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Poll: Chris Christie Reaches Record Approval Rating in NJ
(WASHINGTON) -- "How high is up?" That's the question Wednesday from Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, which is out with a new New Jersey poll that's a record breaker.
It shows a 74 percent approval rating for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the highest of any New Jersey governor in 17 years of Quinnipiac surveys. New Jersey voters also say 71 to 23 percent that Christie deserves reelection this year.
Christie's rating is currently the highest of any governor in the seven states surveyed by Quinnipiac. Even 56 percent of New Jersey Democrats approve of Christie and 48 percent of them say he deserves reelection. He leads his likely Democratic opponent, State Sen. Barbara Buono, 62 to 25 percent.
"Most governors would kill for a 56 percent job approval rating. Republican Gov. Christie gets that from Democrats," Carroll said in a release revealing the numbers.
This is similar to a Fairleigh Dickinson University Public Mind poll out last month that showed a 73 percent approval rating for Christie from Garden State voters. The sky high numbers come after Christie's response to Superstorm Sandy, which, at times, included him taking on members of his own party to get federal funds for rebuilding.
While Jersey Democrats approve of Christie, they appear to be split if he ends up running for president against Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, the poll shows.
New Jersey voters favor the former secretary of state 49 to 45 percent, according to the poll. New Jersey has not gone red in a presidential election since 1988.
Christie, however, tops potential White House rival New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo 54 to 36 percent.
"If the 2016 presidential race shapes up to be the battle of the Hudson, native son Christie tops New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the west bank of the river, but is locked in a tight race with the Empire State's favorite adopted daughter, Hillary Clinton," Carroll said.
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I'm interested in the following question:
Is Nature computable at it's most fundamental level?
Can anyone suggest any works (books, papers / articles, reviews) related to the above question?
(I've also cross-posted on Computational Science SE.)
Some links (since this question is currently closed):
(1) The Relation between Mathematics and Physics, P. A. M. Dirac

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United Parcel Service (UPS) is redesigning its familiar brown delivery trucks with plastics to save up to 40 percent in fuel costs compared to the standard aluminum-body vehicle. The company expects to achieve this goal by replacing metal truck bodies with composites and other plastics, which will lighten their weight by 900 pounds. It plans to buy 150 new trucks with the plastic bodies, with delivery slated for the fourth quarter of this year.
UPS has been testing the concept during a year-long pilot program that let the company try out the structural strength, durability, and repair qualities of the new truck design's materials. The tests involved using the program's five CV-23 prototype package cars from specialty truck maker Utilimaster in difficult settings. The trucks' composite plastic bodies proved to be durable and easily repaired or replaced since components are modular and don't require body work. The vehicles worked well in a variety of climates, which is especially important in areas where corrosion from road salt is an issue. Tests were conducted on rough back roads in Lincoln, Neb., winter conditions in Albany, NY, desert heat in Tucson, Ariz., high mileage in Acworth, Ga., and a long urban route in Flint, Mich.
UPS said the fuel savings of 40 percent rivals the amount of fuel that could be saved by using alternative fuel vehicles, but without the challenges that accompany a shift to those vehicles. These include fueling infrastructure issues and threats of technology obsolescence, as well as production challenges.
Composites used in the test trucks' hoods and roofs are reportedly fiberglass-reinforced plastic. Other plastic components include lower body panels, front fenders, front bumper cover, and dashboards made of injection-molded polyurethane. The instrument panel and interior cabin trim are made of thermoplastic olefin, as well as some structural components made of polyethylene sheet-molding compound.
In the past, UPS had experimented with a limited amount of composites use in vehicles. The current delivery truck design extends the materials across the entire vehicle, except for the floor. Although test trucks had a composite floor, metal floor structures will continue to be used to provide enough strength for supporting the weight of the truck's contents. The new truck is also somewhat smaller than the previous aluminum versions at 630 cubic feet, which is about 70 cubic feet less of interior cargo space than the standard P70 aluminum truck.
The company's next step is to test the same materials in larger, heavier vehicles to determine how well they work. UPS is working with several vehicle manufacturers in an attempt to cut vehicle weight, improve miles per gallon, and increase fuel efficiency by a number of different methods, including structural and operational approaches. Other design changes to existing vehicles include prototype hoods to improve aerodynamics, perforated mud flaps on tractor-trailers for reducing wind resistance, and using telematics to help reduce miles traveled to deliver packages. UPS also has more than 2,500 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles in service.
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It's been just over two weeks since I arrived in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital, and there's been much to take in. I've never been anywhere quite so foreign to me, where nothing about the culture, the food, the people, or the language is familiar. Chances are, these things aren't familiar for many of this blog's readers either. So for my first post from Mongolia, I've decided to take you through my new world through the senses, so you can get an idea of what it's been like walking around in my shoes (or rather, my heavy winter boots).
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Options for free software in Linux are:
Have a look here for a good summary of Linux utilities.
As of 14 September 2015 SDR# (along with AstroSpy and SpectrumSpy) and works again in Linux on x86/x64 and ARM using Mono! This has been tested on Linux Mint 18 x64 and an Odroid XU4.
The fact that SDR# worked in Mono at all was a happy accident. The author did not intend this and is not obligated to keep the code backwards-compatible with Mono. Any performance issues with SDR# in Mono are a problem with Mono NOT SDR# - do not complain about SDR# on Linux until Mono gets much better at executing .net code.
There are 2 ways to do this, you can use the PlayOnLinux way shown in Français ici and English here or the Mono way detailed below.
mono 4.4 (or later) for your distro from here. This is the Linux version of Microsoft's .net.
libportaudio2 to make sure sound works.
sudo apt-get install libportaudio2
ldconfig as root at the end to sort the newly installed libraries out.
cd into the new SDR# directory and type the following:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/librtlsdr.so librtlsdr.dll ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libportaudio.so.2 libportaudio.so
locate libportaudio.so.2 and try again with the new path. On 32 bit systems it will be in a different directory to what's shown here.
FrontEnds.xml and find the line
<!-- <add key="RTL-SDR (USB)" value="SDRSharp.RTLSDR.RtlSdrIO,SDRSharp.RTLSDR" /> -->
and remove .net comments of so that it looks like:
<add key="RTL-SDR (USB)" value="SDRSharp.RTLSDR.RtlSdrIO,SDRSharp.RTLSDR" />
This will enable use of the RTLSDR dongle. Comment out any radios you don't have so you don't get any startup errors and exceptions for non-existent radios.
mono --aot --optimize=all --optimize=float32 SDRSharp.exe
mono –optimize=float32 SDRSharp.exe and you should see something like the screenshot below!
Have a look here for some words on using
rtl_tcp and SDR#.


