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2013 draft picks: 1st round (20), 2(50), 4(117), 5(153), 6(188)
Chicago has had quite the off-season. They have a new head coach in Marc Trestman. That in itself brings new energy and enthusiasm to the club. One a downer, one of the Bears' all-timers, Brian Urlacher, is now a free agent and he and Chicago would seem to be parting ways.
Then there's free agency, where the Bears made a nice run, securing some veterans while filling some needs, particularly for the offense. They had a hole at tight end and they signed Martellus Bennett. Perhaps their biggest need was on the offensive front. There the Bears inked tackle Jermon Bushord and guards Eben Britton and Matt Slauson. In Trestman's system it's a quick passing attack and they have to keep quarterback Jay Cutler upright and healthy. It was his health or lack of, that cost Chicago a shot at the playoffs in 2012.
Now the Bears will look to address more needs, especially on defense, with the draft this coming week.
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1) Middle Linebacker
When you think of the Chicago Bears you think of great defense. For this team to be truly great they need to address some issues at linebacker. Even if Urlacher was back in a Bear uniform he's not the same and on the backend of a glorious career. New blood is needed and Chicago will have an early opportunity on Thursday. At. No. 20 overall the Bears will likely have their pick of the litter at middle linebacker between Alec Ogletree, Manti Te'o and Kevin Minter. Kiko Alonso should be available in round two while guys like A.J. Klein and Jon Bostic should be around in the middle of the draft.
Chicago could also use a strongside linebacker. This is a position they could address, perhaps as early as the second round. There are a whole bunch of quality players.
2) Offensive Line
Regardless of what they did hear the Bears still must address their offensive front. In the first round it will depend on who's still on the board. If tackles D.J. Fluker or Menelik Watson or guard Jonathan Cooper or Chance Warmack are still available, they could grab one of these guys. If not I would expect the Bears to draft at least one tackles and guard in this draft. Even with only five picks, they need to fortify the front.
3) Tight End
There's a chance that Chicago could grab the top tight end in the draft with pick No. 20. If so do they go Zach Ertz or Tyler Eifert? Then again, it's a pretty good year at this position if they elected to wait.
Key Acquisitions
Martellus Bennett (TE)
Steve Maneri (TE)
Eben Britton (OG)
Matt Slauson (OG)
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Turk McBride (DE)
Andre Fluellen (DT)
James Anderson (OLB)
D.J. Williams (LB)
Tom Zbikowski (S)
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Kellen Davis (TE)
Matt Spaeth (TE)
Chilo Rachal (OG)
Lance Louis (OG)
Nick Roach (OLB)
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MARTINSBURG - A Martinsburg man who posted an online video he filmed of a 14-year-old violently kicking a cat off a porch pleaded guilty Monday to one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty.
Naim Robert Carter, 18, of Good Drive, was originally charged with felony animal cruelty in connection with the incident, but pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offense as part of a plea agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Carter was sentenced by Berkeley County Magistrate Sandra Miller to six months in jail, which was suspended for two years of probation. Carter, a first-time offender, was also ordered to perform 300 hours of community service and pay court costs and probation fees.
According to court records, on July 28, Deputy C.S. Merson of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department spoke with a woman and her daughter regarding a report of animal cruelty. They said they watched a video posted on the Internet depicting a young man kicking a cat off a porch.
They said it appeared the boy in the video kicked the cat so hard that it was enough to either badly injure or even kill the animal. Merson obtained written statements from the two and was shown the online video, which was labeled "kick the cat," records show.
The video, which was later deleted, showed the boy walking around and talking about how he was going to kick a cat outside. The person filming the incident, later identified as Carter, was cheering him on and encouraging him to kick the cat, records show.
The video showed the cat running up the steps of the porch toward the boy. The boy told Carter he wanted the cat to be on the other side of the porch before he kicked it. The boy then moved the cat from one side of the porch to the other near a very high dropoff, records show.
The cat went to the ledge of the porch with its back facing the boy, who then kicked the animal in an "extremely hard manner" off the porch onto the ground below. The boy and Carter could be heard laughing after the cat was kicked, records show.
Merson also viewed a second, expletive-laden video of Carter apparently responding to complaints about the cat-kicking video.
"I didn't kick the cat, but, (expletive), I'll stomp an (expletive) cat out and there ain't (expletive) y'all (sic) can do about it," Carter said in one part of the video.
After reviewing the video, Merson and an animal control officer went to Carter's residence to try to locate him, but he wasn't at home. Police were later able to make contact with him. He agreed to go to the Sheriff's Department to turn over the video shot on his phone, but he never showed up, records show.
Merson did interview the boy, who was accompanied by his mother and father, on July 31. The boy confirmed it was him in the video and told police that Carter had filmed it. Merson then learned the incident occurred at a residence on Burdette Drive. The boy was asked to give a written statement about the incident, but declined.
On Aug. 6, Merson traveled to the residence where the incident was filmed to make contact with the homeowner and any other witnesses. Merson didn't make contact with anyone at the residence, but did locate the porch that the cat was kicked off. Merson took several photographs of the crime scene. He also could not find the cat, records show.
The state was represented at Monday's hearing by Berkeley County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney R. Greg Garretson, who said he didn't know if the juvenile was charged in connection with the incident. Juvenile criminal proceedings are not open to the public and juvenile criminal records are not considered public record.
Berkeley County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Lyndsey Leatherman, who handles juvenile cases for the prosecutor's office, also said she didn't she have details regarding what happened to the juvenile involved in the case. She said that even if she did have that information, she wouldn't be able to release it to the press.
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JAMESTOWN, N.Y. -- An Erie man was among three people jailed on drug charges today after police served a search warrant at an apartment at 633 E. Second St., Jamestown police said.
Police arrested Randall L. Johnson, 26, of Erie; Jose L. Maisonet, 18, of 633 E. Second St., Jamestown; and Tariq Johnson, 19, of Buffalo.
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Making our workforce the most competitive will be the key to ensuring the vitality of the public works industry for the future. This can only be done by preparing our young people for success in this industry from the onset of formal education. The K-12 APWA educational initiative supports the work to advance and promote outreach and public awareness of public works for school aged children in communities in North America.
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Discovering the World of Public Works – K-5th grade curriculum
In 2005, APWA unveiled its K-5 public works curriculum, Discovering the World of Public Works. This educational outreach program introduces children (K-5) to the multifaceted and exciting world of public works. Since its release, more than 33,000 copies of the workbook have been sold to date.
