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Name: Ben Status: Student Grade: 6-8 Location: CA Country: United States Date: January 2009
I am building a solar furnace by focusing the reflection of 144 mirrors (1 inch each) onto a single point. I want to measure the light intensity at that point. My intent is to setup the focal point at various distances and measure the differences in efficiency. All the light meters I have found would burn up.
You have a couple of problems here. First, as apparently you have found, optical light meters will not withstand the amount of energy you are focusing on them. However the focus of the optical radiation may not be the same as the focal point of the infrared (heat) focal point. Each one may be off by a little, but if you are using 144 "mirrors" the effect could add up quickly.
A more direct measure would be to use a thermocouple, or similar thermal device, in place of an optical detector. The advantages are that the thermocouple is measuring "directly" what you want to know -- where is the "focus" of the thermal energy. Also thermocouples (again, other thermal heat detectors could be used) are much more rugged to exposure to high temperature, and they are at least as small as any optical detector for the same conditions. You should be able to "focus" the heat from each mirror onto the target.
Finally, be aware that the optical properties of materials to infrared (heat) radiation may be different than the optical properties of "visible" light -- that is, some optical element may be highly reflective to visible light but absorbent to infrared (heat) radiation -- or the other way around.
Your's is an interesting project, but you need to be careful to make sure that what you "see" is what you "get".
Vince Calder
Typically light meters are for measuring the intensity of light that you can see with your eye. They are very sensitive, and they are not used to measure heat.
The purpose of your solar furnace is heat something. You are using sunlight, which is bright, but a lot of the heat is also coming from invisible infrared wavelengths that the sun also emits.
What you want is called a "calorimeter." That is a fancy name for a heat meter. There are many kinds of calorimeters.
One kind of calorimeter looks like a small hockey puck, and you put in the path of a laser beam to measure the laser beam power. You do not want to keep it there too long or it will get too hot.
Another type of calorimeter looks like a cooking pot, to which you add chemical liquids, and the calorimeter measures heat produced when the chemicals react.
What you want is something that you can put at the center of your furnace to measure heating. You probably do not want to buy a professional model.
Instead, I suggest getting a block of something, like an iron or aluminum. This will be your calorimeter. You will want to paint the block black so most of the sunlight is absorbed and have a way to measure its temperature; a thermocouple would be best. You can determine the "heat capacity" of your block by multiplying the specific heat of the metal (from handbooks) by the mass of the block.
If you put the block in your furnace for a while, say 10 seconds or 100 seconds, it will get warm. If you measure the temperature change you can determine the amount of heat absorbed during that time. You heat intensity will be the temperature rise multiplied by the heat capacity divided by the number of seconds in the furnace. Your intensity should have the units of "watts."
An alternative method would be to get your block warm and then remove it from the furnace and place it in a small container of water. The block will cool and the water will heat up. Water has a heat capacity of 4.18 joules/gram. You can write a mathematical expression that sets the amount of heat lost by the block equal to the amount of heat gained by the water, after both come to the same temperature.
Robert Erck
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Maine DEP Helps Protect Drinking Water Supplies in Bethel, Scarborough With Tank Replacements
November 18, 2011
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-Over the next three weeks, local contractors hired by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection will replace at-risk residential tanks that are within the wellhead protection zone-
BETHEL – Drinking water supplies in Bethel and Scarborough and the public who rely on them will be better protected following the completion of a Maine Department of Environmental Protection tank replacement project in those communities.
This week, DEP-contracted L.M. Longley & Son of Norway began cost-free replacement of 10 tanks at homes in Bethel. Replacement of nine tanks in a Scarborough mobile home park by K & J Heating of Gray will begin later this month.
The tanks being replaced are within wellhead protection zones and are considered at-risk of failing by the department, which believes rust and internal corrosion could cause the aged tanks to leak or completely fail, threatening the water supply of the communities they are situated in.
Each tank removed will be replaced with a double-walled tank that will not rust and in the rare case of a leak, feature secondary containment to capture any oil that escapes the primary tank to ensure the protection of public and environmental health. The tanks will also have filter protectors to prevent falling ice and snow from snapping off filters, which leads to leaks.
The DEP receives nearly 3,000 spill calls per year, with more than one a day coming from a residential home heating oil tank, costing Maine taxpayers as much as $2 million in cleanup costs annually. Internal corrosion is the leading cause of discharges from home heating oil tanks, with physical damage mostly from falling ice and snow the second leading cause.
WHAT: Replacement of at-risk home heating fuel tanks within wellhead protection areas in Bethel and Scarborough
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WHEN: The Bethel replacements are scheduled most weekdays from now through December 2. The Scarborough replacements are scheduled November 28-December 9.
