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There are two Great Flood legends: one in the Bible involving Noah, and one in Sumerian mythology. Multiple civilizations and cultures have a flood legend, so does that add historical credence to the possibility that a flood did happen, or is it just plain old legend plagiarism?
closed as off-topic by Samuel Russell, Semaphore, Mark C. Wallace, andy256, CGCampbell May 17 '15 at 12:34
The story of Utnapishtim is adapted from the story about Atrahasis, which in turn is probably adapted from the earlier Babylonian flood myths. The same goes for the story in the bible. So to answer your question: Yes, it's "legendary plagiarism".
As to your original question, as these Babylonian flood myths are at least one thousand years older than the Biblical one, it is pretty obvious who copied from whom.
There is no doubt that a flood did happen. Floods happen all the time. There is no single shred of evidence that a global or biblical flood ever happened, and there most assuredly has never been any big flood created by a god to kill all of mankind except a few, with these few surviving because they were forewarned and built a boat. That is a children's story created not to be believed as fact, but to convey a moral.


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I've always been able to manipulate equations found in school homework easily. But when tackling more challenging questions from puzzle books - where I might need three quarters of a page to manipulate the equation into the ideal form - I find myself easily making mistakes.
The obvious solution is more practice. But I can't find a suitable landfill of questions where the focus is on manipulating tediously long/complicated algebraic equations instead of practicing some kind of technique or problem.
Has anyone had the same problem as me and found a felicitous way to overcome it? (Other than the obvious advice to be more careful, which you have to sacrifice speed for unless you've already had lots of practice)
P.S. I'm not sure if this question belongs here; if it does not, I'll be glad to remove it.

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It Must Have Been the Magnet in my Ear – Lessons in Conference Etiquette
Posted by Lisa Lickel on November 7, 2012
I survived another conference in a state "over there." Which I drove to, all by myself, through Chicago.
I am not a brave person.
And as I get older, I find myself inappropriately courageous in some places and inappropriately cautious in others. But more of that later. I paid for, attended, pitched, roomed with my agent, made fun of Canadians I only just met, hugged and cheered for people I had just met, sold some books, hopefully encouraged some people, enjoyed the company of strangers who I hope have become friends and marveled that I drove around as much as I did in a state of directionally-challenged fog and still made my pitch on time.
Seriously, the magnet taught me some things about conference etiquette.
1. Go prepared.
No matter how prepared I thought I might have been before, this was my time to shine. I checked out the acquisitions editor I targeted for my pitch, as well as recent releases in my genre from the publisher, and shamelessly name-dropped, which seemed to work in this instance. I also had my pitch for the books I wanted to discuss written out. Which I realized later that I handed to the editor as my brief synopsis and actually started with "Hello, (editor), thank you for seeing me…" I also had a session of acupuncture, admitting my nervousness, which resulted in the acupuncturist placing a tiny magnet in the cartilage of my ear to help with anxiety. Since people, even my Christian friends, have invoked the power of magnets for stuff like motion sickness, I figured it couldn't hurt.
2. Be yourself.
Up to a point. Politics, favorite television shows, bathroom sharing, bedtimes, snoring, getting lost, favorite foods, eating and drinking preferences…I've discovered that leaving some mystery about yourself is good. Share what's not overwhelming or too personal, listen to others a lot, keep that smile plastered no matter…and be kind and helpful.
3. Let bygones not haunt you.
I knew I was going to have to probably interact with a person I have not had a good relationship with in the past. I feel terribly unchristian admitting this, but I had to work at dredging up some compassion for this person. Not pity, but compassion. And it helped. No, I was not delighted to meet the person, and smiled from a distance and kept contact to a minimum. It helped. Along with touching that magnet in my ear. Which hurt.
4. Leave lots of time.
To get places. When I thought I knew where I was going because I had a picture of the exit in my head, but realized that I had not enough of the in-between route in my head and turned the wrong way several times, I had some time to be lost and still make my editor pitch appointment.
To get away from too much activity. It can be overwhelming to always be "on point," so make an effort to find time alone for even a few minutes.
To listen to people. You just might make a new fan and a new friend…after all, don't most of us simply want to be acknowledged?
To answer questions and share of yourself. I've been published multiple times now and I do have stuff to share, and I'm willing to share it when asked.
5. Keep your expectations realistic.
I went to the conference knowing that I was an unknown author, but also that many of these people were cyber-acquaintances. I was not presenting or offering a workshop at this conference, so I did not expect to sell much. But I did, thanks to a friend who recommended me to others. I also wasn't sure how much new info I'd absorb from the speakers, but on the flip side, I was also there to support people who needed an audience, and that was okay. And yes, of course, a person can always learn something new, or reinforce or be reminded of past lessons. Usually the editors and agents will be kind and take something even they tell you no later. I was a bit surprised when the editor actually took my pages and chapters I had printed out. My agent was pleased as well. Another cool thing that happened was the big keynote speaker I was excited about said he'd heard about my most recent book.
