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Nevsky Prospekt is bisected by Sadovaya (Garden) Street about halfway between the Griboedov Canal and the Fontanka River, Sadovaya traverses the whole of Savior's Island and, since the late 18th century, has been a vital means of cross-city communication. Italian architect Carlo Rossi formed the two main architectural ensembles that give the areas around the Nevsky/Sadovaya axis their definition.
Start at (1) Michael's (Engineers') Castle, a uniquely mysterious palace and former college of engineering, where Dostoyevsky studied for a time. The castle was built by Tsar Paul (who was murdered shortly after construction was completed in 1801) and is now part of the Russian Museum (www.rusmuseum.ru).
Head south along tree-lined Klenovaya Street, stopping first at Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli's baroque triumphal (2) equestrian monument to Peter the Great, which makes the tsar appear as a severe Roman emperor.
Cross the wedge-shaped Manezh Square at its thinner end and stop on the corner of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. On the left is the oversize and showy (3) Merchants' Club House (27 Italianskaya), now the studios of the popular Channel Five TV station. On the right is (4) Count Shuvalov's Palace, now home to the curious Museum of Hygiene (25 Italianskaya).
From the palace, head down (5) Malaya Sadovaya Street, which, with its benches, streetlamps, fountains, lilacs, and occasional buskers, has turned into a pleasant haven from the hurly-burly of Nevsky.
At this point cross over (or under) Nevsky and take a look around Ostrovsky Square, at the center of which is St. Petersburg's only (6) monument to Catherine the Great. Behind the haughty-looking empress rises the recently reconstructed neo-classic (7) Alexandra's Theater. To the east is the garden of the Anichkov Palace, now with fashion boutiques in its pavilions. To the west of the empress is the multicolumn Russian National Library. Around the curved corner of the Russian National Library, head south along Sadovaya Street. Glance past the railings at (8) Rastrelli's Vorontsov Palace, now the Suvorov Military Academy (Sadovaya 26).
Cross the road and enter (9) Gostinyi Dvor (Trading Rows) at 35 Nevsky, which began life in the 1750s as a merchants' inn and which is surrounded by four remarkably long, unadorned strings of two-tier arcades. Since the 19th century this has been St. Petersburg's most important mall, where people promenade as much as shop.
Cross Nevsky via the underpass and on the sunny side you can visit two neoclassic churches dedicated to St Catherine: the (10) Armenian Church at no. 40 and (12) St. Catherine Church at no. 32. Between the two churches is the (11) Grand Hotel Europe. Enter through the Mikhailovskaya Street entrance to see the hotel's art nouveau interiors.
The last building on the right down Mikhailovskaya Street at no. 2 is the former (13) Nobles' Club, since 1921 the home of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia. Its white-column hall has superb acoustics.
Enter Arts Square (Ploshchad Iskusstv), the core of architect Carlo Rossi's plan for this part of the city. In the center is a Soviet (14) monument to Alexander Pushkin. Beyond is the dominating (15) Mikhailovsky Palace (the Russian Museum), the greatest single collection of Russian art in the world. To the right is the (16) Russian Ethnographic Museum (Inzhenernaya 4), worthy of viewing for its insight into the peoples of Eurasian Russia.
Finish your walk with an amble through the (17) Mikhailovsky Palace Gardens located around the back of the museums. Laid out in the early 1820s you can enter from Sadovaya Street, close to where the tour began.
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By Rob Kelly
Tomas Rosicky says Arsenal must maintain their focus right until the end of the season if they want to secure third place in the Premier League.
The Gunners are five points clear of fourth-placed Tottenham with five games remaining, and have the chance to extend their lead when they face Wigan on Monday.
Roberto Martinez's side are fighting for survival, and Rosicky says there is no chance that he or his team-mates will underestimate their opponents.
"Wigan beat Manchester United on Wednesday, so that's an indication that it will be a tough test for us," he told the Official Arsenal Magazine.
"We'll have to be on top of our game to win, no doubt about it. Wigan have some very good players and a good young manager, so this will be a very tough match for us.
"We have a great chance to stay in [third] position, but now we have to make sure of it. That starts against Wigan on Monday - and make no mistake, it's a very big game for us.
"People might not usually regard a match against Wigan as such a big one, but they are still battling relegation, so there is a lot at stake for both of us.
"We saw what can happen against a team fighting for its life when we played away at QPR, and we expect the same kind of performance from Wigan on Monday. We have to give 100 per cent to get the result."
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Volthair #2:The Zine Crane is about the hot Austin summer of 2008 to the 2009 cold spring. It is about the young throws of unlikely love, the life of a pbs intern, a long road trip away from Austin, happenings, more happenings, feelings of death, the age of seventeen and the search for quality. It is furthermore, what are attempts to remember details and stories. Whenever anything seems disorienting, please know these are my hands folding and unfolding a crane. I am trying to remember my history and my experiences, fold by fold. 1/4 size, 48 pages
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text: So, this was originally posted in the Entries thread in the 4CC Forum, but IMO, it warrants its own thread and further discussion. This was posted in the 4CC Entries thread: Chinese Athlete Ages (document from the Chinese Olympic Committee website) The following birth dates do not match up with what is posted on the athletes ISU Bios. Wenjing Sui: ISU Birthdate: 18.07.1995 (15) Listed Birthdate: 07.05.1997 (13) Cong Han ISU Birthdate: 06.08.1992 (18) Listed Birthdate: 3.1989 (21) Bingwa Geng ISU Birthdate: 03.01.1994 (17) Listed Birthdate: 03.03.1995 (15) Yu Gao ISU Birthdate: 10.07.1992 (18) Listed Birthdate: 10.07.1988 (22) HisWeirness found this at a Chinese Skating forum (all links/info reposted with her permission): Geng's Japanese Wikipedia article also lists her birth year as 1995. She also found the following links at that same website: http://images.sport.org.cn/File/2007/10/29/1531155992.xls images.sport.org.cn/File/2009/09/22/1505096846.doc images.sport.org.cn/File/2007/07/30/1828025124.xls Now, those links have even more info: Dan Zhang: ISU Birthdate: 04.10.1985 (25) Listed Birthdate: 04.10.1987 (23) Hao Zhang: ISU Birthdate: 06.07.1984 (26) Listed Birthdate: 06.02.1982 (29) Xiaoyu Yu ISU Birthdate: 02.01.1996 (14) Listed Birthdate: 02.01.1998 (12) Yang Jin ISU Birthdate: 16.05.1994 (16) Listed Birthdate: 16.05.1989 (21) Binshu Xu ISU Birthdate: 28.07.1988 (22) Listed Birthdate: 29.07.1990 (20) So, if these birthdates are correct: - Sui was too young to compete as a junior last year and too young to be on the SGP this year - Han was not age eligible to compete in the JGP this year - Gao was not age eligible to compete in the JGP this year - Geng was too young for 2008 Junior Worlds - Dan Zhang was too young to compete in the JGP and Junior Worlds in 1999/2000 and too young to compete at the Olympics, Worlds and 4CC in 2002. - Binshu Xu was too young to compete as a junior in the 2002/2003 season - Xiaoyu Yu was too young for 2010 Junior Worlds (illegal entry) and is too young to compete internationally as a junior in the 2010/2011 season. So yeah. Feel free to post any other info you might have or find. Or point out any mistakes I made. Not suprising, but disappointing and I'm pissed. ETA: Added info found by jlai on Yu/Jin ETA: Added Sylvia's info on BinShu Xu


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Most (not all) of the rankings have been restored, and some mainstream media coverage is beginning to appear:
NY times has two articles, here and here. Nothing from the Washington post. LA times has this (a blog, not a full-fledged news story.) St. Petersburg Times has nothing. Philly Inquirer? AZ Daily Star? Nada.
