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Facts About Relativity
In order to introduce some of my ideas, it will be good for the reader to become familiar with some of the weird behavior of particles traveling at very high speed, high enough to invoke relativistic effects.
As seen by a stationary observer:
1) The closer a moving object gets to the speed of light, the slower its moving clock gets.
At the speed of light, it is zero – to the moving object, everything is simultaneous. Start, Splat. The moving object sees the outside world as distorted, getting shorter in length, and at c, the length from here to there is zero, no matter how far the stationary observer measures it. Photons live in a go-splat world.
2) The closer a moving object gets to the speed of light, the shorter its length gets.
At the speed of light, it has zero length to the stationary observer, but normal length to the moving object. Everything seems normal to the moving object until it gets to c – the problem for the moving object at c is that there is no time to seem normal – everything is instantaneous.
3) The closer a moving object gets to the speed of light, the larger its mass gets due to kinetic energy increase (for objects that have mass).
At the speed of light, an object with mass would have infinite mass. This rules out object with mass ever getting up to c. Photons do not have mass so they can move at the speed of light. Nothing with mass can go that fast.
4) The closer a moving object gets to the speed of light, the more energy you have to use to get it there.
You have to give more and more energy to the object to get it closer and closer to the speed of light. Energy equals mass times speed of light squared. At the speed of light, the energy required is infinite. You can never push an object with mass that hard.
What is the equation that describes the way in which time slows down as you approach the speed of light?
The equation is known as the time dilation equation and is:
Δ t = Δ T/ √[ 1 – (v/c)²] Time dilation
Where Δ t is the moving object time ticks and Δ T is the stationary object time ticks, v is the velocity and c is the speed of light.
When the velocity approaches c, the term v/c becomes very close to 1 and then the term Δ t becomes very large because the right side is divided by a very small number approaching zero. This means that the distance between clock ticks gets very long for the moving object. Time begins to stand still as it reaches the speed of light because the distance between tics becomes infinite.
What happens to space (in direction of motion)?
Δ x = Δ X/√[ 1 – (v/c)²] Space distortion
Where Δ x is the ruler mark as measured by the moving object and Δ X is the ruler mark as measured by the stationary object.
When the velocity approaches c, the right hand term approaches infinity. essentially, a unit measure, such as an inch for the moving object would stretch millions of miles as measured by the stationary object at speeds near c.
conversely, a foot long ruler moving near c would be invisibly short as seen by the stationary object – a term called foreshortening.
Conversely again, the stationary object would seem impossibly close and impossibly short to the moving object near c. At c, neither could see the other even with the best of instruments until they collide, which would be instantaneous for the moving object. (To do so would imply that the image was moving faster than c.)
So someone (very small and massless) sitting on a photon would think they see time normally, but the time of flight would seem to pass instantly from time started to time finished because no time would elapse (Δt very large). Of course there would be no time to measure time (or even think about it) because the photon would instantly hit the other end of its path, no matter how far away that is.
Someone sitting and watching nearby would see time normally (from their perspective), but in their case, ΔT would be very short (time interval ticks near 0) and they would seem to age quickly compared to the someone riding on a photon.
The total time of flight might seem 100 years to an observer, but seem instantaneous for one traveling at the speed of a photon. The observer would age instantly according to the one moving fast, and the observer would think the one moving quickly didn't age at all. Weird isn't it? Weird but true.
Similarly, distance gets shorter as an object approaches c as seen by the observer and longer for the observer as seen by the object that is moving fast.
In other words, the time that passes in one time frame (Δ t) is the time that passes in another (Δ T) divided by the square root of 1 minus the velocity squared divided by the speed of light squared.
Enough of this – keep in mind that photons don't have time to age, and photons arrive the instant they are emitted. A photon emitted in the furthest star that we can see by telescope arrives the instant it is emitted. (From the photon's point of view). They live an instantaneous "go-splat" life.
From our point of view it may have taken billions of years to get here. Both viewpoints are valid. That is the weird nature of relativistic speeds. Time and space are distorted.
One last thing: Effect of speed on atoms:
Atoms are flattened in the direction of their motion. Normally about 10 -8 cm in diameter they change from a sphere to a flattened disk as they approach the speed of light (from our stationary perspective only).
