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Well, Autumn is fast approaching and with it comes the Vintage Bazaar. I have been over to
The Cheese and Grain today to have another look at the space and make sure we have enough room for BBC Homes and Antiques and the lovely makeover girls that Clare met at the Lindy Hop event in Bath. There a few extra bits of advice for stallholders that I would like to impart:
The hall has blackout curtains so there is a chance it will be quite dark in there on the day, please bring lamps and cables especially if you are in the side stalls as this is the darkest space. All electrical equipment must be safety checked.
The stands in the centre come with one table, but there should be space to add in smaller card tables, so do bring an extra small table or bookcase if you feel you need it. Anybody who has ever been to or done the Textile Fair in Ilminster knows the merits of "building up" to make the best use of space! For those of you wanting to bring a rail of clothes in the centre stands, it will be possible. We intend to place such stall holders near the changing area and away from stands selling china! (we all know the danger of a runaway rail!!)
All tables should be covered with cloths that reach to the floor.
PLEASE - No "one price rails", this is a quality fair and this sort of rail makes an event look cheap. This is a vintage event, so all clothing on the rails should be at least pre 1990.
There will be no early entry for trade buyers. Everyone can come in together at 9 am when the fair opens.
I have spoken to the lovely Lotty who runs the cafe within the Cheese and Grain, she offers fairtrade tea and coffee at reduced rates for stallholders. There is a delicious looking menu, including a big breakfast for 4.50.


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- Recent study found that women who flirt get a better deal
- CNN polled online community: Is flirting at work is acceptable. No: 57% Yes: 43%
- We've curated some of the strongest comments for and against
So, it turns out that flirting at work really can get you ahead -- at least according to one study, which says that with no serious intentions, it can really pay off in negotiations.
But would any woman use these tactics in the real world? Should she?
We asked one successful entrepreneur, Victoria Pynchon, co-founder of She Negotiates Consulting, which helps women get better at asking for raises and promotions.
Pynchon thinks it's ok and, in fact, necessary. She told us why in this opinion piece: Why it's ok for women to flirt at work.
It got a huge response from CNN readers and on social media -- with strong opinions both for and against.
Nearly 200 people took part in our quick vote and we found that there was an almost equal number who were ok with flirting at work and those who weren't.
We also asked our friends at The Levo League, an online community for women in the first decade of their careers, to see what the next generation of professionals think.
Below we've collated a selection of the best comments from our users and The Levo League community.
ChrisMay: "Whether anyone likes it or not, sex sells. And when a woman puts herself through school and gains competence, when she discovers that she is in an environment where her competence has taken a back seat to her bust size, then she is given a license to pull out the big guns; it becomes a tool. If she abuses it, it can bite back. If she's smart, she'll strike a balance that sends the brainless male side spinning like a top as she climbs the corporate ladder. I see it every day. It's an art form. You go girl."
Martina Lundardelli: "It means we, as women, can be charming but in a positive way. Our attitude towards problems and life in general is charming. Since work is a part of our lives, we should just remain women. We still continue using our brains, our skills and our competitiveness, but with elegance and an attitude that is a feature of our gender. So yes, I do agree."
Lila Barton, 22, on The Levo League: "It's no secret that women have a certain "feminine charm." Since the beginning of time, men have been captivated, confused, and absolutely in love with it. But when it comes to using this charm to get what you want, women have to be extremely careful ... Every woman understands when they cross the line between being warm and friendly to flirtatious."
Zac: "Women will use their charms, not because its right or wrong, but because its a part of their toolset. As a guy, I think it's unfair, but the world is an unfair place and I know that if I had the opportunity to juke the system to get what I want, I probably would."
Guy: "I worked with many women below, beside and above me, and the most successful and respected women managers were acting just like themselves and not trying to emulate men and never used charm or their beautify to manipulate the situations ... in some respects women have a natural tendency to be good managers, they can also endure hard work better than men and they have better abilities than men to talk themselves out of trouble."
Russell Conner: "Sure they can (flirt at work), and I can put them in the same category as butt-kissers and yes-men. I have followed, mentored, supported and even stepped aside for competent and talented women. Some of whom I never met in person, no 'female charms' in play. If any of them had tried that, they would have lost my respect."
Maxie McCoy on The Levo League: "I think it (is) a very slippery slope to view flirting as an asset to negotiation and getting what you want ... However, looking at female charm as a skillset that involves winning others over, being authentic, warm and personable is a relevant and useful conversation to have."
Yosisme: "Isn't saying it's ok to make vague sexual references (flattery/flirting) to co-workers to gain influence, sort of like saying it is ok to intimidate people to get what you want as long as you don't follow through on the threat? ... Both are using a vague promise of something to emotionally manipulate someone. Does it really matter if the false insinuation is sexual or violent? I don't condone either method."
What do you think? Is it ok for women to use their feminine charms to improve their chances of success at work? Tell us in the comments below.

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Obrad Mumin lives in a small isolated mountain village in Mala Crna Gora, or Little Montenegro. Once, there were 70 people in the village. Now no more than 20-25 people spend the winter in Mala Crna Gora. It is a tough life. Obrad Mumin's mother and father died when he was still a boy.
Obrad lives, together with his wife and his sister Jelena, on a small farm. It is a life of poverty and hard work. The beauty of the summer months is offset by the harsh winters, says Obrad:
In the summer it's great here, a beautiful mountainous area. Many tourists come here, more than to any other village. People who come here, who pass by here, who stop here. Really beautiful - listen - in the summer there's clear air here, pure water, it's glorious, everything is exquisite!
As far as the winter is concerned: it's bad, there's a huge amount of snow. I don't have anything else to say about it. In the summer every house is full – listen – those who moved away, who have houses, apartments there, come back. They took their children and left. They moved away from here as they don't want to spend the winter here.
There used to be 70 inhabitants here, now there are roughly twenty, twenty-five at the most. More can't spend the winter here. All grandmothers and grandfathers … and goodbye, farewell, there'll be no one left here. Not a living soul. Because one is cut off. One is cut off for six months - listen - because one can't get to Zabljak. It's only for this reason…. If you need a shot or something here - listen - then you have to die, because you won't get to a doctor.
His sister Jelena adds:
We have television, we have radio, we have everything. We follow the news as if we were in Podgorica. And then we knit, in the winter you know. In the summer we don't have the time but in the winter we switch on the television and take the needles and also the spindle, by god we still have one which you power with your feet. We knit, we knit socks, jumpers, that sort of thing and, God knows, nothing else.
