text:
Injection Molding Red White Plastic Fairing Fit for Yamaha 2004-2006 YZF R1 aAU
Injection Body Kit Fairing for. 2004 2005 2006 YZF R1. Please understand that our color may not perfectly match your OEM fairing , cuz we do not paint by color code, we mixed the painting by our own factory. We are able to supply a fairing kit to your specific custom design as long as you provide us with the details of your requirements in the form of suitable digital graphic artwork. Correct tabs and pre-drilled holes, Precision fitment like OEM. ABS Plastic (Made by injection molding; no modification required). This is a 20 pieces complete set as a picture showed and also coming with free gifts of windscreen and Heat-shield. Highly Recommend Installed by Professional (Only suit for original motorcycle, not modified ones). Fairing Bolts & Installation instructions are not included.
All labels with clear words on the package; Different angles of the products and package to show the problems clearly. The item "Injection Molding Red White Plastic Fairing Fit for Yamaha 2004-2006 YZF R1 aAU" is in sale since Monday, July 27, 2020. This item is in the category "eBay Motors\Parts & Accessories\Motorcycle Parts\Body & Frame\Fairings & Body Work".
The seller is "monsterspeed2016" and is located in shen zhen. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Customization: Accept
- Type: Fairing/Body Work Kit
- Material: ABS Plastic
- Holes: Pre-Drilled
- Warranty: Yes
- Fitment: Guranteed
- UPC: Does not apply
- Brand: Unbranded/Generic
- Fit: Custom Fit
- Manufacturer Part Number: Does not apply
- Color: Multi-Colored


text:
Great weather, great low tides and great events!
The new moon in June is upon us. Accompanying it are likely the lowest daytime tides of the year. Better yet, the forecast suggests we're in the 70's and sunny to partly sunny this weekend. What a great time to get out to the beaches!
Some planned events for Saturday (June 12th) are included below, but you can also plan your own adventure. It varies by your location, but the approximate tides and times are…
Friday, -2.3 @ 10:50AM
Saturday, -2.9 @ 11:30AM
Sunday, -3.2 @ 12:15PM
Monday, -3.1 @ 1:00PM
Tuesday, -2.5 @ 1:45PM
When the tide is this low on summer days, the plants and animals are stressed by the sun, wind, and heat, so please remember to tread lightly. Watch your feet and walk instead of running, wet your fingers before touching plants and animals, don't turn over any rocks bigger than your head, and walk around the edges of the eelgrass or kelp beds. If you're digging clams, don't forget to fill your holes back in (don't want to smother the next crop!).
This Saturday (June 12th) you might want to join one of the following events…
– From 10am-1pm, join me and the Kitsap Beach Naturalist volunteers as we enjoy and explore the Foulweather Bluff Nature Preserve (Hansville).
– Beach Walk and shellfish harvest/cooking demonstrations at Twanoh State Park (Union) – led by the Puget Sound Mycological Society.
– Water celebration (9am-2pm) and low-tide beach walk (late morning) at the Kingston Farmers Market – coordinated by the Stillwaters Environmental Education Center (scroll half way down the page).
Enjoy the beaches and feel free to send me notes, questions or images of what you experience this weekend. Cheers! JEff
Jeff Adams is a Washington Sea Grant Marine Water Quality Specialist, affiliated with the University of Washington's College of the Ocean and Fishery Sciences, and based in Bremerton. You can follow his Sea-life blog, email to firstname.lastname@example.com or call at 360-337-4619.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Sunday Pond
I spent two nights a couple weeks apart at Sunday Pond in Millinocket, Maine recently shooting panoramas and timelapses of Mt. Katahdin reflecting in the pond. What a beautiful place! There were intermittent thunderstorms and rain throughout most of the afternoon and evening on the first trip, which wrecked some of the timelapse I shot but what I did get was pretty incredible! The second trip was a very still night and the northern lights appeared over Mt. Katahdin for a few minutes around 1AM. I also shot some star trails on the second trip and a very long timelapse of the sunrise over the pond. Here is a video I put together of most of the iPhone video, panoramas, long night exposures, and timelapses I took. It looks best in full screen and you might have to pause it and let it buffer for a while on slower internet connections because it is a very large 1080p HD video.
I shot two spherical panoramas on the first trip that can be seen in the video. The first one was at sunset and shows the rain and stormclouds over Mt. Katahdin. It is 156 megapixels and stitched from 196 images. The second spherical panorama was taken the next morning at sunrise through the evergreen trees. It is the largest spherical panorama I've done yet at 1.5 gigapixels stitched from 945 photos. It was easy to align and stitch, but difficult to blend due to the rapidly changing light, and it took me a few weeks to get it finished. I put a lot more details on each panorama in the virtual tour about how they were shot, camera settings, software used in post processing, etc. Click the "i" on the menu for more information. If you hover over any of the menu items with your mouse it will tell you what they do. There is also a photo gallery icon to the lower left with the same photos shown below in this blog post, and a video button that will show the same video above in this blog post. It will also work on an iPad and most mobile devices, but not at high resolution at the moment, and the panorama thumbnails on the top left don't currently work on an iPad for some reason. Click the preview photo below to see explore the virtual tour. It might take a minute or two to load.
I also shot a high resolution photo of the mountain with a telephoto lens. This panorama is stitched from 160 photos (10 columns x 4 rows x 4 bracketed exposures) at 200mm for a 310 megapixel image. The full image size is 7.9 x 4.8 feet. You can pan in and zoom around in the image below. Click the lower left button in the menu to see it full screen and make it easier to scroll with a mouse wheel. Mobile users can visit the website here: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/136600
undefinedon August 5, 2014
Awesome job sharing your photo journey Beautiful light, texture and color!!! So glad you stuck out the showers, didn't let the mosquitoes carry you away and pursued shooting. Millinocket, Maine
resembles Canada.


text:
|Compare Packages
|Pre-made intro as in the preview above in three format variations (Full HD, Square, Facebook header)
|3 Pre-made Intros as in the preview in three format variations (Full HD, Square, Facebook Header)
|5 Pre-made Intros as in the preview in three format variations (Full HD, Square, Facebook Header)
|Overlay Text
|Background Music
|Full HD (1080p)
|Commercial Use
|Custom Animation
|Delivery Time
|Select $25
|Select $55
|Select $105
Hello, we're Eighth Studio, and we have the best solution for small and middle businesses, bloggers, musicians, realtors, etc. We collected more than 1000 of the best logo animations to revitalize your logo and live-action videos for promoting your business!
All the packages on our website come with the ready-made solutions, however, if you want to create something more unique and more individual then we can propose to you our custom logo animation service. It will be a little bit more expensive, but we are sure that it will be more effective and more interesting for your needs and business. Contact us to discuss all the matters!
If you don't have a logo for the video, our designers will create an incredible logo for your brand. We work in different styles, so contact us for further details. Also, we provide a rebranding service, or we can update your logo accordingly to your request.
If you are an agency or want to integrate our service in your business, (resell our animations) we offer flexible plans (Business or Agency plan) to maximize your profit. Contact us to know more details and receive a better offer for your business.
We create and Register the license for each video animation under our Elements subscription. We are granted a license to use the Item on a non-exclusive, commercial, worldwide and revocable basis, for one Single Use per Registration.
If you have any questions, click the green "Contact Us" Thank you!
Send us:
1. Your logo (AI/EPS or PNG with transparency)
2. Your web address or slogan (optional)
Your logo should be high quality. It MUST be on a transparent background. Best are .ai and .eps vector files. We can also accept .png. We do not accept .jpg or .bmp. Size of your logo should be at least 1300 x 1300 pixels. Your logo animation will be delivered in MP4 format, suitable for uploading to YouTube or Vimeo, or for use in online presentations. If you need different video file settings, please tell us in the "your request" section when submitting your logo.
Note: We do not edit our logo animations to make them longer or shorter.
If you have any questions just click the green "Contact Us" button above the table. Thank you!


text:
DISCONTINUED: Human IRF1 TranslationBlocker⢠siRNA Duplex Product Attributes
Blocks transcription and translation of IRF1 from: Human.
May also react with IRF1 based upon sequence homology and clone specific publications.
Type of RNAi: siRNA.
siRNA target sequence: NM_002198.
Samples and cell lines tested: U-2 OS Huan Osteosarcoma Epithelial Cells from Bone.
Buffer and Stabilizer: Lyophilized. See datasheet for resuspension instructions and buffer information.
Concentration of Anti-Human IRF1: Lyophilized
SiRNA Purification Method:RPC/HPLC
Storage Conditions: Store Lyophilized siRNA duplex at 4C. Reconsituted product may be stored at -20C for up to 1 month.IRF1 Knockdown Protocol:
- Starting with cultured cells in growth media seed plates with cells and incubated at 37°C. For example, seed 12 well plates with 1x105 cells and incubate at 37°C until cells reach 70% confluence prior to starting transfections
- Prepare transfection reagent in serum-free growth medium such as Opti-MEM-I. Allow to come to room temperature. Lipofectamine 2000 was used to generate the above data in accordance with manufacturerÂs instructions.</ li>
- Dilute siRNA to working concentration in serum-free growth media. For Lipofectamine or similar transfections into 12 well plates, we recommend starting siRNA dose optimization at around 100 pmol siRNA duplex.Optimal dilution should be experimentally determined.
- Combine diluted siRNA and transfection reagent. Ratio of transfection reagent to siRNA should be optimized. Equivalent volumes of prepared Lipofectamine 2000 or other transfection reagent and diluted siRNA should be combined and incubated at room temperature for 30 minutes with gentle mixing (optional).
- Add prepared siRNA solution to cells. For 12 well plates this will entail adding the solution to cells in approximately 1.1 ml serum-free medium. Optionally, FITC labeled control siRNA (Product Number QC-1F) or positive control siRNA (Beta-Actin; Product Number QC-2) may be used to assess transfection efficiency.
- Incubate for several hours in serum free media. Typically, 4 hour incubation is recommended for this initial transfection step.
- Add serum containing media to culture without a media change if longer incubation times are required. The above data required an additional 48 hour incubation to examine IFN gamma (interferon gamma) induction of a response (1000 U/ml). Generally 1-2 fold of the original volume of siRNA containing serum-free media is added to restore nutrient levels in media. Alternatively, the media may be directly supplemented with serum such as 10% FBS.
- Incubate and assay several hours after transfection. Optimal knockdown time should also be experimentally determined. Optionally, a second transfection can be performed 24 hours after the first transfection to enhance knockdown. Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 (IRF1) knockdown at the protein level was measured at 48 hours post transfection via Western Blot.
IRF1 General Information
Gene Name: IRF1
Entrez Gene ID: 3659
NCBI Ref Seq Accession Number: NP_002189
Uniprot ID:
IRF1 Molecular Weight:
Alternate Names: IRF-1, Interferon Regulatory Factor 1, MAR
Selected References
Limitations and Warranty
This product is for Research Use Only. This product is guaranteed to work for a period of two years when stored at -70C or colder, and one year when aliquoted and stored at -20C.


