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It happens more often than we would like.
How can we stop it?
Put more effort into our strife?
Strive for the freedom we so rightly deserve?
Why must we even fight for freedom?
We were born into a free world.
But freedom to the hierarchy means civil disobedience.
It is as if there is another Berlin Wall,
Where has the freedom we fought so hard for gone?
Separating freedom from the greed.
Greed is the one destroying this world.
Taking our families and forcing us poor.
Taking our men to fight for lies and war.
Training our children to shoot and kill
In these atrocious war-like games.
Teaching them the benefits of early war.
There are no benefits in war
Only sadness and a painful death.
Yet they are all still willing to take that bet.
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very true.. I don't know if its coincidence but I just wrote one about war as well. I also wrote one called "The world of today" which talks about the same thing. I think more of us should speak out againts war and have our voices heard. By the way, you chose beautiful music to go along with your poem.
Also can you tell me where this music is from? I really liked it..
nice :)
I'll keep you posted to the results :)
Well done. Can see you put lots o' thought into this one. Is a shame we even need armies, or policemen for that matter. Reasons be the same though, I fear.
Well written.
Whimmy (haha!)
oh you wonderful person! you tell 'em! shout it to the skys! great work, i'd vote for you. can i be your fan? damn, i already am.
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Progress in the talks has been at a snail's pace, with the parties yet to agree an agenda after several months of haggling.
Reports of an impending deal between David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party and John Hume's SDLP as part of the talks process were described by senior sources in both parties as overblown and exaggerated.
The report said the agreement could cover the thorny question of the decommissioning of paramilitary weaponry, which has dogged political negotiations for more than a year.
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Many of those involved at the talks accuse others of playing for time, in anticipation of the next election, rather making real efforts towards agreement. The general level of trust and goodwill is, by common consent, very low. A source intimately concerned with the talks, said: 'It's going to be slow, acrimonious, trench warfare."
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KEALAKEKUA — He believes any of eight players on his team can start for other boys basketball squads on the island.
Konawaena put the quality depth Wildcats coach Donny Awa values so much on display in a preseason basketball game at Onizuka Gymnasium on Thursday.
Brenton Shropshire scored 15 points, and Kenan Gaspar and Brandon Awa each had seven as nine different Konawaena players hit the scorebook in the Wildcats' 56-39 victory over Hawaii Prep.
"I think they've played together so long I don't have to do a lot of coaching,'' Awa said of the Wildcats.
Konawaena showed that strong chemistry in the first quarter, when six different players scored to give the Wildcats an 18-5 lead after the first period.
Konawaena, which never led by less than nine points the rest of the way, spread the wealth by moving well without the ball — something Awa thought the team got away from a little in the second quarter but sustained in the second half.
"We had to move the ball and move the defense,'' said Shrophire, who scored four of his points on putbacks and asserted himself on the offensive boards. "We needed cutters to find the basket.''
Wildcats players have no problem being cutters with pass-first guard Brandon Awa running the point, dishing the ball to open teammates off penetration and delivering crisp interior passes into the post.
The younger Awa has plenty of scoring options.
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"We got hurt on the defensive glass,'' Wawner said. "They got 20 extra offensive possessions off offensive rebounds.
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- November 10, 2013
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- November 10, 2013
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- November 10, 2013
- In basketball, as on the big screen, tall men always seem to look down to the little guy to show them the way. By Tom Keegan
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- November 10, 2013
- Before starting her postgame news conference, Kansas University coach Bonnie Henrickson turned to reporters and said what most of them were already thinking: "You guys like that free-throw contest?"
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- November 10, 2013
- Saturday night, following Kansas' 42-6 loss at Oklahoma State — the Jayhawks' sixth straight setback this season and 27th consecutive Big 12 defeat — coach Charlie Weis indicated it might be time to lean either toward Montell Cozart or Jake Heaps for most of the snaps at quarterback. By Matt Tait
- Kansas women open season with 84-62 rout of ORU
- November 10, 2013
- Junior Chelsea Gardner achieved her fifth-career double-double to help Kansas University's women's basketball team open it season with an 84-62 victory over Oral Roberts on Sunday at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Opinion: Behavior not just childish
- November 10, 2013
- Boys will be boys. Strip away the extraneous verbiage and that is what much of the defense of Richie Incognito boils down to. Incognito, a Miami Dolphins lineman, was booted from the team a few days ago — perhaps permanently — for abusive conduct, racist language and bullying behavior toward fellow lineman Jonathan Martin. Incognito's teammates are firmly on his side.
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- November 10, 2013
- Baldwin High led Tonganoxie by just four points early in the fourth quarter, but scored two late touchdowns for a 28-10 win in the regional round of the Class 4A playoffs Saturday at Beatty Field. By Justin Nutter
- Baker football routs Graceland
- November 10, 2013
- Freshman kicker/wide receiver Clarence Clark accounted for 21 of Baker University's points in a 40-16 college football victory on Saturday at Graceland University.