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Exploring the World of Public Works – 6th – 8th grade curriculum
Released in August 2008, Exploring the World of Public Works is an innovative and comprehensive curriculum designed for students in 6th to 8th grade—an age at which many young people begin considering career paths.
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The straightforward, contemporary curriculum integrates school subjects like social studies, language arts, science, math, and art into the study of important public works topics—construction, parks and recreation, traffic and transportation, water and wastewater, solid waste, and careers in public works.
Shaping the World of Public Works - 9 – 12 outreach program
Seeks to educate high school students about public works functions and careers. These materials build on the foundation established by APWA with its elementary and middle school educational programs by offering resources for helping high school students understand the scope of public works in their communities and the opportunities they have to be part of this vital workforce.
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There are more jobs in public works than most people realize. Using sample classified ads and interviews with real public works professionals, this book provides an overview of the world of public works for students and job seekers. From civil engineers to fleet mechanics, you can learn what you need to secure a job in public works.
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The Situation of First Impressions
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 25, 2012
From The Heroic Imagination Project:
A practical demonstration of the speed at which impressions are made and how difficult they can be to change. Three women go into a job interview, with the interviewer secretly providing live information about her impressions of the applicants.
Sample of related Situationist Posts:
- The Situational Effect of Names
- The Gendered Situation of Recommendation Letters
- Implicit Juror Bias
- The Situational Power of Appearance and Posture
- The Situation of Imitation and Mimickry
- Voting for a Face
- The Situation of Body Image
- Blinking on the Bench
- The Magnetism of Beautiful People
- The Situation of Hair Color
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WISN 12 News has obtained the final report from the Burlington Fire Department on the massive fire in Burlington in January.
The State Fire Marshal's final report is expected to be out in two weeks, but WISN 12 News has found out the fire at Echo Lake Foods started in a mechanical food processing room.
The cause will remain undetermined, but criminal intent has been ruled out.
The Burlington Fire Department said 3.5 million gallons of water were used from the city of Burlington and 1.5 million gallons from Echo Lake.
The fire caused $30 million in damage to the building. The demolition is almost complete.
Nobody was missing or injured in the fire.


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Mitsubishi strikes me as a bit of an odd car company, with some exceptionally strong entries for both performance (the go-go Lancer) and style (the seductively curvy Eclipse). Balancing those out are some, well, not-so-strong models.
Case in point, the Outlander "crossover" SUV — crossover meaning, basically, a car that's been jacked up to ride more like an SUV but without some of the downsides like excessive weight. The Outlander definitely rides more like a car than an SUV, but that's not necessarily a good thing. It feels soft and disconnected in its handling.
The SE version comes standard with four-cylinder engine, which provides decent gas mileage — 20 mpg city, 25 highway — but with only 168 horsepower at your disposal, getting out onto a busy road requires a touch of caution and some good timing. And I imagine flooring the accelerator over and over to hit merging speed won't help those mpg numbers.
From the outside, the Outlander is competent without being compelling. While the Outlander doesn't stand out with beauty, neither does it stand out with ugliness. It's simply average.
There's definitely more to like with the interior. Numerous power outlets make it easy to juggle your portable electronic life, and the navigation system (should you choose to spring for it) works pretty well. The cargo area is fairly large. The front seats provide a lot more support than I expected, particularly lateral support.Unfortunately, the back seat was so hard and bench-like that if I closed my eyes I half expected the coach to call me out to play right field. An extended time in the back would not be a pleasant experience.
If you're on a budget but need a larger vehicle, the Outlander might have some appeal for you. But if you have some financial wiggle room, you'll definitely want to do some comparison shopping.
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Manip wrote:I am still trying to
get my head around concurrency and this only confused me
more... So yeah...
@ MarkPerris --
Applications can have more threads than are available in hardware. There are plenty of applications that benefit from multithreading even on single-core/non-HT systems. Servers spin up new threads for each client request. Many Windows applications use seperate threads so that long-running operations don't affect GUI responsiveness.
On a single-core/single hardware thread CPU, the CPU runs one thread at a time, and switches between the available threads after a certain amount of time. Even though only one thread is running at any given time, performance can be gained because execution time is yielded to other operations rather than having to wait for each operation to fully complete (could take a long time) before starting the next operation.
Using this same multithreaded application on a system with multiple hardware threads (some combination of multi-core/multi-cpu, etc.), can provide further performance benefits to the same, unchanged, multithreaded application. Instead of having to run one thread at a time, switching between threads at a given interval, a multi-core/CPU system can run each of those threads in parallel -- one running on each core/CPU simultaneously.
There can be some architectural details that may require extra tuning to maximize performance on a given architecture, but the above holds true for the general case.
Minh wrote:"Bob" is making a comeback? All right! I remember reading that Melinda Gates was somehow involved with "Bob". Is that right? The phone numbers on a black board is also very funny. I guess that's where Windows 3 gets its task scheduler from.
Beer28 wrote:I would really like to see the NT kernel open sourced if at all possible.
Beer28 wrote:IOn linux on x86 user2kernel calls for IO to devices through the kernel are done by calling a CPU interupt instruction 0x80 with type of kernel sys function in eax, then the params for the kernel function in ebx-edx like you would do a fastcall from VC++, except with an INT instruction, not a call/ret to the start addy of the function,
Does it work the same on NT?
Beer28 wrote:Is it always passed through the registers or can you pass stuff with pointers to memory from user2kernel and back without drawing an access violation(like maybe stack address space)?
Once it passes the context switch to kernel mode the page protection is gone at ring 0 right? It's up to the kernel exported function to make sure you're not giving it a bad user space address(passed in the ebx-edx register) in NT also?
Dave P is a great raconteur and these vids are pure pleasure.
A few demurs:
POSIX meant more than just software portability (Write Once Run Anywhere) . It was the feds way of specifying UNIX w/o using the protected brandname belonging to AT&T at the time. POSIX promised that buyers of hardware systems would have a choice of vendors
as long as its specifications were followed as a guideline. US DOD made POSIX certification mandatory for hardware acquisitions.
People seem to think UNIX started in 1973. In fact UNIX started in 1969 (space travel game, PDP-7 and all that). In 1973 Ken Thompson introduced the UNIX timesharing system at an ACM Symposium on Operating Systems. It was Version 3 at the time.
