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Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The surprising links between anger and time perception
David Hauser and colleagues first showed that people with an angrier temperament are more likely to think of themselves as moving through time, than to think of time as moving towards them. You can test this on yourself by considering which day of the week a meeting has changed to, if it was originally planned for Wednesday but has been moved forward two days. If you think it's now changed to Friday, then you're someone who thinks of themselves as moving through time, whilst if you think the meeting is now on Monday, then you're more passive, and you think about time passing you by.
In a second study, Hauser's team asked 62 student participants a version of this question but they made it so the re-arranged event was either anger-provoking or neutral. On average, more students presented with the angry version said the event had been moved to Friday (as if they themselves were moving through time) than students presented with the neutral version. Moreover, the angry-version students were more likely (than the neutral students) to say that they felt as though they were approaching the event, rather than that the event was approaching them. In other words, it seems that angry thoughts can change the way we think about time.
A final study turned this on its head and showed that thinking about moving through time can induce anger. The researchers presented 87 students with a computer screen flat on a desk, facing the ceiling. On it were the days of the week, in a vertical line with Saturday at the top, then Friday, Thursday, all the way down to Sunday at the bottom, nearest the participant. Commands were given that either provoked thoughts about moving through time, away from the participant (e.g. a meeting has moved forward two days from Sunday to Wednesday - please highlight the new day on the screen), or thoughts about time moving towards the participant (e.g. a shift down the screen, towards the participant from Wednesday to Sunday). Participants primed to think about their movement through time subsequently rated themselves as feeling angrier than participants in the "time moving towards them" condition.
"These studies support theories of embodied cognition by showing that abstract concepts that share a perceptual domain can influence each other in a novel but predictable manner," the researchers said.
Hauser, D., Carter, M., & Meier, B. (2009). Mellow Monday and furious Friday: The approach-related link between anger and time representation. Cognition & Emotion, 23 (6), 1166-1180 DOI: 10.1080/02699930802358424
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Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
35 comments:
Damn, this was good food for thought. It looks like I'm more anger-oriented based on your test. I'm going to run that rearranged meeting test on people I know and see what response I get.ReplyDelete
- Azkyroth9:35 pm
"You can test this on yourself by considering which day of the week a meeting has changed to, if it was originally planned for Wednesday but has been moved forward two days. If you think it's now changed to Friday, then you're someone who thinks of themselves as moving through time, whilst if you think the meeting is now on Monday, then you're more passive, and you think about time passing you by."ReplyDelete
I question the generalization of personality traits from this particular turn of phrase.
...speaking of anger-provoking events, what conceivable reason is there for disabling the Blockquote tag in a blog?!
I'd venture that the anger simply comes from people who "move through time" being fully aware that their interpretation is in the minority.ReplyDelete
These people have always had to translate the common office-expressions, which is a chore (and therefore "anger" inducing).
Their anger response is a response to what they perceive as the culture's erroneous phrasings, not an indication that thinking of moving through time is anger-producing!
P.S. Grrr! Argh!ReplyDelete
"If you think it's now changed to Friday, then you're someone who thinks of themselves as moving through time, whilst if you think the meeting is no on Monday, then you're more passive, and you think about time passing you by."ReplyDelete
My first impression is that this is a silly generalization. I test as "angrier" by this litmus, but I'm not an angry person. Besides, if you think in terms of a timeline moving left-to-right (just as we read), it makes total sense for "forward" to mean 2 days later instead of 2 days before the original date.
On top of this, the entire article provides absolutely no statistics from the studies at all. What were the correlation coefficients for angriness/passiveness with the various tests? How many participants in the study? For a result to be interesting, I need a bit more information than "people tended more toward one way than the other when they did this certain thing".. that's pretty vague.
Now I know why I hate calendars.ReplyDelete
"Moving" (actively) through time can happen only if you (want to) feel in control of what happens in the future (or, rather, what is supposed to happen). Being in control of (having a mastery over) time is by itself a state of implicit conflict - producing (an implicit) anger.
That's how I feel about time planning (control over destiny... or whatever) - trying to play God makes us angry. However, I don't say that we have to try to always avoid anger (playing God).Replies
- Anonymous3:02 pm
Now, this makes perfect sense to me.Delete
I've been trying to look up what "through time" and- and I can't even find the other one. But the idea that there is a future event and I am moving toward it, does sound more aggressive. I think it's good to be aggressive (not necessarily angry; aggressive means "moving toward", taking initiative, etc. Anger implies both aggression and displeasure.)
Ok it took a while for me to figure out how anything "moved forward" would end up on Monday from a Wednesday meeting until I realized that someone could mean "moved up" to Monday.ReplyDelete
This was made more difficult by the fact that today IS wednesday (when I'm answering) so it also was affected by picturing the request for the change in present tense. However, ultimately I work in IT - we push things out, and the word "forward" would always culturally be looked at as moving things later or further or longer instead of earlier.
If you pushed back an implementation it would also move forward. Pushing back a deadline moves it out. If you release early you're moving it up. I have a feeling that the responses might be work-culture based since my tax accountant husband immediately saw both sides and assumed Monday anyway. Lawyers apparently "Move meetings forward" frequently.
I am willing to assume that people who are involved with technology are generally angrier, but I also promise you if you think I'm angry about the Friday date change, wait until you see how pissed I am when you tell me no, you really meant I had two fewer days to prepare!
- Anonymous6:29 am
Actually it shows poor communication skills. Anyone "moving a meeting forward two days" should state the date it has been moved to and why! That's where the anger part comes in-the posting by Drinne (related tosocio-cultural norms/environment) shows the weakness of the assumption that time movement perception by itself conditions emotional response to changes.ReplyDelete
As for turning the study on its head by presenting time on a flat screen in a single line format; clever, but try it on Asian students accustomed to viewing and reading text in a straight line up-down format-you will likely get an entirely different result I bet.
- Anonymous11:29 am
I tend to swing between the two. When I'm feeling unmotivated then forward is monday. I sit on my backside and time washes over me. No control, just sit back and enjoy the ride, daydream and theorize. But when I'm on top of things and motivated, I'm bossing people around, angrier, in control, get things done rather than think and plan, and forward is Friday. That's my 2c.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:59 pm
I always imagine time as a person facing me. If that person were to move forward, they would be closer.ReplyDelete
To me, time is independent, like another person. I suppose that means I think it's passing me...but for me, it feel more about acceptance. There are just some things outside of human control.
- Anonymous7:16 pm
I love that nearly everyone who post about having a problem with this article tests as "angrier", and they're angry about that, because the test is flawed and over generalized, and this makes them angry, which is all the more reason that some evidence is needed for this silly article, which is angering, because they're not angry people.ReplyDelete
I think we're got all the proof we need.
- Anonymous11:17 pm
I'm confused as to why anyone would think that a meeting scheduled for a Wednesday which is moved forward 2 days could wind up being on a Monday. If it was moved forward one day, they would think it was on Friday? And what would you say to them to tell them ithad been moved to Thursday? That it was moved forward 0 days? This makes no sense to me.ReplyDelete
- Julie6:21 am
To comment on Drinne's post above, I work in IT and I thought "moving forward" meant moving up, hence the meeting was on Monday. To me drawing correlations between time, language, and profession is an oversight. It's certainly a hypothesis that would be interesting to test, but not one we should jump to conclusions about. Another possibility is that there's a spurious mediator variable relating time and anger.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:09 am
Time operates independent of me or anyone. Time is abstract. There is the present and then there is the past and future. Language and definitions allows us to discuss time regardless of our viewpoint.ReplyDelete
Forward means to advance. I can not move time, but I can move forward a meeting. Common sense tells us that if we advance forward to "anything", we will meet it sooner.