- HINU men's basketball falls to Kansas Wesleyan
- November 10, 2013
- The Haskell Indian Nations University men's basketball team lost, 91-81, to Kansas Wesleyan on Friday.
- Roadwork: Construction planned this week
- November 10, 2013
- City construction projects are now mapped at lawks.us/construction-map.
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- November 10, 2013
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- 100 years ago: Athletic office reports near-record ticket sales for upcoming KU-Nebraska game
- November 10, 2013
- "It is generally understood that business will be very much neglected and suspended during the hours of the game."
- Knight recovered from ACL injury in time for KU women's opener
- November 10, 2013
- Natalie Knight has accomplished her goal. After tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee on Jan. 30, the Kansas University junior guard recovered in time to rejoin the starting lineup for the Jayhawks' regular-season opener — today's 2 p.m. game against Oral Roberts at Allen Fieldhouse. By Jesse Newell
- Housing Authority finds new preschool provider, but officials say more still needed
- November 10, 2013
- The Lawrence Housing Authority will soon offer preschool services again after losing its Head Start program earlier this year due to federal budget cuts. But local officials say there is still a need for more quality, affordable early childhood education programs. By Peter Hancock
- School board to discuss building concepts, International Baccalaureate
- November 10, 2013
- Lawrence school board members will discuss design concepts and energy-efficiency for buildings that will soon be renovated as part of the $92.5 million bond project. The board will also discuss a recommendation not to add an International Baccalaureate Diploma program in Lawrence. By Peter Hancock
- Opinion: Can Fed nominee buck supporters?
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- She who is about to become the most consequential woman in the history of American government will find it easier to be confirmed than it was to be nominated as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Janet Yellen probably was the president's second choice, but Senate Democrats demonstrated their intention and ability to reject Larry Summers.
- Lawrence writers tackle National Novel Writing Month
- November 10, 2013
- National Novel Writing Month (nicknamed NaNoWriMo or NaNo) puts forth a challenge: Write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. That breaks down to about 1,667 words a day. The question here is: Why would anyone do that?
- Editorial: Measuring up
- The Kansas Board of Regents is setting some specific goals to help promote the benefits of higher education in Kansas.
- November 10, 2013
- As Kansas legislators press education leaders to justify every dollar that's spent on the state's higher education system, it's not enough to offer vague platitudes about how universities, community colleges and technical schools benefit both individual students and the state economy.
- KU students commissioned to create artwork for Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- November 10, 2013
- KU associate professor of sculpture Matthew Burke is leading "Special Topics in Art: The Federal Reserve Commission," which will be offered each semester through fall 2014. Students' mission is to conceive, design and execute a work of art to commemorate the Reserve's 100th anniversary.
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- Larry L. Hopkins now sits in Douglas County Jail awaiting his next court appearance. He's charged with first-degree murder following Tuesday's shooting death of his 61-year-old wife, Margaret E. Hopkins. Police allege that Larry shot Margaret because of her ongoing health problems. Meanwhile, family and neighbors this week told the story of a couple whose failing health often proved too much for them to manage alone. By Stephen Montemayor
- Jayhawk fans wear pride on their walls
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- November 10, 2013
- Pat Sullivan is one of those KU fans who wears his Jayhawk pride on his walls — and he's far from the only one. The Journal-World last week visited Sullivan's and two other Lawrence fans' "KU rooms" and received photos from more than a dozen others. By Sara Shepherd
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- A task force created by the Kansas University Senate will look into offering job benefits to same-sex and domestic partners of KU employees. Behind it is a desire for equal treatment and to make the university as competitive as possible in recruiting. By Ben Unglesbee
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Note: This is only players who have committed and signed since Meyer was announced as head coach, so the players who committed prior to his hiring are excluded. One exception – Brionte Dunn, who recommitted to Meyer in December 2012.
Urban Meyer has signed the No. 1 recruiting class in the Big Ten in all three of his Februarys as head coach of the Buckeyes.
Meyer's three recruiting classes have averaged the No. 3 ranking in the nation. He averaged No. 8 at Florida.
Georgia was his No. 1 out-of-state destination for recruits at Florida. That has not changed early in his time with the Buckeyes, although Georgia must share the distinction with Texas. Both states have produced four Meyer Ohio State recruits. Georgia also led the way in out-of-state players Meyer signed as head coach at Bowling Green with eight.
Defensive line has produced the most Meyer recruits at Ohio State with 12. There have been 10 offensive linemen, nine linebackers and seven wide receivers (as well as one player listed as a WR/RB).