text:
Sergio goes gaucho: The background behind Argentinian Sergio Roitman's clothing sponsor, No Brand: Roitman's buddy runs the line, whose goal is low-key promotion of national icons such as cattle (on his bandana, above), Che Guevara, the bandoneón (pictured on his shirt, above), mate (the country's favorite drink), and Carlos Gardel. Upcoming designs include Guillermo Vilas and Gabriela Sabatini.
Players like Nicolas Almagro, Filippo Volandri, Nicolas Lapentti, and Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo are all fans of the line. At tournaments, Roitman usually brings extra gear to hand out as gifts.
(ATP Blog via Vivi el Tenis)
>> Tennis Served Fresh's fashion archive


text:
Angela Lansbury
Date Of Birth:
16 October 1925
Date Of Death:
11 October 2022
Place Of Birth:
London, England
Angela Lansbury came from London to Hollywood during World War II and earned an Oscar nomination for her screen debut, a supporting part in the 1944 drama Gaslight (starring Ingrid Bergman). Most audiences these days know her from her popular television series, Murder, She Wrote. During the 1940s, '50s and '60s she had character roles in dozens of films, often outshining lead players and picking up two more Oscar nominations along the way (for 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray and 1962's The Manchurian Candidate). During the 1960s and '70s Lansbury had great success on the New York stage and won four Tony Awards: for Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975) and Sweeney Todd (1979). After four decades on stage and screen, she settled in to a long gig on television as Jessica Fletcher, the mystery writing amateur sleuth of Murder, She Wrote (1984-96). The show made Lansbury an American TV star and brought in more than twenty Emmy nominations during its run, including one each year for Lansbury (she never won). She returned to the Broadway stage in 2007 to star in Deuce and picked up yet another Tony nomination, then won another Tony for a 2009 revival of Blithe Spirit.
Extra Credit
Lansbury played Laurence Harvey's manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate, but she was only three years older than Harvey… After Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury earned Emmy nominations for The Blackwater Lightship (2004), and for a guest role on Law & Order: Trial By Jury (2005).
Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved.


text:
(visited by Greg Gregory, Tom Loretto, Steve Guyon, Tom Owen, AbdulMateen Moghal, Mushtaq Mahmood, Marek Wiechula, Robert Tubbs, Bert Heijna and Reef Loretto)
08-Feb-2008 -- We visited 22N 54E on the 2nd day of a 500+ km off-road tour of the Rub` al-Khāliy dunes and sabkha. Twenty four hours later, we came very close to 22N 55E (within 2.7 km), but we prudently turned back from this elusive dune top confluence due to time constraints.
Our route for our 5-day outing was planned using Google Earth images to try to find the relatively less difficult routes across dozens of huge, complex star dunes and interspersed sabkhas (dry lake beds). Thirty eight way-points were designated along our chosen route as navigational land marks, and loaded to the GPS's carried in the 7 participant vehicles. Navigation whilst driving was established by Dell laptop computer with OziExplorer GPS mapping software in moving map mode with NASA landsat images and Garmin GPS.
Our travels began with an 800 km tarmac ride from Ẓahrān to our final gas stop at Šayba. We then crossed another 52 km of Šayba Field rig roads, before our off-road departure at ~1 p.m. On Thursday afternoon, 7 February, we drove 55 km, with 2:23 hrs moving time, and camped 12.7 km from the Confluence. On Friday morning, 8 February, we departed at 7:30. We made good progress with fast travel along the sabkhas, and southerly navigation across the dunes. We took advantage of several opportunities for sandboarding down the ubiquitous slip-faces often more than 200 ft high. We were startled and amazed to hear, and feel, a very loud resonant low frequency thunder-rumble caused by loose dry sand avalanching down the dune slip-face as we descended the slope on our sandboard, in vehicles, or on foot. We arrived to the Confluence at 10:55. Several of our GPS's showed uncertainty of 3 m (Garmin Trek), 4 m (Garmin 60c), and 9 m (Garmin 273C and Garmin V) on their display; this uncertainty was also born out in the zero point location of each GPS, which varied along the east-west direction with location differences of 1 to 3 meters.
After taking the requisite pictures and some group shots, we continued our travels easterly towards 22N 55E. On Friday and Saturday we experienced some significant delays associated with getting stuck, loosing tire beads, and tipping one of our vehicles on its side. We were very pleased to visit the magnificent dunes of Rub` al-Khāliy in the vicinity of these two Confluences.
Video clips from this trip are here.
Continued on 22N 55E.


text:
1 25 1 https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/2b00e05bd6492c900caea5c4c73a8578.jpg 469d8f4125b4516721feb2d36bfe7328 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Salem Family Description An account of the resource Materials provided by Joseph and his son Ron Salem, 1910s-2007 and undated.

Introduction

This collection contains materials related to the life of Joseph R. Salem and and wife, Amelia Mettrey Wehbie Salem. Joe was born in the village of Hammana, Lebanon on May 5, 1909 to Freda George and Shikery Salem. Freda and Shikery had four children together: Renee (also called Rena), Bertha, Joseph, and Albert. In June of 1912, when Joe was about two and a half years old, Shikery initiated the family's immigration to America. The Salem family planned to be permanent immigrants from the start: soon after his arrival in New York City, on June 29, 1912, Shikery filed an immediate petition for naturalization. Shikery then joined members of Freda's family, who had already immigrated to New Bern, North Carolina. He went to work as a peddler in rural North Carolina, selling goods primarily by foot. Through this hard work, Shikery hoped to save money enough money to quickly bring his wife and children to America to join him.

The family's plans to reunite in America were derailed by the onset of World War One, which interrupted communications between the United States and the blockaded Ottoman Empire. Freda and her four small children were increasingly isolated; Shikery's parents were still in Lebanon and they were supporters of the French. Shikery's father, Joe's grandfather, Mackoul Salem, was executed by the Turkish during the war, and his mother, Lucy Joseph Salem, died from unknown causes--perhaps sickness or starvation. Freda and her children were forced to work in fields by the German and Turkish allies, and the famine that struck the country led Joseph and his siblings to beg for food in order to survive.

Though Shikery and Freda had no way of communicating to one another that they were still alive for the duration of the war, Shikery took action to reunite his family. In 1917, he enlisted in the United States Army. He was the first Lebanese American from Eastern North Carolina to do so, and according to a 1917 issue of the Morning New Bernian, he gave up a thriving business in order to serve his adoptive country. Shikery served in Battery A of the 113 Field Artillery, where he fought throughout French battlefields, including the Argonne Forest. He was awarded honors for bravery for saving the lives of two superior officers. In 1918, having proven his commitment through military service, Shikery re-applied for naturalization and was given citizenship.

Service in the military provided Shikery with an opportunity to reunite with his family: he even hoped to travel straight from France to Hammana after the war. Though Shikery was returned with his unit to North America, Shikery was assisted by friends he had made in the army, including Robert Haines. With support from his fellow soldiers and the Red Cross, Shikery was able to locate his family and bring them to New Bern, North Carolina, in 1920. The Salem Family of 6 sailed out of Cherbourg, France to Ellis Island and settled in New Bern, NC their first home in America where other relatives already lived. Freda Salem settled into America as a homemaker while Shikery returned to business. A partnership with Frederick Habeeb allowed the two Lebanese Americans to purchase the New Bern Bargain House. This grew into a series of other business ventures including: in 1926, the Craven Fruit Store; and, in the 1930s, a gas station, convenience store, and taxi service. Though Maronite Christians, the family attended the Roman Catholic St. Paul's church in New Bern.

The two older Salem children were Renee and Bertha. Renee married David Halen of New Jersey; in the 1930s, Renee and her family assisted Shikery in running his businesses; later, she moved to New Jersey, where she lived until her death. Together Renee and David had 5 children: Frank, Raymond, Louis, Lucille, and Theresa. Bertha married Charles K. Fadel, a Lebanese American from Charlotte. The two lived in several cities across North Carolina, eventually settling in Fayetteville, where they opened and operated the Palace Grill. The two had four children together: Sammy, Frieda, Albert, and Shikery.