MEDIA NOTE: We encourage coverage of these tank replacements as they occur over the coming weeks as it is another reminder to the public of the importance of home heating oil tank health for ensuring the protection of Mainers' investment in their fuel, as well as the health of their environment, their family and their property values. If you are interested in doing a story in either Bethel or Scarborough, please contact DEP spokesperson Samantha DePoy-Warren at 592-0427 to coordinate coverage within your schedule.


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Spider-Man 2 brought the Grand Theft Auto-style cityscape and open-ended missions to Spidey's gaming career, but it was 2005's Ultimate Spider-Man that finally married the open-ended city with a comic book-style presentation.
The game emits a constant sense of fun, from the bright colors to the thick black lines etched over everything on the horizon. Most of Manhattan Island has been recreated, including the Empire State Building and neighboring Queens. Spidey's sticky powers let you explore every nook and cranny, making the whole city a massive jungle gym filled with secret goodies. Freely swinging through the city, from rooftops to bridges to street level, is an experience that until this point was limited to comic books. Spidey's acrobatic fighting style also receives a first-class representation, letting you flip-kick and web-toss enemies all over the place. This unconventional method of battle is one of Spider-Man's most notable features in the comics, and it's handled with great care. Spider-Man 3 may have more options when it comes to beating down thugs, but well, everything else is pretty bad.
On top of all the proven gameplay, it's the comic-style presentation that brings everything together. The narrative is told through animated panels that whirl across the screen as characters leap from page to page. The game's plot is also considered canon with the comics, so this isn't just some throwaway script, it's part of the ongoing continuity that's been building in the Ultimate comics since 2000. Tons of cameos and unlockable costumes make the ride even sweeter for major fans.
At certain points, you'll switch roles and play as Venom, a complete contrast to the bouncy hero in every way. Venom's immense size prevents him from web swinging, so instead he takes massive leaps, hurls cars and sucks the life out of unlucky civilians. The bad guys have all the fun.


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Britain's Most Glorious Cold War Bomber Jet Takes Flight Again
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The Avro Vulcan—a Cold War era bomber that only fought Argentina—takes flight this weekend.
The Avro Vulcan—a Cold War era bomber that only fought Argentina—takes flight this weekend.
In 1963, the United States launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. It was called Project West Ford, and it's a perfect, if odd, example of the Cold War paranoia and military mentality at work in America's early space program.
In 2011 Charles Stankievech hitched a ride to the Earth's northernmost settlement, a Canadian spy facility that used to spy on the Russians during the Cold War. The time-lapse photos he made there are haunting, beautiful and a meditation on civilization's priorities.
Over 10 days in November 1983, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Now newly declassified documents reveal just how close we reached a mutual destruction — because of an exercise.
The idea that we are not so different from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton's photographs of former Cold War Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch sites. Graphically composed, Barton's shots of the silos' interiors downplay national identity. You must read the details and the signage. Barton also exposes the banality of terror.
Most Apollo-era mission proposals had astronauts landing on the moon and returning home days later, but one idea in the stack was a one-way ticket to the lunar surface. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this infamous case of desperation to win the space race and the idea's surprising revival in recent years.
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Kore: The CPU-Saving Power of X in Live Performance
by Peter Kirn
Part of the appeal of using Kore is as a meta-host for multiple plug-ins. But that means, particularly in live performance, that you'll want to conserve CPU resources. I personally don't like to make things too unwieldy with Kore, keeping things to 8-12 channels and consolidating wherever possible. But even with a couple of instances of Reaktor, CPU conservation is a good idea.
Enter the power of the Channel On/Off switch. It's actually in two places – see the X in the top left of the image here, as well as the one on the Audio tab at bottom. What's nice about it is that, by "pulling the plug" on a channel, you prevent plug-ins on that channel from consuming CPU resources. (Many third-party plug-ins will keep using CPU resources even if no signal is routed to them. The "X" in this case switches them off entirely.)
So we know that switching off channels entirely – rather than just avoiding routing audio to them or switching off MIDI input – is the best way to conserve CPU when switching between instruments and effects. But how do you automate this in performance?
You can't directly assign controls to the on/off switch, so your best solution is likely to enable and disable channels with performance presets. Performance presets will store the enabled/disabled state of all channels when they're saved. To access them, click the Performance Presets button on the toolbar:
In the matrix, select the channels you want to be active and inactive for a preset (whether it's a song, a section of a song, or just a convenient performance preset during a set). Choose Store. Repeat for each preset, and when you recall the presets, the channels you want to be enabled and disabled will be set up properly.
There's just one catch. Currently, if you add additional channels after you've saved a preset, they'll be activated in all presets by default. There's a discussion thread about this on the NI forums:
Working methods for building-up live performance preset banks
For me, though, this means the best workflow is something like this:
1. Build up a set of channels with sounds/effects
2. Save each channel as a Koresound (File > Save performance as Koresound or right-click on a channel in the matrix > Save as…). This means you can recall these sounds in any combination for creating different performance sets.
3. Set up the final combination of channels, sounds, and effects you want to use for a set, and save each preset as a Performance Preset.
