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"Damn, I really wish I were a guy." You muttered to your best friend, as you walked past the boys practicing for football, in the park.
She laughed. "I'm sure we all do, sometimes, [Name]. I'm sure we all do..."
"No, I mean, seriously. Like, dude! Wouldn't it be just the best?" you replied.
Your friend looked up at the sky. "Oh, well, look! A shooting star!"
You laughed. "All right, shooting star! I wish to wake up tomorrow morning as a guy!" Your friend laughed along with you.
"You never know, [Name]."
"Yeah, yeah...don't be hitting on me tomorrow, yeah?"
"Pfft. You? You'd be the ugliest guy, ever!"
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
You rubbed your eyes, as you slapped your hand around, trying to turn off the alarm. Stumbling over to the bathroom, you let the water flow, running your fingers under the frigid water. Splashing your face with some water, you noticed the weird sensation on your fingers, of your cheeks feeling a bit rough.
As you looked up, you froze. The shorter hair...the chiselled jaws...the roughness on the cheeks.
An uncharacteristically deep scream rung through the house.
*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Quickly, you fumbled for your phone, as you dialled your best friend's number.
"Oh, hey [Name]! What's up?" she answered.
"Not [Name], you idiot!" you retorted.
excuse me. What are you doing with my friend's number?" She asked, curious.
"Oi, shut up, Melanie. It's me! [Name]!"
"Dude, what's with your voi-"
"I'm a guy." You stated bluntly.
"You're a
"A guy. Male. With a-"
"Yeah, yeah, I GET it!" She exclaimed, in an attempt to shut you up. "So, you mean that shooting star-"
"Bro, I don't know. But...I don't have any clothes, damn it!"
"I can...erm, get you some of my brother's stuff?"
"Sheesh, you're a demanding guy! Are you hot?"
"You've...gotten used to the idea pretty quickly." You muttered.
She laughed from the other side. "Well, might as well see the benefits, right?"
*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Melanie's jaw dropped, as you opened the door, and stepped aside, allowing her in.
"Damn, [Name]...you're fit!"
"Sh-shut up!" you retorted, blushing ever so slightly.
"Here" she smiled, pushing a bag into your hands. "I raided Jamie's wardrobe; luckily, I think the sizing's kinda similar." She followed you into your bedroom.
"Hey, hey!" You exclaimed, turning around, and pushing her out of the room. "Lemme change!"
"Damn, I wouldn't have minded-"
You could hear Melanie laughing. "But you're soooo hottttt"
This...would take a bit of time to get adjusted to.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
You really wondered about the efficiency of your school, as they allowed you to register fairly early. You'd managed to forge your last transcript, essentially, scanning it, erasing your name and replacing it with your new name, Alexander [Last Name]. It seemed to add to your credentials, when you said that you were [Name]'s cousin, and that because of a sick aunt, she had to go there to take care of her, and you had been sent here, so they just made you attend all the classes that your 'cousin' had been attending.
Or maybe you were just really good at bluffing.
Maybe it was a guy thing.
You saw a couple of people giving you...interesting looks, as you entered the building. A couple of your classmates, Laura and Caroline, seemed to be...checking you out.
"Hey, [Name]" Melanie whispered to you. "All these girls are giving me kinda strange looks..."
"Stop calling me that! Call me Alex" you hissed in reply. "Do they think..." You left the sentence unfinished, as Melanie nodded.
You mentally cursed yourself.
"Okay, then, [Na]-, Alex." Melanie paused. "You know I've gotta go for-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know." You interrupted her hastily. "I'll get myself to class." And without waiting for a reply, you went off in the direction of your first class.
As you turned the corner, you collided with someone.
"Watch where you're going, man." You muttered, dusting yourself off, as you got up, but almost immediately wanted to take back your words as you saw who it was.
Roderich Edelstein. Class president.
"Are you...a new student?" He seemed to be peering at you, from behind his glasses.
"Y-Yeah...why?" You decided to feign confidence.
Roderich cleared his throat. "I'll have you know that my name is Roderich Edelstein, the-"
He looked at you, dumb-founded. "...so?"
You shrugged. "I don't need to know your name." You shrugged, as you walked past, shoving Roderich to the side, and whistling your was down the hallway.
It seemed more fun to be a guy...there's just that much more that they can get away with...
Little did you notice a pale-haired lad notice the whole scene.


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Justin Bieber's DUI Arraignment Set for Valentine's Day
"Boyfriend" singer not required to be present in court on February 14
The many who are miserable on Valentine's Day could soon have some famous company. Justin Bieber is scheduled to be arraigned on February 14, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Yup, prosecutors are scheduled to enter formal charges against the Believe singer on the same day he's traditionally supposed to be overspending for a prix fixe meal.