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Axle Prototypes Go Light
For one automaker that combination includes a high-strength, lightweight "banjo" rear axle for use in its two-wheel and four-wheel-drive truck models.
A banjo axle typically is constructed using stamped, high-strength components welded together to form an axle housing that can reduce the mass of the part and, therefore, vehicle weight. With time constraints a factor, and to avoid potential interruptions to production cycles, the powertrain engineers for the automaker sought the assistance of the 3-Dimensional Services Group, a Rochester Hills, MI-based rapid prototyping firm that specializes in design, engineering and analysis, inhouse tool construction, and complete build of first-off parts and low- to medium-volume production runs.
With the automaker seeking parts and components for crucial testing deadlines and final review decisions, 3-Dimensional Services began its work on the rear-axle housing. The housing consisted of nearly 30 individual stampings, with many structural components fabricated from high-strength sheet steel at 4.5 mm thick, others from 1008-1010 carbon steel. With a 10-week delivery timeframe, work began quickly, with only the part design provided to 3-Dimensional Services.
"We immediately began work on the dies for producing the various stampings," says Scott Duffie, 3-Dimentinal project engineer, "including the two axle halves—the upper and lower U-formed housing pieces that measure nearly 51⁄2 ft. long with a nearly 7-in. depth radius draw for the differential section. As die design and machining progressed, we turned our attention to the fixturing—the weld fixtures required to secure and accurately locate the 28 or so different pieces during the assembly process."
"The design of these fixtures was very demanding for our welding experts," he continues. "The workholding tools needed to be precise, yet highly adaptive, with adjustability to fine tune holding points and pressures, to compensate for or prevent distortion that could occur during the welding stages."
The number of parts, quality checks and processes involved in completing the axles left open the possibility for multiple delays. In addition to the axle halves, other stamped pieces included baffles, front and rear backing plates, rear cover, front mounting ring, strengthening gussets, numerous brake cable guides and hose brackets, harness brackets, spring seats and reinforcements, shock brackets, drain plug inserts, and pipe brackets. The large upper and lower halves of the axle were formed in its 1600 ton press, one of 44 presses the firm employs. The stamping operation was sped along by the use of both Kirksite and aluminum alloys for die materials.
"We've tested various aluminum alloys and have found a particular one, we call it E-Z Cut, that holds up well for stamping prototype runs," Duffie says. "The speeds at which the aluminum can be cut, however, helps to reduce machining times by 50 percent or more as compared to some tool steels."
After the stampings were completed, some of the components, and in particular, the upper and lower housing halves, were laser trimmed using some of the company's 13 five-axis laser cutters.
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"A critical step in the welding, and a required process by the client, was to verify production intent by completing the wheel-flange welding process in a single, continuous weld," notes Duffie. "To minimize tooling and equipment costs, we accomplished this by using two robotic arms in unison—one generating the weld while the second controlled the rotation of the part. With this weld, in fact with all the welds, we recorded all parameters of the individual welding processes, heat, cycle, etc., to provide the customer with data for production runs. At the same time, we had to conduct certified weld inspections in more than 50 locations on the assembly. We have on staff five certified inspectors along with a software program that helps identify and measure penetration depths, so these critical inspections could be completed quickly inhouse."
Following the welding-certification inspection, each assembly underwent leak testing and CMM dimensional inspection.
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"We were able to complete and ship the first pieces to the vehicle's prototype assembly and test center within the 10-week time period," Duffie says, "and are completing a second run of 17 to 20 pieces, incorporating some modifications and engineering changes. We expect to ship this lot in seven weeks. These prototypes included full verification of their manufacturing intent and process standards, so that, if this axle design is selected for future truck models, the automaker and its future high-volume suppliers will have a headstart to implementing a viable manufacturing process and a timely production launch. What's more, the automaker has the production-like quality and integrity with which to gauge the functioning of these axles and to help determine their effect on overall vehicle performance."
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India Journal: Why Does India Hate Women?
So, which countries in the world boast -- though I suspect that's not quite the right word -- the highest rates of pregnancy among teenage girls? If you were to pick one of the nations of the supposedly sexually precocious West, you'd be quite wrong.
The latest United Nations human development report shows that if you're looking for large numbers of teen mothers, you should look at India. While the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa, rates in some South Asian countries are up there, too.
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Within South Asia, India and Nepal have the highest rates. In India, 8.6% of girls aged between 15 and 19 are having babies; in Nepal, that figure tops 10%. But because of India's huge population, the country probably has, in absolute numbers, more teen mothers than almost anywhere else in the world -- a rough calculation would put the figure at about five million.
Yet, except for the odd voice you never hear that much about India's teen pregnancy epidemic, because those pregnancies are generally happening within the confines of marriage -- and that, apparently, makes it okay. Except it's not.
Teen pregnancy rates are an indicator of how a nation is treating its women. Most health experts (and the rest of us) agree that teenagers aren't grown up yet, either physically or mentally, and most of them aren't equipped to care both for themselves and a child. Some studies show that Indian girls who marry young are more likely to have malnourished children.
These are years when young girls could be -- or should be -- finishing an education, and then getting married, joining the workforce, or some combination of the two, depending on their personal circumstances.
The figures on adolescent fertility are part of the calculations for the United Nations gender inequality index -- first introduced last year in its human development report. Last year, India ranked 122 out of 138 countries on gender inequality; this year it ranked 129 out of 146. More countries were included in the gender inequality index in 2011, so it's hard to compare the two years.
In overall development, India ranked 134 out of 187 countries this year; last year it ranked 119 out of 169 countries.
Not coincidentally, most of the countries on the "high" human development list don't have very high rates of teen pregnancy. In the United States, just over 4% of teenagers have babies; in sexually permissive Norway, which topped the human development index, that figure is under 1%.
And many of the countries with the highest rates of teen pregnancy appear rather low down the human development index. Sure, there are countries that buck the trend -- that have teen pregnancy rates similar to India's and still report higher rates of overall development -- but there's still a pattern here that India should pay attention to.
Will it? Looking at the gender equity numbers, Jairam Ramesh, minister for rural development, saw a world where India was being discriminated against because of how the UN calculates some parts of the index, according to a story in the Indian Express on Thursday. Looking at the numbers, many of us would see a country where women are not just discriminated against, but actively disliked.
Which is why it's sort of a puzzle when Indians, particularly those who have settled overseas, remark upon how proud they are that they or their children haven't succumbed to Western mores, that they remain Indian "at heart." That's great for Indian boys, maybe -- not so much for Indian girls.
