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What is so special about fairy tales? Is the mystical places "you can be" while you are in the comfort of your bed with someone you care? Or maybe is how easy you can escape a grim night to a distant place and time and enjoy the adventures of others?
Until now I have not been able to know why I have been a little addicted to tell, to create or narrate stories in the form of fairy tales to others. Maybe is the fact that it sounds so much interesting if you add a dragon in the conflict between adventurers/friends, it may sounds more appealing when you tell how you started trusting again with the tale of a singular little witch trying to keep a little boy away from a troll with a toothache (this is an actual tale), or how a brave princess could fix a little robot with an electronic problem (this being a history on what is to fall in love again after you have been completely broken). It may be because you can always mix true stories and some crazy ideas that are only alive in my imagination. Or it could be because I just grew up in an era where my grandma will tell old tales over and over again and she would be very happy when I tell her my own ideas back on how they should have ended. Who knows?
And here I am, on a new city for me getting ready to go to Ecuador in a few hours, and while the winter in Boston is quite cold I can only imagine a small storyteller packing some parchment, ink and quills. Shaking a little bit before stepping outside and trying to fight one of the hardest obstacles he has ever faced. One that has been foretold to be impossible to win… But let's see what happens, most of the times I have failed/being crushed/or betrayed in my life I do feel I have become a little stronger after learning from that (some extra EXP if you may), after all failing is sometimes the best thing that could ever happen to you.
The storyteller and the golden apple
Long time ago, in a far, far away kingdom one of the most beloved and wise kings they ever had gave a very special present to all his subjects, a magic apple tree. This tree would give a golden apple once a year that will grant wisdom and health to anyone that was brave enough to climb to the top of it. During many centuries many brave knights, wizards and even common-folk would take a trip to the castle of the king and try to reach for the apple. Many were successful and were able to fulfill their lifelong ambitions. It became a trial that will not only provide with the health and wisdom but also with a special adventure for everyone that would take a chance.
But then a dark period in time started, an evil figure appeared and slowly it poisoned the mind of the people to impede others for reaching for the apple. The envy and greed made impossible to reach the tree because of the fights between common folk but also it was said that the evil wizard chained a giant to the base of the tree to keep away anyone that could have been able to reach the tree. The difficulty of getting the golden apple went from hard to impossible.
And after all this the kingdom was consumed slowly. Becoming just a tale in the lips of wanderers.
Many winters later a small storyteller was coming back to his home; he had spent many years away travelling distant nations and continents but he knew he had to go back when he got a letter from her family with some dark news.
Travelling in winter was never easy but he enjoyed the inns and the opportunities to share some tales he wrote and aw, to hear some new stories and help if needed be. Here is where he would learn about the golden apple tree.
While he was walking over a snowy road he would hear a farmer curse all the saints that he knew (and even more than the storyteller ever new that existed) After helping to get the carriage out of a muddy road the farmer would thank him and advise to avoid the next road, telling him about the story of the wise king, the special apple and now the darkness that have descended among the few locals that still lived there.
It could have been wise for our little storyteller to keep walking on the main road but he froze when he heard about the special healing properties for the golden apple. He needed it, not for him but his family. It was a dark road, old and abandoned, but the scary part wasn't walking alone. The scary part is that he knew that the snow was going to keep falling and that this road was not going to be easy at all.
So he started walking through the mud and snow, watching the old swords and shields left by past battles, feeling the memories of the confrontations among men and wizards marked in the stones and trees. Maybe the snow and winter wasn't the scariest thing about this trip, it was realizing how much evil can reside inside others humans.
The morning helped him to shake some of the fears he had, the landscape was wild and empty but at the end of the forest there was an inn and a small chapel next to it. He put all his energy in order to reach somewhere warm. The inn was almost empty, one soldier was drinking in one corner and the owner was behind the bar trying to fix and old clock, she shook her head and started talking to him.
– May I help you? And if so, my first advice would be for you to go back home wanderer- said the owner without looking at the storyteller
– I just need a place to rest and get some food, I promise I will not take too long – the storyteller said with a shy smile in his face
– I will never deny a place to rest or food but I have warned you, this land only brings bad news to everyone – concluded the owner while she walked the storyteller to his room.
That night he shared some tales about nearby kingdoms, after a few hours he saw the first smile came out of the mouth of the owner. She was a completely different person when she smiled, so was her voice, she told him about the evil shadow that casted this darkness among them, who chained the giant to the tree. She did warned him again about the trip but he knew he couldn't back down.
With a sad smile this time the owner said goodbye to him, as he covered his head and headed out again. But this time he wasn't alone, a shadow was following him.
The storyteller started using his tales to keep his mind busy, to remember warmer times and do not focus on all the despair in this land. Too many battles, too many bones, too much destruction to keep things under control. But this helped, at least until he heard a scream from behind. The shadow, no.. The soldier was laying on his knees hiding his face behind his hands. Below him a small shield, under that a helmet and s skull.
– This was my brother, this was my little brother…. WHY? I came here to find a cure for him.. WHY DID HE HAD TO FOLLOW ME?
The storyteller didn't know what to say… he took some steps forward and placed his hand on the soldier's back and said:
– Let me help you move him to a proper place –
They worded all day long digging a small grave, finding rock to cover him and to mourn in silence him and all the other souls that didn't make it.
The next day the soldier woke up the wanderer, gave him his map and told him:
– You will make it, you seem to have all what is needed now. Thanks – and he started walking back.
The map helped him to cross around a hidden bridge, to find clean water next to an empty town and at the end of it there was a small note next to the drawing of the apple tree:
<< Do not fight with him, outsmart him>>
As he was getting closer to the castle his feelings became a little bit darker, the loneliness started bringing crawling into him but the hope of helping his family was brighter than all these things. He kept walking forward.
And there he was, a huge sleeping giant. A body made by muscles, 5 times the size of the storyteller and with arms and trees that only could be described by its resemblance to barrels. At least something was clear, fighting was not an option.
He spent a whole day watching, analyzing (overthinking if you may say) but finally he came with a plan. The little storyteller waited for the night to arrive, against any logic he started a fire and waited for the giant to see it. As soon as this happened the giant stood up, started walking towards it, saw the hat and the jacket hiding behind a bush and in one violent motion he squashed it with his hand.
And then a loud scream: HEY!!! I'm over here.
The storyteller was on the other side of the tree, shaking a torch and calling the giant. The reactions were repeated, the giant started running toward the fire, tried to find the storyteller and started smashing anything close to where he saw it. The storyteller would appear again on the other side and repeat this again and again until….
The chain that was around the giant neck had surrounded the tree... he could barely move. As soon as the storyteller saw this he ran towards the opposite part of the tree and started climbing, agile, fearless or at least with a strong determination. The road towards the end was difficult but as soon as he started climbing to the top and the branches started becoming smaller he saw the light of a new day. And there it was, the golden apple! He climbed a few more meters, a little bit more to put his hands around it. So close. He got it!!
