as well as the underlying software that runs the system. We encourage you to try the service by uploading your own videos at stream.nyu.edu, and to send your questions and feedback to the NYU Stream service team at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kristopher Moore is an Instructional Designer for Digital Media and service lead for NYU Stream.
Annette Smith is a Digital Studio Technology Specialist for Abu Dhabi and Communications Lead for NYU Stream.
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The 8 Most Insulting Attempts to Raise Money for a Cause
So you have an important cause you want to raise money for, or at least it's important to you. But people are slow to part with their hard-earned cash. How do you go about the careful process of trying to get them to take dough out of their pocket and stuff it into yours?
Well it turns out it's difficult, especially if you're a prick.
#8. The 9/11 Dove Shoot
Every fundraiser needs a hook. You can't just say you want to raise money for syphilis research and offer people the chance to touch your syphilitic wang for $5. You'll barely make $100 that way. You need something that will make people say, "Fuck yeah I want to do that, and it's for a good cause!"
And what better way to raise money for a Republican Superintendent of Education than by shooting doves, the symbol of peace? Well, there is one better way; do it on September 11.
It's possible the entire event was some manner of incredibly Swiftian satire, but the Republican party was never really known for being quite so intentionally hilarious (even though this was just a few months after Dick Cheney shot some poor bastard on his own hunting trip). Maybe it's the fact that Karen Floyd was a candidate in South Carolina and things just work a little differently down there.
The blue areas represent crazy.
It's probably saddest for the doves, of course, who have no idea that they've been made a symbol of peace at all, and even if they did, would have real difficulty grasping why, as a symbol of peace, they need to be shot at to raise money for hawkish politicians wanting to stick it to the anti-war movement. We don't expect you to understand the intricacies of American politics, little dove.
#7. Tits for Tots
What's hard about giving money to a good cause is you know there are so many others that deserve it. You contribute to microloans to help Third World farmers, but maybe you should have given to cancer research instead. You contributed to the March of Dimes but maybe you should have given money to women who want bigger boobs.
Yes, the sad truth is that we live in a world in which some women can't even afford to have silicone shoved into their tits. Fortunately, myfreeimplants.com is leading the charge against this horrible scourge of modernity by saying "No" to natural breasts and yes to helping disadvantaged ladies get the funding they need to become the proud owners of bulbous sweater kittens.
For the same price of thousands of cups of coffee, you too can sponsor boobs.
Using the power of the Internet, the website joins these underprivileged women with semi-anonymous benefactors whose only desire is to see these ladies benefit from improved self-esteem and confidence and at no time does anyone even ponder wanking to images of big, supple boobies. That would be crass. Sure, some ladies choose to reward donors with nudie pics, but you don't have to. Good luck getting your money, prude.
Ladies sign up for the site just as men do and, once someone has donated money to her cause, they gain access to her pictures and contact information, making it a fair trade sort of deal, a few bucks towards boobs in exchange for stalking rights to be shared amongst a few dozen or hundred other guys.
Naturally a site so dedicated to helping improve self image goes above and beyond by offering women and men whatever procedure they require to help better themselves, except for none of that is true. The site only serves women and the only procedure they'll help anyone get is breast augmentation. Because they care.
#6. Pretend to be Handicapped Day
Nothing is more adorable than dressing up your child in a humiliating costume that may give them some sort of complex later in life, except for doing the same thing to your dog. But no one is raising funds with dogs in hilarious costumes that we know of, so we'll stick to children. But we can't just dress them up like Yoda or Snarf or whatever it is the kids are into these days. No, we need to dress them up as the handicapped. For charity.
He's smiling because he's not actually blind.
Confused? So were the parents of students at an Australian Public School when they got a letter telling them their kids needed to dress up a little gimpy to raise money for a clinic in Bangladesh. The school was offering prizes for the best costume and encouraged kids to be creative in thinking up what disability they could represent.
It's fascinating to think that there is more than one adult in Australia who thinks there's a tasteful way to pretend to have a handicap. Will you twitch and bat your chest like the classic retard while eating gum off the floor? Or perhaps get ahold of some kind of degenerative muscle disorder and wheel your way to class?
No, this is like blackface; it doesn't matter how good your intentions are, if next Halloween you go as "Guy who has Cerebral Palsy," you're going to get chased down the street. Now picture an entire school full of children who've been given a blank check to do that and... actually, we would pay money to watch that whole thing unfold.