As was the case with his predecessor Jim Tressel, Meyer has leaned most heavily on Northeast Ohio for his in-state recruits with 15 coming from that part of the state. Five have come from Southwest Ohio with three from Central Ohio and one from Northwest Ohio.
The 24 Ohioans to commit and sign since Meyer took over have come from 17 different cities: Cleveland (5), Akron (3), Canton (2), Cincinnati, Columbus, Vandalia, Trotwood, Toledo, Shaker Heights, New Albany, Middletown, Massillon, Lancaster, Elyria, Cleveland Heights, Centerville and Austintown.
In three years at Ohio State, Meyer has already surpassed the total number of states he found signees at Florida. He has hit 18 states for the Buckeyes after finding future Gators in 16 states during his six years at Florida. In only two years at Bowling Green, Meyer signed players from 10 different states.
The Ohio natives have come from 19 different high schools with Cleveland Glenville (4) and Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary (2) the only ones accounting for multiple players.
58.6 percent of the players to commit and sign or recommit and sign with Ohio State since Meyer became head coach have come from outside Ohio. At Florida, 58.7 percent of his recruits were from Florida.
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Sweet 16 Haiku previews
|Ohio coach John Groce knows how many syllables start and end a Haiku. (AP)
A week ago, we looked ahead to the Field of 68 and put out a preview based on 5/7/5 syllabic poetic patterns, known as Haiku.
So let's do it again with the eight games slated for Thursday and Friday. Take in all the analysis you'd like, but the fact is, you can boil the essence of these teams and games down to 17 syllables. Here's the basic DNA of what you need to know about the Sweet 16.
Kentucky vs. Indiana: Watford's shot went in / Everything changed for IU / Not the same UK
Baylor vs. Xavier: X wins Tu again / This isn't about the fight / Good thing; Bears are soft
Michigan State vs. Louisville: Oh, the coaches here / Izzo chasing seventh Four / 'Ville this year's UConn?
Marquette vs. Florida: Best Sweet 16 game / Buzz: West's only Four-less coach / UF now dark horse
Syracuse vs. Wisconsin: All Cuse, all drama / Is Jim Boeheim having fun? / By the way: Hi, Bo
Ohio State vs. Cincinnati: A river of hate / Love when the bracket does this / Fans are rewarded
North Carolina vs. Ohio: This game is so Groce / Heels get a break with Bobcats / Rest your wrist, Kendall
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UCT softball tournament: Day One
West Union is halfway to repeating as the fast pitch champions in Union County, opening the tournament with two Friday night wins.
Bailey Bogue went 3-for-4 on the day with a double, triple and home run, leading the Lady Eagles to a 4-2 win over Myrtle and 2-0 win over East Union.
Against the Lady Hawks, Bogue's triple came with two outs and no runners on base. A Myrtle error scored Bogue, but the Lady Hawks quickly rebounded, scoring two runs off a hit by Jenna Jordan and a West Union error.
Down 2-1 in the third inning, two hits and an error gave the Lady Eagles the lead once more and Bogue's double with runners on first and second brought in another run.
In the final game of the inning, the Lady Eagles only had four hits, but behind the pitching of Danielle Taylor, defeated East Union.
With no score in the bottom of the third, Julianna Garner reached base off an error and was later scored by Hannah McQuary. Bogue would later add an insurance run in the fourth with her lead off home run.
Danielle Taylor allowed only two hits, one in each game, while striking out 11 batters on the day.
East Union entered the game with the Lady Eagles at 1-0 after defeating Ingomar, 6-1 earlier in the evening.
The two teams were tied at one after the first before the Lady Urchins scored five unanswered, highlighted by a two-run shot by Rachel Elder in the fourth.
Allie Haynie led East Union with two hits, an RBI single in the first and a lead off double in the third while holding the Lady Falcons to one run off three hits and three strikeouts.
Ingomar finished the day with one win, coming from behind to defeat Myrtle, 6-5.
The Lady Falcons scored four runs in the second after a lead off double by Shelly Grisham. The senior was later plated on a sacrifice play by Morgan Kelly, and Hannah Russell also hit an RBI double in the frame.
Myrtle scored four runs over the next two innings to tie the game with Alie Bishop hitting two RBI singles, including one with bases loaded that tied the game.
After a lead off hit from Jenna Jordan, Kiana Judon gave the Lady Hawks the lead with her single and the Lady Hawks were three outs away from earning the win before Kate Webb opened the fifth inning with a solo home run to quickly tie the game. Amy Fooshee added a double and Lauren Koon scored Fooshee on her single. Erin Wall walked two Lady Hawks in the bottom portion of the frame, but Shelly Grisham contributed in a double play that ended the game.
Saturday's second day of tournament action will start at 9 a.m. with Ingomar and New Albany, weather permitting. Check with Newalbanygazette.com or Twitter.com/ezaremba1618 throughout the day if there are any weather postponements or cancellations.