I actually like this way of working, as it means I consolidate presets for specific uses. We'll be looking at some other performance strategies over coming posts, though, as there are a range of possible ways of working to suit different purposes. And some people will, of course, want to combine Kore instances in a host like Ableton Live or FL Studio for working live, while others will want to run Kore in its standalone mode. If you've got ideas or questions, we'd love to hear them!


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Three Takeaways from Walgreens' Innovation Strategy
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The Postcolonial Middle AgesAn increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a widespread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays applies post-colonial theory to the Middle Ages, and examines that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which aboriginal, native or pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed. |
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Sosthene Louis Identified as Cigarette Club Killer
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The Rolex Milgauss, along with the JLC Polaris, is one of those watches that has been reintroduced to today's market after fame decades ago. The present day Milgauss is a popular (ie., highly marked up) watch that is relatively difficult to find. That is all well and good, but today we have found an ORIGINAL Milgauss from 1970. This one features a Rolex 1580 caliber self-winding movement, and original silver face.
The story, and thus the derivation of this watches nomenclature, goes as follows. In 1954 Rolex released this watch in an attempt to corner a very concentrated niche market, those people who work in and around strong magnetic fields. This included people that worked in powerplants and research labs. A "gauss" is a measurement unit for magnetic activity in the air, and this watch could withstand a magnetic field of 1000 gauss without any interruption in its movement's accuracy, hence the name "Milgauss". Other brands later followed suit, as is common with innovative ideas from Rolex, and IWC produced their Ingenieur, Patek their Amagnetic, and Omega their Railmaster to compete in this small, obscur market.
As you can imagine, there aren't too many lab technicians or powerplant workers that can afford or even have interest in a Rolex, and it was the slowest selling model in the Rolex lineup for almost 20 years. Just this year it was reintroduced with a variety of updates and it is now a very hot seller, but mostly because it represents a unique take on a pretty standard Rolex design. Here is your chance to own an original. Click here to see the details of this great 1970 Rolex Milgauss.


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Women's Studies/SCI book group for "At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance" by Danielle McGuire
Friday Feb 22
The book is from 2011 and, in it, "We see how and why Rosa Parks, instead of becoming a leader of the movement she helped to start, was turned into a symbol of virtuous black womanhood, sainted and celebrated for her quiet dignity, prim demeanor, and middle-class propriety‹her radicalism all but erased. And we see as well how thousands of black women whose courage and fortitude helped to transform America were reduced to the footnotes of history."
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USDGC Helps EDGE Grow Disc Golf
If you were to visit a large-scale physical education teacher conference, chances are good disc golf would be represented thanks to the EDGE program and funding through the USDGC.
This year the USDGC raised $20,000 for EDGE, and that donation will help fund trips to state, regional, and national physical education teacher conferences, according to EDGE Executive Director Jon Lyksett.
Educational Disc Golf Experience propels disc golf forward by introducing the sport to schools and plugging in disc golf related concepts into the curriculum.
Since 2005, the Championship has generated more than $190,000 for EDGE, which started in 2001.
Lyskett said attending the conferences, especially the national conference, which attracts about 15,000 educators, is a big advertisement for EDGE and disc golf.
"They (Conferences) generate a lot of interest for the sport. Half of the interest we get from the program comes from the national conference," said Lyksett, referring to the AAHPERD National Convention and Expo. In 2013 it convenes in Charlotte on April 23-27th.
The USDGC is serious about its charitable offerings and according to Event Director Jonathan Poole, EDGE is a perfect recipient.
"We need to be excellent stewards of the money we receive. EDGE is a great way to support our educational systems, students of all ages, and the grass roots efforts of thousands of people to grow the game we love," said Poole, who said EDGE funding from the Championship is mostly derived from USDGC Roc sales.
Each year the USDGC buses area students to Winthrop for disc golf clinics and to watch world-class competition at the University's Gold Course.
"Hopefully the Championship can continue its financial support, and by bringing area students out to the EDGE Village at Winthrop. Seeing hundreds of kids experience disc golf for the first time is one of the most rewarding feelings the USDGC provides," said Poole.
Recent years have seen the amount of children grow to 1,000 and reach past the Rock Hill, S.C area.
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On Thursday (Day 1), 30 riders set out with a leader for a 35 mile ride from Camp Richardson at 6,200 feet elevation to points surrounding the Lake area: Tahoe Airport, Stateline Nevada, and Echo Lake. We conquered just one incline off of Highway 89. I took aspirin twice to fend off slight headaches and of course, drank lots of water during my first day. The total climb this day was a little over 2,000 feet.
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by knapplc » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:04 pm
BritSox wrote:It was a terrorist act. Therefore, whoever perpetrated it is by definition a terrorist. Not seeing the problem here.
by Art Vandelay » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:50 am
knapplc wrote:The person asking the original question was just trying to cause trouble. The rest of us all saw reality.