#5. The Undercover Scientology Fundraiser
Probably the first rule of any fundraising campaign is to be sure that the people you're soliciting money from don't already hate you. It's way easier to raise money for something like spaying and neutering dogs if you're the local humane society as opposed to, say, a group of skinheads.
Still, some folks try to be a little crafty with who they are and what they're doing when it comes to raising money. You may be wondering just what sort of lowlife would omit important details like who was running a fundraiser. The answer, of course, is Scientologists.
Back in 2007, when Tom Cruise was busy saving the Earth from aliens, two second string Scientologists (Matt Lauer and Brooke Shields) were headlining a Narconon event in Hawaii. Lisa Marie Presley and John Travolta were to be guests of honor at a $2500 a ticket concert to raise cash for Scientology's anti-drug program.
Scientologists were expecting about 1,000 people to attend, but they'd neglected to mention the term "Scientology" anywhere in the advertising for the event. And while arguably you could say people should know they're behind Narconon and that shouldn't be an issue, when a local newspaper took the time to point out that it was, in fact, a Scientology event, just short of nobody bought a ticket.
Narconon in full swing.
That's right; when the community found out it was a Scientology anti-drug event, they rose up as one and said, "We'd rather have the crack, thank you."


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This affordable series of 4 teleconferences will cover the OASIS section by section and discuss the problematic areas and provide an opportunity for questions and answers.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require the collection of OASIS items on all appropriate home health patients at several time points. CMS provides both annual and quarterly updates to their guidance on how to appropriately respond to the items. Are you current with this evolving guidance?
These educational teleconferences will focus on assisting home health clinical staff, QI Coordinators and supervisors who want to increase their knowledge related to OASIS completion and will cover the requirements for the two OASIS credential exams--the Certificate for OASIS Specialist Clinical (COS-C) and the Home Care Clinical Specialist OASIS (HCS-O) and offer tips to prepare for the exams.Enjoy the convenience and cost-efficiency of a teleconference workshop. There is no travel time involved and no limit to the number of attendees from your agency who may participate at your site through one hook-up. All you need to participate is a speaker telephone. You will be provided a toll-free number.
Heather Jones, MPH, CHES, COS-C, the Director of Quality Initiatives and State Liaison for AHHC/SCHCA. Prior to joining the Association, Heather was with the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization. Heather is a Certified Health Education Specialist and holds a Certificate as an OASIS Specialist-Clinical.
This teleconference will cover the OASIS data collection requirements, general conventions and CMS resources. The Patient Tracking, Clinical Records, Patient History and Diagnoses items will be discussed.
This teleconference will cover the Living Arrangements, Sensory Status, Integumentary Status and Respiratory items.
This teleconference will cover the Cardiac Status, Elimination Status, Neuro/Emotional/Behavioral Status items and the ADLs/IADLs.
This teleconference will cover the Medication, Care Management, Plan of Care/Intervention Synopsis, Emergent Care items and discuss the OASIS credentialing opportunities.


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I added myself to the NoiseBridge "People" list on Dec. 9, 2011 as I am, or fancy myself, a bona fide Noise Boy.
My big idea at present is to start - or reanimate - a zine (or newsletter, or periodical publication of some kind) for NoiseBridge. I'm perusing - not to say plundering - the work done previously by Danny O'Brien & co. in this vein, namely NTK and Signal2noise.
I have wandered nomadically throughout the world wide web for years and established many outposts.
This is my ConvoZine home page.
This is my Tumblr freeform blog.
This is my Tumblr literary archive.
This is my Twitter page.
This is my FaceBook page. (Yes, yes, I know, but I use it with the best intentions.)
My name is as long as my legs. My m.o. falls under one or all of the following headings, more or less:
Squat Softly and Carry a Large Crowbar.
Ego is like Fat: Too Much is Unhealthy, but so is None.
If You Got Time to be Slackin', You Got Time to be Hackin'.
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When I want to express my thankfulness to someone who takes time to help me, I would say:
in Chinese, or
in Japanese.
Imprecisely, this means:
You have taken a lot of time and might even have suffered some pain in fulfilling a certain thing (which is related to me, or even completely for me). So, you must be tired afterward. (Please accept my sincere thanks.)