Thus a meeting moved forward as in this example will occur on Monday regardless of my typical disposition.
I do not move through time. A clock hand advances, the earth continues to revolve, and my biological clock continues. We use time as a convience so that we can all meet at the same day for a meeting.
- Anonymous1:03 am
Wow, that's really interesting. When I think of events that have happened or that will happen I always visualize where the date is in the year and see myself moving towards it (if it's something that's going to happen), or has having moved away from it (if it has happened). I visualize a year as a clock, with December at the top, June at the bottom, September in the 3:00 position and March in the 9:00 position (for some reason my year goes counter-clockwise). I visualize weeks differently, with Saturday and Sunday beside each other at the top (Saturday is on the right) and the weekdays on an arc below them with Monday at the left and Friday at the right, it all looks like a capital 'D' turned on its side. I find that compared to most people I have a good chronological memory for things that have happened, maybe because whenever I think of them I see them on the clock, so I know where they are in relation to other events.ReplyDelete
there are two dominant spatial metaphors: the ego-moving metaphor (Friday people), in which we are moving toward the future (e.g., "I'm coming up on my 40th birthday"), and the time-moving metaphor (Monday people), in which we are stationary while time moves towards us (e.g., "My 40th birthday is fast approaching").ReplyDelete
Time like Space like the Universe is an illusion. I am currently halfway through Julian Barbours The End of Time. Barbour an Oxford physicist and philosopher also argues that motion does not exist either. The only thing that does exist is Mind of which I argue that there is only one!Anymore than one is a violation of Occam's Razor that is Panpsychism for you, which reminds me I must read Panpsychism in the West again.ReplyDelete

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Turkey Place Cards
These cute turkey nametags will dress up your Thanksgiving table and save some confusion over seating your guests.
Level: Easy
Time involved: One to two hours
- Seven 2-inch oval wooden pieces (Woodsies)
- Brown, red, green, yellow, blue, and orange craft paints
- Paintbrushes
- Foam plate
- Flat 3-inch wooden circle (These can be found in bags in the wood section of a craft store.)
- Two 1 1⁄2 inch oval wooden pieces
- Small triangular wooden piece for beak
- Glue gun
- Plastic eyes
- Black calligraphy marker
- Clear acrylic finish spray
Paint six of the 2-inch wooden ovals each a different color: red, yellow, green, blue, orange, and brown. Paint the remaining 2-inch wooden oval and the circle brown. Paint the two 1 1⁄2 inch oval pieces orange and the triangular piece red. Paint a second coat if necessary. Allow these to dry.
Glue the six wooden ovals (feathers) onto the back of the top half of the circle. Glue the brown oval piece in the middle of the circle to form a head. Glue the triangle nose onto the head. Then glue the two smaller oval pieces flat onto the bottom of the body to form feet that will make the turkey stand up.
Glue two plastic eyes on the head. Write the name of the guest on the bottom of the circle using a calligraphy marker.
Spray the project with clear acrylic finish spray and allow it to dry for several hours.
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Pemex: 14 dead, 80 injured in office building explosion at Mexican oil company headquarters.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's state-owned oil company says 14 have died and 80 are injured in an office building explosion at its headquarters in the capital.
An explosion at the main headquarters of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, also damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.
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Around here we love giving back and supporting the community right here in Salem.
One organization we've been happy to partner with is the Marion-Polk Food Share. Each year they are able to distribute over 7.6 million pounds of food to those in need in the Willamette Valley. They run and facilitate several programs that help and support the community. Some of their programs include a community kitchen where they provide cooking classes and serve meals to those in need. They provide support to children and senior citizens through various programs as well. Working with local prisons and jails, they grow gardens for food production. This program helps provide food for the Food Share and agricultural skills to the inmates. These skills are often used to find future employment.
The last two years Bookbyte has held a companywide food drive during the month of November. As a company we were able to donate over 6,000 pounds of food each year! Knowing our donations help our neighbors and friends in need, make them more a little more special and meaningful. We're grateful to partner with the Marion-Polk Food Share and to join them in making a difference here in Oregon.
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Who really cares? There's 400 Taylor Green's in MLB. Punch and Judy hitter, barely any pop, medium batting average and plays a few positions. Whoopee. If I were the Crew I'd trade him for a bag of Pork Skins and a Diet Dew and still feel like I ripped the other team off.Hide replies
Do you feel better about yourself now?
Freon, it's not about me. It's about Taylor and while I like him because he's part of my Brewers, he is what he is. Nothing special. Tracker, figure out what 3 HR's in 78 games equates to over a 162 game season. Then tell me he has "pop". I know all teams need their role players, but that's all he is. He'll never be anything more than a "semi" decent option off the bench or a pretty decent AAA player. He has enough of a track record to bear that out.
It's your initial comment that sucks out loud. "Who really cares?" Taylor Green certainly does. He's trying to find a way to get better every day to contribute to the team which we all love. That's commendable. His talent level, wherever one thinks that level is at, isn't really the point of the post. Todd is highlighting a player on the fringe.
Freon, When I said who cares, it was who cares in that this is the first couple of days of spring training and one of the very first blog posts of the spring, we're talking about Taylor Green? Really? We've all been dying for spring training to start and waiting out this crappy winter and one of the first posts from Arizona is about Taylor Green, a marginal at best, major leaguer. That's all. The who cares part wasn't aimed at Taylor Green himself, it was the choice of blog posts to start spring. This must be the slowest Brewer day in history if we're posting a "fluff piece" about a guy who has just as much of a shot of being in AAA or on a different major league roster as he does of being on our own.
Alex is going to be the 1st one off the bench, anyways. Green will probably not get a lot of playing time.
Two points: First, Green's got plenty of pop, as evidenced by his .583 SLG and .997 OPS in 2011 at Nashville. Why he couldn't replicate that in 2012 is a mystery.
Second: You are an idiot. No offense.
If AAA stats counted, Ben Hendrickson would be the ace of our staff today.
Young players need to play every day. Green is a great example of that. Green is purely an insurance policy at this point. His bench production will not likely exceed a comparable veteran signing. If they end up trading Aram for any reason, Green is the only legitimate option, though, so I don't see how you can just jettison him either.
26 isn't young for a prospect. Not for a guy that's projected as any kind of starter.
I'd suggest Alex Gonzalez may play a fair amount of 3rd base this year . . . as I'm also predicting a DL stint for ARam at some point this year given his history. Hope he can replicate last year though.
Don't forget Green hit 22 HR for Nashville in 2011.
If he's got 'it', he has to show it off the bench. ARam won't last forever; two seasons to show he can hit major league pitching.Hide replies
Thought the same thing EM. The Cubs wrote Ramirez off after 2011, of course like usual the Cubs were wrong. But they say it's better to get rid of a guy a year early rather than a year late. Green's chance may come sooner rather than later depending on what an aging Ramirez has got left.
One thing about last year with Green, is he actually hit better coming off the bench instead of when starting! If he can play a number of position well he will get some playing time.
Know your role Jabroni!