6. And, finally, relax and have fun.
It gets easier for me each time I go. I'm still a little chicken to do totally new things, but with each layer of experience, I grow. I've gone from needing my best friend to hold my hand to using medication to the magnet. Maybe someday I won't even need the magnet.
This entry was posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:18 AM and is filed under Anxiety, Author Marketing, Encouragment, Living Our Faith Out Loud. Tagged: Conference Etiquette, writers conferences. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
2 Responses to "It Must Have Been the Magnet in my Ear – Lessons in Conference Etiquette"
April W Gardner said
I'm so proud of you!! I'm not brave either. Driving 6 hrs to Nashville (through Atlanta and Chattanooga) are my big driving accomplishments. Did you ever take the magnet out?? I seriously LOL'd about you handing the editor your "Hi (editor)" sheet. That's priceless! And SO something I would do. Glad you survived the wilds of Canada and lived to tell about it, because all together, it was a great story.
Joanne Sher said
Great stuff – and I'm SO glad you were brave enough to go
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Saudi Arabia has 21 large, modern ports that facilitate industrial development.
Saudi ports move some two million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually. Around 12,000 ships visit Saudi ports each year, totaling one ship every 30 minutes. There are close to 200 berths at Saudi ports.
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February 15, 2013
Rondevlei Nature Reserve's new tearoom
The Rondevlei Nature Reserve is a bird-watcher's and walker's paradise. The attraction draws people from near and far and, until recently, visitors have always had to pack their own refreshments.
The Rondevlei tearoom, managed by entrepreneur Faye Alcana, has been up and running since October 2012. She manages the facility on behalf of the Friends of Zeekoevlei and Rondevlei, offering hungry and thirsty visitors a selection of cakes, teas and coffees, and says being able to work in such a beautiful environment is a "tranquil" experience.
Alcana lives in Grassy Park, minutes away from the vlei, and has been a caterer for many years. A people's person, she has also transformed her house into a backpacker's lodge.
More than 230 bird species, hippos, reptiles and mammals inhabit the vlei. Run by the City of Cape Town, Rondevlei forms part of the False Bay Ecology Park and is in the heart of Mother City's Southern Suburbs.
Being an environmentally aware organisation, the Friends of Zeekoevlei and Rondevlei works to minimising the use of packaging and uses biodegradable items where possible.
The tearoom is right on the banks of the vlei, ensuring striking views of the reserve. It is thus an ideal place to look out for some of the wildlife.
There are also 20 bird hides throughout the reserve, making it an attractive spot for birders. Alcana is also a tour guide and has a certificate in ornithology, which she uses to her advantage when engaging guests at the tearoom.
The tearoom is open daily from 09h00 to 16h00, and can also be used as a venue for functions.


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I am a very basic level amateur photographer. My question is "Is it ethically correct to edit photos to make my photos look good?".
I believe that the photos taken by my camera should not be touched in order to maintain their originality.
I am a very basic level amateur photographer. My question is "Is it ethically correct to edit photos to make my photos look good?".
I believe that the photos taken by my camera should not be touched in order to maintain their originality.
Editing is definitely not unethical (making a deceptive photo can be unethical, but it is also easy to deceive in-camera, it's the deceiving part that makes it unethical not the editing)
There are two very different types of photography - there are photos that are intended to show what something really look like (photojournalism, pictures for eBay listings, etc.) and there is art.
For photojournalism anything that distorts reality is unethical and anything that shows reality is ethical - even if it's the same operation in Photoshop - color correction is ethical but changing colors isn't, cropping to remove blank space is ethical but cropping to hide something isn't - you get the idea.
For art, well, there aren't any rules for art - do whatever feels right for you.
But think, does blurring the background by changing the aperture ok? does making the picture intentionally darker by changing shutter speed ok? does changing the relative brightness by adding flash ok? your photo is already "edited" by the choices you make when you shoot, why is editing by changing camera settings ok but editing on the computer is suddenly wrong?
So, editing in not unethical but you don't have to edit if you don't want to.
You said you are a very basic level photographer, at that level you should learn to control your photos using the camera better and not rely on excessive editing but I guess that when you get better you will come to appreciate that just a little editing can turn a good picture into a great one (and that making great pictures is a good an ethical thing to do)
The action of editing is neither ethical nor unethical. What you do with the resulting images is what counts.
Those who manipulate their images to deceive are doing something unethical. If you are just doing it to produce an artwork which pleases you better, than you manipulate at will and still sleep well at night.
Ultimately you have to chose what your art is. If you want to represent reality, then you will have to keep your edits limited. Some things are obviously easy to accept like a correction in white-balance and some things are obviously wrong like replacing elements.
If you sell your work, you have to follow the publication's ethical standards. In publications where credibility is of utmost important the photographer is often required to hand in unedited images and it is the job of the photo-editor to do the edits. The still do some edits to match the format and tone of the publication and clean up noise or dust-spots. Having a separate person doing it, gives them more control and validation of the edits that make it into the publication.
You should produce artwork in a way you enjoy. Some people like editing images for hours and being very creative with there imagery. Personally, I don't. I prefer producing images very close to reality and spending most of my time on photography rather than processing.