Particle accelerators have to be designed to account for both time dilation and space contraction in order to work.
Atoms have mass so they can never reach the speed of light, but particle accelerators push particles, including atoms, to very high speeds that require design changes to keep them on track around their path – changes that involve the equations above.
Next – some of the quantum weirdness explained, example by example from the earlier posts.


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The following is excerpted from Laura Donnelly's restaurant review in this week's Star. More ideas for meals on the go can be found in the Star's Restaurant Guide: easthamptonstar.com/restaurants.
It's Columbus Day weekend AND the Hamptons International Film Festival is on the East End so I know all of you ladies and gentlemen and black-clad cinephiles want to know where to eat. With movies being shown in 6 locations from Southampton to Montauk your dining options are plentiful.

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Whether it is a fruity Napa merlot or an oaky and acidic Chablis chardonnay, any wine lover will tell you that each variety of grape and the region in which it is grown gives each wine a unique character. With global warming altering the world's climate and weather patterns, enthusiasts may have to start reworking their palates. Climatologists at the French research institute INRA predict that global temperature will rise 1 to 2 degrees Celsius by mid-century, making extreme weather events more common and opening up new regions for viticulture. Under these conditions, existing winemakers across the globe will be unable to continue to create the exact same styles from their grapes as they have in the past.
Vintners have always had to contend with the elements to produce their wine, but now they face a whole new challenge from the threat of global warming. An international committee for the Agriculture and Forestry Climate Change Program (ACCAF) run by France's research institute INRA has been laboring to formulate strategies to cope with climate change. While not a staple crop, the wine grapes provide an insight into how food production will eventually be affected. Water scarcity, frosts, disease, and flooding could all influence the productivity and chemical composition of the grapes.
The researchers have found that places that were known for their cool climates that had trouble ripening fruit have become more suitable to for growing in the last half a century. Drought and scorching temperatures in some traditional production areas are threatening harvest, while other countries such as Tasmania, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, England, Germany and Chile may start to benefit from a change in weather patterns.
Many new vineyard developments in Northern Europe will be seen as risky due to unpredictable weather and where one good cold snap could wipe out an entire crop. Land known to craft a particular type of wine could start to see changes in flavor, turning light and crisp whites into fat and floral versions, and medium-bodied reads into heavy knockouts. Northern France has already observed changes in climate affect the balance of sugar and acidity in their grapes and the Languedoc region of the Mediterranean has noticed hot weather increase the body and alcohol of their wines.
"Can any region continue to grow the exact same varieties and make the exact same style of wines? If what we know today is correct, that is highly unlikely," says Gregory Jones, professor of oenology at Southern Oregon University.
With wine, consumer acceptance will go a long way to determining the success of each region. Growers will have to adapt to their terrain and alter planting methods, and possibly swap the types of grapes altogether. Plants allowed under Europe's strict appellation laws may have to be amended, allowing indigenous varieties from hot climates such as Portugal, Sicily Greece and Spain to be cultivated. Some are optimistic that as the genetics of these types of warm-weather grapes are decoded, they could be used for breeding. Portugal has 100 to 150 native varieties alone that could be explored. So, while the traditional wine establishment might be facing a shake-up, it is sure that human beings will find a way to still produce a good glass of vino.
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I have started working on my next project…. a bit is knit so far, but there is more planning to do. So, for now, just know that something is in the works!


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'Dirty Love' by Andre Dubus III
If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat. Right now, for example, I'm eating a cracker with hummus on it and remembering eating chickpeas and dill in Rome eight years ago, which in turn summons a memory of my twin sons as toddlers staggering around the Piazza Farnese in diapers. I'm also wondering — faintly — if there's any lexicographic relationship between the words "humus'' and "hummus'' and worrying about getting crumbs in my keyboard. And all of this is happening in the time it takes my computer to come wake up.
The writer Charles Baxter, in an excellent essay called "Lush Life," argues for a kind of writing that mimics and reinforces the way our minds experience time. "[W]e are often in two places at once temporally," he writes. "[W]e are in the here-and-now, but we are also in the back-then." Since the past is always folded just inside the texture of the present, Baxter says, why not attempt prose that manages to superimpose the two?