I was privileged to see Dave Cutler present NT architecture in 1992 at an operating systems workshop by Usenix in Seattle. That crowd was NOT nice to him. I reckon he had a thick skin.
It was after that workshop that I began to wonder if UNIX would really be the once and future system.
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great series of discussions with dave probert. he is an amazing guy with a unique (well, almost ) perspective, having a lot of experience on kernel level on unix, as well as on windows nt. like he says, these are the most important systems out there - vms/wnt and unix/linux, and it's great to be able to talk to or listen to somebody who can really give a deep insight into that, with none of the FUD or subjectivity that is rampant out there. i am in no position to judge what he says, but happen to agree with most of the things he says. unix is 40 years old, vms around 30, linux about 20 and winnt around 15 (broadly speaking, as platforms), and yet vms and wnt have done a better job in the it industry, because those systems did not start out as hobbies, but as well designed systems that had clear targets and strategies behind them etc. the history and philosophy of operating systems is a fascinating subject, and it's interesting to see how and why a lot of the things we are dealing with today as consumers or it professionals have their roots into the way developers approached these things at the outset etc.
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on February 26, 2013 - 4:59 PM
LOCKPORT – A former North Tonawanda man who grew marijuana in his apartment there was pronounced a success in the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment Tuesday.
Robert C. Hetrick, 47, of Glenfield Drive, West Seneca, had pleaded guilty in January 2012 to second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a felony. Tuesday, Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III allowed him to reduce that plea to fourth-degree possession, a misdemeanor. Hetrick is to be resentenced May 7, with probation the likely outcome.
Hetrick was arrested Aug. 23, 2011, when police raided his apartment on Ganson Street in North Tonawanda and found an indoor growing operation and more than a pound of pot.


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Water experts weigh in on financing, project priority
A $2 billion water project revolving fund the Texas Legislature is considering is not "exotic" and is patterned after a state program already used with federal grants, a water expert with a national nonprofit said Thursday.
Besides lending money to water systems, the proposed State Water Implementation Fund could grow through a portion of the account that would be invested in securities, said Sharlene Leurig, senior manager of the water program for Ceres, a network of long-term investors and public interest groups.
But key to planning and financing a water project is determining whether it's needed in the first place, and water planning can be highly uncertain, Leurig said.
"Once you have financed a project, you will pay for that project," whether it's completed or not, she said in a briefing at the Capitol. It's a myth that population growth means more water is needed, she said, and called conservation one of the state's most important water planning tools.
During a question-and-answer session, Leurig said public borrowing models work for now, but in the future "we need to be looking into other opportunities for private capital to flow into this space."
The Sierra Club Lone Star State Chapter and the National Wildlife Federation offered their ideas for giving priority to water infrastructure projects in state funding. They recommended a higher priority for projects that meet near-term needs and cannot be achieved through more water efficiency; projects that are highly cost effective; and projects with a lower adverse impact on the environment.


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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
No. 1 Serena Williams was dealt her worst upset in nearly two years in a 6-4, 6-4 straight-set loss to No. 78 Jana Cepelova in the second round of the Family Circle Cup Tuesday on Daniel Island.
It was the first loss in 28 clay-court matches for the two-time defending Family Circle Cup champion. It's just the third time in her career Williams has lost to a player ranked lower than No. 75 on clay.
"Nothing was really going right," Williams said. "It wasn't my day. It wasn't meant to be, I don't think."
Williams fell behind 5-0 less than 20 minutes into the opening set before rallying back to win four straight games. Cepelova halted the charge there and finished the set off serve in the final game.
Down 2-1 in the second set, Williams called a medical timeout to have her left thigh taped. Out of the timeout, Williams regained serve and took three straight games but couldn't sustain long enough to force a third set.
"I don't think I was able to lift my game as much as I'd like," Williams said. "I tried, but I really couldn't do any more. I tried today, but physically I couldn't give any more."
Williams finished with a 58 first serve percentage against Cepelova's 81 percent. Cepelova also led in second service won and break points saved.
Williams has seen an increased workload the past two seasons with a full schedule and admitted to being exhausted both physically and mentally after Tuesday's loss.
"I'm really just dead," she said. "I need some weeks off, which I don't think about tennis and kind of regroup. I've had a long couple years and I'm really a little fatigued."
Rogers falls
Hometown favorite Shelby Rogers turned in a spirited performance but fell 7-5, 7-5 to Daniela Hantuchova Tuesday.
The 21-year-old Daniel Island native led No. 32 Hantuchova, 5-4, in the opening set before stumbling with errors through the end of the set.
"(Hantuchova's) experience showed," Rogers said. "She was aggressive. She knew exactly what to do on the big points."
Rogers fell behind 2-0 in the second set but reeled off five straight games and looked to be in prime position to force a tiebreaker set before Hantuchova regained control to take the win.
"I'm glad I put on a good show for the crowd and I'm glad they were here to see how I've improved," Rogers said. "I try to treat it just like any other match but in reality it's not. Everybody has kind of a hometown tournament and I'm so thankful that this is mine."
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In the 10 years since the last time Matchbox Twenty released a new studio album, lead singer Rob Thomas has done incredibly well for himself, landing high-profile guest spots on hit songs, pursuing a successful solo career, and generally making sure that his public didn't forget him while the band that first made him famous was on extended hiatus.
However, as Thomas recently insisted to Billboard.com, "There's something that we can do when the four of us are together that we can't do alone." That "something," as it turns out, is "North," the band's first album in a multiplatinum career to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1, in the process, coughing up the hit singles "She's So Mean" and "Overjoyed."
Expect a show that favors the hits from the band's catalog, with a healthy smattering of "North" material thrown in, when Matchbox Twenty arrives for shows at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Avalon Theatre, Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ont.
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Current PAT and QbD initiatives are driving the need for a more comprehensive understanding of cell culture processes. The objective of these initiatives is to ensure product quality and performance through the design of effective and efficient manufacturing processes. This can be achieved with a detailed understanding of how various process factors and their interactions affect the product.
The challenge for bioprocess development lies in the limited experimental capacity provided by traditional scale-down models. Simpler models such as shake flasks and well plates do not provide the measurements and controls required to accurately predict the full-scale manufacturing process. As a result, these platforms offer limited applicability for exploring the knowledge space and identifying critical process parameters.
