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The lolcat Statistical Package - Public Release
Mike Burr
Background and Project Goals
The world needs a statistical tool that is valuable both for teachers and practitioners. Many of the statistical tools in use today are highly expensive, proprietary, and carry a large amount of baggage. Many tools can't be reasonably automated. Tools that can be automated (often written in R, Python, Java, and other languages) are incomplete from both a teaching and working standpoint.
The main objective of this project is to provide a tool set that is accurate, reliable, efficient (for the end user), and provides enough additional functionality to be valuable above and beyond many of the commercial tools in existence today. Ideally, users of this tool should not need to be proficient developers. In fact, using the code samples included in the online package documentation along with a couple of small sections of my tutorial on R, practitioners and students (at all levels) should not really need to know much at all in terms of R.
You'll find something useful in this package regardless of whether you are a student just starting your journey or an experienced practitioner analyzing large amounts of data.
Cost to Use the Package
The public release of the package itself is offered free of charge and is open source. You are free to take it and modify it any way that you choose.
The online documentation is not included under the open source license and may not be redistributed or stored without express written consent; however it is free to access online anytime.
See the LICENSE file in the package or on github for more details on the license.
Reasonably, if you are working on behalf of a commercial entity and you are using the package in a significant capacity, please support the project with a donation (contact me for more details). Also, if you find that you would like paid support and/or feature development, please contact me for more details.
Where to Obtain the Package Source
If you want to browse the package source, see the official github location:
Installing the Package
Make sure that you have the following installed:
- RStudio
The easiest way to install the latest package version is to use devtools and run the following R script:
# Install the devtools package
# Load the devtools package
# Download the latest lolcat public release
# Load the lolcat package
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Loading required package: lolcat
Notes for System Administrators (Most People Can Skip This)
System administrators seeking to install the package system wide (o.e. for all users) should install the package in the "site" package directory or use a network location for shared packages.
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- On the latest Fedora Core Release, the site package directory is /usr/lib64/R/library/. I'd expect this to be the same for other Redhat/CentOS variants using yum/dnf for package management.
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Is the Sky Falling?
David Morrison
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 21.3, May / June 1997
A scientific consensus agrees that cosmic impacts have played a major role in Earth history and that they continue to pose a significant threat today. But there is a tremendous difference in the estimated dangers, stretching up to, or even over, the line that separates legitimate science from pseudoscience. Ten recent trade books are reviewed that span a broad range in interpretations.
As the millennium approaches, the media are playing up asteroid and comet impacts. Ten popular-level books were published in 1995 and 1996 dealing with the dangers of cosmic impacts, and now we are seeing a spate of television and movie productions, both factual and fictional, that describe the impact threat. It is easy to dismiss all this as media hype and millennial madness, but it would be a mistake to do so. While some books and films may be motivated by a desire to milk public credulity for a quick buck, most are serious efforts to inform the public about a real danger that is recognized by the scientific community. In this article, I summarize the background for the recent interest in impact catastrophes and then provide a comparative review of the current trade books that deal with this topic.
Most scientists first thought about the role of impacts in Earth history in response to the now-famous paper published in Science in 1981 by Luis and Walter Alvarez and their colleagues, suggesting that an impact sixty-five million years ago produced the mass extinction that terminated the Cretaceous era. What was new in this paper was not the fact that Earth was struck by cosmic debris, but the idea that even relatively modest impacts might have a catastrophic effect on the environment. That Earth is subject to impacts is obvious from an examination of the cratered surface of our companion in space, the Moon. Planetary probes, beginning in 1964 with Mariner 4, have demonstrated that impact cratering is a universal process in the solar system. A heavy bombardment occurred early in planetary history, but it did not end then; a lower-level "rain of rocks" continues today, as comets and asteroids occasionally intersect the orbits of the planets. Those that come close and can pose a danger to Earth are collectively called Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs. On average, Earth should still expect to be struck by a fifteen-kilometer NEO every hundred million years or so. But the Alvarez paper and the research it stimulated also show that such impacts generate global-scale wildfires and dust storms, and thus are capable of killing most life forms and profoundly influencing the course of biological evolution. Impacts are the ultimate environmental disasters, more important than volcanic eruptions or other more familiar events in shaping the history of life on the planet.
Fortunately for us, impacts large enough to produce mass extinctions are rare, taking place at average intervals of tens of millions of years. However, there is a spectrum of comet and asteroid sizes, with many more small impacts than large ones. Based on what we know today, impacts much larger than the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) event are possible in the future (although very improbable). And impacts smaller than the K-T event — say by objects one kilometer or a few kilometers in diameter — occur much more frequently. The planet is struck by a one-kilometer asteroid or comet at average intervals of about 100,000 years.
Another important aspect of these impacts is that they are, as far as we know, randomly distributed in time. The chances are equal that a big one could hit in 1997 or in 2248 or in any given year in the far future. Further, although a few teams of astronomers have been searching for NEOs, the census of these objects is far from complete. For instance, of the roughly two thousand kilometer-scale asteroids that are expected in Earth-crossing orbits, fewer than two hundred have actually been found. We are confident that Earth will not be struck in the foreseeable future by any of the known objects, but we can say nothing about the 90 percent that are not yet discovered. It is because we have not yet carried out a comprehensive search that we must speak in terms of probabilities. In reality, this is not a game of chance. There either is or is not an NEO out there aimed to hit us next year or in the next century. But we don't know about it yet.
Finally, we should realize that only a small fraction of the space around Earth is being monitored today and that the most probable warning for a kilometer-scale impact is zero — the first we would likely know of a strike is when we feel the ground shake and watch the fireball rising above the horizon. While several national and international observing programs have been proposed to accelerate the discovery of threatening objects, so far no government funds have been spent to deal with large-scale searches or any other efforts to mitigate the impact threat. There has been much talk, but little action beyond the efforts of a few individuals in the scientific and military communities.
Current Issues
Most of the books and TV specials deal broadly with the issues described above, including graphic descriptions of the destructive potential of impacts of various sizes and impact energies. The catastrophic climate changes that caused the death of the dinosaurs and other species at the end of the Cretaceous era are fascinating to scientists and laypersons alike. Another common element is the description of the 1994 collision of some twenty-three fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. This remarkable event, observed by hundreds of telescopes on Earth and in space, provided direct data on the nature and consequences of cosmic impacts. But a number of questions arise when we discuss the contemporary impact danger and consider whether — and how — to protect ourselves against future catastrophes. There is a considerable divergence among scientists in how such issues are framed and discussed, and an even wider disparity on the way these issues are presented to the public.
Let us begin with what I call the "standard paradigm" — that of random impacts on Earth by small comets and asteroids. This is the consensus view of most scientists, and it is reflected in two NASA reports to the U.S. Congress, the Spaceguard Survey Report of 1992 and the follow-up report in 1995 inspired by public interest in the collision of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. As the principal author of the Spaceguard Survey Report and a member of the follow-up working group (chaired by Gene Shoemaker), I identify with this consensus position.
The standard paradigm uses the cratering history of the Moon and other evidence to deduce the average historical rate of impacts on Earth by objects of different sizes or impact energies. It then assesses the destructive potential of impacts of different energies on Earth today in terms of probable casualties, noting in particular the existence of a threshold at about one million megatons of energy (corresponding to a two-kilometer asteroid) at which the global climate is severely affected and everyone is at risk, independent of proximity to the impact. One conclusion of such studies is that the statistical risk is greatest for impacts near the global threshold, amounting to an average risk of death for each individual on Earth of nearly one in a million per year, comparable to the risk of other more frequent (but less catastrophic) events such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic eruptions. It is also noted that, unlike other natural disasters, impacts can be avoided entirely by deflecting an incoming object, if several years warning time is available.