Standings after Day One
West Union 2-0
East Union 1-1
Ingomar 1-1
Myrtle 0-2
New Albany 0-0
Saturday's schedule (weather permitting)
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Out-of-this-World RecordsThis chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth's moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity are still active and the totals for those two are distances driven as of Aug. 11, 2016. Opportunity completed its first Mars marathon March 24, 2015 - 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) - with a finish time of roughly 11 years and two months.
Curiosity has been roving Mars since 2012. The mission is examining the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, a layered mountain inside Gale Crater, to learn more about how and when ancient environmental conditions in the area evolved from freshwater settings into conditions drier and less favorable for life.
For Opportunity's latest update see: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity
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"Ninety per cent of politicians give the other ten per cent a bad name."–Henry Kissinger
You are what you eat. You get what you vote for. This is my only political post of the entire year, so get your fill now. Next question?
"Ninety per cent of politicians give the other ten per cent a bad name."–Henry Kissinger
You are what you eat. You get what you vote for. This is my only political post of the entire year, so get your fill now. Next question?
"The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order."–Alvin Toffler
No funny chickens for this one. The world lost its foremost futurist in the past week, a man who was one of my heroes. Alvin Toffler taught the world how to think about the future some 45 years ago. It's a lesson the world should relearn. I read Future Shock away back in 1973–and have been thinking about it–and the future–ever since.
Writing in the New York Times on July 6, Farhad Manjoo lays out clearly and concisely why Toffler's ideas are so relevant today. I highly urge you to read this piece, and to read Future Shock if you've never done so. I intend to reread it now. We have never needed foresight more than we do today.
My foresight related blog is available at www.seekingdelphi.com
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."–Vincent Van Gogh
"All's well that ends well."–William Shakespeare
The bard was right. Van Gogh was…um..uh–I have no idea.
But here is a story that ended well, though with an unexpected twist that makes it one of my all time favorite veterinary vignettes.
This happened some 30 years ago, when Cheryl was working her last job as an employee before starting her own clinic. Her partner in crime in this particular case was the junior associate in the group, one Susan Cole, a pretty and vivacious young blond just a few months out veterinary school.
It started one typical Monday morning, when in came a panicked old lady, Mrs. P, with a pearly white cat.
The cat was struggling to breath.
Mrs. P: "Save my kitty!!!"
Dr. C: "When did this start?"
Mrs. P: "Save my kitty!!"
Cat: "[cough] [choke] [wheeze]"
Dr. C: "How did this start?"
Mrs P: "Puhleeeaaase save my kitty!!"
Cat: "[gasp] [gasp]"
It was obvious that Mrs. P was not going to be any help. Enter my intrepid Cheryl to consult.
"This seems to be some sort of respiratory distress, we'd better take an X-Ray." She advised.
Dr. Cole thought otherwise, and suggested drawing a blood sample first. Cheryl was skeptical, but realized it couldn't hurt, so that's what they did.
The cat's blood was brown. Freaking brown.
The two of them scratched their heads in puzzlement. What could turn a cat's blood brown? Cheryl observed that if they saw this in a cow they would diagnose it as methemoglobinemia, a condition that bovines get from eating cherry leaves. You guessed it, cherry leaves are toxic to cows. But cats? How would this indoor feline even have access to cherry leaves, whether or not they are toxic to cats?
At any rate, regardless of the cause, the diagnosis was confirmed. But, then, how to treat it?
"Well" Cheryl posited,"we use methylene blue to treat this in cows. Let's try it."
Methylene blue is a dye that also has some medicinal purposes. But the cat's wheezing and gasping for breath was rapidly worsening, so Sue and Cheryl frantically calculated the appropriate dosing. Let's see. Bovine dose, 60cc. Feline dose…hmm…. 6cc.
They administered 6cc of methylene blue, and by golly, that cat rapidly improved and its blood and breathing were back to normal in no time.
End of story? You know me better than that–there's a little kicker. Of course there is, there always is. You see, there was a slight miscalculation in the dosage. The feline dose should not have been 6 cc, it should have been 0.6cc. But hey, what's a silly little order of magnitude among friends. After all, the cat got better.
It's just that the pearly white cat turned….BLUE!! Its skin, its gums, its sclera, its paws. Everything but its fur turned a bright shade of blue!
And that, of course, is still not the end of the story. The denouement came the next morning, when Mrs. P. phoned to find out the condition of her kitty.
Dr. Cole took the call, and she answered with a straight face, within ear shot of just about every employee in the clinic.
"Oh, she's doing much better, but she's feeling a little blue right now!"
Crash! Bang! Thud! All over the hospital employees dropped whatever they were holding as peals of laughter erupted. They say that in comedy, timing is everything. I guess that goes for veterinary medicine, too.