Numbers related to gender development, trafficking, sex abuse, education and nutrition rarely show that Indians are particularly good at protecting their daughters from early sexual activity, early pregnancy, dropping out of school or even hunger -- the mistreatment just happens in a way that's culturally palatable.
Let's take sex, for example. It's probably fair to say that most Indian women have their first sexual experience with a complete stranger. If that were happening post a visit to a bar and a few drinks -- horrors. Subtract the bar and add a fire and priest -- all well and good. Relations between teenage women and older men would anywhere else be called pedophilia or at least statutory rape. But add a fire and a priest, and well, you see where this is going.
Yes, yes, India had a female head of government before many industrialized countries have; the head of the nation's ruling party is a woman, and so on and so forth. But surely the existence of Sonia Gandhi or Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi says as little about the general well-being of women in India as Mukesh Ambani's bank balance does about India's overall economic development.
Even families who have educated their daughters pressure them to abandon their professional desires, as this blogger laments.
Think a moment on the lives of the Indian women you know, no matter the class. Think a moment on the experiences women you know have told you about.
I think, for example, of the number of women friends who have grown up in South Asia who recount having been molested by a family friend. I think, for example, of the backbreaking work most Indian women do every day, without it appearing to earn them much respect from their own families.
Village fields are dotted with women weeding and doing other agricultural work; up in the hills, mothers and their daughters carry enormous bundles of firewood on their heads.
Some two centuries ago, Thomas Munro, a settlement officer and collector in south India wrote a letter recounting how one farmer "cannot afford to pay his usual rent because his wife is dead, who used to do more work than his best bullock," which Philip Mason quotes in his account of Indian Civil Service life. I doubt women are working any less hard today.
At city construction sites, women hoist heavy baskets of bricks back-and-forth as men run the machines. The people who sweep the streets in many city neighborhoods are women. I've met many women, even married ones, who are the main bread-winners in their families, sometimes because a husband is unemployed or drinks, sometimes for other reasons.
If there's anything to quibble about in the human development stats, it's surely how much the 32.8% labor force participation rate is missing, given that it's hard to meet an Indian women, except perhaps the very rich, who don't spend most of the day toiling away.
First they toil in their parents' homes; then they toil in their in-laws' homes (for which honor the new family often gets a handsome sum, even these days). And yet somehow the collective wisdom that daughters are a burden still prevails, despite daily visual evidence to the contrary, and becomes a justification for neglect. When that neglect shows up in the numbers, we quibble about how they were calculated.
Think on all this and it's hard not to think this is a country that doesn't just dislike women, it hates them.
Now, can someone please tell me why?
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Does any body have an idea about why *.tiff images are not displayed when added as raster layer to QGIS after adding a vector layer which has a polygon geometry?
SOLVED !! In fact the tiff is displayed but not show in the canvas due to a mislocation. a "(QgisInterface)->zoomToActiveLayer()" after adding the raster layer should bring the image to display ^^ Thanks everybody !


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HeadHardHat's Award Winning Geocaching Blog is a geocache treasure trove of geocaching information. Years of searchable geocaching insights await you here. HeadHardHat's GeoSnippits Geocaching Videos series can be seen on You Tube. You can also find him on his new GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast series and the Geocaching Podcast. Geocaching the outdoor treasure-hunting game which the participants use a GPS receiver to hide and seek containers called "geocaches" or "caches" anywhere in the world
Friday, November 21, 2008
HooHaa TB Race Cartoon - Week Five
Yes the latest and greatest in the HooHaa TB Race Cartoon Series.
This episode puts Gunny's Electric Bug and HeadHardHat's Just a Nut in an ammo box waiting to actually start the Race. Nerves are really starting to twitch now that Easy Flyer is on it's way.
3 comments:
- tonka_boy said...
HHH, you are one evil dude. But I like your style!
- November 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM
You all have about a month to build up mileage before I jump to around 3,850 miles. MWUH HA HA HA HA!
- November 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- P.J. said...
I'm waiting for the individual cartoons -- one for each bug. Ya know, like a "tale of the tape" cartoon. :)
A 'lil HooHaa
- November 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM


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Bavaria is a region in southern Germany, and one of the country's sixteen states.[1]
It is presumably the native region of the Bavarian Erkling[2], and is close to the Black Forest (found in the neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg) where Erklings are said to have originated.[3] The German National Quidditch Stadium and the Neuschwanstein Castle are located in Bavaria.[4]
A variant of Exploding Snap is played in Bavaria. In this variant, a number of cards are dealt out in a circle. Whenever a card that matches one already in the circle is dealt, it is placed in the centre. Both it and the matching card must be tapped before all of the cards explode. The time before the cards explode is lessened upon each consecutive correct match.[5]
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Indirectly mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only) (Nintendo DS version only)
- Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (First appearance)
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The annuity industry just had their redefining moment on July 1, but no one seems to have noticed or understands the importance of what just happened — especially the annuity industry.
On July 1 of this year, the Department of the Treasury and the IRS approved the use of Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts, aka QLACs, within 401(k)s and IRAs. QLACs are also known as Longevity Annuities or Deferred Income Annuities (DIAs) and were introduced around 10 years ago as a simplistic, no-fee way to solve for lifetime income starting at a future date.
The more I thought about this new QLAC ruling the more I am convinced that this is truly the defining moment for the controversial and negatively perceived world of annuities. Right now, the agents pretty much dictate the products sold and created by the carriers. In other words, carriers tend to create and design annuity products, like variable and indexed, that they think agents will sell. I know that sounds crazy and should be a consumer first type thought, but it's a fact that the inmates are running the asylum. That changed forever with the new law governing longevity use in 401(k)s and IRAs.
I have been a big proponent of longevity annuities for years, and have butted heads with the myopic deferred-income rider proponents to at least include and show these new deferred-income strategies to their clients. Even though the longevity annuity category has grown in recent years, the low commission paid to the agent and the transparent design of the product are reasons most agents currently ignore this pro-customer strategy. Fear and greed sell annuities, and most agents like to sell dream-return (i.e. greed) scenarios attached to variable and indexed annuities. Longevity annuities only reveal the contractual realities of the policy and agent proposals can only show contractual guaranteed proposals.
This guarantee only sales handcuff with the QLAC decision is the game changing fork in the annuity road. Instead of agents and carriers setting the sales agenda, now everyone involved in a 401(k) or with a traditional IRA will eventually know how a longevity annuity works and if it fits their specific situation. From this foundation of annuity knowledge, these simple products will be what people will become familiar with and feel comfortable using within their portfolios to solve for lifetime income.