Green was a big disappointment as a hitter last year. He hit well in the minors but just couldn't hit as a Brewer. He's got to produce to make and stay on the team. If not, trade him.Hide replies
As long as he can play defense he will be coming off the bench, and not relied on for hitting.
The big problem is 2BHide replies
The big problem is pitching.
Never understood the fascination with this guy.
Green had some big years in the minors, but he was never projected as an every day player on a contending team. Guys like him need to take full advantage of every opportunity. He failed to do that last year and even his AAA numbers dropped off. I doubt the Brewers see him as a future starter. He'll have to show he can come off the bench and be a tough out. It also wouldn't hurt if he showed he could fill in in the OF.
Taylor Green's career is very similar to Casey McGehee prior to getting a chance with the Brewers. Hope when he gets his next chance, he can take advantage of it like CM did. Ultimately, CM was a very productive MLB player for two years somehow and then really fell off.Hide replies
Casey took advantage of the pathetic hitting Bill Hall and took over at 3rd. He came out of nowhere and had 2 really decent seasons. Funny how he ended up playing two months for the Yankees. Green may not get a chance to play full-time this year, but needs to make the best of his opportunities, just like Gamel should.
Well, my comment on the real problem certainly went nowhere. I'm close to being ready to bet that our second baseman flunks the test again. I hope I'm wrong. I don't understand the allegiance on this blog to RW year after year after year, when he has shown that he is only marginally a ML player. Again, I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
Taylor Green is a good minor league player who will be nothing more than that. He looks confused most of his plate appearances.
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WACO (January 10, 2013)—A California gang member was sentenced Wednesday in Waco's federal court to conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine in the Central Texas area.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith ordered Johnny Siqueiros to serve five years in federal prison, to be followed by three years on supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and $100 in special assessment to the court.
In a federal court document, investigators identified Siqueiros as a member of the Gardena 13 gang, based in Los Angeles, Calif., which was being investigated for several types of gang activity, including murders.
The investigation, which began in June 2009, quickly led to a parallel investigation into drug activity.
Siqueiros was identified as one of the gang members that participated in the drug sales ring that was trafficking drugs into Central Texas for sale.
A series of wiretaps initiated by federal agents into the murders also netted several conversations about drug sales.
Prosecutors said in a court document that once the upper level gang members collected money from drug distributions, proceeds were then allocated to members of the Gardena 13, depending on their status in the gang.
The document states since December 2009, investigators have intercepted thousands of phone calls where Gardena 13 members have been engaged in the distribution of narcotics.
The conversations centered on the transportation of methamphetamine and the payment for the drugs between California and Central Texas.
Police discovered approximately 14 pounds of methamphetamine inside a hidden compartment of a Toyota Avalon that was headed from California to Texas.
In May 2010 officers discovered about 5 pounds of methamphetamine and $12,000 in cash in a hidden compartment in a Toyota FJ Cruiser that also was bound for Texas.
Several members of the gang already have been sentenced in the Waco court and are serving federal prison sentences.


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TOPEKA – Kathy Dechand has spent nearly every Saturday and Sunday since 1974 volunteering hours of her time each day to residents of the Kansas Neurological Institute (KNI). Today she was honored as the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Volunteer of the Month for February. KDADS Secretary Shawn Sullivan presented Kathy with the award in the company of Todd Han, Volunteer Coordinator at KNI, several residents and fellow volunteers, and KNI Superintendent Barney Hubert.
The award presentation was a surprise to the nearly 40-year volunteer who was nominated last month by Han. He was thrilled Kathy was chosen for the honor, saying "If every volunteer was like Kathy, it would be too easy. She does everything she's ever asked to do and does most things without having to be asked and that makes my job easy. We can't thank her enough for all she does for us."
"When I was Volunteer Coordinator here 30 years ago, Kathy was already volunteering here… in the 30 years since, her volunteerism has had a huge positive impact on the lives of our residents and we appreciate it so much," added Hubert.
The Volunteer of the Month program was created to recognize Kansans who donate their time and energy to help persons with disabilities and/or older adults.
"Kathy Dechand is an admirable example of how enriching the lives of others through volunteer work can and does better ourselves and our community," KDADS Secretary Shawn Sullivan said. "Her positive attitude and caring approach impacts countless lives and we are so proud to honor her as KDADS' Volunteer of the Month."
Dechand walked into a room full of residents and volunteers at the Honey Bee Lodge on the KNI campus when she was surprised to learn she was there to be named Volunteer of the Month. Initially, all Dechand could say was "Wow." But after she absorbed the surprise, she began talking about the residents she works with, "The 'kids' are great," she said. "I got introduced to them back in 1974 and the more I got to know them the more lovable they got. I truly believe that your life is better if you give more and the more you give the better your life will get. I have no doubt that holds true. The part that makes me feel like I'm a millionaire is that I get back more than I give every day."
KDADS Secretary Sullivan presented Dechand with a certificate of appreciation, a $20 Walgreens gift card and a $50 check from KDADS. KanCare Managed Care Organizations Amerigroup, Sunflower State Health Plan and United Healthcare are proud sponsors of the Volunteer of the Month program.


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C++\DX\openGL is the best bet for creating video games and game engines.
Will in future, C++ would mantain its spot as the industry standard?
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First: Game Industry is moving really, really slow. It's a huge (financial sense) industry, so there are always many people against everything which is new/unknown/maybe smarter than them and/or no competitor uses it and/or no projects are known which were successful using this new stuff. some kind of catch-22.
Second: Performance matters. Way (!) more than in other development areas. So, a possible successor of C++ must be at least as fast as C++. Also, to compensate the massive amount of RAD-Tools for C++ Game development, the new thing must boost productivity as much as ruby/rails did in in the web-development world.
Third: crossplatform. In the last months, Microsoft lost credit in every area. Blizzard doesn't like Windows 8. Steam moves in giant steps to Linux, in collaboration with eg.: nVidia, the new Steambox will run on top of Linux. Microsoft even started dropping development of some of their core technologies, starting with Silverlight. The amount of OS X Users increases steadily. And in the future, the biggest selling points will probably be the tablet/"smart"phone-market. In this cluttered market you have many Operation Systems and derivates to handle simultanly. C++ is quite nice for crossplatform development, since it "just" needs a compiler on/for the target system.
So: "the next big thing" is not here today. C++ just works fine. The next thing has to fulfill all the 3 points above and must be somewhat different from C++, because people don't switch just for a small gain (development/re-learning time matters, too).
Hell Yep, Buddy!!
(now fire up your MS VS!!)


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The tour of western portions of the state will begin at Cedar Bluff Reservoir near WaKeeney at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday. From there, the group will view the effects the drought has taken to a Trego County farm. Following a meeting with area farmers and agribusiness leaders at a Hill City Restaurant, the Governor will tour a Hoxie feed yard to discuss the effect the drought is taking on the feedlot industry.
These visits are a part of the Governor's drought tour that began last week with two stops in Saline County in Central Kansas, followed by a trip to Allen and Neosho Counties in Southeast Kansas.


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10 Things That Will Not End Well
#5. Beginner's Guide to Catching Monster Sharks
The Thing:
Learning new things is cool. Fishing is kind of cool. Sharks are really cool. So why not combine it all together and learn how to bring "monster" sharks onto your boat? The book has 250 photos, and by the time you're done looking at those you should be ready. And it's not like the sharks are actually monsters, right?