Anyway, the cat's normal color soon returned, and it turned out that Mrs. P had given it Tylenol. Tylenol, you may surmise, is toxic to cats. So don't give your cat Tylenol. This goes doubly if you have a yellow cat, as the antidote could turn the poor thing an ungodly shade of green.
Is there a moral to this story? Yes. The next time you are feeling blue, be thankful it is only a metaphorical, and not a literal, blue.
If you are feeling blue, try my other blog, Seeking Delphi.™ That will really get you down. 😛
"Smart is when you believe half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half."–Robert Orben
Here's a tip for you brainiacs. If you want to know which half of my posts to believe, it's the other half. On my other blog, Seeking Delphi. ™
Hmmm. I just started that other blog. Most of my posts have been on this one. Well, as Yogi once said, "90 percent of the game is half mental."
"I sincerely believe blogging can save America."– John Jay Hooker
Uh, I don't think so. Not only is blogging not saving America, but social media might actually be destroying it. And promoting my blog on social media? We won't even discuss that. But what I will discuss–and pound my chest about–is that just a few weeks after Millennium Conjecture's 4th anniversary, it has passed the 100,000 hit mark. Wow. I know you didn't see that coming, and I sure as hell didn't. And I'm willing to bet that not more than 97,000 of those views have come from immediate family and close friends. After all, how many close friends and family do you think I could have?
In honor of this hallowed event, here a is blast from the past. It was by far my most viewed post. Thanks to being "Freshly Pressed" by WordPress, this post brought in over 1700 views and garnered 230 blogger "likes" on September 23, 2012–exactly four months to the day after my inaugural post. And yes, it has been all downhill since then.
Anyway, thanks for all the views and likes–and if you are really a masochist, check out my new blog on futurist topics, Seeking Delphi™
"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you"–Jay Leno
(Jay Leno graduated from Emerson College the same year I did. Aren't you unimpressed?)
Lindsay Lohan…Paris Hilton…Charlie Sheen…you just gotta follow these people to be "with it" in this day and age. What I can't figure out is exactly what "it" is. The nonsense involving these silly (do I dare say ridiculous?) excuses for humanity, and the speed with which their inane meme virality propagates throughout the internet and general mediasphere is stultifying.
How do we quantify this vacuous tripe? Quite obviously with:
Get out your calculators folks, though the math on this one may require something more like a Cray supercomputer. This process requires not one step, but three.
Rating Inanity
This part is for those of you who—like many politicians—prefer fuzzy math. In order to compute the virality of an inane celebrity meme, you first need to give it an inanity rating. This, however, does not compute. You need to estimate it by a process that could be seen as similar to the way we old folks were taught to compute square roots in days before electronic calculators. You sort of have to zero in on it—surround it, using a combination of whatever logic or intuition works for you.
Using a scale of 0 to 1.0, we rate the inanity based on how unusual, how cable newsworthy and, of course, how inane it appears to be. Using the Lindsay Lohan example, let's rate some real and imagined events.
Lindsay Lohan gets up in the morning and brushes her teeth (or not). Probable rating=0 (probable rating because, again, there is some subjectivity here).
Lindsay Lohan gets busted for another probation violation. Approximate rating=0.5 (This is fairly commonplace but due to media culpability still maintains some newsworthiness. Also, the specific story behind the arrest may result in some adjustment up or down; the next item demonstrates this.)
Charlie Sheen stubs his toe on the curb of 34th Street in NYC, stumbles into oncoming traffic causing Lindsay Lohan to swerve her speeding Porsche through a display window at Macy's, decapitating several mannequins, skidding across the retail floor and then crashing through a sidewall into a back room where she runs over Paris Hilton who was in the act of giving her boyfriend a you-know-what. Absolute rating of 1.0. This theory does not permit a rating higher than 1.0, but we'll give this one a 1.0 with a star, meaning it also generates spontaneous orgasms in Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and every Fox News and CNN anchor past, present and future. (Note that while coverage on Comedy Central will actually lampoon the coverage by the other networks, this will add even greater fuel to the viral fire than serious reporting).
Computing the Virality Index
Here comes the fun.
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ξ =Virality Index I chose that squiggly symbol because I think it looks like Kate Middleton mooning the paparazzi.
Φ =Inanity rating Aren't those Greek thingies cool? This one is iota, as in "I don't give one iota of a hoot about these nitwits".
F= number of "friends" or "likes" on celebrity's Facebook page
T= number of Twitter followers of the celebrity There is a reason they call it TWITter.
µ =the median IQ of the set whose members are F+T. For the uninitiated µ is the scientific symbol for micro. How appropriate. (Can't you just imagine those two sentences being uttered by Dr. Sheldon Cooper?)