This "lushness," as Baxter calls it, is the singular strength of Andre Dubus III. Dubus, author of the memoir "Townie'' and the novel "House of Sand and Fog,'' has a new book out, "Dirty Love.'' It's composed of four novellas, and in each Dubus manages to haunt the present narrative with hordes of memories from his characters' pasts.
In the first piece, "Listen Carefully As Our Options Have Changed," Mark Welch is a 56-year-old project manager who has hired a private detective to catch his wife in the act of adultery. For the first couple dozen pages of "Listen Carefully," all Mark does in the present story is drink a Coke and open his wife's underwear drawer. Yet, as his mind zigzags from his childhood to the moment he confronts his wife with the private detective's DVD, the reader is never bored, never impatient. The whole novella takes place in a single day, but from that day Dubus fashions a lens through which a reader sees the sad arc of Mark's entire life.
A different kind of love is at issue in the second novella, "Marla." Here an overweight 29-year-old virgin named Marla falls for a 37-year-old radio frequency engineer. Just as Marla gets initiated into the intersecting realms of sex, affection, and cohabitation, her innocence begins to slip away. Soon enough she feels that "her life was really no better than it had been before when she was alone, an earlier unhappiness that now seemed preferable to this one."
We meet Robert in the third piece, an adulterous bartender who dreams of becoming a poet. As with Mark in the first tale, the reader's sympathy for Robert frays as we begin to better understand his past; by the end, we come to see that he's just a huckster selling a false image of himself, with nothing worthwhile in his life except his wife's imperiled belief in him.
Finally we come to the last novella, "Dirty Love," in which 18-year-old Devon comes to live with her 90-year-old great-uncle Francis after an explicit video of her is posted on the Internet. Love is the issue for both Devon and Francis, and the novella becomes an incandescent story about chat roulette, teenage sexuality, family fealty, war, and trying to learn to live with another human being.
What's at stake in all four pieces is the tension between preserving the hope of innocence while knowing all along the anguish of lived experience. The title itself carries a sense of that duality, and Dubus has positively shot the entire book through with this feeling. The threat, specter, and repercussions of cheating — "[s]uch an old and predictable story, ageless really, like some virus that affects some marriages and not others" — looms large on nearly every page. Someone slips up, and the flames start chewing away. In Dubus's prose, hope, pinioned against experience, comes to interpenetrate everything: his characters' childhoods, their memories, and their present predicaments.
All four novellas are well-made pieces of fiction in their own right. Taken together, though, they present something more powerful, something more — if you'll forgive the adjective one more time — lush. When Robert from the third story shows up tending bar where Devon from the fourth buses tables, or when a minor character from the first novella emerges briefly in the second, a reader begins to feel the swarming multiplicities of love as it is practiced in Dubus's territory — the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Regardless of age, Dubus seems to say, regardless of economic class, of education, of parentage, this community is shot through with lust and pain; we are all broken, staggering creatures, capable of pure goodness, and also great selfishness. Like Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad," the pleasure in "Dirty Love" is in seeing the multiple narratives, like light towers at the corners of a field, shine their collective, overlapping glow onto the arena below.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A 473-foot cargo ship got loose from its moorings and slammed into the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge on Monday, causing unknown damage to both the bridge and ship, and shutting the bridge down for an undetermined time.
"At 1:30 p.m. today a large ship came up the river that had been secured at the Port of New Hampshire just downstream from the bridge," said Bill Boynton, New Hampshire Department of Transportation public information officer. "The tide was coming in, which pushed the ship upstream and into the bridge."
The ship has remained up against the bridge, which connects Portsmouth, N.H., and Kittery on the Route 1 bypass over the Piscataqua River, since 1:30 p.m.
"They are looking to push it away at about 5:45, when it's expected to be slack water," Boynton said. "There is damage to the bridge, but how much we haven't been able to determine yet. We will conduct a detailed inspection tomorrow morning, and it will remain shut down for the foreseeable future."
Slack water is the time between high and low tide when current is least strong.
Two tugboats have been dispatched to try and separate the ship from the bridge.
