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In 1940, inspired by a tragic accident, a New York pathologist came up with the scenario for a perfect murder.
His idea was based on the deaths of five longshoremen, their bodies found in the cargo hold of a steamer docked on the East River. The boat had been carrying cherries from Michigan. The men had been bunking in the room where the fruit was stored and to the shock of their co-workers, as work started to unload the cherries, all five were found lifeless in their beds.
When investigators from the New York City medical examiner's office arrived, they discovered that the fruit had been chilled by placing large containers of "dry ice" in the storage area. Dry ice was, of course, not ice at all but carbon dioxide (CO2) in its solid form, resembling breathtakingly cold chunks of frosted glass. At standard atmospheric pressure, water (H2O) ice freezes as temperatures slip just below 32°F. Carbon dioxide solidifies (a process called deposition) at −109.3 °F.
As it warms – say, as it sits in a fruit storage area – it begins returning to its gaseous state, a transition known as a phase change. The solid chunks shrink without the seeping wet of melting water ice, hence the name dry ice (patented in 1924 by the DryIce Corporation of America). Instead there is a steady seep of gas in the surrounding air. Mostly this is nothing to worry about - unlike its chemical cousin, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide is not acutely poisonous – and, in fact, the chilly vapors lifting off dry ice have been used to create a fog effects in places ranging from theatres to Halloween parties.
But there is a risk. Carbon dioxide is denser than oxygen-rich air and can, notably in confined spaces, essentially displace the breathable atmosphere, settling into its surroundings like an invisible but suffocating blanket.
And this is what the city's medical examiners realized had happened to their dead longshoremen. The men's blood was "saturated with carbon dioxide and the men had obviously died from asphyxia," explained assistant medical examiner Edward Martens in his 1940 book, The Doctor Looks at Death.
Still, he added, finding CO2 in the blood went only part way to solving the puzzle. Carbon dioxide is always naturally present in human blood. It's a byproduct of the way we metabolize oxygen and as it builds up, we exhale it away. If a person is murdered by suffocation and cannot exhale, the gas also builds up in the blood: "Exactly the same autopsy picture would have been found if the men had died from being smothered by holding, say, a pillow over their mouths."
"This brings up a rather interesting possibility for a method of murder that would be extremely difficult to detect," the doctor, Edward Marten, continued. "I pass this on, for what it is worth, to writers of detective stories." In his scenario, a sleeping or heavily intoxicated person slumbers in bed. The killer places a bucket, packed with dry ice, on the floor, shuts all windows, and closes the door tightly as he leaves. Within a few hours, the victim suffocates. When someone else opens the door, normal air refills the room, whisking away all trace of the murder weapon: "The trick is that when dry ice evaporates it leaves absolutely no trace behind, so that the investigating detectives would find nothing except a dry and completely empty pail."
Still, Marten considered that a better tip for fiction writers than real-life killers. The purchase of dry ice was easy to track, the material so cold as to bring on frostbite if handled improperly, and an ideally airtight room almost impossible to find. And someone, after all, might wonder about that peculiarly placed empty pail.
Nevertheless, I'd like to take this moment to pay tribute to carbon dioxide, as one of the most important – and dangerous- gases on the planet. We tend to discount its lethal potential by contrast with its toxic chemical cousin, carbon monoxide (CO). Thanks to its ability to block oxygen circulation in the blood stream, carbon monoxide drifting from faulty heaters, generators, cars accidentally left running, furnaces and other fuel-burning machinery is estimated to kill some 500 people in the United States every year and send thousands of others to doctors and hospitals.
Left ro right: Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide, and Carbonic acid.
And we tend to discount carbon dioxide as an actual poison because we're focused instead on all the other ways it can – and does - cause trouble. These days, it's best known its best known as a "greenhouse gas", for its ability to trap heat in the atmosphere. Numerous studies have found that levels of CO2 have risen steadily due to human activities – ranging from industrial burning of carbon-rich fuels to deforestation to agricultural practices. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates , for instance, that in 2005, "global atmospheric concentrations of CO2 were 35 percent higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution." Although other gases are also linked to the current scenario of human-induced climate change, carbon dioxide is considered by many to be the most important factor.
Of course, even that doesn't really give full credit to the ways that carbon dioxide can alter the environment. For instance, scientists calculate that our oceans absorb a good proportion of the gas generated by human activities. Unfortunately, when you dissolve CO2 into H2O you rather logically end up with the compound H2CO3, better known as carbonic acid. If you don't recognize it, it's the rather weak acid found in carbonated soft drinks (although not so weak that countless middle school students haven't studied its corrosive effect on everything from teeth to lug nuts).
It's not surprising, then, that marine biologists have expressed alarm about the increasing acidification of the oceans. One recent report I found evaluated predicted increases in carbonic acid levels on California mussels, finding a notable thinning of their shells and a decrease in their overall size. A study conducted by Norwegian scientists also found that overall that mussel larvae decreased in size, but suggested, hopefully, that the effects might be mitigated if, as seemed probable, only the larger larvae would survive. Of course, mussels aren't far from the only species at risk, as a National Science Foundation report concluded recently, listing everything from coral to marine algae.
Which is just another way of saying that we're deep into a global chemistry experiment with one of nature's most important – troublesome and occasionally lethal – chemical compounds.
There are many reasons, in fact, why we should regard carbon dioxide with respect, if not wariness.
And, certainly, one finds that kind of response at a subconscious level. A rather fascinating experiment a couple of years ago found that just inhaling a small amount carbon dioxide triggered a fear response in mice. And there's an equally fascinating wealth of research about the relationship between human panic disorders and CO2 inhalation. Far beyond my New York murder scenario, there's rather horrifying evidence that occasionally this can be a panic-worthy gas.
The best example of that comes from a real life event, a catastrophic natural release of carbon dioxide in Lake Nyos in Cameroon during the summer of 1986. Beneath that beautiful lake, geothermal seeps release CO2 into the deep lake waters, normally trapped near the bottom by pressure and cold. But in this case, apparently, the lake became oversaturated with the gas and on August 21, 1986, the lake waters effectively turned over, carbon dioxide fizzing explosively upward, the waters of Lake Nyos turning a startling red as iron deposits were stirred about. The rapidly released gas settled in a suffocating layer into the valleys around the lake. So many people died – an estimated total of 1,746 – that eventually the website Snopes.com felt compelled to investigate. Snopes reported that the event was real and, in fact, not the only case of suffocation deaths due to carbon dioxide seeps at lakes in Cameroon. Since that time, in fact, measures have been taken to maneuver the gas out of the lakes.
And this, of course, brings me back to plotting a CO2 murder.
I discovered Martens' theory and his long out-of-print book while researching early 20th century forensic toxicology a few years ago. At first, I just liked the improbability, a medical examiner cooking up a supposedly unsolvable murder. But what's stayed with me is the implicit message –that we're talking about a dangerous compound.
It's a message to remember as we move deeper into our global experiment in greatly increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in our environment. For those who haven't taken the experiment seriously – in my opinion, still far too many – it's a reminder that they should start doing so now. And for those who need no reminder of the bigger carbon dioxide picture, I think I can still pass along at least one useful tip - in case of strangers bearing buckets of dry ice, sleep with your windows open.
Images: 1. Dry Ice Vaporizing, 2. Sliced Dry Ice, 3. Dry Ice Sublimation, 4. Carbon dioxide (model), 5. Carbon monoxide (model), 6. Carbonic acid (model), 7. Carbon dioxide emissions, 8. Ocean acidification diagram, 9. Lake Nyos
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About the Author: Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer and the best-selling author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. A professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin, she blogs about chemistry culture at Speakeasy Science.
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Goldberg's debut column appeared Thursday.
She writes that marijuana eases the pressure, pain and stress of glaucoma, and her vaporizing pen allows her to get the right amount in small sips.