Why It Will End Badly:
Well, actually, according to Captain Mike, the author, at least one type of shark is a monster.
In fact, the chapter on Makos makes them sound like the Velociraptors from Jurassic park: smart, fast and incredibly pissed off at you. Of course, the characters from Jurassic Park never tried to pull a pissed off raptor into a tiny enclosure by a hook in its mouth. Here, that's the entire point. You'd think you'd want to ease into that chapter, but then you're not a fucking monster shark fisherman:
#4. Explosives Detection Field Test Kit - DropEx Plus
The Thing:
Now, when you stumble across a ticking package, you no longer have to scream "BOMB!" and run away as fast as you possibly can. In fact, you won't even need to wait a few hours and Google your local news station to find out what kind of explosive device disintegrated everything in its blast radius earlier that day. Now that the Explosive Detection Field Test Kit is available online, you can conduct experiments on highly explosive material yourself.
"It's a bomb! Thanks, Explosive Detection Field Test Kit."
Not an expert? No problem. The kit comes with easy to follow instructions like, "Drop-Ex-2 for Group B Drop-Ex-2 is used to search for GROUP B type explosives which include Dynamite, Nitroglycerine, RDX, PETN, SEMTEX, Nitrocellulose and smokeless powder. If after Drop-Ex-1 there is no color change, use Drop-Ex-2." And let's not forget about the detail you really care about: free shipping.
Why It Will End Badly:
We literally can't imagine a single scenario where the use of a D.I.Y. bomb kit could possibly be even remotely advisable. There are trained professionals, who are far better equipped to DIThemselves. It should also be noted that those trained professionals use remote controlled robots whenever possible in order to stay as far the fuck away from the job they've spent their entire life training to do. Compare the highly trained professionals, disarming bombs from a safe distance with you; the guy with his face directly over the bomb who needs big blinking arrows to show him where the bottles are.
#3. Heroin User's Handbook
The Thing:
Racial prejudice is bad and all, but probably more damaging is prejudice against heroin. People act like heroin use is a scourge on society, but according to the Heroin User's Handbook, it's really heroin prejudice.
You've probably heard that using heroin could give you AIDS, make your teeth rot out and even kill you. According to Francis Moraes, Ph.D., that shit is on society. If they'd just start teaching the HUH in schools, kids would know about all the ways they can safely put heroin in their body, helpful hints for "scoring on the street" and "purifying heroin."
And it's not like Dr. Moraes doesn't cover the risks involved. His first chapter opens with the sage advice "Don't try heroin."
Why It Will End Badly:
Mr. Moraes's book is an insane mixture of acknowledging the dangers of heroine, while trying desperately to explain why he finds the stuff so damn great.
The first chapter may open with a warning, but it ends with a helpful reminder that "heroin can be used safely." The whole concept of "addiction" would seem to argue against that but hey, maybe it's possible to get addicted to safety.
There's also the bizarre passage where he acknowledges that it's possible to die of a heroin overdose, but then says it's "not at all clear as to why it happens." Hey, maybe they were all poisoned by the CIA. Maybe the government doesn't want heroin users to succeed in their mission to save the world with their good vibrations and jazz music. It's sure as fuck not because heroin is bad for you at all!
Ironically, probably the greatest testament to the dangers of heroin is the fact that Moraes, a long time user, has used his Ph.D. to amass the following body of work:
#2. How to Build Your Own Catapult
The Thing:
Now you too can build medieval siege devices, for any number of practical modern uses, primarily giving emergency crews a hilarious story they can tell for years.
Why It Will End Badly:
If you feel the need to make the very first chapter of your book into what is basically one long disclaimer, you might want to think twice about making it available to the general public.
"The catapults and related projects described in this book have been designed with your safety foremost in mind. However, as you try them out, there is still a possibility that something unexpected may occur ... [A] few of the projects result in powerful siege engines with projectiles that can move pretty fast."
What the author really should say here is: "...there is a possibility that the expected may occur. That is to say, as you advance down your street pulling your Macedonian catapult behind you, you will likely be shot or captured by the police before you can load it with your first boulder or infected cow. So, why don't you just stick to reading a book about catapults instead of buying a book that teaches you how to build them."
Really, the best case scenario is that this thing malfunctions and only injures you. That's quite an accomplishment for a do-it-yourself guide.
Sure, there are guides out there for things like D.I.Y. hot air balloons, which have a high potential for hilarity but in the hands of a competent builder, could still turn out perfectly harmless and even cool. But here, if everything goes perfectly, it still ends with a huge fucking projectile whistling through the air. You can load this thing with food and fire it toward an orphanage and you're still probably going to wind up shot by a police sniper.
#1. Under the Gun: Gun Disarming Tactics for the Street
The Thing:
We've all been there: You and your loved ones are walking at an oblique angle towards a brick wall when a man in a ski mask and roller skating wrist guards points a gun in your face. He's cocking it to the side like they do in rap videos, so you know he means business. What do you do?
Well, if you prefer gun-disarmings to be relatively nonsense free, you've already purchased and learned the lessons from Under The Gun, an instructional DVD so good that its title works just as well for a Steven Seagal movie.
Why It Will End Badly:
The DVD description repeatedly and emphatically points out that in a confrontation with an armed man, "compliance can get you killed!" Yes, it's far more dangerous to give the mugger the five bucks in your wallet, rather than do the sensible thing and try to lunge at him and wrestle the gun out of his hands.
The product description uses more exclamation points than most of the emails in your spam filter to let you know that "You can defeat the gunman!" while promising to give you "the attitude necessary to defeat a gunman who is about to blow you away!"
"Don't worry!! Your attitude will save you!!!"
Of course, copping a 'tude and refusing to hand over the cash is only half the battle. You'll also need to learn "the twelve possible assault positions of a gun." Twelve? Wait, is this fucking Gunkata?
We'll let you know when our copy arrives.
For more things that won't end well, check out 7 Items You Won't Believe Are Actually Legal and 7 Hacks That Turn Everyday Objects into Deadly Weapons.
And for things that will end well (read: Boobs) check out our Top Picks.


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Top 10 Tips to Boost Your Chances of Getting Pregnant
So you've decided to have a baby. Congratulations! Now comes the hard work of actively trying to conceive. Although there is no "magic" pill to get pregnant, some simple methods have been shown to increase your odds. Whether they are scientifically proven or simply an old wives' tale, it can't hurt to test them out!
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Have Sex...and Lots of it!
Sure, this sounds like a given, but believe it or not, not everyone follows this rule. Many couples try to time intercourse during ovulation, but don't have sex when the female is not ovulating. While it's true that a woman needs to be ovulating to get pregnant, many women ovulate at different times from month to month and miscalculate their most fertile dates. Additionally, an egg is only viable for 24 hours after ovulation, making it near impossible to time sex perfectly.
The solution? Have sex about three times a week (having it too often may reduce sperm count). Sperm can live up to three days in a woman's body, so you'll increase your chances of getting pregnant, even if you have sex three days before you ovulate.
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The first step to choosing a subwoofer actually begins with the enclosure and how you want the sub to perform. In this video we'll tell you about the different types of subwoofer enclosures available, and find out which one best fits your vehicle and your needs.
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Our advisors get a lot of questions about subwoofers:
"Do I need a sub?"