Forced consumer education
With the QLAC ruling, consumers will be forced to educate themselves about annuity lifetime income strategies, and the true transfer of risk value proposition that the category offers. Even though current QLAC rules limit one's participation to the lesser of $125,000 or 25% of your qualified account, this amount will certainly be raised over time as retirees put pressure on their political representatives. In addition, once people figure out the simple and efficient nature of the longevity annuity strategy, they will be more apt to add a longevity annuity to their non-IRA accounts as well just based on familiarity.
QLACs (Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts) will also educate current workers with 401(k)s how annuities can work on their portfolio and compliment future Social Security payments. Traditional IRA account holders will be surprised and pleased to find out that they can lessen their RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) payments for a period with QLACs, while guaranteeing a lifetime income stream to start as late as age 85.
In less than five years, I predict that the longevity annuity strategy will be the most popular annuity product available, and hopefully will overtake the current over-hyped rider strategy for future guaranteed lifetime income.
Only one proposal scenario available
The most positive aspect of the QLAC ruling is that there is no way an agent or adviser can sizzle or hype the proposal numbers. Most variable and indexed annuities are sold on hypothetical, theoretical, or projected growth scenarios that never seem to pan out. In other words, people are sold the dream. With QLACs and the longevity annuity strategy, only the contractual reality exists. There is no way for an agent to juice the numbers on a longevity annuity proposal. It's a commodity product. The days of an agent leading with variable and indexed annuities is coming to an abrupt end.
No way for the industry to ruin
When variable annuities were first introduced in 1952 by TIAA-CREF, it was a simple strategy. The same thing can be said when indexed annuities were introduced in 1995. Both of those strategies have morphed into complex products that most consumers and even agents don't fully understand, and which has led to unregulated sales practices and product misinformation.
Even though longevity annuities were first introduced in 1994, and just caught on with consumers within the last three years, I think of the July 1 QLAC ruling as the "D-Day" for the unruly world of annuities.
The Steve Jobs annuity design
Steve Jobs and his design genius Jony Ive were obsessed with simplification at every level of product design. Jobs also said that "people don't know what they want until you show it to them", and my prediction is that the QLAC ruling will be the annuity industry's turning point back to simplicity once people see how simple and efficient a longevity annuity really is.
Single premium immediate annuities, SPIAs, were the original annuity introduced in the Roman Times, and was the only annuity type available in the U.S. until 1952. Longevity annuities and the QLAC product are structured very similarly to a SPIA, from a simplistic non-market design standpoint. In a glimpse back to the past, the future of annuities has revealed itself. Simple, easy to understand, low-commission products are getting ready to once again rule the day whether the annuity industry likes it or not.
Thanks to the QLAC ruling on July 1, the annuity sales game has been changed forever, and in the consumer's favor.
What a great day!
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This week, I review the most hardcore action movie to come out in decades that everyone should see, even if you have to make a road trip to reach a theater playing it! "THE RAID: REDEMPTION"!
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On February 12, 2012, I posted the very first Papa Kenn Reviews video for Chronicle, a found footage superhero movie starring relative nobodies and created by relative nobodies that blew me away and raised the bar incredibly high for not only found footage movies, but superhero movies as well! Well on March 31st, I saw a movie that was so hardcore, so unrelenting in its brutality and extreme fight scenes that every other action movie I have seen in my lifetime seems like a snack for it to much on!
The Raid: Redemption…Oh ho-ho! It has raised the bar so high for action movies that it will be impossible for me to not compare it to any that come out from now on! The Matrix? DELETED! Terminator? TERMINATED! Saving Private Ryan!? DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED! Kill Bill!? Killed! Star Wars!? (original trilogy) VADER'D! Aliens!? PREDATOR'D! Indiana Jones!? NAZI'D! Batman!? -er, right…um, this was getting a bit ridiculous anyway.
I want to go ahead and apologize to the creators, the actors, and everyone else involved with this movie because I know I am going to mispronounce a lot of names and words here. If you're watching the video, the proper spelling will be displayed so you can laugh at my expense because I'm originally from the southern US and can't pronounce words.
That being said…
The movie takes place in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia. Specifically, a 30-floor apartment building run by crime lord Tama Riyandi (along with his 2nd in command Andi and henchman Mad Dog) that serves as a safe house for dangerous criminals and murderers. We are immediately introduced to Rama, a rookie officer and expectant father, who is part of a 20 man SWAT team led by Sergeant Jaka assigned with infiltrating the building and taking Tama down. Then, all hell breaks loose! Not in the sense of "oh hey look at those CGI robots fighting and explosions", no. I mean one of the most gut-wrenching experiences you'll ever see on film explodes on the screen in the form of intense gunfights and beautifully raw martial arts battles that leave you in blood-pumping, adrenaline-rushing awe!
Now, I didn't grow up watching a lot of Kung-Fu or other martial arts movies, but I do know that they can have some truly amazing fight scenes. In American cinema we've had Kill Bill, Bloodsport, The Matrix, and a number of films starring the excellent martial arts choreography of Jet Li and Jackie Chan (including The Forbidden Kingdom which starred them both). Then of course there is Bruce Lee and "Enter The Dragon", the classic film that people refer to when talking about martial arts movies in America, and often takes the #1 spot in most peoples' lists in the genre.
This may sound like heresy to some, but I contend that The Raid: Redemption is just as good and has just as much potential to be a martial arts classic as Enter The Dragon. I obviously can't tell you about certain scenes without major spoilers so…
Technical Reasons Why The Raid: Redemption Is Just As Good As Enter The Dragon And Therefore Very Very Awesome:
1) They both have a simple plot. That explanation I mentioned a minute or so ago? Yeah, that's pretty much the whole plot. Sure there are a couple sub-plots and some minor character development (another similarity to ETD), but the rest of it is pure unadulterated ass kicking! No love story and no unnecessary drama, just a body count that would make Tony Montana pee his pants and enough brutal injuries to make the most hardened ER doctor break down like Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.
2) The dialogue and acting is simple. This goes along with the previous point and can best be put as: "There's only talking when necessary". No "witty banter", no "pointless monologues". If a character has something to say, then there's a good reason for it. Otherwise, the dialogue mostly consists of "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Seriously, there was so much screaming that I'm pretty sure at least 5 characters go Super Saiyan before it's over.
The movie is subtitled on account of it being spoken entirely in Indonesian (I know, in Indonesia. Who'd have guessed it?), but don't let that scare you away because again, "There's only talking when necessary". The only excuse you have for not seeing it because of subtitles is because you're illiterate, and considering it's rated R, most of you shouldn't have this problem by age 17.