Amazon is still calling it an accident. Which I'll buy, if accompanied by appropriate apology. Still listening…
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Tuesday, October 20, 1999 Contact: Delilah Rumburg, Executive Director of PCAR,
Charles Robbins, Press Secretary to
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Harrisburg, PA - Sexual violence is an urgent and costly health issue. Accordingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $700,000 grant to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) to establish the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This represents a major victory for sexual violence advocates who have been diligent in their efforts to acquire national recognition of this staggering, yet, invisible problem.
As the first nationally funded initiative of its kind, the center will be established under provisions of the Violence Against Women Act. The resource center also will assist the CDC in achieving Healthy People 2000 objectives aimed at reducing the incidents of violence against women.
"I am delighted that the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape has been selected to establish such a vital initiative in the fight against sexual violence," said U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA). "I am confident that PCAR will continue to provide important victim assistance and resources for our community and our nation with the utmost integrity and dedication. I have considered the fight against sexual violence a priority since my days as district attorney of Philadelphia."
It is estimated that 25% of all women in the United States will suffer a violent sexual attack sometime during their lives; with 61% of all assaults involving victims under the age of 18. Sexual violence creates a host of health-related problems, including injury and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as numerous psychological conditions such as major depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, homelessness and suicide.
According to Delilah Rumburg, PCAR executive director, "The resource center will serve as the nucleus of a national movement to prevent sexual violence. As an incubator for this impressive project, PCAR plans to build the resource center into an autonomous entity capable of shaping the nation's practice, research, and policy. In time, we must change public attitudes and beliefs to reduce and, ultimately, eliminate sexual violence."
Broad goals of the NSVRC are to: (1) Strengthen the support system serving sexual assault survivors by providing competent leadership, adequate resources and information to develop the capacity of national sexual assault organizations, state sexual assault coalitions, community-based programs and allied professionals; (2) Provide accurate and comprehensive information and technical assistance in supporting effective intervention in the prevention of sexual violence; and (3) Identify emerging policy issues and research needs to support the development of policy and practice leading to the prevention of sexual violence.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia, one the nation's leading research institutions, will join the effort as PCAR's research partner. Dr. Ann Burgess, a renowned Penn researcher and scholar on sexual violence, will direct the research component to study the causes and consequences of sexual violence. The team will also promote effective responses through through far-reaching intervention and prevention activities.
The official opening of the resource center is slated for July 2000 at PCAR's facility in Enola, PA.
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Young waterfowl hunters across the state can enjoy special days in the field Saturday, Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 6 by participating in Youth Waterfowl Days on private lands and on some S.C. Department of Natural Resources Waterfowl Management Areas.
Hunters 15 years of age or younger may hunt ducks and Canada geese Saturday, Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 6 when accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age on private lands or an adult at least 21 years of age on state Wildlife Management Areas. The adult cannot carry a firearm or hunt. For more information on Youth Waterfowl Days, call (803) 734-3886 in Columbia.
"Youth waterfowl days provide the opportunity for young people to be introduced to waterfowl hunting in a positive manner." said Derrell Shipes, Chief of Special Projects, Research and Survey for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Shipes added, "These dates also provide adults the opportunity to take young people afield to teach them more about the tradition of waterfowling in a setting where youth hunters are the priority of the day."
The legal waterfowl daily bag limit for each young hunter participating during Youth Waterfowl Days must not include more than 6 ducks of which the following internal limits also apply: two wood ducks, two redheads, one pintail, one canvasback, one black-bellied whistling duck, three scaup, four mallards (not to include more than one female mallard) and one black duck or one mottled duck. Five mergansers (not to include more than one hooded merganser) also may be taken in addition to the regular limit of 6 ducks. Youth hunters also may take 15 coots daily and 15 blue or snow geese in addition to the duck limit.
A total of five Canada geese may be taken by each young hunter during Youth Waterfowl Days, but the exclusion zone where taking Canada Geese is prohibited includes all of Clarendon County, that portion of Orangeburg County north of SC Highway 6 and that portion of Berkeley County north of SC Highway 45 from the Orangeburg County line to the junction of SC Highway 45 and state road S-8-31, and that portion west of the Santee Dam. Taking white-fronted or specklebelly geese is prohibited in SC.
The possession of lead shot while waterfowl hunting is prohibited; nontoxic shot (steel, bismuth-tin, tungsten-iron or tungsten-polymer) is required for all waterfowl hunting including during Youth Waterfowl Days. Shooting hours during Youth Waterfowl Days will be from 30 minutes before official sunrise until sunset.
"We want to encourage adults who love and enjoy waterfowl hunting to take young people out on the specially scheduled dates," said Breck Carmichael, DNR Deputy Director for Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. "We hope landowners who own waterfowl habitat will support this initiative and allow youngsters the opportunity to hunt ducks and geese on their properties. Those who embrace the tradition of waterfowl hunting should be willing to pass this legacy on to future generations."
Many DNR Wildlife Management Areas will be open for public hunting on Saturday, Feb. 5 for Youth Waterfowl Days (DNR Waterfowl Management Areas are not open on Sundays). Waterfowl Management Areas that are open Saturday mornings during the regular waterfowl season will be open for Youth Waterfowl Day on Saturday, Feb. 5. These Waterfowl Management Areas include:
Beidler Impoundment WMA in Sumter County
Dunaway WMA in Union County
Duncan Creek WMA in Laurens County
Hatchery WMA in Berkeley County
Enoree River WMA in Newberry County
Marsh WMA in Marion County
Monticello Reservoir WMA in Fairfield County
Moultrie WMA in Berkeley County
Parr Reservoir WMA in Fairfield County
Potato Creek WMA in Clarendon County
Russell Creek WMA in McCormick County
Turtle Island WMA in Jasper County
Tyger River WMA in Union County
Samson Island Unit of Bear Island WMA in Colleton County
Wee Tee WMA in Williamsburg County


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'"I was disappointed at first," Roy said. "I felt better playing up there with those guys. I knew I wouldn't make it as a top four centre, but (Maxim) Afinogenov is hurt and I thought I could move in there (on right wing)."'
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|A pen pistol discovered at Allentown (ABE).
Odd Watch Discovered at Oakland (OAK)
Odd Watch Discovered at Oakland (OAK): A strange watch resembling an IED component was discovered at Oakland. Check out my post from earlier this week for more information.
|A magazine with seven rounds of .32 caliber ammo.
- Four inert grenades were discovered this week. Two in checked bags at San Francisco (SFO) and Las Vegas (LAS), and the other two in a carry-on bag at LaGuardia (LGA). The grenade from LAS was discovered in the bag of a 13-year-old who stated he had it for the zombie apocalypse.