Although most people agree that the greatest risk is posed by objects two kilometers or larger in diameter, others focus their attention on smaller impactors, especially those in the 200- to 500-meter range. When impacts of this size occur in the ocean, they produce tsunamis capable of inundating large stretches of coastline. Although the average risk for inhabitants of the planet is less from tsunamis than from the global catas-trophes caused by larger impacts, the risk for persons living on shorelines may be greater. This fact, together with the higher frequency of smaller impacts, leads some to argue that we need a defense system against any object larger than 200 meters diameter.
A major divergence of opinion concerns what our response to the impact threat should be. Most of the scientists involved in such assessments conclude that there is a significant risk and that governments should take some action (especially in searching for potential impactors), but that it is premature to build any defense systems in the absence of a specific identified threat. Others, the best known being Edward Teller (the father of the H-bomb), argue strongly for a more aggressive approach to asteroid defense. They would initiate experiments, eventually to include nuclear explosives, designed to learn more about how to deflect or destroy asteroids and comets. Some even advocate construction of a standing nuclear defense system to deal with the smaller impactors, for which the warning time might be short. But at least, they assert, we should start now to develop the technology for such a system.
These arguments concerning the magnitude of the threat and the most appropriate response make good TV and newspaper copy. They can lead to serious analyses of the various threats that we face on Earth and of the role of governments in dealing with potential disasters, both natural and human. All fit within the standard paradigm. But there is another viewpoint, held by a handful of British neo-catastrophists, that challenges this position.
The British Neo-Catastrophist School
The alternative viewpoint is advocated in its extreme form by astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier, who interpret historical records as indicating that Earth has been subject to extreme battering from space within the past few millennia. In their popular books The Cosmic Serpent and The Cosmic Winter, they take the position that the emergence of astrology in the western Mediterranean, the association of gods with planets in many ancient cultures, the widespread fear of comets and belief in angels, and many other aspects of our cultural and religious history are a reflection of massive bombardment of the planet a few thousand years ago. They further conclude that more recent historical events, including the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, and even the English Civil War, are related to climate changes induced by exceptional deposition of cosmic dust in Earth's atmosphere. Although their historical analysis is suspiciously similar to that of Immanuel Velikovsky, Clube and Napier adamantly reject the association, arguing that unlike Velikovsky they root their explanations in sound physical and astronomical principles.
Supporting Clube and Napier are British astronomers Duncan Steel and Mark Bailey, who have concluded that the solar system is currently experiencing the aftermath of the break-up of a giant comet some millennia in the past. Our planet still intersects debris from this comet in what they call the Taurid complex of dust, small comets, and asteroids. They term this theory coherent catastrophism. Steel and Bailey estimate that the present lull in impacts will end in about a thousand years, when our orbit again crosses the denser parts of the Taurid complex, at which time the impact risk will rise by at least a factor of a hundred. All of these neo-catastrophists argue that urgent action is required to prevent the collapse of civilization under the next cosmic onslaught.
Most of us find these neo-catastrophist arguments difficult to swallow. Putting aside the issue of the Velikovskian interpretation of history and legend, the impact rate is still constrained by the cratering history of the Moon, which reflects the long-term average. If there are huge "spikes" in the frequency of impacts, produced by the break-up of giant comets, they must be compensated by much lower flux rates between peaks. Yet Clube, Steel, and their colleagues simultaneously assert that the consensus group underestimates the current impact rate, and that a big spike is coming. You can't have it both ways. If they are correct that almost all impacts occur during the spikes, then the present danger must be very low, and we have centuries to prepare to deal with the next peak. But they don't see it that way, and neither do the authors of several of the recent books.
Impact Science and Pseudoscience
While I believe that the British neo-catastrophists are wrong about the threat to Earth, their work is science, not pseudoscience. They are making their case to other scientists, and time will sort out who is right and who is wrong. They do, however, sometimes attract the attention of fringe elements. For example, the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS), a British group that espouses a skeptical philosophy but includes many defenders of Velikovskian ideas, is sponsoring a conference that features Clube and focuses on evidence for cosmic catastrophes in the ancient world. In fact, the work of Clube and Napier attracts many people who were once impressed by Velikovsky, such as Leroy Ellenberger, at one time a member of the Velikovsky inner circle and now one of the most outspoken critics of his current followers.
Every week I receive two or three inquiries from the public asking if some story they have read or heard about an imminent world-shattering impact is correct. These stories are not confined to the supermarket tabloids but have apparently attracted a following on the World Wide Web. Some people ask about a comet called Wormwood, with obvious reference to the apocalyptic vision in Revelation 8:10-11, when "the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp. . . . And the name of the star is called Wormwood."
Then there is Comet Hale-Bopp. In November 1996 the press gave general coverage to a wild claim that this comet was accompanied by a spaceship and was headed toward an impact with Earth. (See Alan Hale, "Hale-Bopp Comet Madness," SI, March/April 1997.) The story apparently started when an amateur astronomer photographed the comet near a moderately bright star. In a curious logical progression he assumed the star was a spacecraft, that the spacecraft was at the same distance as the comet, and that the over-exposed stellar image represented the angular diameter of the craft, which would make it comparable in size to the giant planet Saturn. Others embellished the story by concluding that the spacecraft was traveling in the same orbit with the comet and that the trajectory was about to shift toward Earth. The mystery to me is why this fantasy was given serious media attention, even on a slow news day. I fear that we may see more of this sort of thing as the public becomes more aware of the threat of impacts.
Presenting the Issues to the Public
Of the ten books reviewed here, three are strongly in the Clube/Steel camp, and several of the others give their neo-catastrophism considerable attention. This is perhaps understandable, since these are the scientists who are most strongly claiming that the sky is falling. Besides, the connections they make between impacts and the more familiar fields of history and religion have an obvious public appeal.
In contrast, the public policy issues surrounding the development of a space defense system and the possible testing of nuclear explosives in space are barely touched on in most of these books. In part, this represents the secretive nature of the defense scientists, who (unlike the more gregarious astronomers) tend to avoid talking with journalists or appearing in TV documentaries. But the issues are real, and the first steps toward an asteroid defense are being initiated by the Pentagon's just-approved Clementine 2 space mission to intercept three near-Earth asteroids and fire high-speed projectiles into their surfaces. It would be more useful if these policy questions, rather than the idea that cosmic dust caused the English Civil War, were being prominently addressed in public discussion of the impact threat.
On the positive side, the impact issue is proving to be an excellent vehicle for communicating some interesting aspects of contemporary science to the public. The topic, bringing together astronomy, environmental threats, and dinosaurs, is a natural. It focuses on the way historical science works (how can we figure out what really made the dinosaurs go extinct?), on the fragility of the environment (how can one small impact have global consequences?), on the nature of evolution (why were the mammals who succeeded the dinosaurs so different from them?), and on the nature of probability (if big impacts take place only once every million years, why worry now?). There is great potential here to teach good science as well as stimulate a useful public policy debate. Let's hope these lofty goals are achieved in practice.
Artist's concept of a catastrophic asteroid impact with Earth. Life near the impact would be instantly wiped out from the effects of high temperatures and pressures. Injection of huge masses of dust (and gases) into the atmosphere would effectively block out sunlight for long periods of time to the point that most life could not be sustained ("Nuclear Winter"). Painting by Don Davis, courtesy of NASA.
The Standard Reference on Impacts
In January 1993 more than one hundred experts met in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss all aspects of NEO impacts, from the extinction of the dinosaurs to the nature of impact-induced tsunamis to the deflection of an incoming asteroid by nuclear explosions. A wide spectrum of opinion was represented, as exemplified by the appearance of old antagonists Carl Sagan and Edward Teller on the same platform. In 1994 the edited, refereed product of this meeting was published by the University of Arizona Press, edited by Tom Gehrels, as Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. This 1,300-page book, with 120 authors, is the definitive reference on the impact hazard. Indeed, is it the only published source for much of the work, which has not appeared in technical journals. This is the best place to find detailed information on the subject, but more current reports are also on the World Wide Web at the Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard Homepage (http://impact.arc.nasa.gov).
Books That Represent the Standard Paradigm
The following five books adhere generally to the standard view of the NEO impact threat, as represented in the NASA reports and the refereed conference volume Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids.