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Art Vandelay wrote:knapplc wrote:The person asking the original question was just trying to cause trouble. The rest of us all saw reality.Don't you get tired of saying this about me? This must be the 5th or 6th time you've made such an accusation...it's tiresome. It is possible to look to engage someone in a discussion without "trying to cause trouble," whatever that even means.From reading STL's post, it would seem that he was saying it was an act perpetrated by a person, persons, who had a history of terrorist activities, or a connection to groups with a history of terrorist activities. I found it odd that he would be able to make such a claim before any authorities even mentioned possible suspects or terrorist connections.
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knapplc wrote:Don't be coy. It's obvious what you were asking and why. Your track record shows a history of these kinds of leading questions. It would be an assumption on my part had you never asked such a question, only to jump into some rant about this or that in the past. Since you've done so (and apparently continue to do so) it's no longer an assumption.
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The Trouble with Irony
Posted by John Stevenson in Uncategorized on November 17, 2011
What do you think of when you hear the name Machiavelli? If your like most people, and like I was until only recently, you imagine a devious plotting egotist who is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve power. Someone willing to cheat, steal, and even kill in his relentless drive for power. You know, someone like me! (Did I say that outloud?)
You know what Machiavelli really was? A writer, and he was a damn good one (also like me). So good, in fact, that his name is to be forever linked with corrupt politicians, opportunists, and psychopaths.
So how did this happen? I'll tell you. He was a master of Irony. Now stop right there! If you just started singing Irony by Alanis Morisette, you are wrong! That is not the irony to which I'm referring, that's cosmic irony, but I'm talking about a different kind of irony. Namely, this kind (as presented to you by Bender the educational robot):
You see The Prince by Machiavelli was written after the corrupt Medici family hired some thugs to reduce Machiavelli into a fleshy bag of broken bones. The Medici family had recently overthrown the Florentine Republic, a o that Machiavelli both worked for and found incredibly sexy. Nothing turned him on like a good beaucratic process. In fact most of his writings dealt with the the inherent superiority of republics over dictatorships. Well when Medici took over again, the first thing they did was torture and exile Machiavelli for his dangerous ideas of liberty and such. Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a giant literary middle finger to the Medici government and tyrants everywhere. Unfortunately for Machiavelli, the context of The Prince was lost over the centuries and became a how-to guide for tyrants, completely unaware that the satirical work was actually mocking them.
And that's the trouble with Irony, the risk of the reader taking it literally. With sarcasm, spoken irony, it's easy to understand because we can detect the mocking tone of voice. Though even then people sometimes take it literally. However there is no sarcasm punctuation mark, and putting sarcastic quips in quotations just makes you look like a pretentious ass. So your left having to very carefully word your ironic statements and try to make it clear that your being sarcastic. Mark Twain was a master of irony, in fact his books are irony distilled into a perfectly refined oil. You could liquefy Mark Twain's books, inject it into someone, and instantly transform them into Jon Stewart.
The trouble I'm having is that obviously I know when I'm being sarcastic, but in order to tell if anyone else will be able to tell I need to let them read it. But of course isn't that the point of writing? To let others read it?
Well yes, at a certain point. However, I've made the mistake of letting people read roughdrafts of my stories, friends who have insisted I let the read it, who then swear they understand what roughdraft means. Only to find that, after they've read it, they've renounced all their worldly possessions and moved to Tibet to pursue a life of quiet tranquility.
So, with these experiences in mind, I've taken to not letting anyone read anything until its a second or third draft, which takes loads of time and work to actually get to. By the time someone gets around to reading my story, it might end up that half the story didn't come across right because the irony was lost in translation. Which is a royal pain in the ass because I then have to go back and rewrite half the story (yeah I use irony alot), but that's just part of the writing process. The real trouble is when the irony backfires so horribly that I come across as an arrogant and pretentious asshole.
Working on It's Always a Sunny Day I've found myself using irony a lot to provide juxtaposition from some of the darker moments in the book when I talk about my depression. After all, the point of It's Always a Sunny Day is that things get better, and to give people suffering from depression hope. Last thing I want to do is drown them in 100,000 words of crushing despair. But, I also don't want to come across as bragging or preachy either, and I find irony is often a great way of getting a point across without appearing to be either.
So what's my solution to this dilemma?
Well I may just have to bite the bullet and let some people read the early drafts of this story. In all honestly, it's not just a fear of subjecting people to a horrible first draft that I fear. This book represents something I've never done before, exposing my flaws for everyone to see. To let people inside my mind and rummage around to figure out what makes me tick. I wasn't a very pleasant person when I suffered depression, and of course no one suffering from a debilitating illness is expected to be pleasant, but to reveal my unpleasant past to friends who have only known me post-depression and to complete strangers, makes me apprehensive to say the least.