3) EYE GOUGINGLY AWESOME ACTION! What Bruce Lee was to Kung Fu (and countless other martial arts), "The Raid" and literally its entire cast are to Pencak Silat: a martial arts style (or styles) created in Indonesia. What it may lack in some of the finesse in comparison to Bruce Lee's fighting, it more than makes up for in bone crunching, fast paced fluidity.
Go see this movie. If you love action movies and want to see the best one to come out in a long long time, go see it. It's only showing in select theaters, so go online and find the closest theater that has it. Michael Bay, you'd do well to go see this movie and witness what a good action film looks like. It doesn't need explosions, it doesn't need expensive CGI, it's doesn't need a convoluted story filled with bad dialogue and pointless love stories that serve no purpose whatsoever. In this one movie, Gareth Evans was able to pull off a more convincing and powerful experience than every single movie with Bay's name on it combined. Bay provides meaningless spectacle. Evans provides excellence.
I give The Raid: Redemption 10 "dented skulls" out of 10.
Score: 10/10
I'm Papa Kenn, and I'll see you next review.


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A's launch four homers in thrashing of Astros
Oakland plates seven in first; Gray goes six frames to earn third win
OAKLAND -- The A's showed no mercy to their Friday night houseguests, displaying a deadly combo of patience and power in their first meeting of the year with the Astros.
And yet, it was a bunt that caused the biggest stir of the night.
Oakland put up a seven-spot against Houston starter Jarred Cosart in the first inning, more than enough runs for Sonny Gray to play with in an 11-3 victory in the three-game series opener.
Apparently it was also enough for Houston manager Bo Porter to assume the A's would simply stop there. Jed Lowrie wasn't about to gently kill the rally, though, so he attempted a bunt upon seeing the shift. Oakland's shortstop was out on the play, yet two innings later he was nearly hit by a pitch -- twice.
By inning's end, Lowrie was being yelled at by Porter, who clearly didn't take a liking to the bunt.
"It's the first inning and they're playing the shift," said Lowrie. "Apparently they didn't like that, but I've seen crazier things happen than a team come back from seven runs. We're trying to win the game, and I felt they were giving me that by playing the shift.
"We're talking about the first inning of a Major League game. These games are important, and there's a lot on the line. I think, at one point, they were one swing away from being two runs down. So if I get on base there and we pick up a couple more runs, that's important."
Turns out, the Astros at one point could've reached within two runs of the lead.
The A's ability to add on in later innings has been a signature trait in recent years, and the 11 runs are a season-high for the club, which improved to a Major League-best 11-5 with the win, while the Astros, growing pains and all, fell to an American League-worst 5-12.
"That's one of our better attributes, making guys work, similar to a boxer, some body blows and sooner or later you end up doing some damage," said manager Bob Melvin. "That's' something we stress and, to an extent, the team is put together that way."
Cosart got all of one out in the first frame, walking four and allowing homers to Alberto Callaspo and Josh Reddick before being pulled at the 39-pitch mark. The A's would send 11 men to the plate in the fateful inning, finished by right-hander Paul Clemens.
Reddick, who entered the day with just four hits in his first 41 at-bats of the season, finished the night with three more, marking the first multihit game of the year for Oakland's right fielder. The home run was his first since Sept. 15.
"It's just nice to get a couple hits, regardless of the home run," said Reddick. "Actually hitting some balls hard that worked out felt really good. I felt really good out there, the best I've felt since Opening Night. I just gotta build on it."
It wasn't the only encouraging performance of the night, as the A's also got three hits from Yoenis Cespedes, including a second-inning solo shot, his fourth of the year.
Perhaps feeling left out, Oakland's other outfielder, Coco Crisp, joined in on the homer-happy day with a fifth-inning shot to right-center off Clemens.
It was Crisp, making his first start since Sunday, who got things going in the first inning, drawing the first of 10 walks the A's would tally on the night. Cosart issued two more in advance of Cespedes' two-run base hit, setting up a three-run homer from Callaspo, who has nine RBIs in 12 games.
Gray wasn't at his best, allowing the Astros a career-high nine hits, but he limited them to three runs in six innings for his third win in four tries this year. The righty, who walked two and struck out four while throwing 106 pitches, is undefeated since Sept. 11.
He has averaged more than six runs of support in his 14 career starts.
"We've had trouble scoring runs early recently," said Melvin. "Mid-to-late games, we've been getting really good at-bats, but at the beginning we haven't looked so good, so to get out to a good start today was real good, Reddick in particular."


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Unexpected visitorSaturday, April 3rd, 2010
Lucky I had the security door closed!!! In the photo it looks big and I can tell you, it is MASSIVE!
Lucky I had the security door closed!!! In the photo it looks big and I can tell you, it is MASSIVE!
We have something new in mind, something we cannot tell you about yet. The "thing" involved another trip the the Atherton Tablelands, which we enjoyed, in spite of the rain. Besides, it was Nico's first long trip and I'm sure he really enjoyed it, since he was asleep most of the day. Surprisingly, it was even difficult to wake him up for a feed. But he made our day extremely easy. And it was my first time in Steve's new Mercedes van. What a day!
We visited the Yungaburra markets, which happen the last Saturday of each month. We will have to go back, since by the time we got there they were already closing. They are very good, with lots of homemade and local produce, food stalls, etc. Really worth a visit if you are in the area the right day.
Our next stop was Mungalli Creek Byo-Dynamic Dairy. They produce their own milk, cream, yogurt and cheese and all I can say is that everything we have tried there is absolutely delicious. Even though we can get their products in the supermarket, it is always very interesting and exciting stopping at their farm in the Tablelands. I went for the carrot and ginger cake, Steve tried their fantastic cheese soufle and little Nico decided not to risk it and have his usual. As you can see, he didn't regret his choice.
And after roaming the roads enjoying the scenery, very green after so much rain, we had to go back home to take care of our digital underwater camera rental business.
We all enjoyed a day out!!!


