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Should the baby live?: the problem of handicapped infants
Oxford University Press, 1985 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 228 pages
Few subjects have generated so many newspaper headlines and such heated controversy in recent years as the treatment or non-treatment, of handicapped newborns. This book, by two authorities on medical ethics,is a philosophical analysis of the subject, but accessibly written and rooted in practicalities and case studies throughout. The authors examine the doctrine of the absolute sanctity of human life; look at some actual examples where decisions have been made one way or the other; consider criteria for deciding when life is worthwhile; investigate the differences between killing and letting die; compare Western attitudes and practices with those of other cultures; and make proposals for a decision-making framework. Reviewing Peter Singer's book on ethics and sociology, The New Republic wrote: "Singer takes the reader through important and difficult questions with a lucidity which must be the envy of any writer on ethics." Reviewing his Practical Ethics, The New York Review of Books commented: "The utility of this utilitarian's book to students of the subject can hardly be exaggerated." These statements are equally true of Should the Baby Live? Among the questions discussed are: --Is it right to do less to prolong the life of a handicapped infant than one would do for a normal baby? If so, how severe must the handicap be? --Who should make the decision? The parents? The doctors? The courts? --Whose interest should be considered? Only the baby's? Or also those of the parents and other children they might have? --Should weight be given to the cost to society of extensive medical treatment and institutional care? About the Author: Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre of Human Bioethics at Monash University in Australia. In addition to his many books on ethics, he has written on the subject for such publications as The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. Helga Kuhse is Deputy Director of Centre.
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Iran to ration diesel to curb smuggling
Dubai, November 14, 2012
Iran plans to ration diesel supplies in a bid to curb rampant smuggling of the scarce fuel to neighbouring countries, its oil minister said on Wednesday.
Government-issued smart cards have controlled private Iranian motorists' use of heavily subsidised gasoline since December 2010 in a programme that has successfully dampened demand for fuel in a country where supplies are scarce.
Owners of heavy goods vehicles will also soon have their diesel rationed as well, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi quoted as saying by Iranian oil ministry news service Shana, as Tehran tries to stem a surge in fuel smuggling across Iran's many borders.
"The government pays huge subsidies to the energy sector, which has led to the sinister phenomenon of smuggling of oil products," Qasemi said.
With the diesel price set at 4,500 Iranian rials a litre, (about 15 U.S. cents at the open market rate), diesel costs less than bottled water in Iran, which has led to wasteful consumption and a surge in smuggling, he said.
"Low prices of fuel play an important role in rising smuggling, and that is why oil products distributor companies should enhance cooperation with security forces to curb oil products smuggling," he said at the launch of new cards that monitor how much cheap gasoline Iranians can put in their cars before having to pay higher prices.
The value of the Iranian rial has slid against the U.S. dollar over the past year as western sanctions on oil exports have slashed dollar-denominated oil sales, making smuggling of diesel paid for in rials and sold in neighbouring countries more lucrative.
Iran has reduced its gasoline use and increased its refining capacity in response to Western governments blocking supplies to the country over the past few years to pressure Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme. – Reuters

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Hank Schyma doesn't come off as insane. Not at first. He speaks clearly and eloquently about being a storm chaser, and as you're talking with him, it seems like a perfectly reasonable thing.
Then you watch the videos. You watch as Schyma points a camera at a tornado, a black vortex of more than 100 mph of wind and power that is heaving and whirling along, ripping apart whatever is in its path. And there's Schyma following alongside it, narrating what's going on outside the window of his car in a voice that sounds as if he stole it from a National Geographic special.
For more on storm chasing, make sure to check out this week's cover story, The Dark Wall: Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras's Last Ride.
Schyma, 41, the front man for the long-running Houston rock band the Southern Backtones, once found himself at the end of a closed dirt road in South Dakota with nothing to do but watch as a mile-wide funnel cloud moved toward him. He'd been motoring alongside the thing, shooting footage as he peered out his windshield, trying to see through the rain, when he skidded to a halt as the road ended. All he could do was sit there, helpless, surrounded by wheat fields, and wait to find out if he was going to die in South Dakota. The funnel cloud spun itself out into nothing right before it got to his car, but that was just luck. He doesn't take people chasing with him anymore, in case his luck ever runs out.
"What happens is you live, and this happens every day. You think, 'I could die,' and the first time you freak out, and later you hear yourself on camera, and you sound freaked out, so you learn composure," he said.
Schyma has been chasing storms for more than a decade. He was there when a mile-wide twister ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, and he was one of many storm chasers on hand when a 2.6-mile-wide tornado touched down near El Reno 11 days later.
"It's weird. You see your dream and it's right there in front of you, and then it turns around and kills people," he said.
It's a tricky thing, loving the sight of these storms and knowing how destructive they can be, working after a storm has passed to clear debris and search for anyone who might be trapped. His passion for weather and the monster storms it spits out was sparked years before that, when he was just a kid.
Growing up in Houston, he was fascinated by the emerald-green thunderstorms that would send jagged shards of lightning down from the sky. When his family moved to Dallas, he was living at the southern end of "Tornado Alley" and was so eager to see one of those long black funnel clouds, like the one that swept through Kansas in The Wizard of Oz, that he'd run outside looking for a twister to appear every time weather forecasters sent out a tornado watch.
He didn't realize then what a tornado actually is. It was just a wonder of nature to him, not this monstrous thing that could sweep through and destroy entire towns, reshape the landscape and kill people. He just wanted to see one.
At 12, Schyma got his first camera and started snapping pictures of lightning during storms. He read everything he could get his hands on about meteorology and severe weather. He learned how tornados form and how a stretch of the Great Plains is uniquely suited for these happenings — the perfect mix of jet stream, pressure and landscape for creating tornados of incredible strength and size.
Later, working as a freelance cameraman for KHOU, he met and struck up friendships with metorologists Neil Frank, David Paul and Mario Gomez. They didn't exactly become his mentors, but Schyma would buttonhole them whenever he could and ask as many questions as possible while trying to learn the business.
He didn't have any equipment for tracking storms back then. His goal was just to see one of these things up close. Paul gave him a tip on the location of a brewing storm near Dodge City, Kansas that led to his first encounter with a tornado. Schyma arrived just in time to see it, and as he watched the funnel cloud slide out of the storm, he was hooked. In May 2002, he sold footage of a twister to a TV station for $50. He'd dreamed of chasing tornados, but he never thought of making money doing it until he had that first bit of cash in his hands.
He now divides his time between performing with the Backtones and working for TV stations, spending months out of the year chasing storms on the Great Plains. He sells his footage to cable outlets like CNN and The Weather Channel.
Martin Lisius, chairman of the Texas Severe Storms Association, noted that the culture of storm chasing has changed since the early days of the 1970s, altered by shows on Discovery Channel and National Geographic and by the movie Twister, which he speaks of with exasperation in his voice, even though he was a technical adviser for the 1996 film.
"It's like trying to deal with a wild lion. This is nature and they're unpredictable, even to experts," Lisius said. "The chasers that survive are the ones that adapt to that."
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Even though he earns money from his exploits, Schyma tries to model his behavior after that of the old-school chasers who risked their lives for a purpose, not just for the thrill of facing a tornado, the ones who eschewed gadgets, gizmos and oversize vehicles.
He knows storm chasing is dangerous work, that it's risky to go find the beginnings of a bad storm and sit in the middle of it to see if the churning clouds above him will spill out a funnel cloud. Like all chasers, Schyma counts on being able to get out of the way when a tornado approaches. He tries to stay away from cities, where there'll be a lot of other vehicles trying to chase or outrun a storm. Still, a blown tire or a wrong turn can be a life-ending mistake, which is what makes storm chasing such an insane pursuit. And yet Schyma persists.
"You're running for your life every time. You're literally running from death," he said. "It happens so often that you start to become cocky. That's where we have to constantly remind ourselves this thing will kill you. You will die if you aren't careful."
For more on storm chasing, make sure to check out this week's cover story, The Dark Wall: Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras's Last Ride.