Bench-scale bioreactors are the tried and true scale-down model but have economic and throughput limitations. Characterization of the design space is often left to the final stages of process development, after clone and media selection have already occurred. Therefore, the best clone at manufacturing scale may have been prematurely eliminated, and critical interactions between factors may still be unknown due to limited experimental designs.
In order to fully recognize the benefits of PAT and QbD, a higher throughput scale-down model is required. Such a scale-down model should have measurement and control capabilities similar to bench-scale and larger bioreactors in order to accurately predict performance in the manufacturing process. Seahorse Bioscience has developed the SimCell platform, which is capable of performing hundreds of bioreactor-relevant fed-batch experiments with measurement and control of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), and glucose.
The core technology of the SimCell platform is the Bioreactor Card. Each card contains six microbioreactors, each with a working volume of approximately 700 microliters. Each microbioreactor contains immobilized sensors for the noninvasive measurement of pH and DO. Total cell density is measured via forward light scattering.
Bioreactor Cards are constructed of gas-permeable membranes for the exchange of culture gasses (e.g., O2 and CO2) with the incubator environment. Cards are manipulated by a robotic system for automatic inoculation, incubation, mixing, sampling, feeding, and process monitoring and control. Comprehensive software tools enable multifactor experimental designs to be implemented across hundreds of microbioreactors with real-time data tracking. On-line and off-line data sets can be combined for each microbioreactor and analyzed to identify significant trends.
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Poor spirit detracts from youth sports
Young kids playing sports benefit from having their brains beat in on the scoreboard.
Someone in Erie actually believes that, and I suspect that someone isn't alone.
No, I'm not one of them. I'm still attempting to wrap my mind around that thought.
How does getting beaten badly by another team, especially time after time, make a young child a better person?
Although youth sports have become known in past years for adults acting badly, it's the underlying mindset towards these sports that seems most alarming. Youth sports would be better if adults weren't involved, and the misguided thoughts some adults share confirm that belief.
Youth sports are games that kids play. They're supposed to be fun. They're supposed to help kids make friends while teaching them about sportsmanship and teamwork. They're supposed to provide happy memories that these kids will take with them later into life.
Then adults step in and turn these games into something they're not -- serious business.
Parents who dream of their kids playing professional sports one day suck the enjoyment out of the sports their kids love with an overly demanding approach and unrealistic expectations.
Coaches focused on wins and losses crush their players' spirit instead of instilling confidence through skill development and encouraging a passion for the game.
Then before long, those same kids give up the sports they once loved because they're not fun to play anymore.
Kids just want to play. Organized sports are no different than the sports they play with their friends at home. They may keep score to determine a winner and loser. They may have disagreements with each other from time to time. But they have fun no matter what.
This might seem corny at a time when adults are investing tons of money and time for their kids to play on travel teams in different sports.
Perhaps those adults want the biggest bang for their hard-earned buck. But they don't seem to take the kids' feelings into consideration.
Why are their kids playing these sports? What do they want out of sports? Do they even care to play these sports, or are they simply playing because adults involved want them to play? Ask your kids those questions. You might be surprised by what they tell you.
There comes a time when sports become more competitive. In high school, wins and losses do mean a bit more. Players are expected to work harder and show more discipline. But even at that level, adults should remember that kids still are playing these games. They still want to have fun. They still want to enjoy the overall experience. If they're having fun, then kids of every age truly are winners.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Biometrics
In the last few years, the FBI has been dramatically expanding its biometrics programs, whether by adding face recognition to its vast Next Generation Identification (NGI) database or pushing out mobile biometrics capabilities for "time-critical situations" through its Repository for Individuals of Special Concern (RISC). But two new developments—both introduced with next to no media attention—will impact far more ordinary Americans than anything the FBI has done on biometrics in the past. Read about the second development below and the first here.
FBI Plans to Populate its Massive Face Recognition Database with Photographs Taken in the Field
In the last few years, FBI has been dramatically expanding its biometrics programs, whether by adding face recognition to its vast Next Generation Identification (NGI) database or pushing out mobile biometrics capabilities for "time-critical situations" through its Repository for Individuals of Special Concern (RISC). But two new developments—both introduced with next to no media attention—will impact far more every-day Americans than anything the FBI has done on biometrics in the past. Read about the first development below and the second here.
FBI Combines Civil and Criminal Fingerprints into One Fully Searchable Database
This Labor Day weekend, EFF joins tens of thousands of sci-fi and fantasy fans at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. Our goal: educate and energize the fandoms about privacy, surveillance, and free speech.
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San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology
The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One account from a retired firefighter is especially alarming:
Stopped by the police after a dispute with a man he said was a prowler, he was ordered to sit on a curb, he said, while officers took his photo with an iPad and ran it through the same facial recognition software. The officers also used a cotton swab to collect a DNA sample from the inside of his cheek…
"I was thinking, 'Why are you taking pictures of me, doing this to me?' " said Mr. Hanson, 58, who has no criminal record. "I felt like my identity was being stolen. I'm a straight-up, no lie, cheat or steal guy, and I get treated like a criminal."
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To smoke weed in a closed area.
Roll up your windows so we can bake.
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Northern Irish slang for mouth or the whole face.
You've a bake on ye like a question mark!
Bake buckled clean off ye, crazy-face!
Bake buckled clean off ye, crazy-face!
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Form of the last name of Baker. Nickname for someone who smokes a lot of marijuana and/or is generally baked in their daily life.
Did you talk to Bakes today? He doesn't have any idea what is going on.
by Harsh_Kumar February 24, 2008
common slang in ireland for the word 'mouth'. mostly used as part of an insulting sentence. comes from the word 'beek', like a pigeon's beek. could also be prounounced 'baik'
'here, mate, i'll do your knees in'
'shut you your bake'
'shut you your bake'
by Mark the Shark May 21, 2004
A nickname for Kevin Bacon.
Was that Bakes that was in Tremors?
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This word was originated in California aka the Yay. It means ya bootie!!!
Like the guys like it when you pop bakes !!!
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With a steady-as-she-goes performance through two rounds, Brad Besler�s back on top at the Navajo Trail Open.
But there�s quite a pool of sharks lined up behind him, looking for a chance to strike in the final 18 holes.