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My personal opinion is that what is needed for the entire system is a good enema! First I have a lot of sympathy and admiration for people who prepare and mark examinations, after all I do this a lot and it is a thankless task. However, the concept of having an examination without a practical component to certify individuals as competent is one of the most stupid things I have ever heard (bearing in mind that I am in my late 60s and have worked in labs since 1957 that should give you some idea of how stupid I feel this is.) I also felt that being able to send microscope slides in for evaluation and being able use automatic slide stainers for preparation of such slides comes a close second. >From many comments I am assuming that what is behind this entire movement to dumb down the process is financial. This is the same mentality that is used in education nowadays. The question that is being asked seems to be what can we do with what we have? Put another way, how can we for example expand the work but use the same number of people? The question that should be asked is what resources do we need to get the job done most efficiently? I feel that most jobs can be most efficiently carried out with highly trained and happy individuals. The careers and well being of individuals involved in the process appears in may labs to not be a high priority. I was trained in England and so I feel that I perhaps have a broader view of the training that is carried out in the States and I have seen two retrograde steps. The first was to remove histology from the med lab tech curriculum. The second was to have evaluation of histotechs under the jurisdiction of ASCP. I think that ASCP does a great job in many ways, however this is akin to having the fox in charge of the henhouse. In many ways I feel that this has directly or indirectly contributed to the low salaries for many histotechs. I feel that what is required is a training and an examination system that is on a national level and that will maintain standards of excellence. I am not certain of the same system I trained under in England is still in operation but I felt that it was a system that benefited both employees and employers. If you were employed in any medically associated laboratory it was mandatory for you to have one day and 1 evening of your own time for training at a nationally recognized facility. The employer paid for your day off and the main requirement was that you maintained good grades. This training covered several disciplines e.g. histopathology, hematology and blood banking, histopathology, bacteriology, clinical chemistry etc. Training took three years. At the end of three years you took a written examination over all topics and if you passed this a practical examination. The practical examinations were at local centers. You were in a lab where you were presented with fresh tissue, fluids, and supplies and a list of tasks to accomplish in a morning. You multitasked - the order you carried out these tasks were entirely up to you. In the afternoon you had an oral examination from a panel of three people. If you passed all parts you were recognized as a qualified Med Lab Tech. You could go into any lab in the country and would be guaranteed a salary range and more importantly the laboratory you went to would know that, regardless of the lab you had worked in, that you had a set of uniform skills in the entire area. Everyone benefited from this. If you wished you could carry out advanced training in areas such as histopathology, bacteriology etc. this required a further two years. The net result of all this was that many labs has people at all levels of training who acted as mentors. There were clear cut career paths. I hope that the employers who survived a hear attack at the prospect of implementing such a system see the underlying message. First you need to train people and not just in a limited area. Second that such training is often not available at the lab you are working in and this requires a standardized training and evaluation system. Lastly that a specific career path is established for employees from day one with obligations form both the employer and the employee. While the federal government would totally screw up such a system we do have an NSH that could set standards and allow each state to enforce such standards. Thank y'all who have read these ramblings. I promise you that I am not smoking anything. Barry _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet


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The university is the most important institution in the Western world, indeed in the whole world. Leaders of government, church, industry, business and the media are all either graduates of universities or of schools whose teachers are themselves graduates of universities and whose textbooks are produced by such graduates. Even the ordinary citizen and the parents and children at home, regardless of whether they are or have been students of universities, are perpetually bombarded by university influence through the impact of the media. Man today never finds himself outside the direct or indirect influence of the university.
It follows that no question today is more important than, or even as important as, the question of the state of the mind and spirit at the university. The state of the mind and spirit of the university pervades and controls the whole of contemporary civilization. This is only to say that education dominates the world and the fountain head of all education is the university.
A Christian lives every minute in the presence of Jesus Christ. There is, no doubt, an eternal tension in his soul between Christ and the devil, but Christ is regally present in this tension, and He determines it in the end more than the devil. To such a person the question of what Jesus Christ thinks of the university is the most crucial question.
Would the living Jesus, who sitteth on the right hand of the Father and holdeth the destiny of man and all human civilization in His hands, be pleased with the dominance, among the sciences, of naturalism, materialism, rationalism, monism, and the self-sufficiency of the mind in its understanding and control of everything it investigates, both external and internal? Is there a first-class "Christian" scientist who has been awarded or who is worthy of being awarded a Nobel Prize in his field, or at least whose scientific contributions are recognized in Tokyo, Peking, Delhi, Moscow, Heidelberg, Freiburg, the Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cairo and Beirut, who is prepared in total sincerity and conviction and in absolute clear conscience to say the Nicene Creed and mean it exactly as Saint Athanasius and the Council that adopted it and the church that teaches it mean it? If there is not, then believing Christians should be interested in knowing why this is the case. Why does modern science, whose spirit dominates the universities, almost invariably breed either atheism or agnosticism or indifferentism? Is this phenomenon pleasing to Jesus Christ? Can a believing Christian, knowing-as he ought to-the place and supreme importance of the university in the world today, really sleep when he contemplates these facts?
Consider again the humanities-I mean, the departments of history, literature, art, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and others. Inquire profoundly and exhaustively into the ultimate presuppositions, in terms both of fundamental ideas and living personal attitudes, which undergird their doctrines. I hold that these ultimate presuppositions are based, in almost every instance on one or another, or on some curious combination, of the following outlooks: naturalism, materialism, technologism, cynicism, sheer analysis, Freudianism, sensualism, subjectivism, relativism, rationalism, scientism, humanism, the will to power, and atheism or (what amounts to the same thing) total indifferentism. The whole interpretation of man, history, culture, value, destiny and being is in these terms. Virtually no reference whatever to genuine transcendence; certainly no reference to God or Christ or the original Spirit. Is this state of affairs pleasing to Jesus Christ? And what is not manifestly pleasing to Jesus Christ, can it be pleasing to the believing Christian? And if the intellectual and spiritual source of all power, vision and dominance in the world today, namely, the university, is itself determined by such a radical alienation from Jesus Christ, not only in terms of its central academic policy and general spirit, but in terms of the material contents of the courses it teaches which feed and form the mind day after day and year after year, is there the slightest doubt that only disaster- international, political, economic, social, moral, intellectual and spiritual, awaits us all?
Only Jesus Christ on the Cross can bring proud man, and therefore the proud scientist and the proud humanist, on his knees, and can convert him from rebellion to obedience and sanity.
Western universities all sprang in the womb of the church, and non-Western universities today for the most part pattern their curricula and their concept of themselves as universities on the model of Western universities. Would Jesus Christ feel at home today, or at least at ease, in the universities which owe their original founding to His church, and therefore to Him? Why have the universities swerved from the bosom which embraced and tended them? Is this swerving progress and liberation, as some claim? What is "progress" and what is "liberation"?