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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's "Indiana Jones" squad is at it again.
Bringing out the big guns — using lasers instead of brushes and trowels — to clean crusty walls and ceilings of Rome catacombs closed to the public, Vatican archaeologists have made what they describe as more "surprising discoveries."
They haven't, however, given much information about what those discoveries are. The world will have to wait until next Tuesday, when the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology holds a press conference at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
The press advisory said that a year after the commission announced the discovery of the "oldest known image of St. Paul" in the catacombs of St. Thecla, the commission will share "further surprising discoveries made by restorers in the 'cubiculum' of the same catacombs. Using laser technology, other images of saints have been discovered, likewise the oldest of their kind, on the ceiling of the same area."
A "cubiculum" is a small room carved out of the rock that served as a chapel or burial chamber.
Last year the commission announced the discovery of a fourth-century portrait of St. Paul in the catacombs close to the basilica, which is named after him. According to tradition, his bones are preserved under the basilica's main altar.
The image of a bald man with a stern expression, a high forehead, large eyes, distinctive nose and a dark tapered beard tipped experts off that it was St. Paul because it matched images of him from later centuries, the newspaper said.
In early June, the Vatican newspaper hinted that the new discoveries would include portraits of other apostles (it already released a photo of a portrait of St. Peter from the same catacomb).
The paper also said the work — including the embracing of new technologies — is a direct result of the re-organization of the pontifical commission under the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI.


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by Amanda Card
Since its inception in 1964, the Whitemarsh Arts Center has served as a backbone for Whitemarsh art through support of artists and programs and workshops for children and adults.
Nestled into the quaint atmosphere of a former farmhouse in Cedar Grove Park, the center aims to show local artists how to explore new mediums and further their experience with different canvases.
Renowned for its ceramics program, the center offers crafting sessions to teach new potters how to "throw on the wheel," encourage experienced potters to try new styles of ceramics and suggest new combinations of color for glazing finishes.
Barbara Seidenberg of the Whitemarsh Arts Center acknowledged the individuality of the ceramics program.
"Right now, there's about a four-to-one student to teacher ratio," Seidenberg said. "The teacher can address whatever the needs of the students depending on their experience."
Seidenberg explained that at the beginning of each class, instructors hold a demonstration to expose the class to a "different style of technique."
Seidenberg noted, however, that "students don't have to work on that skill for the class."
"If they're busy on another project, they can work on that instead," she added.
Art is an individual pursuit, and the center supports channeling those pursuits during their programs. Wanting students' projects to sooner reflect an artists' vision as opposed to the teacher's demonstration, the center celebrates artist creativity.
"We're not rigid." Seidenberg said. "We want artists to value their finished product as much as we do."
Though advanced ceramics classes are geared for adults and students, sessions are available for pre-school-age children.
"There are morning and afternoon classes," Seidenberg said, noting that the Center also holds programs after school for younger students as well.
In the children's programs, the center tries not to inhibit the discovery of different mediums.
"We offer broader programs for younger students, and as they get older they start to build their own preference," Seidenberg said.
The center's Young Artists Program is a five-week session covering fundamentals of painting, drawing, printmaking, clay, and paper collage. There might be an overlap of mediums if the demonstration calls for it.
The center also offers other programs, including an oil painting class taught by Wyndmoor resident Maura Matthews.
While the completion of a full session showcases artists' newly acquired skills, the center recognizes that not every artist has the time to commit to a five-week session.
"There are one and done workshops too," Seidenberg said. "Our next one is a painting and collage workshop … people can just try something different without the time and financial commitment."
A staple in the community, the Whitemarsh Center for the Arts welcomes volunteers to help with administrative and teaching tasks. Though not exclusive to the local school district, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School National Honor Society students are some of the consistently returning volunteers to the center. The Center also recently donated 20 bowls to Chestnut Hill College's Annual Empty Bowl event.
The instructors also seem to return consistently.
"We currently have two students who attended the center's programs as children," said Seidenberg, who is proud to see her former students teaching future artists.
"The center has a special place in their hearts" she added.
Their passion for the arts is shared with the Township as well.
"Kudos to Whitemarsh Township," Seidenberg said, commending its support of the center. "They've given us this space since our inception."
The township's appreciation for arts can also be seen at Koontz Park, home to a knee-high mural that was co-produced by the township and the Center for the Arts.
"It's a very colorful display," Seidenberg said." We're very interested in bringing our art outside our four walls."
Every other month, work is displayed in a glass case at the Township Building. Also, the Plymouth Meeting Whole Foods currently is displaying a multi-sectioned chalk-paint mural that was created by Maura Matthews and her oil painting class.
"We would welcome shows to be shown somewhere else," Seidenberg said, explaining that the Center's small space, though warm and welcoming, doesn't have room to host workshops and a gallery.
Nevertheless, the Whitemarsh Center for the Arts continues to serve as a learning environment for artists and community members alike.
"We'll be holding a team-building activity for a local company later this week," Seidenberg said.
Clearly, art has made its way into the growth of Whitemarsh residents' creative experiences. With the unmatched support of the township, Whitemarsh Center for the Arts inspires locals to keep the arts alive.
For enrollment opportunities in the center's various sessions and workshops, visit whitemarsharts.org or call 610-825-0917. The Center will offer a $10 discount from session packages to anyone who mentions "Fall for the Arts."