I may end up posting excerpts on here and testing out my Irony skills on y'all to see if it holds up. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
What Depression Taught Me
Posted by John Stevenson in Uncategorized on October 13, 2011
It's that time again folks, time for my one sentimental post of the year. I'm going to lay it all down on the table, and you better damn well enjoy it, no matter how depressing it gets!
So I was watching Oprah's Life Class last night. Yeah, that's right, I was watching Oprah. There, I said it and don't you dare judge me. Anyway, on her Life Class, she touched briefly on how we are all constantly learning, even from horrible situations. It was at this point that I wanted to counter her with my years living with clinical depression, I mean what the hell could that possibly have taught me? And yet as I reflect back on those years, I find that I did indeed learn a lot from living with depression. In fact I wouldn't be the strikingly handsome, and cuttingly witty man you see before you without those years teetering on the edge of oblivion.
I was diagnosed with depression when I was still in elementary school, sometime around age seven or eight I think, and I lived with it until it finally went into remission at the age of nineteen. Like most things I think you need to live it in order to truly understand it, but depression isn't something I would wish on anyone, so I'll do my best to describe it.
What is it that you care about? What's your greatest passion? Now imagine that one day you wake up, and that you no longer cared, or worse yet, felt physically sick at the very idea of pursuing what you once loved.
Imagine waking up every morning wishing you hadn't. Imagine going to sleep every night wishing you wouldn't wake up the next morning. Imagine feeling physical pain when you did something as mundane as go to school, or work. Imagine having a voice in your head telling you your a worthless human being not worthy of the air your breathing, repeating in an endless loop, and drowning out your other thoughts.
What I'm trying to say is that suffering from depression is like being in a nightmare you can't wake up from. For nearly twelve years this was my life, from the age of seven until around nineteen when it finally went into remission. I'll be talking about my recovery, and my upcoming book, next week. Right now I'm going to share with you the three things that depression taught me.
1. Setting Small Short-Term Goals
In the darkest days of my life, I didn't see myself having much of a future. My fellow classmates would talk about college, and careers, things that I couldn't possibly imagine for myself. Hell sometimes they'd talk about parties they were going to go to that weekend, and I couldn't see that far ahead either. Luckily for me, there was one thing that I could see. Every night I would sit down at my computer and boot up Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries, a computer game about gigantic walking death machines blasting each other with lasers.
Every night I would join a group of people online and play Mechwarrior like it was the only thing that mattered, because at the time it was. My online persona was a Galaxy Commander, and it was just as badass as it sounds, I was in command of thousands of mechwarriors cutting a bloody swathe across the galaxy. Okay it was actually only a dozen or so people, and my rank was purely symbolic rather than functional, but for a couple hours a night I was no longer a sad depressed teenager who couldn't even get through a day of school without breaking down in tears. Mechwarrior became a refuge for me, a place to escape, and where I could interact with other people and not feel threatened or inadequate.
So instead of wondering how I was going to make it through high school, or how I was going to make it through the week, it all came down to how I was going to make it through the day. All I had to do was last a couple hours and I could go home and play mechwarrior. That one goal, the 1's and 0's contained on that now well used disc, allowed me to survive some of the worst days of my life. Even on the worst days, when teachers gave me trouble or some particularly cruel comment was thrown my way, I would remind myself that I was needed that night for a game. Who was going to pilot the Vulture if I wasn't around?
I still use the same techniques today. I don't worry about how am I going to write an entire book, I work on one chapter at a time, and sometimes if that's too daunting, one paragraph at a time. I tackle this blog one subject at a time, I don't worry about what I'm going to be writing about a year from now, I go week to week, day by day. I let myself enjoy the small triumphs in life. Speaking of which:
2. Enjoying the Small Things in Life
When your severely depressed, you don't have many big triumphs, or if you do you don't realize them at the time. The big things that most people enjoy (parties, dates, success at work/school) just don't come easily to someone who's constantly having to fight his own mind in order to simply exist. For me, it was the small things that I was able to find happiness in. Going out to dinner, seeing a good movie, or even just making it through the day without crying was a triumph for me. The little things are what kept me going.
And looking back I had my share of big triumphs, I simply didn't realize it at the time. I once got a misogynistic and borderline abusive teacher fired (well he "resigned" but I can read between the lines), because I spoke up when one else would. I was told by a member of the school board that they'd been looking for a way to get rid of him for years, but it wasn't until a student finally spoke up that they could do anything. I also once went to a week long program at WSU, visiting their Veterinary Medicine program as part of Cougar Quest. So if you're depressed and reading this, don't feel like you've not accomplished anything because I'm sure you have. The only problem is that you can't see it yet. But the point is, don't worry about seeing it yet, that will come in time. For the moment just live…well in the moment.
Even now that I can see my bigger triumphs, I still take pleasure in the small ones. I applaud myself for going to the gym, I allow myself to feel joy for doing something as simple as writing this blog entry, or enjoy a sunny day (which is a rare thing here in Washington).