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Needles: Size 3 US
Cast on: 50-60 stitches depending on how tall you want it to be. I used 56. Note: I used a crochet cast on, picking up my stitches from the back loops of the chain, so that later I could unzip the crochet and have live stitches, facilitating the three needle bind-off closure.
Knit in garter, alternating two colors, and cut and changing colors whenever it suits you.
So that the cowl lies flat against the body I added short rows every 5-7 ridges. Here's how>>>
At the bottom end of the knitting, knit about 20 stitches and bring yarn to the front, slip the next stitch wrapping yarn around the slipped stitch and bring it to the back and turn work.
That's it.
I made my cowl about 22" long before blocking. After blocking it was about 25" long. Then I joined the ends with a three needle bind off on the inside, making it totally invisible on the right side.


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Out on his own
An approximately six month old Barred Owl out on his own. I followed this brood for most of the early spring until one afternoon I found this one split off from the others and hunting on his own.
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A ghost in the pines
I found this owl in a stand of tall pines actively hunting one evening just before sunset. Like a spirt he made no noise as he swooped down repeatedly onto unsuspecting Voles.
A sliver of light
I found this Barred owl one evening in late summer inside of a large pine tree. At first she was in a darker area but after a failed hunting attempt she moved to another branch. Which just so happened to be where a small bit of light from the setting sun was coming through the bows.
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A barred owl stretching it's wings as it wakes up in the early evening
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It would appear that there are some new Owls on the block at Innis woods.
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Barred Owl sunning himself
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This little guy seems to be the oldest of the brood, and he is quite the character. Today he made sure I got to see him yawn a few times after their breakfast.
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Barred Owl at sunset
Hunting frogs
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Hunting in the afternoon
A eastern grey Screech owl has a look on world domination on his face.
Showing off her prize
In four years of watching this Barred owl I have never seen her catch something this large. She seemed to want to show it off for a few minutes before eating it.
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It was windy this afternoon and the wind was keeping everyone alert in the nest.
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Water Drops
I found those water drops after while being on the round trip with our dog after heavy rainfall. There were those big leaves and they all have small water drops on their surface. But I needed to hurry as our dog was running through the plants destroying all those drops on the plants.
Exit the Dark
This picture is from within the Cave Cueva de los Verdes. Yes, it is in the cave and there is life as well. It on the way to the exit of the cave and one of the places, where the sun gets into the cave. And that's the reason, why you can find those big flowers as well.
Walking through the dark the whole time and seeing the light through the big leaves is an extremely intense moment. Don't miss this while visiting the cave.
Fir Cone
The summer is not really over and the first fir cones lay in the grass. And even if we will have a wonderful week in greek in the next time, you know that the summer has come to an end. For those who have to stand up early in the morning feel, that the air gets fresh.
But from a photographer point of view, this is the perfect time to make beautiful pictures of sunrises. The cold air together with some humidity and fog create perfect moments. Let's see if I can capture the perfect moment this year during the next month. What I know for sure, I will need to stand up early the next month.
Yet, another flower picture, exactly a buttercup. This time, from the garden of my parents in law. I'm still totally excited how well they included me in their family.
Looks like I was taking a lot of pictures of flowers in the last years. This one is from the flower who look like a snowball. The flower actually is called guelder rose. Even if the flower is not fully white is really looks like a snowball. And the bush was full of them.
Funny side story. The bush was next to a small pool and I could only take a picture with the sun on the flower while standing in the small pool.
Structure of a Leaf
If you have the sunlight behind a leaf, you can see the structure of the leaf. Taking the picture during sunset creates a very special light. If I plan a picture, most of the time I plan for sunset or sunrise, because of the special light during this time.
Banana Tree.
My parents have some banana trees in their garden and those trees have really large leaves. And if you have a bright light source, like the sun, behind the leaves you can see the great structure of the leaf.
Apple Blossom
Nice shot of some apple blossoms during last year spring in the garden of my parents. If everything goes well, I will be able to take this kind of picture in my own garden. We are currently preparing everything to build our own house next year. It takes a lot of my free time, so I'm not able to take a lot of new pictures. But fortunately, I have still a large number of older ones.
I took the pictures during sunset to get a good light. But at the moment I do not have the time to stay up that early or stay awake that late to see the sunrise or sunset.
Peach Blossom
As I was a small boy, I planted a peach tree in my parents garden. And since then, my parents had a lot of peaches every year. And before you can eat a peach, the tree is having a lot of peach blossoms.
Acorn Fruit Cup
This time, I found an empty acorn fruit cup, on an old stump. The whole stump was covered with moss. The acorn fruit cup was empty and I could not find the acorn fruit. And sometimes this is like life. It feels empty. But as the missing acorn fruit, it is somewhere and maybe from the missing acorn fruit a new tree is growing. And this is like life again. It might feel empty, but it isn't. You are there and you could create wonderful new things to make life liveable.
Yellow Flower Power
I found the yellow flower in the hotel garden during our last trip to Crete. I#m not sure, what type of flower it is, but I think it could be an edible canna. But please let me know if you know what kind of flower it is.
I found this flower as we were searching a good place for family pictures and honestly, this was the perfect spot. The light was good and the flower was more like a shrub. But the yellow flowers with the soft background made us very nice family pictures, for our small family.
Yellow Crocus
I think it was during the Easter holidays two years ago when I discovered this yellow crocus. There were a lot of snowdrops around the crocus but the warm yellow makes him very special between those white snowdrops.
It was the first colorful flower in spring and if I remember correctly it was also the first warm day of the year. So we did a lot of outdoor activities and my daughter had to test how fast and high she can swing. It was too fast and too high for me, but my daughter and her grandfather enjoyed it a lot.
I often remember my self to those peaceful times with her. She is growing to fast and I can only remind anybody, enjoy every moment with your kids, before they getting older and start to argue with you :)
A snowdrop in late winter is like the new idea. And like an idea it starts with small green tips, coming through the snow. After some time they get bigger and stronger and finally they are there, fully grown with many many white flowers. Just like an idea, which starts small. But over time gets stronger, you invest more time and energy to make it real and in the end, you have reached your goal. And then, you look back and you see all the hard times on the way. But you know that it is worth it. You know that you have done this. You know that you can do it again. And you know, that you can reach everything which starts with a small idea. You start to ignore all those people, which do not support you or putting stones in your way. And you find people, which support you, which loves you and you will find one person which you will never let go.
New Flowers
New Flowers on the front entrance at my mother. They feel quite good there in the warm sun in early spring. They bring new colors after the grey winter.
Yellow Blossom
The first sign of spring. Yellow blossoms on a small tree. They look even better with the blue sky in the background. Normally they wouldn't be that big that early but that doesn't matter, because they looks so great.
Yellow Flower Part 2
If you have seen my last yellow flower picture, here is another one, from a different yellow flower. I found this one at a nother family party in the garden of my aunt. If was a big bush of yellow flowers, but thos one the picture where the most yellow ones.
Yellow Flower
I found this flower during a family party in the garden of my mother. Among others, the was the only yellow flower which was fully open and complete yellow.
Flowers on the Table
At our last family party, my wife did a great color composition for coffee table. The candle and the flowers on the table are matched to the colors around us. Well done.
Where is the Egg
Last year we started to search ester eggs outside with my little daughter and one of the eggs was hidden in one of the flowers. It took my little daughter quite long to find the egg but it was a big fun.
Colors of Autumn
As we did a walk with my little daughter during one of the last beautiful days in last autumn, I saw those trees in showing the beautiful colors auf autumn. They still resist to drop all of their leafs.
Orange Flower
The first orange flower in our garden.
Green and Red
Green and Red trees in the backyard.
Green Wall
A green wall in front of our balcony
Flowers and Snow
Flowers and Snow on our Balkoon in March.
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Wyoming's day in the spin
Talk about surprising: The Democratic presidential candidates actually paid some attention to Wyoming. With only 522,830 residents, according to last summer's Census Bureau estimate, Wyoming has the smallest population of all 50 states. Furthermore, no Democratic presidential candidate has carried the Equality State in 44 years, not since the Lyndon B. Johnson landslide of 1964, when Johnson got 61 percent of the popular vote nationally, but only 57 percent of Wyoming's.