Why is Bieber in legal hot water? True, police recently investigated the Biebz for an egg raid at his neighbor's house, but his Valentine's date is with a Miami judge over charges of DUI, resisting an arrest, and driving with an expired license. Recall, if you will, Bieber's alleged yellow Lamborghini drag race and all-day pot smoking.
Don't cry for the 19-year-old pop star, oh Beliebers: The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office told THR the lad need not be in the building for the arraignment. Yeah, but it'd be a shame to stand up a lonely judge on such a special day.

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Six short reviews of the readings (12%) Midterm examination (40%) Final examination (40%) Students are expected to participate in class discussion. 8% of the grade is determined by class participation.
Miller, A and S. Kanazawa. 200. Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan Tang, W. and W. Parish. 2000. Chinese Urban Life Under Reform: The Changing Social Contract Brinton, M. 2001. Women's Working Lives in East Asia A course reader of photocopied articles is also available


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Sadhvi Pragnyasingh Thakur, a prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, was "formally arrested" by the Madhya Pradesh police at a hospital here on Friday in connection with the murder of Sunil Joshi, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist and an accused in the Ajmer Sharif and Mecca Masjid blasts.
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- play pranks.
- share personal information publicly
- stalk someone.
- commit other overt attacks upon a person.
Teens who cyber-bully may feel that cyberspace is an impersonal place to vent, and, therefore, consider it less harmful than face-to-face bullying. However, cyber-bullying can be very destructive. For example, middle school teens may start a poll with their classmates and cast online votes for the ugliest girl in the school. In an incident in Japan, cell phone photos were taken of an undressed overweight boy in a locker room and e-mailed to his peers. Also, death threats or hateful words travel easily through cyberspace in e-mails or cell phone calls from apparent strangers.
Recent research on nearly 300 students from three junior high schools reveals some alarming facts about cyber-bullying:
- 22% of teen males and 12% of teen females committed acts of cyber-bullying.
- About half of cyber-bullies had admitted to using electronic devices to harass someone three or more times.
- 25% of teens reported being victims of cyber-bullying.
- Over half of students knew of someone who had been cyber-bullied.
- Although 64% of students believed that adults in school would try to stop the cyber-bullying, only about 30% of teens who knew about it happening would let an adult know about it. Females were more likely to tell adults than males (Li, 2006).
Solutions: Ways to Keep Your Teens Safe
The following research-based tips can help you to keep your teens from being victims or perpetrators of online sexual solicitation and cyber-bullying:
- Keep computers with Internet access in a centralized location in the home, not in your childs bedroom.
- Educate your teen about potential dangers of online communication and help them to role play effective ways to respond to online sexual solicitation.
- As a parent, you can learn about Internet use from older teens. And, because teens are often more likely to learn from older teens than from their parents you can, in turn, ask those older teens to pass safety information to younger teens.
- Encourage your teen to report incidents of online sexual solicitation or cyber-bullying to adults and reinforce their beliefs that action will be taken in response to the event.
- Set a family internet policy. Define the ground rules for internet such as scheduled times, permissible websites, and limiting online communication to familiar peers.
- When setting Internet use rules, consider how vulnerable your child might be to online solicitation/cyber-bullying. Base your decision on his or her life circumstances as well as age and stage of development. For example, rules for Internet use for children should be more restrictive than those set for adolescents.
- Encourage your teen to be involved in face-to-face activities as alternatives to interaction on the Internet. Youth who are vulnerable, lonely, and low on social skills are most likely candidates for excessive Internet use, increasing the risk for exposure to cyber-bullying and online sexual solicitation.
- Get access to "parental block" software that protects your child from exploring websites that you find inappropriate. There are many options you can find by simply typing in "Internet parental blocks" in a search engine (for example, Google)
- Check your childs Internet use computer history. (Visit the following website for further information: )
- Because they value privacy, be prepared to detect teens infractions of "family Internet policy" (for example, teens can erase their history of websites visited) and setting appropriate limits and consequences.
Parents must be alert to the way their children use electronic communications. Talk to your children about the risks involved. Although there is a big scary cyberworld out there, the family and home can and needs to be a safe haven for children and teens.
Resources on Internet Safety for Parents
Popular Social-Networking Sites for Teens (for parents & teens to look at together)
Resources on Internet Safety for Teens
Dewey, L. (2002). Girls online: Feeling out of bounds. Camping Magazine, September/October, 48-50.
Li, Q. (2006). Cyberbullying in schools: A research of gender differences. School Psychology International, 27, 157-170.
Mitchell, K.J., Finkelhor, D., & Wolak, J. (2001). Risk factors for and impact of online sexual solicitation of youth. JAMA, 285, 3011-3014.
Ybarra, M., Leaf, P., & Diener-West, M. (2004). Sex differences in youth-reported depressive symptomatology and unwanted internet sexual solicitation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6, no pagination specified.