At best, Boynton said the bridge would remain closed for at least two days.
Coast Guard and New Hampshire DOT officials said that both of the anchors on the motor vessel Harbour Feature, which is carrying an unknown quantity of tallow oil, were deployed.
There have been no incidents of pollution reported and no injuries as a result of the collision, according to the New Hampshire DOT. Tallow oil is a lubricant produced by pressing tallow, rendered beef or mutton processed from suet.
Coast Guard officials put out a news release saying that the Harbour Feature's crew has reported a rupture 6 to 12 inches in length above the waterline of the vessel near the port ballast tank, but there is no water entering the ship and no oil or any other pollution going into the water.
"There's also a cargo crane on the ship that was sort of pinned under the sidewalk of the bridge," said Boynton.
The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, co-owned by the states of Maine and New Hampshire, carries 16,000 vehicles a day, according to Boynton. The drawbridge was also shut down for 4½ days in January after it became stuck in the "upward" position about a foot above the roadway. Due to frigid temperatures, the drawbridge's center span became dislodged on a Wednesday during a routine lift to test it. The bridge's tracking mechanism was damaged in the process. It reopened on Monday, Jan. 27.
This incident, however, is the first involving a ship and the bridge since the 1940s, according to Boynton.
"The only other incident anyone else has known of around here in terms of being struck was when a submarine struck the Memorial Bridge in the 1940s," Boynton said.
With the Long Bridge currently closed and the Memorial Bridge, which connects Portsmouth and Kittery via Route 1, being rebuilt and not scheduled to reopen until July, the only remaining bridge over the Piscataqua is the I-95 high-level bridge, which DOT officials estimate carries about 75 percent of Maine's gross domestic product into the state.
"The bridge was gated after the collision and all traffic on the bridge at the time was able to quickly exit off it without incident," said Boynton.
Agencies responding to the incident include the Coast Guard Station and Marine Safety Detachment in Portsmouth Harbor, N.H.; a Coast Guard Air Station MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Cape Cod, Mass.; New Hampshire Marine Patrol; the Maine Department of Environmental Protection; and emergency response personnel from Portsmouth and Kittery.


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In addition to walking on my Off days I was thinking about doing some strength training with 3 lb weights mostly for my upper body and using resistance bands. Does this sound alright or should I just stick to walking?
A friend of mine goes to Curves 3x a week and does low impact aerobics and exercise ball on her Off days. Is that o.k.?


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Responsible Capitalism and Sustainability reveals that of 109 UK and European institutional investors surveyed, 48% of respondents believe ESG factors are not important when assessing direct property investments. Only 19% consider them vitally important.
According to Chris Taylor, Head of Private Markets at Hermes Investment Management, the report shows many institutional investors are failing to recognise the importance of renewable energy and control emissions, or support both sustainable communities and social enterprises.
"Given all the information available to these investors, the results here are astounding. Even in an area where there is a regulatory imperative, such as energy efficiency, the response is alarmingly dismissive. Nearly half the investors believe energy efficiency is, by and large, unimportant, and yet it is easy to demonstrate financial savings from best practice here and reckless to ignore the red tape.
"For example, I would argue the introduction of energy performance certificates is simply another aspect of managing risk. Those investors that have decided not to anticipate regulatory change will get caught out," he said.
Culture of short-termism: a problem for pension funds
These survey results suggest such investors are short-sighted or unduly influenced by short-termism, possibly both, which Mr. Taylor says is problematic for pension funds. And more than any other asset class, real estate warrants – and rewards – a long-term approach to investment.
"Long-term and responsible investors are very good partners for the public sector. By contrast, a private equity house – or any investor rewarded for short-term gains – is unlikely to be a particularly good partner for the public sector," he says.
It is surprising, says Taylor that only 37% of institutional investors surveyed felt pension funds should give greater consideration to whether their investments will improve or detract from the overall quality of life experienced by beneficiaries when they retire.
"Sustainable investment is about far more than managing energy consumption or water wastage, important though they are. When we think long-term, we must consider the so-called mega trends affecting society: everything that relates to globalisation, urbanisation and technology. The glue that binds these three themes together is demographic change: lifestyle changes, how people live and how people decide to work and spend their money," said Taylor.