Even so, both Democratic candidates worked the state before its March 8 caucuses. Sen. Barack Obama spoke in Casper and Laramie. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife in Riverton, Laramie, and Rock Springs. Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke in Cheyenne, and their daughter, Chelsea, went to Casper.
Wyoming hasn't seen this sort of campaigning since 1948, the last election that routinely involved train travel. Harry Truman, crossing the state on the Union Pacific's transcontinental line, spoke in Cheyenne, Laramie and Rawlins on June 6, 1948, while on his way to California - and Truman did carry Wyoming that year, the next-to-last time a Democrat managed that feat. It should be noted, though, that by the twisted arithmetic of the Electoral College, Wyoming has the most powerful voters in America. Each state gets as many electors as it has representatives (based on population) and senators (each state gets two).
So Wyoming gets three electoral votes, which means that each vote represents 174,277 residents. California gets 55 electoral votes - but each vote there represents 664,603 Californians. Each of the Lone Star State's 34 electoral votes represents 703,370 Texans. Thus, one Wyoming voter is worth 3.81 California voters or 4.03 Texas voters. These calculations could inspire all sorts of musings about the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in arranging such a system, but we need to get back to the 2008 Democratic campaign.
At issue in Wyoming were only 12 of the 4,408 delegates to the national convention. Wyoming has a low population, and states also get bonus delegates by voting for Democrats - not a Wyoming trait.
The race between Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton is tight. But any reasonable way you cut it, the best either candidate could have done would be an 8-4 edge over the other. In reality, then, it was at most a four-vote pickup that was at stake. Was that really enough for Wyoming to merit all that attention, when campaign resources could have been used elsewhere?
Perhaps not in a mathematical sense, but Wyoming did matter for the 2008 campaign narrative. Obama wins the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3. Clinton stages a comeback in New Hampshire on Jan. 8. Obama rules at the Feb. 5 primaries and caucuses. Clinton comes back on March 4 with victories in Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas - except that Obama will likely emerge with 98 Texas delegates to Clinton's 95.
Waiting for all the Texas results to be in would disturb the national back-and-forth narrative, though, so as March 8 dawned in Wyoming, both candidates needed to prove something. Clinton does pretty well in primaries, but needed to show she could win in a caucus state, even if it was in one of those places that her staffers have called "insignificant." Obama needed to put a victory on the board in order to reverse Clinton's "momentum."
Obama won 61 percent of the caucus votes, which translated into 7 Wyoming delegates to Clinton's 5. He's done pretty well among Democrats in the Mountain West, winning Idaho, Utah and Colorado before Wyoming. And in Nevada, like Texas, Obama got more delegates even though Clinton won the popular vote.
Naturally, the Clinton campaign put a spin on the Wyoming results, with her campaign manager, Maggie Williams, explaining that even though her candidate got only 39 percent of the vote, "We are thrilled with this near-split in delegates."
Wyoming had its unexpected moment of national fame, and now the campaigns have moved on.
As they build up to the next big contest, the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, which is presumably in a significant state instead of one of ours, we'll doubtless hear more from the Clinton campaign. Considering what's come out to date, the sound bites may well go along these lines:
"America, we tried this once before. An Illinois lawyer ran for president. Sure, he was eloquent, but he had only one term of experience in Washington to go with his few years in the state Legislature. And after he was elected, a deadly and divisive civil war broke out in our country. Let's not let allow that to happen again."
"As far as I know, Sen. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. But we need to be sure about this, because Hawaii did not become a state until Aug. 21, 1959 - less than two years earlier. To the best of my knowledge, he was born in the United States. But we do need to be sure about this."
"Sen. Obama has virtually no experience in the private sector, the most vital part of the American economy. Wouldn't it make more sense to vote for someone who has been a bank attorney, a successful commodities trader and a corporate director of the largest retail company in the world, Wal-Mart - where people have been working for change for years?"
"There are credible reports that thousands of Republicans in Ohio and Texas, as advised by a prominent radio talk-show host, crossed over to vote for Sen. Clinton in those states' primaries. In a general election, it's important to have a candidate who has demonstrated an ability to attract votes from Republicans and independents."
"It's 3 a.m. The red telephone rings in the White House. It's Bill Clinton. There was a misunderstanding when the vice squad raided the Emperor's Club, and he needs someone to come down to the precinct and bail him out. Who do you think should take the call?"
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Although Mårdøn Smet was educated to be a stone cutter, his career became comics. After working for some alternative magazines, he joined Rune Kidde, Peter Kielland-Brandt and others in founding the studios Tegneserieværkstedet, which was later renamed the Pinligt Selskab (Embarrassing Company). After making the pornographic 'Spildte Guds ord på Balle-Lars' ('God's Word Wasted on Lars'), he started to make the child-friendly 'Mumitroldene' ('The Moomin Trolls').
When his own style started to show in the series, the producers of the series didn't approve of his work anymore. Smet stopped making the series, but not before his 'Mumitroldene'-album 'Den lange vej hjem' ('The Long way home') was chosen best album of the year in 1995.
Starting in 1991, Mårdøn Smet also made the violent gag series 'Stig & Martha'. This bizarre cartoon couple has made several guest appearances in different Danish magazines. Smet has also drawn Disney comics for the publisher Egmont.


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UnBooks:Daddy, There's a Zombie in the Garden
I looked up at the sky and saw the sun trying to squeeze through the grey clouds. Fantastic. The weather stays like this Emily won't want to go to the park and I can have a wank in the shower. Should really do something with this shitty garden as well. Look like a fucking tink – that old fridge really has to go. I was just about to open the door when Emily ran out with her skipping rope.
"Hiya Daddy!" she said as she ran past and began to skip.
"Hey Ems, what have you been up to recently?" 'What have you been up to recently?' she's not a second-cousin and you only saw her this morning, she's not going to have written a fucking thesis or anything of any significance – oh shit, now I missed what she said. "That's great honey. I'm just gonna go inside and see what Charley's been up to, recently." Might as well be consistently moronic.
"Charley went out. He said he had to get some gear from his friend who was at the shops. I told him that we need milk too."
Fuck. He better not be buying E. The social workers will not let that slide a second time. Maybe he means camping gear though, that's probably possible. Going to surprise us with camping... Maybe I'd prefer the Es....? "Oh-K. I'm just gonna go for a shower, shout me if you need anything." But try not to need anything. I'll only ignore you.
Chapter 1: The Zombie. In the Garden.
I'd spent a while building up a very specific fantasy revolving around Russell T Davis (because even in fantasyland I try not set my sights too high) and was just about to reach my climax when Emily started shouting.
"Daddy!" her voice literally tore through my mind replacing the images of Russell in a fat cyberman costume with the labour room and screaming bloody vaginas.
"Yes?" I called as I stepped out of the shower.
"Daddy!" She called again.
"What is it!?" I shouted as I turned the shower off.
"DADDY! There's a zombie in the garden!"
Oh great, another one of her mind-fuck games. Fine. I pulled on my jeans and t-shirt, as I drifted back to the fantasy (the bit where the Slitheen came home early by an accident) and trudged downstairs to see what this "zombie" was all about. Probably just another drunk.
"Come on, it's out in the garden, it's out in the garden!" She chanted as she tugged at my shirt and dragged me outside.
In the garden there was a zombie. All dead but alive and bloody. He looked up at me and stumbled forward a bit before falling over. My wank, interrupted. For this? Fucking marvellous. This isn't even one of the better apocalypses... The zombie tried to get back up but was too poorly coordinated and just ended up hitting its head of the paving again. And again.
"Emily, go inside and play now, ok. It's not safe out here." Oh shit! Shit! You delayed it for thirty-nine and a half years but with that sentence you just turned into your mother. Well done, Doug, well done. "Actually Ems, wait here. You can look after yourself."