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George Zimmerman is asking the judge in his court case to let him leave Seminole County.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr.'s bail order requiring him to stay within the central Florida county "has had an ongoing, deleterious effect on his ability to assist in the preparation of his own defense," Zimmerman's defense attorney Mark O'Mara wrote.
He asked Lester to modify the conditions of Zimmerman's release and lift the restriction requiring him to live in Seminole County in a motion filed with the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Thursday.
"Communications have been unnecessarily limited to telephone and occasional visits by counsel. Mr. Zimmerman must be able to travel to meet with his lawyers, and to attend to various other necessary matters to prepare this matter to move forward," O'Mara said of his client, who is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
Zimmerman, 28, has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense. He has remained in Seminole County – which includes Sanford – since he bonded out of jail for a second time on July 6.
"Since shortly after the tragic events of February 26, 2012, Mr. Zimmerman and his entire extended family have had to live in hiding, fearing for their own safety," O'Mara noted in his motion.
Meantime, prosecutors responded to Zimmerman's objection to their request for his medical records.
Zimmerman has asked Lester to stop a subpoena for his medical records, saying the request is too broad and will include irrelevant information. A hearing is scheduled for Friday.
In his response filed with the court Thursday, Assistant State Attorney Bernardo de la Rionda wrote that several pages have been provided so far concerning Zimmerman's treatment at the Altamonte Family Practice on Feb. 27.
At various times Zimmerman and/or his attorney "have asserted that Defendant's head was repeatedly beaten into the concrete, and that he sustained some injuries to his head, and a broken nose after his struggle with Trayvon Martin on 2/26/2012," de la Rionda wrote.
"The records provided by Altamonte Family Practice describe what Defendant claims happened when he came into contact with Trayvon Martin, as well (as) treatment administered by a physician's assistant," and they refer to Zimmerman being informed that he should be seen by an ear, nose and throat doctor, which he refused to do, de la Rionda wrote.
But, he noted, "The records provided do not include any notes, photographs, X-rays, CT scan, MRI or anything else related to his treatment that day. The State wants to make sure that no other records exist."
The medical records would be made public if they are released to prosecutors under Florida's discovery rules. Zimmerman has asked Lester to review the records and decide which, if any, should be released.
De la Rionda closed his response by bringing up two reasons why the records, if obtained by prosecutors, might not be subject to public disclosure, however.
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WHEN VICTOR ZABOLOTSKY, A TEST PILOT WHO ONCE TRAINED TO FLY the Soviet Buran space shuttle, thinks back on the project that dominated his working life for nearly a decade, he figures some good came of it despite Buran's cancellation. "We lose three or four test pilots every year, so wasting all that time probably helped me survive that career," Zabolotsky says wryly. Before and after his years training for the Buran, Zabolotsky flew more than 70 kinds of aircraft. "My daughter, Margarita, was recruited to be a cosmonaut," he continues. "And after what she observed—my distrust of the bosses and the way they treated me—she declined to join the cosmonaut corps. So the Buran may have kept me alive, and it helped my daughter find a career with a future."
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Like most Russians who worked on the Buran, Zabolotsky is still indignant about the experience. Pilots, scientists, engineers, and the technicians who built the vehicle all speak candidly, if a little diffidently, about what they see as a sophisticated, spectacular failure. It became for them the perfect symbol of a space program that had lost so much confidence that, at the behest of the Soviet military, it copied a U.S. vehicle for no reason other than to keep up with the competition.
But seen another way, Buran was an impressive technical accomplishment. In fact, you could say the Soviet spaceplane, which reached Earth orbit just once in 1988 and never returned to space, succeeded beyond all expectations and failed dismally—both on the same day.
We are ascending in a dimly lit elevator inside the Moscow headquarters of the Molniya Research and Industrial Corporation, once the Buran's ultra-secret design bureau. Someone whispers, "Amerikanski journalist, it feels weird having you here." I look up at the red numbers flashing enigmatically above the door—3…8…8…9—then back to 3 as the door opens on the 5th floor. I wonder if the numbers mislead passengers for reasons of secrecy, or if this is just one more thing in Russia that doesn't work.
Like NASA's space shuttle, Buran had its predecessors. Soviet space engineers had played with designs for mini-shuttles as far back as the 1960s. But it wasn't until the United States decided in 1972 to build a spaceplane that its cold war rival took serious interest. "With two countries pointing thousands of ballistic missiles at one another, every move made toward developing space technology was regarded by the other as having military meaning," recalls Alexander Bashilov, a 52-year-old aerospace engineer who is today Molniya's director general. "In the early '70s, when the U.S. began developing the space shuttle, naturally we assumed it would be used to deliver nuclear weapons, or as a sort of space pirate ship for shooting or stealing Soviet satellites. We had no choice but to respond." So Buran, which means "snowstorm," was born.
In his 1997 biography of Soviet rocket pioneer Sergei Korolev, U.S. space historian James Harford writes: "The USSR's conviction that NASA was cloaking military space ventures in civilian clothing led to a misguided copycatting of the U.S. space shuttle." NASA had actually conceived its shuttle as a way to reduce the cost of launching both military and civilian payloads into space. But according to Efraim Akim, a veteran Soviet space mission designer interviewed by Harford, the Soviets saw right away, based on their own calculations, that NASA's cost projections were wildly optimistic. So they figured there must be another motive. Soviet military planners noted with alarm that a shuttle taking off from a planned launch pad in California could reach orbit and deliver a first strike against Soviet missile silos within minutes. By the logic of the cold war, the Russians had to have a shuttle too. Thus began the most wasteful venture the Soviet space program ever attempted.
With the same intensity that characterized the rivalry between the two superpowers, ministries within the Soviet Union fought one another to get a piece of the project and shape its direction. At its zenith, the Buran program employed more than 150,000 workers at more than 50 factories.
Stepan Mikoyan, the 80-year-old nephew of famed MiG jet designer Artem Mikoyan and himself a World War II veteran, test pilot, and aircraft designer, witnessed the waste firsthand as Molniya's flight test director for Buran. Even today, no one can say exactly how much the vehicle cost to develop, he says. "The Central Committee would decide to do something like the Buran and then just throw rubles at it until it was done," Mikoyan ecalls.
Despite its resemblance to the U.S. shuttle, Mikoyan says Buran had one key difference that helped drive up its price tag—its ride into space was the massive Energia rocket. Capable of lifting more than 100 tons to a 110-mile circular orbit, the Energia was the brainchild of renowned rocket designer Valentin Glushko, general designer for the RSC Energia company. Twice awarded Hero of Socialist Labor medals, Glushko had been a major figure in Soviet rocketry since before World War II. Reportedly, his only real interest in Buran was that it was heavy enough to prove that Energia could lift more weight into space than any rocket yet developed. "The most important aspect of rocket design," Glushko once bragged, "is the engine. A stick will fly into space with the right engine tied to it."