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Boulder: Allowed
Longmont: Allowed
Lafayette: Allowed
Louisville: Not allowed
Erie: Not allowed
Superior: Allowed in Original Town; not in Rock Creek
Broomfield: Measure to allow them on ballot this November
LOUISVILLE -- More than two dozen hen lovers gathered at the Louisville Public Library on Monday night to solidify a plan for getting backyard chickens legal residency in this city by summer.
They swapped chicken-raising stories, circulated sign-up sheets and pledged that they would garner enough support to sway the Louisville City Council to give the cluckers and strutters a little bit of love.
"Attitudes are starting to change and we're hoping to capitalize on that goodwill," Steve Domenico, a member of the Louisville Urban Hen Coalition and a 13-year resident of the city, said before Monday's meeting. "I'm building a coop at the moment and when this is official, I'll have a mini-flock and I'll be eating some really good eggs."
The last time backyard chickens came before the city was three years ago -- and it didn't go well for the fine-feathered class. Fears about chicken-driven odors and noise, in addition to worries over disease and predators on the lookout for walking drumsticks led to the issue being tabled.
"There were some strong feeling and words," City Manager Malcolm Fleming said Monday. "I think passion ran pretty high on both sides."
Louisville's ban on backyard chickens has been in place since 1977, even though Fleming said the city allows ducks, turkeys and geese in certain parts of Louisville. In the last few years, communities in Boulder County have legalized backyard chickens, including Longmont in 2010 and Lafayette in 2011.
Boulder allows chickens by default and Broomfield plans to send a ballot measure on the issue to voters in November. The Louisville City Council is scheduled to take up backyard chickens at a study session on July 9.
Until then, the Louisville Urban Hen Coalition will try to get the word out about the virtues of raising chickens. If the coalition's members can't convince the City Council to greenlight the dirt-scratching denizens, coalition members said they will go to the voters with a ballot issue this fall.
Chicken advocates cite a long list of reasons for supporting the practice: better-tasting and more healthful eggs, a natural form of bug and pest control, a walking compost pile, manure as fertilizer, and chickens as cute and cuddly pets.
Karen Wilkinson, a 7-year resident of Louisville, said raising the birds imbues people with a sense of pride at being able to carry on with an age-old tradition in this country. And, she said, it forms an important connection to the land that is increasingly strained as factory farms and commercial egg producers supply Americans with much of what they eat.
"I believe we're coming to a full-circle cycle," she said of the practice. "We're getting back to basics."
And Wilkinson said a lot of the complaints made about backyard chickens are based on flimsy evidence. Since most municipal chicken ordinances don't permit roosters and limit the number of hens to a maximum of six, noise is rarely an issue.
"Pet dogs can make a lot more noise than pet hens," she said.
And with enclosed coops, odor is controlled and predators are kept out, she said.
Two years of raising chickens has made Christina Eisert, of Lafayette, a fan of her feathered flock. She gets about four eggs a day from her bantam chickens and hasn't had to buy eggs at the store for years.
"We enjoy having them," Eisert said. "They kind of bring me outside, even in the rain. They are always happy to see me. It's kind of nice."
She said the animals are so unobtrusive that a neighbor didn't even know she had them in her backyard until recently. The city of Lafayette has issued 45 permits since allowing the poultry two years ago, and a recent staff report noted that there have been "minimal complaints in regard to backyard chickens" in that time.
The downside of raising chickens, Eisert said, is the sorrow anyone feels at losing a pet.
"Chickens are mortal -- that can be hard with kids," she said.


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|The story of Marie and Pierre Curie is one of love, scientific partnership, and one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Their discovery of radioactivity won them the Nobel Prize, but it was also part of a series of findings that led to the creation of the atomic bomb. Artist and author Lauren Redniss talks about her new book, Radioactive, an illustrated biography of the pair and a look at their complicated legacy. See a slideshow of images from the book.


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Speedo CorrectionI have a '67 fastback with a C4 transmission from a '71 Mustang. I also have a Traction-Lok rear with 3.50 gears. The problem is the speedometer. All of my research indicates the way to calibrate the speedo is to change the gear at the transmission. The drive gear in the transmission is machined into the output shaft and can't be changed easily. The plastic driven gear on the end of the speedometer cable is available in different teeth counts to adjust for different gear ratios and tire sizes. My calculations state I need a 21-tooth driven gear to correct my speedometer. My research shows that the 21-tooth gears are thin and that the gear will not last long. Should I try the 21-tooth gear or is there another way to correct my speedometer?
Dwight Resenbaum
Oklahoma City, OK
Factory driven gears were available from 16 through 21 teeth and can differ between manual and automatic transmission applications. Three-speed manual and automatic transmissions have the speedometer cable entering the driver's side of the transmission case. Four-speed manual transmissions have the speedometer cable entering the passenger side of the transmission. The angle of the gear teeth on the driven gear differs accordingly. The driven gears with the teeth angled toward the left (sitting upright on a table) are for four-speed applications, while driven gears with the teeth angled towards the right are for the three-speed manual and automatics. If the incorrect gear is installed it will be ruined in short order. This is an easy mistake to make and is perhaps creating the issue of early failures you are reading about. Install a 21-tooth gear angled towards the right and your speedometer should be just fine.
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Oilers Meet and Greet for Season Ticket Holders
So, thanks to the girlfriend (Oilrsgrl77 for those that know her here or from the Oilers Message Board), I got to go to a special event for seasons ticket holders at Rexall today. The first part was a "meet and greet" where you could go around taking pictures with all the players. The 2nd part (which I enjoyed the most) was a Q&A between Jack Michaels and Steve Tambellini and Patrick LaForge. The two Oil brass were asked fan submitted questions.
Much to my surprise, the questions weren't too bad. I submitted one (or OG77 did on my behalf) and it got asked/answered (I asked what ST and the Oilers can do to ensure that the Barons thrive while still making hockey in Edmonton interesting). To be honest, the answered seemed a bit roundabout, but I wasn't expecting anything too mind blowing. Basically he stressed that Continue reading 'Oilers Meet and Greet for Season Ticket Holders'»


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I know theres a thread about English announcers in general, comparing ES to VS but its long and since theres one for versus, there might as well be one for those of us who rely on Harmonn-Kelly- Kirby.
Any comments.
I like Harmonn, though some on this forum say hes not great in person (wouldnt know) but today there was a funny incident.
A woman, wrote in to ask Harmonn about the Olympics, and also inocently asked why he hadnt mentioned Haimar Zubeldia.
Harmonn switched at the Zubeldia question saying " Because hes done absolutely nothing, like 150 other riders" and then for the next 5 minutes recited from memory presumably, riders at the Tour whom he also hasnt mentioned
" I havent for example mentioned David Moncoutie, Or Jermome Coppell or Dmitri Fofonov. I havent mentioned Amael Moinard or..." going through at least a dozen riders.
poor woman, just wanted to ask a question, but it was still quite funny.