"But the zombie!"
"I know, I'm just gonna go inside and get the motor-carver that Granddad bought me."
"But!" She protested.
"Ah, no buts. Just do as I say." Oh fuck, there she is again the Nazi. What next? "It's for your own good"?
I spent a while looking for the confounded thing – I was certain that I hadn't sold it! Almost certain. Maybe. Eventually I found it under the sink, somehow it had worked its way behind presents thirty eight (the fifth drill in the series) and thirty seven (hammer number eight). I unwrapped the cellophane and rooted around in the box, and wouldn't you just know: the batteries were not included. Honest to god, dad, if you're gonna buy me a shit present you might at least make sure it works.
As I passed the front door, making my way to the living room, I stuck me head out to make sure Emily hadn't been eaten. The zombie was still trying and failing to get up and Emily was looking at it with what I took to be steadfast bravery.
"Daddy, I'm scared!" she cried.
"It's OK, honey I'm just gonna get some batteries for this, then we can deal with it ok?" She nodded. "You don't mind if I borrow some from your Wii remote do you?" She shook her head. "Good girl."
I prised the batteries out of the remotes and then opened the carver. "Oh fucking hell!" I cursed, realising that it wasn't four double-As I needed but two of the bigger ones that you get in torches. I don't even own any torches!
Chapter 2: The Quest. For Batteries.
I walked out the front door. Holding the carver in one hand and the back-cover in the other.
"Damn thing doesn't take normal batteries." I explained. "Going to have to go up to Mr Patel's and get some ok, you wait here."
"Can't I come with you!?"
"No, honey, you'll be fine."
"But the zombie!" she pointed to the zombie who failed to get up again, causing his head to hit the ground, with a noise like a fracturing eye-socket.
"Look here, you should count yourself lucky; Grandma didn't let me out of the house until I was fourteen." With that I walked off. The good parenting guide said you just have to lay down the law; tell them what's what and refuse to negotiate - and who am I to argue with a published guide?
Mr Patel's shop wasn't far, but with the current "situation" it took a bit longer to get there than normal. Cars sped up and down the road meaning it took ages to get across without being killed and the people were just as bad; after the fourth crashed into me, in a frightened panic - I snapped. I grabbed the woman's sleeve:
"Look, lady, what are you running for?"
"Th-there's a horrible, horrible zombie dwarf chasing me!" she sobbed pointing further down the road. I looked at where she was pointing and sighed.
"No – look, that's not small it's far away. Ok? Now go home and make yourself a cup of tea and relax." She nodded and then walked off, looking over her shoulder.
The bell rang as I walked into Mr Patel's shop.
"Good evening, Mr Volouvaunt!" he beamed.
"Hi there, it's a bit shit outside isn't it?"
"It has been cloudy, yes."
"That and the zombies."
"Ah yes the zombies! One of them tried coming in here but I sent him straight back out again! Can't have them scaring away my loyal customers!"
"Yeah I know, I was just having the same conversation with someone outside – you gotta stick up to them. Fight back."
"Absolutely. What can I do for you today?"
"Ah yeah, yeah, I was wondering, do you stock those big batteries? You know the ones that look like fat double-As?" He seemed to consider this for a moment. "They need to fit this." I showed him the carver.
"I should do yes, please wait a moment." He ducked down behind the counter. I tapped out a small beat on the desk as I looked around. There was some shiny new chewing gum on display that I considered buying. Ninety-nine pence though, bit extortionate isn't it? Fuck it, the world's ending, might as well splash out.
Mr Patel popped up again with two different brands. "Yes, we have the Duracell or we have these ones which are a bit cheaper, which would you prefer?" He said thrusting the Duracells ever so slightly forward.
"Eh, I'll go for the cheap ones. I'm not one to be swayed by stupid marketing schemes. My daughter does love that bunny though."
"Very well." He said scanning them through.
"Can I have this as well please?" I said handing him the shiny chewing gum.
On my way out of the shop I bumped into somebody, who staggered backwards and fell over. Well not someone, it was just another zombie.
"Look you fuckers, stay out of Patel's shop, he's worked hard to get this place going and you shouldn't be fucking it up for him." He tried to get up but failed and hit his head off the pavement.
"Thank you for your support Mr Volouvaunt, but I have this under control, really." Mr Patel walked up to the zombie and put the barrel of the shotgun to its temple.
I chewed a bit of the shiny gum as I walked back to my house. It was pretty damned disgusting. Horrible burny mint flavour and it was a little too easy to swallow. I really should have bought a Twix. Is it too late to go back and get a twix?
I got back to my house only to find that Emily had gone inside and the zombie had actually hit his head so many times his brains were decorating my path. I tested the motor-carver and sighed. I'd been looking forward to killing it.
Chapter 3: The "Gear". Was Indeed Drugs.
The toilet flushed as I stepped through the front door. Emily walked past making her way to the living room.
"Hey, I told you to wait outside for me!"
"Charley came back. He forgot the milk and then he told me I could come in."
"Yeah well, he's not your dad. What kind of step-daughter are you? You're meant to hate him."
"He's better than Frank or Graeme. And he's funnier."
"Well actually no, Frank would have been much more stable in the long term and Graeme had a far better sense of humour and I am not going to discuss my relationships with you young lady! Go to your room, I need to talk to Graeme."
"Charley, you mean."
"Go. To. Your. Room!"
She sulked off up the stairs as I made my way through to the living room. Charley was sitting in the couch facing the window staring intently at the zombie that was listlessly thumping its head against the glass. Hannah Montana started wailing upstairs.
"Heya Doug!" Charley shouted in my direction.
I belched. "Charley, I'm leaving you. I mean – well rather, you're leaving me, because this is my house and I have Emily to think about..." Good old Emily, unquestioned motivation for all of the things I do.
"But, but why?"
"Because you're annoying. You treat this place like a drug den and you've just pissed yourself. I'm going to need a new couch."
"Ah, no buts. Now go up to your room and pack your things - you disgust me."
I stood in the doorway making sure that Charley packed his stuff properly.
"Emily." I called over the achingly inoffensive Disney music. "Emily! Come and say goodbye to Uncle Charley." She trudged across the hall like it was the green mile. "Hey come on, he can still visit."
"Can I!?" He asked grinning.
"No, Charley." I said shaking my head. Emily began to cry. "Hey there, come on, chin-up."
"But I don't want Charley to leave!"
"Yes but I do, and I'm older. So there." I stuck out my tongue, which may have been construed as immature and insensitive but at the time I felt it was justified.
Chapter 4: We're Going To. Your Mother's House.
As they hugged and said goodbye there was the sound of shattering glass from downstairs. I revved up the motor-carver and ran down. The living room window had been smashed in and a zombie was trying to unimpale himself from the glass, but was failing. He lifted his neck off the shard and then fell back down again which decapitated him. Again I had been robbed of the chance to do any carving.
Emily and Charley appeared behind me.
"Go back upstairs Emily, pack your bag, we're gonna go to your mother's house, ok?"
"Can I come?" Charley asked.
"Nobody wants you there."
"I want Charley to come!" Emily protested.
"You're seven; British law says you don't get to vote." I said gently informing the facts. "Now come on, it's not safe here." Well probably could just put some plywood up but Noreen only lives a hour away and she's in a high-rise so there's really no contest.
When Emily was packing her bags I saw to it that Charley left.
"Look I'm sorry, it's just I've grown as a person and you haven't." I reassured, using the old "it's not you it's me" tactic.
"But we've only been going out five days."
"Just go, yeah?" I said putting my hand on the door handle.
"Please don't kick me out – I love you!"
"No you don't. Now get your hand off my crotch." I opened the door and three zombies tried to push their way in in. I shoved Charley into them and all four fell over. "Don't forget your bag." I said tossing it to him. I closed the door.
I'll probably never forget his girly screams.
Emily came down the stairs a few moments later, laden with several overnight bags.