Besler followed Friday�s 68 with a 67 on Saturday to get to 7 under and lead the field heading into today�s final round at Hillcrest Golf Club.
�Had a bunch (of putts) just burn the hole (Saturday). ... I just played smart and hit good quality iron shots,� Besler said.
The Blessing, Texas, native had the lead late in the final round a year ago before Micah Rudosky rallied to claim the championship. In fact, Besler held a two-shot lead at the 16th tee before the Cortez pro battled back.
�I thought about that,� Besler said with a laugh after Saturday�s round. �I think I�ll just do the same thing I did last time. The guy who won just hit good shots, and my putter let me down toward the end, and that�s one thing I�ve worked on.�
This year, Besler said he doesn�t plan to change up his final-round approach, instead looking for better execution and to make a few more putts. He said he just narrowly missed a handful in Saturday�s round before executing a nifty putt on the final hole, No. 9, to save par after driving wide of the green on the par three.
Holding off the rest of the field likely won�t be easy despite a two-shot advantage, given the quintet at 5 under. Rudosky, a three-time champion, again is in contention after carding a 2-under 69 on Saturday, while Round 1 leader Jim Knous opened with a birdie on No. 10, had a nice par save after his drive went awry on No. 11 and was 1 under Saturday after shooting a 4-under 67 on Day 1.
University of Colorado product Kane Webber stayed steady, finishing with a par on the ninth and following Friday�s 69 with a 68 to sit at 5 under, while fellow former CU golfer Derek Tolan shot a 68 of his own to move to 5 under.
University of Houston alumnus Ricky Romano followed suit, also carding a 68 to get to within two of Besler.
The round of the day, however, belonged to Jeffrey Franks. The former University of Wyoming golfer birdied his first three holes and carded a 66 to move within three shots of the lead. He joined Richard Gaona at 4 under.
It marked a six-shot turnaround from Friday for Franks, who recently finished 10th in the U.S. Open Local Qualifier in Scottsdale, Ariz.
�I guess I just got off to a hot start (Saturday). ... Wish I would�ve done a little better on the front (nine), but 66 I can�t complain about out here,� Franks said.
For Franks, it was an encouraging sign as he moves forward with his career. After playing sparingly for the last nine months and working for golf equipment company TaylorMade, Franks said he�s accrued enough sponsors to return to playing golf full-time and hopes to earn his tour card at the PGA Tour�s Q School.
Perhaps one of the reasons for Franks� turnaround was the conditions in the morning at Hillcrest. The pros, who started in the afternoon Friday, began play at 7:54 a.m. Saturday, and Franks said he found the conditions much more amenable. The pros will tee off this afternoon for the final 18.
�A little more receptive greens, just a little softer, that�s about it. Speed�s always up,� he said.
Besler tried his hand at Q School recently, falling short of earning his card. But since then, he said, he�s played well, a trend he hopes to continue today.
�I�ve been playing pretty solid this year, and I guess my motto is to just take it one hole at a time, one shot at a time,� he said.
Ryan Hogue shot a 69 to get to 2 under, while former champions Luke Tanner (Fort Lewis College alumnus) and brothers Bobby Kalinowski and Tom Kalinowski (Durango High School alumni) are at 1 under, along with Ron Faria, Klinton Krieger and Steve Schneiter.
Former DHS and FLC golfer Devin Schreiner, who entered the day one shot out of the lead, shot a 77. Schreiner�s former FLC teammate, Gavin Lyons, is the low amateur at even par.


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Unbeaten, unscored upon, Lunas still get no respect
October 1, 2012 - Robert Collias
It is beginning to baffle me, but as the Lahainaluna High School football team continues to roll through what is the unquestioned best Neighbor Island league in the state, the Lunas continue to draw very little respect.
I cannot recall any defense in the 22 years that I have been covering the MIL that has posted five straight shutouts as the Lunas have in rolling up their 6-0 overall, 5-0 MIL slate so far. Lahainaluna is, btw, one of only two unbeaten teams in the state (No. 1-ranked Kahuku is the other after a 31-6 romp over previous No. 2 Farrington on Saturday).
Now, please don't think I am putting the Lunas in the class of Kahuku — two very different animals, which is why we have Division I and Division II — but there is no question Lunas should be ranked in the state's top-10 polls (of which there are two, scoringlive.com and The Honolulu Star-Advertiser).
I vote in both polls and this is how I sent in my ballot(s) earlier this afternoon: 1. Kahuku, 2. Punahou, 3. Farrington, 4. Mililani, 5. Saint Louis, 6. Kamehameha Kapalama, 7. Iolani, 8. Lahainaluna, 9. Leilehua, 10. Waianae.
The scoringlive power rankings for week 8 came out this evening and the Lunas are 12th, behind No. 10 Iolani and Radford among Division II teams. Now, I have no argument with five-time defending state D-II champion Iolani being the top-ranked team in the division, but I also have no doubt that the Lunas would beat Radford on a neutral, home or away venue. With five points total from the 16 pollsters, the Lunas just aren't drawing much of their due credit.
Baldwin, the seven-time defending MIL overall champion and a seven-time state D-I semifinalist, has always climbed in the state rankings — reaching No. 2 a couple of times — as it rolled through the MIL. The Bears have also garnered a No. 2 seed in the big school state tournament on two different occasions.
The Star-Advertiser poll (I won't link it here because it is a pay-for-view site) has had Konawaena — a 43-40 loser to Iolani in the preseason — ranked in the top 10 for most of the season, including last week (this week's results will come out Tuesday).
That, in my mind, is ridiculous when one considers these facts: A young Luna team that went just 5-3 in the MIL last season beat an 11-1 Konawaena team in a state playoff game 23-6 just 10 months ago; Kona plays in the BIIF, which any way you want to slice it, does not measure up to the MIL, ever; Kona lost by far its best player to graduation and the UH roster in linebacker Mike Andrade.
To expand, the BIIF has never won a state playoff game, D-I or D-II, in the 13-year history of the event and before that, the Big Island league never won a title in the Neighbor Island Football Championship series, which ran for 11 seasons prior to the inaugural state tournament. Kona has run up impressive numbers in the BIIF this season, including an 86-0 win over Ka'u and a 76-0 victory over Kohala (don't know quite how that is possible with the state's mercy rule running clock), but it did the same thing last season when the Lunas smoked 'em.