Though Glushko considered Buran simply a dummy payload for a rocket that could someday be used for more glamorous expeditions, such as to the moon or Mars, the booster and the spaceplane wound up sharing the same fate. Just as Buran had no clear purpose other than to keep pace with the Americans, Energia had no job other than to lift the shuttle—or at least no job that a country going through a painful economic and political transition could afford. Says Mikoyan, "The chance of many such rockets appearing in Russia's economic condition in the early 1990s was very small." So Energia was launched only twice, and had no role after Buran's debut in 1988.


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Syria Video & Transcript: President Assad's Interview with Al-Manar TV
Al-Manar: Mr. President, we are in the heart of the People's Palace, two and a half years into the Syrian crisis. At the time, the bet was that the president and his regime would be overthrown within weeks. How have you managed to foil the plots of your opponents and enemies? What is the secret behind this steadfastness?
President Assad: There are a number of factors are involved. One is the Syrian factor, which thwarted their intentions; the other factor is related to those who masterminded these scenarios and ended up defeating themselves because they do not know Syria or understand in detail the situation. They started with the calls of revolution, but a real revolution requires tangible elements; you cannot create a revolution simply by paying money.


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Hot on the heels of their announcement that Australia will play host to a suite of UCI World Cup events and the 2017 World Championship over the next four years, Cycling Australia (CA) today announced the new look Subaru Australian Mountain Bike Season for 2014.
The season kicks off in Adelaide as a prologue to the Santos Tour Down Under, giving mountain bikers the opportunity to race their bikes amongst Australia's biggest cycling crowd and only World Tour event. The roadshow then visits a host of Australia's premier mountain bike venues, established and new. The focus is all about rider experience with friends and families all catered for. CA's newly appointed Technical Director of Mountain Biking, Tim Sheedy, is vocal about the future of the sport.
"The process CA implemented to select venues reflects the three pillars of CA's mountain bike program: community engagement, support of local mountain bike organisations and races that serve as destinations for riders and their families." he says.
The season now includes the much anticipated return of the mighty Real Insurance XCM Series with riders able to choose between the full range of World Championship formats: Cross Country Eliminator, Cross Country Olympic, Downhill and Marathon. This consolidates the strengths of Australian mountain biking at its best: televised races, Olympic prestige, prize money, incredible locations, adventure and the hustle and bustle of downhill and eliminator all culminating with the UCI MTB World Cup in Cairns. "It's a potent combination when you throw into that mix some of Australia's most desirable holiday destinations." Sheedy says.
At its best, mountain biking reflects a sense of adventure and as the peak body of the sport in this country, CA are excited to be bringing new destinations, new experiences and an opportunity for organisational development to mountain biking. There's been a rigorous planning and consultation process with key stakeholders, venues and course managers to ensure the nucleus is in place. It's been exciting but the hard work hasn't come without challenges and some unforseen delay.
"This leaves a legacy for the whole mountain biking community that exists year round." Sheedy says. "As a peak body, Cycling Australia's remit is to run great events but also to grow each discipline that it administers. The best way to do this is to introduce Australian riders to new and exciting courses in their own backyards."
All this within the context of a suite of World Cups and a World Championships that has energised the discipline of mountain biking and brought new focus on all the riders…from the weekend warrior in a flannelette shirt all the way through to the top flight of the sport.
"It feels good to announce the new era in the week of the MTB World Championships, on the eve of what we hope to be one of the most successful Australian campaigns for many years." Sheedy says, a sentiment echoed by Steve Peterson, the GM of Events at Cycling Australia. "Big things are planned over the next four years with a continuing unification of the sport, more national level events, utilising more partnerships within the mountain biking community and stretching Australia wide. We have worked hard not only to build a bumper 2014 season but to also look beyond, ensuring that we are developing a lasting, sustainable model that sees mountain bike thrive." Peterson says.
2013/2014 Subaru National Mountain Bike Season calendar:
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| Bike & Lifestyle Show (Sydney – NSW)
18th-20th October 2013
Round 1
| Eagle Park, Adelaide
17th-19th January 2014
Round 2
| Mt Buller (VIC)
7th-8th February 2014
Round 3
Real Insurance XCM Series Race 1
| Individual release of venues coming soon
21st-23rd February 2014
Australian Mountain Bike Mountain Bike National Championships
Real Insurance XCM Series Race 2
| Individual release of venues coming soon
6th-9th March 2014
Real Insurance XCM Series Race 3
| Individual release of venues coming soon
30th March 2014
Australian Marathon MTB Championships incorporating Real Insurance XCM Series Race 4
| Mt Joyce (QLD)
6th April 2014
Real Insurance XCM Series Race 5
| Wombat 100 (Castlemaine VIC)
13th April 2014
UCI World Cup XCO XCE DHI incorporating Real Insurance XCM Series Race 6
| Cairns (QLD)
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The STEMM Center now has a modified but functional F-100 engine in its cafeteria for students to study as they explore aspects of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
VALPARAISO � Hands-on education has been taken to a whole new level in Okaloosa County.
The STEMM Center now has a modified but functional F-100 engine in its cafeteria for students to study as they explore aspects of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
�It�s a big deal,� said Rick Soria, who oversees the STEMM Center in Valparaiso. �We�re going to use it to the maximum.�
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VIDEO: View a video of the jet engine >>
The engine, which was once used in an F-15 or F-16 jet, is on loan indefinitely from Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama.
It was one of three in the country previously used for recruiting, but officials thought they could put the engines to better use as educational tools, according to Senior Master Sgt. Paul Gallagher of the recruiting squadron at Maxwell-Gunter.
�We had this resource and it was very much underutilized � and we saw this opportunity here to put this in a hub for STEM education,� Gallagher said
The engine was delivered Friday morning by members of Eglin Air Force Base�s 33rd Maintenance Group, who spent several weeks preparing it for display, said Master Sgt. Richard Pyryt, who oversaw the effort.
In addition to removing the engine from the trailer it was housed in, crews had to clean it up and mount it to a base to take it to the school, he said.
It took about 15 minutes to the time they left Eglin to when they rolled it into the cafeteria.
Students were duly impressed.
�I thought it was going to be a little different,� said Chris Loffler, a sixth-grader at the STEMM Academy. �I thought it was going to be a replica.�
STEMM Academy students won�t be the only ones to reap benefits from the engine, Soria said.