"What kind of sub fits my car?"
"What sub hits hardest?"
It's easy to get confused. There are a lot of different sizes and styles of subwoofers and different types of sub boxes. It's hard to know where to start. Let's simplify things for you. There are two key things to think about when buying a sub: sound and space.
Sound depends on the kind of enclosure, or box, that you're subwoofer is mounted in. There are three kinds of enclosure designs you'll commonly find in car audio: sealed, ported, and bandpass. Sealed boxes are simple, sealed enclosures that the sub is mounted into. They're best if you want tight and accurate bass, great for all-around use. Ported boxes add a port or vent that improves the efficiency of the system. They'll play louder with less power input but might sound a little more boomy. When volume is king, it's a smart choice. Bandpass boxes combine a sealed box with a ported enclosure with the sub sealed inside the box. With their plexiglass windows, they're dramatic and they can give big bass output — the perfect call when you want to make a statement.
If you're short on space you may not be able to fit a large box into your car or truck but there are some good solutions for tight spots. Truck boxes like this one are built with a slim profile to let you slide them behind the seat of your truck. Special custom enclosures like these stealth boxes let you add a custom fit box to your truck. Some even come with subs and amps already built in.
One other solution when space is tight is choosing a compact powered sub like this one. Since the amp is built in, you'll save space twice. It'll fit in a lot of tight spaces where you can't put a normal sub. When space isn't an issue you can go with a larger box like this trunk-style box. Just make sure you measure the space you have available before you buy the box.
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Charlie from Medford, OregonPosted on 5/13/2015 12:19:47 AM
I have 1 15" Kicker solo-baric L7 and 2 8" Kicker solo-baric L7s. I was wandering how I should go about boxing them when im looking for something extra poppy but with the lows really coming through. maybe bandpass the 2 8s on the side with the ported 15 in the middle? please let me know if that is possible. thank you for your time.
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I have a 10" Memphis sub in a standard cab p/u, how do I know if the enclosure is the right size ?...how is that determined
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I was recommended to install Pioneer D8604 amp with active subs due to space constraints. Question is; the subs already got a built in amp, do I need additional amp? is it necessary to replace my original speaker set that comes with the new car? I am advised to change it to 6" morel Maximo component set. Please help as I am a novice in car audio but keen to learn more. Thank you!
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I got a 1988 Toyota supra,my stereo is 3 12" sony explodes,1000watt amp. how do i fit that in my car and still have room for my removable top.
Roberto H Westenfeld from StegerPosted on 8/20/2015 12:57:52 AM
Hello I have two infinity 1252w refrence series subs in a sealed box in my 96 Chevrolet blazer would a ported or a band pass be better for sound also it's hooked up too a r750_1d Fosgate amp at 1 ohm .
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Prominent Role for Law School Alumnae in NAWJ Annual Conference
The election in 2009 of Hon. Sue Pai Yang '84 as chair of the International Outreach Committee of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) gave her both a coveted position with the organization as well as a seat on the board of the International Association of Women Judges. Presented with the invaluable opportunity to interact with judges from around the world, Judge Yang, who sits on the New Jersey Worker's Compensation Court, sought ideas for a project that the International Outreach Committee could implement in New Jersey.
|Members of the NAWJ 33rd Annual Conference Planning Committee include (l–r): Hon. Rosemary Gambardella '79, Hon. Sue Pai Yang '84, Hon. Michelle Hollar-Gregory '81, Fran Bouchoux '87, and Hon. Sandra Robinson.
From a friend's suggestion of a one-day symposium came the decision by the National Association of Women Judges to hold its 33rd Annual Conference in Newark, New Jersey – the first time that the State would host the conference in the 33-year history of the organization. From October 12 – 16, more than 300 American and international judges, practicing attorneys, and legal scholars will participate in the conference, whose theme is "Global Women's Issues." Judge Yang is conference chair and Fran Bouchoux '87, Senior Associate Dean at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, is co-chair.
Attendees will gather at the law school and other venues in the city for presentations and discussions on topics ranging from ensuring economic equality for women in a global society and preventing human trafficking to cross-cultural issues in the courts and effective leadership styles for judges. Keynote speakers are U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. State Department; and Hon. Alice C. Hill, Senior Counselor to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Click here for the full program and here for the photo gallery. The Star-Ledger article on Justice Ginsburg's keynote address can be found here.
Not surprisingly given the profile of the law school as one of the first to enroll women in large numbers and to have women on the faculty – including Justice Ginsburg from 1963 to 1972, eight members of the conference Planning Committee are graduates of Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Also appropriately, the Rutgers Women's Rights Law Reporter, the oldest legal journal in the country that focuses exclusively on the field of women's rights law, will publish the proceedings.
The alumnae Planning Committee members are, in addition to Judge Yang and Dean Bouchoux: Hon. Estela M. De La Cruz '82, Superior Court, Bergen County; Hon. Rosemary Gambardella '79, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey; Hon. Michelle Hollar-Gregory '81, Superior Court, Essex County; Hon. Lourdes Santiago '81, Superior Court, Hudson County; Hon. Siobhan A. Teare '84, Superior Court, Essex County; and Lorraine A. Abraham '74, Partner, Schiffman, Abraham, Kaufman & Ritter, P.C.
In the following, three of our alumnae share their reflections on organizing the conference, their participation in NAWJ, their pride in Newark as the host city, and the educational and cultural programming that will be offered during the four-day conference.
Hon. Sue Pai Yang '84, New Jersey Workers' Compensation Court
"I approached Senior Associate Dean Bouchoux about having an international women's issues symposium at Rutgers. Shortly thereafter, to my surprise, Dean Bouchoux presented me with a complete draft of a symposium proposal.
"I presented her proposal to then NAWJ President Justice Dana Fabe of the Supreme Court of Alaska at our October 2009 Annual Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. She was impressed and suggested that instead of a one-day symposium, I should chair the four-day 2011 NAWJ Conference in order to reach a wider audience. Our symposium committee agreed to take on that challenge and morphed into a conference planning committee. I invited Dean Bouchoux to join NAWJ as an Amicus Judicii and be conference co-chair. Our committee was brainstorming about a theme when I read that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was starting an initiative on global women's issues. That inspired us to adopt "Global Women's Issues" as our conference theme.
"Many of us on the 15-member Conference Planning Committee have devoted two years of our lives working to ensure the success of this conference. For instance, Dean Bouchoux has recruited many faculty and an army of law students to help with the conference. I recruited my law school classmate, Judge Siobhan Teare, to be on the committee. About half of our committee are Rutgers–Newark Law School grads from various classes who have bonded through working together on this project.
"The more than 300 registrants include federal, state, administrative, and military court judges as well as legal scholars and attorneys. We also expect a record-breaking turnout of international judges from more than 25 countries. This was made possible through funding from the U.S. Department of State; Robert M. Kaufman, Esq. and the New York Community Trust; the Sylvia Chin, Esq. Memorial Fund of the Pacific Asian Coalition of New Jersey; and the American Society of International Law.
"To convince our national board to hold the conference in Newark rather than another city in New Jersey, we highlighted the historic importance of Newark as the third oldest city in the New World and the support we would receive from the two law schools in the city – Rutgers and Seton Hall. Our two outstanding law schools agreed to contribute their expertise with program planning and to be the site of some of the programs. By all measures, the conference will be a resounding success due to the support we have received from the courts and the law schools as well as the legal and greater community."