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Google and other new-age tech firms have cozied up to Republicans in Washington after years of slanting their support toward progressive causes and politicians.
The shift in strategy, detailed in this Wall Street Journal article, shouldn't come as a shock. Most companies that lobby in the nation's capitol eventually realize they need friends on both sides of the political aisle.
Google's donations to Republicans and Democrats are now running about even, according to the Journal article. Six years ago, Democrats raked in nearly 60% of the company's campaign cash – and Google employees gave almost all their donations to Democrats.
In Google's case, the company found that its conspicuous support of Barack Obama and Democrats gave it little influence with Republicans when agencies run by leaders appointed by the president challenged the firm on antitrust and other regulatory grounds.
These legal fissures exposed a natural divide between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party. While high-tech firms and most of their employees identify with Democrats on social policy and key issues such as the environment, they don't always see eye to eye on the liberal approach to regulation of business.
By establishing ties to regulatory-averse Republicans, Google will improve its odds of blocking policies it views as harmful. And Republicans are happy to bolster their ties to high-tech companies, improve fund-raising and narrow the Democratic advantage in Silicon Valley.
-Jeffry Bartash
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held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 11:00 am EDT
The Richard J. Duma/NFID News Conference Webinar on Infectious Diseases provides an opportunity for the nation's public health experts to present an update on current infectious disease threats. This program is named in honor of Dr. Richard Duma, director of infectious diseases at the Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, FL. Dr. Duma was one of the founders of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and he currently serves as Director Emeritus of the NFID Board of Directors.
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About the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and the Richard J. Duma/NFID Annual News Conference Webinar on Infectious Diseases
Susan J. Rehm, MD, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (bio)
Richard J. Duma, MD, PhD, Halifax Medical Center (bio)
C. difficile Infections: Prevention and Treatment
Dale N. Gerding, MD, Loyola University Chicago (bio)
Hepatitis C
Eliot Godofsky, MD, University Hepatitis Center (bio)
Vaccination for Pregnant Women
Richard Beigi, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (bio)
Measles 2011: Lessons Learned
Patricia A. Stinchfield, RN, MS, CPNP, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (bio)
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I'm so short that at the age of 35 I still have to hop up on the kitchen counter if I want to get something from a high shelf. Sure, I could get the step stool but I'll hop up there while I'm still able to. And I'm lazy. I don't want to go the ten feet to get the stool.
Dwarf: A Memoir tells the story of Tiffanie DiDonato who was born with dwarfism. She decided to undergo a grueling series of operations to make her taller. The surgeon broke her arms and legs (at separate times) and set them with screws that Tiffanie had to twist twice a day to get the bones to stretch. She missed huge chunks of middle school and high school.
Her one true friend Mike was angry with her for having the operations because he thought she should accept herself the way she is. She explained to him that she wants to be able to do all the things most of us take for granted like walking up the stairs, walking across a street (she isn't able to cross streets with enough confidence that she's being quick enough) and being able to reach the coffee pot on the counter. Before her surgeries her arms were so short she couldn't reach her own ears. Can you imagine not being able to give your ear a good scratch?
Kids can be cruel. We all know that. But adults can be worse. Tiffanie's gym teacher gave her the stink eye one day and said "Look, I don't know what kind of disease you have but you're obviously a dwarf. Why don't you tell me what you can and cannot do?" During one of Tiffanie's long recoveries she plotted revenge on the teacher. It was something pretty diabolically clever but she didn't go through with it because she realized she's better than that. I wish I could learn that lesson. My brain still zooms to revenge when I get mad.
What we think of as basic dreams and needs are monumental achievements to Tiffanie. She gets into college and spends her first six months squirreled away in her single room eating microwave dinners while listening to the kids in her dorm storm the hallways on their way to parties (or coming back very drunk from parties). Lonely and homesick, Tiffanie nearly quits college to return to the safety of home.
And then she begins to make friends with girls she'd nod shyly at in the hallways. She bites the bullet and joins a sorority. Not one of those "My daddy bought me a BMW and a diamond bracelet for my birthday so I thanked him by throwing up in the backseat and hocking the bracelet for Grey Goose money" sororities though. This is a sorority where everyone is welcome, fat girls, skinny girls, shy girls, and girls who spent the better part of their teenage years stretching their bones so they wouldn't be identified as a dwarf.
Even though at times it is a little too "rah rah rah never give up!" for me, Dwarf: A Memoir nonetheless blew me away. Tiffanie's determination to lead as normal a life as possible made me look at my own problems and realize how stupid and small they are. I was kind of hoping she'd do something most of us would do while spending months recovering: indulging in a good old-fashioned nervous breakdown. She only breaks down once and allows herself to cry over her pain and her struggle to get to where she wants to be. Her rock, her biggest supporter and best friend is her mother who at times can seem almost cold in telling Tiffanie not to waste any tears.
Without her mother her story might have turned out differently. On the other side of the coin is Tiffanie's father who is in constant fear for his daughter's health and safety. One day Tiffanie looks at her father's car and idly wonders if she'll ever be able to drive. Her mom orders her into the car against her husband's worried protests. Tiffanie can't quite reach the gas pedal. She doesn't want to get a specialized car with the gas and brake on the steering wheel. She wants to drive a real car. She tries each week. And one day she does it, her foot reaches the gas pedal.
As Tiffanie's life unfolds, we see a brave human who gives us just a glimpse of the kind of determination (and plain old stubbornness) that humans are capable of when conquering their struggles, and the pure joy of coming out of the other side of years of surgeries and pain.
I'd still indulge in a nervous breakdown. But I'd blame it on the pain medication.


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Sony has transformed a swank event space in downtown Seattle into a sea of make believe. Journalists smack ping-pong balls, wield swords and buzz the hair off imaginary scalps. Five years ago, this demo of Sony's upcoming PlayStation Move motion controller might have elicited giggles and raised eyebrows from the grown men and women men milling through, cocktails in hand, but this is the post-Wii age. No one bats an eye.
And that might be a problem for Sony. The glowing neon balls are new, but we know the concept all too well. Sony's PlayStation Move looks a lot like an overhyped, late-to-market version of the Wii.
So why isn't it the Wii, again? Despite the overwhelming similarity, Sony's Move controller does add a new dimension to the motion control we know and love. Here's how.
The Magic is in the Ball
Ask any of Sony's code maestros just how the Move is different from the Wii and they'll adopt the same look of veiled exhaustion. They've heard it more than a few times tonight.
"We have these!" one Sony dev grins after pausing for a moment to decide how to cover it for the hundredth time. He holds up the colored balls on the end of the Move controllers.
He's not exaggerating. The ping-pong ball look-alikes at the end of the Move controllers are precisely what set Sony's technology apart from anything Nintendo or even Microsoft will offer. While the accelerometers inside the controller act much as a Wii does, the balls provide what Sony calls a zero point – an absolute location in physical space for the system to peg all the other data to.
A what?
Sony engineer Anton Mikhailov compares the inertial sensors in a Wii remote to walking in a dark room: You know how quickly you're walking, and can feel yourself turn, but without seeing your surroundings, you have only a vague idea where you actually are, even if you've navigated the room a dozen times.
"The problem with inertial sensors is that they tell you where you're going, but not really where you end up," Mikhailov explains. Although the Wii's infrared sensor bar gives the remote some pointing ability, the triangulation used to roughly plot the Wii remote's location results in some uncertainty. "You don't know with the Wii sensor bar whether you're turning – like in the pointer scenario – or moving. Because of that ambiguity, you can't discern whether you're moving in space."
In contrast, the colored ball used on the Move remote tells the PlayStation exactly where you're standing in front of the TV. Simple left and right movement of the dots can tell the system where you are on an X and Y axis, while the size of the ball tells the system how close or far you are from the TV – that critical Z axis. Attach all the accelerometer and gyroscope data to that point in space, and you have the Move.