But… There was someone else on the top, waiting for him. The dark wizard, the dark shadow that have been waiting for someone to defeat the giant. It was one motion, a push and the storyteller started falling. He wanted to scream, he wanted to live, he wanted to see his family again… But there was no escape.
With some tears in his eyes he brought the apple to his lips and bite it. Everything became slower. A white flash. He opened his eyes again and there he was… On the dirty road hearing the farmer for the first time. He blinked again, was this a dream?? No.. It couldn't be, he had a golden apple on his hand.
The story repeated itself, the warning, the tale but this time the storyteller did walk back. He understood that even if some challenges could be overcome the prize to it was too high.
He walked back home, arriving for the last night where his grandparents were alive. They smile at him, he cried because he failed, because he ate the apple and he couldn't safe them. They kept smiling and said: Seeing you here is more important than anything else. Don't mind if you fail in something, because even if you did we have you here and that is the most important thing we have.
After that it was said the storyteller shared his tale with other and after many attempts the giant was defeated, the kingdom was restored and the quest for the apple became part of the tales again. No one else saw the shadow again, not at least when people realize there was nothing wrong if they fail because there was always another chance to try.


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Soon after meeting at a college party in Oklahoma City, Winkler, Hanson, and Garvey began performing together at a local club. The trio, which was acquiring quite a fan-following, used these early gigs to promote themselves and to fund an EP called Far From Close. The band released that EP in 2003 and it went on to sell about 5,000 copies—not bad for an independent, regional release.
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I accept.
I'd like to propose the following definitions:
Instigator - the person who starts the debate.
Always - in all situations.
Disadvantage - A situation in which the chance of winning is unfavourable to the instigator, i.e. the chance of winning is uneven after removing differences in debating prowess, strength of the arguments, spelling and grammar, and other aspects on which the arguments are judged
Contender - the person who accepts the debate.
This round has not been posted yet.
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Even in this debate I have a disadvantage.
All contenders post their final argument that breaks through the instigator's reasons. But from the perspective of the instigator, even their final argument can be refuted.
Contenders often ask voters to discount the comments section from the debate, so instigator is always at a big loss, for there can't be no perfect argument unless the resolution was not a debatable topic
It appears that a bug in DDO's system is causing us to jump straight to the third round, skipping the second. I don't know what will happen after this - perhaps our third round's arguments will appear as the second - but if this doesn't happen, I hope we can continue in the comments section to ensure this is a fair debate.
Constructive case
C1: The instigator decides the resolution
As the instigator can decide the topic, they can easily create debate topics in their favour. This can be done in many ways. For example, if I put adverbs like 'never' and 'always' in the resolution and take the Con side, it will be easy for me to win since I only have to point out one exception to negate the resolution. When the topic is 'Clothings never make the man', for example, I can easily point out that uniforms can tell us someone's profession.
One can even twist the resolution to ensure that certain arguments cannot be used. Even a slight change in the topic can limit the number of arguments which the opponent can put forward. For example, let's use the seat belt law. If the motion is 'The seat belt law should be repealed' (instigator takes Pro), then Pro can use arguments such as 'The government should not infringe on the liberties of its citizens'. However, once I alter that slightly to 'The seat belt law can prevent deaths' (instigator takes Pro), this argument can no longer be used. In addition, even if statistics show that the seat belt law only slightly reduces deaths and has very limited effectiveness, Pro can easily refute that by saying 'preventing one or two deaths is still preventing'. Thus the resolution is easily supported by Pro. A contender who is inexperienced in reading resolutions will not likely be aware of such 'traps'. This puts the instigator at an advantage.
To further elaborate, I will give the example of fat tax imposed on food. There are many arguments against it. For example, many have made the following arguments: fat tax is regressive, and will aggravate income inequality; what people eat are personal decisions, and the government should not interfere; fat tax will encourage cross-border shopping, and so on. Those common arguments would be 'blocked' if the resolution were written as 'Fat tax can reduce the purchase of targeted foods': The first two arguments are completely irrelevant, and the final argument is also invalid since food across the border is not targeted.
Sometimes, the resolution can also limit the angle at which to look at an issue. For example, let's say the topic is 'Premarital sex is immoral'. There would be many possible arguments from Pro and Con. However, let's imagine the instigator, who is Con, adds in the first round that the full resolution is: 'Premarital sex is immoral from a utilitarian perspective'. That would be far harder for Con to argue, since this resolution is much easier to disprove from deontology, from virtue ethics, from role ethics, from religion and so on.
C2: The instigator sets the rules and settings of the debate
Another point is that the instigator can set other settings and rules. For example, if an instigator is far more skilled that the average person at writing in a concise way, he or she can set a lower character limit. The contender is thus put at a disadvantage. If an instigator happens to have a lot of free time, he or she can set the time for debating at below 24 hours so that an unsuspecting contender can accidentally accept it and end up forfeiting. Some may even slip in unreasonable rules that do not apply to themselves, and are extremely easy to break. (1)
C3: The ELO system puts the contender at a 25-point disadvantage
The ELO system actually puts instigators at a 25-point advantage and contenders at a 25-point disadvantage. This is to prevent users from the practice of noob sniping, or accepting debates from new members just to win and gain ELO. (2)
R1: All contenders post their final argument that breaks through the instigator's reasons
That is not true. In many debates, the debate structure dictates that the contender should post opening arguments in the first rounds, and forfeit the last. This rule is set by the instigator to ensure that the instigator has the final round. An example is (3).
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Reasons for voting decision: Conduct - Tie. Both sides maintained reasonable conduct in this debate. | S&G - Con. "Instigator always has a disadvantage in debating as in the last round there is always a strong but refutable argument, and most contenders just ask to count the comments section out of the debate." ~ an article is missed out. Pro frequently misses the article "the". Thus, S&G to Con, who maintained impeccable grammar. | Arguments - Con. Pro's sole contention was the commonly known Contender Advantage, wherein the Contender gains the final word, whereas Con showed that it could be overriden in some debate settings and the instigator has 3 additional advantages. Thus, arguments to Con. | Sources - Tie. Pro did not use sources and Con's sources were DDO links, which are not always reliable. | 4 points to Con. | As always, happy to clarify this RFD.
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Discussion in 'NDS - Console and Game Discussions' started by gerard9077, Mar 24, 2009.
Can I play Guitar Hero on my R4 and play using a legitimate Guitar Grip?
Of course.
One last confirmation. No problems or anything with having it pirated and then using the real Guitar Grip? If that is the case then I'll buy a Guitar Grip.
You can, as long you have a clean rom. There are also roms floating around with a patch so you play with the buttons.