Is there any short phrase in English expressing this meaning?
Google gave me a translation of "您辛苦了" to English, which is:
You have worked hard.
But I don't think this is proper, because to my understanding, this sentence is more a judgment than a way of showing gratitude.
I think there might be no similar expression in English, because of cultural differences. But please tell me if there is any.


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How do we calculate the effective mass of an electron in an Aluminium lattice? Is there any simple analytical way to work it out?
The effective mass can be determined from a exactly known band structure. As genneth already mentioned there is no simple analytical way to get a from first principles to the Aluminium band structure.
In practice there are a number of very successful numerical approaches to calculate band structures, e.g. Hartree-Fock, LDA+U, DMFT, Tight binding and the list goes on depending on the exact material and properties you are interested in.
If you use a number of material parameters as the electron density, Fermi energy or others you can express the effective mass in those terms but that is more a reformulation than a way to calculate it.


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A term coined by Al Pacino in "The Scent of a Woman." It means absolutely nothing, but it is often used to make a reference to Pacino, or his character in the movie, Lt. Col. Frank Slade.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay. Hoo-hah!
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A team used in the forth iteration of smash brothers for the character Diddy Kong. Created by Static Manny, the Hoo-hah is the down-throw to up-air combo for Diddy Kong.
Whilst Hungrybox was getting continuously down-throw to up-aired by Player-1, Static Manny loudly shouted "Hoo-hah!"
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The word "hoohah" was a running gag in the early years of Mad, often exclaimed by characters in the comic book issues written and edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Its somewhat Eastern European feel was a perfect fit for the New York Jewish style of the magazine. Kurtzman liked using Yiddish expressions and nonsense words to humorous effect, and the very first story in the first issue of Mad was even titled "Hoohah!" The word's precise origin is unknown, although it may have sprung from the Hungarian word for "wow," which is hűha 1).
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HOOHAH! (exclaimed by several characters depicted in very early issues of MAD Magazine)
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HOO-HAH DAY--An annual rite observed to mourn the passage of summer. Celebrated in northwest Suffolk County, Long Island NY. Festivities begin after sundown and take place on rooftops of suburban homes. HOO-HAH! is the proper greeting for the occasion,accompanied with the raising of ones hat off the head, or, if no hat is worn, mimicking the gesture with your hand. The phrase is also often hollered appropos of nothing, followed by smacking the head of the person nearest to you. It is considered an act of honor to invent a new beverage for the occasion, although iced tea and lemonade are favorites. Heavy comsumption of alcoholic beverages is by no means traditional but always encouraged. The late author James Thurber is the patron saint of the holiday, and his short story "The Night the Bed Fell" is deemed sacred text for the general confusion and disorder essential to this holiday.
"Are we celebrating Hoo-Hah day on your garage roof this year, or do we have to wait till grandma is asleep and use her roof?"
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An exclamation that can be made. Has an effect similar to that of exclamation points with written words.
This particular use of the word comes stems from Al Pacino's character, Lietenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.
Synonymous with yeah and woohoo.
This particular use of the word comes stems from Al Pacino's character, Lietenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.
Synonymous with yeah and woohoo.
"Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert. Tits. Hoo-hah! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, like secret searchlights. Mmm. Legs. I don't care if they're Greek columns... or secondhand Steinways. What's between 'em... passport to heaven. I need a drink. Yes, Mr Sims, there's only two syllables in this whole wide world worth hearing: pussy. Hah! Are you listenin' to me, son? I'm givin' ya pearls here." - Lt. Col. Frank Slade
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The universal term of your private parts. Was common slang in the 1950s, used by teenagers to talk about sex.
For a girl: "My hoo hah is all sore."
For guys: "He's got a nine inch hoo hah!"
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6 National Anthems That Will Make You Tremble With Fear
#3. Turkey - "İstiklal Marşı/Independence March"
Another anthem, another fight for independence. Noting that Turkish fighters were having a fair amount of success defending themselves against European invaders, it was decided that a motivational song to spur them onto victory and celebrate their inevitable success was in order. Basically, Independence March was the Super Bowl Shuffle of its day.
The lyrics focus mainly on how unbelievably awesome it would be to die for your country. We would prefer to, you know, defend our country while at the same time remaining alive. But that's why we write dick jokes and not national anthems.