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Microcontrolling on the Cheap With Arduino and Linux
Open, Affordable Microcontrollers
So where does Linux fit with this scheme?
Being a diehard Linux guy with a track record of keeping the faith, it makes no sense to use anything other than a Linux machine, to program these miniature process automation factories.
A Revolution In Microcontrollers
Within the last few years, there has been an explosion of microcontroller modules in the $45 to $60 range. The granddaddy of them all is the Basic Stamp by Parallax. Others include the NetMedia BX-24 and Zbasic ZX-24n, which are virtual clones of the Basic Stamp. All have generous numbers of input/output pins, analog-to-digital conversion, and serial interfaces. They are easy to program with their Basic development environments and are robust and reliable. Sadly, their programming environments have always had to run under Windows.
A significant difference between the Stamp type platforms and more traditional microcontrollers, that have been around for years, is that the Stamps can be programmed "in circuit". They are also suitable for newbies, hobbyists, and even non-techno types due to their modular design. You hook up a serial line (USB or RS-232) and download the compiled binary code directly to the electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), resident on the board. No need to pull a chip out of the socket and stick it into a hardware programmer to "burn" in the embedded code. This is a tremendous development advantage, saving valuable prototyping time and unnecessary equipment expense. Additional pluses are that the memory is self-contained and you can program (or re-program) your finished projects, even remotely. After, the download, simply restart the microcontroller and your program will just run.
Since I wanted to automate my sprinkler system and perhaps add some life to a future Halloween monster, I did a few prototype projects with some of those chips, but was always grumpy about having to use a Windows box to compile and download any code. Alas, I longed for a cheaper microcontroller platform with a nice development environment that ran on Linux.
Next Level..Open Hardware
Taking easy-to-use, mass-market microcontroller technology to the next level is the Arduino.
This little package measures 2.75 x 2.50 inches, has a USB interface, 14 digital I/O pins, 6 analog pins, a socketed ATMega168 chip, and a recommended supply voltage of 7 to 12 volts. Did I mention that the board can run standalone from a 9 volt battery or right off of the USB connection. The thing retails for $34.95 from Sparkfun. There's also an Arduino Stamp, which is actually about the size of two US stamps, that sells for $37.95. Either way, they're considerably cheaper than the Basic Stamps.
Ready for the best part? You can program them from your favorite version of Linux!
Going cheaper is easy too. Since the Arduino is an open hardware platform, several clone boards have popped up and cost about $25. Google around for unassembled Arduino kits that goes for about $20. The USB bare Boarduino clone printed circuit board can be found for $5, if you really want to start from scratch.
I recommend that you start out downloading the Arduino software package to a 32-bit Linux machine. I originally tried to get it working on 64-bit SuSE. It needed a lot of tweaking and seemed to be pretty flaky. Regular old 32-bit Kubuntu works great on my HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop and configuring the Arduino environment was straightforward. You'll need to apt-get sun-java6-jre, avr-libc, gcc-avr, the latest version of the Arduino software, and a couple of other packages. Go to LadyADA's Tea Party or The POP! Project, POP-168 board Site for in-depth details. I don't mean to discourage all of you 64-bit gurus. It's just that most people might get frustrated trying to optimize the Arduino software on a 64-bit machine. The situation is getting better and at some point I'm certain that all the issues will be worked out. Go for it if you have the time and curiosity.
You can install the XP version on your Windows box. It's not really optimal to develop on XP because then you lose all those interesting tools like minicom, multiple desktops, and a built-in Apache Web server, that you'd otherwise have under Linux. The pre-compiled Arduino source code is the same regardless of operating system, which makes it easy to use the microcontrollers in a mixed (Linux and XP) production environment.
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US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important than EnvironmentRead time: 7 mins
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By Steve Horn • Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 19:19
In a major ruling that's flown under the radar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit - based in Denver, Colorado - decided not to grant the Sierra Club and Clean Energy Future Oklahoma a temporary injunction on the construction of the southern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline.
The Court's decision hinged on an "injury" balancing test: Would Transcanada be hurt more financially from receiving an injunction? Had it lost, it would be stuck with one until Sierra Club, et al receive a U.S. District Court decision on the legality of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant Transcanada a Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP 12) for construction of what's now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline in February 2012.
Or would ecosystems suffer even greater and potentially incalculable damage from the 485-mile, 700,000 barrels per day pipeline crossing 2,227 streams?
In a 2-1 decision, the Court sided with Transcanada, and by extension, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Court ruled, "the threatened environmental injuries were outweighed by the financial harm that the injunction would cause Transcanada."
Commenting on the case brought by Sierra Club, et al, Judge Jerome A. Holmes and Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. - appointees of President George W. Bush and President George H.W. Bush, respectively - shot down the arguments sharply.
U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit Judge Jerome A. Holmes; Photo Credit: The White House
Holmes and Kelly ruled that Sierra Club, et al failed to show how the pipeline will have a significant environmental impact despite the fact it's been deemed a "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet" by retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen.
Construction of Keystone XL's southern half - subject of significant grassroots activism by the Tar Sands Blockade and others - is now nearly complete. Tar sands dilbit is slated to begin to flow through it in early 2014.


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New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology
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Kerry Bernstein is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY. He is currently Principal Investigator of IBM's 3D Integration Program. Mr. Bernstein received the B.S degree in electrical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and joined IBM in 1978. He holds 50 US Patents, and is a co-author of 3 college textbooks and multiple papers on high speed CMOS. His interests are in the area of high performance / low power advanced circuits and technologies. Mr. Bernstein is an IEEE Fellow.
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Dry Ice-Capades (Nov, 1947)
Dry Ice-Capades
Dry ice is very interesting stuff! Get yourself a chunk (handling it with gloves) and perform the simple experiments illustrated here.
DRY ice is solid carbon dioxide. It's very interesting stuff. For one thing, it sublimes at room temperature; that is, although a solid, it evaporates to form a gas without passing through the liquid state. The mist you see formed by dry ice is water "squeezed" out of the air because it has been chilled below the dewpoint.
Dry ice will readily freeze water and other liquids, and is sometimes used to "quick-freeze" food. The water in plant or animal tissues, under proper conditions, freezes very rapidly and the hard, frozen tissue then is brittle and shatters when struck. The "burns" caused by dry ice are really areas where the body fluids have been frozen. Since ice formation is often accompanied by the growth of needle-like crystals, one can see that these frost-bites can be both painful and dangerous. For the sake of safety, dry ice should be handled with gloves or tongs, not with bare hands.
On the following pages are photographs illustrating a few experiments that may be performed with dry ice. Try them!


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November 30, 2012 -
November 29, 2012, Port Angeles, WA - The Board of Commissioners of Olympic Medical Center will honor Thomas Locke, MD, MPH, Health Officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties, for 25 years of service at the beginning of their regularly scheduled meeting at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in Linkletter Hall in the basement conference area of Olympic Memorial Hospital.
The Clallam County Board of County Commissioners plan to issue a proclamation on December 4, 2012, and December 1 through 8 will be declared Dr. Thomas Locke appreciation week in Clallam County. The proclamation will be issued during the regular commission meeting.