John S. Lewis. Rain of Iron and Ice: The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment. Addison-Wesley, 1996, 236 pp., $25.00. John Lewis, professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and one of the leading proponents of the use of asteroid resources for long-term space development, has written the best popular volume on the impact hazard. This book is written primarily for the scientifically literate lay audience, but it contains a great deal of information — and no small number of pointed barbs — directed toward scientific colleagues who study NEOs professionally. Lewis covers all the relevant issues of the nature of NEOs, the impact history of the solar system, the impact hazard, and mitigation. His writing style is compact, clear, and comprehensive.
In addition to his solid coverage of the basics, Lewis probes in depth three areas that are often missing in other treatments. (1) He clearly places Earth impacts in their broader solar-system context, with extensive discussion of the lessons learned from the cratering histories of the Moon, Mercury, and Venus. (2) He places strong emphasis on the long history of eyewitness reports of terrestrial bolides, meteorite showers, and atmospheric detonations, many of which have done considerable damage. This evidence, he stresses, is overlooked by most workers in the field. (3) He uses current models of the impact flux and the entry physics for impactors to "reconstruct" ten different one-century scenarios, with specific details of individual impacts and their damage, as a way to illustrate the variety of impact events. This same list allows Lewis to address the question of which scenarios (had they happened in the twentieth century) would likely have led to a widespread appreciation of the impact hazard and which scenarios probably would have been ignored or misinterpreted. The real history of the twentieth century is intermediate; Lewis argues that had the circumstances of the 1908 explosion of a 60-meter asteroid in the atmosphere over Siberia's Stony Tunguska River been just a little different, we might never have known about it and foolishly continued to ignore the impact hazard up to the end of the century. (The Tunguska explosion flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest and created a pressure wave recorded around the world.) This is the best introduction to the field, standing far above any of its competitors.
Dana Desonie. Cosmic Collisions. Henry Holt & Co. (A Scientific American Focus Book), 1996, 128 pp., $9.95. The Scientific American Focus Books are inexpensive paperbacks aimed at an intermediate or high school audience. Dana Desonie is a science writer with a doctorate in geochemistry. Her short, well-illustrated (in black and white) book is a straightforward introduction to cosmic impacts, beginning with solar-system formation, moving to comets and asteroids, then to Earth impacts (including the K-T event), Tunguska, current ideas about the impact hazard, and possible planetary defense. This is a serious, well-focused discussion that includes a lot of information in a book that can be read in a couple of hours.
David H. Levy. Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Plenum Press, 1995, 290 pp., $25.95. In this delightful memoir, writer and amateur astronomer David Levy provides a personal perspective on the history of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, from its discovery in the spring of 1993 until its death in July 1994. Writing for a lay audience, Levy tells with infectious enthusiasm of his adventures and those of many colleagues dealing with both the comet itself and the barrage of journalistic scrutiny it inspired. Only a few chapters concern the impact hazard, and defense issues are hardly mentioned, but Levy's technical explanations are simple and clear. This is not a detailed reference work, and its real pleasure lies less in the science than in the many personal stories and the sense of involvement achieved by the diary-like presentation of events.
John Spencer and Jacqueline Mitton, editors. The Great Comet Crash: The Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 118 pp. John Spencer is a scientist at Lowell Observatory and an expert on Jupiter and its satellites; Jacqueline Mitton is a writer and Public Information Officer of the Royal Astronomical Society. They have collaborated to produce a timely and well-edited volume on the great comet impact, with chapters contributed by many of the leading researchers in their fields. Of all the books discussed here, this one has by far the best photographs, intelligently selected and beautifully reproduced. Only about a quarter of the book deals with the impact hazard, but these few chapters are by the experts and provide an excellent overview.
Philip M. Dauber and Richard A. Muller. The Three Big Bangs: Comet Crashes, Exploding Stars, and the Creation of the Universe. Addison-Wesley, 1996, 207 pp., $25.00. The first third (about seventy-five pages) of this popular-level book on modern astronomy is devoted to NEO impacts (and not just comets, as the title implies). The authors are physicists from the University of California at Berkeley, and Muller is one of the originators of the Nemesis hypothesis to explain periodicities in the terrestrial extinction record. Given the limited space available and the nonscientist audience toward which their book is aimed, Dauber and Muller do a good job of explaining the impact hazard story, with emphasis on the K-T extinction event and its lessons for the impact history of Earth. Both authors describe themselves as proteges of Luis Alvarez, and they are at their best in describing the events associated with the pioneering work that led to the identification of the extraterrestrial cause of the K-T event and the grand generalization of this evidence into a new theory of mass extinctions. In a few other areas, however, including discussions of the current hazard and of the Spaceguard Survey proposals, they oversimplify to the point of significant distortion. This book is a good read, but should be taken with quite a few grains of salt.
Books That Represent the British Neo-Catastrophist School
These three books by British authors all argue for a much higher level of danger from cosmic impacts and appeal to the record of the immediate past for evidence of the major role played by impacts in our history.
Duncan Steel. Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth. Wiley, 1995, 308 pp., $24.95. Duncan Steel is well known in Australia and worldwide as a leader in NEO searches, a researcher on orbits of meteor streams, and a popularizer of the NEO impact risk. He writes well, and he covers all the issues of the nature of NEOs, the impact history of the solar system, the impact hazard, and mitigation. Roughly the first half of the book is on a par with Lewis and can be recommended with equal enthusiasm. In many other places, however, Steel departs dramatically from the mainstream to advocate the extreme neo-catastrophist position; in some places he admits that his positions are unorthodox or even bizarre, but elsewhere he neglects to make this distinction. Steel feels that the cratering flux is highly time-variable and states that "we are now fairly certain that terrestrial craters are, up to a large extent, formed during distinct periods of higher impactor flux." In dynamics, he espouses the radical idea that "the main [asteroid] belt is not being depleted to supply meteorites and Earth-crossing asteroids, but quite the opposite." He includes a highly personal chapter on the neo-catastrophist interpretation of Stonehenge that was characterized in another review (in Sky & Telescope) as "fiction, not even science fiction." Perhaps some of these unorthodox ideas are deserving of serious scientific discussion, but their inclusion as fact in a popular-level book detracts significantly from its overall value, since the nonscientist reader has no way of separating the speculation from reliable information.
Gerrit L. Verschuur. Impact: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids. Oxford University Press, 1996, 237 pp., $25.00. Gerrit Verschuur, a well-known radio astronomer, educator, and author, presents a detailed (and very small print) discussion that lays out the full impact story. Throughout the book, Verschuur emphasizes data and interpretations that maximize the impact flux as well as the damage that can be done by impactors of a given yield. Since there are substantial uncertainties in many of these estimates, it is possible, by always selecting the worst case, to conclude that the danger is orders of magnitude greater than the values usually quoted. This is the tack taken by Verschuur, in general agreement with the arguments in Steel's book reviewed above. Verschuur's writing style is clear and witty, and I would happily recommend the first ninety-four pages. However, I cannot agree with the increasingly alarmist interpretations that dominate the book after page 95, on which Verschuur first introduces Clube and Napier. He argues that the "patterns in history" they have found should be the basis for policy decisions on protecting Earth from cosmic impacts, which he concludes produce worldwide flooding from asteroid impact every five thousand years or so. He writes that "we are perpetually poised on the edge of extinction and have been very lucky to get this far," and "[t]he number of casualties resulting from an ocean impact . . . may be 10,000 times larger than given by Chapman and Morrison [in a 1994 paper in Nature]." In general, this book compares well with Steel's, but with the same fatal flaw (from my perspective) of its emphasis on coherent catastrophism, and an even worse tendency to exaggerate the current impact hazard, often by several orders of magnitude.