Fran Bouchoux '87, Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Services
"It was in September 2009 when representatives of NAWJ-District III approached Rutgers School of Law–Newark to discuss the possibility of developing a symposium on the theme of global women's issues. Inspired in part by the appointment of the first U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, the judges conceived of an educational program designed to increase awareness of the challenges to realizing equality for women throughout the globe and memorializing the program in a scholarly journal.
"That seed of an idea grew to a proposal for hosting the 2011 NAWJ in Newark, New Jersey, a city whose history is filled with communities that have overcome adversity and struggled to advance the cause of equal justice for all. The originally conceived one-day symposium, now titled the Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Symposium on International Human Rights and taking place on October 14 at Rutgers, has been incorporated into multi-day programming designed to deepen our understanding of the challenges to achieving global equality.
"As a friend of NAWJ, I am honored to have worked with a group of creative and energetic judges and attorneys who have devoted countless hours to organizing the conference under the guiding hand of NAWJ and IAWJ leaders and an expert administrative staff from the NAWJ national office. Of course, a conference of this magnitude cannot be accomplished without the assistance of a broad network of volunteers. We are indebted to the generosity of the public and private institutions, as well as the hundreds of individuals, who have donated their time and resources to make this conference possible."
Hon. Rosemary Gambardella '79, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey
"I have been involved with the NAWJ as long as I had had the privilege to serve on the Bench – some 25 years. Being a part of this organization has given me the opportunity to meet judges, academics, and lawyers from around the country and the world.
"It is with special pride that the NAWJ's 33rd Annual Conference will take place in Newark, New Jersey, the city where I grew up. The selection of Newark marks a milestone for this city and an opportunity for we who love the city to show it off to the country and the world. The theme of Global Women's Issues fits in well with the revitalization of Newark as it reaches out to those who will attend. My thanks to the work of the planning committee – people of vision who could see the concept of the conference at this time in this city. Well done!"


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The Circuit of Americas will make its Formula One debut this weekend and Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery has warned teams that they could be in for a bit of a shock
The Formula One circus will head to Austin for the first time and as is the case with all new tracks, it is always difficult to predict how the rubber will perform.
Pirelli will take their medium and hard compound to Texas while teams will also have an extra set of hard tyres for Friday practice.
Hembery admits the surface is not one of the smoothest and some teams could find it tricky.
"I think it will always catch a few people out, a new circuit," he told ESPN.
"Certainly from the layout it looks very interesting, and from the surface data we have it's certainly not in the group of circuits with a smooth surface - the Korean, Indian and to an extent Abu Dhabi are all in that ballpark - but it should enable us to get back to a two-stop race."
After several complaints earlier in the season that the tyres are playing too big a role in the outcome of races, teams have found the tyres are a lot less challenging recently.
Hembery admits they haven't been too aggressive with their rubber choices.
"You can never please everyone, so we just try to do what we feel is the right balance," he said.
"Maybe we could have been a little bit more aggressive but at the end of the day we've only got four compounds to choose from. It's a combination of the last three circuits being - in terms of surface - quite comfortable from a compound point of view and the teams and drivers at the end of the season having obviously worked really hard to minimise degradation and wear.
"So it's a combination of many factors, but equally we're at the business end of the season. I don't think anybody wants us all to be talking about tyres at this point of the season, it's the wrong balance. It's all about cars and drivers now."


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Blackburn says he warned city officials of overtime
August 24, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — The president of International Association of Fire Fighters Local 228 said Friday he tried to warn city officials that planned layoffs of firefighters would result in more overtime....
Well said Mr Blackburn..I'm sure he would like to say more but can't... as for the city new "health care" plan... well rumor is $175 a month and a 5k deductible? That s not health insurance.. especially since the monthly cost goes back into the general fund since the city is "self insured" ... what a rip off... not to mention it was implemented by Mr dianaballe... who also by the the sits in on contract negotiations as well as uses the fire dept on ambulance calls as mucha possible. Using city services for personal gain ? So that meansany businesses in the city should be able to use police or fire... maybe to unload lumber trucks at Lowes ? No difference.... theft in office maybe ? And what a finance director...cost the city 300k and still has a job ? Woow... any where else not only would you be fired... may be in jail. Wake up people.... its only getting worse... few council people are aboutready for the nursing home I believe...od and losing their minds...:-)
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The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence
Scientists love themselves some genetic engineering. Like all uses of science, selectively breeding animals can result in creepiness -- we recently covered a handful of designer pets that seem specifically designed to haunt your dreams. But domesticated gene meddling isn't completely immune to awesomeness. Sometimes, just sometimes, what comes out of the test tube is less Cthulhu and more like the kickass pets you always wanted as a kid. For instance ...
The upcoming Jurassic World film -- which will feature genetically modified super-dinosaurs battling combat-velociraptors under a giant pile of all our money -- is probably going to have some kind of moral about how genetically modifying animals is arrogant and dangerous. And we totally agree: We're way too familiar with mother nature's love of casual violence to ever want to risk incurring her wrath.
Unless, you know ... it's rad. Like all the animals in this Cracked Classic, which have been updated into super-pets, totally probably definitely maybe won't kill us all.
#5. Big Jungle Cats That Won't Kill You
Unless you're a circus performer or a member of a Vegas act, chances are your interaction with big cats is limited to visits to the zoo and the occasional tiger rampage. But let's be honest: Who among us hasn't dreamed about how awesome it would be to take your jaguar or cheetah for a walk around the neighborhood? Alas, we're all too aware that even normal house cats can do some serious damage when they really put their mind to it. A big cat could (and would) just straight up claw-slap your face to next Thursday as soon as look at you.
Take the wild-ass serval, an African wild cat that is ridiculously inappropriate for snuggling:
Wikimedia Commons
Seen here hungrily eying your liver.
But what if science somehow combined that thing with, say, a regular house cat? And then registered the ensuing hellspawn as an official cat breed and you could buy one and name it Mr. Claws and make it wear a wacky scarf and have strange adventures with it forever?
Because that's what they totally did. The savannah cat, named to evoke its African heritage, was first introduced to the world in 1986 by Bengal breeder Judee Frank. In 2001, the International Cat Association accepted it as a newly registered breed.
Shortly thereafter, it was elected Emperor of Cats.
The fact that it's huge and ridiculously sweet-looking is just the tip of the awesome iceberg for the savannah cat. It's a lot more loyal than your average who-gives-a-shit tabby, to the point that it's comparable to a dog. And yes, you can absolutely fulfill the shit out of that "take the wild beast out for a walk" fantasy with them. What's more, the savannah cat doesn't have the aversion to water that most cats do, and some people actually take showers with them, because there is no possible way that will result in a hilarious emergency room story.
Oh, and they're also instinctively friendly toward children.
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Bullying was no longer a problem for Sally.
If for some reason you still don't feel like shelling out thousands of dollars for a serval hybrid, there's always the budget version: For between $500 and $1,500, you can pick up the Pixie-Bob, the result of what is claimed to be naturally occurring trysts between barn cats and American bobcats. Of course, it pays to remember that they're also known as "Legend Cats" because there is no proof that the above scenario has ever actually occurred. But whether the Pixie-Bob is in fact part bobcat or just the result of some spectacular breeding feats, the fact remains that it does look an awful lot like a bobcat, and it has many of the more appealing features of the savannah.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Florida's Department of Children
and Families hopes Twitter can help the state's 850 foster children
find adoptive families.