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Six Sonatinas, Opus 76, Volume 2 (Nos. 4-6)
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Harmonically undemanding and melodious, Schytte's Sonatinas are distinguished by fluid, readily playable piano writing. New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.
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Industry News
Sally Beauty Announces Tobin Anderson as President
Sally Beauty Holdings announced that Tobin Anderson has been appointed President of Sally Beauty Supply LLC. He will continue to report to Gary Winterhalter, Chairman and CEO of Sally Beauty Holdings. Anderson has been serving as Senior Vice President of Sally Beauty Supply overseeing Sally Beauty Merchandising and Marketing departments.
Prior to joining the Sally Beauty, Anderson held management and executive positions at several major retailers.
Gary Winterhalter, Chairman and CEO of Sally Beauty Holdings, said, "Tobin's bottom-up approach to understanding our business demonstrates that he is an effective operator as well as a skilled merchandising and marketing Executive. I am confident that Tobin has the talent to take Sally to the next level."
Anderson serves on the Merchandising & Digital Retailing Board of Governors at the University of North Texas. Visit sallybeautyholdings.com.


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Babies have one way to let us know how their feeling, right? Perhaps not!
Crying. It's the most primal form of communication available to humans, and for babies it lets their carer know if they're hungry, tired, have a dirty nappy, are sick, etcetera. And therein lies the confusion. Is it a cry of boredom? A scream for sleep? It can be utterly overwhelming for mums and dads. Signing Stars Baby Sign Language Kit is designed to give parents a leg up, by using hands as a language tool.
Baby sign language is the use of gestures to communicate, before a baby develops the use of speech. It's designed to help recognise their needs, wants and interests and it aims to reduce frustration, both on the part of parents and children. It's designed to be taught to babies from around six to nine months – when they begin to interact. Take a look at the video below to see baby sign language in action.
Signing Stars is designed by three mums, and the products are endorsed by Deaf Australia as true Auslan. Their Baby Sign Language Learning Kit is packed with everything needed to go on the signing journey, including removable stickers to place around your home, a DVD Dictionary, flashcards and a fact sheet. It can be purchased directly from Shining Stars for $59.95.


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The Asian long-horned beetle has struck again, this time infesting trees along Luther Gulick Playground near the Manhattan approach to the Williamsburg Bridge. The trees were chopped down, chipped and burned to kill the insect and its eggs, the only way to stop the spread of the insect, which has no natural predators in the United States.
The tree-killing beetle made its first attack in New York in 1996, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The Parks Department believes that it stowed away in the wood of crates brought from China to the Greenpoint docks. Since then, nearly 3,000 trees in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan have had to be destroyed to stop its spread. Last year, the beetles were discovered in Ruppert Park in the Upper East Side, too close for comfort to Central Park.
"The beetles pose an enormous long-term danger to the city's forests and to trees all along the Northeast," Parks Commissioner Henry Stern was quoted as saying in the New York Times. "All of humanity is together in fighting this. This is biological warfare and we are on the side of the trees."
The Parks department has stepped up tree inspections in special zones around areas where the beetle has been found, and is asking people to report sightings of the insect or the characteristic pencil-sized holes it bores in upper tree trunks. In April, the department announced a $10 million federal, state, and city effort to battle the beetle, with funding for inspection and the destruction and replacement of infested trees with seedlings.
Adult beetles are about one and a quarter inches long, shiny black with white spots, and have long black-and-white striped antennae. They chew out depressions in the bark higher up in the trees to lay their eggs. The larvae bore into the tree to feed, coming back through the trunk when they reach maturity, leaving the telltale holes. Other incriminating evidence is a pile of sawdust at the base of a tree or at the intersection of a branch and the trunk. See the Asian long-horned beetle alert. To report any sign of the beetle, call the Parks department at 1-800-201-PARK.
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A recent article in the Albany Times-Union documented the depressing result of funding cutbacks for park maintenance in a number of upstate cities. Albany, for example, has slightly more than half the park workers it had two decades ago, with predictable deterioration of parks, particularly small ones. When budgets are tight, Schenectady's Mayor said, "the parks are the first to get whacked."
Sound familiar? New York City just approved another budget that continues an inadequate level of spending on park maintenance. Though this year's funding is $3 million higher than last year, the extra money goes to salary increases for existing staff and 31 new seasonal workers, not to increasing much-needed skilled maintenance staff, like gardeners, tree pruners, and plumbers. In fact, the budget includes a hiring freeze that aims to cut 100 fulltime park workers through attrition. The Parks department has been supplementing its maintenance staff with welfare workers, and private fundraising and volunteers are helping to maintain some parks. But many parks, especially in the poorer neighborhoods, are in terrible shape. Less than one-half of one percent of the City budget goes to the Parks department operating budget. It's time for our elected officials to stop thinking of parks as frills and realize that investing in open space and recreation pays off"in higher real estate values, crime reduction, improved air quality, and the kind of city where people and businesses want to locate.
Anne Schwartz is a freelance writer specializing in environmental issues. Previously, she was the editor of the Audubon Activist, a news journal for environmental action published by the National Audubon Society, and an editor at The New York Botanical Garden.