I am speaking as a Christian, and I address what I say in the first instance to Christians. If the displeasure of Jesus Christ with the university which, I repeat, is the most important and most influential institution in the world today, should continue; namely, if naturalism, subjectivism, scientism, relativism, humanism, indifferentism, atheism and the will to power should continue to dominate the mind and spirit of the university and therefore the mind and spirit of the world, with no reference whatever in the curricula of the sciences and the humanities and the lives of the scientists and the humanists to anything genuinely transcendental; then the Christians of the world would have to bear primary responsibility before the judgment seat of Christ for the disastrous consequences that would ensue so far as history and human destiny are concerned. Five billion dollars as an endowment for a properly constituted organism that would keep on studying, in an authentic and responsible fashion, the state of the mind and the spirit in the universities on a continuing basis are nothing compared to the absolute gravity of the total divorce that obtains at present between Christ and the temples of science, thought and learning throughout the world. To continue to be complacent about this situation and indifferent to its inevitable consequences, or to be concerned but in a superficial, flippant, juvenile and wholly ineffective manner, verges on being a sin against the Holy Ghost. And God help the Christians then, and with them the whole lost world.
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snazawa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Need help re-designing the http://www.MedProStaffing.com website. Designs must include both a Home page as well as inside page template.
The company can be referred to simply as "MedPro" rather than MedPro Staffing
Connecting people who care!
Desired Color Scheme:
See design brief.
Desired Style:
See design brief.
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Fireworks png
Company Description:Â MedPro is a leader in the Travel Healthcare staffing industry. They help place nurses and other allied healthcare professionals in travel healthcare jobs in a variety of locations throughout the United States.
Domain: merging http://www.medprostaffing.com and http://www.abettacare.com into one site. Update: please do not use Abetta Care anywhere in the design. Abetta Care is going away.
Templates: home page and inside page. Inside page should use same visual theme as home page, however the header/masthead area should be shorter to provide more room for content. Update: inside template should be either a 2 or 3 column template. Once I have a basic template I can create the others that I might still need or work with the designer once the contest is closed.
Style:Â Looking for something contemporary and innovative. Needs to be a really clean design with good white-space/negative-space. Update: "white-space" does not necessarily mean lots of white. White-space or negative space means that the elements on the page are spaced nicely and not too busy or crowded. The design could possibly incorporate some subtle web 2.0 elements, but do not want the gradients overdone. Prefer to have something that is unique and includes elements that stand out along the lines of the website below but perhaps with slightly more subtle textures and shadows:
Other sites within the same industry but in my mind are not great or are not contemporary, include:
This site is pretty good, but has a little too much white dominating with the white page background:
I will need to present three distinct designs to the client for the first round so I'm willing to consider several different styles. You can see that most of the designs above incorporate mostly healthcare images, but since MedPro is also about the being able to travel and work in many different parts of the U.S., the design should probably include images of people having fun in addition to working in a hospital, clinic, etc. If you look at the http://www.crosscountrytravcorps.com/cctc website, you can see that they only use fun non-medical images. I think a balance of the two might work best. It would be nice to have several options/versions to show the client.
Design Elements: Apply Now and Hot Jobs or Jobs should be prominent on the home page and perhaps even the inside pages. There should also be a prominent banner or link to "Traveler Testimonials" or "What our Travelers say" with a catchy graphic.
Tagline: "Connecting people who care!"
Logo: an eps vector file is bundled with the images zipped folder.
Images: feel free to use any of these images in your design. These were obtained from istockphoto and were chosen by the client. If you'd like to use more images, please use a website other than istockphoto. A $100 image allowance will be provided for any stock photo images/icons/artwork that are purchased and used as part of the winning design or that you have available and we would like to use in other parts of the website.
Color scheme: The logo needs to remain purple, so any color scheme that would complement or work with the logo would be good.The client likes the purple color, but if purple is used, it should not overwhelm the design like the current website. Update: the "Pro" part of the logo should stay gray, but I believe the client would be open to other color combinations for the "Pro" part of the logo if they thought it looked nice with the purple "Med".
Navigation: will consider top navigation/menu bar or a combination of top navigation with left or right side section navigation. Update: Main navigation should include: Why MedPro, For Nurses, For Allied Travelers, For Employers, Job Openings, Contact Us
Dimensions: 920px - 940px wide
File Formats: Fireworks native .png is preferred, but Photoshop .psd is perfectly acceptable as well. Layers in files must be well organized and labeled clearly.
XHTML/CSS Templates: we are looking for a designer that really understands CSS layout and design. If the winning designer can also provide clean standards compliant XHTML and CSS coded templates, then once the design is closed we would like to consider paying for that job as well. That would be negotiated separately, however.
- your designs must be original and anthing that looks like it was modified from a commercial template will not be accepted.
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Wind-Powered Perpetual Motion
Why the Directly-Downwind Faster Than the Wind Car Works"
Mark Chu-Carroll on Good Math, Bad Math
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates would have to be a fan of the scientific method. We frequently acclaim the shift towards naturalism in Western thought, as a turning point in our intellectual maturity, but that shift brought with it the less-recognized roots of an even higher goal – the eradication of hubris in the search for understanding. Naturalism, the philosophical position that empirical observation holds the final word in debates on truth, essentially kills the argument of "because I say so." Truth comes from no one in particular, so there's at least the faint possibility that people trying to understand the way things work will some day no longer jockey and battle to be "the one who got it right." That's a far-out ideal, and maybe if nobody thought they were going to be credited with brilliance, nobody would have the incentive to try to do something brilliant in the first place. But at the very least, when two naturalists have an argument, they can frequently appeal to a common, impartial, higher source – nature – as arbiter.
That's what's happened here on Mark Chu-Carroll's widely-read blog. He initially, and incorrectly, believed a certain device that drives overland into the wind and faster than the wind was a fraud. After long, long debates, he changed his mind, and carefully explained the mistakes in his own reasoning and what he had learned in the process of investigating his own error. Which is pretty much awesome, because such things hardly ever occur in arguments on less savory topics, like abortion. (Oh my God, was that an eating-dead-babies joke?)
I also appreciated the sort of emergent didactic property of the hundred-some post comment thread on Chu-Carroll's original post. After watching the youtube video of the device (linked from the original post), I wasn't completely sure whether the treadmill test was fair. It seemed reasonable enough, but I certainly wouldn't have been prepared to defend it against someone eager to argue the opposite way.