Joe and Albert, both younger, soon began to excel in school. Joseph, in particular, had an innate gift for language: already bilingual in both Arabic and French, he quickly learned English, augmenting his formal lessons by exchanging English lessons with a classmate in return for teaching Arabic. Joseph soon began to excel in school, and by high school he was a top student, not only in his school in New Bern, but also in North Carolina. He graduated as valedictorian in 1929; A newspaper article in the New Bern Sun Journal dated May 15, 1929 was titled: "Joe Salem Leads Senior Class, Finishes Brilliant Record Speaks Three Languages." This all came from Joe entering public schools in the fall of 1920 at the age of 11 being fluent in French and Arabic but not knowing a word of English.

Joseph attended the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now North Carolina State University) and studied electrical engineering. In 1942, Joseph married Amelia Wehbie, daughter of Mickel Mettrey and Mary Saliba Wehbie. That same year, he followed in his father's footsteps of service and joined the United States Army. He served in military intelligence at Arlington Hall in DC during WWII as a cryptanalytic officer, using his language skills for translation and code breaking. Amelia also served as a member of the Red Cross. Joseph remained in the Army Reserves until 1963, when he was transferred to the Retired Reserves, having achieved the rank of Major with retirement in 1969. Joseph and Amelia had four children together: Jay, Michael Ray, Donna, and Ronald. Jay is married to Maija and together they have 2 children Alex and Annie and a total of 4 grandchildren. Donna is married to Scott. Jay retired from a long career in Dallas, Texas with EDS Human Resources and is also a licensed pharmacist; Michael Ray retired from Progress energy as an accountant; Donna retired from Wake County Public School Systems teaching French, and Spanish and now teaches piano as she is an accomplished pianist; and Ron is a dentist and is licensed as a dentist and pharmacist.

Albert, the youngest son of Freda and Shikery, married Vivian Zaytoun, daughter of Ellis and Isabel Zaytoun, on July 14, 1937. Like his older brother, Albert served in the military, working as a Radio Operator for the United States Navy and earning seven Battle Stars. After his service, Albert and Vivian had four children: Albert, Jr., Richard, Robert, and Mary Isabel. Albert and Vivian lived in North Carolina for most of their lives, eventually retiring to Tampa, Florida for the remainder of their lives.

Amelia Mettrey Wehbie Salem passed away at her home in Raleigh on February 5, 2009 at the age of 91. At that time she was survived by her husband Joe of 66 years, and her four children, daughter-in-law and son-in law and 2 grandchildren and 1 great grandson. She was also survived at that time by her two sisters, who have since passed, Nell Mettrey Kahdy, and Margaret Wehbie Saloom. She was predeceased by her other 6 siblings, Sam M Wehbie, William Mettrey, Chris Wehbie, Wehbie M Wehbie, Helen Wehbie and Marie Wehbie Mossberg. Amelia was a graduate of Hugh Morson High School in Raleigh and Hardbargers Business College. During her work Career she worked for the US Red Cross during WWII, Craven Regional Medical Center, The Raleigh News and Observer, NC Department of Agriculture, and the NC Department of Revenue. Amelia was known for her fabulous Lebanese cooking, her greenhouse propagation of Camellias, Japanese Maples, and hybrid tea roses. She never knew a stranger and was quick to start up a conversation.

Joseph Ramon Salem passed away at home a little over 2 years after Amelia, at the age of 102. Joe graduated Valedictorian of his New Bern High School graduating class and Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering at NC State College of Agriculture and Engineering (NCSU). After college Joe went on to become a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer consisting of employment with CP&L in Raleigh, handling general engineering problems and designing by hand electrical power plants. In his career he operated private Consulting Engineering businesses in Raleigh and New Bern, NC, designing huge electrical infrastructures for Hatteras Yacht, Weyerhauser, and the Town of Clayton, NC, just to name a few. Joe also served as City Electrical Engineer for the town of New Bern and became a full building inspector for the City of Raleigh until 1975. With still a brilliant broad mind, after retirement Joe thoroughly enjoyed substitute teaching until the age of 82 in Raleigh Middle and High Schools. Joe was a wonderful, peaceful, loving and devoted, husband, dad, granddad, friend and mentor to all he knew. He touched lives on many levels in a very special way. His astounding brilliant mind, and worldly knowledge was always captivating.

Scope and Contents
 This collection contains photographs, certificates, and newspaper articles documenting the life of Joseph Salem and his family in North Carolina. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ronald Salem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1919-2007 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Relation A related resource Zaytoun Family Salems of New Bern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ronald Salem Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Salem2010-003 Title A name given to the resource Joseph Salem Appointed Major in the Army Reserves Subject The topic of the resource Certificates Description An account of the resource A copy of the letter describing Joe Salem's appointment to the position of Major in the Army Reserves. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States Army Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ronald Salem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 13-Jun-58 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Text/jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text 1950's Army Joseph Ramon Salem Military Salem United States Army Reserves


text:
· Advertise in LJ
· Write for Us
· Recommend Us
· LJ Press Releases
· Vendor Press Releases
· Contact UsOther Options· FAQ· Forum· Members List
Past months' Linux worms and the shell
server compromise of sourceforge.net, leading to the crack of several
open-source sites, have reminded us that not even Linux systems are
invulnerable to malevolent attackers. Three leading computer security
experts published Hacking Exposed in 1999. The book is a thorough
dissertation on cracking and was followed up by a second edition in
2000. This year George Kurtz, coauthor of Hacking Exposed, teamed
up with two leading Linux security experts to bring us Hacking Linux
Hacking Linux Exposed deals with security-related threats to
Linux systems. It's a book for practitioners by practitioners,
with an emphasis on practice rather than theory. The book provides an
overview of various security-related issues. To this end, it has been
organized into four parts. Each part deals with a distinct aspect of
systems' security and is in turn broken into several chapters.
Part I is the system administrator's inside view of
systems' security. It deals with how he or she can prevent the
cracker from intruding, starting with an examination of the basic
security features built into Linux. This is a look at users, groups,
file permissions, etc., from a security point of view. While this should
be old news to a systems administrator, this angle into the matter may
shed some new light on the topic. The authors then progress to proactive
measures and recovering from break-ins. Tools to both search for system
vulnerabilities in order to harden a Linux installation and to reveal
system compromises are dealt with. Part I is rounded off with a chapter
on how a cracker would go about mapping and enumerating your systems in
preparation for an attack.
We can make our systems as secure as we want, but there will
always be methods of gaining what is considered legal access from
the system's point of view. Part II deals with how a cracker
could gain such access. Access may be gained in several ways, and the
important lesson here is that you can never be too paranoid. Crackers
will do anything to gain access, whether it is physical access to your
facilities or access through the network. Almost an entire chapter is
devoted to social engineering. Worms also receive due attention.
Once malevolent users gain access to a system, their next step will be
to elevate their privileges. Local user attacks is the topic of Part
III. An entire chapter is dedicated to Linux password systems. For
those ever wondering about shadow passwords and PAM, look no further. I
particularly like that the authors target attacks against poor programming
in this part of the book. Part III ends with an entire chapter on how
the cracker can go about maintaining access to an already compromised
system. This chapter is particularly useful as it can be read as an
introduction to the clues a cracker would leave behind on a compromised
While the compromise of a workstation may be bad enough, it is far
worse when a server is compromised. Servers play a far more important
role in an organization, and server downtime affects more than a single
individual. Part IV is devoted to the three major services that Linux
supports in both large farms and the kid's bedroom--mail,
FTP and Web. General security-related issues are explored along with
application-specific issues, including some of the most popular server
software like sendmail, postfix, WU-FTP and more. Part IV concludes with
a look at access control at the network layer. Both local-access control
through the inet dæmon and TCP wrappers, as well as external-access
control with firewalls are discussed.
The fifth and final part consists of four appendices. The first
two appendices, ``Keeping Your Programs Current'' and
``Turning Off Unneeded Services'', contain distribution-specific
material. Appendix C deals with on-line resources, while the final
appendix provides case studies. The case studies are in-depth descriptions
of how three crackers have broken into computers.
The book is both well structured and well written. It is scattered
with gems of computer-security wisdom. I especially like the use of
caution and note callouts to emphasize important issues. Each chapter
consists of a number of security-related threats to Linux systems, ways to
exploit a threat and existing countermeasures. The use of sample scenarios
helps clarify the threat and often sheds additional light on the text.
As an aid to understanding the risks involved, all exploits
are accompanied by a risk rating. The risk rating is based on the
exploit's popularity, how hard it is to perform and the impact
it has on the target system. While such figures will always be somewhat
arbitrary--it's incredibly hard to come up with any good and
exhaustive metrics to measure such factors--the risk rating provides
an indication of the overall risk involved with a security-related threat.
A book on computer security would never be complete without descriptions
of the tools involved. Both tools to exploit a weakness and tools to
fend off and guard oneself against hostile attacks are covered on a
per-threat basis. When dealing with the tools, the authors are brief and
to the point. This is, after all, a book on computer security as a whole,
not a tool tutorial.
I would have expected the authors to explain their use of the term
hacking, especially when writing for a Linux audience. We all know how
particular some of us are with the hacking vs. cracking issue. In the
authors' defense, it has to be said that the original manuscript
did contain a section on just this issue, but it was deemed extraneous
by the editor and removed.
Hacking Linux Exposed is a good read and a great introduction
to computer security on the Linux platform. More than that, it is a
great reference work for the more experienced systems administrator. As
the authors fairly quickly jump to rather technical material and assume
some knowledge of both networking and Linux systems, the book is not
ideally suited for the complete Linux neophyte. However, I am of the
firm opinion that for a freshman wanting to learn more, the book is
perfectly suited as a guide to further reading.
I'm not overly sure I'd recommend the book as a general
introduction for those completely new to computer security. For that
I'd recommend a book like Hacking Exposed, which is a
better all-around introduction to computer security. Don't let
the two books' similarities in cover and title fool you. There are
major differences between them. The problem with Hacking Exposed
is that it's somewhat lacking in the department of Linux-specific
solutions. Hacking Linux Exposed amends this. The two books should
be considered complementary.
Hacking Linux Exposed is easy to read. The authors have done a
very good job of providing an overview of security-related threats to
the Linux platform and how best to avoid falling prey to them. As such,
I greatly recommend the book to systems administrators and Linux users
who want to learn more about how to secure their systems.
The Good/The Bad
Thomas Østerlie (email@example.com) is
a consultant with Norwegian-based consulting company ConsultIT A/S,
where he works with server-side systems development for UNIX platforms
and with computer security.