He�s been getting calls from schools around Okaloosa County since its arrival was announced last week. No field trips have been scheduled yet, but Soria said they will be soon.
�We are really grateful that we were able to get this engine down here,� he said.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Katie Tammen at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KatieTnwfdn.


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Yonah Freemark is the creator of The Transport Politic and has contributed on urban issues to the New York Times, CNN, Next City, and other outlets, including CityLab.
Debates about privatization can be typically summarized as a disagreement between those who argue for increased public sector productivity and those who are fighting to maintain well-paying jobs. The contracting out of public services often means fewer expenses paid by the taxpayer, but it also frequently implies the replacement of unionized, pension-funded employment with lower paying, less secure jobs.
A recent effort to privatize Florida prisons, for instance, would save the state up to $22 million, but require the firing of 4,000 correctional officers.
Yet the contracting out of public services to private enterprises can also result in less obvious, arguably undesirable changes in public policy. A new U.S. Public Interest Group study by Travis Madsen and Phineas Baxandall focuses on one significant issue: The installation of red light cameras in American cities.
In the report, the authors document the almost 700 jurisdictions that have decided to install automated cameras at some of their stoplights with the goal of ticketing the owners of automobiles that run through red lights. The concept is straightforward: By increasing enforcement of these traffic violations, drivers will be less likely to commit the offense, which accounts for 2 percent of fatal car accidents in the country, or more than 600 deaths a year.
But the deals municipalities strike with the distributors of the cameras—Redflex, American Traffic Solutions, and Affiliated Computer Services are the biggest of them—may be putting the public in danger, the study warns. The problem is that many of the contracts signed with these companies force cities to commit to standards that encourage the running of red lights. In whose interest is that?
Some of the contracts, written by the companies themselves and later signed by municipal governments, require each camera to record a certain number of red light-runners every year and for police departments to issue a minimum number of tickets. The companies, after all, have a fiscal incentive to have as many people as possible move through the intersection illegally, since they usually pocket a percentage of the ticket fee.
In other cases, democratic decision making regarding such cameras can be costly. In Houston, the termination of a red light camera program by public vote resulted in a legal action from contractor ATS demanding $25 million in early termination fees, more than the company had spent on the program's installation.
This puts cities in a bind: Their efforts to reduce traffic violations necessitates the continuation of those violations. Thus there is a disincentive, sometimes monetarily built into the contracts, to introduce programs to actually do something about reducing the occurrence of red light-running. The lengthening of the yellow light part of the cycle or the alteration of street geometries to change travel patterns, each meant to dissuade drivers from entering the intersection, are not so easily implemented when there's a contract in place requiring that a certain number of people continue to commit the offense. The public interest in reducing accidents is subverted by making efforts to do so financially infeasible.
Unfortunately, the case of the red light cameras is not isolated when it comes to privatization contracts. As Aaron Renn described last year, Chicago's 75-year lease of its parking meters to a group led by Morgan Stanley could limit the ability of the city to use its streets as effectively as possible. If the city wants to eliminate parking for the installation of sidewalk cafes or a bus rapid transit line, it will have to pay the lessee of the meters a fee. This limits the appeal of investing in street improvements, since doing so will cost the city money.
Contract language is often at fault in these situations: Legal efforts by private firms to secure their investments may be reasonable in terms of guaranteeing profits, but they can come at the expense of the public. With limited legal staff and often inadequate expertise in contract writing, municipalities can fall into a trap without even knowing it.
The troubled coworking company is the largest office tenant in New York City. What happens to the city's commercial real estate market if it goes under?
A just-approved plan will redesign Market Street to favor bikes, pedestrians, and public transit vehicles. But the vote to ban private cars didn't happen overnight.
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end.
The climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion is facing a backlash after disrupting commuters on the London Underground.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.


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Would You Rather be Fat and Happy or Thin and Sad?
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By Lauren Slater
I have traded the weight of depression for the weight of flesh — or, to put it bluntly, for a tire around my torso that makes me appear as if I'm walking with a flotation device beneath my clothes. This rim of flab never fails to shock me when I glimpse myself in a store window. I stare and stare as my fumbling brain does its double take: Is that belly-heavy self really me?
Affirmative. Alas.
When it comes to weight, the devil is in the details. I'll spare you most of them, but I'll at least mention that my midsection is not all that has expanded now that I'm in my supposedly expansive middle 40s. My face has also gained girth, broadening in the weirdest of ways, a thickening of my features that causes people who haven't seen me in a while to pause, stuttering, as they struggle to reconcile the face they recall with the face they see before them. What typically follows is that the long-lost friend will step back in surprise, silently wrestling with etiquette. Eventually, she'll give me a strained smile, painful for me to observe, and I'll feel my face get hot. Shame, apparently, weighs even more than the collective flesh of our obese nation, a land where people grow fat on cheeseburgers and also, it turns out, on certain calorie-free capsules known as antidepressants. By some counts, nearly 30 million Americans — among whom I number — are currently taking these medications.
Watch the video below to hear Lauren Slater talk about the tough decision to take medication that treated her condition, but also made her gain weight.
"It's so nice to see you," the long-lost friend might finally manage to utter, or "God, your hair has really grown!"
In an attempt to spare these friends (and myself) from these awkward reunions, I now give advance warnings about my state. "Listen," I'll say over the phone before we meet. "It has been a while, so I need to tell you that I've gained a bit of weight."
The devil is in the details, right? A "bit" of weight means more than 80 pounds. I almost enjoy the fact that shame or no, my fatness has bestowed upon me a newfound ability to be as blunt as my new shape. Maybe, once the scale has slid up beyond a certain point, you lose your sense of propriety, throwing all caution to the wind. It can be fun, this almost Dionysian sense of abandonment. On my end of the line, I smile. "Beware," I say. "I look like a cheeseburger."
Before I became a cheeseburger, I was a woman composed of 105 pounds of muscular matter known as the biochemical phenomenon Lauren. Yet despite my balanced body-mass index, my mind has always had a wayward metabolism of its own, circling up into great excitements, then, just as precipitously, diving down into deep waters where everything is dank and dark.
Up or down, I've relied on an ever-changing parade of pills for more than 30 years: pills oblong, spherical, in plastic casings or scored so you can crack them in half like a cookie. Some people give thanks to God. My deepest thanks have always been reserved for the psychopharmacological factories that pop out these synthetic cocktails designed for the millions of folks who, like me, are in desperate need of an anchor. When everything works well, these drugs prevent us from sinking or spinning, allowing us to stand like a normal homo sapien.