As I read the thread, commenters raised most of the points I was considering. Other people answered those points, and then even more people chimed in with takes that I hadn't considered at all. The overall effect was for a large amount of white noise and repetition, but also for a strikingly-diverse set of mindsets converging on the same problem. By the time I was done reading what everyone had to say, I felt that I had appreciated more intricacies in the problem than I would ever have discovered thinking about it alone, and I probably understood it better than I would have even if a single skilled author had written a long exposition. The challenge of interpreting each new voice's arguments, incorporating them with the previous knowledge, and then parsing all of it for myself over and over, trying to find holes in everyone's logic and patch together a firm understanding piece by piece, was absorbing because it's so much more interactive than simply reading one single person's explanation, no matter how clear, detailed, or precise.
It makes me want to argue about physics more often, but only in the good way where your ego doesn't get too involved.
A Russian Teacher In America
Andre Toom, linked from God Plays Dice
A long essay that's a borderline sob story about the woes of the American educational system. As a private tutor, I see exactly the sort of problems Toom is discussing on a daily basis – students, even (or perhaps especially) the "good" students, are so maniacally focused on their grade that learning becomes completely lost amidst a sea of test-cramming, and question-memorizing. Students are so wrapped up in the concrete performance markers visible to the world, that they don't care at all for their true progress, visible chiefly to themselves.
That, at least, is the picture. I only partially buy it. It's true, to varying degrees, for many students. But it's not as if this entire nation has no one left interested in math. The sad part is that over two hundred or so students I've had, there have been a handful who are truly interested in math and physics, but they seldom have much guidance. Because these kids can gets A's in math class, no one in public school is very concerned with pushing their limits when there are too many problem kids to worry about first. So I'm more interested in people with plans on how to reach interested young students with extra-curricular math opportunities than I am with people deriding a broken system.
Not everyone is going to love math. In fact, I doubt there's ever been a society where a majority of people are interested. But the vast majority of our society has to take it in school. So yeah, it's inevitable that there are lots of people taking math who don't care about math. But I've done the same thing in a literature class before. Ultimately, math is cool enough that some people are going to discover it no matter what the educational system is like, so I'm not all that worried about the alarm bells being rung here.
Blow to Vitamins as Antidote to Ageing
James Randerson at The Guardian
We thought we understood, like, everything. Turns out not. But the next study that comes out will surely reveal the secrets to perfect health once and for all…
Swiss Approve Heroin Scheme but Vote Down Marijuana Law
Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. Administer heroin to addicts in a safe, controlled environment, thereby reducing health risks and driving down the general nastiness associated with black market activity. I can also understand why you wouldn't want to legalize marijuana in just one small portion of Europe, since everyone would then go there just to smoke. The same argument doesn't hold as much water for the US with its block-like geography, but I live in California, where marijuana is as good as legal anyway.
Tara Donovan
from Three Quarks Daily
The Not-So-Presidential Debate
The Not So Presidential Debate from aaron sedlak on Vimeo.
also from Three Quarks Daily
Why Punishment Is Worth It In The End
Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science
Read this article or else! Nah, honestly I would never be able to go through life as someone who tried to understand human interactions by designing toy experiments like this. But It's nice to get little sixty-second summaries of their months of hard labor.
Over-budget Mars rover mission delayed until 2011
Rachel Courtland at New Scientist
Bad news, since I work at the place where they're building this thing, and they owe me two months' back pay already.
15 of the World's Most Creative Papercraft Artists
You get to feeling a little bit sleazy when you realize all the exposure you've had to art in the last two years has come in the form of internet lists with titles like "The Top Ten Totally Badass Avant-Garde Experimental Playdoh Exhibitions of 2008!!" But on the other hand, some of this stuff actually is pretty badass, for being a paper sculpture of a cat.
A Happy/Unhappy New Pair of Studies
Stephen Black at Improbable Research
Among the headlines of news feeds I scanned through this week, there must have been at least ten stories referencing a recent paper purporting to show that happiness is "contagious", that is, if I were to reach down and magically make your friends happy, you would become happy as well. When I first heard about this, I was intrigued, because I was wondering how you would establish this is a "contagious" effect, and not just correlation. It turns out: you don't. The researchers, from what I can tell, simply found a correlation and announced that happiness is contagious. News stories are apparently contagious, too, because once word of this paper got out, most of the major science news outlets published something on the story.
But as the link describes, another study found that height was also "contagious". That is, if your friends are tall, it's likely you're tall, too. Just as with happiness.
Sine of an Inscribed Angle
Brent Yorgey on The Math Less Traveled
A cute visualization of the law of sines.


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In the cancer ward of a Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19-year-old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years
Our report involved 52 respected scientists and includes information never before published in English. It challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering.
The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000.
Take Action: Tell the UN to stop promoting nuclear power
The report also looks into the ongoing health impacts of Chernobyl and concludes that radiation from the disaster has had a devastating effect on survivors; damaging immune and endocrine systems, leading to accelerated ageing, cardiovascular and blood illnesses, psychological illnesses, chromosomal aberrations and an increase in foetal deformations.
Each one of these statistics has a face. Many people are paying a price for the negligence of a dirty and dangerous industry:
This is just a selection of pictures from a new photography exhibit opening in 30 cities worldwide. The exhibition features poignant portraits of individuals and families, and the stories of their suffering due to Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters.
These powerful images are a timely reminder that human lives are more than just numbers. For each statistic there is a person paying the ultimate price. Anyone who doubts the dangers of nuclear power should visit the exhibition and see for themselves one of the reasons why we oppose nuclear power. Twenty years on, every nuclear power plant bears the legacy of the nuclear industry's victims; and every nuclear power plant represents the threat of becoming the next Chernobyl.
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French designer Hubert de Givenchy rose to fame in the 1950s, but his elegant, feminine aesthetic continues to reverberate in fashion a full half-century later.
Raised in an aristocratic family that valued artistic pursuits, Givenchy journeyed to Paris in 1944 and by the early '50s had established a couture house of his own. While responsible for many sartorial innovations, such as the easy shape of the sack dress and the raw cotton Bettina blouse, he is best known for his strong professional relationship with Audrey Hepburn at the height of her Hollywood glamour days. In addition to outfitting her in films like Breakfast at Tiffany's and Charade, Givenchy also featured Hepburn in his fragrance ads, making him one of the first designers to pioneer the use of the celebrity spokesperson.
While Givenchy himself retired from designing in 1995, his namesake house remains at fashion's forefront in the hands of creative director Riccardo Tisci. Tisci began his tenure at the house in 2005 with a dark gothic bent, but his collections of late have embraced a more romantic feel.
Here, LIFE looks back at the young Givenchy during the nascent days of his storied label.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.