I'd recommend this one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18205
It's the official one.
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100 Pipers
100 Pipers Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a',
Melody: 100 Pipers - piano (Duration: 0:47) [Artist: Unknown]
Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a',
We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blaw
Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a'.
O it's owre the border awa', awa'
It's owre the border awa', awa',
We'll on an' we'll march to Carlisle ha'
Wi' its yetts, its castle an' a', an a'. Chorus:
Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a',Oh! our sodger lads looked braw, looked braw,
Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a',
We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blaw
Wi' a hundred pipers, a' a', an' a'.
Wi' their tartan kilts an' a', an' a',
Wi' their bonnets an' feathers an' glitt'rin' gear,
An' pibrochs sounding loud and clear.
Will they a' return to their ain dear glen?
Will they a' return oor Heilan' men?
Second sichted Sandy looked fu' wae.
An' mithers grat when they march'd away. Chorus: Oh! wha' is foremos o' a', o' a',
Oh wha' is foremost o' a', o' a',
Bonnie Charlie the King o' us a', hurrah!
Wi' his hundred pipers an' a', an ' a'.
His bonnet and feathers he's waving high,
His prancing steed maist seems to fly,
The nor' win' plays wi' his curly hair,
While the pipers play wi'an unco flare. Chorus: The Esk was swollen sae red an' sae deep,
But shouther to shouther the brave lads keep;
Twa thousand swam owre to fell English ground
An' danced themselves dry to the pibroch's sound.
Dumfoun'er'd the English saw, they saw,
Dumfoun'er'd they heard the blaw, the blaw,
Dumfoun'er'd they a' ran awa', awa',
Frae the hundred pipers an' a', an ' a'. Chorus: Comments:Carlisle in 1745:Scots Glossary:
It turns out that it was the Duke of Perth who rode into Carlisle when the inhabitants surrendered, and the mayor and his attendants rode to Brampton, where they presented the keys to the city to BPC, who was there, with the greater part of his army. Even if there were a hundred pipers with BPC, only a portion would have gone on to Carlisle. As far as I have found, no "100 Pipers", no white horse, and no Bonnie Prince Charlie Words are by the prolific Lady Nairne (1766-1845), who came of a Jacobite family, and so her songs about Royal Charlie and company have the true patriotic ring. [Take a look at some of her other songs, where she tried to clean up what she considered in bad taste--rather pitiful efforts!--e.g. "Cauld Kail", a great drinking song (with a bawdy variant) was turned into a teetotal one.] Anyway: her song is not quite accurate. The Prince did get to Carlisle ha' (18 November 1745), preceded by one hundred pipers. But the river Esk was waded not in glory but in defeat,, when they returned to Scotland [a bit of wishful thinking and rewriting history]. As to the tune, its origin is as far as I know unknown, or dubious. It has been said to be a variant of the old tune "The White Cockade", brisked up into jig time. Attibution information and comments from "Mudcat - Digital Traditions" database: www.mudcat.orggie = give
blaw = blow
awa' = away
fu' wae = full of woe
grat = cried (present tense - greet)
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By Judd Spicer
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If it's indeed lonely at the top, then Concordia University (St. Paul, Minn.) women's volleyball coach Brady Starkey and his Golden Bears are making hibernation en vogue. For the second-consecutive year, Concordia is hosting the DII National Championship, with play set to begin this Thursday at noon Central Time
A unanimous No. 1 in AVCA voting, Concordia (34-0) enters the Elite 8 tournament as DII's two-time defending national champion. The Golden Bears have dropped just five sets on the season and look to become the first three-time defending champ in either Divisions I or II since the NCAA began sponsoring the sport in 1981. Their active 71-match win streak is a DII record. Yet according to Starkey, the streak itself isn't readily prevalent amidst the minds of his players.
"It's something that we never talk about," says Starkey, owner of the sport's highest career win percentage (.922) across all levels of NCAA volleyball. "We try to concentrate on playing hard every night. The winning is a culmination of how hard the players have worked."
While Starkey says that the streak hasn't added any extra weight to his team's quest, the coach is willing to admit that merit could have been found in the streak having been broken somewhere along the path to the Elite 8.
"[A loss] may have gotten the streak off our back a little bit," he says. "A loss is always good for re-focusing a team. We've had a couple of close ones; one with UMD toward the end of the season that we won 3-2, and another against Metro State in the Regional Championship, which was thoroughly contested."
The last team to both contest and defeat Concordia was Cal St. San Bernardino. The Coyotes (31-1) enter the tournament as champions of the West Region and the country's No. 2 ranked team. In last season's opening match for both teams, San Bernardino swept Concordia 3-0 en route to winning their own tournament. To bookend the rivalry, Concordia and San Bernardino then met in a heated DII title match won by the Golden Bears, 3-2. Based on bracketology, the two would meet in the national semifinal should both advance past their respective opening matches.
The Coyotes face off against the University of Tampa Spartans (31-2), the South Region champion, in Thursday's third quarterfinal match before Concordia closes out the first day of competition with a showdown versus Midwest Region champion University of Indianapolis (35-1).
"A rematch would have been cool," Starkey said of a title rematch against the Coyotes. "But there are other good teams that are going to try to put a stop to us facing each other at all."
In his seven years at the Concordia helm, Starkey has yet to run with Indy's Greyhounds.
"We know they're good; they only have the one loss," Starkey says of the host team's first matchup. "We have some game tape on them, but that really doesn't do any justice unless you see a team in person. I think we're going to have to figure it out as we go. But from what I've seen, they're pretty fast and have a sophisticated offense. They run a quick tempo. It's going to be a little different from what we've seen, but Metro State is pretty fast, so hopefully that experience will help us."
Thursday's two opening quarterfinal matches pit the East Region champion Dowling College Golden Lions (29-6) against the Southeast Region winner, Flagler College Saints (35-8) at noon. That match is followed at 2:30 (CT) with the South Central Region champion West Texas A&M Buffaloes (34-3) facing the California (PA) Vulcans (35-4), winners of the Atlantic Region.


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NEW YORK (AP) - October 14, 2008 --A Long Island, N.Y., family thought they got a good deal when they found a rental house for $1,000 a month - until the owner showed up and asked what they were doing there.
Nassau County police arrested Gregory Garvin on Wednesday for posing as a real estate agent and renting out the house in the hamlet of Roosevelt. Garvin was charged with grand larceny and fraud.
Police say Garvin also collected a $1,000 security deposit from the couple.
The family was living in the house about two weeks when the real owner showed up.
Police say the house had been vacant and the real owner had planned to sell it.
The District Attorney's office says the name of Garvin's attorney is not yet on record.