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After the great popularity of the NewTek New Scopes white paper I published for NewTek US, the Latin American department then contracted me to translate/localize it for its own region. Later, the NewTek Latin American division requested a series of other white papers, starting with the NewTek Sports Solutions white paper. Despite its rather narrow title, this white paper will also be quite valuable for anybody planning a live multicamera video system. Shortly thereafter, the NewTek EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) division requested an English translation/localization. Ahead you'll find the table of contents and more.
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For my December lens tests with Veydras and Rokinons (among others), I needed some Rokinons, otherwise it wouldn't really be a test with Veydras and Rokinons (among others). I also needed a PL-to-MFT mount adapter, and a Nikon-F-to-Canon-EF adapter. None of these were items stocked by... Read More
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Word about the new Aerial Robotics and Drone Pavilion was just made offical, and even though NAB Show 2015 is still months away, it's already shaping up to be one of the highlights of the event. It's set to feature a flying cage, a demonstration area with seating, and daily... Read More
By Allan Tépper | January 27, 2015
Staff/HDTV in Guatemala really wanted to record pure progressive 1080/29.97p for its multi-camera TV shoots. They strongly considered NewTek's TriCaster lineup, but TriCaster didn't offer any option with 8 HD-SDI inputs in their desired price range, so instead they chose Datavideo's HS2800 mobile studio, which starts with 8 HD-SDI inputs and is expandable to 12. The initial problem was that the SE–2800 contained in the HS2800 package only handles interlaced 1080i, but a workflow I previously published solved the problem and allowed Staff/HDTV to have their cake and eat it too. Details ahead.
By Brian Hallett | January 25, 2015
San Francisco based 4K Studios are using Blackmagic Design gear to scan old 35mm Film prints to bring old Kung-Fu movies to the world's first all 4K Ultra HD streaming network. Roundhouse kicks, mis-matched dialogue dubs, and Kung-Fu style snap zooms straight out of the 70s never looked so good.
By Kevin P. McAuliffe | January 24, 2015
In this week's Media Composer 101 tutorial, I'm going to show you four different DVD burning applications, and how simple they are to use, when creating your screening DVD's!
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Blackmagic releases Camera Firmware 2.0 adding new recording features to the URSA. The Studio Camera 4K, Studio Camera, Pocket Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Cinema Camera all get minor improvements or bug fixes.
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Taking the popular and durable design of the DJI Phantom 2, DSLRPros has created a truly portable kit for the extended-travel road warrior, camper, hiker or outdoor explorer, with the DSLRPros Expedition Series PD Aerial Kit. I live with this kit for a couple of months and take it with me out in the country, down the coast and even on the job of a major sky rise construction site downtown. Durability and dependability... we'll see how it holds up to the task!
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There have been a couple of great articles here on PVC in the last little while about Review and Approval. Scott Simmons had an article that focused on the Review and Approval options for you out there, and Dorian Heller had posted his look at Wipster. Well, with this review, I hope to take Dorian's great review, and expand on it with my own take on Wipster, and look at not only the product itself, but the man behind it, Rollo Wenlock, Wipster's CEO, and his vision for the company. Read More
By Matthew Jeppsen | January 19, 2015
It seems like every grip truck has a few beadboard / foam bounce boards in the package, they are lightweight and very useful in a variety of lighting scenarios. I recently needed a few of these in various sizes for small jobs, and decided to make my own. For about $20 in materials, I was able to build a set ranging in size from 24x36 to 42x42. Read on for details and example framegrabs from these foam reflectors in use.
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The Convergent Design Odyssey series of monitors and recorders has been a work in development since they first shipped in the fall of 2013. Since then, they have been rolling out regular firmware updates to fully enable the capabilities of the monitor/recorder.
Now we sit a little over a year later, and the latest 4.10.100 firmware update (released on Dec 19th) has enabled 4K RAW to Prores HQ recording from Canon C500, Sony FS700, and Sony FS7 cameras. In October of 2014, the 3.10.100 update had previously enabled FS700 4K RAW to UHD Apple ProRes recording, as well as non-RAW 4K sources to both UHD and 4K DCI. But with the December update, that support has now been extended to include UHD and 4K DCI from C500, FS700, and FS7 RAW sources, at up to 30 fps.
By Kevin P. McAuliffe | January 15, 2015
In this week's Media Composer 101 tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe will show you that no matter what compression application you have, whether it Sorenson Squeeze, Adobe's Media Encoder or even Apple's Compressor, with a little forethought, you will be creating your M2V and AC3 files, lightning quick!
By Allan Tépper | January 15, 2015
From January 26–29, I'll be giving four tech seminars in México City. Actually, three of the four will be tech (audio/video/podcast production/post/distribution), while the first presentation will be free, and will be about language issues. All four presentations will take place in México City, and will be presented in Castilian/castellano (aka "Spanish"). Details ahead.