I am ashamed of my weight gain, but I have never been ashamed to publicly acknowledge my gratitude to Eli Lilly. The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane. I still have a special fondness for the first time I touched down, balanced in body (105 pounds) and in mind. Although I later learned that I would remain there only temporarily, that my life would be a series of comings and goings, for a time I wandered in a quiet, tempered bliss, the world all glittering crystal, the sounds around me silvery. Even water tasted delicious.
I am a person who reacts robustly to antidepressant drugs. When one medication ceases to work, as it always does, I am able to switch to another and regain my stride. Before I took these drugs, I had spent weeks and sometimes months of my childhood and early adulthood in institutions. Afterward, I became a grown-up: a wife, mother, psychologist, writer — successful beyond my dreams. Given that the payout has been so much greater than anything I ever dared ask for, I have had little patience for people who complain about antidepressants' side effects. I mean, side effects?! My own most prominent, overpowering side effect has been regaining the ability to live my life, thank you very much. If I suffered from dry mouth or a low sex drive in the meantime, well, who the hell cared?
I had no empathy for the pill-popping complainers of the world, those who took these incredible lifesavers, felt measurably better, then whined about constipation or jittery sleep or — and this really bugged me — not being able to cry as easily. Good God! I'd think. You took this drug because you cried too much. So what if you sometimes feel a little numb? Let's toast to a little numbness after a lifetime of excessive emotion!
When people I knew went off their antidepressants because of the side effects, I'd shake my head, thinking, Obviously, you weren't really depressed to begin with. Indeed, I thought these folks were worse than depressed. Because if a drug restores you to your mind — the hallmark of humanity — and you reject that for better orgasms or more copious tears, clearly, you're so crazy that no drug in the world can set you straight.
I walked and talked this attitude for a good 23 years, having my robust responses and thus maintaining my sanity, stumbling now and then, even occasionally falling, but always finding my way back, thanks to a new drug combination, perhaps a bit bruised but extremely happy to be safe and sane at home.
Then, one day, despite taking an antidepressant known as Effexor, my dark mood returned and did not abate for days, then weeks, then months. I sank into a sea so deep that no one could locate me. I was utterly alone, unable to make out anything but the occasional distant flecks of phosphorescent fish swimming by in the murky ocean, their light too dim to see by.
Until my psychopharmacologist reached into his bag and came up with a new concoction. Take two, he said, and let me know how it goes. The new drug was called Zyprexa. I'd never heard of it. Zyprexa. It sounded like xylophone. I imagined someone playing a scale, the notes arcing down and then back up.
I took two. By that point, I'd been taking two new pills every six or seven years, whenever the old ones got too old and didn't do their job anymore. For me, Zyprexa was manna from heaven. I took the pills during a time of despair that seemed deeper than any I'd ever known, and soon, after months of no appetite, I woke up hungry. Toast tasted dark and delicious, the butter melting into a pool of yellow like the summer sun through the window. I plunged my finger into that yellow pool, then sucked on it, enjoying the flavor. The tangy acid of orange juice cut through the lipids and made my mouth taste fruity.
I didn't know that morning that Zyprexa could cause massive weight gain, swift and severe. In a widely reported 2009 study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, children and teenagers who took the drug for 12 weeks gained an average of one and a half pounds per week. Had I known of this possible side effect before my doctor handed me the pills, would I have refused them? All I can say is that I should have refused them, but it's difficult to predict what one will do in times of desperation. Then again, if I had refused them, I might not be here today, alive and sane, sitting on the big berth of my bottom.
Of course, many antidepressants and other mood-mending drugs have the potential to cause some weight gain. (See "What Drugs Might Affect Besides Your Mood" on page 139.) I had put on a modest 5 pounds or so on my prior medications, but, due to the treadmill and salads, I'd kept the poundage from creeping up much beyond that. At my best, I was a petite 110, at worst, 117, which, at 5 foot 3, was still fairly svelte, with a few curves.
On Zyprexa, my weight skyrocketed, despite my efforts to diet. My bottom became like a separate being, with a will and waddle of its own. My 9-year-old called it Mama's Patootie, then just Patootie. My 4-year-old liked to dash at me from behind, diving into my patootie as if it were a snowbank. "Maaammma!" he'd say, though whether to me or to my patootie, I wasn't sure.
When it comes to weight gain, Zyprexa is in a class by itself. One theory holds that the drug impairs the satiation center in the brain, making it hard to feel full, however much food one consumes. Based on my experience, I agree with this hypothesis. Add to this the fact that most Zyprexa users have spent a great deal of time in a foul mood, a state in which food tends to taste like gritty prison gruel. If you combine a malfunctioning satiation center and the exhilaration that comes from realizing that the big banquet called life is once again yours for the taking, you take and take and take. At least that's what I did. At first, all this taking felt really good. Enchiladas tasted really good. Mole sauce was really, really good. The only problem is that people start to notice if you go up to the buffet six times, so, to avoid embarrassment, you pile your plate really high. Yet afterward, you're still hungry! How odd.
All those years, I'd confidently assumed that as long as I had my sanity, nothing else mattered. I had never deeply considered that, like it or not, my mind happened to be packaged in a body, a body I couldn't jettison. And yet, I had my set-in-stone credo: Whether tearless or now obese, my body (and my side effects) would always play second fiddle to my mental well-being. But what is sanity? How to define it? Is it scoring high on a standard exam of mental status? Holding down a well-paying day job? I'd say it is both of those things, along with the ability to enjoy life's pleasures, big and small, like appreciating the soft breeze on a warm spring day, having nice soaps in the guest bathroom, loving your children and husband, and being able to treat yourself to regular shopping trips to Target.
Except I didn't want to go to Target. The only garments I fit into there were from the plus-sized department, all gauzy and draped, their purpose to conceal rather than reveal. Indeed, I started to fear going out at all, on the off chance I'd meet someone I hadn't seen in a while. Mental health is largely defined by the ability to engage in social interactions. Yet increasingly, I felt isolated because of my mental health regime. At first, I pretended not to notice, but soon I couldn't ignore that as my body grew, my social circle shrank in nearly direct proportion.
I was also worried about my physical health. Zyprexa, I discovered, while incredibly effective when taken in combination with more standard antidepressants, may also put patients at risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a combination of conditions, including high blood pressure and cholesterol, that can increase the chances of developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes. At the time, staying true to my beliefs, I told myself that diabetes was nothing compared with the deep despair that is depression, which feels as if the mind is being held hostage in a cage of nails. Wasn't it better to be mentally well now and eventually need an extra-large coffin, albeit a bit earlier than anticipated, than suffer through a series of slow, sad days?