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Gardens of Versailles - Versalles - Paris - Images and pics of travels and trips. France
Palace of Versailles - Versalles - Paris - Images and pics of travels and trips. France
The Palace of Versailles (French: Palais de Versailles, pronounced roughly as "pallet versay"), but is called Château (castle, mansion) of Versailles, is a building that served as a royal residence for centuries past. The Palace is located in the town of Versailles, Île-de-France. Its construction was ordered by Louis XIV. Louis XIV decided to build left Paris and Versailles as a small town out of trouble. Would have several construction phases, marked by the mistresses of Louis XIV. First stage (1661-1668): It would be a hunting lodge to which were added two wings that formed the closing parade. They are brick facades and also unifies the deck using the blackboard and attics. Second stage (1668-1678): Louis XIV intended to move the court to Versailles definitely. Added two wings to give visual priority to the garden, by Jules Hardouin Mansart. The facade facing the garden is built on the Italian model. A first floor ashlars. A double-height main floor with recessed bays playing with incoming and outgoing and alternating columns and pilasters. Finally, a third floor attic would be topped by a series of sculptural figures (trophies and vases) that almost can not see the fall of the roof, which is not very steep.They live to 20,000 people. Third stage and final stage (1678-1680): The extension by Mansart built the chapel which is real important because it is copied in Spain. It is located at the end of the palace. It stands around the temple and the king stood on the altar. The garden of Versailles is classicist, neat, streamlined. With landscaping undertakes circulation. Create an organization that links all the sculptures and sources, and exalts the monarchy. The sculptures are identified each other. Progressive civilization of the garden: very tidy, pruning and care in the area close to the palace, and then goes asilvestrando. The whole palace and park of Versailles, including the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The museum of the palace of Versailles were created in 1837 by Camille Bachasson, Earl of Montalivet by order of Louis Philippe known as "Museum of the history of France." They constitute, with its 18,000 m² the largest museum of world history. The museum contains a collection of paintings collected or commissioned by Louis Philippe, are organized by historical series.For some departments exhibition halls were transformed into museum. Currently, the museum of the history of France is located in the wings, while the central part (except for the ground floor), large departments, the private rooms and departments of the royal family, have been restored and can be seen as as they were when they were occupied by the kings. Comprises three palaces Versailles: Versailles Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon, as well as countless buildings in the village: large and small stables, small pleasures hotel room, Game of Palma, the Great Common ... The Palace of Versailles has 700 rooms, 2,513 windows, 352 chimneys (1,252 during the Old Regime), 67 staircases, 483 mirrors (distributed in the Grand Gallery, Hall of War and Peace Hall), and 13 acres of chimneys . The total area is 67,121 m² of which 50,000 are open to the public. The park has 800 acres, 300 of forest and two French gardens: the small park, is 80 ha. and Trianon, 50 ha. It has 20 km ² of fences and walks 42 km ², with 372 statues. Among the 55 ponds, the bigger they are, the Grand Canal, 24 ha. 500.000 m² and the pond of the Swiss, of 180,000 m². There are 600 suppliers and 35 km ² of channeling.
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Your pee will soon have another use, apart from just watering plants when you can't find a restroom. Pee power is a revolutionary technology that could use urine and convert it into useable electricity! A team of scientists in University of West of England in Bristol has come up with a way to exploit pee, using a simple science principle, and they have designed an effective way to put it to use.
Pee power works on pee cells!
The model they have adopted is fairly simple. As we know, urine is nothing but a solution of certain compounds such as urea and salts. Basically, whatever our body doesn't need, it passes out as pee. Microorganisms often use such waste products from bigger life forms to derive nutrients for themselves. They are so efficient in getting what they want that they convert almost 96% of all the waste into useful product for themselves. Using these same microorganisms, the team came up with microbial fuel cells, or MFCs.
Maybe pee power could work for cars too someday
While not as efficient as the microorganisms themselves, these cells can still charge smartphones and they can also provide energy for LED lighting. The lead researcher, Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos says that the team has also powered DC pumps, DC motors, micro controllers and sensors. This gives hope to the team that maybe after improving the efficiency of the MFCs, they could probably power electric cars too. And the best part is that the byproducts of pee power are cleaner that the chemicals in urine, making it eco-friendly too!
Pee power is already in public testing phase
To test just how useful pee power could be, the research team installed a special urinal at the Glastonbury music festival and it was able to keep interiors of the stall lit using LEDs. It is believed that pee power could be used in developing countries and in refugee camps. Another interesting thing the scientists discovered about pee power was that it works better with urine that has a high alcohol content. Who knows in the near future, when you're completely wasted at a bar, your pee could light up someone's home.


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I can explain the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection
The Englishman Charles Darwin is one of the most famous scientists who ever lived. His place in the history of science is well deserved. Darwin's theory of evolution represents a giant leap in human understanding. It explains and unifies all of biology.
An overview of evolution can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64/0/GcjgWov7mTM (17:39).
Darwin's Theory at a Glance
Darwin's theory of evolution actually contains two major ideas:
In Darwin's day, most people believed that all species were created at the same time and remained unchanged thereafter. They also believed that Earth was only 6,000 years old. Therefore, Darwin's ideas revolutionized biology. How did Darwin come up with these important ideas? It all started when he went on a voyage.
The Voyage of the Beagle
In 1831, when Darwin was just 22 years old, he set sail on a scientific expedition on a ship called the HMS Beagle. He was the naturalist on the voyage. As a naturalist, it was his job to observe and collect specimens of plants, animals, rocks, and fossils wherever the expedition went ashore. The route the ship took and the stops they made are shown in Figure below. You can learn more about Darwin's voyage at this link: http://www.aboutdarwin.com/voyage/voyage03.html.
Voyage of the Beagle. This map shows the route of Darwin
Darwin was fascinated by nature, so he loved his job on the Beagle. He spent more than 3 years of the 5-year trip exploring nature on distant continents and islands. While he was away, a former teacher published Darwin's accounts of his observations. By the time Darwin finally returned to England, he had become famous as a naturalist.
Darwin's Observations
During the long voyage, Darwin made many observations that helped him form his theory of evolution. For example:
On his voyage, Darwin saw giant marine iguanas and blue-footed boobies. He also dug up the fossil skeleton of a giant ground sloth like the one shown here. From left: Giant Marine Iguana, Blue-Footed Boobies, and Fossil Skeleton of a Giant Ground Sloth
The Galápagos Islands
Darwin's most important observations were made on the Galápagos Islands (see map in Figure below). This is a group of 16 small volcanic islands 966 kilometers (600 miles) off the west coast of South America.
Individual Galápagos islands differ from one another in important ways. Some are rocky and dry. Others have better soil and more rainfall. Darwin noticed that the plants and animals on the different islands also differed. For example, the giant tortoises on one island had saddle-shaped shells, while those on another island had dome-shaped shells (see Figure below). People who lived on the islands could even tell the island a turtle came from by its shell. This started Darwin thinking about the origin of species. He wondered how each island came to have its own type of tortoise.