King's Cross – a living case study in sustainability
Mr. Taylor says the impact of these trends can be seen at King's Cross, where Hermes – through its association with the developer, Argent – is part of the team transforming the former industrial blackspot into a new mixed-use district. According to Hermes, this is a 20-year project and there are at least five years to go before construction is complete and it becomes the setting for 45,000 people living, working and studying. By then there will be 2,000 new homes, 300 social housing units and two primary schools interspersed with 20 new streets and 10 public squares.
Fiduciary duty
Taylor says that Hermes has a fiduciary duty to its 300,000 pensioners. Its job is to anticipate what occupiers want from real estate because they pay the rent – and that's investing in real estate he says, but it's not just about floorspace.
Taylor continues: "The way to future-proof buildings – for the benefit of our investors – is to make sure they are in a sustainable, socially inclusive environment. It's not the building that's important but the amenity value of its location in terms of infrastructure and public realm. You need only look at the great estates of London to understand that they have endured because the integrity of the estate has been maintained, as much as the buildings."
Leap of faith
Taylor says institutional investors need to understand that responsible investment requires a 'leap of faith'.
"Responsible investment requires a leap of faith on the part of institutional investors. They need to anticipate change. A big hurdle here lies in the fact that the conventional fund manager's approach to investment involves looking back on past performance, based on benchmarking by Investment Property Databank of the individual sectors of offices, retail and industrial. Long-term, mixed-use investment does not fit easily into any of those indices.
"But if we are to think about the future, rather than benchmark against the past, then as an industry we need to change our approach to investment. We need to find a different measure or set of measures – benchmarking not necessarily by sector but perhaps by asset. Over 60% of institutional investors we surveyed want their fund managers to be more transparent and share their ESG analysis on at least a quarterly basis. So the demand from clients is there: as an industry we need to meet this," Taylor concludes.
Read the paper: Responsible Capitalism and Sustainability
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Touch Enabled Business Card
My last business card was too expensive to give out, so I designed this one using a Texas Instruments MSP430. Combined with the chip's Pin Oscillator hardware, and TI's Capsense Library, it wasn't too difficult enabling capacitive touch. The great thing is that in software I can have it go into a low power mode and check the button every second or so. When it senses a a touch, it checks more frequently and only leaves low power mode to toggle an LED. I guess when you're driving LED's, low power sleep isn't going to help much, but there are times when no LED's are lit, even in the middle of a display routine.
I rushed to have these cards in hand before a job fair at my school. It was about two weeks between blank slate and getting the boards back from Gold Phoenix in China. I made a few dumb choices. Particularly, when laying out the board I have one of the LED's on a different IO port than the rest. That makes it pain to write good code, since I have to do an if..then to determine which port to write to for a particular LED. Also, I didn't lay out the LED's in a sequential manner. Ideally LED1 should be attached to port 1.0, LED2 to 1.1, etc. I'm sure I had a reason at the time, most likely for cleaner routing, but that just made for uglier coding. Nevertheless, it works fine. Especially considering the prototype consisted of nothing more than one LED, and a penny with tape over it to substitute for the touch pad.
Even using much cheaper parts and smaller batteries, I'd say it's still too expensive. The parts probably come to $2, but the board is almost $8. I remember Gold Phoenix being cheaper, but I may be wrong. $110 for 155 in2 seems pretty good, until you start throwing in rounded corners, black soldermask, and very thin FR4. I think it's about time to start looking for a new Chinese PCB manufacturer. Am I the only one receiving emails from Peak PCB? Has anyone else tried them?
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Educators Jobs 2014 in Toba Tek Singh District have been announced. Govt. of Punjab is in a process to recruit new teachers for Govt. schools located in different districts of Punjab. These seats include ESE Arts, ESE Science Math in Primary section, SESE Arts, SESE Science Math, SESE Urdu, SESE English, SESE Physical Education, SESE Drawing Master(DM), SESE Arabic and SESE Computer Science in Middle Level Schools i.e Elementary Schools and SSE Urdu, SSE English, SSE Math, SSE Physics, SSE Chemistry, SSE Computer Science and SSE Biology.