The answer seemed obvious, and yet, it wasn't. After all, I had two children and a husband to consider. My husband is a good man. He wanted to love me regardless of my weight. He did love me regardless of my weight. But though he would never admit this, I didn't feel as if he wanted me regardless of my weight. I sensed a tension in his touch. As with my social circle, my sex life got skinnier, filled with more awkward silences than kisses.
I didn't blame him, not one bit. After all, he didn't sign up to marry Patootie. He signed up to marry me — Lauren. But Lauren was hidden, the extra pounds like curtains on a window I couldn't see through, feel through, get through. I was trapped, the jiggle and roll of my extra flesh causing me not only shame but also discomfort. Summer heat felt searing. Stairs seemed to double, then triple, topping off in the clouds, impossible to scale. I gasped and sucked for air. I could not reach certain places on my body when they itched, my arms too short to span my own girth. My daughter, on the cusp of adolescence, stared at this new body called Mom with wide-eyed alarm. "You have to start jogging," she'd say, "or you'll have a heart attack and die!"
My daughter's fear is what finally enabled me to feel some fear of my own. If I was fearful, then how could I be happy? And so my cherished assumptions about the mind being separate from the body, about physical side effects being of little or no importance, began to crumble. I realized that I couldn't be happy if my body wasn't happy. Even more destabilizing to my theory, I learned that my happiness was not a private affair — it was inextricably tied to the people I loved. It was impossible to separate my daughter's panic, my friends' shock, from whatever misgivings were brewing in my own increasingly taxed heart. And so I was left, again, with a seemingly untenable decision: Would I rather be fat and happy or thin and miserable?
I'd always prided myself on being someone who valued intellect over appearance, but the truth is that it's difficult to be fat and happy. Besides the conundrum of being made both well and ill at the same time, there was also a reality issue: As a very fat — OK, an obese — person, I felt unreal. Sane yet unreal. My essential identity had nothing to do with being a fat person, because I'd never been a fat person, and so the inner me was at odds with the very meaty outer me. This helped me see a mere "side effect" for what it could be, in the extreme: a symptom that separates you from your normal self. This, ultimately, is why taking the drug became intolerable to me.
I wanted to stay on Zyprexa to maintain my happiness and sanity, of course, but I also wanted to prove a point, to hold on to my safe assumptions that my mind and body were easily divisible. I wanted to stay on Zyprexa so that I could claim my happiness as mine alone, unrelated to the feelings of my family and friends. But my daughter had fear in her eyes, my husband had hesitation in his eyes. I was trapped by love.
In the end, I went off Zyprexa as one leaps off a cliff while being chased by wild animals: Leap and you'll crash on the jagged rocks below. Stay put and you'll be eaten alive. I was afraid that I was giving up the last medication that would kick me into the land of the sane, and the living. But I was also less judgmental about the choices all of us must make about our life and our health, the trade-offs we discover we can and cannot live with.
Within a few months of going off the drug, I shed 40 of my excess pounds. I also struggled with my mood, although I tried hard to hang on to the belief that there were other concoctions that might help me, as there had been in the past. And I did eventually find them, though the search has never been easy. But it was necessary, because for me, fat and happy do not go together. In some ways, I wish this wasn't the case. I believe that it is possible to be both fat and happy — surely, some men and women are — and I feel somewhat shallow now that I know my physical size has such emotional heft, that it casts such a looming shadow on the very self it contains. Yet, like it or not, I think of myself as a petite person. I've discovered that who I am and how I feel cannot be considered apart from my body, especially if that body, my body, is clogged with fat and sugar. In this condition, it becomes difficult to ignore death loitering at your doorstep.
I have also come to see that my body is not really mine. Its atoms existed before me and will continue to exist long after I am gone. My body belongs not only to me but also to those I love. It is merely on loan to me, temporarily assembled, and if it becomes ill, the people who rely on it, who rely on me, suffer, too. In this sense, we are all bridges to one another, stretched out tip to toe, sometimes colliding but undoubtedly joined, each one of us a possible point of communion, in happiness, in sadness, in sickness and, hopefully, in health.
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victoria said,
Such a dichotomous proposition. Real life isn't like that. Lauren Slater is an absolute hack, I wouldn't listen to what she has to say. All her writing is drivel.


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In a move to expand functionality and allow for simpler adoption of its market-leading enterprise social collaboration offerings, Jive Software has released a series of new updates that go live Wednesday.
Jive is a pure-play collaboration service aimed at creating either internally or public-facing social networks for enterprises. The applications are delivered either on-premise or through a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering and include a variety of use cases, but center around the idea of a social intranet.
"The last few years have been characterized by early adopters and visionaries implementing social collaboration tools at a large scale," says Nathan Rollins, vice president of product marketing at Jive. "The market is at a point now where we're rapidly shifting from visionaries to mainstream."
BACKGROUND: Desperately seeking the right social enterprise tool
Traditionally, implementing Jive Software has usually required some level of integration with IT staff. With today's announcements though, Jive is hoping to make it easier for departments within enterprises to have easier access to the software, and create a more ubiquitous social collaboration network across the Internet.
One of the new features, Jive Anywhere, allows point-to-point integration of Jive software with a variety of websites and web applications. For example, if a Jive user visits a website and wants to share it with coworkers, there is now single-click sharing ability directly on the website or application. The Jive software uses APIs or in other cases metadata from the website to support the integration. "It allows the social collaboration to follow the user instead of the user having to go to the social network," Rollins says.
Within the software, Jive has also made advancements that allow for the system to analyze data imported into it and provide more customized information displays and search results. Using technology the company acquired from Proximal Labs last year, it uses Hadoop and other big data analytics tools combined with user history to display tailored activity feeds as part of the Jive Find feature announced today. Rollins says the predictive analytics tools will continue to be developed and the feature sets announced today are just a preview of additional advancements coming down the line.
Larry Hawes, an analyst who tracks enterprise collaboration at Dow Brook Advisory Services, says another interesting announcement is around Jive Teams, which represents a shift by Jive in its customer adoption strategy.
Jive Team is meant to ease the implementation of the software to allow individual departments to deploy the service without a major rollout period, Hawes says. Starting small and working up into an enterprise is exactly the approach that competing social collaboration tool Yammer has taken, Hawes says. "Yammer gets in at the ground level quickly and hopes that it goes viral within the enterprise and spreads," he says. Jive may be looking to capture some of that momentum, while still catering to large-enterprise deployments.
Jive's other feature set advancements, Hawes says, continue on the evolution of the company's services in recent years. "They're clearly trying to become the social layer in the enterprise setting," Hawes says.
So far the company has been successful. After an initial public offering at the end of last year, Jive has consistently rolled out new features, Hawes says. Still though, it's an immature market with loads of competitors such as Yammer, IBM Connections, NewsGator and increasingly, SalesForce.com, all making their own moves as well.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social media. He can be reached at email@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.