text:
G-20 Protesters Jam Downtown London, Target Banks
LONDON — Thousands of demonstrators are jamming the streets of central London to protest the G-20 summit.
Some are trying to storm the Bank of England on a day that demonstrators have branded "Financial Fools Day."
Protesters shouting "Abolish Money" pushed against police barricades outside the Bank of England.
Many buildings in London's financial district are boarded up and several streets have been closed. Some bankers swapped their pinstripe suits for jeans to avoid being possible targets. At least 6 people have been arrested.
Protest marches are planned throughout the day.


text:
Protected class
For all the fierce debate in Washington about cutting government spending, it is striking how the interests of one class the elderly are protected by politicians on both sides. The Democrats roundly attack the GOP for proposing radical changes in Medicare and Medicaid that would, they charge, undermine the security and health of the elderly.
The GOP loudly proclaims that these changes would affect only those now under 55, so none of todays elderly and soon-to-be-elderly would be touched (grandfathering them in, so to speak). And neither side would do more than delicately tinker with Social Security. Hardly anyone dares whisper that senior citizens might be discomfited.
This is odd: Todays senior citizens are better off than other Americans certainly better off than American children. And yet, they are to be protected more than other Americans. (Disclosure: I will soon join this protected class.)
There is increasing awareness of growing inequality in the United States, of the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. But here is another dimension of growing inequality: the gap between the generations. And these haves are getting to have more.
Piteous to Privileged
In the 19th century, the elderly were quite reasonably objects of concern and even pity. Given the hard and dangerous physical labor, the disease and epidemics, the insecure nutrition, and the primitive medicine of the day, Americans aged rapidly. Just getting to 65 was an accomplishment. Even after reaching 65, people had to keep working for their daily bread as long as they could. When they finally could no longer work, the elderly had to move in with or otherwise depend on their adult children. In some cases, aged parents would contract with sons to guarantee that such support would come.
Those who had no adult children nearby or whose children were themselves poor had to turn to private and public charity. Many ended up in almshouses, institutions which were first established to deal with poor of all ages but which evolved into old-age institutions awful, dreaded ones at that. The image of the old as vulnerable and needy made sense. Then came the 20th century.
The New Old
The condition of the elderly changed dramatically in the 20th century, especially in the second half. For one, old Americans started living longer. In 1900, men who had reached 65 could, on average, expect to reach 76; now they should assume theyll get to 82. In 1900, women at 65 could anticipate living until 77, now until 85 ( pdf ). (Such longer lives, by the way, partly explain the unexpected run-up in Social Security and Medicare costs.) It follows, of course, that the elderly, those 65 and older, have become, especially after birth rates fell in the 1960s, a much larger proportion of the population from 4% of all Americans in 1900 to 13% in 2010 (to an estimated 20% in 2050).
And the elderly started living better. Once, the elderly were especially likely to be poor and the poor to be elderly. Not any more, as the graph below shows. It displays the percentage of Americans with poverty-level incomes, by age, by year.
Around 1960, those 65+ (represented by the lighter line) were about twice as likely to be poor as were 18-to-64-year-olds. By the 1970s, they were less likely to be poor than children, and by the 1990s a bit less likely to be poor than other adults. In 2009, 9 percent of the elderly, 13% of other adults, and 21% of children were poor. This reversal happened even as the elderly worked less; they retired earlier and earlier. In 1900, about 3 of every 5 elderly men were still working; by 1980, fewer than 1 in 5 were; and its below that now ( source ).
What happened? In part, the growth of the economy and the rise of private pension plans enabled comfortable retirement. But the biggest part of the explanation is the establishment of Social Security in the 1930s and the expansion of Social Security more recently. Since 1975, recipients have gotten automatic cost-of-living adjustments. Note carefully: There are, by contrast, no automatic cost-of-living adjustments for the minimum wage; that requires congressional action. The minimum wage is now worth, in buying power, about 20 percent less than it was worth 40 years ago ( source ). Weve privileged the retired over the low-wage worker.
Not only do the elderly now get more annual income than do other Americans, they have considerably more wealth. American households headed by someone 65+ had, in 2007, a median net worth of around $220,000, 20% more than households headed by someone about 50 years old and more than double that of households headed by someone about 40 years old ( source ). Of course, there remain many financially distressed senior citizens but proportionally fewer than among younger Americans.
Medicare, arriving in the 1960s and expanded ever since, contributes to the affluence of the elderly by removing most of the cost of health care from those who need health care the most. And, of course, it is workers contributions to the Medicare fund that makes this possible.
One result of this relative enrichment of the elderly is that they increasingly live on their own, either as couples in an empty nest (see this post ) or as individuals in their own homes. They no longer have to move in with or depend on their grown children. It is not surprising, then, that the suicide rate among the elderly has dropped substantially in the last 50 or so years. Life has gotten better.
Why the Privilege?
So, if the elderly, as a class of Americans, are doing significantly better than other Americans, why do the politics of the day insist that they should not sacrifice to cut the national debt?
One simple and correct answer is their political power: Much more than others, the elderly vote and organize, and petition, and lobby. Politicians respond to voters.
But there may be more going on. In a recent national poll, Americans were asked whether they thought that providing health care coverage for the poor is the responsibility of the federal government and whether they thought that providing health care coverage for the elderly is the responsibility of the federal government. The percentage saying yes was 56 for covering the poor, but 76 for covering the elderly. Different things may be going on to explain that 20-point preference for helping the elderly. In part, it may reflect the stigma of being poor in America. But it probably also reflects the reverence we accord the elderly.
That reverence goes deep. You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old, the Scriptures say (Lev. 19:32, RSV). And even I, not quite a senior citizen, already benefit from the deference the senior menu at Dennys, cheaper movie tickets, and other discounts and soon will benefit more for example, from property tax deferments for the elderly. Frankly, I need them a lot less than younger people do. But thats part of the point: favoring the elderly even when others have greater needs.
The injunction to defer to the old was neglected a lot in the 19th century; that is why we have the image of the piteous old person. Now, in our more affluent times, its a virtue we can more easily pursue. Increasingly, the image of the old person is a smiling picture taken on a golf course. But at what cost to the young?
Cross-posted from Claude Fischers blog,Made in America: Notes on American life from American history.


text:
Dr. Zombie: Monster Family Physician
The concept is that Dr. Zombie is a monster family physician, because the mad science lab doesn't pay much and he has to a do a day job to fund his passion.
We hope you enjoy this bizarre journey of cartooning and comedy.
Dr. Zombie – Monster Family Physician #9
Yes, Dr. Zombie can provide care for… Zombies.
Dr. Zombie Cartoon © Tommy Cannon
Let us know what you think about our content in our webcast as well as our website. Please use the comment form below. Please be sure to read the Privacy / Terms and Conditions Of Use.


text:
Get In The Ring
Guns N' Roses
Why do you look at me when you hate me
Why should I look at you when you make me hate you too
I sense a smell of retribution in the air
I don't even understand why the fuck you even care
And I don't need your jealousy yeah
Why drag me down in your misery
And when you stare you don't think I feel it
But I'm gonna deal it back to you in spades
When I'm havin' fun ya know I can't conceal it
'Cause I know you'd never cut it in my game, oh no
And when you're talkin' about a vasectomy, yeah
I'll be writin' down your obituary, history
You got your bitches with the silicone injections
Crystal meth and yeast infections
Bleached blond hair, collagen lip projections
Who are you to criticize my intentions
Got your subtle manipulative devices
Just like you I got my vices
I got a thought that would be nice
I'd like to crush your head tight in my vice, pain
And that goes for all you punks in the press
That want to start shit by printin' lies
Instead of the things we said
That means you Andy Sercher at Hit Parader
Circus magazine
Mick Wall at Kerrang!
Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin
What you pissed off cuz your dad gets more pussy than you?
Fuck you
Suck my fuckin' dick
You be rippin' off the fuckin' kids
While they be payin' their hard earned
Money to read about the bands
They want to know about
Printin' lies startin' controversy
You wanta antagonize me
Antagonize me motherfucker
Get in the ring motherfucker
And I'll kick you bitchy little ass
I don't like you, I just hate you
I'm gonna kick your ass, oh yeah, oh yeah!
You may not like our integrity, yeah
We built a world out of anarchy, oh yeah
And in this corner weighing in at 850 pounds
Guns n' roses
Get in the ring
Yeah this song is dedicated to
All the guns n' fuckin' roses
Fans who stuck with us through all the
And to all those opposed
Hmm, well