This question is a little subjective and is going to get views from both sides of the fence.
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No camera is able to replicate what the eyes and the mind see. What I see in a scene would/should be different from what somebody else would see, given all variables except the viewer being equal.
To this end, I believe released images should be used to show others what you see in a scene
This may mean lots of post-processing and very limited post processing.
Photography, and for the matter Art, is more than just an image, it touches on Psychology and the emotional trait of the human viewer.
One time, when my grandma was in assisted living, I snapped a photo of my sister, her, and me together in her livingroom. While she and my sister chatted, I photoshopped the picture so that we were on a beach in Mexico. I showed it to her, and she was startled and confused - living far inland in the US, even trips to the beach were rare for her, and she had never seen Mayan ruins in person! When I revealed my secret, we all laughed, and she marveled by what a convincing job I had done.
The thing about photography is that it has always (generally) been a two-step process: get an image onto film, then get it from the film onto paper. Amateurs (not in any bad sense) tend to automate those processes whereas enthusiasts tend to take them under their own control. During either stage of those processes, any number of techniques have been used to render images more or less lifelike in all manner of ways: adding tints, reducing contrast, lowering the exposure in part of the picture while increasing it in another part. When these processes are automated - either in the camera or in the development process - someone or something else makes the decisions about how the process is carried out, but those decisions always get made, and in fact, you have never seen a photograph in which there were no exposure- and post-exposure-processing decisions made. They don't exist.
The question is (1) who makes the decisions; and (2) for what purpose?
(1) When you move into SLR photography, or for that matter, into photography with a point-and-shoot camera that gives a modicum of control over settings, you make those decisions. To some extent, when you select settings like "portrait", "no flash", "high quality JPEG output," you make those decisions. Working in manual mode and with RAW images does not increase the number of options available to the camera/software package, but only increases the number of options that you can directly control.
(2) Fraud is immoral, unethical, and in some contexts, illegal. Fraud differs from mere deception in that it has the point of extracting from the defrauded party something they would not part with otherwise: money, their good opinion, etc.
A mere deception might be, like with my grams, part of a funny joke, or a surprise party.
These things are all clearly different from art, which is intended to show something good, interesting, or beautiful in some way, and not merely to present the thing as a casual passerby sees it. To bring to bear the full range of skill and technical means available to show the good and beautiful in a thing, or to show it in a new way, is hardly novel or particular to photography. It is what artists of all stripes have always done.
Just my two cents.
Excluding working as a photographer for someone else, there are really no rules in Photography. Which means, you can make up your own rules for yourself and use those self-imposed rules as part of your style or as structure for your own creativity. I try to avoid judging anyone else's rules as unethical or wrong.
That said ... for me control over the tones in the final image is part of the craft of photography. Because there are differences in the kinds of tones that exist in nature, can be captured by a camera's sensor, can be displayed on a computer monitor, and can be displayed on a print -- I depend on adjusting camera settings to get the best capture and then adjusting the resulting image in the computer to get from a "good capture" to the tones I intended. I'll even crop the image if I want. What I don't do is lots of strobe work, selective color, heavy vignettes, HDR, and adding rendered elements like borders or lens flare.
But all the above "rules" are only my rules for me -- I don't even dislike HDR or strobist work, I'm just not very good at it. :-)
Yes. It is ethically right. (IMO)
And it also depends on your definition of originality. Let's have a different argument than other answers here: Imagine if you take a photo using a good P&S camera, lets say the photo is really good i.e. it conveys a strong subject/meaning etc. Now some other person takes almost same photo with the best DSLR + best lens available*, conveying same subject/feeling. When you look at the photo, the other person's photo would certainly be good in terms of contrast, colors etc. So a casual look at both photos will make your P&S photo look less impressive. So if you just touch up this photo a bit, enhance contrast/colors, sharpen it a bit, you might make your photo look more impressive and have more impact. Photography is all about presenting things visually. And if something (e.g. post processing) is actually helping you to make the presentation better then I would certainly consider it ethical. Otherwise better quality presentations will only come from high end cameras*.
TL;DR If you insist that even most basic touch-ups kill the originality.. then you are actually making your 'art' look bad by following this rule. Isn't photography all about visual impact?
*(Apologies for generic conversational language and vague terms like best DSLR, best lens, impressive etc)
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AUSTIN (December 6, 2012)—Fort Hood had a $25.3 billion economic impact on Texas in fiscal 2011, according to an analysis that the state's comptroller, Susan Combs, released Thursday.
The analysis attributes 68,942 jobs directly to Fort Hood operations in fiscal 2011, nearly 2,000 more than in fiscal 2007, and it says Fort Hood is indirectly responsible for another 214,344 jobs throughout Texas
Fort Hood's payroll for troops and civilian workers totaled more than $3.14 billion in fiscal 2011, and the post paid more than $514 million to contractors and more than $3.86 billion to retired soldiers, the analysis said.
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Whole Foods Market's Do Something REEL Film Festival
The Wexner Center and Gateway Film Center are hosting the Columbus presentation of this nationally touring program that features six films about issues affecting our health and the health of our planet.