"You're gonna have to get rid of some of those, you know."
"Why!?" She shouted.
"Because we have to cycle there."
"But Charley can drive us!" I looked at the window in the door and pulled the curtain across.
"I doubt it."
"But I don't want to cycle! People'll laugh at my stabilisers." She sobbed.
"No they won't, don't be silly. They'll just see that you're learning, nothing wrong with that." I pulled her into a hug. And if you believe that bullshit you'll believe anything.
Chapter 5: The Journey. To The Ex's.
After about an hour we managed to lighten the load down to one rucksack and an overnight bag. I fought the bikes out from the garage and I was just about to deal with the four zombies outside when a car crashed into the front of the house, exploded and annihilated them. I was beginning to think I was never gonna get a chance to use this carver. Fucking useless birthday presents.
And so we were on our way. I was carrying the overly heavy over-night bag on my back which on several occasions threatened to topple me. And then I got a phone call. I fished the phone out of my back pocket and put it to my ear. It continued ringing because I'd forgotten to press the green button.
"God damn these fucking complicated phones!"
"Did you press the red button again, Daddy?"
"Yes, Emily, I— Fuck!" I said half loosing control of the bike for the nineteenth time.
If it's important they'll call back.
After another ten minutes of shaky cycling and dodging buses and zombies I'd given up on getting a call back and so put my phone back in my back pocket. As sod's law dictates, that was when I got called back. As I tried to get the phone out of my pocket for a second time The bike debalanced completely and I knocked my elbow off the road. Hard. Right on the funny bone too.
"What!?" I demanded, slamming the green button. "Yes it's Doug, who the fuck were you expecting? …I'm not pissed off you're just asking stupid questions. …Yeah I know, we're on our way to yours now, ok?"
"Is that Mummy?" Emily asked.
"Well that's where we're going isn't it?" I told her.
"There's no need to be angry."
"No I wasn't talking to you. …Of course Emily's with me, I wouldn't be coming to see you if she wasn't… No, Charley left me—"
"You kicked him out!" Emily shouted.
"You shut up; I'm trying to have a conversation." Then to the phone. "No, I'll tell her to shut up if I want! …Yeah Charley left me, we had to take our bikes. ...No it's perfectly safe, they're slow ones. …Yes She's got her helmet. ...What, no there's a zombie apocalypse – turn your on your TV for fucks sake there's probably something on about it! …No look it's not a movie, try another channel. No, Gordon Brown has always looked like that. We're on our way ok? —Don't do a roast – it's a Thursday you can't do roast on a Thursday, ya freak!"
"Don't call Mummy a freak!"
"Call a spade a spade dear." I said to Emily and then. "...No come on just do some sausages or something, we'll be there soon."
I hung up. Then I pressed the red button to do it properly.
Shortly afterwards me and Emily pulled up to the high rise and dismounted our bikes. To the left there was a group of boys, drinking cider.
"Oi, look at that little girl." One said in an offensively lower class accent. "She can't even ride a bike properly!" they began to laugh. Emily looked up at me with that "I told you so" frown.
"Yeah well, it's all a form of encouragement." I said patting her shoulder.
We walked inside the dark high rise. The walls were covered in graffiti and there was that stink of piss, decay and cheap air freshener that was just as disgusting.
"Do you want to take the stairs, no?" I said.
"I'm tired!"
"Yeah me too." I said calling the lift.
Over the loud rattling and clanking of the ancient mechanics we heard loud laughter from outside:
"Oi look at that man he's covered in blood and smells like poo. Hahahaha – eek!"
"See Emily, that's called karma." I told her as we watched them get mauled by the homeless man.
"But you said they were encouraging me!"
"Can you never just be happy?"
Eventually the elevator arrived. We waited in front of the doors as they slid open. Emily screamed and I jumped back when the zombie ran out of it making that zombie sound. Slightly exited I revved up the motor carver and thrust it into the zombie who screamed in agony.
"Fuck's sake man! I was just having a joke, seriously – lighten up." he said in a broad Welsh accent.
"Oh well come on, there's a time and a place for joking! Now get yourself to a hospital you crazy fuck."
"Me crazy?"
"Just go, if you die I don't want to see it happening."
Before he could use the last of his energy to kill me I dragged Emily into the lift and pressed the big 2. Probably should have taken the stairs after all... Healthier for everyone involved.
"And not a word of this to your mother, you hear?"
Chapter 6: Safe Now. The End.
We walked into Noreen's flat and there was the instant smell of roasting pork.
"I thought I said no roast. It's called "Sunday roast" for a reason, just because it's colloquially shortened to "roast" doesn't mean you can change the rules."
Noreen ran through from the kitchen. "Oh Doug I've missed you! I'm so glad you're safe! Come through to the bedroom."
"No. I'm not falling for that one again. Look what happened last time!" I gently nudged Emily.
"Worth a try I suppose."
"No. Not really."
"I see you're wearing the shirt I gave you!"
"Charley couldn't work the washer. Everything else was dirty."
And so an hour later we sat down to dinner. Noreen was particularly pleased with the carver once it was cleaned and she noted that I'd finally get a chance too use it properly. Emily was looking out the window.
"Come on, honey, come sit down with us." Noreen said as I tried to get the carver to work. Jesus I haven't even used it. Shitty batteries, fucking Mr Patel, con artist bastard.
"But Mummy, there's a zombie outside!"
Noreen looked at me as if I had to do something about it.
"Hey, it's your house, you go deal with it."
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I once saw an interview with the actor James Cagney who, in relating his personal background and its influences, described his father as "a good man going downhill, fast." It seemed his dad waged a daily war with alcoholism, and every day, he lost. The quoted phrase is not from a transcript, just a faulty memory, so don't quote me on it.
At any rate, the accuracy of my memory is immaterial in this instance; the point being, the above phrase flashed relevantly to mind when I read of Keith Olbermann's latest firing-tamtrum-resignation-quarrel-banishment. When I would watch him on MSNBC, Olbermann seemed to be fighting a daily battle for humanity -- ours, and to an uncomfortably and increasingly noticeable extent, his. He had a passion for seeing that we received truth, justice and the real American Way in his broadcasts, even if he had to mangle the contours of good journalism to deliver them.
Like the Cagney quote, I can offer only from rough memory the sad escalation of Olbermann's editorial tabloidism, in which the actual story would often substantively depart from the program's sensationalist headline; and those "special comments" by Olbermann, staged as colorized imitations of Edward R. Murrow celluloids, were wretchedly histrionic and unprofessionally overwrought. In time, I found myself not only cringing at their promotional mention, but seeking refuge elsewhere, anywhere, upon their presentation.
Olbermann, I would think to myself, is better than this. He is manifestly a "good man," clearly in possession of good intentions, but his on-air persona appears to be approaching a kind of reverse-Oscar Wildean mutation: his core, internal goodness is there, plain to intuit, but his pursuit of 'the Cause' is rendering him hideously self-righteous.
In my view, the Cause's virtues speak for themselves when presented straightforwardly and undramatically; but whether out of a need for greater celebrity or a growing conviction that booming passion trumps quiet reason, Olbermann took the meretriciously theatrical route.
I guess it became a habit. A daily, downhill habit.
I don't know. Perhaps it is, in a way, self-righteous of me to point out others' self-righteousness. But if there's any one quality among contemporary progressives -- personified acutely by Keith Olbermann -- that turns me off with an excruciating thud, it's the immediately aforementioned one.


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Longyuan Power passes 10GW capacity in wind installations
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The 49.5MW Longtan Wind Farm is based in Qujing city, 2,500 metres above sea level. It comprises 33 high-altitude wind turbines made by Guodian United Power.
Xie Changjun, general manager of Longyuan Power, said that though the local wind resources were not that rich compared with the northern prairie areas, the wind farm has secure grid access, with nearly 2,500 annual utilisation hours – much higher than the average in Chinese wind farms.