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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Fitness Center Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy Complication, Federal Agency Charges
MODESTO, Calif. - A national personal training company violated federal law when it fired a physical trainer who was taking approved medical leave for complications caused by her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Rosie Nuno was employed by Custom Built Personal Training as an assistant manager assigned to the InShape fitness center on Lloyd Street in Modesto, Calif. (InShape did not employ Nuno and is not implicated in the EEOC's lawsuit.) Nuno properly notified Custom Built managers that she was experiencing complications and that her doctor recommended time off from work, the EEOC said. Nuno provided doctor's notes to management to cover her absences, and the company's own documentation revealed that she had been approved for medical leave. However, Custom Built fired her, claiming the reason was job abandonment.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or any medical conditions affected by pregnancy. After first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through conciliation efforts, the EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Custom Built Personal Training, Civil Action No. 2:14-CV-01005 KJM CKD) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of Nuno.
"This employee plainly acted correctly and followed all proper procedures, but Custom Built heedlessly fired her nonetheless," said EEOC District Director Michael Baldonado. "The only 'abandonment' here was this company's abandoning lawful and decent treatment of an employee who happened to be pregnant. As pregnancy discrimination charges continue to escalate, this issue continues to be a priority for the EEOC."
EEOC Regional Attorney William Tamayo said, "This is a working mother's nightmare. Ms. Nuno was fired from the job which she relied on to support herself, her daughter and the new baby on the way. Employers must understand their obligation to ensure that women are not punished for taking approved time off due to pregnancy."
Custom Built Personal Training contracts with health clubs nationwide to run its personal training programs and services. According to the company website, Custom Built "is the largest & fastest growing personal training company in the world" and has partnered with companies such as Gold's Gym, InShape Health Clubs and Max Fitness.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information about the agency is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Thursday, January 18, 2018
Marc Lawrence Playoff Upset, Jan 20-21
Philadelphia over Minnesota by 4
Shock and Skol. Safe to say, Minnesota should not be here. Not when the Vikings were 25 seconds and 75 yards away from elimination. Not after blowing a 17-0 halftime lead. And definitely not after trailing with 10 seconds left from their own 39-yard line! QB Case Keenum made one last play-call: Seventh Heaven. Somehow, miraculously, it worked and as a result they find themselves as 3-point favorites in the NFC championship game in Philly, looking to become the first team in NFL history to host a Super Bowl game with a win today. It's quite a story, but so too is the Philadelphia saga, one we feel most are overlooking. And our database concurs, noting the Vikings are just 2-11 SU and 3-10 ATS on the playoff road since 1988. On the other side of the coin, though, is the fact that teams coming off a SU home underdog playoff win are just 1-16 SU and 2-15 ATS in follow-up games. But we can't dismiss the fact that Minnesota has NEVER beaten Philadelphia in the playoffs, going 0-3 SUATS all-time dating back to 1980. Toss in the fact that No. 1 seeds are 28-12 SU in championship games since 1980, including 7-0 the last four years, and we're ready to soar with the Eagles. After all, they literally shine at home under Doug Pederson, going 14-3 SU – the best home record in the NFL. In addition, they rank No. 1 in the NFL with a 197 point scoring differential at home, as well as having allowed just 241 points at the LINC, marking the fewest such points allowed over the same span. Then there is the ugliness of indoor teams playing outdoors during the playoffs with game time temperatures of 35 or fewer degrees, a bitter stat that has seen these temperature-controlled teams go just 4-24 SU (see Atlanta here last week). And we didn't even mention that NFL playoff home dogs with an equal or better record are 19-6-1 ATS since 1980. Forget the Skol chant. Around these parts, it's Fly Eagles Fly.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Update: Pekka Veikkolainen - Portfolio 2012 and Online Shop Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Update: Pekka Veikkolainen - Portfolio 2012 and Online Shop" GeckomemberMember #Joined: 07 Mar 2000Posts: 876Location: Finland Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:41 pm Hey guys! On top of the new portfolio, there is now Pekuska Shop, a place to buy prints of my illustrations. Go see it at http://www.pekuskashop.com - I've got a new portfolio online. After having a very limited selection of paintings online for a few years, it's time to show a more diverse body of work. The forest troll for 2012 didn't make it to this update, but more about that later this year! I hope you enjoy it! http://www.pekuska.com PekkaLast edited by Gecko on Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:07 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top LemurmemberMember #Joined: 22 Apr 2010Posts: 318Location: NYC Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:05 pm wow Gecko, ever since i was a sniveling teenager who first discovered this forum a long time ago you have stuck in my mind as someone who really elevated the digital medium. Now i'm looking at your site and see some of this stuff i never would have imagined, like 3d as Art with a capital 'A'- never would've imagined 3d like that, heck, all your compositions are so novel. BRAVO!!! huge inspiration Back to top SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2896Location: Australia Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:30 pm That is my favorite image of yours. Great stuff._________________Art Links Archive -- Artists and Tutorials Back to top RanathmemberMember #Joined: 02 Apr 2004Posts: 611Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:31 pm Yeah, that's some nice work, well done. Have you done lately any freelance projects I could look for in ads/print media?_________________Blog: http://image-feed.blogspot.com Back to top MonmemberMember #Joined: 05 Sep 2002Posts: 593Location: Uppsala, Sweden Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:17 am Bravo!_________________www.mattiassnygg.com Blog! Back to top kalakalmemberMember #Joined: 24 Mar 2005Posts: 56Location: Sweden Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:56 pm Love the image you posted, very cool. maybe you could remove the the big fish that looks directly at the spectator my eyes goes directly to it or do something else. Nevertheless its great. _________________Blog http://cfors.blogspot.se/ Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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I'm pretty sure it's unofficial, I found it searching for more of those action figures. The guy who made it has a blog showing the creative process of his random anime statues: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/gyopi0919/
The Takuan bust was made by Megatech - if you go to Dereks site (www.berserkstatues.com) and go the the links page, the website is listed there - just go to the gallery - there is a (not so good) Musashi figure too.
New statue!Link: http://mulan-shop.com/vagabond/eindex.html
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Now that the USDA is well along with getting checks out to farmers for payments authorized in the 2002 farm bill, "our focus has shifted to the remaining parts of the legislation," a department official says.
"There are still a few regulations left to implement with respect to the commodity programs, and one of the biggest tasks remaining is the conservation title," Hunt Shipman, deputy under secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, said at the annual meeting of the Southern Crop Protection Association at Charleston, S.C.
"The bill provided for an 80 percent increase in conservation spending, with 85 percent of those funds targeted to working lands. Land retirement programs that we had in the past, the Conservation Reserve Program and the Wetlands Reserve Program, will continue with moderate funding increases.
"One of the most exciting programs for us and one of the most challenging is the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), which makes $4.6 billion available to producers over the life of the bill. This is a tremendous opportunity, we think, to address many of the environmental problems that exist on working lands and still keep those lands in production."
Perhaps the "biggest question mark," Shipman said, is the Conservation Security Program, "which was written with different tiers and different payments for different activities. We're still some time away from issuing proposals for implementing this program, but I encourage everyone to watch it closely and to be an active participant in its development."
Still to be resolved in the appropriations process, he said, is whether it will be a pilot program or whether it will also continue in development as a nationwide program.
Just a few days previous to the conference, Shipman said, the department held a Third Party Technical Service Providers Summit, "which gave us an opportunity to obtain input on the use of such providers. It was one of the most elaborate attempts we've ever made to seek public input." A final regulation is expected to become effective next spring.
Eight other titles in the farm bill, ranging from nutrition and research to rural development — and for the first time, an energy title — remain to be implemented in coming months, Shipman said.