I recently covered how proper digital USB audio is coming to Android (link ahead), which means that iOS devices like iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch will now face some healthy competition for audio/video production. That's why I purchased and began conversing with the developer of an Android app called Cinema FV–5, which is similar to FiLMiC Pro on iOS. Initially, I'll be using Cinema FV–5 with the Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor (f/2.0 aperture, 13MP, 4K DCI and UHD) in the OnePlus One phablet/phone. Ahead you'll see features, a demo, and the developer's response to my first comments and questions.
By Brian Hallett | January 14, 2015
Right now, the only two Blackmagic cameras that shoot high frame-rates are the URSA and the Studio Cameras. Until Blackmagic fixes this we are left with wild speculations for NAB 2015 and 30p as our highest frame rate. I'll do my best to show how I have been able to create slow looking footage out of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
By Mark Spencer | January 13, 2015
Why would you want a separate app to sync audio and video clips?
This week on MacBreak Studio, Sam Mestman from FCPworks.com returns to make the case for Sync-N-Link X for Final Cut Pro X.
As he explains to Steve Martin of Ripple Training, Sync-N-Link X not only... Read More
By Rich Young | January 13, 2015
B & H had a special today on Senal SMH-1000 Professional Field and Studio Monitor headphones, which seem to be knockoffs of the SONY 7506. The advantage is that they're cheaper today and have two detachable cords of different lengths, which makes it easier to store while protecting against cord failure.
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In November I went to my very first American Film Market. If you're a filmmaker or any kind of "content creator," you really need to start learning about this end of the business. I'm still a neophyte, so this is less a definitive guide and more of a set of observations and tips that I picked up while there.
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I've been impressed by Promise's Pegasus2 line of Thunderbolt-enabed RAID drives. They're fast, reliable, come in multiple configurations (4 drives, 6 drives, 8 drives), and are low-cost as far as hardware-based RAIDs go. Now Promise is adding a new Pegasus2 to the lineup.
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Workers in their 40s and 50s don't have a lot of time left to secure their financial future, and there are several common mistakes that often threaten their dreams.
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As the costs of higher education continue to skyrocket across the nation, the student loan debt bubble is reaching unprecedented heights as more and more young adults are not able to repay the loans.
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The bills are stacking up faster than 15-month-old Noah can stack his favorite cups. "I'm $90,000 in debt from student loans," says his mom, Kaitlin Smith. That enormous bill impacts nearly every decision the young couple makes.
Student Loan Interest Rates Double
Politicians of both parties talk about the importance of higher education, but Monday the intransigence of both parties made it even more difficult and expensive for some students to get a degree.
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Thanks to the ongoing obstructionism from both political parties in Washington, DC, students taking out loans for the upcoming school year will be hit with nearly double the interest rates students were given last year.
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People crossing Waterloo Bridge with some pigeons hanging about on the wall of Somerset House in the foreground. In the background is the London Eye, some skyscrapers which I can't identify and on the right St Stephen's Tower and the Houses of Parliament behind some trees.
Brand: | Canon |
Camera: | Canon Powershot G11 |
Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
Date Taken: | 8 Apr 2013 - 10:39 AM |
Focal Length: | 21.5mm |
Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.0 |
Aperture: | f/8.0 |
Shutter Speed: | 1/250sec |
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Quite a sombre mood, Chris, strong geometry, and lovely tones. St George's Tower (the one the helicopter clipped) and Millbank Tower are your two missing pieces
Too diff to keep every details against a high contrast sky. Cool
A fine composition, Chris, with the foreground zig-zagging its way towards the centre taking our eyes towards the two people, with pigeons and people perfectly positioned
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- On my recent silence...
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On my recent silence...
Though I was far from the most prolific person on OS, I've faded away even more recently. There are a few reasons for that.
First, the murder case I was covering has been subdued of late. We're awaiting a tentative start date of Aug. 30 for jury selection in the federal… Read full post »
Sweet relief
My blood pressure was literally 15 points lower today than a week ago.
Maybe because...
...some time in the forest...
...watching water eddy past...
...or the world surge onward...
...or stopping for pristine and ephemeral b… Read full post »
This time tomorrow...
This time tomorrow, we'll be landing in...
Can I see your ID, sir?
This guy…
-Had one of best dogs he's ever known.
-Was a year past a four-month grind where: he wrecked his car just barely enough to keep it from running altogether; blew out his ACL in his knee and couldn't afford reconstruction or work for a month, living… Read full post »
Another Web Radio Appearance Tonight
Here we go again. For interested parties, I'll be on a Web talk radio show tonight discussing the Steve Nodine/Angel Downs murder drama. The show is entitled The Majority United and is hosted by women's rights advocate Betty Jean Kling.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freemenow/2010/06/24/empoweri… Read full post »
On Web Radio Tonight Discussing Murder Case
For interested parties, I'll be on a Web Talk Radio show tonight discussing the Steve Nodine/Angel Downs murder drama. The show is entitled Crime Wire and is hosted by former police investigator and author Denny Griffin, violence expert and author Susan Murphy-Milano and private eye and author Vito C… Read full post »
Obama's assault? Really?