text:
Last October I was walking through the Reston Town Center and there was a huge line of people coming out the door of a new little shop. It was the Red Velvet Cupcakery and they were giving away free cupcakes. I of course was skeptical that I would get one but sure enough they had a gluten and dairy free cupcake. I was too chicken to give it a try when they were free so I came back later when it was quiet and I could ask them my 20 questions.
They seemed to know every answer without hesitation so I bought the only gluten and dairy free cupcake available at the time, the Black Velvet. This is the moist chocolate cake with the very generous portion of chocolate frosting on top that even dips into the cupcake to keep it from sliding off. Ever since then I've been hooked.
Inspired by the first cupcakery ever opened, Sprinkles from California, the owners came east and opened Red Velvet Cupcakery. They have two shops in Washington, DC, one in Reston Virginia and two in Tucson Arizona. The Reston location is the one I frequent and where my pictures were taken.
The head pastry chef is Ciji Russell and as you can see from my photos doesn't sit down very often. She did sit for a few minutes with me as I asked her my 20 questions. Ciji is a graduate from CIA, the Culinary Institute of America, where they don't mess around. The CIA has been around for more than six decades and sets the standards for professional culinary education.
Ciji let me know that the gluten free cupcakes are the first batter batch made in the morning. These cupcakes are not baked until the next day when they are sold so they have time to set up. At the end of the day everything is wiped down and sterilized. This will mean it's clean and ready for the next morning baking. The gluten free cupcakes have their own separate dedicated pans.
One thing I did notice is that anytime I happen to go in and ask anyone working there questions, they all know what they are talking about. That is very reassuring that it's not just Ciji who understands what should happen to keep the gluten free cupcakes safe, they all do. I can't say enough about how key it is that the entire staff understand how to keep gluten free diners safe when they are eating in your establishment.
When making cupcakes if they measure out any ingredients like cocoa and have extra it's always marked not to be used for the gluten free cupcakes just to insure there is no question about cross contamination. There is no double dipping. They keep their ingredients clean and free of gluten. Of course this is a bakery and gluten flours are being used. This is something to be aware of. However I am very sensitive to gluten and a floured finger print would have me down and out. I've never had a problem with any of their gluten free cupcakes. Well, except maybe eating too many of them. They are really good.
The store bakes daily for people walking in and they also cater. For my husband's big birthday bash we ordered cupcakes for the dessert. We had the chocolate cake and chocolate icing and they also created a chocolate cake with vanilla icing for us. The ones with the vanilla icing were and still are our favorites. They do have a new vanilla cake with vanilla icing that is good too.
As you can see the gluten free cupcakes are kept separate from the others. They have their own stand that is covered and off to the side. However when you order the cupcakes they are pulled from the rack. The gluten free cupcakes are always on the top of the rack to insure no crumbs fall onto them. They also always have a candied violet on top that is only for the gluten free cupcakes. So when you order one they will change gloves and then grab your cupcake from the top. It may appear that they didn't even read anything to make sure it was gluten free. Their systems with those cupcakes on the top rack only and the candied violet mean they know exactly what they are giving you.
Flavor to flavor comparison, Black Velvet gluten free compared to Devils Food Cake, they make about 1/3 the number of gluten cupcakes. That is around 2 dozen a day and it's been steadily increasing over time. If you want more for your picnic, party or because today ends in a y, then order ahead. You can do that online or call. If I go into the Reston shop for my cupcake fix and you just cleaned them out I'm not going to be very happy. So far that's never happened and I promise to not take the last one from you either. However once they get home this is usually what I'm left with, an empty box.
This Red Velvet Cupcakery is located in the Reston Town Center. Their phone number is 703-464-7075 and you can find them online for that special order. If you stop in or call tell Ciji hello let them know you read about their cupcakes here. And please keep asking for the chocolate cake with vanilla icing gluten-free vegan cupcakes. I'm hoping they will make that combo a regular.


text:
The DUI Officer and "Selective Memory"
How does a police officer testifying in a drunk driving trial recall every detail of a DUI investigation months earlier?
When an officer stops a motorist and suspects that he may be under the influence of alcohol, he begins to mentally record various observations. Was the driving erratic, and in what way? What was his reaction to the red overhead lights? How did he pull over and park? Was there an odor of alcohol on the driver's breath, and how strong? Could it have come from the passenger? Was the driver's face flushed, eyes bloodshot, speech thick and slurred? How did he respond to questions and directions? What were his answers to questions such as "Where are you going? What time is it? Have you been drinking? What? When? Where? How much?" Did he have a current license and registration? Did he fumble with his wallet pulling out his license? Stagger when stepping from the car? What did the passenger say? How did she appear? And so on.
Then there are the DUI field sobriety tests. How did he perform in the walk-and-turn test? Did he understand the instructions? Did he start before I told him to? How many steps out? How did he turn? How many steps back? Which, if any, of the 18 steps were off the line? Where did they land? Which, if any, were not heel-to-toe? Was he using his arms for balance? Did he say anything during the test?
And the other three or four drunk driving field tests…
In the "horizontal gaze nystagmus" ("Follow my pen with your eyes without moving your head") test, was there "smooth pursuit" of the right eyeball? What did it look like? How many times was it given? Did "onset" of nystagmus occur before 45 degrees? At what degree? Was I able to see the white of the eye at the extreme range of the eye? Was there "distinct nystagmus" at this extreme? And what about all these observations in the left eye?
And maybe two or three other field sobriety tests.
And then the arrest and the breath test at the station: What was the procedure used to administer the test? What messages were displayed by the machine in preparation? Did the suspect say anything about a medical condition? How many breath samples were captured? Was there a blank test run before each sample test? What were the readings of the blanks? Of the suspect's two samples? And so on….
In other words, there are a vast number of things to remember about what happened in the course of a properly conducted drunk driving investigation — and in dozens of other investigations. And the officer may have to testify some day in trial about all of these things. This has to be done from memory and under oath. How does he do it?
Well, typically the officer sits down an hour or two after the arrest and writes out a "DUI arrest report". This has to be from short-term memory (few officers attempt to write down notes in the field: it is usually dark, one hand is tied up with a flashlight and police policy requires that the "gun hand" be free at all times). This report may be only a couple of pages, or it may run to five or six pages. And this creates two basic problems….
First, how can the officer remember an hour or two later everything that happened? Imagine just one of the field sobriety tests, for example. In the walk-and-turn test, there are 18 steps — 9 out, 9 back. Most DUI reports have diagrams for the tests; in the walk-and-turn, there will usually be two arrowed lines, with the officer placing circles for the right foot and triangles for the left foot for each step on each of the two out-and-back lines: 18 circles and triangles. How is this officer able to recall an hour or two later each of 18 steps and exactly where each landed in relation to the line, at what angle and whether heel-to-toe? And this is just one test. And what about the driving pattern, the symptoms, the defendant's statements, his conduct, and all of the other details?
Second, how can the officer recall three or four months later in trial everything that happened? He can't just read from the report: He has to testify to what he knows — that is, to what he independently remembers happened. But here the law permits him an "out": He can "refresh his recollection" by reading the report after he is asked a question. Then he can testify with a newly "refreshed" memory — in reality, to what he wrote in the report. In most trials, the officer has also "refreshed his recollection" just before testifying, and/or does so repeatedly during his testimony.
Problem: The report only contains incriminating facts.
The officer was gathering evidence against the suspect: he only wrote down what he saw and heard that pointed to the defendant's GUILT. He did not bother to record facts which pointed to the defendant's innocence. He did not, for example, write down that the defendant had no trouble maintaining his balance or that his eyes were not bloodshot. In other words, in trial he is incapable of testifying to anything that indicated the defendant may not have been under the influence of alcohol. No matter how honest the officer is in his testimony, he simply cannot "refresh his memory" about things that happened but which are not in the report. And there will be little if anything in that report which will give "the other side" of the story.
Put another way, the most important witness in the trial is mentally incapable of recalling any evidence which may point to the defendant's innocence.


text:
Affiliate News
[M] SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 Mid-Tower Case Review
The company SilentiumPC was established in 2007 in Warsaw, Poland. Their main objective is to offer quality products at a very affordable price level; the latter is achieved by applying cost-cutting in banners, promo gear, packaging… however not in the quality of the product itself. The SilentiumPC lineup consists of cases, CPU air coolers, power supplies, fans, notebook cooling and other accessories. Today we introduce you to the SilentiumPC Aquarius X90: a mid-tower case, designed specifically for the liquid cooling enthusiasts in mind. SilentiumPC labels it as the ultimate choice for high-end gaming systems with compact dimensions and at an amazing value.
via [M] SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 Mid-Tower Case Review.