To sum it up:
The virality index is the inanity rating multiplied by the combined number of Twitter and Facebook followers multiplied by what I call the vacuity index (median IQ of all followers minus 110).
Classify the Virality
For any chance at virality, the final Index number MUST be negative. This works perfectly fine for most of the personalities discussed above. If we are talking about Stephen Hawking, however, there is a better chance of finding virality in the singularity at the center of a black hole.
The classifications of virality are as follows
If ξ ≤ -100,000 minimally contagious
If ξ ≤ -500,000 highly contagious
If ξ ≤ -1 million immutably viral
If ξ ≤ -10 million globally pandemic
If ξ ≤ -100 million worthy of hours of uninterrupted coverage on CNN and FOX News.
Still to be determined is the threshold at which Geraldo Rivera coverage kicks in.
So if we compute the Charlie Sheen meme virality index for the automobile accident scenario hypothesized above, we multiply the inanity index of 1 times the combined number of his Twitter and Facebook followers (roughly 10.5 million, don't worry about being exact, this is fuzzy math) times the vacuity index. We will estimate the latter for Sheehan as (100-110)= -10. This may be generous but 100, after all, is the definition of median IQ. This yields a score of -105 million. If you compute and add to this the scores for Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan who were also involved in the scuffle, the Index plunges much lower. The New York Post would be sure to issue a special edition.
This leaves one unanswered question, however. We now know how to compute the manner in which these viral memes are turned on. But what determines how they are turned off? As you would expect, I have the answer which I call the medialogical constant. I will discuss this in the next Equations of Everyday Life post, which may or may not be published within your lifetime.
Images credit: Meme Center All text in this post ©2012 Mark Sackler
"The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat."–Ogden Nash
Pet doors are a wonderful thing. They allow your pets the joy of repeatedly going in and out without having to constantly bug you to accommodate them.
Pet doors are an awful thing. They allow all manner of unwanted vermin to come in (mostly) and out along with your pets. Or in many cases, to be dragged in by your pets. Here are some examples.
Awful thing example #1: While you expect cats and dogs to freely use the pet door, you don't really think a pet chicken would use the pet door. Think again. We had one that did, and it not only came in the house quite unexpectedly, but it joined Cheryl in the shower. That's a horror story even Alfred Hitchcock couldn't have imagined. Eat your heart out, Norman Bates.
Awful thing example #2: While our cats have frequently brought dead mice or chipmunks into the house and disemboweled them in the dining room (ick!), that is not the worst of it. They bring live ones in and let them go. The most notable example? We had a living room full of guests for a tea for a local political candidate. Just as the proceedings were about to begin, our cat, Velcro, dropped a live mouse by the side of a rather full couch. The critter ran across the feet of about three people and hid under the coffee table as everyone scattered. Cheryl caught it as the cat looked on with amusement. The dogs were worthless.
Awful thing example #3: While we are on the subject of the cat sitting back and watching in amusement as we and the dogs chased a live rodent, I present you with the case of the chipmunk in the laundry room. Did you ever watch one of those Donald Duck cartoons where he tries to catch Chip and Dale? Where he winds up destroying his house, his R.V., his camp site, or whatever? It felt like we were in a Donald Duck cartoon. The chipmunk was behind the washing machine. The dogs went nuts; but the chip was gone by the time we pulled the washing machine out from the wall. By then, the chip was behind a pile of laundry. Then it was in the pile of laundry. Then it was behind the drier. Then it was under the washing machine. The dogs were always one hiding place behind it. Cheryl finally caught the thing–I swear she must have been a cat in a previous lifetime. And our laundry room? It looked like Donald Duck's living room after a few minutes of chasing Chip and Dale.
Awful thing example #4: This one takes the cake. Cheryl and I were sitting in our home office late one evening, clicking away at our computers. Why, it was the very room I am sitting in as I write this tale. I glanced in back of me. Our three dogs were all lying there contented to be in the same room with us. And sitting right in the middle of them was what I, for a split second, took to be a rather large stuffed animal doggy toy. For a split second. But it wasn't a toy. Good grief, it was a live possum, apparently playing possum! We have no idea how it could have gotten in there without the dogs going nuts. We can only guess that the one dog large enough to drag it in, must have done so. Cheryl picked it up by the tail, dropped it outside the front door, and it sprung to life and dashed off.
Which finally brings us to Awful thing example #5: There is a rodent in this office, right now, as I write this post. I saw it dash off the top of my desk and hide behind the file cabinet just as I walked in. The fleeting glance I got of it was too brief to tell if it was a mouse or a chipmunk. But it has eluded me. Don't worry though, Cheryl will be home from the clinic with the dogs (they go to work with her every day.) The dogs will, of course be useless, and the cat will sit back and watch in amusement as Cheryl, as always, catches the thing.