Here's the latest salvo from Bradley Byrne, the frontrunner in the race to be Alabama's governor.
He edged Tim "If you want to live in Alabama learn English" James but faces another candidate in a runoff for the GOP nomination. Sure, there's the formality of a general election later this year,… Read full post »
Explosive revelations in ongoing murder drama
Revelation has whispered and a toxic truth emerged, marring all it met.
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon gusher stretched eastward down the Gulf Coast, not only on the surface but in greater abundance beneath the waves than was originally told. The mire clogged the reeds and grasses, stained snowy… Read full post »
Feds enter Gulf Coast murder saga
The rains are here. Each day is an oven until afternoon showers bring shade and steam. The sauna then unfolds and lasts through the night.
The oil has come too. Rusty toned goo is drifting toward the marshes and washing onto the sugar-white sands to the south. The protracted… Read full post »
The war within
Whenever these days of remembrance emerge, my mind revisits the following column I wrote in late summer of 2007. The occasion was the premiere of a Ken Burns documentary that featured the effects of WWII on Mobile.
I was lucky enough to briefly interview Burns. I recall what appeared to… Read full post »
And the grand jury says...
The Baldwin County grand jury had one more day of duty. The next body would convene in September. District Attorney Judy Newcomb was pressing as hard as possible to have the Angel Downs murder case brought before them.
The more cynical locals mumbled about the election a week away. Others… Read full post »
Dirty and deadly saga enters third week
The heat is climbing around Mobile Bay. May is past half-done and the summer has set in for good. The daily highs are in the mid-90s with 7-degree heat indices from the steamy air, a stifling brutal thing that can wring the life from all it touches.
A season… Read full post »
Update on ethics and murder case with 'Bama pol
Just a quick note to let anyone keeping up that things are blazing along. I attended a memorial ceremony for the deceased yesterday, spoke with an investigative veteran about forensics and have been filtering through search warrants, evidence lists and affidavits today. I will be at the impeachment h… Read full post »
Ethics, drugs and murder charges pile on politico
Everyone on the Gulf Coast knows it's the roux that makes a gumbo worthy. You can't rush the dark butter base, just stir and stir. The patience pays off later in a dish that's more than mere soup.
There's a gumbo brewing in Mobile, Ala. as county commissioner and politi… Read full post »
Political leader scrutinized in seamy OJ-style death
Get it while it's hot; the next big scandal in the murdered-pretty-blonde cycle before it hits the national circuit.
Flamboyant Mobile, Ala. county commissioner and Republican party leader Steve Nodine has been named as a person of interest in the investigation of his mistress Angela Downs&rsq… Read full post »
Bye bye bayou
Look at this
What do you see? Well, the oil slick, of course, but wander left. Take a gander at Louisiana for a moment. Notice anything?
Well, if you've been looking at maps of the Bayou State for more than three decades, you see something… Read full post »
Run, Forrest, run
Political season in Alabama can be predictable. The ads for statewide office – the ones that need to sway lots of white folks, er, excuse me "good hard-working Americans" (I forgot the contemporary code words) – are a litany of who is further to the right. The attack ads invar… Read full post »
Irony washes in with the oil
The smell comes first. Residents in Mississippi and Louisiana are catching the first whiffs of disaster's approach. The oil is on its way.
The sense of dread running down the central Gulf Coast grows heavier by the day. You can see it in the faces you meet, the voices you… Read full post »
Warming up the insurrection
Call me a paranoid. Call me a prophet. Call me concerned.
With every passing month, a new headline tells of another bold step, another push back against the federal government by people who seemed just fine with its course of action over the previous decade.
Chisel away at civil rights… Read full post »
Petal Blight and Root Rot, Pt. 8
The Conclusion of
Barrels of Lightning
Saraland Mayor Oscar Driver was a prominent citizen in a young town surrounded by criminal activity. Driver focused on corruption in city government and was ready to make a move against the police chief along with most of the fire departmen… Read full post »
Azalea explosion
As I mentioned in last Sunday's Easter post, we've had a wealth of botanical color of late. These were all taken in our yard, from the bushes just outside the door.
The pygmy azaleas ringing the live oak in the yard.
As brilliant as they… Read full post »
Petal Blight and Root Rot, Pt. 7
Barrels of Lightning
Oscar Driver was a big man so it took a lot to kill him. At almost six feet tall and close to 200 pounds, the first mayor of Saraland, Ala. appeared in control, ready for any challenge. Sure, he had his diversions but he could… Read full post »
The South sinks again
Their outrage stokes my amusement. They seethe; I sigh.
Sure, I understand their defensiveness. Who wouldn't bristle at some of the allegations and hyperbole? But, enough is enough.