3. I Learned to Write
Oh of course schools had taught me to write the English language of course, but there's a huge difference between writing a class assignment and writing for yourself. And that's who I write for, me. I'm thrilled that I have an audience that seems to enjoy what I write, but even if you all left, I would still write. Probably less often, but I would still write. And that's the most important lesson depression taught me, that I'm meant to be a writer.
Even before Mechwarrior, writing was there. Before I came to enjoy the simple things, pen and paper brought me peace. Dozens, maybe even hundreds, of half written stories, brainstormed novels, and fan fiction stories lay scattered in my wake. During classes, when I was too stressed out to listen to the teacher, I would write a story. When life got too unbearable I would sink myself into a fictional world I'd created. Once, even a suicide note turned into a story, saving myself from actually following through on the note.
Oprah said on her Life Class show that you should pursue what you believe you can contribute to the world, not what the society tells you to contribute. I used to make myself miserable during high school, thinking I should be a star athlete or Valedictorian, because that's what society was telling me to do. Would I still have become a writer had I not been suffering from depression? Or would I instead have pursued being a football or basketball star? Would I have spent hours on hours on hopeless manuscripts and stories, and by extension would I have learned the lessons about writing those disasters had to teach me? Probably not.
That's why, even if I could, I wouldn't change a thing about my life. I once looked on my years of depression as a waste, but now I can see those years for what they were, a valuable part of my life. I learned things during those miserable years that might have otherwise taken decades to figure out.
Don't get me wrong, depression is a terrible thing, and if you're suffering from it get treatment immediately. What I'm trying to say with this post, is not that depression is a wonderful teaching tool, but that you can learn from even the most terrible of situations. If you're in a place right now where you feel nothing is going right, that you're up against the wall, just take a deep breath and look around. Figure out what that moment is trying to teach you.
And then push your way out of that corner, using the very lesson you learned from it.


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Relate the qualities you have to the requirements of a call center job like, good command over the language(English), team working capabilities, patience, good listening skills etc. and say that you think, these skills will make you successful in the industry. Also, talk about the prospects for the industry and how you think you can grow with it.
The purpose of this question is to see if you already have some experience of working at a call center. If so, tell the interviewer about your experiences and what you learnt there. If you do not have a work experience, don't panic, stay calm and say "I don't have a first hand experience of working at a call center but this is what I know about them and I look forward to work for one."
Before you go for a job at a call center you should know that the focus of the job here is "voice" which needs you to be on phone for quite a long time. So, the interviewer expects a "Yes" as an answer to this question.
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I'm back from vacation, we flew home from Germany so now I'm blogging live from New Hampshire in our little country home. Everything feels so weird out here after living in a European city for two months, but I'm happy to be home because I missed my stuff! It's cold here, but sunny, so I thought I'd change the decor8 header to reflect the changing of the seasons from Autumn to Winter and incorporate the color combination I'm smitten by at the moment – gray, white, and lavender. Yes, purple – surprise, surprise. I'm also hooked on metallic silver accents, doily motifs, mercury glass, organic chai tea with lots of milk and honey, and the usual suspects – owls and branch patterns, they inspired the new header. Oh and I'm hooked on Beirut (thanks Ingrid + Gunnar), Dave Gahan's new CD (thanks Paris, a lucky girl that actually met him in NYC recently), and Paul Oakenfold's latest. Oh, and I can't stop listening to Send Me An Angel. So 1980's.
Here are a few lovely photos saved in my flickr faves if you'd like to click on over and view where they're from, please do. I always see an unplanned theme when I save photos as faves and then step back and look at all of them together like this. There's always this specific palette in every batch.
By the way, tomorrow kicks off our week of sales here on decor8 where I'll be posting discounts and offer codes from many of our sponsors shown in the right column, so stick around – you are sure to find some great deals. I'll also be posting a few home tours and interviews this week, and for the locals, watch for the post announcing your chance to attend the LOLA launch party with me in December. Until tomorrow….
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reckless mind commented
November 19th, 2007 at 2:57pmlove the heading! i'm getting married next september, and i've been thinking about a sage green/lavendar/gray/ivory color palette. i can't decide if this will look good and seasonally appropriate, but i am with you in loving this subdued color combo.
i'm finding gray to be a refreshing neutral after all the chocolate brown we've seen over the past couple of years!