Most Awesomely Violent Lyrics
"I'm like the roaring flood; powerful and independent, I'll tear apart mountains, exceed the heavens and still gush out!"
"Render your chest as armor and your body as trench!"
"For only then, shall my fatigued tombstone, if there is one, prostrate a thousand times in ecstasy, and tears of fiery blood shall flow out of my every wound, and my lifeless body shall gush out from the earth like an eternal spirit."
Whatever. Their landscape still looks like a bunch of dick mountains.
Did They Live Up To It?
Damn right they did. In order to gain their independence, they had to convince the Allied Forces of World War I to abandon the Treaty of Sevres. The Allied Forces. That's a lot of power to deal with. But convince them they did...by force.
#2. France - "Le Marseillaise"/"The Song of Marseille"
"La Marseillaise" was written in April of 1792 by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle in the midst of the French Revolution. It was originally called "Chant de guerre de l'armee du Rhin" ("War Song of the Army of the Rhine") but the name was later changed due to the song's popularity with volunteers on the streets of Marseilles. And, presumably, because "Chant de guerre de l'armee du Rhin" is a pretty goddamned long name for a song.
Depending on where you're reading it, the translation of the lyrics varies. But hey, you say a tainted blood irrigates your furrow, we say their impure blood should water our fields. To-mae-to, to-mah-to. Whichever you prefer, somebody's getting fucked up.
Guns and titties? Go France!
Most Awesomely Violent Lyrics
"The bloody flag is raised, the bloody flag is raised."
"Do you hear in the countryside, the roar of these savage soldiers, they come right into our arms, to cut the throats of your sons!"
"May a tainted blood irrigate our furrows!"
Did They Live Up To It?
As fascinating as the thought is, there was a time when France didn't sashay around the globe getting stomped in every armed conflict that came their way. For one shining moment in the 1790s, instead of finding themselves on the business end of a bloody revolution, France was giving the business during the French Revolution. Shit, their revolution even had an official Reign of Terror in which anyone displaying counter-revolutionary tendencies found themselves relieved of their head. One dude even got the guillotine not for counter-revolutionary tendencies, but instead for "an excess of zeal."
He looked like this. Before the beheading.
#1. Vietnam - "Tien Quan Ca"/"Army March"
Anyone who didn't see trouble coming when we went to war with Vietnam had clearly never taken a gander at their national anthem. If they had, they would have seen that this is a country that does not take war lightly. Most of the other anthems on this list mix in a little bit of talk about peace, national pride or whatever else. The blood and guts talk just finds its way into a verse or two at random. Vietnam's anthem, on the other hand, is all war, all the time.
The lyrics start with the line "armies of Vietnam, forward!" And guess what? They mean it! There's blood on the flag! Guns are rumbling! Bases are being built! There are chains to be broken! di chuyen no goddammit!
Vietnam's national anthem kicks more ass in two short verses than most countries do in a lifetime.
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"Our flag, red with the blood of victory, bears the spirit of the country."
"The distant rumbling of the guns mingles with our marching song."
"The path to glory is built by the bodies of our foes."
"For too long have we swallowed our hatred. Be ready for all sacrifices."
Did They Live Up To It?
Um, our memory is a little hazy, but yes, we believe at some point they may have.
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I have a shp file with about 500 odd records in it. It has an ID field but I want to add in a new field with a unique reference number. Can I use the field calculator to generate a unique reference? I'm looking for the reference to be alpha numeric, so something like UG_1 or UG1. Alternatively I could load the data into PostGIS and create the field and reference here but I'm still learning the ropes of SQL statements so I'm presuming that this is possible?
Use the Field Calculator's record option '$id' and add +1 after the expression to avoid a Zero-value. To create the text, simply use a string-expression.
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CREATE TABLE land ( -- make the "id" column a primary key; this also creates -- a UNIQUE constraint and a b+-tree index on the column gid SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, the_geom geometry );
then you can INSERT data like this
INSERT INTO land (name, the_geom) VALUES ('small land', ST_PointFromText('POINT(-71.064544 42.28787)'));
INSERT INTO land (name, the_geom, id) VALUES ('small land', ST_PointFromText('POINT(-71.064544 42.28787)'), DEFAULT);
Btw. My opinion is that using ALPHA NUMERIC serials is bad idea. It's just easier to compare int's when you need to