Influences on Darwin
Science, like evolution, always builds on the past. Darwin didn't develop his theory completely on his own. He was influenced by the ideas of earlier thinkers.
Earlier Thinkers Who Influenced Darwin
Artificial Selection
These weren't the only influences on Darwin. He was also aware that humans could breed plants and animals to have useful traits. By selecting which animals were allowed to reproduce, they could change an organism's traits. The pigeons in Figure below are good examples. Darwin called this type of change in organisms artificial selection. He used the word artificial to distinguish it from natural selection.
Artificial Selection in Pigeons. Pigeon hobbyists breed pigeons to have certain characteristics. All three of the pigeons in the bottom row were bred from the common rock pigeon.
Wallace's Theory
Did you ever hear the saying that "great minds think alike?" It certainly applies to Charles Darwin and another English naturalist named Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace lived at about the same time as Darwin. He also traveled to distant places to study nature. Wallace wasn't as famous as Darwin. However, he developed basically the same theory of evolution. While working in distant lands, Wallace sent Darwin a paper he had written. In the paper, Wallace explained his evolutionary theory. This served to confirm what Darwin already thought.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Darwin spent many years thinking about the work of Lamarck, Lyell, and Malthus, what he had seen on his voyage, and artificial selection. What did all this mean? How did it all fit together? It fits together in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. It's easy to see how all of these influences helped shape Darwin's ideas.
For a discussion of the underlying causes of natural selection and evolution see http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64/5/DuArVnT1i-E (19:51).
Darwin's Theory
It took Darwin years to form his theory of evolution by natural selection. His reasoning went like this:
Wallace's paper not only confirmed Darwin's ideas. They pushed him to finish his book, On the Origin of Species. Published in 1859, this book changed science forever. It clearly spelled out Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and provided convincing arguments and evidence to support it.
Applying Darwin's Theory
Darwin's Theory of Evolution through Natural selection can be summarized in four basic steps:
The following example describes how these steps could have changed a population of giraffes.
African Giraffes. Giraffes feed on leaves high in trees. Their long necks allow them to reach leaves that other ground animals cannot.
As this example shows, chance variations may help a species survive if the environment changes. Variation among species helps ensure that at least one will be able to survive environmental change.A summary of Darwin's ideas are presented in the Natural Selection and the Owl Butterfly video: http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/7A9646BC5110CF64/3/dR_BFmDMRaI (13:29).
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(From The Guardian) Always the innovator, even after death, David Bowie's final album, Blackstar, is set to be turned into an Instagram miniseries.
Entitled Unbound, the "InstaMiniSeries" consists of 16episodes that provide "visual interpretations" of the album. It will star Rookie Magazine founder Tavi Gevinson and Six Feet Under's Patricia Clarkson.
According to a post on the site, Carolynn Cecilia and Nikki Borge, who wrote and directed the series for the social network, were given music from his 28th studio album so that they could create the episodes "with no limits or preconditions on his part". It takes the audience "on a journey of evocative images inspired by the moods suggested in the album's music, lyrics and artwork".
Following Bowie's death on 10 January, many fans discovered a new narrative on the Blackstar record: pop obsessives gleaned cryptic clues about his death, with its title, track names, videos and artwork all said to offer insight into the artist's acceptance of death.


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Rowers Sentence Examples
- The word Rus, in former times wrongly connected with the tribal name Rhoxolani, is more probably derived from Ruotsi, a Finnish name for the Swedes, which seems to be a corruption of the Swedish rothsmenn, " rowers " or " seafarers."
- In time of war they served as light-armed troops or as rowers in the fleet; from the Peloponnesian War onwards they were occasionally employed as heavy infantry (61rXZr at), distinguished bravery being rewarded by emancipation.
- The rowers in each vessel, though among the northern folk these were free men and warriors, not slaves as in the Roman and Carthaginian galleys, would yet need to be supplemented by a contingent of fighting men, marines, in addition to their crew.
- In saga literature we read of craft (of " long ships ") with 20 to 30 benches of rowers, which would mean 40 to 60 oars.
- The first steps towards the inevitable breach with the reactionary rowers had already been taken before Castlereaghs tragic death on the eve of the congress of Verona brought George Canning into office as the executor of his policy.


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Hello, Crafters.
I didn't plan to do Christmas in July - it just happened! I decided to do a tree with the bird's wings and my first attempt made me think Christmas.
Unfortunately, yesterday was very busy day so I didn't get as much play-time as I would have liked.
What would I have done if I'd had more time? I would have made the tree a bit shorter and put some gift wrapped parcels round the base of the tree.
The last two photographs show my first attempt but I didn't like how regimental it looked - bit like the candles on card no. 2 yesterday!
I'm sharing it with you in case you like the look or it inspires you to think of something different.
For my card I decided to use wings that had been punched from the front and the back of the design I was using which has given my tree a more relaxed look.
I also tipped the photograph upside down to see what that looked like - it made me think of pine cones!
I used Whisper White card stock for the card base and top layer.
I think this card may have benefited for this top layer to have been embossed with the Stylish Stripes Embossing Folder.
The first layer is Real Red card stock.
The bird's wings are made with Garden Green Designer Series Paper Stack - the old design.
I sponged the edges with Garden Green Ink. I'm not sure which punch I used to punch out the small Red Glimmer Paper Stars.
I think it was the Confetti Stars Border Punch.
I'm very good at keeping my left-overs but not so good at labelling them!
The large star was punched out using the star punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack.
The sentiment is from the Petite Pairs Stamp Set.
The great thing about this stamp set it comes with a sentiment for the front of the card and one for the inside, although you can use them both on the front of your card, as I have done, if you prefer!
The tree trunk is made with Soft Suede card stock, stamped using Soft Suede ink and the Hardwood Background Stamp.
Watch out for card 4 tomorrow.
In the meantime, happy crafting.


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- Habitats explorer
- Grassland
Grassland - Wild Flowers at Pentwyn Farm - Gwent Wildlife Trust
Before the influence of humans, grasslands filled with billowing grasses, colourful wild flowers and the hum of insects were only found in natural clearings in woodlands, above the treeline and at the coast. But once people began clearing woodlands for farming, grasslands flourished and were used for grazing livestock and hay production.
Grasslands aren't just grass…
There are several different types of grassland, characterised by their soil types. Acid grassland can be found in both upland and lowland areas where fine-leaved grasses like red and sheep's fescues and common bent grow, alongside wild flowers like sheep's sorrel, heath bedstraw and pretty blue harebells.
Neutral grassland is associated with clays and silty soils. Green-winged orchids dot the grass with purple, and pepper saxifrage and adder's-tongue fern flourish here. The unforgettable song of the skylark fills the air and butterflies like the common blue and meadow brown dance from flower to flower.
