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November 10, 2011
Summit seeks strategies
At the second Regional Summit on College Access and Attainment, held Tuesday in the Conference Center, more than 150 local educators came together to discuss three major topics and create a working plan for future meetings. The day kicked off with a panel discussion on current initiatives, which included Columbus State President Dave Harrison, Dr. Gene Harris, superintendent of Columbus Public Schools, Dr. Kathy Krendl, president of Otterbein College, and Dr. Bill Wise, superintendent, South-Western City Schools. The attendees then broke into three working groups for data collection, curriculum alignment, and college access—and determined the next steps for regional goals and strategies.
Saying farewell!
Hamid Danesh, vice president of Information Technology, and his wife Sheedeh talk with President Harrison at a farewell reception held Tuesday. Danesh will leave Columbus State next month to accept the vice president of Information Technology/CIO position at State University of New York (SUNY).
International Enrollment Services plans annual dinner for Nov. 22
In the spirit of sharing our American traditions with the international student population at Columbus State, International Enrollment Services will host the annual International Thanksgiving Dinner on Tuesday, November 22, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The annual event allows our international students and their families to enjoy a traditional American meal with family and friends of the college. Each year has seen increased participation, and this year the department expects more than 150 students to participate.
Your help and support are needed to make this event a success. Please consider making a contribution to support this event. Your contributions will be used to provide dinner tickets for international students and their families or to help covers other event expenses. If you would like to attend the event as well, individual tickets can be purchased for $14 per person. Checks should be made payable to Columbus State Community College and sent to Amy Burrell, international student advisor, in Enrollment Services, MA 111.
Three sponsorship levels are available, as well as the option to attend the dinner:
The GOLD Sponsorship is $140, and provides tickets for 10 international students or covers other event costs.
The SILVER Sponsorship is $70 and provides tickets for 5 international students or covers other event costs.
The BRONZE Sponsorship is $30 and provides tickets for 2 international students or covers other event costs.
Library staff present at ALAO Poster Sessions
Columbus State Library staff members were prominently represented at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference. Held in Toledo, November 3 and 4, the conference drew attendees from all across the state. Poster session concepts had been submitted and were accepted for presentation during the conference. Presenters for these sessions included Julie Zaveloff and Jessica Crossfield presenting "Increased Enrollment: Challenges and Solutions." Another session focused on "Group Study Room Policy: A Team Based Approach" by Nathan McGuirk, Robert Millspaugh, and Sara Chan. A third addressed the topic of "Cross Training for Success" presented by Don Sutterfield and Lis Huey.
Time to schedule personal training for winter!
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Aviation Maintenance partners with Testing & Talent Center
The Testing & Talent Assessment Center, formerly called the ACT Testing Center, on the second floor of WD, has partnered with the Aviation Maintenance Technology to provide the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Exams to students in the program.
Aviation Maintenance graduates will be able to take the FAA Technician Airframe, General, and Powerplant exams at the Testing & Talent Assessment Center. These Certifications are required credentials for graduates to obtain employment and/or advance their careers in the aviation industry.
The Testing & Talent Assessment Center is also now an authorized computer-based testing center for LaserGrade FAA Airman Knowledge Tests. This represents 93 various FAA exams covering aircraft dispatcher, pilot, navigator, maintenance, engineer, instructor, instrument rating, and other aviation technical areas.
One-day bottleneck to happen Nov. 16
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Walmart phasing out 10 nasty chemicals
Wal-Mart announced recently that it requires suppliers to phase out hazardous chemicals from the household cleaners, cosmetics and personal care products sold at its stores. They have prioritised a list of 10 chemical ingredients for 'continuous reduction, restriction and elimination' and will have protocols in place to monitor and carry out regular reviews of ingredients.
Their intention goes above and beyond regulatory compliance to meet the concerns of their customers and the environment, joining a much-needed industry shift away from potentially toxic chemicals in consumer products. Procter & Gamble has also recently announced plans to eliminate phthalates and the antibacterial ingredient triclosan. In 2012, Johnson & Johnson pledged to remove those two chemicals, along with formaldehyde and parabens, from its personal care products worldwide.
Many people assume that the products sold in our supermarkets have been tested for safety, but as the Walmart announcement shows, this is far from the case. Because of their sheer size and their buying power Walmart's decision to phase out 10 nasty chemicals from products sold in their stores will have a huge effect not only within the US but also in the rest of the world. This is an example of the private sector being ahead of the government by being proactive about chemical safety for consumers - Malcolm Rands.