An initiative of Whole Foods Market, Do Something REEL is being presented in 70+ cities throughout April in celebration of Earth Month. The line-up provides a moving, eye-opening look at the choices we make and the impact those choices have on our bodies, our economy, and our environment. Topics and locales range from vanishing bee populations to the evolution of the national school lunch program, and from rural West Virginia to inner city Detroit.
Check back to find screening times. Click through and follow the links from each title to learn more about that film.
Bag It
(Suzan Beraza, 2010) 12:00 PM
This highly entertaining and eye-opening film follows "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. (79 mins.)
Lunch Line
(Mike Graziano and Ernie Park, 2010) 1:45 PM
This deeply affecting film follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunches—and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch programs from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program. (60 mins.)
On Coal River
(Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood, 2010) 3:15 PM
A compelling and transcendent narrative about the human costs of coal and strip-mining, this provocative story unfolds as a modern-day David vs. Goliath tale, as four residents of the Coal River Valley in West Virginia transform themselves into fearless and informed experts on mountaintop removal and environmental heros. (80 mins.)
(Shelley Lee Davis and Or Shlomi, 2010) 5:00 PM
This visually stunning film tells the story of the scientists, farmers, and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age: Western culture's love affair with meat and dairy foods. A mouth-watering personal and culinary journey reveals the extraordinary medical and environmental benefits of eating your veggies. (78 mins.)
Urban Roots
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Urban Roots tells the powerful story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people have found themselves limited to the lifeless offerings of fast-food restaurants and stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away.
Vanishing of the Bees
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Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page, this cautionary tale examines the mystery of the disappearing bees and its links to industrial farming and our attitudes toward the natural world. The real-life drama stars the commercial bee farmers who rang the alarm bell when their bee colonies collapsed and their businesses were decimated. (90 mins.)


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The FB share on my wordpress blog (wordoptimist.com) keeps showing the wrong image when I want to share the pages that I've already shared before modifying the meta og.
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EADS slams Europe over defense industry policies
Posted at: 09/26/2013 6:35 AM
(AP) PARIS - The top executive at Airbus' parent company, EADS, has criticized the European Union for being slow to integrate its defense industry.
Tom Enders says he's skeptical of the outcome of the upcoming EU defense summit in December, adding that any progress will have to come from the leaders of France and Britain, not via Brussels.
Enders told reporters in Paris "we are further away from a common EU foreign and security policy than at any time in the last 20 years."
He said Germany is unwilling to take the lead, and other countries lack the financial muscle power, "so that means France and the U.K. must lead the way."
Enders added "How can Europe be taken seriously when it continues with the fragmentation it demonstrates today?"
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328 East 85th is a charming walk up building between 1st and 2nd Ave in the heart of Upper East Side. This building is close to the express 4, 5, and 6 subway station.
Most apartments in this building feature: bleached plank hard wood floors, recessed lighting, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, cherry wood cabinetry, crown and baseboard molding, marble bathrooms, and exposed brick walls. Some of these apartments have premium Bosch washer and dryers.
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Guy Peellaert first practiced his drawing skills as a commercial designer. He made his first comic, 'Jodelle ', in 1966. He was one of the very first comic artists to process pop-art influences in his stories, and one of the first French comic artists to made erotic comics. In late 1966, 'Pravda la Survireuse' appeared, the second and last of his real comic efforts.
At the end of the sixties and the start of the seventies, a couple of his experimental books appeared: 'Carashi!' (1969), which consisted of redesigned photos, and 'Bye, bye, bye Baby, bye, bye' (1973), which used a hyper-realistic style. He then disappeared from the comic world to work in theater and television. He made album covers for David Bowie and Rolling Stones records, and also movieposters like Paris Texas and Taxi Driver.


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Brainteaser Thursday: Guess the Game for March 13thWritten by: / / 14 Comments
Hello there, children! I mean gamers! I know some of us are having a busy week, or maybe you're having a very relaxed week? Either way, it's time for Guess the Game, your favourite game show… well, it's not really a 'show,' but rather just a game where we test your gaming knowledge!
Let's take a look at the answers to last week's tests:
– 1. Battle Beast (1995)
– 2. Soldier of Fortune (2000)
– 3. Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (2009)
– 4. Driver (1999)
– Bonus Game: GLaDOS from Portal 2 (2011)
Congrats to all those who guessed some of the games correctly! Now it's time to take a look at this week's Guess the Game challenge – some of these are really old school:
Game 1:
This was a really fun FPS game. The weapon of choice were snowballs and you had to fight off those evil turkeys and discover what is behind the invasion.
Game 2:
I wonder what ever happened to this game. I have spent countless hours playing this and I wonder if we will ever see a modern version again.
Game 3:
Now this game was really awesome. When I was little, I always thought the main character that you played as was Jackie Chan, because Jackie Chan played Thomas in a couple of movies at the time and the character's name was Thomas.
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This game was so much fun when challenging your friends or play co-op. This was what we played back in the day before World of Tanks came along.