Xie said that Longyuan Power would continue to develop high altitude wind farms. So far, it has secured 3GW wind power resources in Yunnan province. It has put 198MW wind farms in operation and 330MW wind farms are under construction.
It is also planning 1GW wind on plateaus in neighbouring Guizhou province and is installing turbines for the 200MW wind farm in Naqu, Tibet, which is to be completed by 2015.
The company said it would also focus on development of low-wind sites and offshore projects as the higher wind-speed sites in the northern prairie areas have been developed.


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Imagine you have a finite number of "sites" $S$ in the positive quadrant
of the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$,
and from each site $s \in S$, one connects $s$ to every lattice point to which it
has a clear line of sight, in the sense used
in my earlier question: No other lattice point lies along that line-of-sight.
This creates a (highly) nonplanar graph;
here $S=\{(0,0),(5,2),(3,7),(11,6)\}$:
Now, for every pair of edges that properly cross in this graph, delete the longer edge, retaining the shorter edge. In the case of ties, give preference to the earlier site, in an initial sorting of the sites. The result is a planar graph, because all edge crossings have been removed:
Q1. Is this graph $4$-colorable?
Some nodes of this graph (at least those on the convex hull) have a (countably) infinite degree. More generally,
Q2. Is every infinite planar graph $4$-colorable? Which types of "infinite planar graphs" are $4$-colorable?
The context here is that I am considering a type of "lattice visibility Voronoi diagram." One can ask many specific questions of this structure, but I'll confine myself to the $4$-coloring question, which may have broader interest.


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Walmart Neighborhood Market to anchor Marketplace at Central
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OCEAN CITY – Two Ocean City residents were arrested on dozens of counts of theft, malicious destruction of property and other charges last weekend after allegedly breaking into a vehicle owned by an off-duty Maryland State Police trooper at an uptown hotel.
Around 2:30 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers were in the Princess Royale Hotel on 91st Street investigating a reported assault when an individual ran into the lobby and reported there was a man on the street holding down two kids that were attempting to break into his car. The officers followed the witness to 91st Street where they saw a man later identified as an off-duty Maryland State Police trooper holding two individuals, a male and a female, next to a full-size pick-up truck with its doors open.
The victim told OCPD officers he caught the two suspects, identified as Roger Rinker, Jr., 27, and Crystal Tucker, 27, breaking into his truck. Tucker told police her aunt worked in the hotel and that her uncle was in town and that she thought the truck belonged to him and she was "going to [expletive deleted] with him."
Parked directly in front of the victim's truck was a silver passenger car determined to belong to Rinker. Inside the car was a Maryland State Police jacket, which was clearly visible through the windshield of the vehicle. The victim told OCPD officers he was an MSP trooper and that the jacket belonged to him.
At that point, Rinker and Tucker were arrested. A search of Tucker's person turned up a folding knife, several lighters and a bottle of Advil, which the trooper identified as property taken from his truck. A search of Rinker turned up a flashlight that also belonged to the trooper.
The trooper explained he was staying in the hotel with his wife when he went out on the balcony facing 91st Street and observed the silver sedan pull up near his truck. The victim said he observed two suspects walking furtively between the two vehicles, and when he saw the interior light of his truck come on, he ran down to his vehicle. When he arrived at his vehicle, the trooper saw two individuals, later identified as Rinker and Tucker, sitting inside.
The trooper told police he grabbed the two individuals and pulled them from the truck while asking a bystander to run and get the police. Also found on Tucker's person was a screwdriver, which she told police the couple used to pry away the rubber seal around the window to gain entry into the vehicle. A search of Rinker's vehicle revealed a hammer, adjustable wrench, walkie-talkie radios tuned to the same channel, bolt cutters, a chisel-like rock hammer and a metal mallet, all of which are consistent with tools used to break into vehicles, according to the police report.
Tucker agreed to speak with police and admitted the pair had come to the decision to break into vehicles to find objects of value that could be sold for money, which they needed to pay various court fines. Tucker told police the couple had first gone to the parking lot at Seacrets to find vehicles to break into and drove with the detective to the nightclub to point out some of the vehicles they had tampered with including a soft-top Jeep Wrangler.
When finished at Seacrets, Rinker and Tucker allegedly went to the Holiday Inn on 66th Street where they allegedly broke into three more vehicles, stealing various items. After the Holiday Inn, the couple went to the Princess Royale where they broke into three more vehicles.
Rinker and Tucker were charged with 27 counts each, ranging from theft and theft conspiracy to malicious destruction of property to rogue and vagabond.


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Eight killed in one day on Iowa roads
DES MOINES, IA (AP) — The Saturday traffic crash toll has risen to eight with the death of a 62-year-old Des Moines man who'd been driving his motorcycle with his wife.
The Des Moines Register reports that Everett Faux died at a Des Moines hospital on Monday. He and his wife, Laura, on Saturday were riding back to Des Moines after a vacation in Branson, Mo., when he lost control of his motorcycle on Interstate 35 in Warren County.
The Iowa State Patrol says Laura Faux died at the scene. Everett Faux was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.
Authorities say at least six other people died after traffic accidents elsewhere in Iowa on Saturday.


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Happy as a 12-year-old kid with his first box of chalk and a new blackboard, teaching his friends
Shortly after the start of high school, I found myself helping my closest friends with many difficult classes and homework assignments. My "study group" quickly grew and my mother decided to get me a big blackboard and my first box of white chalk. As a 12 year old, I became very popular (although only before exams) and I started to lecture on all sorts of topics, ranging from geography to history, from mathematics to chemistry. What I did not know, I would make up, sometimes with surprising accuracy. Teaching was, and continues to be, an intense personal experience.
My teaching philosophy rests on five basic principles. First, teaching needs to be genuine, since the engine of the entire process is the passion the teacher feels for the subject at hand. Second, teaching must be authentic and it requires a deep understanding of the material. The teacher must identify and transfer the fundamental concepts, yet remain true to the complexity of the material. Third, a teacher must engage the student and establish a connection/dialog from which a "learning" relationship can develop. Fourth, the material must be intellectually stimulating and relevant. Finally, the material must be presented as a building block within the entire "edifice" of knowledge and multiple relationships must be created with other disciplines.
As a teacher, I provide a safe and supportive environment which allows the students to gain confidence in participating and engaging in the learning experience. I encourage and help them develop their independent and original analytical and problem solving skills. I use many (sometimes insane) analogies to help the students internalize concepts and gain insight before knowledge is actually learned. As a result, the detailed information is not only memorized but imprinted with very powerful emotional content.
I strive to the make the classes intellectually stimulating and relevant by showcasing current applications and discussing the implications on the decisions that we are making in the Civil Engineering profession. I place extraordinary emphasis in fundamentals and principles and selectively provide the details to complete the entire picture. I then help the students identify the information and tools required to make informed choices and decisions.
In summary, I strongly believe that without the genuine engagement of the hearts and minds of students, teaching techniques are insufficient to attain a higher level of performance and permanence. Again, I remain grateful for the opportunity to have fun every time I am in front of the class, learning the subject again and again. I feel as happy as the long gone twelve-year old kid with his first box of white chalk and a new blackboard.
Editor's note: Juan Pestana-Nascimento received UC Berkeley's 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award.


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Joaquina Kalukango on Slave Play, Sharing Her Tony Category with Audra McDonald & More on Show People
Joaquina Kalukango has come a long way from singing Monica's "For You I Will" at her eigth grade talent show: "I wore a baptism white dress and was just doing the most." She received a Tony nomination for her performance in Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play. "I'm so grateful to have been a part of Slave Play," she said on Show People with Paul Wontorek. "These actors, the writer, the director, our whole cast and crew, our front-of-house staff, our bartenders, our ushers—it was such a great environment that we were in. We were fully supported by everybody, so to be honored in this way with the 12 Tony nominations is extremely beautiful. I'm so proud of everyone. This is something I dreamed of since I was a kid."