- A lipstick knife was discovered at Salt Lake City (SLC).
- A box cutter was found taped to the wall of a passenger's bag -- under the lining at Sacramento (SMF)
- Two belt buckle knives were discovered this week at Bradley (BDL) and Houston (HOU).
- A pocketknife was discovered in a gum tin at Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP).
- While at the ticket counter, a passenger at Gulf Port (GPT) stated that he "possibly had a bomb in his bag." He later explained his reasoning. He thought his statement would get him through security faster.
- A passenger at Charlotte (CLT) who was informed she couldn't take an item on the plane stated: "I hope someone comes in here and blows you all up."
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Welll, not much to report yet - but I wanted to say that we got all my Christmas Boxes out of storage yesterday. This is most of it:
Today I'm hoping to go through everything and sort it - if I have time tonight, maybe put up my Villiage.
I wasn't going to start decorating till after Sunday (The Toronto Santa Claus Parade), but since we're leaving in two weeks for Mexico, I want to enjoy some decorations before we go!


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David Wilson 's disappointing season continued Sunday, although it wasn't his fault. He scored his first touchdown of the year, but didn't play past halftime due to a neck injury. The Giants' next game is in three days. With Wilson's ability to play in doubt, and Brandon Jacobs representing the only experienced running back on the roster, the team needed to add a player familiar with the offense. They did that on Monday by re-signing Da'Rel Scott, whom they released Tuesday.
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Scott was seeing a lot of playing time on third downs and in passing situations. Wilson didn't practice Monday. If he is able to play Thursday, he would be a flex option. If he's out, Scott and Jacobs would split the work on the road against the Bears. You want no part of that duo for this week.


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By Richard Clarke
Sebastien Squillaci will make his Arsenal debut against Bolton on Saturday after Thomas Vermaelen picked up an Achilles injury on international duty.
The latter centre back captained Belgium in their defeats to Germany and Turkey over the weekend but came back with a short-term problem.
However, while Vermaelen was playing in Istanbul on Tuesday night, Squillaci was featuring in his first game in an Arsenal shirt as the Reserves beat Blackburn 4-3 at Barnet.
At his press conference on Friday, Wenger confirmed the French international would make his first-team bow at Emirates Stadium this weekend.
"He will play tomorrow," said the manager. "I know Sebastien very well and the target was to give him 90 minutes for the Reserves. Just to get his positional play back.
"He is experienced and it is good he can compensate the absence of Vermaelen tomorrow.
"Vermaelen's [injury] should be short-term and has a chance to play on Wednesday night."
Wenger also confirmed that Samir Nasri will return after knee surgery.
"Nasri is back in the squad, which is quicker than expected," said the manager. "It is not often you can give this kind of news. We are happy he is back."
Theo Walcott and Robin van Persie both have ankle injuries which will sideline them for four to six weeks. Nicklas Bendtner (groin) will be out for a further three or four weeks. Aaron Ramsey (broken leg) is on course to return in November.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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This book is not a biography of Hitler; it's a biography of the biographers of Hitler, it's a story about the Hitler scholars, an all-you-can-eat buffet of the full gamut of explanations for the murder of 6 to 17 million people (depending on how you count). And by "explanation" we usually mean "whose fault"? Who's to blame? Germany? Hitler's one testicle? Judaism? Christianity? God? The Jewish doctor who treated Hitler's mother with cancer? Nobody? Everybody? The Nazi Party? Abstract Historical Forces? Hitler's incestuous past, secret Jewish blood, failed artistic striving, political ideology, psychosis? Or do we simply blame Hitler himself?
Take a deep breath. I had to. There is a level of absurdity to all of this. Why do some of these explanations sound ridiculous, narrow and short sighted? We have to remember historians are people too; they can be inaccurate, biased, and nasty. That's the beauty of this book. It's gossipy. We see the arrogant scholar, we see scholars tag-teaming and ridiculing each other, personal attacks, fame, red-faced, passionate, proud. Perhaps the competitive atmosphere of academic publishing is really to blame, where everything begins with disagreement instead of compatibility. Chapter 1: everybody is wrong. Chapter 2: I'm right and here's why. Or, perhaps the historian was right that said there is no explanation for the Holocaust and never will be.
Complex phenomena have complex explanations, but what really matters is the lessons that history gives us. The old adage "history repeats itself" is the whole point of doing history, in my opinion. Once we learn the patterns of hatred, we can predict them and stop them. How do you get people to hate? You separate them, call them "others," you use the word "war," as if to make them "enemies." You call them "germs" or "cockroaches" or subhuman. You censor. You get rid of the media. Hitler pillaged the Munich Post. You dehumanize them and de-individualize them. Hitler passed a law that made all boy Jews have one name and all girls have another. You use esoteric, secretive, ambiguous language that hides your hatred as something "intellectual." People eat it up. Hitler did that. So did Heidegger and Nietzsche in a way. You retell history in a way that fits with your hate story against the Jews. Hitler and the Nazis actually staged a fake battle to accomplish this.
If you want to dive into the life of Hitler, try a different biography. If you want to dive into the sea of Hitler scholarship, I recommend this book.
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As part of The Ungovernables' exhibition, The New Museum hosted The House of Natural Fiber (HONF), a new media art collective out of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Yogyakarta is the second largest city on Java, a densely-populated island that hosts an active volcano named Mt. Merapi which erupted in 2006, and again in 2010, coating the city in ash.
The collective's previous piece, titled, "Intelligent Bacteria—Saccharomyces cerevisiae," called attention to a new tax in Indonesia that caused the price of alcohol to skyrocket. As a result, a number of locals started fermenting their own liquor, creating potent moonshine that resulted in three deaths soon after the tax was introduced. To address the issue, HONF worked with microbiologists from the University of Gajah Mada in order to give free fruit-fermentation tutorials to the public. Not content with this DIY session, though, the art collective enlisted DJs and sound artists to create beats from the fermenting fruit, calling it a "bacteria orchestra."
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The episode starts with the Hospital scene, Rithika was in the bed and comes at that time to meet her. The nurse aksed her to inform if there is any emergency. Ravi told her that the baby is dead, Rithika got shocked and she started blaming Shalini that she killed her baby. Ravi tries to convince her but she was very stubborn that the baby died because of Shalini. They started arguing, Krithika keeps on telling the samething that all happened because of Shalini.Ravi reaches home and everyone starts asking him about what the shooter said. He tells that he said Shalini's name, Rithika started acting and Shalini came there and says that Rithika is telling lies.
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External ballistics is the part of the science of ballistics that deals with the behavior of a non-powered projectile in flight.
"non-powered projectile" sounds like a paintball to me.
Background: I've been playing since 1989/90 and in that time, I've always wanted something that would allow me to make more accurate shots from a further distance away. I was one of those guys, back in the very early 90s who experienced first hand, the ridiculous amount of hype surrounding paintball products in all price ranges, in every source of information about paintball. Coincidentally, I've also had a very long standing recreational interest in physics.