John and Mary Gribbin. Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind. St. Martin's Press, 1996, 264 pp., $23.95. British science writers John and Mary Gribbin have written a general overview of impacts and impact dangers for the lay public. Printed in large type and presented without illustrations, the book is significantly shorter than the two reviewed above, in spite of its similar page count. In essence, this book is a popularization of suggestions by Clube and Napier that human history has been greatly influenced by cosmic apparitions and cosmic impacts. They anticipate that "the world is in for another bout of fire from the heavens in about a thousand years' time." This is a pretty grim picture; hence their title, which literally refers to fires that may sweep Earth a few centuries in the future. The book contains a number of factual errors, but the main problem is that everything is slanted toward maximizing the impact flux and the associated danger. They assert that impact-associated atmospheric dust has been responsible for the recent ice ages, and that the climate of Earth today "rests on a knife edge," ready to drop into another ice age with the smallest cosmic perturbation (no worry about global warming here!). This is a well-written book, but basically it adds little that is new. It seems to me that if one wants to explore the ideas of the British neo-catastrophist school, then one might just as well skip Gribbin and Gribbin and turn directly to the primary sources, in books by Clube and Napier and by Steel.
Unacceptable Books
The following two books should never have been published. The authors seem to be covering the field, but when you look in detail you find error and inconsistency on almost every page.
Patricia Barnes-Svarney. Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier? Plenum Press, 1996, 292 pp., $25.95. Science writer and educator Patricia Barnes-Svarney has written an extremely frustrating book. She has attempted the ambitious task of covering for a lay audience the entire field of asteroid and comet studies, impacts, solar-system history, the hazard of Earth impacts, and the use of asteroids as space resources. Unfortunately, she is out of her depth in most of these areas, leading her repeatedly into conceptual and technical errors.
Barnes-Svarney loves technical jargon, mining the fields of astronomy, geology, and meteoritics for their numerous terms and then going on to invent a few of her own. Throughout the book she undercuts her own conclusions with words such as perhaps, seems, and probably even when she is reporting simple facts, as in the extreme example (p. 241) where she writes, "Right now, the best guess seems to be that there is no asteroid or comet known to be on an immediate collision course with the Earth."
There is a lot of information in the book, but frequently it is presented as isolated "factoids," rather than integrated into a self-consistent whole. For example, the author quotes half a dozen different values for the current terrestrial impact flux, but each in different units, so one cannot readily compare the results. Too often she gets things entirely backwards, as in her statement (p. 240), "Space scientists will tell you that everything within budgetary reason is now being done to search for more near-Earth asteroids." I can't imagine any of the current observers, all of them starved for support, making such a statement. Barnes-Svarney also has some unusual opinions about NEO impacts. Although she writes at length about the K-T impact, she does not believe it played a role in the extinction of the dinosaurs; and even for other species, the most she says is that this impact is "thought to have helped in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions." Yet she credits impacts in the past with initiating plate tectonics, triggering volcanism, and generating Earth's magnetic field — all highly dubious assertions. The book is especially weak in all things quantitative, riddled with inconsistencies and often misquoting sources.
Donald W. Cox and James H. Chestek. Doomsday Asteroid: Can We Survive? Prometheus Books, 1996, 338 pp., $26.95. The authors, popular science writer Don Cox and retired aerospace engineer James Chestek, have written about the impact hazard in the context of an argument for expanded human activity in space, including a major effort to visit the asteroids, colonize them, and mine them for space resources. Most of the factual material is from secondary sources such as Science News and the New York Times. The authors have obviously not attended any of the technical meetings on impacts held during the 1990s, and they do not understand many of the technical issues. From the beginning they tell us that the asteroids are most likely the result of an exploded planet, an idea that has had no scientific support for nearly fifty years. But this does not inhibit them from passing harsh judgment on the various teams of scientists who have participated in framing the NEO issue during the past five years. A special target of Cox and Chestek is the 1992 NASA Spaceguard strategy to search for asteroids, which they compare with the drunk who searches for his keys under the street lamp instead of where he lost them. They completely miss the point of carrying out a search to discover the objects as they periodically come close to Earth, but long before they actually hit. The direction from which they make their final approach is irrelevant. Because of this misunderstanding, they devote most of their search chapter to a simplistic argument that many impacting asteroids approach Earth from the sunward side, and on this basis they insist that a space system, with telescopes far from Earth, is required. The tone of much of the book is bitter and negative, and the attitude of the authors toward the research community is captured in the following paragraph:
An early warning space telescope certainly need not cost anywhere near as much money as the Hubble telescope. That was a research project, and many high-priced scientists and their graduate students spent many years charging their time to the project. Here we are discussing a simple early warning system, which the military knows how to build. The cost will only be for some engineering, not a lot of research, so it can be vastly cheaper.
The technical errors and widespread confusion displayed by Cox and Chestek in this book and by Patricia Barnes-Svarney her book reviewed above suggest that the filters against bad science writing for the public are not very effective. There seems to be no equivalent of peer review for science books, even at top publishers. Caveat emptor.


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Solomon: Luckenbill played a key role in basketball history
Ted Luckenbill grew up in a time and place where you did what you were told. Doing what he was told served him well in life.
It got him from Elkhart, Ind., which in the mid-1950s had a population of about 35,000 and a high school gym capacity of 8,284 (at the time the biggest high school gym in the world), to the state's famed single-class Final Four.
It earned him a basketball scholarship to the University of Houston, where a flashy dresser from East Texas named Guy V. Lewis had just embarked on a coaching career.
It helped Luckenbill reach the NBA, where he would play and become friends with the most dominant player the sport has known.
And doing what he was told secured him a place in basketball history.
You likely have never heard of Luckenbill, but he played a significant role in two of the most memorable points ever scored.
Fifty years ago this month, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
Were it not for Luckenbill, it is quite possible the greatest in-game feat accomplished by a professional basketball player would have been the night Wilt the Stilt almost scored 100 points.
A jumping machine
Luckenbill was athletic and, as was the norm for boys from the Hoosier State, he played a lot of basketball.
Between his freshman and sophomore years of high school - the summer after Milan, the inspiration for the movie "Hoosiers," won the Indiana state championship - he sprouted up several inches to a lean, lanky 6-5.
But the growth spurt made him gangly and a tad uncoordinated.
Luckenbill's high school coach was Max Bell. He was tough, nasty even, but he knew how to get the best out of a player.
"He did things to me that if you did that today you'd get thrown in jail for," Luckenbill said.
While the rest of the Blue Blazers practiced, Bell took Luckenbill off to the side and had him jump up and down over and over, touching the rim. And if he stopped the succession of jumps before being told?
"I'd get whacked on the legs with a taped-up towel," Luckenbill said. "It drew welts."
Another of Bell's favorite drills involved putting a lid over the basket and making Luckenbill try to tip the ball in (obviously it couldn't go in), rebound the carom with another fruitless tip and so on.
Up and down. Back and forth.
If the ball hit the floor?
When Bell tired of torturing Luckenbill with the jumping drills, he would end practices with a team run.
The team was ordered to run a mile, eight laps on the indoor track, with a caveat. For every person you passed, you were allowed to run one less lap.
Conversely, for every teammate that passed you, a lap was added to your required total.
"Coach Bell put me at the front and everybody and their brother was faster than I was," Luckenbill said. "I was running all day."
After a few days of this, Bell pulled Luckenbill to the side to discuss his running technique.
"Don't you have elbows?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then why are all these people passing you every day, son?"
"A light came on," Luckenbill said. "Nobody passed me after that."
UH's sales pitch wins
Luckenbill, an Indiana all-star, had scholarship offers from all over the country. He picked Houston instead of one of the Big Ten schools or any of the other 15 places he visited because Lewis was one of the few coaches who didn't offer him anything illegal to sign.
Lewis also was the only coach who promised Luckenbill that a UH scholarship was a four-year deal.
"You get hurt, you're on scholarship until you graduate," Lewis told him.
By the time he got to UH, thanks to Bell, Luckenbill was a rebounding machine.
He was quick off his feet. He could jump up and tip the ball, land, jump up and tip it again, land and jump up and tip it again, while others were still prepping for their second leap.