Kalukango shares her Tony category with Laura Linney, Mary-Louise Parker and Audra McDonald, whom she called "the greatest of all time" on Broadway.com. "It's insane," she said of sharing a category with the six-time Tony winner. "I remember when she came to the show. She just had such a generous heart and spirit. That type of support from such a legend is something that every kid needs coming into this business."
In addition to Slave Play, Kalukango's credits include TV and film work. She is set to appear in Lifetime's The Mahalia Jackson Story, starring her former The Color Purple castmate Danielle Brooks and directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon. She shot Amazon's One Night in Miami in New Orleans last February prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. "It's an incredible film," she said of the project, which stars Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. as singer Sam Cooke. "I got to play Betty Shabazz. It's insane. Regina King directed." Kalukango also appeared in HBO's genre-defying Lovecraft Country. "It was amazing," she said of her experience shooting the show.
Though a date for the Tony Awards has yet to be announced, Kalukango is already making plans for the big night. "I have determined that my entire family is going to be fully dressed—gala dressed! I'm going to buy a red carpet. I'm going to put up something outside. We're all going to take pictures. It's going to be a party," she said. "This moment only happens once, right? Your first time being nominated only happens once, so even in this, I want to fully enjoy it as much as I can."
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The Holy Bible,: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised
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Page 501 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 123 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 440 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 279 - And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 221 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield : but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 162 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Page 469 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 495 - I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 500 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 45 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.


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Further, higher, better?
Garrod, Neil and Macfarlane, Bruce (2008) Further, higher, better? In: Garrod, Neil and Macfarlane, Bruce, (eds.) Challenging boundaries: managing the integration of post-secondary education. Routledge / Taylor & Francis, New York, NJ, USA, pp. 3-12. ISBN 978-0-415-98931-2 (hbk) 978-0-415-98932-9 (pbk) 978-0-203-88514-7 (eBook)Full text not available from this repository.
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It is true to say that I have deliberately avoided commenting on the royal wedding because it is tedious and every other idiot who can type has, but I couldn't resist this little gem of a picture. It sums up the day and the dynasty.
I had heard that she gave good head but as a Cat I thought that she was generous with some of the best bits of left over fish!
They say that every picture tells a story and wow what a story this one tells! Poor little kate I bet she felt a bit of a knob on the balcony, she should have told whatever his name is to wait until they got inside. But then that's the royals for you, if they want something they want it now!
One of the many reasons that they have to go!
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The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, tracing the structure of the young universe. BOSS charts the history of the universe's expansion in order to illuminate the nature of dark energy, and new measures of large-scale structure have yielded the most precise measurement of expansion since galaxies first formed.
The latest quasar results combine two separate analytical techniques. A new kind of analysis, led by physicist Andreu Font-Ribera of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and his team, was published late last year. Analysis using a tested approach, but with far more data than before, has just been published by Timothée Delubac, of EPFL Switzerland and France's Centre de Saclay, and his team. The two analyses together establish the expansion rate at 68 kilometers per second per million light years at redshift 2.34, with an unprecedented accuracy of 2.2 percent.
"This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting apart at a velocity of 68 kilometers a second as the universe expands," says Font-Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division. "The uncertainty is plus or minus only a kilometer and a half per second." Font-Ribera presented the findings at the April 2014 meeting of the American Physical Society in Savannah, GA.
BOSS employs both galaxies and distant quasars to measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), a signature imprint in the way matter is distributed, resulting from conditions in the early universe. While also present in the distribution of invisible dark matter, the imprint is evident in the distribution of ordinary matter, including galaxies, quasars, and intergalactic hydrogen.
"Three years ago BOSS used 14,000 quasars to demonstrate we could make the biggest 3D maps of the universe," says Berkeley Lab's David Schlegel, principal investigator of BOSS. "Two years ago, with 48,000 quasars, we first detected baryon acoustic oscillations in these maps. Now, with more than 150,000 quasars, we've made extremely precise measures of BAO."
The BAO imprint corresponds to an excess of about five percent in the clustering of matter at a separation known as the BAO scale. Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years – a "standard ruler" for measuring expansion.
BAO directly descends from pressure waves (sound waves) moving through the early universe, when particles of light and matter were inextricably entangled; 380,000 years after the big bang, the universe had cooled enough for light to go free. The cosmic microwave background radiation preserves a record of the early acoustic density peaks; these were the seeds of the subsequent BAO imprint on the distribution of matter.
Quasars extend the standard ruler
Previous work from BOSS used the spectra of over a million galaxies to measure the BAO scale with a remarkable one percent accuracy. But beyond redshift 0.7 (roughly six billion light years distant), galaxies become fainter and more difficult to see. For much higher redshifts like those in the present studies, averaging 2.34, BOSS pioneered the "Lyman-alpha forest" method of using spectra from distant quasars to calculate the density of intergalactic hydrogen.
As the light from a distant quasar passes through intervening hydrogen gas, patches of greater density absorb more light. The absorption lines of neutral hydrogen in the spectrum (Lyman-alpha lines) pinpoint each dense patch by how much they are redshifted. There are so many lines in such a spectrum, in fact, that it resembles a forest – the Lyman-alpha forest.
With enough good quasar spectra, close enough together, the position of the gas clouds can be mapped in three dimensions – both along the line of sight for each quasar and transversely among dense patches revealed by other quasar spectra. From these maps the BAO signal is extracted.
Although introduced by BOSS only a few years ago, this method of using Lyman-alpha forest data, called autocorrelation, by now seems almost traditional. The just-published autocorrelation results by Delubac and his colleagues employ the spectra of almost 140,000 carefully selected BOSS quasars.
Font-Ribera and his colleagues determine BAO using even more BOSS quasars in a different way. Quasars are young galaxies powered by massive black holes, extremely bright, extremely distant, and thus highly redshifted. Instead of comparing spectra to other spectra, Font-Ribera's team correlated quasars themselves to the spectra of other quasars, a method called cross-correlation.
"Quasars are massive galaxies, and we expect them to be in the denser parts of the universe, where the density of the intergalactic gas should also be higher," says Font-Ribera. "Therefore we expect to find more of the absorbing gas than average when we look near quasars." The question was whether the correlation would be good enough to see the BAO imprint.
Indeed the BAO imprint in cross-correlation was strong. Delubac and his team combined their autocorrelation results with the cross-correlation results of Font-Ribera and his team, and they converged on narrow constraints for the BAO scale. Autocorrelation and cross-correlation also converged in the precision of their measures of the universe's expansion rate, called the Hubble parameter. At redshift 2.34, the combined measure was equivalent to 68 plus or minus 1.5 kilometers per second per million light years.
"It's the most precise measurement of the Hubble parameter at any redshift, even better than the measurement we have from the local universe at redshift zero," says Font-Ribera. "These results allow us to study the geometry of the universe when it was only a fourth its current age. Combined with other cosmological experiments, we can learn about dark energy and put tight constraints on the curvature of the universe – it's very flat!"
David Schlegel remarks that when BOSS was first getting underway, the cross-correlation technique had been suggested, but "some of us were afraid it wouldn't work. We were wrong. Our precision measures are even better than we optimistically hoped for."
"Quasar-Lyman α Forest Cross-Correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations," by Andreu Font-Ribera, David Kirkby, Nicolás Busca, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Nicholas P. Ross, Anže Slosar, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Julian Bautista, Florian Beutler, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael Blomqvist, Howard Brewington, Jon Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Bill Carithers, Kyle S. Dawson, Timothée Delubac, Garrett Ebelke, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jian Ge, Karen Kinemuchi, Khee-Gan Lee, Viktor Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Moses Marchante, Daniel Margala, Demitri Muna, Adam D. Myers, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Daniel Oravetz, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Audrey Simmons, Matteo Viel, Christophe Yeche, and Donald G. York, has been submitted to the Journal of Cosmology and Astropartical Physics and is now available online at arxiv.org/abs/1311.1767.
"Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS DR11 quasars," by Timothée Delubac, Julian E. Bautista, Nicolás G. Busca, James Rich, David Kirkby, Stephen Bailey, Andreu Font-Ribera, Anže Slosar, Khee-Gan Lee, Matthew M. Pieri, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, Michael Blomqvist, William Carithers, Daniel J. Eisenstein, J.-M. Le Go, Daniel Margala, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Adam Myers, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, David J. Schlegel, David H. Weinberg, and Christophe Yèche, has been submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics and is now available online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1801.
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Texas Cowboys Dustin Steele & Johnny Forza Flip Bareback Fucking
If you've been reading our blogs for any length of time, you know that we have a huge man crush on Johnny Forza, so we were pretty excited today when we saw a new bareback video with Johnny featured in it from Dallas Reeves. Johnny is a tall masculine Texas boy with a big, thick cock. He typically is a top only, but in this hot video he not only tops, but also opens up his ass and gets barebacked as well. Johnny Forza is paired up with another Texas cowboy, Dustin Steele for a hot bareback video that will leave you drained. Johnny and Dustin are hanging out together shooting some pool. Dustin suggests that the winner 8-Ball gets to do whatever he wants with the other guy. Johnny is attracted to Dustin so he agrees. The guys finish up their game of 8-Ball and Dustin is the winner. Dustin wants to suck on Johnny's big cock, so he gets on his knees and unzips Johnny's pants and starts giving him some good head. Johnny gets hard very quickly from Dustin's mouth and tongue on his big cock. Johnny tells Dustin to stand up and the guys begin passionately making out as they stroke each other's big cocks. Dustin lies back on the pool table and the guys continue to get undressed. Johnny takes Dustin's big thick cock in his mouth and starts sucking away until both of these cowboys have big raging boners. The guys make out some more and Johnny climbs on the pool table with Dustin. With Dustin having a raging boner, Johnny decides to sit on that thick bare cock. Johnny takes Dustin's thick cock up his ass and begins riding it like a horse. Dustin loves the feeling of Johnny's tight hairy hole and starts thrusting upward to give him a hard bareback fucking. Johnny climbs off that big cock and leans over the pool table so that Dustin can really give him a hard bareback breeding. Dustin starts pounding Johnny's bare ass hard and aggressive. While getting fucked, Johnny's big cock stays rock hard the entire time. Dustin see's that Johnny's cock is leaking precum from getting fucked, so he offers his raw hairy ass up so that Johnny can get some ass too. Johnny starts barebacking Dustin just as hard as he just got fucked. If you've seen Johnny fuck before, you know that he loves to pound some ass, and Johnny shows no mercy on Dustin's hairy hole. Dustin starts moaning loudly which turns on Johnny even more and makes him fuck even harder. Dustin starts shooting out a big load of cum that flies everywhere which causes Johnny to pull out and shoot his thick load of cum all over Dustin's raw hole. Fucking hot!
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I got a copy of my book yesterday. I'm old and I can remember a world where you couldn't walk around with a hundred books in your pocket, so for me the book wasn't real until I held it in my hands. But here we are. It's real. Inside of the cover is a bunch of pages with words on them, just like a real book!
So now you're wondering where you can go and buy two dozen copies of the thing, right? You can get the Kindle version of The Other Kind of Life, or if you really have it in for trees you can buy the print version, which looks like this:
The print version is currently priced at $20.01. I realize that's a lot for a paperback. Let me explain.
Currently, Amazon is offering a coupon that will give you $5 off for books over $20. We were going to put the book up for $16, but then Amazon offered this deal. If you order the book as it is now, it should offer you the chance to use coupon code "GIFTBOOK18" and you'll get it for $15. Except, the discount comes out of Amazon's share, not mine. Essentially, I make more and Amazon makes less, while you supposedly pay less. I tried it when ordering the copy you see above, and it worked as expected.
I'm a little nervous about this. Maybe some people will see that $20 price tag and keep scrolling because you have to click through to see the coupon. Maybe the coupon isn't available in all regions. Obviously if you're planning on buying more than one copy then this does you more harm than good.
I don't know. It seemed silly to leave money on the table, particularly when that money is Amazon's and not yours. I figure it won't hurt to have the book like this for a week. The coupon thing runs out on the 21st of this month, at which point we'll drop the price.
So now I anticipate you'll have some questions:
How can I get a signed copy?
I really wanted to offer a way to order a book from me that I could sign or personalize, but I know we just don't have time to do that right now. Heather is juggling 3 jobs, while I'm doing the blog, the stuff at the Escapist, and my end-of-year posts. You can't half-ass something like this and I don't want to commit to it if we can't deliver in a timely manner.
Which version of the book makes you more money?
I think the print version makes us more money at the moment. But rather than worrying about which one makes a dollar more, if you're really looking to help me out then leaving feedback on the book's store page and rating the book is the way to go.
Can I get a DRM-free ePub version?
It's on the to-do list.
What about an audiobook version?
Assuming the book sells reasonably well, I'm hoping to do an audiobook version. I've already read it aloud once as part of the proofing process, and it wasn't that hard. Having said that, if we only sell twelve copies then we won't waste time on the audio version.
How long is the book? Is it appropriate for children?
The book is 134,837 words long. The print version is 387 pages. It has naughty words like "fuck" in it, so maybe don't read it to your kids unless that word is already in their vocabulary. There are no sex scenes, but characters do talk about sex, so don't read it unless you've already had The Talk with your parents.
What's it like? What can you tell me that's not already on the back cover?
I've been calling it "cyberpunk" but a more accurate descriptor would be "tech noir" or "sci-fi noir". It's a mystery, but instead of asking whodunnit?, it sort of asks howdunnit, and why?
It takes place in a fictional world, which is cool because worldbuilding is kinda my thing.
You actually visit a farm in the story, although the main character doesn't know anything about farming so we don't learn what's being grown.
Some sort of food, I'd imagine.
Anything else?
I'm sure I'll do more posts on the book in the coming weeks. Thanks for your support. I really hope you like the book.
Batman v. Superman Wasn't All Bad
It's not a good movie, but it was made with good intentions and if you look closely you can find a few interesting ideas.
The Best of 2014
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2014.
Civilization VI
I'm a very casual fan of the series, but I gave Civilization VI a look to see what was up with this nuclear war simulator.
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Who Broke the In-Game Economy?
Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?


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City of Billings
Billings, Montana
Montana's Trailhead
Established: 1882
Population: 109,059
Elevation: 3,126 feet
Average Summer Temp: 85° F
Climate: Semi-arid
Area: 41.s sq. miles
Bound on the north and east by the 400-foot sandstone cliffs known as the Rimrocks, Billings boasts a climate that is mild year-round. The population is estimated at just over 100,000, which is large enough to offer plentiful entertainment, cultural, and employment options and small enough to maintain the safe, friendly, small-town feel that is its trademark.
There is plenty to keep you busy in Montana's largest city. Billings is home to performing arts theaters such as NOVA and the Alberta Bair, several Carmike movie theaters, great shopping at Rimrock Mall, and restaurants to compliment any appetite.
For the outdoor-oriented, there are several folf and golf courses, biking and running trails along the Rimrock cliffs that surround the city, and river access that is great for fishing, floating, kayaking, and rafting.
When you are in the mood for a road trip, there are plenty of nearby towns and attractions that are well worth the drive:
- Red Lodge is a 50-minute drive from Billings and is known for its great skiing and downtown shopping;
- World-famous Yellowstone National Park is a 2 hour and 35 minute drive;
- The Beartooth and Pryor Mountains are both within an hour's drive and are perfect for hiking, fishing, and camping;
- Big Sky Ski Resort and Moonlight Basin are both 3 hours from Billings; and
- Bridger Bowl Ski Resort is 2 hours from Billings.
For more information on Billings - Montana's Trailhead - visit our city website, or ask a current RMC student how they enjoy Big Sky Country.
Plan a visit and experience Billings for yourself.
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