Wal-Mart has not yet disclosed the names of the 10 chemicals because they want to work collaboratively with their suppliers so it may still be some time before we see big changes but as one of the biggest retailers on Earth, it's quite likely that Wal-Mart's new policy will help ban these same chemicals everywhere as suppliers reformulate their products to meet the directive of their biggest customer.
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I've written here, here, and here about Cornelia Pillard, President Obama's radical feminist nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. But I haven't yet commented on the threshold question of whether any additional judges should be seated on the D.C. Circuit.
This was a topic of much debate at Wednesday's hearing on the Pillard nomination. Both sides — the Democrats who want three new judges confirmed and the Republicans who deny the need for any additional judges — cited statistics and statements by judges and ex-judges.
But the Republicans seem to have the better case.
The court now has eight regular judges — four appointed by a Democrat; four by a Republican. In addition, it has six active senior judges. According to Chief Judge Merrick Garland, one of the senior judges carries a full case load, one carries 75 percent of an active case load, two carry 50 percent and two 25 percent. Moreover, the senior judges are young and healthy enough that none is planning to step down, and all can reasonably be expected to keep working for about a decade.
The current workload of the six senior judges translates into the equivalent of 3.25 judges. Thus, the court, in effect, has the equivalent of roughly 11.25 full-time judges.
Is that sufficient manpower? It appears to be. The number of consolidated cases scheduled for oral argument per active judge has fallen steadily, from 99 in 2003-2004 to 81 in 2012-2013. Indeed, Sen. Lee noted that the court has had to cancel argument dates because it doesn't have enough cases.
The Democrats counter with statistics they say show an increasing number of "pending cases." But the numbers cited by Sen. Grassley and others seem like a better measure of actual workload.
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I do not believe the current caseload of the D.C. Circuit or, for that matter, the anticipated caseload in the near future, merits additional judgeships at this time. . . .If any more judges were added now, there wouldn't be enough work to go around.
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TUSCALOOSA | Operators of pay-to-park lots may have new rules to follow pending a vote Tuesday night by the City Council. The Office of the City Attorney has devised regulations for parking lots managed by private companies within the city.
TUSCALOOSA | Operators of pay-to-park lots may have new rules to follow pending a vote Tuesday night by the City Council.
The Office of the City Attorney has devised regulations for parking lots managed by private companies within the city.
The rules stipulate that drivers who buy spaces in parking lots for less than seven days must be provided with a receipt or proof of the transaction at the time the space is rented.
"We need this," said City Councilman Bobby Howard, a key proponent for the regulations. "I feel like, with all of the (downtown) development, we're going to keep running into (complaints) if we don't get in front of it."
Howard began pushing for regulations after complaints from residents over parking management companies' use of large, yellow parking boots to ensure that motorists pay for the space they use.
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That's because City Attorney Tim Nunnally was hesitant to craft a rule without some kind of state precedent.
Right now, no state laws govern the use of parking boots, and the city attorney believes that it is not within the jurisdiction of a municipality to assume that role from the state.
Codifying rules on how parking boots can be used would legally validate them and leave the city open for potential lawsuits, Nunnally has said.
Other cities, such as Birmingham, do not have such concerns and have adopted their own codes and ordinances to govern parking boots.
It's these and other rules from municipalities across the state that Intelligent Parking Systems, which operates in Tuscaloosa, follows when putting boots on vehicles, said James David Cochran Jr., company president.
Cochran said he welcomes Tuscaloosa's new rules, but doesn't expect them to affect his business that much.
The only lot that IPS monitors with a booting system is in Temerson Square behind the RBC Bank building.
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Finding the Force of Gravity along an Inclined Plane
You can use physics to determine the force of gravity on an object that moves along an inclined plane. You can break the weight of the object down into components that are parallel to and perpendicular to the plane. The component perpendicular to the plane presses the object into the surface of the plane. The component of the weight that acts along the plane accelerates the object down the plane. Here you will find the component of gravity acting along the plane when the vertical force due to gravity is Fg.
To work out the components of the weight parallel to and perpendicular to the inclined plane (the ramp in the figure), you need to know the relationship between the direction of the total weight and the direction of the ramp. The simplest way to determine this is to work out the angle between the weight and a line perpendicular to the ramp. This angle is labeled in the figure with the symbol for theta, which is equal to the angle of the ramp.
There are various ways you can use geometry to show that theta is equal to the angle of the ramp. For example, you may note that the angle between the weight and the line perpendicular to the ramp must be complementary to the angle at the top of the ramp, which is
Two angles are complementary if they add up to 90 degrees.