The Twitter feed for the state's adoption program is www.twitter.com/exploreadoption .
Three state employees have been tweeting since mid-April about training sessions and support tools for potential adoptive parents.
Cyndee Odom of the Governor's Office of Adoption and Child
Protection says social media helps educate the public about
adoption and spread the word about teenagers, groups of siblings,
children with medical disabilities and others who have found it
difficult to find adoptive families.
Odom says officials chose Twitter instead of Facebook because
it's easier to control inappropriate comments through the
micro-blogging website that only allows posts of 140 characters or
DCF says a 30-day email campaign in November led to 12 children
finding permanent homes.


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5 Lost Photos That Could Have Changed History
You know how there's always that one guy who said he did that one insane thing in high school? Like he swam across an alligator-filled lake with a hand tied behind his back or fought off a cougar with nothing but a lit cigarette and a condom wrapper? The recurring theme of these stories is that you'll just have to take his word for it, because -- wouldn't you know it? -- his mom lost the proof when she threw out his memorabilia box.
Well, sometimes history is like that. There are amazing accomplishments, conspiracy theories and outlandish claims that are all supposedly out there waiting to be proven true, if only we could find ...
#5. The RFK Assassination Photos
If you've only had room in your heart for one Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory and JFK sealed the deal years ago, we'll have to ask you to reconsider, because the death of Robert Kennedy also had some pretty shady business going on.
The story we were told was that RFK wrapped up a victory speech after winning the California primary election for the Democratic nomination. He walked with his entourage through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel when the unfortunately named Sirhan Sirhan shot him. The end.
You have to remember, shooting people was considered rude back then.
At least that's what The Man wants you to believe. Conspiracy theorists have a few different stories. One is that high-level CIA operatives were identified at the hotel that night, one of whom was later quoted as saying, "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard." Yikes. That's ... an awful and strangely specific thing to say. Then there's the whole gunshot problem. Audio experts swear they hear 13 shots in the footage of the assassination, but Double Sirhan's gun could only shoot eight. Dun dun dunnnn. Then again, there are always conspiracy theorists out there starting shit.
If only there were more pictures of the assassination that might shed some light on the mystery ...
No, that doesn't count.
The Missing Photos:
In 1968, 15-year-old student photographer Jamie Scott Enyart was at the hotel taking pictures of Kennedy and inadvertently photographed RFK at the exact same moment the shots were fired, making Enyart the only photographer there to actually do that. The LAPD snatched the pictures up in the chaos that followed, claiming that the photographic evidence was necessary for catching the assassin. Fair enough. The trial came and went, and Enyart was told that the film had to be sealed away for 20 years, presumably so no other would-be assassins would use the pictures as a tutorial.
"Guns are much better weapons than candy canes. I was a fool."
So 20 years passed, and Enyart marched himself back to LAPD to get his pictures. He was told they were lost. It wasn't until a year later (when the now-middle-aged former photographer got ready to sue the city of Los Angeles) that the hunt for the negatives really began. And guess what? It took six years, but they found them! Yay!
Finally, in 1996 a courier was assigned to deliver the prints and the negatives to Jamie Scott Enyart. Unfortunately, the courier had a flat tire on the way to make his delivery. So he stopped off at a gas station for a few seconds, and BAM.
The car was broken into and the pictures and negatives were stolen.
"Don't mind me. I am just an ordinary thief and am in no way a government official."
What the hell, man?
#4. Evidence of the First Controlled Flight
Have you ever wondered what made the Wright brothers' 1903 flight so damn special?
The big deal is that theirs was the first controlled sustained flight that we know of. Lots of inventors were tinkering around with planes at the time, and plenty of them claim to have made it into the air before the Wrights did. But since not everyone was walking around with camera phones and a constant need to photograph every minor second of their lives back then, documentation was scarce.
But there's at least one maverick who was apparently shut out of history because he didn't have Instagram.
Via Wikipedia
And his mustache was furious.
The Missing Document:
Back in 1901, Bavarian-born Gustave Whitehead was in a bind. He couldn't keep himself from building flying machines that kept crashing into buildings, even though he'd been repeatedly warned by police to stop. So when he finally did succeed at getting a controlled plane into the air in August 1901, he was compelled to keep it on the down low. That didn't stop the local newspaper from reporting the flight four days later along with an illustration of the BATPLANE:
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Which ironically looks like something the Penguin would fly.
Hell, it even looks cooler than the Wright brothers' version. The only problems were that no photos were made public and there were only two eyewitnesses, one of whom later retracted his report and the other of whom disappeared. Then, two years later, the story got around that pictures of the flight were in fact displayed at a hardware store, of all places, and in 1906 another photo was displayed at an aviation exhibit. Those pictures later disappeared. And so did the picture allegedly taken by a sea captain.
So by 1903, the story was already set in stone ... in favor of the Wright brothers. Especially since the Wright estate eventually secured a secret contract with the Smithsonian Institution, one where the museum would get to display the Wright's Flyer only if they promised to acknowledge the 1903 Kitty Hawk flight as the hand-to-God first one ever. Don't believe us? Here's the contract -- that black ink is blood:
Via Wikimedia Commons
"Any person making such claims shall be called fat and/or stupid by his peers in a court of law."
Pretty fishy, right? Why would the Wright brothers go through the trouble of a secret agreement if their legacy was rock solid? And it didn't help that Whitehead was of German descent. Despite the sworn affidavit of a person who claimed to have flown with him and the modern replicas that have totally flown successfully, Whitehead's legacy is not much more than a crap sandwich.
Unless someone can find those pictures.
#3. The Photos From (Possibly) the First Summit of Mount Everest
There's something about reaching the summit of Mount Everest that's irresistible to the type of people who are addicted to accomplishing really difficult yet ultimately pointless things. Expert climbers attempted expedition after corpse-making expedition for 32 years before the summit was finally reached in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary. And here's the thing about accomplishing this particular feat: If you don't have evidence that you reached the top, no one will believe you did it. Especially if you die on the way down the mountain.
Pfft. Doesn't look so hard.
Which is (maybe?) what happened to British adventurer George Mallory and his climbing buddy Sandy Irvine in 1924. It's entirely possible that they beat Hillary to the top by nearly three decades, but we'll never know until we find their damn Kodak camera.
The Missing Photos:
In 1924, British mountain climber George Mallory and his ridiculously handsome climbing friend Sandy Irvine ...
Via Wikimedia Commons
He must break you.
... were part of the second expedition to attempt to reach the mountain's summit ... ever. Along with their bottled oxygen, Sherpas, business suits and hipster hats, they brought along a camera so they could record their certain victory and take ironic yet kickass pictures. The one using another human as a footrest is George Mallory himself:
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There is every possibility that he thought that guy was Mount Everest.
Unlike other sports like football or water polo, whole teams of people can't summit Everest together. For that last leg of the climb, you can go in pairs, but that's about it. So when Mallory and Irvine made their bid for the top on June 8, 1924, they went alone.
Here's where things got tricky. Later that afternoon, another member of the party claimed that he saw two black dots climbing the Second Step -- the last big ridge before the peak. Were those dots Mallory and Irvine, or a trick of the eyes? Or Yetis? We'll never know, because Mallory and Irvine disappeared later that day. After searching for a few days and a few more futile attempts to get to the top, the rest of the team went down, never to see Mallory or Irvine again, and never knowing if they shouted "First!" upon reaching the top.