alex commented
November 19th, 2007 at 3:20pmLOVE your new header! Your comment about purple is too funny… I felt exactly the same way until a few weeks ago when I designed the invitation for the KFPR Style Lounge at Sundance Film Festival – similar palette to yours: gray and lavender but mixed with some blues (I'll try and send you pix once the invites are done ;)
janine commented
November 19th, 2007 at 6:49pmHi Holly,
just found you blog a couple of weeks ago and like checking in every now and then. I see you are in NH? What part of the state? I am also in NH. I was just curious. Like your other friends, I really enjoy your site too. I own a bead store and also just opened an Etsy store for product and to help my customers sell some of their product. I work out of my brick and mortar store and am amassing product to put into a Ruby Lane shop or to link to my own online store. Can't decide at the moment. But so far, it's brick and mortar and Etsy for me. Your site is chock full of inspiration and great, fresh, fun design. And I thought in NH flannel and fleece were the hot designs. What do I know?? -JG -
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November 19th, 2007 at 7:27pmJanine – Let me tell ya, there are a few pockets in NH that have some interesting little stores and art galleries, but NOT MANY – Fleece and Flannel and sweatpants are the norm for the most part. I live in Hollis, a "village" that is really nice and everyone out here except me is really rich (the most expensive property in all of NH) so it's BMWs and SUVs and lots of coach bags. It really depends. Portsmouth, Hannover, and Peterborough are my favorite towns outside of Hollis. I am not from NH, I was raised in South Carolina and then relocated to Boston where I lived in Marblehead with my family and then in Boston when I went off of my own until 2001 when I married and relocated to NH in 2003.
Where are you from?? NH is such a beautiful states, but not much going on – pretty quiet!
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November 20th, 2007 at 6:15pmThank you all so much, I'm happy that you all approve of the new header and the color palette I selected. I really like it too, I think it's my favorite of the batch so far.
Yes Paola – Europe made me a believer! Jump 'n shout!
ScrappyGirl – Hail in Brooklyn in November? OUCH. Today I opened my eyes to a ton of snow outside, so I feel your pain. It's too early for all this winter weather.


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The villa is surrounded by the picturesque gardens of Los Molinos with footpaths leading to the communal swimming pool and restaurant at the foot of a windmill. Ideal for families, individuals or groups up to six people for any type of holiday in the sun, whether sporting, relaxing or sightseeing. Safe bathing for children with lifeguard supervision and 24-hour security.
This recently refurbished and extended luxury Los Molinos villa has one of the best positions in the Los Molinos community .Giving stunning uninterrupted views over the Mar Menor and Mediterranean seas, it is only 100 metres from the beautiful Los Molinos pool with its excellent pool bar serving tapas and quality meals and within a 4 minute walk of the shops and restaurants of Bellaluz Village. The villa is set in a lovely quiet garden area of this picturesque community offering close and easy access from the parking area. Sun worshipers are catered for by 3 sun terraces offering all day sunshine. The lounge has wide folding doors opening onto the front balcony making an excellent summer living area.The villa also has free Wi-Fi connection.
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(CNN) – Today marks 100 days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, and there is still no trace of the Boeing triple 7 or the 239 people on board.
Angus Houston, who heads the Australian search efforts for the plane, spoke last week about the search for the missing plane.
"It is going to take a lot of time and nothing happens fast under water. We are going to be searching at very slow speeds. And that is just the reality of the environment we are working in. I have to say with modern technology I think the chances of finding it much higher than they would have been 20-30 years ago."
Grieving family members gathered in Beijing to mark the 100 days since the plane's disappearance with prayers. Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur in March, but never reach its destination of Beijing.


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As a web hosting company, there are times when it's vitally important to see what our Apache web server is dishing up to the outside world at any one time—and to see this as quickly as possible.
Just as a system administrator needs to be able to monitor system log files, a web administrator should be able to do the same with web logs. Noting the number of utilities that display system log information in real time, I was sure there'd be similar programs for monitoring web logs. After a search through Freshmeat.net and other on-line resources, I didn't find anything that met all of my needs. Several came close, but most would only monitor one file, and the few that monitored several files would leave me lost trying to wade through tabs for the 30 or so logs that I watch.
The solution I found isn't in one program, but in making a few changes in Apache's httpd.conf file I found I could have a specialized disposable log file containing only the information I require, for all of our web hosts. The "disposable" monitoring log is then displayed using colortail (with additional configuration settings) on an external monitor in our workshop. I can see at a glance which of our hosts have current web activity, where the traffic is coming from and the pages that are being accessed. This has also allowed us to deal quickly with problems such as script kiddies and rogue search engine robots. The system has worked so well for us that we added system logging to it as well.
In addition to the LogFormat for general logging, I added a new format labeled "webmonitor":
LogFormat "[%v] %h %u \"%r\"%>s%b\n\"%{Referrer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"%t" webmonitor
This displays log information with the Referrer and User-Agent on a second line, making it clearer to read. The log file could be in any format—even the "common" one we use for standard logging. I decided to change it for purposes of clarity and because Apache is flexible enough to allow this.