Bonus Game:
Normally for the 'Bonus Game' we use a sound effect, but it's time we tried something different: This is a modern game that has been 'demade' into an 8-bit classic. Can you figure out what the modern game is?
Have you any great memories of these games? Good luck with your guesses!
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Podcast: The Elora Festival Singers sing Whitacre
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Eric Whitacre is now the unquestioned superstar of American choral composers. Whether he is setting the poetry of Octavio Paz, e.e. cummings, Rumi or the Bible, his marriage of poetry with beauty of sound creates a unique and enchanting sonic … Read More →


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The 9 Most Baffling Monuments to Great People
The great monuments tend to also be simple -- Abe Lincoln's is just him sitting in a chair, Mount Rushmore is just a bunch of giant heads. But some sculptors decide to get creative, to create a memorial that will really blow people's minds. The results are often the stuff of nightmares. Like ...
#9. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Toledo, Ohio
Martin Luther King Jr. has been memorialized everywhere from Milwaukee to Westminster Abbey. But this depiction, by Constancia Gaffeney and Wil Clay in Toledo, Ohio, is the one that has really stuck with us the most (by earning itself a rightful place in our nightmares, that is).
Stop for a minute and take in everything that's wrong with it: the dark, vacant eyes, the dead expression, the four dismembered Martin Luther King Jr. heads super-glued around a globe. And let's not ignore the uncanny resemblance to the Necromongers from The Chronicles of Riddick:
From the Pitch Black sequel that went all off the rails.
We're thinking everything will suddenly make perfect sense when the statue powers up and Martin Luther King Jr.'s faces start spinning around, twin death rays wreaking destruction from each set of eyes.
#8. Walter Johnson -- Washington, D.C.
AHHH! HOLY SHIT! Was Walter Johnson ... the end boss of a Resident Evil game? A victim of the Thing? What's going on with his arm?
Actually, Walter "Big Train" Johnson has been ranked by The Sporting News as the greatest pitcher in baseball history, and from 1907 to 1927 he and his 91-mph fastball established a shitload of pitching records, some of which remain unbroken to this day. So when sculptor Omri Amrany was commissioned to create a Johnson statue for the center field plaza at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., he decided to honor the great pitcher with a statue featuring the "repetitive motion" effect, also known as the "holy shit run he's coming straight at us with his mutated murder-arm" effect.
Really, it's groundbreaking work in the field of Shithouse Crazology.
Turns out Walter Johnson's grandson isn't too happy about the memorial, either:
"It just doesn't work. Those big pieces of matter coming out of Walter's shoulder look like driftwood. But I don't like any part of the statue. I really object to it. It's ridiculous, not even close [to accurately portraying Johnson]. He looks awkward. His delivery point is all wrong. His legs are too stiff. The 'W' on his uniform is too big. And the inscription is on the back [of the base]. It doesn't even face the plaza."
Oh, hell no. We maybe could have gotten past the flailing-arm-of-death thing, but the "W" is too big. God help us, the "W" is too big.
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From this angle, it's less "I'm going to make you crap your pants" and more "I just crapped my own pants."
#7. Pat Tillman -- Phoenix, Arizona
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He bears a startling resemblance to Jim Carrey.
You may remember Pat Tillman as the football player who, after the 9/11 attacks, walked away from a $3.6 million contract to serve in the U.S. Army. After going through Ranger training, he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2003 and was tragically killed by friendly fire in April of 2004. So how do you honor this great man who so succinctly embodied the ideals of selflessness and sacrificing oneself for one's country? You put up this statue of him at the University of Phoenix, entitled Pat Tillman, Running and Screaming With Head Aflame.
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"Stop, drop and roll, Pat! STOP, DROP AND ROLL!"
If you're wondering how they came up with such an odd pose, it's based on a photograph of Tillman taken during his days with the Arizona Cardinals:
His great-grandfather was a lion.
But someone forgot to tap sculptors Gary Tillery and Omri Amrany on the shoulders and remind them that what makes a great photo doesn't necessarily make a great statue. For one, wind-blown hair is really hard to convey in a sculpture. Also, with a statue, you've got all those pesky "other viewing angles" to worry about.
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Alternate title: Pat Tillman, Running into an Invisible Wall
#6. Oscar Wilde -- London, England
He's either rising out of a poorly made coffin or a seriously ill penis.
To memorialize the brilliant novelist, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, sculptor Maggi Hambling came up with that monstrosity you see above, entitled A Conversation With Oscar Wilde. But perhaps we're being a bit harsh here -- sure, it's a disembodied head and hand sticking up out of a stone sarcophagus, but we suppose we could look past all that if it meant we could sit and have a spiritual one-on-one with the guy who could deliver witty and devastating one-liners like they were $5 pizzas.
OK, let's get a little closer:
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Too close!
Gah! Is he made of worms? Or is that just what tattered zombie-flesh looks like when rendered in bronze? And why does he have a putrefied stoat growing out of the side of his neck?