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Neither of these projects is exemplary of theoretical physics, but Amel's pitch for a sci-fi project titled The Infinity Principle has been acquired by Summit Entertainment, and will be produced by Basil Iwanyk through his Thunder Road Pictures imprint, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Perhaps Amel's recent work on the sequel to I Am Legend spoke to his abilities to cross genres with ease. Not that anyone really needs for that movie to get made, but if it serves as solid resume filler, we're all for that.
The basic storyline for The Infinity Principle is sadly vague, and involves a physicist who discovers time travel is possible. And as a result, everyone lives happily ever after. Or actually, "the universe begins to unravel as a result." It's hard to rail against the scope of something that could possibly unravel a universe, so while it doesn't quite grasp the interest, it fuels a flame.
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PAT CAPUTO: Talent isn't the Lions' problem, but mental toughness is another story WITH VIDEO
If the issue were talent, this wouldn't be perplexing.
Lions' wide receiver Calvin Johnson is the best non-quarterback in the NFL. He will likely set the league's single-season record for receiving yardage this season, surpassing Jerry Rice, who was the NFL's most dominant player ever at any specific position.
There is only a slightly less than a 50-50 chance Lions' quarterback Matthew Stafford will become the first passer in NFL history to throw for more than 5,000 yards in back-to-back seasons. He is jut 24 years old.
Count among those who had been wondering out loud lately if defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is the most overrated and over-hyped player in the NFL. It wasn't true Sunday. Suh played extraordinarily well at Ford Field vs. the Indianapolis Colts.
He had four tackles for loss, a sack and hit the quarterback six times. It was genuine production, not just a myth procured from a rookie season Suh has had trouble matching. Johnson caught 13 passes for 171 yards. Stafford threw for 313 yards. It should have a terrific day for the Lions
Yet, the Lions lost, 35-33, to the Indianapolis Colts.
It came down to one play. Andrew Luck, the Colts' shockingly effective rookie QB, stepped away from the rush and tossed a 14-yard TD pass to receiver Donnie Avery on the final play of the game.
Avery was so wide open, Luck hit him with the short pass and then escorted him into the end zone. It looked like he was willing to throw a block for Avery - except no Lions' defender even came close.
But it wasn't just the one play. The Lions lost because of a litany of mistakes that negated other parts of the game in which they performed well.
They didn't lose just because they settled for field goals rather scoring touchdowns earlier in the game when they were outplaying the Colts by a wide margin (the Colts scored touchdowns every time they reached the scoring zone). The Lions weren't defeated just because defensive tackle Nick Fairley was flagged for a horse collar penalty on the Colts second-to-last scoring drive.
OUT OF LUCK: Lions lose as Colts' rookie QB tosses game-winner as time expires
Up by two scores, the Lions allowed a 42-yard touchdown pass from Luck to LaVon Brazill, a rookie sixth-round draft pick. It was his first NFL TD. That play alone isn't why the Lions lost. It was all of the above.
It's like other teams are interchangeable parts in a series of nightmares aired for your displeasure.
The Lions have not been blown out in these games. No solace in that.
Some would say a losing culture has returned to the Lions. It's difficult to argue when a team, that could easily be 8-4, is 4-8 and recently had to send home a talented, second-round draft receiver for what was essentially on-the-field insubordination, Titus Young.
Still, a quarter of the season remains. The Lions can't waste the opportunity to wash away an increasingly sour taste.
"This is a tough league," Stafford said. "You have to be mentally, physically and emotionally tough. You have to be strong and square and ready to go. The guys who can do that will last. The guys who can't won't.''
They prey on the weak in all professional sports, but especially the NFL. There is a physicality in football that is unmatched by other sports.
Earlier this season, the Lions were merely getting beaten. This has gotten to the point where they are now getting beaten down.
Not physically, like the days of the winless season and Matt Millen, but rather mentally. The Lions have talent, but it is being wasted on losing games and what will, at best, be a non-winning season.
It's a different type of losing. It is certainly more difficult to explain.
It doesn't make it any less haunting or daunting.
Only more so.
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Nidhi Subbaraman of MIT Review reports that scientists are working on infrared facial recognition algorithms that will map the heat along the surface of the face.
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Tanzania Holiday 19: Serengeti Game Drives Day 1 - Morning
So we finally arrive to the final day of the safari portion of our honeymoon. Like yesterday, we spent the entire day on game drives in central Serengeti National Park. We have a morning drive, lunch, and then an afternoon drive.
We started at our camp in the Moru Kopjes, wandered the various roads up to Seronera, then turned back.
We trust our guide Prim to make the right choices/guesses as to where we will find wildlife to see.
He is also active on the radio, to hear from (and share with) other drivers, when & where things are found.
The start: on a nearby kopje, not far from our campsite, we saw two hyenas sleeping the morning away.
These might have been some of the ones we heard during the night in our tent:
Like the big cats, they use elevated places to try and avoid the insects as much as possible.
In a nearby tree, a pair of lovebirds were active. The lighting was a bit harsh, but you get the picture:
A giraffe was eating quite near the roadside:
He became more cautious when we stopped to photograph him:
The road wandered through the rolling hills. At one point, we had to wait for another jeep to pass...
... but it didn't seem to be moving. Then we saw why - its passenger was photographing something:
This is the view from the Land Cruiser:
It was cloudy that day, but blue sky was poking through here and there:
In the grass to one side we spotted a mongoose:
Further along, there were vervet monkeys. This one's breakfast was flowers:
Another was sitting up to dine on the right part of the favored plants:
A pair of the younger ones were just playing:
We got a good view of a secretary bird in the grass:
Sometimes the road got so bumpy that the guide vehicles started forging a new path across the plain:
To the delight of Frau A, our guide Prim spotted a leopard lounging in a tree:
Here's a cropped version to simulate a "close-up" shot:
Prim said that he/she looked young - and most likely mom was not far away on the ground, but hidden:
He wasn't really active, but at least would look left & right to give us different views of his/her face:
It stayed still enough that we could experiment with single-shots...
... and exposure bracketing/merging. This gave a little more definition & contrast to the sky:
We took a lot of photos... we were excited to finally get some good looks at a leopard:
We took pictures with different framing... and are still not sure which one to hang on the wall at home...
... but some of the close-crops are especially nice to us:
We also took the bracketd shots and experimented with more artistic HDR:
Eventually we moved on. We eventually left the hills behind and drove across the plain:
We could gauge our location because of the aircraft around the Seronera airstrip. We were a little sad, because this was our last day in Serengeti National Park, and we knew we'd be coming here the next day to leave!