And as you might imagine, he had developed a rather strategic, and dangerous, use of elbows. There are men in their 70s with nasal issues to this day from those encounters.
Luckenbill, who averaged 18 points and 10.1 rebounds per game as a senior (16.6 ppg and 9.8 rpg for his career), and Gary "The Ghost" Phillips helped Lewis post his first two winning seasons and UH claim its first NCAA Tournament victory.
In the 1961 draft, Luckenbill was picked 15th overall by the Warriors.
In his rookie year in Philadelphia, Luckenbill became friends with a 7-foot gentle giant.
One-man offense
The Warriors had a new coach that season, eventual Hall of Famer Frank McGuire, who would coach only one NBA season.
McGuire and Luckenbill didn't hit it off.
"The only coach I never figured out how to please," Luckenbill said.
McGuire let it be known that no matter what the other players were capable of doing, the ball had to go to Chamberlain. Period.
So that season Chamberlain averaged a record 50.4 points per game.
But on March 2, 1962, 50 points weren't going to do it. The Warriors players showed up in Hershey, Pa., for a game against the Knicks and decided they wanted to see just how many points Chamberlain could score.
In the final minute, with Chamberlain sitting on 98 points, he launched a shot that caromed off the rim.
Luckenbill, the Elkhart rebounding machine, snatched the ball out of the air and threw it back to Chamberlain for another try at 100.
Again, Chamberlain missed.
And again, Luckenbill, the former UH star, came away with the offensive rebound.
He passed to Joe Rutlick, who fed Chamberlain and the center dropped the ball into the basket, a Dipper Dunk as the radio announcer described it, for his miraculous 99th and 100th points with 46 seconds remaining.
In one of two iconic photos of that night, Luckenbill is seen congratulating Chamberlain after the amazing feat.
Though he played only three minutes in the game, that night would be the highlight of Luckenbill's NBA career.
A little more than a year later, Luckenbill, who had a $10,000 contract offer on the table to play for the Knicks, was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
He recalled doctors telling him he had less than six months to live.
It was one of the few times Luckenbill didn't listen to what he was told.
"I was 23 years old then. I'm 72 now. I'd say I beat the sucker," Luckenbill said.
Retired a Texan
Luckenbill has worked and lived from coast to coast, but he settled in Texas some 30 years ago. He has moved around here, too, from Waco to The Woodlands to Crockett, where he has been for nearly 20 years.
He retired seven years ago, but he can't sit still, despite having had two hip replacements not long after playing in a UH "Reunion of Champions" game in 1993.
He works three days a week as a receptionist - "Excuse me, the title is front desk jockey," he said - at a law office just to keep busy.
And every now and then, somebody calls to ask him about the night he helped make basketball history.
"I just did what I was told," Luckenbill said. "That's the only thing I was allowed to do: rebound and pass to Wilt. And that's what I did."


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Melbourne Airport has doubled its self-service terminals for passport checks.
Federal Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare on Monday said Australian, New Zealand and some US e-passport holders will now be able to clear customs quicker by using the SmartGate terminals rather than waiting in a queue.
SmartGate takes a photo of a traveller's face and, using facial recognition technology, matches it with the digitised image stored in their e-passport.
If there is a successful match, the traveller is cleared through the customs control point.
If there is no successful match, they are referred to a customs officer.
Meanwhile, Melbourne Airport said it has started to use body scanners at its international departures terminal.
The scanners can detect both metallic and non-metallic items.
Departing passengers will be screened either by the new body scanners or the walk-through metal detectors.


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TSA Agent Detains Woman From Flight Because He Was Mad at Her [VIDEO] [POLL]
You give people to much power and what happens? They abuse it. A woman missed her flight in Houston because a TSA agent didn't like her attitude!
The woman got it on video! She uploaded it to YouTube and on her description she says:
This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport. I was not allowed to board a plane (even though I had already been through airport security) because I drank my water instead of letting the TSA "test" it.
In the video you can hear the woman say "Let me get this straight, this is retaliatory for my attitude, this is not making the airways safer it's retaliatory."
The TSA agent says "It pretty much definitely is."
I almost had a run in with the TSA a couple of years ago!
My husband, John, and I were boarding a plane on our way to Jamaica. Going through the screening process, the TSA agent asked my husband (who was in front of me) for a picture I.D. John handed over his passport. The agent said "No, I need a picture I.D.! I need your driver's license!"
John said, "Um, a passport IS a picture I.D." The agent said, "Sir, do you have a problem?" John said "No, sir" and quickly bit his tongue as not to accelerate the situation.
Oh, yippee! I was next in line! I quickly found my driver's license and handed it over along with my passport. The TSA agent took both, rolled his eyes and gave me the "old" sigh of disgust. He then handed me back my passport and said "I don't NEED that!" Talk about attitude! Geesh!
I was about to lose it! Did this TSA agent not know a passport trumps a driver's license? But, I held my tongue. This guy had the power to keep us from our flight! Luckily we did make our flight, but have you ever experienced anything like this?


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Sexual activity in which urine is involved. The presence of urine is generally considered erotic for those indulging in the urine related activities.
What I wouldn't give for some hot chick to take a piss on me right now. I am a total 'water sports' freak.
by Champ April 08, 2002
In BDSM terminology, refers to sensual or erotic play involving bodily fluids, typically urine, saliva, and less commonly, blood. Considered 'edge-play', because it is obviously somewhat unhygenic.
by Aileen April 21, 2003
Watersports lovers enjoy not just the flesh of their partners but also the secretions that flow from it. This fetish may also include a fascination with the one function (peeing) that their partner has been doing since birth.Generally speaking, for men the sensation of liquid passing through their urethra is exactly the same when they ejaculate as when they urinate. Even though men know the difference of whether they're cumming or urinating, the sensation is the same. Therefore, for watersports lovers, one action reminds them of the other. Likewise for females, their urethra opens and urine flows out of and among the sensitive lips of their body.
having sex and peeing
by christian December 29, 2004
A sexual paraphilia or fetish. Person gets aroused when sees someone wetting his/her pants or just becoming wet (for example under the shower or in the pool).
wetting, jeans fetish, underwear fetish
by Denis April 13, 2005
When subject A urinates in the face of subject B. Not only does it cause a watery, glissening face, but also may spark memories of nostalgia of one of the subjects' childhood memories of swimming in the pool, playing games with dear old decrepid Granny.
"As Henry played a rousing game of watersport with Almeda, Almeda noticed Henry wincing as the sparkling, diluted drink poured out of his hose onto her face. Days later, her eyes burned and a trip to the doctor's office was in order for dear Almeda
by Johannes Svitai January 19, 2004
Taking the piss out of your lover
by Dave Bannister January 22, 2005
Typically sports done on lakes rivers or the ocean. (i.e. jet-skiing, water polo, boating, ect...)
Water Skiing is a watersport
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Story set in 1940s Palm Beach, engages with humor
Nine cast members and four crew members will be working hard this weekend to make sure the play "Suite Surrender" is a hit with audiences.
The story takes place at the Palm Beach Royale Resort's presidential suite in 1942 when two rival divas are booked into the room. Humor ensues when staff members attempt to keep the pair apart and succeed with only seconds to spare in various circumstances. Meanwhile, a nosey reporter tries to gain access to both starlets, one of the diva's assistants is the long-lost love of the hotel's bellhop and members of the United States Navy are tearing the lobby apart while on shore leave.
"It's going to get a lot of laughs," said play director Trish Carter, adding the script has some physical comedy and period jokes to enjoy. "It's a great story line and it's going to keep everything interesting."
She said though the cast is small, it is a production the students are able to take part in on a larger scale as they work on their acting, set, costume and general theater skills.
"The idea is that it's more student driven and it keeps them learning and interested," Carter added.
Students Jordan White, 17, and Zack Curtis, 16, said they like their characters of Otis and Pippet.
"Otis is a really clumsy character. He's kind of all over the place, said White.