A fight over federal dollars set Seattle in direct competition with Mobile, Alabama, an aerospace contra… Read full post »
Character in example
For Good Friday
Lost amidst the dogma and ritual is the inevitable core of the story...
Movies in March and April 2015
Community Policing, LA Style
I'M IN LOVE - FOR TRUE!!! Yes, it could be gas!
I could not stop crying when I saw this
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An artist takes advantage of muscle-mimicking polymers to manipulate sounds.
An artist takes advantage of muscle-mimicking polymers to manipulate sounds.
Scientists design bacteria reliant upon synthetic amino acids to contain genetically modified organisms.
A murine norovirus appears to recover some of the functions of commensal bacteria in the guts of germ-free or antibiotic-treated mice.
Sequencing study reveals low levels of microbes in lab reagents that can create big problems for some microbiome studies.
Nearly 600 soil samples from New York City's famous park reveal that the urban environment harbors just as much biodiversity as natural ecosystems across the globe.
Lengthy stints in intensive care units pare down patients' gut microflora, a study shows.
Marine viruses may be key players in the death of massive algal blooms that emerge in the ocean, a study shows.
Linking a mold identified in a sample of recalled yogurt to consumer-reported illnesses may be premature, scientists say.
An exhibit at the newly opened SciArt Center in New York City showcases work that explores hidden worlds.
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2.someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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InformantIn*form"ant (?), n. [L. informans, -antis, p. pr. of informare. See Inform, v. t.]
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] Glanvill.
2. One who imparts information or instruction.
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humain (selon une détermination fonctionnelle, physique ou psychologique) : personne (fr)[Classe...]
opération de douane (fr)[DomainRegistre]
opération : impôt et réception (fr)[DomainRegistre]
déclaration (fr)[PersonneQuiFait]
informant (n.)↕
métier : journalisme et presse (fr)[Classe]
human, human being, individual, man, mobile portal, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, wireless portal - man[Hyper.]
communicate, impart, inform, let know[PersonneQui~]
communicate, intercommunicate - communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across, put across/over - communicate - information - info, information - informing, making known - data, information - informant, source - informant, informer, witness, witnesser - informative, informatory - educational, informative, instructive - enlightening, illuminating, informative[Dérivé]
informant (n.)↕
métier : journalisme et presse (fr)[Classe]
publicist; journalist; correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman[Classe]
personne qui montre, révèle, fait voir (fr)[Classe]
personne de l'espionnage (hors les espions (fr)[DomaineDescription]
human, human being, individual, man, mobile portal, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, wireless portal - articulator - communicator - communicate, intercommunicate - watch[Hyper.]
comprehend, perceive - note, observe, take note - behold, consider, contemplate, lay eyes on, look at, look round - denude, detect, detected, discover, ferret out, find, find out, lay bare, notice, observe, track down, uncover - follow, keep an eye on, keep watch over, observe, watch, watch over - lecture, talk - mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize - speak, talk - information - info, information - informing, making known - data, information - informant, source - informant, informer, witness, witnesser - informative, informatory - educational, informative, instructive - enlightening, illuminating, informative - attestant, attestator, attestor, witness - witness[Dérivé]
publicist; journalist; correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman[Classe]
personne qui dénonce (fr)[Classe]
beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient - speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer[Hyper.]
informant (n.)↕
An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants (CI), and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information without the consent of the other parties with the intent of malicious, personal or financial gain.[1] However, the term is used in politics, industry and academia.[2][3]
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Informants are commonly found in the world of organized crime. By its very nature, organized crime involves many people who are aware of each other's guilt, in a variety of illegal activities. Quite frequently, confidential informants (or criminal informants) will provide information in order to obtain lenient treatment for themselves and provide information, over an extended period of time, in return for money or for police to overlook their own criminal activities. Quite often, someone will become an informant following their arrest.[citation needed]
Informants are also extremely common in every-day police work, including homicide and narcotics investigations. Any citizen who aids an investigation by offering helpful information to the police is by definition an informant.[citation needed]
The CIA has been criticized for leniency towards drug lords[4] and murderers[5] acting as paid informants, informants being allowed to engage in some crimes so that the potential informant can blend into the criminal environment without suspicion,[5] and wasting billions of dollars on dishonest sources of information.[1]
Informants are often regarded as traitors by their former criminal associates. Whatever the nature of a group, it is likely to feel strong hostility toward any known informers, regard them as threats and inflict punishments ranging from social ostracism through physical abuse and/or death. Informers are therefore generally protected, either by being segregated while in prison or, if they are not incarcerated, relocated under a new identity.