We soon got another present for Christmas Day - this time, a lion lounging in a tree:
Like the leopard, Prim said this was a young one. It was very much in the shade, making shots harder:
We brightened up some of the photos to get a better look at him/her. Notice the collar?
He/she is part of the tracking program in the park.
This lion was much more sleepy than the leopard:
We also used exposure bracketing and photo-merging to try and pull more details:
One of the drawbacks of a popular find (lion in a tree) was that there was soon a traffic jam of jeeps, all with people watching the lion. You certainly lose your sense of being "in the wild" with so many vehicles around:
Ironically, Prim said that since this was the low-season (December), this was NOT a big pack of jeeps. He said that in the busy season, the pile-ups get much bigger. Many cars get aggressive in trying to position their riders for the best view, and don't share/move after a while. The tension can cause conflicts at times.
After a little while, we moved to a different position to give a newly-arriving tour our "spot".
The new angle could have been great... IF the lion would have posed differenty!
So we just took some final photos of his backside and moved on.
Next up - we had seen vultures before, but finally got one that was closer to the road:
Now we could see much more detail on his face and feathers:
Prim drove us back towards the edge of some hills to try and find our next animals:
On the less-traveled roads, we didn't see as much big game, but did spot many more birds.
This is a lilac-breasted roller:
We did get some reminders the of big hunters, though. Probably last night's kill:
We again saw some lovebirds, foraging near small wildflowers:
Young impala were keeping low, and staying in the shade:
One female warthog was out feeding:
A pair of young baboons were playing in a tree:
We drove by a water hole, with hippos hanging out in the far end.
You might have seen this in the photo above, but here is a closer look. A dead hippo was floating in the water in a nearer section of the pond (right side). Prim could not be sure of the cause of death, but most likely from another hippo:
In another section of the pond, we saw crocodiles sunning themselves on the bank. In the background, you can see the road going past the water on the far side:
They were completely inactive, as one would expect approaching midday:
We found another impala close enough to the road for a quick photo:
After that impala, we kept stopping for more and more birds. This is an African gray hornbill:
Right away we spotted more bird species - this is a pair of red-billed hornbills:
It was starting to rain lightly, but they stayed put for some nice photos!
Prim's skills proved themselves again - he found a pearl spotted owlet. These are rarely seen!
It is an "owlet" because it is so small! (You can see the rain coming down harder here too.):
A close crop, although a bit blurry:
Amazingly, the owlet perched on the same dead tree as a red-billed hornbill, for a nice photo:
Despite the light rain, we saw yet another kind of bird - this time, a woodland kingfisher:
On the ground, a gray woodpecker was working near an old log:
Finally, Prim pointed out a white-headed buffalo weaver:
The last bird of the morning was the red-billed oxpecker. They groom larger animals for food:
This impala was getting the royal treatment - two servicing him at the same time:
Here is a shot of the oxpecker in action:
This close crop is not very well defined - and the yellow eyes make the oxpecker look crazy!
Lastly, just an HDR image of one of the water holes along the game drive this morning:
That was it for the morning game drive - we felt like we got great Christmas presents from the Serengeti!
And finally... this was our honeymoon. For the wedding, instead of registering for physical gifts (e.g., china, silverware, etc.), we registered different parts of this Tanzanian safari. For this blog post, we wish to heartfully thank:
- Ronald M, for the overnights in the game-drive camp. THANK YOU!
- Amie and Kevin H, for the overnights in the game-drive camp. THANK YOU!
- Erin and Kevin O, for one of these game drives. THANK YOU!
- Seery M, for one of these game drives. THANK YOU!
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Scholarships for low GPA/high LSAT? Non-traditional students?
September 09, 2010, 06:53:49 AM »
Are there scholarships available for people who do well on the LSAT but have a low undergraduate GPA? I think my UGPA was like a 2.78 and I've been consistently scoring in the top 10% on all my practice LSATs.
How about for non-traditional students? I'm married, have kids, have a mortgage, and have been working in social services since i graduated college (related to my degree).
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I will give you my take as it sounds similar to yours (working, non-trad, family, part-time school, UGPA). I did well on LSAT and got great scholarship from a T4 based on the LSAT only. Graduated in top 20% of class and passed bar first time. I do not speak from a disgruntled perspective - I have a great job and great family, and paid very little for my JD - I just look back on it as a waste all things considered. You can read my other posts on this subject.
My schpeel on law school - ask yourself 'why?' Do you have a burning lifelong desire to be a lawyer or does this seem like the thing to do lacking any other ideas? Unless you get a great scholarship and can go to school without wracking up unsustainable debt I advise against going - unless it is your dream to be a lawyer and you get into a T1 school. The job market for lawyers is brutal, especially for non T1 grads (yes Bigs, its tough on everyone and no job is ever guaranteed, hard work, luck, all of that stuff...). Do your homework and truly know what you are getting into if you pursue this - there is a growing community of anti-law school blogs (linking main-stream media articles) that give a lot of reasons to consider.
Law school is a brutal time drain - plan on substantially missing 3+ years of your kids lives while you go to school. That time away takes a huge toll on the kids, jacks the household stress level up 10-fold, and places a huge burden on your spouse to raise the kids. You are either gone at school, need to sudy, there for a limited amount of time b/c you have to study or go to class, or you are there but not THERE. Think about it and ask whether it is worth it.
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Yes they probably will give you a scholarship if you score a 160 or 170 on the LSAT. Lawschoolnumbers.com can give you an indicator of how much each school gives for certain numbers. As Hamilton said it will be really hard on your family I would imagine, because law school takes a lot of time. Also as Hamiltion said there are a lot of lawyers out there, but as I always say there is a lot of everything out there. Life is competitive and generally those blogs that he speaks about are written by people who take absolutely no accountability for their inability to get a job and go on to write about how hard everything is and how nothing is their fault. Rather than work on making themselves more marketable or look for a job they spend hours on the internet blogging about how unfair everything is. Those kind of things you can't listen to, because those types of people will blame anything and everything, but themselves no matter what the situation is.
Anyways, yes you can get a scholarship with a high LSAT score. Should you go if you get a scholarship? The answer is maybe , it could be a terrible decision or it could work out amazingly. Considering you have a job, family, mortgage, etc you have a lot more to lose than a 23 year old with no attachments does. However, if you really want to be a lawyer then you should probably go for it. You only have so many years in your life and you might as well try to do the things you want to do. It might go horribly wrong there is no way to know, but in regards to all these bloggers etc don't listen to them, and don't leave your common sense at the door. I am sure getting your current job was not easy and you were not handed anything when you graduated from college, maybe you were, but I imagine you are aware that finding jobs especially your first one in a field is difficult.
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