Pippet, who is the assistant of one of the divas, tends to her demands. Curtis said he was interested in the character from the beginning.
"It sounded like a lot of fun and I have a lot of funny lines," said Curtis.
He said the play has humor for the audience and also a plot twist at the end.
"A lot of things happen that catch you off guard," he added.
White said she hopes the audience appreciates the effort and hard work done by everyone to make the play a success.
"I really hope they see the potential in the students," she added.
Carter said in addition to the students taking part in the play, members of the Ionia Community Theatre will perform it in the weeks to come.
Performances for "Suite Surrender" will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Watt Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.
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Gorge Owned (GO!) welcomes archeologist Eric Gleason to the Columbia Center for the Arts on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as part of the Sense of Place lecture series. Gleason will present "One Block Through Time: The History and Archaeology of The Dalles Chinatown," about the 19th century Chinese community that once thrived in The Dalles.
The town saw its first Chinese immigrants in the 1850s, and by the 1880s, had it own Chinatown on East First Street. Gleason will illuminate the formation of and everyday life in this Chinatown with historic maps, photographs and documents from the National Archives.
Gleason moved to The Dalles in 1989 with his wife, Jacqueline Cheung. His passions for archaeology and historic preservation merged with the discovery of a rich archaeological site while restoring an old building downtown. This ongoing project is helping to uncover the history and significance of The Dalles' Chinatown.
Gleason studied anthropology at Washington State University. He has worked as a field archaeologist for more than four decades, most recently working for the National Park Service at Fort Vancouver.
Gleason's lecture begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Columbia Center for the Arts. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Come early to enjoy a glass of wine or beer and meet others in the community. The cost of the lecture is $5. Entrance is free for GO! members.
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A boxer who king hit and killed an Australian-born man living in London has been sentenced to seven years' jail.
Graham Brett, 50, was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine when he punched Neil Hannah, 49, outside a Pimlico pub in August 2012.
Mr Hannah, who came to the United Kingdom as a young man, was described in court on yesterday as a "friendly gentle giant".
Brett, an ex-professional boxer who now coaches amateurs, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after previously denying murder.
The Australian-born victim died on August 7, five days after being hit so hard he instantly collapsed to the ground.
His skull was fractured in two places as it slammed into the pavement.
Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith accepted Brett didn't intend to kill Mr Hannah.
"But hitting an unfit and overweight 49-year-old carried a foreseeable risk that he would fall and hurt himself," Justice Stuart-Smith said in sentencing Brett.
"It was unprovoked and completely unjustified even if Mr Hannah did, as you say, call you a Pommy c***."
When arrested Brett told police: "The geezer went to bite my nose off. I hit him and he went down."
But extensive CCTV footage shown in court on Monday proved much of Brett's initial account was untrue.
The victim could not have bitten Brett as he'd removed his top dentures.
Prosector Gillian Etherton QC told the Old Bailey that Mr Hannah's "in your face" humour and friendliness could sometimes irritate people.
But she argued, and Justice Stuart-Smith agreed, there was nothing aggressive in his manner.
Brett beckoned Mr Hannah outside The Greyhound pub after only a brief interaction inside.
He took his glasses off en route before punching Mr Hannah in the jaw.
He then put his glasses back on and returned to the pub.
The former railway worker smoked a cigarette and drank a pint before leaving The Greyhound.
Defence lawyer Gareth Morley said Brett had earlier warned Mr Hannah: "Don't talk to me like that - f*** off from here or there could be trouble".
Mr Morley said his client was "much more sinner than saint" but noted he was "emaciated" by the ravages of alcohol addiction.
Justice Stuart-Smith sentenced Brett to seven years jail saying the public needed to be protected from his gratuitous violence.
Half that sentence can be served in the community.
Brett had previously been jailed for violent attacks and was banned from numerous pubs and clubs in London.
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This month is my first in Club Eternia. I was considering picking up a Wally West figure to go with my Stinkor. It was then explained to me that Stinkor is on sale on the 14th and Wally is not on sale until the 15th. Which means that I would have to pay an individual shipping charge to grab one. He's just not worth that much money for him. I'll be passing.
I wonder how everyone else's shopping habits are influenced by Matty's refusal to combine shipping charges from the 14th and 15th? What if they decided to wait until the 16th to ship any orders placed on the 14th and 15th and automatically combined the shipping on all orders. Would that change your shopping habits?


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Though the stereotipical developer might be a socially awkward geek, developers are among the most active users of social networks. They usually prefer sites that are community-driven and focus on quality content. Social networks are a great place for developers to learn from colleages, contact clients, find solution to problems and resources, and improve their own skills. In this post we compiled 10 of the most used and useful social networks for developers. There are other lots of other great ones out there, so feel free to share your favorites in the comment section.
HTML5 Rocks
HTML5 Rocks is an open source project from Google. It is a site for developers dedicated to HTML5 where they can find resources, tutorials and demonstrations of the technology. Anyone can become a contributor of the community. HTML5 Rocks
Forrst is a forum for Web designers and developers where they can share designs and code to get feedback from other designers and developers, or write posts about designtopics and ultimately getting better at their craft. It also offers an About.me-like profile page for designers called Forrst.me. Users can make public posts and share them with non-users. Forrst is an Invite only community. Forrst
GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects. Originally born as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into the largest code host in the world. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects. GitHub
Geekli.st is an achievement-based social portfolio builder for developers where they can communicate with colleagues and employers and build credibility in the workplace. Geeklist
Snipplr was designed to solve the problem of having too many random bits of code and HTML scattered all over computers. Basically it's a place to keep code snippets stored in one place for a better organization and access to them. Also, user's can access each others' code librarys. It allows its users to make their code accessible from any aomputer and easier to share. Snipplr
Masterbranch is a site for developers and employers. Developers can create their coding profile, and employers who are looking for great developers can find candidates for available positions. Masterbranch
Bisquits is a social network for developers, which allows them to create, find and save codes in a personal library. The site is still in beta, but online. It is an invitation only service. Bisquits
Codesnipp.it is a social sharing site for developers where they can post, categorize and tag pieces of code, plugins, or anything developer related they'd like to share. Users can also follow other members and follow their timelines.Subscription is free, but users can upgrade their account to premium to get unlimited posting and have access to a private area. Codesnipp.it
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Hi Brian; above is the link to the park; i just noticed that the site said the courts are close; i assume they mean the nets are down. I will go there early in the morning to check it out and let u know; ;but in case it is down do you have any other preference for courts? I assume all the other public courts will be closed as well; i don't mind paying for an indoor court (ie roosevelt island or the National tennis center in queens).
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We've watched workout wear go from baggy, ratty sweats and tees to clothes that can go all the way to dinner. Given the sport influences in high fashion and on the streets, where one of the latest looks is stylish gym shoes paired with skirts, it's no surprise that more fitness wear companies are getting into fashion.
Here are some brands that have caught our eyes recently, in part because they are offering everything from in-house classes, recipes and wellness lectures to online workout videos, playlists and a magazine.
Launched in January, Los Angeles-based e-tailer Carbon38 (Carbon38.com), co-founded by former Miami City Ballet dancers Katie Warner Johnson and Caroline Gogolak, focuses on high-fashion fitness wear. Johnson is also a senior instructor at Physique 57 in Beverly Hills and a celebrity trainer, whose clients include actress Emmy Rossum and model Christy Turlington.
The site features emerging and established designers, including many California brands, such as Solow, Body Rock, Style Firm, Electric Yoga, Splits59, Onzie, Spiritual Gangster and Nina.B.Roze. Styles are chic, with color, prints and details that often reflect runway trends.
In September, a weekly digital magazine, Page38, was added to the site with health and fitness secrets from the likes of actress Kerry Washington and local designer Kelly Wearstler, brand profiles, recipes, fashion and more.
The brand's target consumer is an entrepreneur, an executive, a mom, a wife and still wants to live a healthy, chic lifestyle and look good," says Johnson. "Now it's time for a new wardrobe to rise to the occasion."