Corporations and the detective agencies that sometimes represent them have historically hired labor spies to monitor or control labor organizations and their activities.[6] Such individuals may be professionals or recruits from the workforce. They may be willing accomplices, or may be tricked into informing on their co-workers' unionization efforts.[7]
Paid informants have often been used by authorities within politically and socially oriented movements to weaken, destabilize and ultimately break them.[8]
Informers alert authorities regarding government officials that are corrupt. Officials may be taking bribes, or participants in a money loop also called a kickback. Informers in some countries receive a percentage of all monies recovered by their government.[citation needed]
Lactantius described an example from ancient Rome involved the prosecution of a woman suspected to have advised a woman not to marry Maximinus II: "Neither indeed was there any accuser, until a certain Jew, one charged with other offences, was induced, through hope of pardon, to give false evidence against the innocent. The equitable and vigilant magistrate conducted him out of the city under a guard, lest the populace should have stoned him... The Jew was ordered to the torture till he should speak as he had been instructed... The innocent were condemned to die.... Nor was the promise of pardon made good to the feigned adulterer, for he was fixed to a gibbet, and then he disclosed the whole secret contrivance; and with his last breath he protested to all the beholders that the women died innocent."[9]
Criminal informant schemes have often been used as cover for politically motivated intelligence offensives.[10]
Jailhouse informants, who report hearsay (admissions against penal interest) which they claim to have heard while the accused is in pretrial detention, usually in exchange for sentence reductions or other inducements, have been the focus of particular controversy.[11] Some examples of their use are in connection with Stanley Williams, Cameron Todd Willingham, Gerald Stano, Thomas Silverstein, Marshall "Eddie" Conway, and a suspect in the disappearance of Etan Patz.[citation needed]
Slang terms for informants include:
The phrase "drop a dime" refers to an informant using a payphone to call the authorities to report information.[citation needed]
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I would simply avoid OVTI or look for short-biased trades if after earnings it fails to trigger that breakout, and then drops back below its 50-day moving average at $13.64 a share with high volume. If we get that move, then OVTI will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major support levels at $12.50 to $12.06 a share.
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Another potential earnings short-squeeze candidate is closeout retailer Big Lots ( BIG), which is set to release numbers on Thursday before the market open. Wall Street analysts, on average, expect Big Lots to report revenue of $1.32 billion on earnings of 61 cents per share.
The current short interest as a percentage of the float for Big Lots is pretty high at 12.3%. That means that out of the 49.70 million shares in the tradable float, 7.85 million shares are sold short by the bears. This is a decent short interest on a stock with a relatively low float. Any bullish earnings news could easily send shares of BIG spiking higher post-earnings.
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Why does it seem that there are so many atheists who want to go the exact opposite extreme of religion? Maybe I'm more of a humanist then because I do still have a very strong ethical code that I decided on using logic and a true sense of compassion towards others. Moral judgment can be based on the net positives it can provide for the whole of society. Aren't we all striving to improve ourselves and our communities? Freedom is a wonderful thing worth fighting for, but if those freedoms are not for the betterment of society then we must question if that particular freedom would be best if regulated instead.
The really big question is where on earth did you get the idea that people before Christianity had had "Christian values". There are moralists who opine this, but there is no archeological evidence that would entice us to think such things. Even the very first Christians had major disagreements about morals with Jews. One Islamic moral I find quite interesting is the "immorality of passive income" such as interest, yet no sign of that moral anywhere in our Western "moral" landscape.
What justification do you have to get all excited about your ability to question the existence of gods, yet denigrate other questioners by calling them childish? Seems irrational to me. Questioning dogmas is always a valid thought process.
Actually if you follow the written trail of studies, you'll find that "most" studies do not say this about the prison system. Actually, if you Google the ONE study that says atheists are grossly under-represented in jails, you will find that the "only 2% of atheists in jails" come from a single ex jail worker who sent personal correspondence to a journalist (not like a leak or anything) but those numbers in the correspondence were from ONE only USA jail and those numbers were never published in anything peer-reviewed. (I'm going to let readers do their own finger work because I've found that most atheists are just as guilty as religious people of confirmation bias and giving people an answer just elicits denialism anyway.)
Among Northern Western countries, there does seem to be an advantage to atheist countries, but let me place a bug in that assessment:
Northern Western countries have suffered less immigration, they are much more homogeneous and therefore social structures and rules are more generally agreed upon. Most people think multiculturalism at a national level is a good thing, I disagree. Multi-ethnic countries are more prone to social strife. France USED to be a haven of peace, but not any more. Sweden was for several decades a haven of peace, but that is changing too. Countries with high immigration ratios increase social strife, (which I'm not necessarily relating to more violence/crime).
The high criminal activity and violence in the USA has little to do with religion or guns (half as many guns per capita than Canadians) and everything to do with the perfect trifecta conditions of high multi-ethnicity/high population/social inequity. And those aren't about to change :(
Actually, the "morals" in the bible are horrifying! That's how we can be assured that almost no xian ever reads their own book.