text:
Next month's National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., features a play called Knock Me a Kiss. It dramatizes a black wedding of the early 20th century — the 1928 marriage of Harlem Renaissance poet laureate Countee Cullen and Nina Yolande Du Bois, the daughter of W.E.B.
Despite a lavish event — she had 16 bridesmaids! — the marriage was short-lived. Three months after the wedding, Cullen sailed to Paris with his best man, and bride and groom officially split up shortly after.
Quiet as it's kept, along with Cullen, a number of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance fell somewhere along the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rainbow spectrum. It actually isn't that quiet. Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, Richard Bruce Nugent, Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Langston Hughes, all luminaries of the New Negro literary movement, have been identified as anywhere from openly gay (Nugent) to sexually ambiguous or mysterious (Hughes). In a 1993 essay, "The Black Man's Burden," Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's editor-in-chief, notes that the Renaissance "was surely as gay as it was black."
In the last few decades, a number of authors and filmmakers have revised the revisionist history of the period and unlocked history's closet. The book Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (2003), by A.B. Christa Schwarz, puts the life and work of Cullen, McKay, Nugent and Hughes in an LGBT context.
That same year, Anthony Mackie starred in the film Brother to Brother, a fever dream that linked present-day Harlem to its lyrical Renaissance past through the eyes of a young black man struggling with his sexuality. The movie won a Special Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Next month Cleis Press will re-release Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African-American Fiction, which includes a meaty section on the Renaissance.
"As Gay as It Was Black"
The Harlem of the 1920s, which produced a flowering of art, music and writing, was indisputably gay. Being "in the life" was part of the landscape of the community. The 1983 essay "T'Aint Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in 1920's Harlem," by Eric Garber, puts it in sharp focus:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a homosexual subculture, uniquely Afro-American in substance, began to take shape in New York's Harlem. Throughout the so- called Harlem Renaissance period, roughly 1920 to 1935, black lesbians and gay men were meeting each other [on] street corners, socializing in cabarets and rent parties, and worshiping in church on Sundays, creating a language, a social structure, and a complex network of institutions.
Nugent, known as the "perfumed orchid of the New Negro Movement," didn't hide his sexuality either in life or in print. He contributed the blatantly homoerotic short story "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" to the black literary journal Fire!! in 1926. Speaking about the LGBT presence in Harlem, Nugent noted, "You did what you wanted to. Nobody was in the closet. There wasn't any closet."
Everybody who was anybody — gay and straight, black and white, uptown and downtown — knew about the infamous homosexual haunt the Clam House on 133rd Street. Bawdy blues singer Gladys Bentley presided over the raucous fun, all 250 pounds of her cross-dressed in tux and top hat.
A'Lelia Walker, the Joy Goddess of the Harlem Renaissance and daughter of Madam C.J., was especially fond of homosexuals, notes award-winning author David Levering Lewis in his book When Harlem Was in Vogue. Anyone who voiced disapproval risked being uninvited from her lavish and legendary parties.
But gayest of all: the Hamilton Lodge drag ball held every year on 155th Street. Several thousand came to gawk at the cross-dressing extravaganza as hundreds of mainly working-class young men showed up in over-the-top drag.
An Invisible Life?
Despite this kind of freedom and pageantry, homosexuality wasn't universally accepted. Harlem's most powerful minister, Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church until 1937, campaigned against what he saw as the growing scourge of sexual perversion and moral degeneracy. And the annual Hamilton Lodge event was openly referred to as the "parade of the pansies," "dance of the fairies" and "faggots' ball."
Against this complicated landscape, some claim that scholars of the New Negro Movement have erased the LGBT history of the Renaissance in biographies and textbooks. In Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance, author Schwarz explains that historians either deliberately or inadvertently sidelined the link between the Harlem Renaissance and homosexuality.
In a 2001 essay " 'Outing' Alain L. Locke," biographer Leonard Harris accused some scholars of obscuring Locke's gay life, leading to the false idea that "Locke's sexuality was irrelevant to his intellectual and personal history." Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar, is often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance. And when the groundbreaking 1989 film Looking for Langston was released to critical acclaim, the Langston Hughes estate did its best to shut it down. Directed by Isaac Julien, the lyrical film is a gay love letter to Hughes and the Renaissance.
Double Lives
The past isn't the present, and it would be unfair to slap a 21st-century out-and-proud frame around 20th-century Harlem. Plus, to borrow the words of Renaissance writer Jessie Redmon Fauset, there is confusion: Many of the New Negros who are now identified as gay had spouses of the opposite sex.
Some were bisexual, while others, like Cullen, lived double lives. After his failed marriage, Cullen wed again. Wallace Thurman, author of the novels The Blacker the Berry and Infants of the Spring, was arrested in 1925 for having sex with a man. Thurman married a woman three years later, but the relationship lasted only six months.
The writer Alice Dunbar-Nelson kept a foot in both worlds, according to her diary. After the breakup of her marriage to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, she remarried in 1916, creating what Gloria Hull, the editor of Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, calls "a good professional union." According to Hull, Dunbar-Nelson's diary reveals that "the author remained sexually available to women, as did any number of married black women club members."
The overtly same-sex longings of Renaissance playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké can be found in her correspondence with her friend Mamie Burrill. In a letter, she wrote, "Oh Mamie if you only knew how my heart overflows with love for you and how it yearns and pants for one more glimpse of your lovely face." Weld signed the letter, "Your passionate lover."
The 1931 novel Strange Brother, by Blaire Niles, sums up the period's complicated social geography best: "In Harlem I found courage and joy and tolerance," notes one gay character. "I can be myself there … They all know about me, and I don't have to lie."
Linda Villarosa is the director of the journalism program at the City College of New York and is contributing to a documentary about HIV/AIDS in black America for PBS.


text:
sticky fingers bakery
courtesy of m hoek
Today the food team has a pair of tickets to giveaway to one lucky reader to attend the Sixth & I event with Sticky Fingers Bakery owner Doron Petersan. Petersan, who is a two-time Food Network Cupcake Wars winner, just released her first cookbook, "Sticky Fingers' Sweets! 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes."
She'll be speaking at the Historic Synagogue on Thursday, March 1st at 7 PM, and doing a book signing afterwards. Petersan is known for her vegan recipes and determination to show that baked goods don't need butter or eggs to taste good.
Here's how the giveaway works:
For the chance to win the tickets, leave a comments on this post using a valid e-mail address between 9 AM and 5 PM today. One entry per e-mail address. We'll close the comments section at 5 PM and a winner will be randomly selected and notified by e-mail. If you're chosen as the winner, you must respond to the e-mail within 24 hours or you will forfeit the tickets and we'll select another winner. The winner will be able to pick up the tickets under their name at will call at the Sixth & I synagogue.
Good luck and happy (vegan) eating!


text:
Search Reel Classics:
The Stars
The Films
Movie Makers
Reel Classics > Audio/Video Gallery >
Film Titles Index | Music Clips
| Quotations | Video Clips | Plug-ins | Links
All the following files are in .MOV format unless otherwise noted.
All files are ordered according to movie, or where unknown, under a miscellaneous
category. Click the video icon next to the title to access the file.
For information about purchasing any of the below films on
Video or DVD, visit the Merchandising section.
Visit the plug-ins page
if you are having difficulty reading any of these files.
Go to the
next page.
Titles A-G | Titles H-N |
Titles O-Z
Return to the Audio/Video Gallery Main Page.
Film List | Music | Quotations
| Videos | Plug-ins | Links
Victor Fleming:American Movie Master by Michael Sragow
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957) on DVD & Blu-ray
Buy Videos & DVDs
Movies Unlimited
Buy Movie Posters
& Film Stills
Buy Movie Posters
Movie Merchandise -- recommended links to dozens of online vendors
selling classic movies & all kinds of related products.
Printer-friendly version.
to the top.
Last updated:
March 10, 2011.
Reel Classics is a registered trademark of Reel Classics, L.L.C.
© 1997-2011 Reel Classics, L.L.C. All rights reserved. No
copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material.
Terms of Use. Privacy Policy.