She says that the brand's aim is to "develop and diversify" the market that lululemon created a decade ago.
"Currently the only option in the sportswear market is to be spoon-fed a single brand," says Johnson. "We want to provide variety and ingenuity and help the Carbon38 woman transition through her day seamlessly. Fitness apparel is comfortable, sexy, machine washable and easy to wear. Why not boost the fashion factor?"
If Britain's fashionable activewear brand, Sweaty Betty, is unfamiliar, its customers Pippa Middleton and the Duchess of Cambridge are surely well known. Sweaty Betty opened its first U.S. stores in New York City's Soho district in August and in Greenwich, Conn., in September. The $30-million brand, founded in 1998, has 33 stores in the United Kingdom.
Known for pieces that work in or out of the gym, the line boasts bold patterns, pops of bright color and flattering, feminine silhouettes.
With looks for a variety of sports, including swimming, dancing, skiing, yoga, running and tennis, the company emphasizes fabric innovation, with sweat-wicking and odor-resistant materials, chafe-resistant seaming and reflective piping.
"I have always loved the dream of California and grew up with posters of surfer girls and endless beaches and amazing sunsets on my wall," says Tamara Hill Norton, Sweaty Betty's creative director and founder. "So when I wanted to start a business selling activewear, it was the California girl I had in mind. She is so inspiring — especially for us in cold, gray, damp Britain — with her Day-Glo clothes, toned, tanned body and totally active mentality."
A fall collection, "Beyond Blastoff," was inspired by an exhibit at the Chabot Space & Science Center in San Francisco that highlighted a 1970s-era female astronaut; patterns depict imagery of galaxies and the northern lights, and some details are derived from spacesuits.
The company has online workout videos and playlists at online and in-store workout classes.
Canadian-based Lolë, based on an acronym for "live out loud every day," opened its first U.S. locations in Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City in late July and will soon add stores in Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Fla.
Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz are fans of the company's colorful designs with feminine fits, intended to move easily from "studio to street," according to Lolë's vice president of marketing, Natalie Binda.
The line consists of pieces that target specific sports, such as running, yoga, swimming, hiking and skiing, as well as versatile travel and lifestyle items, including down coats, aprés-ski sweaters, stretchy knit dresses and accessories. The "Poetry in Motion" collection of seamless tank tops, bras, panties and leggings is a recent addition.
About 40% of products are made from eco-friendly, recycled or organic materials, including fabrics made from recycled plastic bottles or coconut shells; many fabrics have performance properties: water and wind repellence, UV protection, wrinkle resistance, odor management and bacterial resistance. Fabrics with four-way stretch or slimming compression and tops with removable pads contribute to a flattering fit.
Lolë's website (www.lolewomen.com) includes articles, videos and podcasts on topics such as fitness, travel and culture — all part of the company's emphasis on community. It also holds health and wellness lectures and complimentary fitness classes — some designed as mom-and-baby play dates.
A recently launched Yellow Label program recycles gently-used jackets from Lolë and others — some owned by celebrities — and resells them on the site for $40, with proceeds going to food pantries; donors receive a $50 gift card toward the purchase of their next coat.
Lolë plans 40 more locations in North America and Europe in the next five years, including in California.
Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba and Kim Kardashian have all been spotted in styles by Australian-based brand Lorna Jane. According to company literature, Lorna Jane sells more activewear in Australia than Nike, Adidas and lululemon combined.
With about 150 stores worldwide, the 23-year-old company is rapidly expanding in California; nine stores opened in the state last year and 11 this year. Another store opens in the Beverly Center this month.
Like a "fast fashion" retailer, the company releases 70 to 100 styles each month, characterized by vibrant colors, prints and aspirational slogans. The designs are for specific activities, such as dance, yoga, running and cycling, as well as leisure wear. A top seller is the relaxed, drawstring-waist Flashdance pant.
"The brand's purpose is to inspire active living, and it does not want to be pigeonholed into being [called] yoga wear, as it so often is in the U.S.," says company publicist Lizzie Mesa.
The company has a trademarked LJExcel line of fabrics. A "classic" support fabric is used for most performance pieces, six types of mesh materials range from lightweight for breathability to power mesh for ultimate control and a compression fabric has eight-way stretch to relieve muscle soreness and fatigue while stimulating blood circulation, according to the website.
The brand's aspirational philosophy — move, nourish and believe — is promoted zealously by founder and Chief Creative Officer Lorna Jane Clarkson, who is also the face of the brand and has written two books on the subject. A dedicated website (www.movenourishbelieve.com) features workout videos, recipes, articles and event listings. And its Now Move It app (available on iTunes) tracks movement with a social media component.


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Avant Browser is a standalone application designed to expand features provided by Internet Explorer. It adds a bunch of features and functionalities to IE and its user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.
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Tennis star Daniela Hantuchova poses nude for ESPN mag In the photo the 29-yerar-old Slovakian tennis star is seen in (almost) all of her glory, except for a strategically placed arm to cover her chest.
London, July 12 (ANI): Daniela Hantuchova is among 27-world-class athletes to have dared to bare it all for ESPN's fourth annual 'The Body Issue'.
In the photo the 29-yerar-old Slovakian tennis star is seen in (almost) all of her glory, except for a strategically placed arm to cover her chest.
She joins the likes of New England Patriots hunk Rob Gronkowski, 23, and New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler, who couldn't stop praising his own physique.
Speaking to the magazine, Hantuchova - known for the statuesque physique - revealed that she struggles to put on muscle - despite regularly working out.
" In my sport, I'm not the most physical girl out there. I can work really hard lifting weights, and I do, but it just doesn't show that much," the Daily Mail quoted her as telling the publication.
But she added that she was lucky enough to be able to eat without thinking about calories.
"I'm really lucky that I can eat pretty much anything and I don't know where it goes. I burn a lot because I work so much on the court, but I don't watch calories," she said.
Gronkowski revealed that he has always grown up around fitness.
"My father was in the fitness equipment business, so our basement was always a weight room," Gronkowski said.
While talking about how he honed his running skills, he said that once he got used to his tall frame he became more coordinated.
"I wasn't very coordinated as a kid. My running was sloppy because I got tall quickly. But once I got used to my body, I became more coordinated. My running is all cleaned up now," he said.
the New York Knick's centre, Tyson Chandler, felt that 'The Body Issue' was a chance for him to let the 'average person' take 'a good look at athletes' bodies and why we are able to do the things we do.'
"I think a lot of people are curious about it. I wanted people to look at my body and see why I'm able to do the things I do on the court," he said.
"Also, it's a very artistic shoot, and seeing that in past issues made me want to do it," he said.
The 29-year-old Chandler said that he was particularly proud of his body, claiming to be very well proportioned.
"I'm tall with broad shoulders,' said Chandler to ESPN in an interview prior to the launch of the edition," he said.
"And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, So I like the way clothes lay on me.
"I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out," he added.
Described by ESPN as a chance "to unapologetically stand in awe of the athletes who've pushed their physiques to profound frontiers," this year's edition says editor in chief, Chad Millman contains athletes who "just recently popped." (ANI)


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Publication Date: July 22, 2014
The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of 20th-century literature, a novel of existential despair that examines the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness of the desert. Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream) gives masterful voice to this American classic.
This fascinating story follows three American travelers, a married couple and their friend, as they find themselves adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II. Along the walkabout, their ignorance of the dangers that surround them peels back the veneer of their lives. The author's life as an expatriate in the North African nation of Morocco informed his rendering of the desert, which itself is a cruel, unforgiving character in the novel.
"Paul Bowles' writing is so extraordinary, so special," Ms. Connelly said. "The landscapes are magical, the characters are questioning so much--it's haunting in a very beautiful way."
The Sheltering Sky is part of Audible's A-List Collection, featuring the world's most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star helped select.