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"Now I can die satisfied! Also: in terrible pain."
Until Mallory's ice-mummified body was surprise-found by an expedition in 1999, that is. And they knew it was Mallory because his shirt said "G. Mallory" on the tag. It would take a pretty sneaky suicide case to pull off that level of a hoax.
But it's what was missing that was most important. Mallory wasn't carrying his picture of his wife, and his still-intact snow goggles were in his pocket, not on his eyes. The picture of his wife is significant because Mallory had said that if he reached the summit, he'd leave her picture there. And the absence of his goggles was important because in those days you only took your snow goggles off when you were descending the mountain.
And the last thing missing? The camera. Which probably meant Irvine was carrying it ... and Irvine's body hasn't been found yet. Except that a Chinese climber reported seeing it in just about the right location back in the '70s. And get this: If anyone ever found that camera, Kodak says they could possibly still develop the film, perhaps proving that these lucky lads beat the Everest record by 29 years.
And also proving that they did not fuck around when they made cameras in the 1920s.
So what are you waiting for? Go get that film! We'll wait here.


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I have a 4-way switch I want to replace with a dimmer. I understand I can put the dimmer at one of the other 3-way switches, but they're more out of the way. Does such a device exist? If not, what are my other options?
I've used Smart Home's Insteon switches to do this. The switches are a bit pricey, but work well. You don't need to rewire the entire house, just replace individual switches as you need to. One of the additional benefits is that you don't need to constrain yourself to how the original switches were wired up. If you want to control a particular light that wasn't originally wired up as a three-way, its easy to do. One thing that I did was add control of the outside lights to a tabletop controller next to my bed. That way I can turn on the spotlights without going downstairs.
Have a look at some of the remote control systems for lights that can dim. You don't need to limit your options to wired switches.
You would normally need to put the dimmer at the start or end of the multi-way chain where there is one active for the rheostat. Intermediate switches have two actives so for a dimmer to work there, it would need to be dual-gang, which is extremely unusual for a light fitting.


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Love that I'm living in beautiful Central Texas – land of good fun, good friends, good food, good music and good tea (Zhi – word.) Tasting great tea makes me hear music. Very often you will see a link to the song I hear for a particular tea.
I'm now blogging about tea and food at: http://atasteofmzpriss.wordpress.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/atasteofmzpriss
Black/red Chinese teas, pu-erh and oolong hold the keys to my heart.
I don't care much for flavored teas, especially the fruity varieties. My exceptions are chai and Earl Grey, and apparently now vanilla. Not much love for lapsang souchong either.
I sit squarely on fence with green and white teas.
If I end up in hell, my punishment will be to drink rooibos.


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I'm failing to install Gephi properly on Ubuntu 12.04. I need to do some data analysis for a course using it.
Install Sun Java via
If you're on the 8.10 version, please install Java manually from the Oracle website, because the distributed packages are obsolete.
Download gephi from here https://gephi.org/users/download/
Then After the download completes, unzip and untar the file in a directory.
Run it by executing
You can run the script file with
Hope that helps .
You can install the daily build from Launchpad. I've been using it for a while with no major issues.
First add the PPA to you software sources and update apt:
Then install gephi with:


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"Blake Lively has landed the female lead role in "Green Lantern" as Carol Ferris opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.' live-action film based on the DC Comics hero.
Martin Campbell will direct. Production is expected to begin in March with a release date set for June 17, 2011."
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I was using ubuntu 11.04 and everything was ok. Suddenly (after an update, I think) I was unable to see any video (any website) using firefox. I decided to do a clean, new installation (from CD) of Ubuntu 11.10 and the problem is exactly the same no videos on firefox (no matter website) I already tried flash-aid with Beta versions and stable versions and nothing. I'm a pretty new ubuntu (Linux) user.
Any help and/or advice please ????


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Sasol is beginning engineering and design work for what would be the first US refinery to convert natural gas into diesel. The facilities would be built in Westlake, Louisiana. Sasol said it will make a final investment decision on the plant in 2014, after the engineering and design review is finished.
By BEN LEFEBVRE and DEVON MAYLIE
Sasol said Monday it
will begin engineering and design work for what would be the
first refinery to convert natural gas into
diesel in the US, paving the way for one of the largest
investments to emerge from the boom in US shale gas
The facility, estimated to cost about $14 billion, would
convert low-cost natural gas into clean-burning diesel it can
sell at much higher prices.
Sasol plans to locate the facility in Westlake, Louisiana, and
if greenlighted, it will become the single largest investment
in the state's history, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Sasol said it will make a final investment decision on the
plant in 2014, after the engineering and design review is
US natural gas prices earlier this year became the lowest in
the world as the increasing use of hydraulic fracturing helped
bring domestic inventories to record heights. Companies like
Cheniere Energy and ExxonMobil want to export the commodity to
profit from the price disparity with other countries, where
natural gas can cost five times as much.
Gas-to-liquids technology would allow South
Africa-based Sasol, the world's largest producer of motor fuel
from coal, to tap into the differential between cheap natural
gas and relatively-high priced liquid fuel products. Royal
Dutch Shell is also scouting locations for a possible GTL plant
in the US.
GTL plants, however, are expensive, as Sasol's Louisiana
proposal would cost three times as much as a new traditional refinery.
They also have a history of going over budget and past
schedule, a path trod by Shell's $19 billion Pearl plant in
Sasol has already increased the cost of the project by $6 billion from an
estimate it made in September, partly because it will be built
in two phases, the company said. But despite the staggering
cost, Sasol is already considering other GTL projects in North
America, CEO David Constable said in an interview.
"The abundance of natural gas in North America gives GTL a
great future here," Mr. Constable said. "This is just the
The plant's two phases would start operations in 2018 and
2019. Sasol also operates a 34,000 bpd GTL facility in
The large gulf between natural gas and oil prices will
eventually shrink because growing demand will lift gas prices
and gains in production will bring crude prices lower said
Sarah Emerson, principal at energy consultancy ESAI. But GTL projects should bring decades of
profits for companies that can afford the hefty start-up costs,
Ms. Emerson added.
"It's a margin story, and the early adopters will make the
most money," Ms. Emerson said.
Sasol spends about two-thirds of its capital outlay in its
home country of South Africa, but has said previously it plans
to grow its presence in the US and Canada over the next few
years. On Monday, it said it will prioritize its projects in the US over Canada.
As part of its US growth strategy, Sasol is also going ahead
with the construction of an ethane cracker
that will cost between $5 billion and $7 billion and will have
an annual production of 1.5 million tons of ethylene.
The company said it is putting a plan to build a gas-to-liquids
plant in Canada on hold, having previously said it was thinking
about building a 48,000-bpd plant in Alberta that would cost
about $8 billion.
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1) What is the expected Capacity of SASOL's Louisiana GTL ? Is it same as Qatar GTL ( 34,000bpsd) ?2 ) Typical Cost of Diesel Production based on Shale gas @$2.5 / MMBTU?
Why is sasol technology is synonimous with cost overrun and schedule roll-over. Sasol/chevron plant in nigeria is having the same case history.
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Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
Too soon to tell
July 2016