text:
The objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate a technology that uses vertical-force seismic sources combined with vertical seismic profile (VSP) to provide a seismic "log" of natural fracture orientation and density in unconventional reservoirs.
University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX 78713-8924
GEDCO - an integrated geophysical survey design software and services company that is part of Schlumberger's WesternGeco business unit
A common feature of shale-gas units and tight sandstones is that most of these unconventional reservoirs have embedded fracture systems that need to be understood in order to position exploitation wells. A remote seismic technology that can "visualize" the internal architecture of unconventional reservoirs and predict fracture orientation and density will be invaluable for characterizing tight sandstones, shale-gas units, and all unconventional resource plays. Current technology has demonstrated that shear (S) waves are more responsive to fractures than compressional (P) waves. Based on this knowledge, operators across unconventional reservoir plays need an effective, low-cost way to illuminate reservoir systems with surface-generated S waves. This project will develop a technology whereby S waves can be produced with simple, low-cost, and widely available seismic sources that apply a vertical force to the Earth. The technology utilizes S modes created directly at the point where a vertical force is applied to the Earth's surface, which is in contrast to current practices of using sources that apply a horizontal force to the Earth or converted S modes produced at subsurface interfaces by downgoing P wavefields.
In addition, researchers on this project will present field procedures and data-processing strategies whereby S modes produced by vertical-force sources can provide fracture sensitive attributes. These procedures remove current practice limitations because vertical-force sources (vertical vibrators, vertical impacts, shothole explosives) are lower cost, more abundant than horizontal-force sources, and usable over a wider range of terrains. This approach refutes the common assumption that the only way to create a downgoing vertical shear (SV) mode with a vertical-force source is to use a shallow interface to produce a downgoing P-to-SV mode conversion. An important feature of the technology is that fracture properties can be estimated several tens of meters away from a receiver well rather than the one meter distance required for a dipole sonic log.
The outputs of the project will be a demonstration of correct field procedures for acquiring orthogonal SV-wave vectors and software source code that performs data analyses to convert orthogonal SV-wave data into estimates of fracture orientation and fracture density.
The seismic technology developed in this study will allow improved mapping of fracture orientations and densities in unconventional reservoirs, thus addressing the objective of advanced visualization to enhance unconventional production. The technology was developed using VSP data acquired in shale-gas and tight-sandstone reservoirs, but it can be applied to any fractured reservoir. Providing operators with better knowledge of fracture density and crack orientation should result in increased oil production.
Simplifying S-wave seismic source activity by utilizing S modes created directly at the point where a vertical force is applied to the Earth's surface will result in less costly data acquisition and fewer environmental issues caused by source deployment. An important impact is that vertical-force seismic sources can be utilized in a wide variety of terrains where horizontal-force sources cannot be deployed.
VSP data that illuminate unconventional reservoirs in two diverse geological settings have been analyzed to demonstrate that the use of direct-S modes produced by vertical vibrators at orthogonal-azimuth source stations is a valuable way to evaluate fracture systems and anisotropic properties of unconventional reservoir systems.
This study documents Alford rotation, which can be applied to a wider range of VSP data than some investigators have supposed. Examples from this study show Alford rotation concepts can be applied to VSP data that violate the various assumptions that many investigators impose on VSP data that are used to determine natural-coordinate axes.
In the VSP application, it is preferred to deploy vertical vibrators at source stations that have source-to-receiver azimuths that differ by 90° in order to illuminate a fractured interval with orthogonal S-wave displacement vectors. However, this orthogonal-azimuth source-station geometry has to be abandoned when acquiring 2-D and 3-D reflection data with surface receivers.
VSP data can be used when source-receiver offsets exceed receiver depth, and when raypath arrival angles are 45° and larger. This use of Alford rotation contrasts with the common assumptions that source-to-receiver offsets for data used in Alford rotation procedures should be small and that raypath arrival angles of S-wave raypaths at VSP receiver stations should be close to vertical.
VSP S-wave data can be used when the radial and transverse S-wave displacement vectors used in Alford rotation are not oriented in orthogonal azimuths. Most data processors take great care to use S-wave data in Alford rotation analyses in which radial and transverse displacement vectors are as close to orthogonal as possible.
Vertical vibrators used in this analysis were positioned at widely separated source stations and raypaths from the sources traversed significantly different overburden conditions before reaching a targeted reservoir interval. In contrast, data preferred for Alford rotation are produced by orthogonal horizontal vibrators positioned at the same zero-offset source station, so that source wavelets travel identical trajectory paths through identical overburden conditions to reach a fracture interval.
SV shear wavefields are produced directly at the point where a vertical vibrator applies its vertical force vector to the earth. These direct-SV wavefields are robust and can be used to estimate S-wave anisotropy in the same manner as S wavefields produced by horizontal vibrators.
When vertical-vibrator source stations are distributed in a circle around a VSP well, azimuth-dependent direct-S and direct-P average velocities can be calculated to allow natural-coordinate axes to be recognized. Using all available calibration data, the azimuths of these natural coordinate axes can then be associated with either the azimuths of vertical fractures or with the azimuths of maximum and minimum horizontal stresses.
One important consideration is that the cost of acquiring multicomponent seismic data can be reduced by using vertical-force sources to generate direct-S waves. Because of the potential commercial value of using vertical-force sources to generate direct-S modes, the concepts illustrated in this research have been patented by the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Hardage, 2011).
Vertical vibrators are widespread and horizontal vibrators are not, a second implication is that direct-S data acquisition can be considered across many areas where S-wave technology could not otherwise be performed.
All project work has been completed. The final report is available below under "Additional Information".
NETL – Chandra Nautiyal (firstname.lastname@example.com or 281-494-2488)
University of Texas at Austin – Bob Hartage (firstname.lastname@example.com or 512-477-0300)
If you are unable to reach the above personnel, please contact the content manager.
Final Project Report [PDF-9.08MB]


text:
Wall Shelf Rack Set Of 6 Floating Cube Rectangle Wall Shelves Online By DecorNation – Purple & Yellow
Our Ultra Modern DecorNation Wall Cubes & Rectangle wall shelves online set offer a really attractive and contemporary way to display your ornaments or store your books or DVDs. Easy to position on the wall, you can mount them separately or grouped together. They will turn a dull wall into a feature and are suitable for any room in the home. With one of the most simple and effective way to decorate your room!Ideas for you to create another life! You can also make a simple moment of vitality double room or office.
- Cubes shelves measures 17 CM (W) X 17 CM (H) X 10 CM (D).
- Rectangle shelves measures 42 CM (W) X 22 CM (H) X 10 CM (D).
- A Handsome Addition to Any Wall Decor
- Create Stunning Storage Solution While Saving Space.
- Display Souvenirs, Photos, CDs, Awards, Books, Decorative Items and More.
- Constructed From Sturdy MDF Materials.
- Hanging hardware included for easy mounting.
- Wall Screws & Plugs Included.
- Unlimited Arrangements (Arrange According To Your Choice)


text:
Middelgrunden Offshore Wind farm, Copenhagen
Sunday, 26th June 2005 by James Turnbull
The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm consists of 20 large 2MW windmills in the waters just outside of Copenhagen's harbour. Covering a length of 3.4 kilometres, the curve of the windmills is designed to be a continuation of the super-ellipse formed by the roads of Copenhagen. There's loads more info and some great pictures on the official website.


text:
OBM Genetics is an international Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It accepts papers addressing basic and medical aspects of genetics and epigenetics and also ethical, legal and social issues. Coverage includes clinical, developmental, diagnostic, evolutionary, genomic, mitochondrial, molecular, oncological, population and reproductive aspects. It publishes research articles, reviews, communications and technical notes, etc. There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.
Archiving: full-text archived in CLOCKSS.
Rapid publication: manuscripts are undertaken in 15.0 days from acceptance to publication (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2021, 1-2 days of FREE language polishing time is also included in this period).


text: June Company Industrial Services service technicians and engineers offer professional TDK Lambda ALE 402L-15kV-POS power supply repair and calibration service. In fact, we offer repair and calibration service for many models from many manufacturers of test equipment. With advanced semiconductor technology and high quality construction, the TDK Lambda ALE Rack Mount series is designed to quickly charge capacitors and pulse forming networks in lasers and general modulators. Once your TDK Lambda ALE 402L-15kV-POS power supply is received in, our technicians will evaluate your instrument and will send you a formal estimate. Services are performed only AFTER approval. Standard and rush TDK Lambda ALE 402L-15kV-POS power supply repair and calibration service is also available. To receive a TDK Lambda power supply repair service quotation, simply fill out the TDK Lambda Quote form and one of our customer service associates will respond to you as soon as possible.


text:
React development is led by a small dedicated team working full time at Facebook. It also receives contributions from people all over the world.
Meet the React Team
The React team members work full time on the core component APIs, the engine that powers React DOM and React Native, React DevTools, and the React documentation website.
Current members of the React team are listed in alphabetical order below.
Andrew Clark
@acdlite on GitHub · @acdlite on Twitter
Andrew got started with web development by making sites with WordPress, and eventually tricked himself into doing JavaScript. His favorite pastime is karaoke. Andrew is either a Disney villain or a Disney princess, depending on the day.
Brian Vaughn
@bvaughn on GitHub · @brian_d_vaughn on Twitter
Brian studied art in college and did programming on the side to pay for his education. Eventually, he realized that he enjoys working on open source. Brian has one one-person band and two two-person bands. He also takes care of the cutest cat in the world.
Dan Abramov
@gaearon on GitHub · @dan_abramov on Twitter
Dan got into programming after he accidentally discovered Visual Basic inside Microsoft PowerPoint. He has found his true calling in turning Sebastian's tweets into long-form blog posts. Dan occasionally wins at Fortnite by hiding in a bush until the game ends.
Luna Ruan
@lunaruan on GitHub · @lunaruan on Twitter
Luna learned programming because she thought it meant creating video games. Instead, she ended up working on the Pinterest web app, and now on React itself. Luna doesn't want to make video games anymore, but she plans to do creative writing if she ever gets bored.
Marco Salazar
@salazarm on GitHub · @BkOptimism on Twitter
Marco's first programming language was Assembly because he could use it to hack video games. Now online games are much more secure so he settles for playing fairly (mostly). In his spare time he plays games on his treadmill desk and makes art that he never finishes. Hopefully his PRs don't have the same fate.
Rachel Nabors
@rachelnabors on GitHub · @rachelnabors on Twitter
Rachel wrote a book about UI animation once and worked with MDN and the W3C on the web animations API. Now she is busy with education materials and community engineering on the React team. Secretly, she is an award-winning cartoonist for teenage girls. Catch her making fancy tea with lukewarm water in the microkitchen.
Rick Hanlon
@rickhanlonii on GitHub · @rickhanlonii on Twitter
Ricky majored in theoretical math and somehow found himself on the React Native team for a couple years before joining the React team. When he's not programming you can find him snowboarding, biking, climbing, golfing, or closing GitHub issues that do not match the issue template.
Sebastian Markbåge
@sebmarkbage on GitHub · @sebmarkbage on Twitter
Sebastian majored in psychology. He's usually quiet. Even when he says something, it often doesn't make sense to the rest of us until a few months later. The correct way to pronounce his surname is "mark-boa-geh" but he settled for "mark-beige" out of pragmatism — and that's how he approaches React.
Seth Webster
@sethwebster on GitHub · @sethwebster on Twitter
Seth started programming as a kid growing up in Tucson, AZ. After school, he was bitten by the music bug and was a touring musician for about 10 years before returning to work, starting with Intuit. In his spare time, he loves taking pictures and flying for animal rescues in the northeastern United States.
Xuan Huang
@huxpro on GitHub · @huxpro on Twitter
Xuan met with programming in childhood to make games in Flash. He did digital media arts in college but eventually got tricked into making compilers, and somehow React needs one. Out of work, he pours terrible latte arts and plays tennis either on or off a table.
React was originally created by Jordan Walke. Today, React has over a thousand open source contributors. We'd like to recognize a few people who have made significant contributions to React and its documentation in the past and have helped maintain them over the years:
- Almero Steyn
- Andreas Svensson
- Alex Krolick
- Alexey Pyltsyn
- Brandon Dail
- Caleb Meredith
- Chang Yan
- Cheng Lou
- Christoph Nakazawa
- Christopher Chedeau
- Clement Hoang
- Dominic Gannaway
- Flarnie Marchan
- Jason Quense
- Jesse Beach
- Jessica Franco
- Jim Sproch
- Josh Duck
- Joe Critchley
- Jeff Morrison
- Keyan Zhang
- Nat Alison
- Nathan Hunzaker
- Nicolas Gallagher
- Paul O'Shannessy
- Pete Hunt
- Philipp Spiess
- Sander Spies
- Sasha Aickin
- Sophia Shoemaker
- Sophie Alpert
- Sunil Pai
- Tim Yung
- Yuzhi Zheng
This list is not exhaustive.
We'd like to give special thanks to Tom Occhino and Adam Wolff for their guidance and support over the years. We'd also like to thank all the volunteers who translated React into other languages.