Myths: Some of these myths could be attributed to marketing techniques employed by most manufacturers in those early years. Some other myths are attributable to the improper (or lack of) understanding in physics. Take for example the statement:. "45 degrees gives the longest range". I've seen this myth in ads, web forums, web videos by respected players and even articles in respected paintball magazines.
Early Research and Study: I have faith (maybe misplaced) that over the years, a lot of companies did research on paintball ballistics. However, none of them really shared what they learned. Eventually, Tom Kaye published a lot of his experimental data and fostered a lot of scientific discussion via the Deep Blue forum on Automag Owners(AO). Regrettably, not being an Automag owner, I was oblivious to their discussions at the time.
Gary Dyrkacz ultimately built upon a lot of the discussion on AO and his efforts led to the "Paintball Trajectory Calculator". He presents a very technical and detailed discussion of the Newtonian physics and fluid dynamics (aerodynamics, more specifically) that influence the trajectory of a paintball. Unfortunately, he found himself lacking one key piece of information: the drag profile for a 'mostly spherical, smooth gelatin surfaced, object with a single seam'. Instead, for his calculations he used drag data derived from the testing of smooth spheres. I'm not writing off his calculator as a failure by any means. Given the limitations he faced, his calculator performs very well even by today's standards.
In my own research, I learned about the science/mathematics of external ballistics. I've come to think of it as a mathematical shorthand that allows for tweaking the key variables that influence a projectile's trajectory. At first glance, a lot of individuals dismiss external ballistics as only pertaining to firearm projectiles, velocities, etc. However, I found that airgunners (the guys who shoot high-end pellet guns for hunting small game, and marksmanship competition) also use the mathematics of external ballistics to predict the performance of their projectiles. I conducted a lot of my own research in this area because I was interested in resurrecting the "Safety Paintball". I learned everything I could only to find that it's still under patent. In any case, knowing the math isn't enough. You need the data to run through it. Generally speaking, there are three methods of collecting this data:
- The weakest method of is to measure how much a projectile drops if fired at a given velocity and distance. The problem we have all seen with this is that paintballs tend to spread (due to inaccuracy) and this can impact your ability to measure the true drop vs, a shot hitting low because of spread.
- The absolute best method is a doppler radar tracking and measuring the speed of a projectile as it moves through its entire flight path. Yeah, fat chance of that ever happening in this next to cottage industry.
- Dual Chronograph measurements are the 'standard' method in firearm and airgun communities. The idea here is to measure the speed of a projectile as it moves through two optical chronographs some distance apart. The difference in speed measured between the two chronographs allows for the calculation of the drag the paintball was subjected to. However, nobody I knew owned one optical chronograph, let alone two.
A Breakthrough: Cockerpunk and Bryce Larson got it in their heads to do a "ranged" chronograph test to simply see how much paintballs actually slow down between two points so, they could try to create a curve that would describe how fast a paintball would be going at any point in the curve.. What they didn't seem to realize was that they were conducting a test that would allow one to calculate the drag, if they knew how to apply external ballistics. This is where I came in.
Intro to the math: A key piece of data describing a projectile's performance is the Ballistic Coefficient:
In ballistics, the ballistic coefficient (BC) of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight.
So, what is the ballistic coefficient? Well, it is a measure of how aerodynamic a projectile is both in terms of it's shape (i.e. pointy nosed, round nosed, flat tail, boat tail, etc) and it's mass vs. size. Mathematically, it is expressed as:
BC = SD / i
BC: Ballistic Coefficient (how well does it resist drag) You can obtain this value through solving with SD and i, or you can use data gathered through dual chrono testing to determine it with the aid of a BC calculator like the one I used here.
SD: Sectional Density (how heavy is it vs how wide it is)
M: Mass of the projectile in pounds
A: Square of the Diameter in inches. Yes, I know that this is not the same as the area of a circle. This is a common shortcut in external ballistics used for comparison purposes. This can be gotten away with because the ratio of D^2 to PiR^2 will always be the same.
i: Form Factor (how pointy is it, how is the back end shaped, etc): Drag Coefficient / Drag Coefficient of the G1 model bullet. WTF? Yeah, in external ballistics, everyone is comparing their round to the G1 model bullet which is a projectile that has a Ballistic Coefficient of 1. Think of the "i" as a common point of reference. You express how your projectile performs relative to the standard model and, calculation software can then predict how your round will perform when given other variables (like mass, velocity, etc).
Note: in later posts in this thread you will see me making references to projectiles weighed in grains, 7000grains = 1 pound
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Among Savaka Bhikkhus, Sariputta Thera was declared by the Buddha as the
foremost for great wisdom. He and his childhood friend Moggallana both became
The Buddha's Chief Disciples.
Sariputta: The General of the Dhamma
[Translated from the Pali by Daw Mya Tin,MA]
While residing at Veluvana, the Bamboo Grove monastery in Rajagaha, the Buddha
uttered Verses 11-12, with reference to Sanjaya, a former teacher of the
Chief Disciples, the Venerable Sariputta and the Venerable Moggallana (formerly
Upatissa and Kolita).
Upatissa and Kolita were two youths from Upatissa and Kolita, two villages near
Rajagaha. While looking at a show they realized the insubstantiality of things
and they decided to search for the way to liberation. First, they approached
Sanjaya. the wandering ascetic at Rajagaha, but they were not satisfied with his
teachings. So they went all over Jarnbudipa and came back to their native place,
after searching for, but not finding the true dhamma. At this point they came to
an understanding that one who found the true dhamma should inform the other.
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become established in Sotapatti Fruition at the end of the verse. They both
remembered their former teacher and so went to Sanjaya and said to him, "We have
found one who could point out the Path to Deathlesseness; the Buddha has
appeared in the world; the Dhamma has appeared; the Sangha has appeared... Come,
let us go to the Teacher." They had hoped that their former teacher would go
along with them to the Buddha and by listening to the discourses he, too, would
come to realize Magga and Phala. But Sanjaya refused.
So Upatissa and Kolita, with two hundred and fifty followers, went to the
Buddha, at Veluvana. There, they were initiated and admitted into the Order as
bhikkhus. Upatissa as son of Rupasari became known as Thera Sariputta; Kolita as
son of Moggali became known as Thera Maha Moggallana. On the seventh day after
the initiation Maha Moggallana attained Arahatship. Thera Sariputta achieved the
same a fortnight after initiation. On that day, the Buddha made them his two
Chief Disciples (Agga-Savaka).
The two Chief Disciples then related to the Buddha how they went to the Giragga
festival, the meeting with Thera Assaji and their attainment of Sotapatti
Fruition. They also told the Buddha about their former teacher Sanjaya, who
refused to accompany them. Sanjaya had said, "Having bean a teacher to so many
pupils, for me to become his pupil would be like a jar turning into a drinking
cup. Besides, only few people are wise and the majority are foolish; let the
wise go to the wise Gotama, the foolish would still come to me. Go your way, my
Thus, as the Buddha pointed out, Sanjaya's false pride was preventing him from
seeing truth as truth; he was seeing untruth as truth and would never arrive at
the real truth.
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows.
Verse 11: They take untruth for truth; they take truth for untruth; such persons
can never arrive at the truth, for they hold wrong views.