Oh, and this one didn't happen to us, but Awful thing example#6, below, illustrates the further dangers of pet doors in the wild. Stay safe, my friends.
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."–Douglas Adams
May 25. Towel day. It's a tribute to one of the wittiest writers in recent history. My lunchtime, though, is never an illusion. I'd sooner miss Game of Thrones than miss my lunch. Maybe I'll even eat something messy at lunch today and bring a towel to clean up the mess. Ah, if only that towel could clean up the mess of my life. 😉
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"Never predict anything, especially the future."–Casey Stengel
The Ol' Perfessor knew what he was talking about. Well, maybe he didn't, but the advice is sage nonetheless. It is notoriously difficult to predict anything in the future with consistent accuracy. So why in the world would anyone want to become a futurist? Why bother? Well, to be blunt, that is exactly why! Ignoring the opportunities and dangers of the future is what I like to call The Ostrich Syndrome. Go ahead, hide your head in the sand. The future is not going to go away. And if we can't predict it, there are certainly ways to prepare for it. To prevent bad outcomes, or at least make them less likely. To create good outcomes, or at least make them more likely. And to be better prepared to deal with whatever does come.
The sad fact is, we live in a short-term oriented society with a short attention span. So what is the antidote to this malady? It is more thoughtful foresight. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Kurt Vonnegut compared science fiction writers like himself to the proverbial canary in the mine shaft, warning of weak danger signals before others perceive them. That's what futurists do, though those weak signals can signal opportunities as well as dangers as the world changes. That's what I aim to do with the rest of my life. I've enrolled in the University of Houston's Masters in Foresight program. I'm adding a foresight element to a friend's existing market research business. I'm becoming an advocate for taking a longer view of everything. Economics. Education. Environment. Government. You name it. And I'm starting a second blog, aptly named Seeking Delphi™ after the famed Oracle of Delphi. We can't predict the future, but we can anticipate the possibilities, avoid the catastrophes (or some of them) and create the opportunities. So here goes something. See you tomorrow and beyond.
The first post on Seeking Delphi is linked here. Keep an eye out for the addition of a podcast in the coming weeks.
"Predictions are preposterous."–Jackie Mason
"The Best way to predict the future is to invent it."–Alan Kay
"I don't try to describe the future; I try to prevent it."–Ray Bradbury
Most predictions are indeed preposterous. So why would I become a futurist in my old age? The object is not to predict the future, but it could be to invent it (per Alan Kay) or prevent it (per Ray Bradbury). At any rate, as futile as it may seem, I predict that the next stage of my life will be highly focused on the future (as I said in a previous post, 65 is the new 45 and I need a renewed direction in life.). I also predict that my next post will create a new feature–called Seeking Delphi–and with it a second blog. And a very plausible scenario also includes a podcast. You can predict some things, though what I ultimately will do is not usually one of them. Stay tuned….
"Everyone should have their mind blown at least once a day."–Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have to say this. Neil deGrasse Tyson is my hero. He is voice of reason in a world of un-reason–full of people whose minds should not be blown. They should be blown up. Oh, did i say: NDT is my hero?
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> Patrick did for the previous release? I just find it kind of difficult to > be working on various problems and then "ding", the timer goes off and we've > cut off development for a given release. It's probably time to start > working out a candidate release cycle and content. Agreed -- hence this thread, in fact. Additionally, I'd like to see a small addition to our process. I alluded to this in my original message, but it's probably worth calling out explicitly. I think that the model of essentially releasing directly from the mainline worked well for our incubating / 0.9 releases. But I don't think that this really scales that well for GA-style releases, since there are often going to be various projects going on in the mainline that might have different lifecycles. So, from a branching standpoint, I'd like to see us create a branch off of the trunk when we start zeroing in on a release. Unlike branches that we created earlier, these branches are not just for the purpose of assembling the release artifacts, but are also for work happening to get to the point of being release-ready. Additionally, they will live on in time as "the" branch for a particular release number. So, under my proposal, we will create a 1.0 branch soon, and ongoing work to resolve issues slated for 1.0 will happen in that branch. Once 1.0.0 is cut, we will tag that branch, and the only work that will happen in that branch will be bugfixes for 1.0.1. Once 1.0.1 is cut, we will again tag the branch, and repeat. In my experience, generally, it works well to branch like this for every major.minor combination. I.e., we don't create separate branches for version 1 and version 2; rather, we create a branch for 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, etc. once we get to that point on trunk. Thoughts? -Patrick On 7/9/07, Kevin Sutter <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > > > What is remaining to get to a 1.0 release? Are there any things in > > particular that people think are important to work on? Maybe it's > > about time for us to create a branch for 1.0 finalization and > > hardening. > > > This probably depends on what our goal is for a 1.0 release. If it's just > to have a 1.0 release since we graduated to a TLP, then we're probably close > to starting that process. But, if we are looking for a certain level and > hardness of function, then we still may have a fews things to clean up. I'm > okay with going for a 1.0 release just to have one, but I would then like to > start working on defining the follow-on release (1.0.1 or 1.1). > > No matter what type of 1.0 release we decide to go for, maybe we should > incorporate the voting mechanism within JIRA to help determine what Issues > are important? I am not totally familiar with this process, but it allows > users to vote on the Issues that are most important to them. Each user is > allowed a certain number of votes (to keep them from voting for "all" > Issues). We can use that as input to our selection criteria. > > But, before we open up for a vote, do we need some time to review all of the > open Issues and assert 1.0 vs post-1.0? Something along the lines of what > Patrick did for the previous release? I just find it kind of difficult to > be working on various problems and then "ding", the timer goes off and we've > cut off development for a given release. It's probably time to start > working out a candidate release cycle and content. > > Kevin > -- Patrick Linskey 202 669 5907
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... Shoe shops, leather shops, expensive clothing shops in abundance. We ladies walked by ourselves and never once felt threatened or frightened. We stayed 3 nights at the Wyndham hotel with very accommodating staff and a great breakfast buffet included with our room rate. Today we departed for the port and boarded the Nautica around noon. All is ...