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Europeans, who had used windmills for grinding corn or pumping water since the early medieval period, brought this familiar technology with them when they settled in Maine.
The use of wind power was scattered, and there is not a well-documented historical record, though windmills were certainly in operation in Portland during the 1700s.
A windmill – visible in the middle of this print - stood on Free Street in Portland in 1775 and was used to pump water.


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WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Barry senior Marco Mokrzycki has been tabbed Sunshine State Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week presented by VALIC.
Mokrzycki (Hannover, Germany) picked up a pair of victories over No. 1-ranked opponents as the fourth-ranked Buccaneers beat top-ranked Armstrong Atlantic, 5-4, in a showdown of NCAA Division II powerhouses. The Buccaneers' win snapped the defending national champion Pirates' 42-match win streak that dated to the beginning of the 2012 season. Mokrzycki and Fabian Groetsch, with whom he forms the No. 2 doubles tandem in Division II, for an 8-6 win over the No. 1 duo of Georgi Rumenov and Daniel Regan in the top doubles slot. The loss was the first of the year for the AASU tandem. He then collected a No. 1 singles win over Rumenov. Mokrzycki, who is ranked No. 7 in Division II, handed the No. 1-ranked Rumenov his first loss of the season, coming from behind to win, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
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Seeing as how the original version of Crush on the PlayStation Portable was all about shifting perspective from 2D to 3D and back, it's fitting that Sega's liked-but-ignored platformer gets a second chance at life on the 3DS.
The trailer above—with British narration a tad reminiscent of Stephen Frye's work for LittleBigPlanet—re-introduces Danny and explains how he must wander through and solve puzzles in a gameworld sprung from his own imagination. Crush 3D sports StreetPass functionality, a cartoonier art style than its PSP predecessor and will have new characters and locations, too. This version looks like it'll benefit from the stereoscopic visuals the 3DS makes possible. It'll be available on January 10.


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Ice Cube Talks Gangsta Rap Origins and 'Official' N.W.A. Biopic
Ice Cube plans to make heads ring again with his 10th solo album, 'Everythang's Corrupt.' In an interview with L.A. Weekly, the veteran rhyme-slinger talked about gangsta rap and his N.W.A. biopic.
During the interview, Cube offers his opinion on what skills a dope emcee should possess.
"Confidence goes a long way. You gotta have your own style, your own flavor," he says. "You can't come up there trying to be like your favorite emcee, you got to be an original. Your music has to move people. People have to get on it, you know, right off the jump. That's hard for established artists -- for new artists it's that much harder."
Elsewhere, Cube reflects on why gangsta rap became such a powerful and political movement during the '90's era of hip-hop.
"I just think that, you know, this is a place [California] where it originated from when it comes to talking about what's going on in the streets," he says. "And by this being the original place, it has power. It has an aura to it. And I think the whole country is as fascinated with L.A. living as they are with something like the Sopranos, something where they want to know more but they don't want to get no closer.
"It's kinda that. That feel, you know. It's a forbidden fruit in a lot of ways and you know, its still mysterious and dangerous. This is the land of surf and sun in a lot of ways so it's a crazy contrast."
Finally, Cube was asked about his friendship with Dr. Dre. The two West Coast titans seemed distant from each other as of late. "[We talk] every now and then. We're trying to put this N.W.A. movie together. This is the real one," he states.
For those who don't know, there are two N.W.A.-related projects in development. One by the estate of Eazy-E and Ruthless Records label and the Gary Gray-directed biopic that Cube is executive producing.
"That other one that you heard about was bulls---. This is the official one. We're taking it to the nooks and crannies, I think deeper than any other article or documentary on the group," he shares. "These are the intimate conversations that helped forge N.W.A. To me I think it's interesting to anybody who loves that era and I don't know any other movie where you can mix gangster rap, the FBI, L.A. riots, HIV and f---ing uh, feuding with each other. This movie has everything from Darryl Gates and the battering ram."
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — We're back from All-Star Weekend — sore knees, bruised egos, stuffed notebooks and all — with plenty of memories and stories to share.