Verse 12: They take truth for truth; they take untruth for untruth; such persons
arrive at the truth, for they hold right views.
At the end of the discourse, many people came to be established in Sotapatti
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State Fruit: Scuppernong Grape
by Steven Case
NC Government & Heritage Library, 2007
See also: Scuppernong Grape (Encyclopedia of North Carolina); Fox Grape
The General Assembly of 2001 named the Scuppernong grape as the official State Fruit (Session laws, 2001, c. 488). The same session law declared the strawberry and blueberry to be the state berries.
The Scuppernong (vitis rotundifolia) is a variety of muscadine grape, and has the distinction of being the first grape ever actively cultivated in the United States. It was named for the Scuppernong River, which runs from Washington County to the Albemarle Sound. Giovanni de Verrazano noticed this variety as far back as 1524, and explorers for Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh, as it's sometimes spelled) in the 1580's sent back reports from the Outer Banks of grape vines that "…covered every shrub and climbed the tops of high cedars. In all the world, a similar abundance was not to be found." The Roanoke colonists are credited with discovering the Scuppernong "Mother Vineyard," a vine that is now over 400 years old and covers half an acre.
Whereas, North Carolina's economy originated and developed as an agrarian economy with a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables; and
Whereas, the State takes great pride in its rich heritage of farming; and
Whereas, there are still many families who base their livelihood in farming and who are continuing the North Carolina tradition of producing goods from our land; and
Whereas, one of the main sources of agricultural production in the State is the production of fruits and berries of several varieties; and
Whereas, North Carolina is the home of our nation's first cultivated grape, the Scuppernong; and
Whereas, the Scuppernong grape was named after the Scuppernong River in North Carolina; and
Whereas, British explorers in 1584 and 1585 reported to Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh that the barrier islands of what is now, in part, Roanoke Island were full of grapes and that the soil of the land was "so abounding with sweet trees that bring rich and most pleasant gummes, grapes of such greatness, yet wild, as France, Spain, nor Italy hath not greater…"; and
Whereas, Sir Walter Raleigh's colony discovered the famous Scuppernong "Mother Vineyard" on Roanoke Island, a vine that is now over 400 years old and has a trunk over two feet thick; and
Whereas, the State toast, penned in 1904, references North Carolina as the land "[w]here the scuppernong perfumes the breeze at night,"; and
Whereas, there are over 1,700 acres of strawberries and over 3,600 acres of blueberries harvested in North Carolina each year; and
Whereas, in 2000, strawberry growers in the State produced 23,000,000 pounds of strawberries, yielding $17,325,000 in revenues; and
Whereas, in 2000, blueberry growers in the State produced 17,500,000 pounds of blueberries, resulting in an increase in the State's economy of over $18,000,000 in revenues; and
Whereas, these delicious berries are a good source of vitamins, a number of life?sustaining minerals, and dietary fiber;
Whereas, the blueberry is an antioxidant, which has been proven to reduce cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease; and
Whereas, each year the Town of Chadbourn in Columbus County hosts the North Carolina Strawberry Festival, which is one of the most celebrated traditions in the State; and
Whereas, the State of North Carolina does not have an official fruit nor an official berry; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Chapter 145 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 145-18. State fruit and State berries.
(a) The official fruit of the State of North Carolina is the Scuppernong grape (Vitis genus).
(b) The official red berry of the State is the strawberry (Fragaria genus).
(c) The official blue berry of the State is the blueberry (Vaccinium genus)."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of December, 2001.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Approved 6:58 p.m. this 16th day of December, 2001
References and additional resources:
NCwine.org (NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs.)
Poling, Barclay and Connie Fisk. "Muscadine Grapes in the Home Garden." North Carolina State University, Horticulture Information Leaflets. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/hil/hil-8203.html
Image credit:
Newton, Amanda Alimira. [Illustration.] 1905. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, M.D. https://usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/pom/catalog.xhtml?id=POM00006084 (accessed June 14, 2017).
Mandie (Flickr user captivated), 2003. "Scuppernongs getting ripe." http://www.flickr.com/photos/captivated/4878046178/
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maybe we should add more info
maybe we should add more info?
Hi Josh,
Hi Josh,
Thanks for visiting this article! What type of additional information would you like to see here? Please let us know and we will look into updating the article.
Feel free to post a reply back here with your ideas.
Best wishes,
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this is a great recourse for my homework and my teacher says it is to
i liked the article.
i liked the article.
I want to purchase
I want to purchase scuppernong grapes and have them sent to me in Minnesota. What website can ordering the fruit, not the vine, be found?
I'm from South Carolina and I cannot locate them in Minnesota.
Thank you.
Plenty will be here in South
Plenty will be here in South Carolina Mid-late August - mid-late Sept. Sold at the Pee Dee Framers Market at Florence SC. and the State Framers Market Columbia. We always visit Florence and may find the answer for you and will let you know. I'll check for dealers that may ship. Here in my own area, they only are used for wines & juice for jelly/jams.
But try Hymans Vineyard in Conway SC They sale wines/cases and the grape juice in large containers. Check it out, maybe they would ship grapes!
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US Open.
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Headphones, iPad, Passport, Clothes.
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Play tennis, Work hard, Have fun.
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Watch a movie, Hang out with friends.
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I am new to the forum and hoping you guys might be able to help me out. I have a 1.5 year old GSD. I have been consistently working on obedience with her such as sit, stay, lay down, etc. While focused on me she is excellent and listens very well, but when something else catches her attention...a squirrel, another dog, deer, etc nothing I can do or say will stop her before she bolts after it. This habit is starting to turn bad as she is very intimidating to smaller dogs and she doesn't tend to like them. She is quick to be aggressive if she believes the dog is growling to "hurt" her when most are just saying back off.
I just don't know what to do anymore. She is a total sweetheart, great with kids, and very good with passive dogs and any dog bigger than she is. However anything small or her size that snips at her she immediately is on the offense and will not listen to me. How can I keep her attention no matter what is in front of her? And how do I curb this aggression?
Okay - work with the attention. She needs to be on a leash. So, when you are walking her and she even starts to focus on her "target" - turn suddenly - even if you turn right into her - go the other way - praise her for following. If she keeps looking back - start to zig zag - go different directions - she will have no choice but to focus on you. If you can't turn - get right in front of her - have her sit. If she is treat motivated - hold the treat right in front of her - if she is toy motivated - use that. Play tug with her to satisfy her prey drive and be sure she wins. If you have a trainer in your area, consider having private lessons. Also look on training threads on this forum. The Nothing in Life is Free program is a good place to start.
So I kind of think those are two different problems, but they're solved mostly the same way. The thing with her bolting after deer and squirrel is a prey drive thing, clearly--chasing is soooo much fun that even if she hears you, you can't possibly compete with the fun of chasing a critter! The dog thing could be partially prey drive, but I also think it's likely that she just has a bit of a hole in her socialization. If she's only reacting after they growl, that makes me think that she's running up and being rude, then when they give her a "back off" cue she interprets that as a threat or a challenge and reacts aggressively. It could be just manifesting with small dogs for a couple of reasons; most likely in my mind is that she feels safe challenging a small dog but not a larger one.