And we're off!....
... bellies was enough for us that evening; the travails of the previous 3 days -and our uncertainty as to whether we would venture at all- had perhaps drained us somewhat.
Sun 31st: Sunday morning, though, we had the Schadenfreude of a street vendor's arrest after giving us our pomegranate juice, but before paying him (and when we later compared prices, we saw why he was detained). A stroll around Sultanahmet ensued before baulking ...


text: Books & Books Years Later, An Apology And $16 For A Stolen Book By Wilson Sayre • Apr 12, 2016 Nalani Anderko "Dear Books and Books," the letter starts in blue pen on a torn out piece of graph paper with the fringe still on it. What follows is the most sincere apology for an act of teenage rebellion one could imagine. A few weeks ago a girl dropped off an envelope in person to the Lincoln Road location of Books and Books. Inside, Nalani Anderko, the store's manager, found this apology for stealing a copy of Agatha Christie's book "Third Girl" back in the summer of 2014. From Miami To The Middle East: Journalist Nathan Deuel On His New Memoir By Sammy Mack • Jun 3, 2014 Sammy Mack / WLRN Journalist Nathan Deuel grew up in South Florida, but in 2008 he and his wife, Kelly McEvers, moved to the Middle East. During their five years abroad, they had their first child and McEvers became NPR's Baghdad bureau chief. The family moved around the region as the Arab Spring erupted. Deuel has written a memoir about that experience, called "Friday Was The Bomb." He'll be speaking tonight at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 8 p.m. Tour Guide Discovers Lincoln Road Ghost Town During Urban Beach Week By Kelly Woodward • May 25, 2013 Photo via modlumpkin.blogspot.com In preparation for Urban Beach Week, WLRN-Miami Herald News asked members of the Public Insight Network to weigh in on the festival. Last year during Memorial Day, I hid out along the West Avenue corridor. When I went out on Sunday afternoon to the Lincoln Road Farmer's Market, I was shocked at how empty it was.


text: Review Round Up: Super Mario Galaxy 2, Split/Second & MoreMichael McWhertor5/21/10 11:00pmFiled to: Listsvideo game reviewsOriginalTop551EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Our week's worth of reviews of games new and still unreleased was as varied as the power ups of Super Mario Galaxy 2, games that range from the high-speed racing of Split/Second to the old-school platforming of Rocket Knight and Bit.Trip Runner. Advertisement 'Possums, princes and plumbers all suffered the scrutiny of Kotaku's video game reviews. Make sure you didn't miss any by checking out our weekly round up.Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review: In Praise Of Superfluous Mario In which Stephen Totilo explains why you need this needless game, in which, from what I hear, Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach. We're checking in with Nintendo to see if that's accurate. Split/Second Review: A Blue Shell Game In which I was all vrooom *gear shifting sound* vrooooooooom *explosion*. Looksley's Line Up Micro-Review: Broken Promise In which Mike Fahey sees the light is the problem that continues to plague camera-controlled video games. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review: Help Yourself In which Stephen Totilo is happy to have the opportunity to die more often and loves the not-that-great combat. Wait... what, Stephen? Rocket Knight Micro-Review: High As A Kite In which Luke Plunkett plays a 'possum and loves all 120 minutes of it. Skate It Micro-Review: Skate...Or Die?! In which Brian Ashcraft draws the line between good and bad—OK, so it's all bad. Bit.Trip Runner Micro-Review: Running Down A Dream In which Mike Fahey and/or Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine explain why Bit.Trip Runner outclasses Guitar Hero. Reply55 repliesLeave a reply