Kona beat Maui High 38-17 in the preseason on the Big Island, the Lunas handled Maui High 41-0 last week at War Memorial Stadium. Kona does have four transfers from Kealakehe on this season's team, but the Lunas played without their top two quarterbacks, including starter Kiko Kohler-Fonohema, and still beat up the Wildcats, snagging seven interceptions. Kohler-Fonohema missed that playoff game with a broken jaw, but is back now and getting better every week.
Kona, which was recently docked four wins due to the use of an ineligible player (only one in league, however), is now in a dogfight for the BIIF D-II title, tied with Kamehameha Hawaii and Honokaa, all at 4-1. Kona struggled past KS-Hawaii 16-3 this weekend — Lahainaluna hasn't had a close game in a much better league all season in rolling up a 180-0 scoring bulge over the MIL. With an average 36-0 margin of victory, however, the Lunas do have respect for their opponents — no win has seen more than 42 Luna points on the scoreboard.
The only time Lahainaluna has given up points — in a 35-14 win over Keaau on the Big Island Aug. 17 — one of the touchdowns surrendered came on an interception return and the other was on a 21-yard drive after a turnover. Keaau is a BIIF D-I team and will not face Kona this season.
Lahainaluna leads the MIL in offensive and defensive yardage and those margins will only grow after the Lunas outgained King Kekaulike 393 yards to 60 in Friday night's 42-0 win. Coming into this weekend, the Luna D had given up less than half the yardage as No. 2 MIL defense Baldwin (318 yards to 696).
My point here all comes down to this crucial fact: The D-II state playoffs will have two teams receive first-round byes, one of which will most assuredly and deservedly go to Iolani.
If Kona draws the No. 2 seed over Lahainaluna, it will, IMHO, be a travesty. It will also, however, give the probable third-seeded Lunas (in that scenario) the chance to go to the Big Island and show the state what it has been ignoring.
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Anxiety is in the air as Jonas approaches his 12th birthday. Who wouldn�t be nervous when your life�s occupation will be announced at a special ceremony for all children hinging on adulthood?
That�s the opening scene in the adaptation of Lois Lowry�s seminal novel for young adults, The Giver. Lowry wrote the book in 1993 and won the Newbery Medal for her utopian vision with its clearly marked shadow. Eric Coble adapted the work for the Oregon Children�s Theatre and now Edward Lapine directs for the Denver Center of the Performing Arts.
�The Giver� closes out an impressive fall lineup that included a new adaptation of �The Three Musketeers,� another coming-of-age story of a happier and more robust nature.
The title role of �The Giver� is played by Denver company stalwart Philip Pleasants. Here he is even older and more frail that his King Lear of a few years ago. Stooped, white-haired and wise, The Giver keeps the memories of his people. By choice, they have abandoned all things disturbing to the emotions � above all, color, music and memory.
Set in the future, the norm is now comfort, peace and tranquility. Only The Giver knows pain and sorrow, beauty and ugliness. Only he can transmit the same to young Jonas (Jackson Garske) so that the community can live in the Sameness.
On a gray, stylized set, the Denver production evolves from a chatty but bland family dinner to a formal ceremony assigning adult roles. When Jonas visits his mentor, The Giver transmits memories one by one, first snow, later sunlight. He also introduces the boy to a colorful library of books with unexpected results. The trajectory of the play cleaves closely to the novel and is brilliantly realized with short, concentrated scenes and film projections to suggest the memories and the landscape of escape.
For almost a decade, Lowry�s book has been standard reading in middle schools across the country. It�s a brilliant evocation of the bridge from childhood to adulthood, or as Lowry calls it in another book: �The Beginning of Sadness.� The work also has been controversial, primarily because it includes themes of loss and death. In Jonas� world, death is referred to with a euphemism: release. The Denver production treats all these themes with sensitivity and clarity.
�The Giver� provided a stunning contrast to �The Three Musketeers,� the famous high-spirited fantasy of a young man who makes good in Paris. I was lucky to see the final performance of a new adaptation. It immediately plunges d�Artangnan (Ben Rosenbaum) into the action at a time when dueling has been outlawed in France. That doesn�t stop him or his colleagues (remember �One for all and all for one�?) On a colorful and flexible set, the lads careened through regimental barracks, Parisian streets, the royal court, a tavern and Milady�s boudoir. Rising to every insult, the Musketeers pull out their swords, not their muskets. Credit combat choreographer Gregory Hoffman for splendid fight scenes, and kudos to Charles Pasternak and John Hutton for unforgettable portrayals of King Louis and Cardinal Richelieu.
Would that Alexandre Dumas� coming-of-age story had a longer run. It made for a telling contrast with �The Giver.�
Judith Reynolds is a Durango writer, artist and critic. Reach her at email@example.com.


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An investment group is closing in on a deal to reignite the long-stalled development of The Cigar Factory on the Charleston peninsula.
Instead of residential condominiums as previously envisioned, the buyer of the historic vacant property is planning a mix of office and retail uses, said Richard Morse, a broker with Palmetto Commercial Properties, which is working with Roadstead Real Estate Advisors to lease the space.
"We have some office tenants in place, and we're looking for more," said Morse, who declined to identify the future occupants.
He said the group he's representing is from Atlanta and has a contract to purchase the building from another Atlantan, developer Boyd Simpson. More details about the buyer are expected to be released this week. The project is scheduled to come up at City Council's meeting Tuesday over some parking-related issues.
Simpson's TSO Cigar Factory bought the property for about $20 million in mid-2007 with plans to convert it into a mix of 66 urban-style condos atop retail shops and offices. The money changed hands about six months before the so-called last recession kicked in.
Like many Charleston structures, The Cigar Factory has a storied past. It was built in the 1880s as cotton mill. Some say it was where "We Shall Overcome" first was used in a protest during a strike by American Cigar Co. workers in 1944.
It's on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the largest privately owned commercial structures on the peninsula.
Simpson's plan were derailed in 2009 when his bank failed. By then, he had tapped about half of his $37 million credit line. Suddenly, his new banker was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which soon cut him off, forcing him to shut down the project the day before Thanksgiving in 2009.
Simpson hauled the FDIC into court for not funding the rest of the loan. The case was settled out of court last year. Remarkably, Simpson somehow managed to hold on to the building, which sits on 4 acres at East Bay and Columbus streets.