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He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20
In this verse Jesus wasn't pointing to a measurement of faith, as though we could check our faith by stepping on a scale and claiming that the extra weight comes from extra faith. (Wouldn't that would be nice?) Immediately after saying the disciples didn't have enough faith, Jesus told them that even faith as small as a tiny mustard seed would be enough to move a mountain. Obviously it was not the amount of faith but the focus of the faith.
Earlier in Matthew 17 the disciples had tried to cast out a demon without success. Perhaps they had tried to cast it out depending on what they considered their own power. Whatever occurred, their faith must have been in the wrong place. When they put their faith in the right place—in the all-powerful God—then even a tiny grain of faith would be enough. Nothing is impossible when our faith is in God.
This kind of faith moves mountains and makes all things possible. At times we may feel that we have great faith;; at other times we may feel that our faith is suffering. In the end, however, if even that suffering faith is in God, then it is enough to do the impossible!
God's Promise to Me
•If you have faith in me as small as a mustard seed, then it is enough to move mountains and do the impossible.
My Prayer to God
You promise, Lord, that with faith in you nothing is impossible. Thank you for being the God of the possible. Help me to remember that my faith, even small and weak, can do great things for you.


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A couple of years ago, as a result of a patent suit in German court, Apple was forced to turn off push for iCloud email users in Germany. Today, it's turning push back on. David Meyer of GigaOm:
Apple is still appealing the decision and, at the end of August, it won an interim decision allowing it to resume services as normal. As PC World pointed out on Wednesday, Apple had to pay a hefty €100 million ($135 million) bond, given the interim nature of the ruling.
As a result, on Tuesday it could tell its iOS users: "Push email service available for iCloud, Yahoo!, AOL, QQ, and NetEase users located within the borders of Germany."
If you're in Germany, let me know if iCloud push email is again working for you, and if so, how well it's working.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the regular-season finale for both squads, Springfield College defeated MIT, 11-7, in a NEWMAC women's lacrosse game on Monday night. Freshman Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.) paced the Engineers (6-10, 2-4 NEWMAC) with four goals while freshman Connie Nielsen (Sayville, N.Y.) registered four goals and an assist for the Pride (9-7, 4-2 NEWMAC).
The first 15 minutes of the game was a defensive battle as both sides were plagued with turnovers while Springfield saw MIT freshman goalie Paige Kennedy (Eastchester, N.Y.) stop three of its six shots. On their third shot of the game, the Engineers ended the stalemate as Schott converted a free-position attempt at the 15:09 mark. The Pride responded with a solo effort by Nielsen just over a minute later who then found sophomore Michelle Dorsey (Wilbraham, Mass.) as she slashed through the eight-meter arc to the cage.
Nielsen extended the visitors' lead to 3-1 with another unassisted marker but senior Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) connected on a feed from sophomore Emma Kane (Garden City, N.Y.) to keep MIT within striking distance. Springfield then gained some breathing room courtesy of strikes by Nielsen and junior Kelly Gallo (Westfield, Mass.) to enter halftime ahead, 5-2.
The Pride doubled its advantage during the first six minutes of the second stanza on goals from Nielsen, Gallo, and senior Meghan Flanagan (Averill Park, N.Y.), the last coming on a free-position attempt. The Engineers ended their scoring drought with two strikes from Schott; however, Springfield reestablished its six-goal cushion (10-4) midway through the half with another Flanagan free-position marker and an unassisted effort by Dorsey.
Despite the deficit, the Cardinal and Gray continued to attack as Wright recorded back-to-back goals in a two-minute span while Schott brought it within three (10-7) with 5:10 left to play. MIT won the ensuing draw but a turnover allowed the Pride to take some time off the clock until Dorsey found the back of the net with 2:23 to go. The Engineers came away with the next draw which resulted in a shot from Wright that was stopped point-blank by freshman Carley Elkin (Guilford, Conn.) with 1:34 remaining. Springfield successfully cleared the ball and maintained possession as the final horn sounded.
Wright finished with a hat-trick as Kane earned a pair of assists. Senior Laura Wacker (Brooklyn, N.Y.) led the way with four draw controls, followed by three from both Schott and freshman Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.). Senior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) posted three groundballs while Kennedy totaled six saves and four groundballs.
Dorsey notched a hat-trick for the Pride and added two draw controls as Flanagan racked up two goals, three groundballs, and two draw controls. Gallo tacked on two goals while junior Kerstin Lindrooth (Bryn Athyn, Pa.) earned an assist on one of Nielsen's markers. Gallo chipped in two goals as sophomore Ellie Getchell (Franklin, Mass.) collected five groundballs. In net, junior Anne Versprille (Franklin, Mass.) generated four saves and five groundballs in the first 49 minutes of action while Elkin closed out the game with three stops.
Next up for MIT will be the quarterfinal round of the NEWMAC Championship Tournament which kicks off on Wednesday, April 24. The No. 5 Engineers will visit No. 4 Babson College for a 4:30 p.m. start. Springfield, meanwhile, earns a bye as the No. 3 seed and will square off with No. 2 Mount Holyoke College in the semifinals on Saturday, April 27 at top-seeded Wheaton College.


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Nigeria: 50 Islamic insurgents killed in army raid
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military raided an Islamic insurgent camp and launched air and ground attacks over two days, killing about 50 sect members, a military official said Friday.
This came as Nigerians mourned the death of nine people who died after Boko Haram staged a highway attack on Thursday at Bulabulin-Ngabura village, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Boko Haram insurgency.
The military's newly formed 7th division, established to quell the insurgency in the northeast, participated in the raid, spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said in Maiduguri. The attack on the camp also involved a military gunship as back up, he said. Military helicopters have been seen hovering in the skies near Maiduguri for the past two days.
Musa said the counterattack took place near Bulabulin-Ngaura and in Gajiram village, where 15 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram members who raided a local market Wednesday.
"Troops pursued the terrorists to their camps and destroyed the camps with air support," he said.
Residents in Bulabulin-Ngabura village said Boko Haram members who staged the highway attack early Thursday also kidnapped a family of five who were traveling to their country home in Biu for the weekend.
Cab driver Musa Lado told The Associated Press that dozens of insurgents staged the attack, which killed a Borno state government adviser.
Another cab driver said "we could not move along the highway for several hours because of the attack. And by the time we were told the road was safe to continue our journey, we saw corpses of nine persons including that of an adviser in the Borno state government." He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety.
The driver also said a man, his wife and three children were kidnapped from their car along the highway, and he helped get the vehicle to Biu.
Since 2010, more than 1,700 people have been killed in attacks by Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden."
There has been a rash of attacks by suspected sect members in northeast Nigeria recently, after young vigilantes formed the Civilian Joint Task Force in June as a backlash against Boko Haram. The Civilian-JTF group has taken over in the search for the insurgents in many towns in the north, and most Boko Haram members have since relocated to the surrounding bushes. The vigilante force claims credit for thousands of arrests in Maiduguri and many killings.
Many residents welcome the vigilantes and credited them for some initial relative peace. Others find their existence troubling and worry that they may carry out human rights abuses.
Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Azubuike Ihejerika on Friday commended the Civilian-JTF group for helping the government catch Islamic sect members in northeast Borno state.
"I wish to commend the youth volunteers for their support in fighting the insurgency," Ihejerika said in the first endorsement of the group by a high ranking military officer.
Ihejerika was in Maiduguri to oversee the deployment of troops and equipment for the newly established 7th Division of the Nigerian army. The new division, once fully established, would bring an end to the mandate for the Civilian-JTF, which has had military backing when it goes out on missions.
The vigilante group members have also become targets.
On Aug. 30, suspected Islamic sect members ambushed and killed at least 24 members of the Civilian-JTF who were on a mission to find and fight the sect near Monguno town, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the city of Maiduguri. Those who returned from the attack said 36 other vigilantes were missing.
Earlier that week, two attacks killed at least 20 members of the Civilian-JTF in Damasak, where six members were shot while sleeping, and in Barma, where attackers disguised in military uniforms slit the throats of young men.


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