Agree totally with Mary Beth. No off-leash work for the time being, and if she does see something she wants to chase, do whatever it takes to get her attention back on you. I've even taken off in the opposite direction for a few steps when nothing else worked. Be really focused on her though and try to get to her as soon as she notices it, not once she's already in chase mode. Never let her indulge in chasing small animals, because it is very rewarding and it's going to be hard for you to compete with that! However, be sure you do give her an outlet for her prey drive by playing tug and fetch (the latter in a safe enclosed area, or on a 30' lead). Saying "don't chase anything!" doesn't really work for a dog with a high prey drive, but setting firm rules about what she can chase (toys, for example) will work if you play with her often enough.
Also, for teaching focus on the handler, I really like clicker training (well, I like it anyway, but you know). Hector used to be terrible about paying attention to everything but me, so what I do is carry a treat in my hand as we walked and whenever he glanced at me, I'd click and treat. This is in addition to the frequent direction changes, etc. that Mary Beth outlined above. He learned that paying attention to me and watching me is A Good Thing and learned to focus on me even in distracting situations very quickly. Now he'll usually look to me first when he sees something he wants to investigate. Once we established that looking at me would be rewarded, I started adding in saying his name quietly (not like a whisper, just a normal tone) and rewarding for that. The benefit of that is on the occasions he sees something that is just too too exciting, I just say his name and he looks at me and sits. Easy peasy.
Regarding the small dogs, what situations are you encountering them in? On-leash or off? If they're growling to get her to back off, that sounds to me like she might be being rude. A lot of dogs don't have great manners when meeting new dogs and run right up into their faces...this is kind of like a total stranger racing up to you and giving you a bear hug. Some people might not mind, but a lot will be scared or annoyed.
For this, I would definitely recommend working with a trainer. However, an easy thing you can start with is teaching her to ignore other dogs as you pass them on your walks. It's easiest if you can get a friend to help so you can eventually get really close, but even just rewarding her from ignoring small dogs at a distance will get you started.
Basically, the fix is the same as for the squirrels and deer--make her focus on you, and reward her for doing so. Start at a comfortable distance where you can keep her attention on you fairly easily (close enough that she notices the other dog, far enough that it's not that exciting yet--it might take some experimentation to figure this out). As she learns to ignore the dog, gradually move closer.
If you have a friend with a friendly small dog who will help, you can even eventually let her go up and sniff the dog. Remove her if she gets too in its face or aggressive, and back up. Reward her if she gives a basic sniff and then looks at you. Don't expect a long interaction, and try to keep things positive. The ideal is for the little dog to not feel threatened enough to growl, and for your girl to learn that approaching new dogs calmly and sniffing politely is the best response.
This does actually work, btw, as long as it is just a socialization problem. Hector had problems that sound almost identical to your dog's issues with small dogs when I first got him. After working with him for a few months, he learned to be very polite with other dogs, to the point that experienced dog people have often commented on it (particularly since if he does meet a rude one that likes to play, he's all over it LOL).
However, it's best to work with a trainer because this can be a long process, and because if your dog just naturally has a dog aggressive personality, she may not ever be trustworthy with small dogs (and you may see it shift to include larger dogs as she matures). A trainer can help you determine if it's something that can be completely fixed or if you need to do a mixture of training and management to keep her away from other dogs.
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FT. WORTH, Texas, Nov. 29 - Damon Heuir scored a season-high 25 points and Jayson Cheesman pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds and blocked three shots but TCU outscored Southern Utah 24-15 in the final 10 minutes to overcome a one-point deficit and hand the improving Thunderbirds a 61-52 loss Thursday night.
TCU stayed perfect at home in improving to 6-2 on the season while SUU dipped to 1-5.
Heuir hit two free throws with 10:50 to play to give Southern Utah a 38-37 lead, but TCU took the lead back on a Devona Abron layup, then after the Thunderbirds had two chances at a basket on the other end extended the advantage to 41-38 on a pair of Abron free throws with 9:19 to play.
That series started what turned out to be an 8-0 Horned Frog run, and although SUU back within five several times, the last at 52-47 on a Cheesman tip in with 2:17 to play, the Thunderbirds weren't able to get back over the hump.
Heuir hit 7-of-14 shots and 9-of-12 free throws, led the Thunderbirds with three assists and pulled down four rebounds while Jayson Cheesman pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds as SUU out-rebounded the Horned Frogs 36-29 and had their second-lowest turnover total of the season, 14, including just four in the second half.
"In the first half we had 10 turnovers, some of them were aggressive turnovers, a couple of them might have come off some silly fouls that we committed, but in the second half we took care of the basketball with only four turnovers and that helps us," SUU Coach Nick Robinson pointed out. "It keeps us in games and the guys understand that, but still, with turnovers come points off turnovers and they had 11 tonight so it might have been a little bit closer [with fewer turnovers]. You've got to give [TCU] a lot of credit. Defensively they're one of the best in the nation, their length, their athleticism gave us some problems.
"We were physical, [rebounding] was a point of emphasis for us coming in, and I was glad to see Jayson have a good night rebounding the basketball, Cal Hanks and Tyson [Koehler] as well did a good job rebounding the basketball," Robinson added. Cheesman "did a nice job. Obviously we see the production from rebounds and although we'd like to see a few more of his shots go down he did a good job taking care of it but he's a presence defensively, with three blocks tonight he's proven he can play at a very high level."
Koehler came off the bench to score six points and pull down three rebounds while Hanks had a pair of rebounds.
"It's very encouraging, we're making strides," Robinson noted. "Guys were aggressive and that's a positive thing. We've just got to continue to build, continue to take care of the basketball, continue to execute our offense. Shots didn't go down for some guys tonight but I'm not concerned about that because they were good shots; it's not like we were jacking things up, taking bad shots, they just didn't go down."
One player who struggled with his shots was the team's leading scorer coming into the season and into the game, Jackson Stevenett, who finished with just one point, his lowest total since Dec. 18, 2010 when he had just one point at UNLV. Stevenett, who missed the last game with a shoulder strain, was 0-10 from the field and 1-2 from the fre throw line, although he did have two assists, a block and a rebound.
"Jackson didn't see the first couple of shots go through the net and he struggled tonight; a couple of them rimmed in and out, maybe three or four of those shots, and a lot of those were good shots, a lot were contested, but those are shots he's made before," Robinson pointed out. "I'm not worried about that, we had other guys chip in, Jayson was able to get some pretty good looks, Wade [Collie] made a couple of shots for us, and Tyson played extremely well."
Heuir was the only Thunderbird to score in double figures, but Cheesman narrowly missed a double-double with nine points to go with his 13 rebounds, while Koehler had six points and Collie finished with five points and two assists. Cheesman chipped in a pair of assists as well.
Kyan Anderson led TCU with 21 points, including a layup and four straight free throws for TCU's final six points, while Abron finished with 17.