In this figure, the angle of the ramp is given by the angle ABC. The angle at the top of the ramp is the complement of this because the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees, so the angle
The angle BCA must be equal to the angle BDE because the triangles EBD and ABC are similar, so you can say that the angle
Finally, the angle BCA must be complementary to the angle ACF because they clearly add up to 90 degrees (along with right angle FCD, they form a straight line), so you finally have your answer:
If you use trigonometry to project the weight vector onto the lines perpendicular to and parallel to the ramp (refer to the first figure and rotate it by 30 degrees if doing so helps you see what's going on), you obtain the expression for the component of the weight perpendicular to the ramp as this:
And the component of the weight that's along the ramp is this:
Because you know the force, you can use Newton's second law to work out the acceleration along the ramp:
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Body by Beckham
Women weren't the only ones baring skin in ads this year. Fast fashion giant H&M; debuted its first Super Bowl ad for the David Beckham Bodywear collection, starring the soccer star in his skivvies. During the London Summer Olympics, images from the campaign were projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover. (February, August)
The '20s roar
The fall 2012 runway collections were steeped in 1920s influences, from Ralph Lauren's "Great Gatsby"-inspired gowns to Tory Burch's sportswear inspired by 1920s Deauville, to Frida Giannini's Art Deco black-and-gold fringed flapper dresses at Gucci. The 1920s were roaring on screen, too, with HBO's popular "Boardwalk Empire," set in the 1920s, sparking a retro haircut craze for men and the "Artist," set in 1927, nabbing multiple Oscars, including a statue for costume design. Expect the flappers and fringe to keep swinging into 2013, when Baz Luhrmann's "Great Gatsby" is to hit movie theaters in late summer. (February)
Capitol Couture
The style-obsessed world of the popular YA novel "The Hunger Games" was brought to life on screen by costume designer Judianna Makovsky, with a cast of hundreds dressed in everything from utilitarian garb with Depression-era grit to glam-gone-grotesque get-ups inspired by the latest haute couture. The character Effie, one part Marie Antoinette and one part Isabella Blow, could barely walk in her shoes — which was intentional. "She is a fashion victim," Makovsky said. The studio launched a website, CapitolCouture.com, dedicated to fashion inspired by the film, and collaborated with China Glaze on a range of nail polish colors. (March)
Fashionable politics
Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour made the list of top fundraisers released by the Obama reelection campaign. Holding star-studded fundraising events in June, September and October, she raised so much money — more than half a million dollars — that rumors swirled that she could be rewarded with an ambassadorship to France or England. (June, September, October)
New-media stars rising
Street style bloggers Scott Schuman (thesartorialist.com) and paramour Garance Doré (garancedore.com) won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Eugenia Sheppard Media Award, cementing their status in the fashion media pantheon. (June)
Never mind glass
Christian Louboutin designed a pair of limited-edition heels inspired by Cinderella in honor of Walt Disney's rerelease of "Cinderella" on Blu-ray and DVD. The mesh heels were embellished with crystals and butterflies — and sported the designer's signature red soles, of course. (July)
Sex and the single girl
Before Carrie Bradshaw of "Sex and the City," Joan Holloway of "Mad Men" and Anastasia Steele of "Fifty Shades of Grey," there was Helen Gurley Brown. The legendary author and Cosmopolitan magazine editor died in New York at age 90, leaving behind a generation of women emboldened by her controversial view of feminism-laced female sexuality. (August)
Gangnam style
South Korean pop star Psy's "Gangnam Style" was the surprise hit of the year. The song, a dance-y satire of the Beverly Hills-like Gangnam district of Seoul, became an international smash hit after its surreal music video went viral on YouTube. Then its influence quickly spread into all realms of popular culture, including fashion. Psy's stylish sunglasses and powder-blue tuxedo coat were a popular Halloween costume, and designer Jill Stuart has announced plans to team up with Psy on a line of "Gangnam Style" clothes that will be exclusive to Asian markets. (September)
Sports report
Athletes descended on New York Fashion Week, where they polished their personal brands and tested their reporting for media outlets. Olympian Ryan Lochte, the swimmer with questionable style chops, covered the runways for E! Entertainment. There were enough basketballers on the scene (Russell Westbrook, Chris Bosh) to play a pickup game. Tyson Chandler and wife Kimberly were reporting a story for Vogue magazine. And Rajon Rondo was deputized as GQ magazine's fashion intern. It may have been the first time in fashion week history that an intern was guaranteed a front-row seat. (September)
A very Vreeland world
She helped popularize bikinis and blue jeans, discovered Lauren Bacall, launched Twiggy and advised Jackie O. Diana Vreeland, who died in 1989, transformed fashion in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, when she worked at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines. This year, she was celebrated in a number of media, with Lisa Immordino Vreeland's documentary "The Eye Has to Travel"; Amanda Mackenzie Stuart's biography "Empress of Fashion"; a museum exhibition in Venice, Italy; and a Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award in Beverly Hills. (September)
Imperfect pitch