On the air
A subsidiary of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative in Walterboro hopes to liven up the airwaves for a darkened radio station after two years.
Premier Enterprises has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for the license for radio station WALI 93.7 FM from Hess Communications LLC. Premier also has signed an agreement to buy the Colleton County station.
"We realize that there was quite a void when WALI-FM went off the air almost 2 years ago," said Jason Dandridge, president of Premier Enterprises and CEO of the telephone cooperative. "We hope that this purchase agreement and license application will give us an opportunity to fill that void."
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Juggling wheel chairs and shopping carts, narrow aisles and displays is a tough task.
So a Mount Pleasant plastics firm teamed up with a shopping cart manufacturer to solve the problem.
The answer: Caroline's Cart.
Named after the daughter of a mom on a mission to increase accessibility to grocery and retail establishments, the shopping cart incorporates a seat that can hold up to 250 pounds along with a five-point harness so people with special needs can sit in the shopping cart while being pushed through a retail outlet.
Multiplastics of Mount Pleasant, a division of Curd Enterprises Inc., partnered with German-owned Technibilt of North Carolina to produce the shopping cart, which is in national distribution.
Opening date
The much-ballyhooed inland port in Greer is set to open a week from today, more than a month behind schedule thanks to the wetter-than-usual summer months, officials said.
The S.C. State Ports Authority's 100-acre intermodal site will allow shipping containers to be transferred between trucks and Norfolk Southern rail cars running to and from the Port of Charleston, roughly 220 miles away.
It's expected to take tens of thousands of trucks off of roads and highways each year. The $48.6 million project is a shared expense between SPA and Norfolk Southern.
The inland port is part of SPA's billion-dollar program to update and add new facilities over the next decade in an effort to grab market share.
Disney shop drops
Amid dramatic falls in stock prices and ongoing struggles to stay afloat, J.C. Penney is attempting to draw in kids and families with the new Disney shop, which launched Friday in time for the holiday shopping season. The shop made its debut in 525 Penney stores across the country, including its Lowcountry department stores in Citadel Mall and Northwoods Mall.
When J.C. Penney brought in Ron Johnson from Apple as chief executive in 2011, the company moved away from its reliance on coupons and discounts and attempted a comeback with a new store-within-the-store model, where brands had designated floor spaces within the department store.
Though hardly a gold mine for Penney's sales, the new model lives on with additions such as the new Disney shop. The merchandise centers on children's apparel, collectibles and toys from major Disney films and TV productions.


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It wasn't so long ago that stores closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's Day, so employees could spend time with their families. No more.
The quest for corporate profits has turned holiday family time into just another day at work for millions of Americans.
Three decades ago, in the 1980s, candidates in the Republican Party ran on a theme of family values. It was a time when more attention was being paid to women in the workplace, single parenting and a rising divorce rate.
In addition to being a clever campaign slogan, many politicians saw the deteriorating structure of the traditional American family as a symptom—if not the cause—of new problems affecting everything from economics to the overall quality of life.
They were right. Solid family units are a greater asset to society than broken ones.
Traditional thought said hard work should be rewarded with prosperity, and holidays should be time spent at home with family and friends. But something went awry between then and now.
In 2012, the mantra of the GOP is more anti-family than ever before. Multinational corporations are now called "small" businesses and "job creators." Profits, lower tax rates, government handouts and deregulation come before all else in the new radical conservative Tea Party era.
In the past two years, Republican governors like Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) and John Kasich (R-Ohio) have worked hard to roll back workers' rights, benefits and pay in defense of profits for these "job creators."
The fundamental shift away from family values to corporate profits has empowered more retailers to make conscious decisions to keep families apart, with longer hours for the same or less pay, and demands that they work on days like Christmas and Thanksgiving.
This year, the world's largest retailer, Walmart, will be open for business on Thanksgiving Day. That means their employees will be at work, instead of at home with their families.
And there are others. K-Mart, Sears, the Gap and Old Navy have also announced that employees and their families will take a back seat to the holiday quest for profits.
Capitalism has made the US economy the largest in the world. However, there is an attitude of overreach being encouraged by politicians that is leading it beyond morality into the realm of obsession. In the 1950s, during America's most prosperous time, the American family was a stronger unit and businesses never saw the need to open their doors on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day.
"In fact, in many ways, the 1950s was a truly golden decade. While it wasn't, of course, perfect, the 1950s seems like a million miles away from today's Third World-like America. … American workers made the highest wages in the world. We also enjoyed the best workers' benefits and the longest vacations. Most high-tech products were made in America," according to Beggarscanbechoosers.
US poverty rates are rising, but so are corporate profits. Tax rates for corporations are at 1950s rates in 2012, but workers' wages buy less now than they did a generation ago.
It is not difficult to draw a direct line between today's income inequality and rising corporate profits, created almost entirely by government intervention in tax rate manipulation favoring the rich and business deregulation.
Conservatism in America is leading the way toward an ever-increasing attitude that says businesses should be free to do whatever they want, even if it means turning American families into working machines that must bow to the will of CEOs who place profits above all else.
What do you suppose would happen if every non-emergency worker in America decided to stay home with their families on Thanksgiving Day instead of going to work?
Perhaps it would send a message that although a handful of people control most of the money in America, people still have the power to say "no" to certain abuses.
Some traditions should be honored, not eliminated so that CEOs can get richer. Workers should be home for the holidays, because that's better for American families than selling them out for holiday profits.
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The Northern Kentucky Technical Rescue Team rescued a dog Sunday after it fell through a frozen pond.
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By fully understanding every element of the new timeline, ShopIgniter's f-Commerce solution caters for each individual feature of the new timeline. From the cover photo to engaging posts, ShopIgniter's customized shopping application utilizes every benefit of the new timeline page design.
According to a CMO council study, 79% of fans want to learn about the products offered by brands they've liked. In another study by Simply Measured, there has been a 46% increase in engagement per post since the implementation of timeline. Content engagement, such as compelling pictures and videos is receiving a 65% engagement increase in comparison to the old design.
For brands looking to sell on Facebook, these are substantial statistics. Now, product and brand awareness is simpler, more effective and has a higher response rate. The ability to highlight and draw attention to specific promotions and products can be done using the scalable fan page images and post pinning to keep relevant and important news directly in the vision of the consumer.