In addition to watching the best basketball players on the planet showcase their skills on the biggest stage, the Hang Time Podcast crew played a little ball as well, at Sunday morning's Jordan Brand open run attended by the likes of hip hop stars Wale, D.J. Clue and my new on-court nemesis Jadakiss as well as several friends of the program.
All in all, it was a splendid time had by all … well, for the most part. (One of us got Tebowed!)
Grantland.com's Jonathan Abrams was there and chronicled the The Best (Pickup) Game at All-Star Weekend. He also joins us on Episode 71 of the Hang Time Podcast to dissect the goings on at All-Star Weekend and his masterful work on An Oral History of the Malice at the Palace, the infamous brawl between the Pacers and Pistons' fans at the Palace of Auburn Hills in 2004.
NBA.com's Rookie Ladder guru Drew Packham also joins us on Episode 71 to break down the performances of Kyrie Irving, Ricky Rubio and the rest of the class at the halfway mark of their first season in the league. In his midseason report card, DP taps Irving as his choice for Rookie of the (half) Year, with MarShon Brooks as his biggest surprise and Jan Vesely as his biggest disappointment.
Check out all of that and so much more on Episode 71 of the Hang Time Podcast … The All-Star Special:
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Eating These Foods Make Your Farts Really Smell
While passing wind is a fact of life for everyone (even if some people try to claim they never do) most people with any sense of social etiquette wish there were ways that they could cut down on the chance of letting one slip that might cause them to clear a room.
A new study from Monash University in Melbourne has found how different foods can affect the amount of hydrogen sulfide produced by bacteria in your gut.
Our farts are made up of different gases including oxygen, nitrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, but it's actually hydrogen sulfide that makes your wind smell like a bucket of prawns left out in the sun.
To find out how the gas interacts with feces, the scientists tested poo specimens of seven healthy volunteers and then mixed it with the components found in meat and carbs to see which produced more smelly gas.
It turned out that Cysteine, an amino acid found in meat, eggs, and other protein-heavy foods, increased the amount of hydrogen sulfide SEVEN times over!
But when they mixed the waste with fructans and resistant starch, the amount of sulfide was reduced by 75 percent.
So basically anyone who has a diet that's high in protein is to be avoided when entering a lift or similar enclosed spaces.
So, the next time you are at a family function or on a first date, avoid eggs and go for carbs like bananas, potatoes, wheat, or vegetables like artichokes and asparagus instead.
Lead study author Chu Yao syas the biggest discovery was there's no need to avoid eating fiber because you're worried it'll give you gas.
While you may fart more, fiber soaks up water in the intestine, knocking out the sulfide and reducing the smell.
"The concerning thing is that there are all these people walking around constipated because they are too scared to eat fiber in case they do a bad fart," Yao told New Scientist.
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- Mike Downey says L.A. teams are "playing 99 Cent Store ball"
- "SoCal is in the midst of some kind of too-big-to-fail madness," he says
- Downey: "We've seen our more famous teams go from good to bad"
"LMAO @ L.A.," came the text.
"Laughing My (Butt) Off at Los Angeles," it meant.
A friend from the Midwest sent it.
"Hahaha," the next text heckled. "Dodgers & Angels spent $$$ & still stink!"
If you say so, I said.
"Lakers Stink 2," it continued.
OK, OK, I got it.
This joker -- I guess others out there, too -- gets a weird satisfaction out of L.A.'s teams being so rich but playing so poorly.
The digs do keep coming.
Jay Leno: "The Dodgers have lost seven straight. They're so bad, they've changed 'Bobble Head Night' to 'Shake Your Head in Disbelief Night.' "
Then it became eight straight.
Leno: "President Obama wants to close Gitmo. Gitmo? How about closing Dodger Stadium? How many people are being tortured there night after night?"
A funny thing happened on the way to a Freeway World Series here in smug, smoggy, sunny, show-me-the-money Southern California.
Our big-buck teams are playing 99 Cent Store ball.
In fact, all of SoCal is in the midst of some kind of too-big-to-fail madness. We've got more flops than Nicole Kidman.
We bought. We splurged. We invested. We went for broke. We spent like Real Housewives at a Beverly Hills plastic surgeons. But what did it get us so far? Losers across the board.
I can't figure it out.