"It's not a journey. Every journey ends, but we go on." So began Brad Pitt's now-infamous Chanel No. 5 ad, and it seems that the commercial will go on in the form of countless parodies. The black-and-white ad's weird spoken-word tone was widely spoofed on TV and the Internet and provided an easy joke for late-night talk shows. For his part, Pitt denies seeing the parodies but says "fair play" of the jokesters poking fun. (November)
Babe in the woods
Tavi Gevinson launched a fashion blog, Style Rookie, at age 11. This year, at the advanced age of 16, she sang "Heart of Gold" in the animated film "Cadaver," was cast in an upcoming live-action movie in August and published her first book, "Rookie Yearbook One," in September. Oh, and she gave a Ted talk. (February, August, September, April)
Bond in style
This year marked 50 years of James Bond on film and 50 years of Bond's sartorial flair. The latest chapter, "Skyfall," with suits (and, yes, a tuxedo) by Tom Ford, was released in November. Some critics called it the best Bond yet, and the box office seems to agree — earlier this month it became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing movie of all time. (November)
Tribal trouble
November might have been Native American Heritage month, but a couple of gaffes proved that pop culture still has a long way to go in the sensitivity department. No Doubt's Wild West-themed "Lookin' Hot" video featured Gwen Stefani on horseback, with a feather in her hair, and the Victoria's Secret fashion show had model Karlie Kloss marching down the runway in a bikini and a feather headdress — a scene that was cut before the broadcast aired. Both No Doubt and Victoria's Secret felt the need to quickly and publicly apologize. (November)
Michael Darling contributed to this report


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Epic failures in the game development field.
This blog covers funny/weird issues and bugs from games that happened during development.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Modern Gamedev Bingo
(Thanks Christina)
5 comments:
- Feferuco said...
"Is an FPS" is supposed to be a negative thing? Are all things in there supposed to be negative?
- February 1, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Pedro Luchini said...
They're not necessarily "negative," but they're all things we've seen a million times. The more a game borrows from this table, the more it can be tagged as derivative and uninspired.
- February 1, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Feferuco said...
I dunno, that table is extremely broad. Being an FPS doesn't means the game is derivative or uninspired.
Not to mention that being derivative and uninspired isn't exactly a new thing in games.
If anything, I'd say that games of today are way more original than they were years ago.
- February 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM
>Are all things in there supposed to be negative?
I believe some "indie" game developers think so. I'm surprised there is no cell "more than 60 minutes gameplay".
- February 1, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- Big McLargeHuge said...
Where's "trailer made by Blur"?
- January 28, 2013 at 12:48 PM
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It's important to note that when the CBO calculates the long-term deficit, it is obligated to assume that Congress will allow the cuts to go through as scheduled, even though that has never happened and politically is incredibly unlikely to come to pass. So the current deficit projections are something of an elaborate fiction, including the expiration of tax cuts which will never expire and spending cuts which will never be allowed to take place.
The White House Budget Office has more discretion; the Bush administration used to do the same thing with regard to deficit projections, pretending the deficit was smaller than it really was; Obama's Budget Office did away with these tricks, assumed that the cuts would be blocked, and gave a more honest, larger projection of the federal deficit.
The initial plan was just to repeal the SGR, and that was part of HR 3200, the initial House health reform bill, and a key point in securing the support of the AMA. The problem with that was that there was political pressure to keep the cost of healthcare reform under $100 Billion per year, a somewhat arbitrary but symbolically important figure, and the cost of repealing the SGR amounts to $250 Billion over 10 years, or $25 Billion per year. So it was dropped from the final bills, and Congress is planning on addressing the SGR in a separate piece of legislation.
Enter HR 3961, The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009. According to its summary[PDF]:
[This] legislation will repeal a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010 and replace it with a stable system that ends the cycle of threats of ever-larger fee cuts followed by short-term patches. Permanent reform of physician payments in Medicare will guarantee that Medicare beneficiaries continue to enjoy the excellent access to care that they do today. It will also follow the President's lead by ending a budget gimmick that artificially reduces the deficit by assuming physician payments will be cut by 40 percent over the next several years even though Congress has consistently intervened to prevent those cuts from occurring.Sounds great, right? And even better, they're being fiscally responsible, making statutory the "Pay-Go" principle:
The Medicare Physician Payment Reform legislation will be considered in the House under a procedure which will add the text of H.R. 2920, the Statutory PAYGO Act of 2009, as passed by the House on July 22nd before being sent to the Senate. The "pay as you go" principle of budget discipline requires Congress to find a way to pay for any new spending, outside of an economic crisis.Wow. These Democrats in Congress are the most responsible, principled, courageous lawmakers ever. So, let's read on and see where they found the money to offset the SGR fix. A new tax on soda pop? Cuts to the F-22 program? I can't wait to find out!