The use of stunning imagery, collages and eye-catching promotional banners can enhance the brand and the user experience alike. By steering the consumer and guiding them through their purchase via imagery, brands will see an increase in sales conversion.
Speaking to Commerce On Facebook, ShopIgniter CMO Kevin Tate stated "We are PCI level 1 compliant. Security is a big deal for consumers and we've made the Facebook shopping experience as safe, if not safer, than dot com shopping sites."
Unlike competitor f-Commerce providers who have stayed with the 'catalog on a tab' approach to consumer engagement, ShopIgniter are bringing the point of purchase to the consumer at the very first moment a consumer engages with an offer, product or promotion. Timeline tells a story in real time. Therefore it makes sense for brands to offer time based promotions. Whether it's a teaser in advance of a special promotion or a limited offer discount, timeline is now the ideal place for f-Commerce.
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6 Obnoxious Behaviors That Make You Better at Your Job
Before Cracked kidnapped my family and refused to release them until I wrote an article that generated 6 million hits (please share this), I spent a lot of time working in offices, if by "working" you mean "looking for another job," because I hate working in an office. But despite my time as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of incompetence, I still managed to pick up a few tricks for office-time success. And then I putzed around on the Internet, doing the research to back those tricks up with science, because holy shit, seriously, no one is paying the least bit of attention to what you're up to when you work in a cubicle.
#6. Show Up in a Bad Mood
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The Bullshit:
It's easy to hate the guy who shows up to work in a bad mood, but that hatred is matched by the infinite void of fucks at this angry man's simmering core, so luckily it all balances out. Some people insist that they're only an asshole until they've had their coffee, but then continue to be an asshole once the coffee has been had, proving that their entire caffeine addiction was nothing but a ruse, a scam, an illusion, and you're just another pawn in their sick bid for power. This is that man.
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God dammit, Craig.
Of course, they calm down by the end of the day (bitchiness takes energy, you know), but it's too late; they've ruined everyone's mood and damaged the morale and productivity of the entire office, all while managing to boost their own.
The Science:
Scientists have long known that shitty moods make you focus more on grunt work, while good moods allow your mind to wander and push the boundaries of your own creativity, but only recently was it discovered that sliding from the former to the latter over the course of the day improves creativity the most. It actually makes a lot of sense: The morning dickishness stresses you out and forces your brain to prioritize, while the afternoon delight (hee hee) affords you the mental freedom to find the best options. And if you work really hard, you can slide right from "intolerable assholery" to "insufferable cheerability" while skipping right over all the tolerable moods in between, because "manners" and "friendliness" are the flyover states of human interaction.
I'm not sure which direction this metaphor goes anymore.
#5. Fill Your Cubicle With Personal Crap
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It doesn't matter that decorating your work space is fairly reasonable, as far as workplace behavior goes -- I am more than happy to feign disgust for the purposes of comedy. Ready? Your family disgusts me. That "inspirational" picture of you and your mom climbing Mount McKinley is trite and forgettable. I can't believe you have a picture of your girlfriend with the lyrics to "Wonderwall" printed beneath it. Do you even know what that song's about? Clearly not, because no one does. Your cat? All of the other cats hate it.
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Pretty nice. You're still gonna die someday.
And I don't even care that that stuff's pretty good for your brain.
The Science:
Having control over one small, utterly inconsequential aspect of our lives improves our productivity by 32 percent -- and I gotta say, learning this right now is probably the lethal blow to my adolescent sense of rebellion. Faceless corporations (man) can cram us into our upholstered prisons like sardines in a can, but we'll still do their bidding as long as they give us a crayon to color the wall with. The unvarnished truth is that our supposedly indomitable spirits (man) can be domitabled with as little as a roll of double-sided tape, some glitter, a color printer, and five minutes' access to our Facebook photo albums.
Truly, the spirit of the revolution is dead. Maaan.
#4. Get Drunk at Work
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The Bullshit:
Getting drunk at work may have been the bee's knees in the Don Draper era, but that was a simpler time, before we knew how bad cigarettes, alcoholism, and recreational adultery were. We've learned a few things since the '60s. Or we did for a while, and then we forgot them all when Mad Men debuted because they make it look so cool!
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Here he is, doing the thing the article is about and looking like he's nervous about how clean his next fart is going to be.
As much as we romanticize the behavior, there are all kinds of reasons drinking during the work day would be bad for you. Foremost is the fact that you'll be drunk afterward. Ever tried to get anything done while you were drunk? And hey, you assholes who just said "I write all my college papers drunk!" -- are you still under the wild delusion that college is in any way representative of the real world? It isn't. You're still a child; you can just drink now.
But anyway, in some very specific situations, getting kinda drunk at work will help you out.
The Science:
In certain contexts, having a glass or two actually improves creativity (hold on a second ...)
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There we go.
... while decreasing focus. It's all about finding a balance: Like I've pointed out, allowing your mind to wander a little bit improves creativity, because your thoughts explore new avenues and angles that you just can't achieve by focusing. It's the same way a light bulb lights up more areas than a flashlight, while the flashlight just makes one specific area brighter.
But sadly, it looks like the stiffs have won this fight: Job candidates who order alcoholic beverages during interviews are seen as less intelligent, even if the interviewer is in the process of getting sloshed, meaning that all human resources reps are dicks and that the people who write for the Journal of Consumer Psychology have way more fun job interviews than me.


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Open education: Are Google and Chromebook helping or hurting?
There has been a good bit of press covering Google's Chromebook and how it will change, how it won't change, or how it could potentially change education.
What do you think GoogleChromebook does for open education? Or maybe I should ask: Can Google help create a more open platform for education? Or are they simply muddying the water?
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I think that any viable device introduced into the education system which fulfilled the role of multi-media viewer, data recorder and electronic textbook would make a difference to education. It fascinates me that this has been such a struggle.
I think that Google's track record has been pretty good at making its services available in ways that are reasonable and useful for consumers. It has been a steady promoter of open development. They seem to consistently work from a position of providing to the masses, rather than an elite class. These seem to be qualities that would work well for a true educational solution.
This solution can come from anyone who will see it all the way to the end.
Everything that can be apply to improve education is a plus...If I can have people helping me to build an ___?_____that provides scholarships to students using the the internet i will..I have the plan but need the Tech devices..I know i can improve ducation by that and giving useful e-books for free to those that are students and sponsors..yes education is better with devices and new tech.