Since graphic files such as GIFs, JPEGs or PNGs files can clutter up the display, I exclude them by adding the following three lines to the general log section in httpd.conf:
SetEnvIf Request_URI \.gif$ unwanted SetEnvIf Request_URI \.jpg$ unwanted SetEnvIf Request_URI \.png$ unwanted
We use name-based virtual hosts, and each host has their own <VirtualHost></VirtualHost> container. In addition to their permanent log file, we add an additional CustomLog command for our webmonitor file for each of our hosts. For example:
<VirtualHost someisp.com> ... CustomLog /var/log/httpd/someisp.com-access_log combined CustomLog /var/log/httpd/webmonitor_log webmonitor env=!unwanted ... </VirtualHost>Our addition is:
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/webmonitor_log webmonitor env=!unwanted/var/log/httpd/webmonitor_log is the path and filename for our monitoring log file, and Apache will create it for us at startup if it doesn't already exist. webmonitor is the name of our custom format log defined in the LogFormat section above. env=!unwanted sets Apache so it doesn't log any items we've listed in the SetEnvIf lines (the .gif, .jpg and .png file extensions). This way we don't see graphic file requests but we do see all others.
The ability to see what's happening on the server with an external monitor proved so useful that we also included system logging information in the same file. To do this, we edited /etc/tem syslog.conf to include the following command:
kern.*;authpriv.*;*.crit;*.error;*.warning;*.emerg /var/log/httpd/webmonitor_log
Colortail was written by Joakim Andersson (email@example.com) and is available from www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html under the GNU Public License.
While we could simply tail the webmonitor log file, adding color to the display is a nice touch and gives us an indication of which web host is seeing activity even if we happen to be on the other side of the workshop.
Colortail comes with several sample configuration files; none really suited web logs, although conf.xferlog comes close. After a bit of tweaking, this is the format we've been using. It's a hybrid as it includes both web and system-log-related items.
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In a major surprise, Alan Osburn has announced his resignation as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's artistic director.
Since 2007, Osburn has continued the FAC's rise as one of the state's leading presenter of musicals, perhaps second only to the Arvada Center.
No reason was given, and so the FAC will enter its 2010-11 season next month under an interim replacement yet to be named.
Osburn is also a Broadway-seasoned actor who starred in and directed the FAC's "Sweeney Todd" earlier this year.
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Even though Khloe may have had a role in getting Lamar fired from the Dallas Mavericks, the reality starlet has decided to help her hubby get back in the game!
Khloe Kardashian is not only standing by her man, she's working out with him too! Lamar Odom has been absolutely devastated since getting axed from the Dallas Mavericks, and rather than sitting around and waiting for a new break, the reality duo has decided to take matters into their own hands.
Their plan: to get Lamar back into the best shape of his life!
"Already feeling the workout I did today… Lord…. This pain feels so good… Working on my fitness @RealLamarOdom @gameshapeinc," Khloe tweeted on April 16.
Besides yesterday's pain-inducing workout yesterday, the cute couple has been spotted hiking Runyon Canyon and even training with a weight vest.
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Mother Kris is a self-centered, greedy woman, She wants her children to take on any type of job BECAUSE she receives 10% commission. She doesn't care what they do or what happens in their life. She has the nerve to try & convince Lamar & Kloe that things will work out fine if they do their TV series. BS- wrong, wrong, wrong. It will ruin the sport he loves and the couples unity. Kris doesn't care a damn thing about her daughter's happiness. Bruce Jenner should dump his wife.
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Wait…what? Khloe didn't get Lamar dropped from the Mavs. Lamar got put on the inactive list for the rest of the year because of his poor playing. His body was in shape but his mind wasn't.
"the cute couple has been spotted hiking Runyon Canyon"…first of all this is not a cute couple and if they had been hiking together the paps would have definitely been there to take pics. Personally, I don't think Lamar and Khloe are even together at this time.
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Umm, Lamar has not been fired. He is member of the Dallas Mavericks. Every game, you can see his name listed on the roster. He is JUST inactive. He STILLS gets his checks along with the rest of the players from Marc Cuban. So, please stop with the lies. Lamar WILL get a new contract next season. Khloe is NOT helping her husband get back in the NBA because he NEVER left the NBA. You might want to hire someone with KNOWLEDGE of the NBA to help you since you want to write about ballers.
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Senators question former IRS chief over details of Tea Party targeting.
(NBC News) Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told Senators Tuesday that he wasn't informed or involved in the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups.
"I certainly am not personally responsible," Shulman testified.
From 2010 to 2012 irs agents based in Cincinnati targeted conservative groups and delayed granting them non-profit status.
Shulman says someone should have told him, no one did, and he doesn't know why.
"With that said, this happened on my watch and I very much regret that happened on my watch," he added.
Senators are furious that Shulman and Steven Miller, who ran the IRS after Shulman left in late 2012, kept the scandal quiet after they did learn about it, not telling Congress in an election year.
"Mr. Miller, that's lie by omission," alleged Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.
"I did not lie, sir," Miller replied.
Miller has been forced out by the president; the IRS is getting a new boss, and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew vowed a top to bottom review of the agency.
"We're going to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again," Lew promised.
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