Chalk grassland develops on shallow, lime-rich soils that are poor in nutrients but rich in calcium. In spring and summer, these special habitats come to life as swathes of wild flowers, such as cowslips, clustered bellflowers and bee orchids attract butterflies like striking Adonis blues and clouds of marbled whites.
Limestone grassland is also 'calcareous' - rich in calcium - but there are subtle differences in vegetation. For instance, plants such as woolly thistle, meadow crane's-bill and meadow clary grow on limestone in greater numbers, while wild liquorice and purple milk-vetch are mostly found on limestone grassland. Midvale Ridge runs through Oxfordshire into Buckinghamshire and is rich in wild flowers and animals. Visit Glyme Valley, Hook Norton Cutting and Sydlings Copse nature reserves.
Grasslands in decline
As agriculture has intensified and grasslands have been developed, the traditional management techniques of ploughing, reseeding, cutting and grazing have declined. Coupled with the increased use of herbicides and fertilisers, our traditional grasslands are now under threat. For instance, it's estimated that we've lost 80% of our chalk grassland over the last 60 years, and only 1,600 hectares of precious floodplain meadows are left in the whole of the UK.
How we're helping
Across the UK Wildlife Trusts are working to ensure that traditional management techniques are not lost to the mists of time. Careful grazing with traditional breeds, hay-cutting at the right time and scrub clearance are just some of the ways our fragile grassland habitats are kept in good condition. We are also working closely with farmers and landowners to promote wildlife-friendly practices in these areas.
Fifty acres of wildflower meadows at Chimney Meadows in Oxfordshire are of international importance, and make up one of England's largest remaining areas of unspoilt neutral grassland.
The Buckinghamshire Upper Ray Meadows reserve is made up of rare floodplain meadow and is at the heart of the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust's Upper River Ray Living Landscape.
You can help too: volunteer for your local Wildlife Trust and you could be involved in everything from stock-watching to surveying meadow flowers.
Typical grassland wildlife
Heath milkwort, common birdsfoot trefoil, saw-wort, common bent, sheep's fescue, mat grass, sheep's sorrel, heath bedstraw, harebell, green-winged orchid, bee orchid, pepper saxifrage, adder's-tongue fern, woodlark, lapwing, nightjar, merlin, hen harrier, chough, common blue butterfly, orange tip butterfly, chalkhill blue butterfly, meadow brown butterfly, marbled white butterfly, field-cricket, great green bush-cricket.


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Through gritted teeth, and firmly holding my nose, I would like to express some limited sympathy for Matthew Johns, who has been hung out to dry by Channel Nine (and just about everyone) after a years-old group-sex scandal was so thoroughly aired on national television this week.
His pathetic, but I suspect sincere, clinging to the mantra "but she consented", is the point here. Well yes, maybe she did. If one thinks about the situation, this doesn't really cut it, but our society has spent a few decades pretending that consent (perhaps glossed to mean "informed consent") provides a sufficient handle on the morality of sexual encounters. (Even some of Johns' critics, as quoted on the TV, are still trying to cut their disgust to fit the Procrustean bed of "consent".) That pretence has helped blight this decade for the unfortunate girl in the story (one prays, not her whole life); but it has also betrayed Johns and people like him, by making it easier for them to lose moral perspective, and by indulging their boorishness.
Earlier generations of thought approached this problem via honour, an approach rich in double standards, and modern commentators have been quick and strident in their criticism. Accepting all of that criticism, one has to say that older approaches are realistic at one point --- the plain fact that "consent", meaning what-the-woman-wants-or-says-at-the-time, is not necessarily the main question, and by no means the only question --- on which our society has been systematically stupid. Without mercy, we have pilloried our ancestors for the deficiencies in their thinking ... and yet people in future societies looking back on ours, or people in different societies looking across at us, will probably ask how we could be so blind. The cheap answer will be that we handed over our thinking in this matter to people without daughters, and to people who furthermore did not care about the moral lives of their sons. Doubtless there's more to it than that, but will anyone have enough patience with us to give a more merciful answer?


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Originally posted 2013.09.20
In geek culture, we tend to regard the people responsible for the media we consume on a higher level than the rest of us. Yet, we all forget that these individuals are not Gods, but real people with actual lives and emotions. My interview with the writer Chris Claremont reminded me of this fact.
As the floor of the Montreal Comic-Con began to fill up on its final day, I was lead to Mr. Claremont's booth by the woman in charge of Guest Relations. As we approached, he was already with his first fan of the day, going over the strength of the teens portfolio while suggesting improvements to his panel design and line work. As I listened I felt the wisdom from his words. He had much to say to those who were eager to listen and converse, but not as some god or philosopher like we make him, or others like him, out to be. No, here was a man who, for over 40 years, has written many prolific stories we grew up with, with X-Men and other titles. A man who has experienced a lot in an industry we have only heard stories of how rough it can be. A man who is quick-witted and funny, yet humble and enthusiastic to meet the many fans he has. He is someone eager to talk with you as a friend and share knowledge with you like a teacher to a student, with the sensitivity of a father with his child.
I must admit I was slightly nervous when I approached him. Here was the individual responsible for much of how I knew the X-Men to be during the 80's until his departure from Marvel. He was responsible for so many beloved characters including Kitty Pride, Gambit, Rogue and Jubilee. He also helped develop characters like Wolverine, Storm and Jean Grey into how we all know them today. He, along with artists such as Jim Lee, John Byrne and others, were responsible for my pursuit of a career in the arts.
After he was finished I introduced myself and added that I was a big fan of the work he had done on X-Men. In a way to break the ice, he feigned a melodramatic response by rolling his eyes while throwing his head back. He jokingly added, "Uh oh. I knew I shouldn't have done this."
I opened the impromptu interview – which could have easily turned into an all-day discussion due to him being so personable – with how it felt to have played such an important role in the development of the X-Men over the property's 50 years.
Dramatically throwing his head back, he began with "The simple answer is 'It was really cool.' The punk answer is 'It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it'", which we both chuckled about a little before he continued. "It was just the dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time."
"And you brought everyone these awesome stories because of that dumb luck."
After a pause, he responded with his arms opened, "I had no idea. I mean, I was working for Marvel in those days to earn money to pay for acting. To go off in the summer being an actor, that was my goal. I woke up five years later and I was a best-selling comic book writer. A few years after that, I was the best-selling comic book writer in the United States. I went 'Holy crap!'"