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In these two papers then, we have two of the main problems often alluded to. It is next-to-impossible to recreate exactly the calculation used in dLM07 since the data sets have changed in the meantime. However, since my scientific interest is in what their analysis says about the real world, any conclusion that was not robust to that level of minor adjustment would not have been interesting. By redoing their calculations with the current data, or with different analyses of analogous data, it is very easy to see that there is no such dependency, and thus reproducing their exact calculation becomes moot. In the MM07 case, it is very difficult for someone coming from the climate side to test the robustness of their analysis to updates in economic data and so that wasn't done. Thus while we have the potential for an exact replication, we are no wiser about its robustness to possibly important factors. I however was able to easily test the robustness of their calculations to changes in the satellite data source (RSS vs. UAH) or to updates in the surface temperature products.
MM07 used an apparently widespread statistics program called STATA and archived a script for all of their calculations. While this might have been useful for someone familiar with this proprietary software, it is next to useless for someone who doesn't have access to it. STATA scripts are extremely high level, implying they are easy to code and use, but since the underlying code in the routines is not visible or public, they provide no means by which to translate the exact steps taken into a different programming language or environment. However, the calculations mainly consisted of multiple linear regressions which is a standard technique, and so other packages are relatively easily available. I'm an old-school fortran programmer (I know, I know), and so I downloaded a fortran package that appeared to have the same functionality and adapted it to my needs. Someone using Matlab or R could have done something very similar. It was a simple matter to then check that the coefficients from my calculation and that in MM07 were practically the same and that there was a one-to-one match in the nominal significance (which was also calculated differently). This also provides a validation of the STATA routines (which I'm sure everyone was concerned about).
The processing in dLM06 was described plainly in their paper. The idea is to define area masks as a function of the emissions data and calculate the average trend – two methods were presented (averaging over the area then calculating the trend, or calculating the trends and averaging them over the area). With complete data these methods are equivalent, but not quite when there is missing data, though the uncertainties in the trend are more straightforward in the first case. It was pretty easy to code this up myself so I did. Turns out that the method used in dLM07 was not the one they said, but again, having coded both, it is easy to test whether that was important (it isn't).
Given the data from various sources, my own codes for the processing steps, I did a few test cases to show that I was getting basically the same results in the same circumstances as was reported in the original papers. That worked out fine. Had their been any further issues at this point, I would have sent out a couple of emails, but this was not necessary. Jos de Laat had helpfully replied to two previous questions (concerning what was included in the emissions and the method used for the average trend), and I'm sure he or the other authors involved would have been happy to clarify anything else that might have come up.
Are we done? Not in the least.
Much of the conversation concerning replication often appears to be based on the idea that a large fraction of scientific errors, or incorrect conclusions or problematic results are the result of errors in coding or analysis. The idealised implication being, that if we could just eliminate coding errors, then science would be much more error free. While there are undoubtedly individual cases where this has been the case (this protein folding code for instance), the vast majority of papers that turn out to be wrong, or non-robust are because of incorrect basic assumptions, overestimates of the power of a test, some wishful thinking, or a failure to take account of other important processes (It might be a good idea for someone to tally this in a quantitative way – any ideas for how that might be done?).
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Gary DjShag Gorzoch has finished the remake of the trailer for his new movie "Star Wars - The Rise of Boba Fett". The trailer stars your truly, Bbf Replicas as Boba Fett with Carlos Fogelquist as the Shadow Trooper. Check it out!!!
Gary DjShag Gorzoch has finished the remake of the trailer for his new movie "Star Wars - The Rise of Boba Fett". The trailer stars your truly, Bbf Replicas as Boba Fett with Carlos Fogelquist as the Shadow Trooper. Check it out!!!
Sweet BBF! Keep us updated!
Very cool!
Awesome ! Can't wait to see more.
Very cool!
Sweet BBF! Saw pics you posted on Facebook this morning, looks very interesting!
Awsome, Can't wait.
I can't find the trailer :P
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Extremely cool, bro!!
When I view the first post here, I see a big, giant picture with a big play button on it. Is that what everyone else sees?
If you don't or can't see the video, check it out on my page or Gary's.
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Nice. I'd love to watch it like now! Do we get to see the interior of Slave 1? LOL..
This looks great! Framing the characters the way he did makes the CGI backgrounds not seem so out of place like in EP I,II, and III, and that CGI looks pretty darn good. I have only one complaint, and I know it's way beyond too late to point this out, but I don't think the title makes sense. "Rise of Boba Fett" implies an origin story to me. I know it says "time to rise again," but that seems awkward. Shouldn't it be "return of boba fett" or something?
Also, that is a great looking costume, really well put together. Now, something only another fett would notice: I'm glad I'm not the only one who has trouble with the top left piece of chest armor wanting to drift away from the vest. No matter how much velcro or snaps I use, it just doesn't wanna stay put.
Wow, I would love to see this happen...
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What's the best definition of God that you guys can come up with or find?
I came up with this one:
"God: a literary device (used mostly in fantasy) to bypass the laws of physics and nature in order to speed up the writing process."
Modern Example: Eru from "The Silmarillion" by JRR Tolkien.
The traditional example you all know.
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Well, that's precisely the problem, isn't it? You can't define "god". Here's a proof:
Adherents have a predictable pattern of appealing to cognitive modes of fantasy. This creates fundamental logical problems in their arguments which the deconverter can readily exploit. We can frame this formally as a problem having to do with what is called the "necessary and sufficient" clause of empirical reality. To wit, a thing is necessary and sufficient provided:
1.) A set of values for independent variables are operationally observed to have been necessary and sufficient for an hypothesized value of a dependent variable to obtain AND
2.) All independent and dependent variables are sufficiently well defined.
Something is sufficiently well defined iff there can be found some causal link in which it can be entrained consisting of at least one antecedent and one descendent such that the effect of the causes entrained can be, in principle, reliably predicted in advance. That is, the causal train must be, in principle, algorithmic and deterministic.
An excellent hands-on example of the Second Axiom regards the so-called First Causes argument used by apologists of various faiths. Popular and oft-accepted without any critical thought whatsoever, even some of the most educated members of society repeat this fallacy ad nausea. Let us dispatch it by contradiction to illustrate:
First please allow me to introduce some basic logical terminology to describe what one might call the No Evil Genius' Proof:
"Something" (think an event) is possible in a system Q (think universe) "in principle" if Q admits of "Something" that is sufficiently well defined relative to Q.
The word "admit" here is taken to mean "allows"; in the sense that the "laws" governing all behaviors in Q "allows" an event to occur. Those laws are simply the essence of what Q is; it is what defines Q as Q.
"Sufficiently well defined" relative to Q here means the set of properties (to include possibly laws) in Q minimally sufficient to causally entrain an arbitrary event, call it k1, occurring in Q into the causal history of Q. The causal history of Q is the set of events that did, are and will (think all conjugations of "to be") occur in Q "since" its creation. Think of it like a proton. a proton in free space has what is called a Hilbert Space that describes all its possible states (degrees of freedom). All those allowed states are allowed because of the properties of the spatial system in which it is defined; that is, Q. So, a particle can have mass, for example. That is "allowed" because that is how Q (the universe) works.
Now, we can formalize our statement supra to a first-order approximation of where we're going with this:
Let an event k1 be sufficiently well defined relative to a spatial system Q. An event k1 is possible in a spatial system Q in principle if Q admits of k1.
Now, consider two spatial systems R and S. Let an event k1 be sufficiently well defined relative to R.