"A conversation With Oscar Wilde," huh? Yeah, any conversation with that thing would begin with it beckoning our souls down into whatever pit of hell it slithered up from and end with us dousing it with holy water and sticking it with the pointiest crucifix we could find. Anything to ensure that no one ever had to endure that conversation, ever again.
"Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed."
#5. St. Bartholomew -- Milan, Italy
St. Bartholomew is perhaps the only saint who has the dual distinction of being skinned alive and having a massacre named after him. So when memorializing the patron saint of the Saw movies in stone, how does one do him justice? Well, Marco d'Agrate certainly gave it the old college try way back in 1562 when he created his statue of St. Bartholomew, seen above at its home in Milan Cathedral. Go ahead, stare at it for a while -- we'll wait.
Wow. Pretty eerie, right? But not exactly horrifying. At least he has some kind of sheet wrapped around him, so he's not a creepy bald guy who's also rocking it out, if you catch our drift. Wait, something's a little off about the texture of that fabric -- let's take a closer look:
We're ... not sure how PETA would feel about this.
What's that draped over his shoulder? Is that -- is that a face? And down near the bottom -- are those toes? What the hell kind of a sheet has a face and toes?
Oh, right. He's wearing his own flayed skin.
Well, that explains the baldness and the truly impressive muscle definition. No word on what that book is he's holding, but we have to assume he's researching how to solve the puzzle box from Hellraiser.
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Reliable, comparable, high-quality data and indicators on cancer are a key driver for improving prevention programmes and to evaluate efficacy of control and care processes across the EU. Harmonised cancer data is also an invaluable resource for cancer epidemiology, allowing greater understanding of the differences and related causes in population-based studies across regional and national boundaries. The JRC is spearheading the development of a harmonised cancer information system for Europe in collaboration with the European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR) and important stakeholders, such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the EUROCARE group and others. This will generate a dynamic European cancer monitoring tool which will steer and support effective policies on cancer.
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posted at 10:25 am on February 24, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Andrew Kaczynski must be Barack Obama's worst nightmare. While he and Nancy Pelosi try to find scapegoats for rapidly-rising gas prices, the BuzzFeed researcher is making Obama eat his own words … from 2008. When Obama ran for President, he attacked George Bush and John McCain for increased fuel costs and promised an end to reliance on foreign oil in order to bring prices back down.
What gets Obama exercised in this ad? Gas prices have reached — horrors — $3.50 a gallon:
In this brief ad from the Obama GOTV effort Vote For Change, Team Obama urges people to register as Democrats to vote because they only make two gallons of gas an hour:
You know, back then that would have been $7 per hour. By the time this summer rolls around, that could be $12 per hour under Obama's economic stewardship. Maybe those voters would have been better off to have been paid in gasoline after all.
Andrew has plenty more, but let's instead focus on Obama's approach to energy today. Investors Business Daily discovers five whoppers from Obama's latest speech on energy and on gas-price "myths":
The White House billed President Obama's energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods.
Obama's main message to struggling motorists was: It's not my fault, so stop whining. The speech only got worse from there, recycling excuses and myths that Obama's peddled for years. But there were some standout whoppers that deserve debunking. The five biggest:
"We're focused on production."
Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.
CNS News has more on the particulars of that, including just how production fare on the federal lands that the Obama administration does control:
The increase in domestic drilling was almost entirely in areas for which the Obama administration exercised no authority, as oil production on federal land declined by 11 percent in fiscal year 2011, according to a study by the Institute on Energy Research (IER), a free-market energy think tank. But oil production on state lands increased that year by 14 percent and increased by 12 percent on private lands.
"A lot of the wells that were supposed to be drilled weren't because of the moratorium," Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the IER, told CNSNews.com. "Drilling is up in the U.S. on lands he has no say over. On lands he has all the say over, drilling is down." …
Obama's insistence that he supports an "all of the above" strategy for energy production is not evident by his actions, said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.
"Today, 85 percent of the outer-continental shelf has been placed off limits once again. When he took office, there were proposals on the table to open up opportunities in those areas," Gerard told CNSNews.com. "Today, in the Rocky Mountains, the leasing has gone down 70 percent since taking office. We now have 10 federal agencies, departments, looking at the technology of hydraulic fracturing, which has really opened up this vast game-changer both in natural gas and oil in the United States."
He added, "The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed increase in taxes, those are all inconsistent with the verbal message of an all-the-above bring along domestic supply."
Looks like Obama has a big problem with escalating gas prices, and he's offering us a lot of gassy misdirection to take our eyes off of his failures.
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JoS. A. Bank Clothiers 70% off most items for $25 + free shipping
Use code SEVENTY for the discount, and use code FREESHIP for free shipping over 25.00
I got a bunch of cedar shoe trees for 7.50 each, shipped. Allen Edmonds shoes, as a side note, are getting 25% off, which still puts them at a decent discount compared to amazon (but not as good as the yearly nordstrom sale)
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*edit - the code is SHIPFREE, not FREESHIP as previously stated.
Also, suits are exempt from the 70% off sale, but are a nice deal with Buy one at 50% off, get one free:
Um, this looks like no deal to me-- the listed prices (e.g. $88 for a cashmere sweater) is ALREADY considering the "70%off" of the "regular price" of $295. Call me crazy, but $300 is not the "regular price" for any made-in-china cashmere sweater. $90 is.