My second question dealt with his preferences out of the many stories he wrote during his career. Specifically, I asked him which of the story arcs he wrote during his run were his favorites. With almost no hesitation, he answered "(Uncanny) X-Men 94 to 277, inclusive. To me, it's one story; it's got bits, it's got chapters, it has little branches off the main story, but it's one story up until the end in 277." He referred to a significant part of his run from 1975 until 1991. In Uncanny X-Men #94, most of the original team (Angel, Iceman, Marvel Girl) along with Havok quit, leaving Cyclops to lead the all new all different team of X-Men. In #277 most of the team are back together to fight and stop Warskrulls while helping Lilandra. Within his selection he includes his two major storylines, the Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past as well as many other series such as Excalibur.
I asked a more personal question, to which his answer was something I was not prepared for. "What was the hardest decision you had to make when writing these stories?" His facial expression changed to be more serious as he leaned forward, intertwining his fingers.
He looked at me with a slight pain in his eyes and somberly answered "To quit."
It is no secret that the relationship between he and Marvel soured to the point where he left the company in 1991. During the X-Men 50th anniversary panel the day before, there were quite a few questions where Mr. Claremont referenced his time at Marvel. Each time he did so, especially when it came to the editorial staff at the time, there was a hint of animosity in his words.
"But at the time" he continued, "I felt it was necessary, and there was no apparent enthusiasm in Marvel management to talk me out of it." After a pause for reflection, he opened his arms and placed his palms on the table. He went on to say "But then four years later, I was back as editorial director." His face changed to a more jovial expression. He finished with a chuckle "And 3 years after that, I was fired again."
"It's like a revolving door at that point."
"More like evolution in action."
At the 50th anniversary panel, the panelists were asked a question by a female fan what was the saddest death of a character they came across while working on the franchise. Three of the panelists – Claremont included – answered Jean Grey, while the more recent artist for Wolverine and the X-Men Nick Bradshaw answered Broo. I began my next question with "Yesterday at the panel, you said the hardest character you had to kill was Jean Grey…"
He stopped me in order to correct my paraphrasing. "The hardest" he asked as he sat up in his chair before continuing. "They killed off Thunderbird… no, Len (Wein) decided to kill off Thunderbird as a surprise. 'Holy cow, we killed off a brand new X-Man!' With Jean, in the original concept we had no intention of doing that. Jim Shooter, as Editor in Chief, presented a vision of the story that was different than what we had shown and were experiencing. But morally and editorially was far more correct. It was right. And everything after that fell into place. It was logical and he was right. And for what its worth, I was smart enough, or dumb enough, to say 'okay.' It turned out being the best decision for the franchise."
I decided at this point to patiently step aside to allow a waiting fan to meet Mr. Claremont. He presented him a copy of X-Men: Omnibus and an issue of Uncanny X-Men from the Days of Future Past storyline. As Mr. Claremont signed both, the fan asked what he thought of The Wolverine. As they conversed, I learned more about the man. As he earlier answered, he wanted to become an actor, which has carried over to his writing style with his treatment of characters. It is also prevalent in his love of film, which he is more than happy to talk about with people. He is as much of a geek as the rest of us.
After a few more moments, I continued with my questions, focusing on the upcoming adaptation of the Days of Future Past storyline. Mr. Claremont had already stated the day before he would not answer any direct questions regarding the production – which was filmed recently in Montreal – due to a disclosure agreement with Fox. He even added in the X-Men panel on Saturday, "Excuse my language, but you don't want to fuck with Fox." However, being the writer of the source material sites like IMDB have begun to give him a writing credit for the project. I asked him because of this situation, had Bryan Singer contacted him for input for the story.
He looked at me and asked "Where did you hear (about the film credit)?"
I simply answered him with IMDB and other sites.
Mr. Claremont smirked, held out his hands and answered "Well, IMDB is not always accurate. I mean they had me listed as a writer on The Wolverine." He brought his hands back together and continued "I gave him the source material and that was it. He's Bryan Singer, an award winning director so he doesn't need any advice from me. If he asked for it, I would have given it. But no, he hasn't asked for it."
He then sat back and contemplated while continuing "My question is, how is (Singer) going to fit it in under three hours. There is just so much that…" He paused to collect his thoughts for an answer.
I attempted to gauge his point, by asking "That it just wouldn't fly?"
"Not so much that it wouldn't fly. You have such a large and talented cast with Michael Fassbender, Ian McKellan and others that have so many awards between them; enough to start a football team. You have Ellen Page coming back as Kitty. You know, Ellen is my favorite Kitty of the 21st Century. And then to have Sentinels on top of that? I just don't see how it can be done."
He shifted forward in his seat, his hands interlaced as he continued. "But, if we were able to do it in a few panels, I'm sure Bryan will be able to do it. I must say that I'm excited and eager, out if any film or X-Men project, to see the finished product. Say what you will about Fox, but they have the ability to bring in the right people. I was in England for X-Men: First Class and met with Lauren (Shuler Donner, producer on the movie) and they are pulling in the best of the best. Hell, they even have John Ottman doing the score for the film. I know I'm geeking out, but I have faith – based on experience – in Bryan's work."
Working on my own novel series, I held back a personal question I had for last. It was a question that only a person of his experience could answer. "What is your advice for aspiring writers out there?"
He began with "Get a day job. You write, and you sell." He then quoted something the science fiction Robert Heinlein, one of his influences, told him once. After a moment he explained its meaning. "You set out to write the great American novel. You and three million (other writers). But, as you write, you refine it and whittle it down until it becomes a short story. You now went from a group of three million to about one hundred. Those are much better odds of being noticed. You sell it, and then you write more." He added, "People have come up to me and ask 'How do you write?' I respond with 'How do you breathe?' It isn't something I necessarily like or dislike. It's just there. It's a part of me."
I wanted to leave the interview on that note, and not just because of the people waiting to meet Mr. Claremont. In fact, he saw the line and politely excused himself, saying "I'm sorry. That's what happens when you let an old man ramble." I looked over to the group waiting and they were all listening as attentively as I was. We were all in agreement in the same sentiment: That we were enjoying the experience. I personally could have stayed all day and talked to him, not because of who he is or what he has created throughout his 44 year career as a writer. No, it is because he is a person. Because he is a geek like us who likes to share his experiences.


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Three seconds into the 100-meter Olympic final on Sunday night, a Jamaican sprinter named Usain Bolt had seven runners in front of him. He was last by a whisker. His reaction time was the second slowest. And he was just beginning to uncoil. Like a flag, like the sprint at the back of a gun, like Super Mario eating a mushroom. Like Bolt in the final 25 meters.
Less than seven seconds later, the lanky athlete had finished the race – first. Eight hundredth of a second ahead of the leader for most part of the race, the 34-year-old Justin Gatlin, who had won this title twelve long years ago in Athens. This was a peculiar dash. Everyone expected Bolt to start slow, as he always does, but with 50 meters to go, he was still only fifth. His long strides had just begun to kick in. His rhythm had just begun to be divine. With six giant strides, he strolled past each of them, and finished a length ahead of his closest rival.