A xian made the assertion on a blog that this country was "founded on xian principles and morals." I asked him what morals he could possibly contribute to the bible that this country was founded on. His reply was "Well, how about FREEDOM? DUH!" Unfortunately for him, my next question stumped him. I asked him to point out, in the bible, where freedom was considered a moral value. Never heard back from him. LOL
Luckily we have grown out of the few "moral values" that the bible teaches, such as the "ethical way to treat your slavery", and "women should never talk, except to ask their husbands about scripture in the home" or "let's kill a bunch of children for making fun of bold people" or "if you fight your enemy, you should not only kill them, but all their animals as well." Seriously? Does god really think that your enemy would have trained the goats to rebel after they've been stolen? Or "thou shalt not steal." Unless your jesus, of course, in which case you can just take anything you want and expect people to not only put up with it, but actually be happy that the "Lord Himself" just stole your property. Oh ya, the bible shows great morals!
You seem to be getting a LOT of responses where the person "misinterpreted" your OP. Maybe you should go back to your OP and re-read it with a fresh eye? Maybe you will see why people think that you are calling all Atheists immoral? Just a thought...
Maybe if you examine this, it will help you communicate better in the future. We all strive to become better at what we do, don't we?
An absurd and ridiculous assumption. All the atheists I know are the most upstanding ethical and moral people I've ever met. It actually seems to me that religious people have somewhat of a patent on immorality as long as it's based on their absurd beliefs. If their invisible friend tells them it's OK then it's OK, by doG.
Atheists do not abandon moral and ethical principles, we just don't have some holy spook looking over our shoulder to keep us on our moral toes.
I'm still looking for someone to give me the positive aspects of the sex industry which benefit more than the person who is receiving sexual gratification from it.
Not to sound misogynistic but the sex industry and everything related to it is a billion dollar industry, so the "benefit" is to the economy. I've often questioned the morality of pure American capitalism. I would venture to guess that is more harmful to morals than many things. If your ultimate goal is profit, then how you get there is not important. That is probably a discussion for another thread.
The fantasy that men entertain that a significant number of prostitutes "chose" their income out of their love of sex is alive and well I see... what a crock.
A vast majority of prostitutes do it as a desperate last resort.
Do not ruin my fantasy!
But on a serious note , many porn stars look like they are really enjoying what they are doing. Do you think that is different? Do they also do it as a 'last resort' or are many of them women who just love to have sex on camera with well hung and muscular males while getting paid for it?
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Peter Wright kept alive his hopes of qualifying for the Premier League play-offs as he claimed a 6-6 draw with Phil Taylor in Newcastle.
Six-time champion Taylor headed into the encounter knowing that a win would confirm his place in the semi-finals and had a dart in the deciding leg to clinch victory.
But he was unable to convert as Wright snatched a draw, meaning the fight for the final two play-off places, involving both men and Gary Anderson, will go down to the wire in Brighton next week.
Wright started well as he claimed an immediate break of the throw, but Taylor hit back to claim the next two and looked to have landed a real body blow when he took out 120 after Wright had missed three darts at a double to lead 3-1.
But 'Snakebite' responded well and calmly took out both 55 and 49 in two darts to haul himself level at the halfway point.
He would get his nose in front again as he took advantage of some sloppy finishing from his rival to claim a third straight leg, but Taylor then produced his best spell of the match to take control again.
Having clinically taken out 65 to level, the 16-time world champion came up with an 11-darter, featuring two maximums, to open a 5-4 lead.
Wright held his nerve to level, but Taylor ensured he would take at least a point from the match when he found tops to move 6-5 to the good.
In a dramatic denouement, Wright just failed with a 150 checkout - stopping to goad the crowd between his second and third darts - to leave a clearly unimpressed Taylor with three darts at 62 for the match.
But he missed with a single dart at double-16 allowing Wright to return and take out double-nine for a share of the spoils.
"I was gutted, I had my chances and I missed a lot of doubles there. But I'm happy to still be in there," Taylor told Sky Sports afterwards.
"I'll be trying to win, a draw might get me through, but it's going to be a twitchy, twitchy time next week. There's three of us fighting for two spaces, it's brilliant really."
Anderson earlier beat Dave Chisnall 7-4 to ensure he is now level on points with Taylor in the standings and one ahead of Wright going into the final round of the regular season.
In the top-of-the-table clash between Dutchmen Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld, it was the former who claimed bragging rights with a 7-4 win over his compatriot.
Barney had opened a 3-1 lead in the early stages, but his younger rival came roaring back with four straight legs to put himself firmly in the driving seat.
Although van Barneveld stopped the rot in the ninth, van Gerwen would not be denied and finished the job in real style with a 132 checkout to ensure he moved two points clear at the top of the table.
In the night's other match, Adrian Lewis put a nightmare run behind him with a hard-fought 7-5 triumph over Robert Thornton.
Lewis had not tasted victory in his eight previous matches in the competition, but produced a maximum in the final leg before hitting double-five to finally get back to winning ways.