In order for causality between R and S to exist, a special condition must be met. Let an arbitrary event k2 ∈ S.
Let the subset of all properties A ∈ R necessary and sufficient to define k1 relative to R be denoted, r, and the subset of all properties B ∈ S necessary and sufficient to define k2 relative to S, denoted s.
Now, the required condition is trivial,
r ∈ S, R and s ∈ S, R ∵ s ≡ r.
must hold.
But this is just the same as if r ∈ R and s ∈ R where R is the natural world exposed to empiricism and s contains all the properties necessary and sufficient to define a cause that is super natural. But that means that s can be fully predicted and understood using empiricism alone, which is not allowed under the presumptive definition of a god. Q.E.D.
This is just how easy it is to disprove "gods". Unfortunately, few understand it. Therefore, other approaches should be put before the adherent. This proof is provided primarily for the deconverter to better understand both the problem and opportunity outlined by the Second Axiom of Deconversion.
Due to the somewhat obtuse manner in which a formal topic such as the above can be introduced, and appreciating how important it is for adherents to understand all Axioms if at all possible, we will attempt to expand on what this implies in a real world scenario.
Recall the key lemma:
Something is sufficiently well defined iff there can be found some causal link in which it can be entrained consisting of at least one antecedent and one descendent such that the effect of the causes entrained can be, in principle, reliably predicted in advance. That is, the causal train must be algorithmic and deterministic.
Let's be blunter. Whenever a condition 'exists' such that it is not sufficiently well defined we are, in effect saying it in the equivalent way as well:
Whenever a condition 'exists' such that it cannot be sufficiently well defined in order to entrain any such event ("condition") in a causal linkage such that it can be algorithmically and deterministically predicted in advance, the "condition" referenced is logically meaningless and irrational, relative to any observer kn whose existence is necessarily and sufficiently defined in nature (as opposed to super nature).
Yea, but why?
Whenever a condition 'exists' such that it lacks the definition required in order to entrain any such event ("condition") in a causal linkage such that it can be algorithmically and deterministically predicted in advance, the "condition" constitutes an infinite effects scenario whereby the "condition", as we attempt to entrain it, can produce any effect and we have no way of knowing which one is the correct one. It is the very concept of "definition" itself that allows us to narrow the infinite list down to something finite and, if sufficient, to a single cause.
The reader may care to note now, as this concept begins to sink in, how philosophical arguments all have the quality of over generalizing in such a manner as to deny logically valid application to the real, tangible, physical universe. And this is why all the philosophical arguments (or the vast majority) are nonsense. In our case we held strictly to nature and required, as we must, that whatever we claim can be causally entrained in nature, even if only in principle.
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I loved the post that mentioned folklore. That sparks a whole bunch of thoughts on this subject for me. So, here's my take:
God: A word created by man and intended to represent and give meaning to human abstractions of unexplainable concepts, and is usually typified in the form of a supreme being of some sort. This being, or deity, is considered to have powers far beyond that of mere mortals. Many "believers" give hope that they can have a personal relationship with this deity and gain influence over uncontrollable events in their lives through things like prayer and sacrifice. Socially, this can become a form of religion. Belief is kept alive through stories of folklore, teachings, testimonials, and are often passed on and symbolized as "truthful" fact.


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Oscar was tested heartworm positive by city animal services when they picked him up. He has heartworms. They actually released him from the pound to us two days early (supposed to wait 48 hours for adoption papers to be processed, but he came home as soon as everything was signed) on the promise that we'd seek medical attention asap for heartworms.
At the first vet visit, we did a Heartguard (Ivermectin) and was started on 30 days of Doxycycline (2 tablets, twice daily, with peanut butter) which is an antibiotic and anti inflammatory. When the Doxy was done, we made the second appointment with the vet. He was given Immiticide by the vet and he stayed with the vet overnight to be monitored for reaction of the shot site, which was administered in his lower lumbar region. One month after the first shot, Oscar will be going back to the vet to get two more shots of Immiticide. He is staying overnight, two nights, for monitoring by the vet. Then he comes home and gets to be still-ish for another month. He will continue Heartguard (Ivermectin) as a preventative from here on out. There will probably be a follow up test a month or so afterwards to see if he is still heartworm positive.
Oscar is not an outside dog. He does not get left alone outside for any length of time at all, ever. Because of the heartworm treatment, he has to be quiet and still (as still as you can make an active GSD), he gets hand walked on a leash, three to four times a day, every day. He has to pee, and it **** well is not going to be in my house hahahaha. We somehow picked a tick up while hand walking in the backyard.
I visited a local all natural pet chain to see what all natural alternatives were available. There are options; diotamaceous earth, pepperment/clove oil, etc. I want to do more research before I just pop into one of those treatments though. DE has to be sprinkled on the fur and rubbed in, but Oscars undercoat is probably to thick to allow that. I know clove oil is a neurotoxin and used as an insect killer in gardening, but I don't know what the concentration is or if I want Oscar licking that.
I talked to my vet today, and both she and us over looked continuing flea and heartworm preventative treatment. So tomorrow morning, I will be going to get a Heartguard and a topical flea and tick repellent. Frontline has a new one out that is supposed to be working well.
|and treating a dog for heartworm might not be a good idea to be left outside, I know nothing, just saying.
|dogs can be low or high heartworm plus, depending on that and your vet it can be done two ways "depending" ok.
|Are you taking your dog to the vets for shots, or oral med at home?
|OH sorry you are treating heartworms? I have done rescues in two different ways treating that. How are you doing it? here to help!
|I plan on asking my vet first, if I can treat for fleas and ticks while treating for heartworms. It is a big worry that he might get sick with something else while fighting heartworms, as we are due for more than one monthly treatment of Immiticide. Later this month he goes in for two more shots, and we have another month, atleast, of being slow and lazy while the worms breakdown and pass throuh his system. His appetite is up and down, which is expected, but I dont want anything else to tax him if I can prevent it. Even a natural alternative (working!!) repellent would be helpful really.
|Never over medicate your dog and that being said revolution is good (I think). I can do a capstar if need be and then the drops, if that helps. Never listen to some dummy at the front desk like I did once, ask your vet, and demand a solution
Comfortis vs Revolution?
I have used Comfortis in the past with huge success (totally squashed an entire infestation in the house and yard in about two weeks). However, and this is a couple of years later, I used it last month and am still fighting fleas. Not an infestation by any means, but I still find one or two crawling on Oscar and its been below 40 degrees for a while. Granted we dont get deep freezes here, but sheesh. We are fighting heartworms and I am worried about Oscar eating the new fleas and reexposing himself to other worms that he has been treated for. We also found our first tick today! Yuck!!
My mom has suggested Revolution, which to my understanding is topically applied instead of orally. I havent had success with topicals like Frontline down south where a deep freeze doesnt kill the majority of bugs yearly, but wanted to know if Revolution was a better repelent?
I havent been able to contact my vet yet about this, as I am also curious whether I can use Comfortis while in the middle of Immiticide treatments. DH do/pu'd the pup last time for the first overnight treatment and forgot to get another Comfortis pill. I'll probably go up to the vet sometime this week to confer about it. Just wanted others thoughts on it.
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