If any single person has ever bought a made-in-china cashmere sweater from JosABank for $295, I'd love to know. http://www.josbank.com/menswear/shop/Product_11001_10050_328112
So is this one of their "better" sales for the year, then? Seems like a different one touting buy one, get one x% off each week.
ripoff they jack the price up then discount it sad go to macys
Yeah I just looked at a dress shirt that was $50 two days ago, and it's $87 now! It's still a deal at 70% off (about $26) but WTF?
Woot, please never post any "deals" from Joseph A. Bank again. Their entire business strategy is to advertise superfluously and to make it look like they're always having a huge clearance sale. But, in reality, they just jack up their "retail price" severely so that it looks like you're saving money. They're always doing the nonsense like buy-one-get-2-free suits, etc. It's annoying. They should just do regular pricing.
@ssiemonsma - woot did not post this deal, I did. Deals.woot is a user driven site, where users pass along deals they have heard about or taken advantage of themselves. I don't work for jos a bank, but saw some good prices on things i needed, and passed it along. Sorry if their pricing frustrates you. I find it no different than most of the other mall brand clothiers and department stores. Macy's absolutely does the same thing, as does kohls.
Not everything winds up being a deal after the 70%, to be sure. Yes, there is creative pricing going on. At the end of the day though, a decent quality dress shirt for 26$ is still a deal. the cedar shoe trees i got are a STEAL (try and find them cheaper - they can't be plastic) and several other items wound up benefiting from the 70% sale more than others, like lets say.. the cashmere. ( i don't wear cashmere, so didn't even look at their pricing.)
@goatcrapp: I know that . . . but doesn't Woot have someone approve the postings? I think yes.
I may have taken out my annoyance at Jos. A. Bank out on your post. They may be some deals to be had. But this company just annoys me . . . they always run these annoyingly high-energy TV ads in my area.


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--Meth distributed to soldiers to help them keep fighting during World War II
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Likewise, treatment providers in California, Oregon, Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina report significant increases in the number of clients entering treatment with methamphetamine problems.
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I have a Container (navigation.View) and some lists.
One list extends another.
In the container, I have push and pop listeners.
My problem is that when I make a push for the child list, it run push event twice (a push for the parent list and another push for the child list).
How can I prevent the push event in the child list?
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Sorry, it was my fault.
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Due to certain reasons, I don't have the chance for going to college for under-graduation, but that doesn't mean I can't choose to walk the hard path and learn. Over the past month or so a lot of people have asked about resources for physics online or offline, but what I want isn't just the resources, but advice on what to study.
I have taught myself the basic undergrad stuff (essentially classical mechanics and electromagnetism with a bit of modern physics with things like the one dimension time in/dependent Schrödinger wave equation) through a combination of MIT OCW, Giancoli and asking around, but what boggles me is how to proceed ahead. I want to understand things instead of just knowing their names and there is so much to physics beyond this that I don't know where to start.
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Update: I know that this question may seem broad and vague, but it's just that I see things in a sort of connected way in my mind. So, although I want to create things and it might appear to be an engineering question it really isn't. I think that traditionally what comprises of engineering is just one view at the same problem. Physics is another. So, if you're wondering what topic to answer on then pick anyone that you know well and you think is connected to the world and helps to expose some of our day to day realities. Things I can use to gain perspective while creating designs. (Particle physics for example, doesn't really make the cut, but fluid dynamics does and so on.)
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An electromyogram (EMG) measures the electrical activity of muscles at rest and during contraction. Nerve conduction studies measure how well and how fast the nerves can send electrical signals.
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Why It Is Done
An EMG is done to:
- Find diseases that damage muscle tissue, nerves, or the junctions between nerve and muscle. These problems may include a herniated disc, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or myasthenia gravis (MG).
- Find the cause of weakness, paralysis, or muscle twitching. Problems in a muscle, the nerves supplying a muscle, the spinal cord, or the area of the brain that controls a muscle can cause these symptoms. The EMG does not show brain or spinal cord diseases.
A nerve conduction study is done to:
- Find damage to the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves that lead away from the brain and spinal cord and the smaller nerves that branch out from those nerves. This test is often used to help find nerve problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
How To Prepare
Tell your doctors all the medicines, vitamins, supplements, and herbal remedies you take.
- Some medicines can affect the test results. You may need to stop taking some medicines before you have this test.
- If you take blood thinners, such as warfarin (Coumadin), clopidogrel (Plavix), or aspirin, your doctor will tell you if you should stop taking these medicines before your procedure. Make sure that you understand exactly what your doctor wants you to do.
Wear loose-fitting clothing so your muscles and nerves can be tested. You may be given a hospital gown to wear.
Since the electrodes are attached to your skin, make sure it is clean and free of sprays, oils, creams, and lotions.
You may be asked to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the test and agree to have it done.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
How It Is Done
An EMG is done in a hospital, clinic, or doctor's office. It may be done in a room that stops any outside electrical interference. The test may be done by an EMG technologist or a doctor.