text:
<<< overview
<<< back
forward >>>
Herman Melville
1819 - 1891
M o b y D i c k ,
o r , t h e W h a l e
1 8 5 1
C h a p t e r 3 1
Q u e e n M a b .
EXT morning Stubb accosted Flask.
"Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man's ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it. But what was still more curious, Flask – you know how curious all dreams are – through all this rage that I was in, I somehow seemed to be thinking to myself, that after all, it was not much of an insult, that kick from Ahab. 'Why,' thinks I, 'what's the row? It's not a real leg, only a false leg.' And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump. That's what makes a blow from the hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane. The living member – that makes the living insult, my little man. And thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against that cursed pyramid – so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but a cane – a whalebone cane. Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only a playful cudgelling – in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me – not a base kick. Besides,' thinks I, 'look at it once; why, the end of it – the foot part – what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed farmer kicked me, THERE'S a devilish broad insult. But this insult is whittled down to a point only.' But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round. 'What are you 'bout?' says he. Slid! man, but I was frightened. Such a phiz! But, somehow, next moment I was over the fright. 'What am I about?' says I at last. 'And what business is that of yours, I should like to know, Mr. Humpback? Do YOU want a kick?' By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he had for a clout – what do you think, I saw? – why thunder alive, man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out. Says I, on second thoughts, 'I guess I won't kick you, old fellow.' 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag. Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again. But I had only just lifted my foot for it, when he roared out, 'Stop that kicking!' 'Halloa,' says I, 'what's the matter now, old fellow?' 'Look ye here,' says he; 'let's argue the insult. Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I – 'right HERE it was.' 'Very good,' says he – 'he used his ivory leg, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I. 'Well then,' says he, 'wise Stubb, what have you to complain of? Didn't he kick with right good will? it wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you were kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. It's an honour; I consider it an honour. Listen, wise Stubb. In old England the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be YOUR boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; BE kicked by him; account his kicks honours; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb. Don't you see that pyramid?' With that, he all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to swim off into the air. I snored; rolled over; and there I was in my hammock! Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?"
"I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.'"
"May be; may be. But it's made a wise man of me, Flask. D'ye see Ahab standing there, sideways looking over the stern? Well, the best thing you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says. Halloa! What's that he shouts? Hark!"
"Mast-head, there! Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!
If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
"What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of something queer about that, eh? A white whale – did ye mark that, man? Look ye – there's something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask. Ahab has that that's bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way."
<<< overview
<<< back
forward >>>


text:
The velocity of an object is a combination of both speed and direction: in formal terms, it is the rate of change of the object's displacement, and the direction of that change. If the position of an object is some function of time, then the velocity is the derivative of that function:
where is the position and is the velocity. The velocity is a vector, and its length or absolute value is called the speed. The velocity has dimensions of length / time, and may thus be expressed in meters per seconds (in scientific usage), or miles per hour in more common usage.
For an object moving along a straight trajectory, if its acceleration and velocity have the same direction, the object is gaining speed. If its acceleration and velocity have opposite directions, the object is losing speed.
Even if an object's velocity is zero, its acceleration is not necessarily zero. For example, consider a baseball thrown straight up into the air. At the top of its trajectory, it is momentarily motionless (and thus has zero velocity) even though its acceleration is not zero (it is still being pulled downwards by gravity).
If an object's acceleration is zero, its velocity is constant, but not necessarily zero.


text:
A tipster has forwarded us what somebody close to the production on Prometheus claims is the plot outline to Ridley Scott's long-awaited prequel to Alien. We're fairly dubious that this is the actual plot.
Update: A Fox rep got in touch with us and told us that this synopsis is not accurate at all. See below for details.
Not only were we skeptical about the authenticity of the below-provided outline, but we're really hoping that our skepticism is justified. Because if this is the real plot outline to the flick . . . well, abandon all hope. It's like an awful cross between Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
With those caveats, we present to you the hopefully inauthentic outline of Prometheus:
Earth. Year 2058.
Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These "Alien Gods" also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God's home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their "children", their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.
As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it's not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the "bio-source code" to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods' power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to "clean up" worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What's left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.
On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.
Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.
A Fox rep told us the above synopsis is not real at all, and described it as "way off." And they provided us with the following official synopsis:
Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life's ultimate mystery.
Thanks for the tip, Merciki!
Chestburster plushie by Paleona!


text:
Surveyshare Is Getting a New Look!
Posted on October 31, 2016 by Katie Benedetto Jones
It's about to become a whole new year, 2017. There are a lot of new starts happening around now. We'll have a brand new year for new goals, new projects, and new surveys. And here at SurveyShare, our CEO, Andy Jones, is welcoming our first child in December!
To celebrate these new starts and to better serve you, we decided to bring a fresh new look to SurveyShare as well.
We've been hard at work at this update and are soft-launching it over the next two months. Soon, logged in SurveyShare customers & trial members will be able to opt-in to use the updated site, at your convenience. After a while, we'll roll out this update for everyone. Here's a preview of what this update looks like:
We know you've loved SurveyShare for its consistency for over 15 years. We pride ourselves in consistency and ease of use, and we've stayed true to these values in this design update. With this update, you'll still have all the same great features that you've come to know and love. So today, Happy Halloween! And from SurveyShare there are no tricks - just a treat!
We hope you enjoy, and thank you for 15 years and counting!
== About the Author ==
Katie Benedetto Jones, wife of SurveyShare CEO Andy Jones, is our front-end web developer and led our redesign project. She lives with Andy in Durham, North Carolina, with their two sweet cats - Ponyo and Red - and at 8 months pregnant, is excited for their first baby on the way!
Fun fact: as I (Katie) am writing this, I'm sitting in a beautifully handcrafted adirondack chair with matching table. My husband Andy is also an excellent woodworker!


text:
AAVSO Observer Code CMJA / Minor Planet Centre Observatory Code H61 / Global Telescope Network Partner GTN-33 / Center for Backyard Astrophysics
2015 Moon Phase Calendar
The one poster page 2015 Moon phase calendar shows the phase of the Moon for each day of the year, apogee and perigee, librations, conjunctions with and occultations of other objects, maximum and minimum lunar declination, and largest and smallest Full Moons for the year. The calendar can be downloaded as a PDF file or a JPEG image file. The poster is 11" x 17", so it is best to use the PDF file which will enable you to scale the calendar to your printer paper size.
Clear Skies & Good Observing!


text:
Treating raw ingredients to reduce pathogens earned big headlines when Nestlé USA, Solon, OH, changed specs for its popular Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie doughs to now use heat-treated flour. In 2009, the company voluntarily recalled its dough products after an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a rash of E. coli 0157:H7 illnesses may have been related to consumption of raw cookie dough.
Recently, both ConAgra Mills, Omaha, NE, and Siemer Specialty Ingredients, Teutopolis, IL, announced availability of flours treated to eliminate pathogens.
"Flour is a raw ingredient," said Rob Ferguson, customer account executive for Siemer. "With heightened awareness in regards to food safety and efforts to protect the end user, there are definitely a lot more (companies) purchasing the heat-treated flour." Siemer achieves 5-log-validated pathogen reduction in its heat-treated soft wheat flour, he said. The company also offers heat-treated stabilized wheat bran and germ.
SafeGuard Ready-To-Eat Flour from ConAgra Mills goes through a validated 5-log pathogen-reduction process. "The lethality treatment maintains flour's natural flavor, color, absorption, appearance and gluten functionality while achieving up to a 5-log-validated pathogen reduction," said Kent Juliot, senior director, quality, ConAgra Mills and ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE.
The company also offers SafeGuard Treatment and Delivery System for any bulk flour and specialty grain delivery.
"Log reduction is a mathematical term used to show the relative number of microbes eliminated from a product," said Deann Akins, PhD, principal food safety specialist at ConAgra Mills. "The 5-log refers to the reduction in the number of microorganisms by 100,000-fold. For example, if a food product contained 100,000 pertinent microorganisms, a 5-log reduction would reduce the number of pertinent microorganisms to 1."


text:
Kronplatz - Events
Kronplatz Events - All the Events of the super Ski-mountain
Sport- and leisure events, extraordinary performances, action, adrenalin, music and fun are always granted in the beautiful landscape of the Kronplatz mountain! This mighty mountain between Bruneck-Brunico, St. Vigil-San Vigilio and Valdaora-Olang has 31 state-of-the-art lifts serving 120 km of slopes catering for all abilities: beginners, cruisers and experts.
The Kronplatz inspires with its 360° panorama over the UNESCO world natural heritage of the Dolomites and the Alps.
Our Event-Highlights
Skirama Kronplatz
- Tel: 0474 551500
- E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Via Johann-Georg-Mahl Str. 40
Businesspark Zukunft 3° Stock
I-39031 Bruneck (BZ)