The thing with Usain Bolt is, even eight years after he first captured the world's imagination by winning his first gold medal in Beijing, a 100m dash is almost slowed down to accommodate his vision. If you look closely, a race never seems to finish until he is leading, all of the 69 professional races he has won (out of 74) since that first medal. Only once he is past the others, the finish line appears magically, at long last – time is stretched, and those 10 seconds are owned by him. He stretches the track and times his strides to boss those last 25 meters. And he has rarely failed. When was the last time you watched Bolt lose a televised important race?
His winning time of 9.81 seconds was slower than his Beijing time and his London time. It was slower than all his World Championship final times. But it was faster than seven other men on the track. And that's all it needed to be. He started to beat his chest before flashing past the finish line; he always realizes his victory two seconds before the line. While he rolls past as if the result was never in doubt, you notice the others straining and dipping with every pore of their being to scramble for positions. You could hear Gatlin shriek, more out of frustration than power – because he had Bolt, just like he had last year at the World Championships in Beijing, until the final few seconds. He had choked last year, but this time, Bolt won on his own accord. The Jamaican didn't need anybody else to make mistakes. He had come from the back of the field to win a race he had never lost at the Olympics. Only moments ago, he gasped with his hands over his mouth as he watched on a TV screen – like all of us – the world-record-shattering 400m run by South African Wayde van Neikerk. Wayde had broken Michael Johnson's 17-year-old record, racing in lane 8, blind to his competition, defeating the previous two Olympic champions in an inspired burst. Bolt knew, then, that perhaps he was upstaged on this night. It wasn't his event, but all he would do now is win on his own, and then win twice more over the week, hoping that, by the end, he has upstaged the entire universe, and people will only remember Bolt and Phelps in the same breath for Rio 2016.
The numbers are astounding, and even more so, given that Bolt will never race in another Olympic edition again:
7 – number of gold medals Bolt has won in three Olympics so far.
7 – number of finals he has participated in, in three different events (100m, 200, 4x100m relay), making for a 100% success rate.
2 – number of events left for him to compete in this week, his final Olympic races, aiming for nine golds totally.
0 – number of 100-meter champions who have won three gold medals in Olympic history. Bolt is the first; has done it in three consecutive editions.
3 – number of times Bolt has been awarded the World Laureus Sportsman of the Year.
19 – number of gold medals he has won since 2008, out of 21 major races over the three formats.
7 – number of world records he has broken since turning pro.


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A lover of zoology, Wade Schuman draws and paints meticulous images of animals—both their dead bodies and living forms—in still lifes or in absurd juxtapositions with human figures. His subjects often take on surreal hybrid forms in which figures morph into fish or cows, or their scale is manipulated in order to distort the viewer's perspective. Schuman's images are dense with allegorical meaning; in Gluttony (1989–90), a human figure-turned-fish constitutes a fable that warns against over-indulgence, while Penguin Head on a Pedestal (1992) symbolizes humanity's fractured relationship with the natural world. "Almost all metaphor exists in nature," Schuman says.
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When I have an idea, more often than not there's an element in the process of doing that is in some way uncontrollable. This can be the wind gushing through a cloth being filmed, or ripping parts of paper of a collage, or leaving out a script for the 'actor' (so the 'actor', or better: participant, gets to act and react more on his own free will) or filming an object during a day when the clouds and the sun are shifting in short amounts of time. All these elements are doing their own job in some way or another, where as I can stand by to see what happens, to catch fragments of presence – estranged but recognizable in some way or another.
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When I'm working on a painting, I act and react. It's a subconscious intuition kind of thing – things unfold. It's the same way with film: I can have an idea or image floating somewhere through the mind.. but when it's in front, it's the opposite of a fixed image – it's changing constantly. If a certain image or movement doesn't work, I adjust it. Changing constantly, until it clicks. When specifically talking about film, this catching is done in the process of doing, as well as in the montage.
While floating in moments of process,
doors will open to all kinds of alleys
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It would be very useful to have a simple online chat. Maybe just use freenode and set a specific channel or code a chat system using Ajax, which should be a good language to code it in.
What kind of chat do you mean @alexcons, do you mean site wide so you can talk to anyone or are you after group chat?
A site wide chat. To set a very simple chat, use freenode: https://webchat.freenode.net/
All you have to do to connect is define a channel name, ie: #ludust
Then, the user connects with a nickname. Simple.
Group chat or Project/wide chat would be a nice addition also cause even though posting status updates and such ist fine and all, its still not that responsive, and many dont feel like posting some through those channels.
again im necroing old dead threads -_- sowweh
mm I had live chat for a while, although with a 5 second delay. It then destroyed the website for the next two days and is one of the reasons I have just moved servers. I will look into again now.
My problem with live chat is it discourages people from using the forum and activity stream, meaning less content for the site and less content for new members to see or read. On top of that, as the site is still very young there is not a massive user base so chat might be quite lonely!
Giving groups their own chat seems like a good idea and something I would prefer to do.
yeah as you explained it, it makes a lot of sense, still group chats would be a nice addition.
There was a time, where their was a online chat on this website. Then as some poor souls adventured on the land of this online chatting. But one day, there was nothing but silence, and fall into the darkness of the oblivion.
Yep, it was fun, it would be nice to have it again (and a little more sturdy 😉 )
Lol, they were dark times indeed 🙁
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I got this chair from my father as a hand me down. Well, the true story is he had it in storage and I begged and bothered him for this chair until he dug it out. It's something I remember from my childhood, and it's broken and missing cushions, but knowing me, it wasn't going to stop me from wanting it. The wood on this old teak chair was dry and looked just sad. There were 2 choices I had, I could polyurethane it or find something to renew the wood itself. I came across a blog post about rubbing coconut oil on old dry wood to renew the luster. I thought it was worth a shot. After testing it on the underside and liking what I saw, I went ahead and did the rest of the chair.
This is what the chair looked like before, dry and aged.
Here's another shot. Cats love to help. They also love coconut oil.
Here's what it started to look like once I rubbed the oil on the chair. It looks amazing! The downside was that I had to rub and rub and rub to get the oily feeling out of the chair. I wanted that refreshed look without the feel, and went through quite a few paper towels.
Here's the arm of the chair after I finished it.
The finished chair! With no cushions, I just draped a blanket over it and added a folded blanket to the seat.
This is the arm in the sunlight. The chair looks great next to the table by it (that WILL get refinished this summer.)
I think the chair looks great. NOTE: Don't start using coconut oil on chairs and furniture around your house to freshen them up if you plan on refinishing them. You'll get the oil into the grain making the color weird or keeping a water based poly from sticking to the furniture. I would only recommend this for pieces like this, natural wood that's been dried out that you just want to bring back to life. Happy re-finishing!


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