A previous Congress established the policy for paying Medicare doctors, so the update for 2010 is not a new policy to be paid for. The Statutory PAYGO Act would apply this principle to all new tax and spending policies, and would allow Congress to exclude the impact of continuing policies currently in place, including Medicare payments to physicians. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act would not increase total payments to physicians above what they are today and therefore, would not be subject to the paygo requirement.Oh.
So, let me get this straight, in the very same bill, indeed in the very same paragraph of your press release, you are going to:
a) Champion the fiscally conservative Pay-as-you-go principal that you are encoding into law, and
b) Define $250 Billion in previously-unaccounted-for spending as "not new" and allow it to accrue to the deficit.
Wow. That's chutzpah, on the Bushian level. It's also criminally reckless and dishonest.
I feel some sympathy for these guys -- they're facing withering criticism over $90 Billion in new annual spending for healthcare (while a $680 Billion defense appropriation passes with barely a peep), and they are desperate to find cover to minimize the apparent costs. It even makes sense to split the SGR fix off into another vehicle, since it's not truly part of the health insurance & delivery reforms proposed -- it's a repair for a mistake Congress made in 1997. I also understand that if they were to honestly account for the cost, it might well sink the whole effort. But geez, try a little subtlety! If you're going to lie to us, at least make the deception plausible. Better yet, don't even try to look responsible, just kick the can down another 12 months (like the Senate apparently plans to) and come up with a fiscally responsible fix then. (The risk of that, I assume, would be to lose the support of the AMA for health reform in general.)
The take-home here is that there is generally little to no political advantage in fiscally responsible policy-making, and there is significant downside risk. It's true of all parties, to some degree, and it's painful to see the Democrats falling into the same short-sighted trap that has created the huge general budget crisis that we are facing in the coming years.


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ORLANDO, FLA. (April 5, 5:15 p.m. ET) — While mold makers and component suppliers are busy helping companies develop the perfect high precision mold, Advanced Concepts & Precision Components LLC is looking at what happens to that mold once it goes on the shop floor.
Often, during setup, the traditional steel locating ring on the floor strikes the injection molding press platen, creating small chips on the platen. Those chips can throw off placement of the mold on the platen, causing small deviations on the surface that impact precision during molding.
"The surface can be repaired, but never to (machine) specs again," said President Tony Cerniglia.
Cerniglia created the platenGUARD Locating Ring with a protective surface on the steel ring to reduce the potential for damage to the platen surface from the locating ring. The platenGUARD is now being used by both tooling components and machine manufacturers and is on display at Mold-Masters Ltd. (Booth 4463). PCS Co. (Booth 2571) and DMS (Booth 7685) both have licensed the ring and are showing it at NPE 2012.
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Music sensation Alicia Keys has joined BlackBerry as their new Global Creative Director. With this new position the singer will be working closely with developers, retailers and consumers in order to promote BlackBerry. BlackBerry also noted that she will help the company connect with "working moms" to help make juggling work and play a little easier.
BlackBerry has long needed a new celebrity face, and Alicia Keys couldn't be a more perfect candidate for the job. Keys admitted to previously being attached to the iPhone, but has now left the device for BlackBerry 10. This is a great new addition to Team BlackBerry!


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Quote:So, do I have it straight - OJKD are all those people who train to move and execute techniques done by Lee, and look as MUCH LIKE HIM as possible while doing it, and JKDC people are like Vunak or Inosanto and are always looking for ways to push the philosophy in new directions?
Quote:"Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation".
Quote:But, the Foundation is solidifying it into "ONE" way and thus also a "fixed" limitation. This flies in the face of what JKD essentially IS; alive, simple, direct and in particular, 'non-classical'.
Quote:In the long history of martial arts, the instinct to follow and imitate seems to be inherent in most martial artists, instructors and students alike. This is partly due to human tendency and partly because of the steep traditions behind multiple patterns of styles. Consequently, to find a refreshing, original, master teacher is a rarity. The need for a "pointer of the way" echoes.
Quote:When you get down to it, real combat is not fixed and is very much "alive." The fancy mess (a form of paralysis) solidifies and conditions what was once fluid, and when you look at it realistically, it is nothing but a blind devotion to the systematic uselessness of practicing routines or stunts that lead to nowhere.
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