"To this point, I think we've done as good a job as could be done in trying to get programs developed in a timely basis for what needed to happen for production agriculture this year. Congress spent a year and a half developing the bill, and after it was passed it was a real challenge for us to implement it. Keep in mind, this was signed by the president May 13 and was applicable to 2002 crops, so we didn't have a lot of time to anticipate and plan. I feel we've done an excellent job — particularly in the Farm Service Agency offices — in getting the parts of the bill applicable to 2002 crops up and running in a timely fashion."
Between Oct. 1 and the end of the year, he noted, some $13 billion is being injected into the farm economy from new and existing programs, which "represents a tremendous amount of money."
"Checks are being written; signups are under way. The legislation is very specific on how the money is to be parceled out over the calendar year. Previously, the USDA wrote checks only a couple of times a year; now, our check writing is almost constant."
Shipman said the USDA is "basically done with the commodity programs" and is concentrating on remaining parts of the farm bill. "One of the most substantial for Southern agriculture is a major overhaul of the peanut program, which we're well on our way to getting implemented. We feel it's a step in the right direction, but we'll have to see how producers react to it."
The Bush administration's trade agenda will continue to get top priority, Shipman said. "Recent estimates of global grain stocks are forecasting the lowest stocks-to-use ratios in recent memory, a result of drought and other adverse weather in the U.S., Australia, and Europe — something we haven't seen in all three areas in a number of years. This has led to higher grain prices.
"But, we know that cycles like this don't last forever, and we will continue to pursue the president's aggressive, three-pronged trade agenda: global, regional, and bilateral."
On the global front, he said, "We have an aggressive agricultural proposal before the World Trade Organization to reduce trade-distorting domestic supports, to eliminate export subsidies, and to increase market access for agricultural products."
Regionally, active discussions are under way on agreements such as the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the Central America Free Trade Agreement, and others. Bilaterally, a number of agreements were completed last year and "many more" are in discussion.
"This three-pronged approach creates an atmosphere that will allow for increased liberalization of trade in agricultural products," Shipman said.
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A coffee- well, actually, a grande soy chai tea latte. That is my drink of choice these days. Iced on the rare occasion that the sun shines on us, hot otherwise. They run just under $5- a clean five when I throw the change into the tip jar.
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So, if we were out one afternoon and we stopped by a Starbucks, would you offer to buy my coffee? Because it would cost you $5.
Do you know that if everyone I know and everyone Mr. Taylor knows donated $5 to the online fundraiser for the orphanage my mom is building we could have that security wall built. Okay, maybe we don't know quite that many people, but if the people we know spread the word and all of their friends also donated $5- well, surely we would finish the wall. And do you know what happens when the security wall is finished and the home is secured? THE CHILDREN CAN MOVE IN!!! Because they have to wait people- they can't move in until it's finished. They can't sleep in a bed or have a room of their own or live in a place that they can call home. Because in Uganda, it isn't safe to move the children in and bring in the supplies without a security wall. And so we wait. We wait until we can raise the money to finish the wall- and the sooner we raise it the sooner those kids are off the streets.
It's a coffee people. It is less than a martini. It is five dollars.
Please visit the fundraising web site and consider donating something- anything. And then, share the link and the story with your friends. You have no idea how much it will be appreciated. It is a couple clicks on your computer, a quick post on facebook or twitter, an email to friends. It really is so little considering how it will change the life of some children far away.
And, if you need incentive, how about this~
Mr. Taylor has offered to donate one of his bowls every time we raise $1000 I will draw a name from the list of the donors in that $1000 and send the winner a bowl made in our studio by Mr. Taylor.
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Salt Lake City Police Dept. Makes The Move To 'Always-On' Eyecams
from the an-idea-with-potential,-tempered-by-an-enormous-downside deptIn the beginning, there were dashcams. Cops utilized these to provide Fox's primetime programmers with glorious footage of high speed pursuits and the occasional drunk shirtless man falling down. It provided a record of traffic stops and PIT maneuvers, but the downside was that it failed to capture anything out of range of the windshield. Sometimes, given inter-departmental meddling, the footage showed nothing at all or ceased to exist.
Then, suddenly, everyone had a camera. Nearly every citizen with a cell phone was able to shoot credible (if shaky) footage of law enforcement events as they unfolded, rather than how they were "recalled" during depositions and courtroom appearances. This turn of events caused some consternation among some members of the law enforcement community, who felt that recorded observation was a one-way street and that street had the PD's name all over it. While it was tougher to make unwanted footage cease to exist, it was not altogether impossible.
Now, the next wave of law enforcement-related camera technology is being put into use: always-on "eyecam." Salt Lake City is rolling out a new line of eye accessories for its force, becoming the first police department in the state to do so.
The Taser AXON Flex on-officer system is a small, light-weight camera with 14 hours of a battery life that an officer clips to an item like a headband or sunglasses so it can record whatever that officer is seeing or doing.As the use of these cameras becomes more widespread, hearing a police officer offer to "fire up the Taser" may no longer cause certain citizens to instinctively curl into the fetal position. In fact, there's an (admittedly small) chance that these new cameras will keep unnecessary force to a minimum and provide useful documentation for use in investigations, court cases, etc.
Nationally, only about 2,000 units of the on-officer system are in the field, and Salt Lake City would be the first department in Utah to use the technology, said Rick Smith, Taser founder and CEO, who attended the presentation.
"It really improves our ability to be professional and document events as they occur," (Police Chief Chris) Burbank said. "Imagine being able to capture the emotion."More transparency is a good idea, but much like any recording device, it's only as trustworthy as its operator -- and those who control use of the footage. Burbank mentions that the camera has already cleared a Salt Lake City officer accused of "behaving unprofessionally" at a traffic stop. This is all well and good, but there needs to be a serious effort made to curb the tendency to turn an "always-on" camera into a very selective accomplice.
Smith said any use of force is inherently high risk and controversial.
He said there are often differing accounts of what led an officer to use force in a particular situation and equipping them with cameras will help with investigations and retroactive reviews of decisions that were made, he said.
"It holds everybody accountable," Smith said.
The cameras run continuously, but an officer is responsible for activating and deactivating the device. That means the department will have to set strict guidelines about camera use and making sure the cameras aren't being shut off, Burbank acknowledged.The first step might be to change "guidelines" to "rules," so there are no grey areas surrounding the specifics of camera usage. This is not to say there's little potential for an upside, though. In fact, more law enforcement agencies should look into equipping themselves with something like this, with the caveat being that the resulting footage is treated as an "impartial record" rather than "police property." Leaving the on/off switch in control of the officer wearing the camera is both unavoidable and prone to abuse by those who would rather hide certain actions and activities. And as long as law enforcement members are interacting with the public using "always-on" cameras, there really can't be any further complaints about citizens responding in kind. The camera may be an impartial observer, but the operator very rarely is. If transparency is Burbank's ultimate aim, let's hope the guideline process is opened up for public comment.
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The Browns' emphasis on Johnny Manziel entering training camp as a backup has not gone unnoticed by Manziel himself.
Manziel said at the Browns' rookie minicamp today that he realizes nothing is going to be handed to him, and he needs to prove he belongs before he'll be Cleveland's starting quarterback.
"I'm a rookie," Manziel said, via the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I need to earn my place. I need to earn my keep. I don't need to be treated based off what I did in the past because that doesn't mean a thing at this level. I was completely OK with hearing that from everybody. I don't want to come in and have anything handed to me that I don't deserve."
Manziel said he's eager to show the teams that passed on him what they're missing.
"I got passed up 21 times, so that says something," Manziel said. "Getting passed up 21 times is never fun and obviously some of those teams weren't going to take quarterbacks and we knew that going into it, but still, it's even humbling to be the second quarterback off the board, so for them to come in and say that, I don't think I need to be humbled. I realize where I'm at in this organization and what I need to be doing, and that's all I'm really focused on."
Manziel added of Cleveland fans, "They're tired of losing. They're tired of not having success." Manziel may be a backup now, but his job will be to change Cleveland's fortunes, as the starter.