You will be asked to lie on a table or bed or sit in a reclining chair so your muscles are relaxed.
The skin over the areas to be tested is cleaned. A needle electrode that is attached by wires to a recording machine is inserted into a muscle.
When the electrodes are in place, the electrical activity in that muscle is recorded while the muscle is at rest. Then the technologist or doctor asks you to tighten (contract) the muscle slowly and steadily. This electrical activity is recorded.
The electrode may be moved a number of times to record the activity in different areas of the muscle or in different muscles.
The electrical activity in the muscle is shown as wavy and spiky lines on a video monitor and may also be heard on a loudspeaker as machine gun-like popping sounds when you contract the muscle. The activity may also be recorded on video.
An EMG may take 30 to 60 minutes. When the test is done, the electrodes are removed and those areas of the skin where a needle was inserted are cleaned.
Nerve conduction studies
In this test, several flat metal disc electrodes are attached to your skin with tape or a paste. A shock-emitting electrode is placed directly over the nerve, and a recording electrode is placed over the muscles controlled by that nerve. Several quick electrical pulses are given to the nerve, and the time it takes for the muscle to contract in response to the electrical pulse is recorded. The speed of the response is called the conduction velocity.
The same nerves on the other side of the body may be studied for comparison. When the test is done, the electrodes are removed.
Nerve conduction studies are done before an EMG if both tests are being done. Nerve conduction tests may take from 15 minutes to 1 hour or more, depending on how many nerves and muscles are studied.
How It Feels
During an EMG test, you may feel a quick, sharp pain when the needle electrode is put into a muscle. After the test, you may be sore and have a tingling feeling in your muscles for up to 2 days. If your pain gets worse or you have swelling, tenderness, or pus at any of the needle sites, call your doctor.
With nerve conduction studies, you will be able to feel the electrical pulses. The tests make some people anxious. Keep in mind that only a very low-voltage electrical current is used, and each electrical pulse is very quick (less than a split-second).
- If you still have pain after the test:
- Put ice or a cold pack on the sore area for 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Put a thin cloth between the ice and your skin.
- Take an over-the-counter pain medicine, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or naproxen (Aleve). Be safe with medicines. Read and follow all instructions on the label.
An EMG is very safe. You may get some small bruises or swelling at some of the needle sites. The needles are sterile, so there is very little chance of getting an infection.
There is no chance of problems with nerve conduction studies. Nothing is put into your skin, so there is no chance of infection. The voltage of electrical pulses is not high enough to cause an injury.
Your doctor may be able to tell you about some of the results of your nerve studies right after the tests. A full report may take 2 to 3 days.
The EMG recording shows no electrical activity when the muscle is at rest. There is a smooth, wavy line on the recording with each muscle contraction.
The nerve conduction studies show that the nerves send electrical impulses to the muscles or along the sensory nerves at normal speeds, or conduction velocities. Sensory nerves allow the brain to feel pain, touch, temperature, and vibration. Different nerves have different normal conduction velocities. Nerve conduction velocities generally get slower as a person gets older.
Electrical activity in a muscle at rest shows that there may be a problem with the nerve supply to the muscle. Abnormal wave lines when a muscle contracts may mean a muscle or nerve problem, such as a herniated disc, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or inflammation.
In nerve conduction studies, the speed of nerve impulses is slower than what is normal for that nerve. Slower speeds may be caused by injury to a nerve or group of nerves. Nerve conduction velocities generally get slower as a person gets older.
The results from EMG and nerve conduction studies are used along with your medical history, symptoms, physical and neurological exams, and the results of other tests to help your doctor find out what the problem is or see how a disease is changing.
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking medicines, such as muscle relaxants and anticholinergics.
- Having bleeding, swelling, or too much fat under the skin at the site of the nerves or muscles being tested.
- Not being able to do what is asked during the test.
What To Think About
- The levels of some enzymes in the blood, such as aspartate aminotransferase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and creatine phosphokinase (CPK), may rise when muscle tissue is damaged. An electromyogram can cause higher levels of these enzymes for up to 10 days after the EMG, so blood tests for these enzymes should not be done for 5 to 10 days after an EMG.
- Special types of electromyograms (EMG) may also be done. For example:
- Single-fiber EMG is a special type of EMG test. For this test, very small needles are inserted into a muscle to see how a single muscle fiber contracts. It is a useful test for myasthenia gravis, a disease that affects the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junctions.
- Repetitive nerve stimulation is a useful test for myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton syndrome. In this test, small, repeated shocks are given to measure how the muscle reacts to repeated nerve stimulation.
- External sphincter electromyogram measures the electrical activity of the external urinary sphincter to help find urination problems. The urinary sphincter is a ring-shaped band of muscles around the urethra that helps control urination. The electrical activity can be measured by skin electrodes, by needle electrodes inserted through the skin, or by electrodes in an anal plug.
Other Works Consulted
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2013). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 6th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerAnne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerColin Chalk, MD, CM, FRCPC - Neurology
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