Where did L.A. go wrong?
The Lakers were loaded. Stupendous payroll. Dwight Howard and Steve Nash joined a team that already had Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. It could be the best team of all time! It could win 75 of its 82 games! NBA, get out of their way!
The Angels reloaded. They already had the mighty Albert Pujols and the cool kid Mike Trout. Oh, so how about we go get Josh Hamilton, too? A murderers' row! See you in October!
The Dodgers recovered. They were bankrupt, then were bought up -- by Magic Johnson and friends -- for more than $2 billion, yet! Let's go shopping! Hanley Ramirez, ka-ching. Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez, ka-ching. Zack Greinke, ka-ching. Money is no object! It's time for Dodger baseball!
Well, so far, so bad.
Lakers: An 0-8 preseason and 1-4 start get the coach canned. A replacement is hired while much-loved Phil Jackson is still mulling it over. Much-loved owner Dr. Jerry Buss dies from cancer. Howard's hurt, Nash hurt, Kobe hurt, Pau hurt. The new coach is not much-loved. Fans chant: "We Want Phil!" Lakers use players in the playoffs who are named Who, What and I Don't Know. They lose a game by 31 points -- worst home playoff loss ever. Howard gets ejected from Game 4. The season ends and Kobe sues his mom for selling his memorabilia. Get me CBS or NBC. Have I got a sitcom for you.
Angels: A week into the season, ace pitcher Jered Weaver breaks his elbow. Angels lose eight of first 10 games. Pujols, a slow start. Trout, ditto. Hamilton, a slower than slow start. The dependable Torii Hunter gets traded to Detroit -- where he's hot. The expendable Vernon Wells gets traded to New York -- where he's hotter than hot. As of May 16, only the hopeless Houston Astros have won fewer games in the American League than the stars-R-us Angels have.
Dodgers: A week into the season, ace pitcher Greinke breaks his collarbone. Other pitchers get hurt. Other hitters get hurt. Not a lot to smile about at Dodger Stadium except a Korean pitcher named Hyun-Jin Ryu who looks good and a Korean entertainer named Psy who comes to a game to dance in the aisles between innings while a wide-eyed Tommy Lasorda looks at him like he's a man from Mars. As of May 16, our Two Billion Dollar Men are in last place.
Call 911. Call CSI: L.A.
Something's killing our teams.
Not that we don't appreciate the L.A. Kings and L.A. Galaxy winning championships in hockey and soccer the way they have. I like hockey. I like soccer. I just don't get a lot of texts that go, "Wow, L.A. sure does have big-name hockey stars!" Or: "Whoa, I've got Galaxy fever!"
We've seen our more famous teams go from good to bad.
USC football finally got off NCAA probation, had star quarterback Matt Barkley back, was ranked No. 1 in the nation in a preseason poll -- then went 7-6, embarrassed itself in a bowl game and saw Barkley disappear on NFL Draft Day.
UCLA basketball christened a remodeled arena, brought in blue-chip recruit Shabazz Muhammad, looked OK -- then lost by 20 points in the NCAA tournament to Minnesota and fired the coach.
Things turned so dark, we even turned our dials to America's Funniest Home Basketball Team -- yep, the L.A. Clippers -- to save our city.
I mean, come on. Expecting a championship from the Clippers is like expecting Mark Zuckerberg to end up on a 10 Best-Dressed List.
But there they were, L.A.'s new darlings, winning 16 games in a row, dunking and funking, popularizing the cool name "Lob City," doing TV ads for cars and stuff, having a 50-win season for the first time, winning the NBA's Pacific Division for the first time, winning two playoff games -- mmmm, kiss my red Clips, baby!
Then they blew Games 3, 4, 5 and 6 and kissed off the whole year.
Well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, as Kelly Clarkson likes to scream on iTunes.
OK, so David Beckham doesn't want to kick soccer balls for us anymore. OK, so the NFL still won't give us a team. OK, so the Hollywood Park horse-race track is shutting down for good.
We will survive.
Besides, baseball season's still early. I wouldn't count out those Dodgers or Angels of ours just yet. They've got time. They've got talent. They've got $$$. If u think they stink, hey, go text yourself.
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