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BiographyMichael Schweitzer, M.D., developed the laparoscopic bariatric surgery programs at the Medical College of Virginia (one of the first ten laparoscopic gastric bypass programs in the country), Georgetown University, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Schweitzer was the first surgeon in the mid-Atlantic area to perform laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and the first in Maryland to perform laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and laparoscopic duodenal switch with biliopancreatic diversion.
Currently chair of the membership committee for the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, Dr. Schweitzer also serves as a site inspector for the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Center of Excellence Program. He serves on three editorial boards: the Journal of Laparoendoscopic and
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Dr. Schweitzer was the first to ever publish a technique for endoscopic stoma reduction using transoral endoscopic suturing. A great deal of attention is focused on the future of transoral surgery to avoid abdominal incisions for routine surgery ("No-Scar Surgery"). Dr. Schweitzer is one of the first to apply this technology to bariatric patients.
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Dr. Schweitzer currently has an extremely active laparoscopic bariatric practice that includes laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, laparoscopic duodenal switch with biliopancreatic diversion, and revision of previous surgery.
The team at the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery has successfully completed over 2500 bariatric procedures.
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Why not at least LGPLv2 or later? It's good for license compatibility, and fends off the patent trolls, while still allowing well-behaved proprietary folks (i.e. those not trying to give you a trojan horse full of patents) to link against you.
Phoronix: Wayland License Changing To LGPLv2
Wayland has experienced a surge in development activities from new developers since it was announced Ubuntu will deploy the Wayland Display Server with patches coming in from various developers that address issues from bugs to letting it run on a Linux frame-buffer. Wayland up to this point has been licensed under the MIT / GPLv2 code licenses (depending upon the component), but Kristian Høgsberg has now decided to change the licenses before it's too late and complicated...
Why not at least LGPLv2 or later? It's good for license compatibility, and fends off the patent trolls, while still allowing well-behaved proprietary folks (i.e. those not trying to give you a trojan horse full of patents) to link against you.
Why does he hate the BSDs so much? They are no fans of the GNU licenses and keeping the MIT license would certainly help Wayland's adoption.
I'm saddened by this. Debates about licenses aside, this instantly restricts the number of places that Wayland can be used. (L)GPL code doesn't exist in any Xbox, PS3, Wii, DS, etc. games because those platforms are locked down (and yes, I agree that sucks!) and don't allow the applications to uphold the (L)GPL requirements. I forgot what the verdict on (L)GPL on iPhone was, but I believe it was the same.
Worst part is, there are people who would contribute back if they were able to use the code in the first place. But they can't because of arcane license incompatibilities because someone or another had to get a bug up their ass about making damn sure everybody shares always all times forever (even though most of the time that _forced_ sharing comes in the form of horrific patches that nobody wants to pull into the upstream codebase anyway). This is, in fact, the exact problem I already ran into with Cairo on a project I wanted to use it with but can't. We could have definitely done some performance work on it, and I have blanket approval to contribute patches back to any Open Source project we use, but Cairo's legal incompatibility with the Xbox precludes using it in the first place.
I guess this is just annoying me so much because Wayland was MIT and now just changed to the (L)GPL out of paranoia about people not contributing bug fixes to libwayland-client. Sigh.
Shit, if you want to get their work and turn if to yours without contributing back, GTFO and write your own damn code!
And last I checked you could link to a lgpl library from proprietary code, so what is the problem?
Stop and think about that for a second.
You are assuming that is why it was done, when in fact it could be an unintentional side-effect. Besides, nothing besides their own self-imposed restrictions precludes the BSDs from using it.

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By IH Wednesday 19 December 2012 Updated: 24/12 08:23
SHAKESPEARE is playing his part in boosting business in the 21st century.
IT managers, consultant engineers, economists and regional directors are learning from acting out the Bard's plays as part of their MBA at Warwick Business School (WBS).
For the first time the Warwick University-based school, recently ranked third in the UK by the Financial Times, is giving its MBA students a different perspective on solving business problems with lessons from the world's most famous writer built into the course.
As part of the Leadership and the Art of Judgement module students have been put through a Shakespeare workshop to encourage them to look at problems through the eyes of a whole range of employees for a solution.
Full-time students have also been given a two-week Shakespeare boot camp as part of their course induction, which ended with them pitching to the Royal Shakespeare Company, who already work with WBS on the Teaching Shakespeare online learning platform.
It is all part of WBS's aim to bring creativity and innovation back to the boardroom as companies around the world look to pull free of the economic downturn.
Professor Jonothan Neelands, who is is an experienced workshop leader and international drama practitioner, has injected the MBA programme with creativity as Chair of Creative Education at WBS.
"We looked at ways that challenged them, but didn't make them feel too uncomfortable," said Professor Neelands.
"As part of their induction we gave them a real world task to identify business opportunities to pitch to the RSC. They went to Stratford to look at the RSC headquarters, did a Hamlet workshop, and also saw a performance of Twelfth Night.
"On the surface they were making a pitch to the RSC, but in order to do that they had to work creatively together, rise to the challenge of a workshop, manage a team, socialise, network, quickly understand different cultures and bond as a team - we packaged all of those together.
"Because it was a real task, with a real-time outcome, it gave them huge motivation -they were up until the early hours of the morning preparing. We were overwhelmed by how much work and effort they put in. These presentations were so good.
"The Shakespeare workshop had a direct effect on their pitches. It felt as though there was a confidence in themselves and the team that perhaps wasn't there before.
"Traditionally the team management is done in isolation from the pitch and your team building in isolation from the business training, but we combined it all together in a real world task."
Aadish Nair, an IT Project Manager doing the full-time MBA, said the Shakespeare workshop and pitching to the RSC taught him some valuable lessons he can apply to the business world.
"I used to run away from Shakespeare in my school days, but this was pretty insightful and useful," Nair told The Observer.
"In the workshop we used our body to express an emotion, talked about the expression that we were portraying. We were also asked what is the best thing that resembles you? You had to do it using your body - I did a house.
"A lot of us are pretty rigid. Having worked in a corporate environment, we have lost touch with our emotional side and the actors helped bring that out - it was a very useful experience.
"The biggest thing I learned was how to deal with people and how to work in a group. It will definitely help me in my work."
Denys Shortt, founder of Stratford-based DCS Europe, Enable Software and DealTrack, was a judge as students pitched to the RSC.
He said: "The presentations were superb and the students had clearly done a huge amount of work in just a couple of days.
"We were very impressed with the ideas that were 'outside the box'. I am sure they all learned presentation skills and how to think fast when being quizzed by the judges on the numbers behind their business plan."
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Recently received the test ball. Bright white with Red number. Really impressed with the performance. I've been playing the bstone B330RXS for a couple of years and would switch today if the new ball was available. Distance, feel, and contro were exceptional.
I thought the test ball had good control, nice off the drive and good handling around the green. with my golfing misfortune I lost them in the leaves, after about ten holes. How about sending the test balls out in the spring?
I got a sleeve also. I had been playing staff duo and bstone e6's because of the feel around the green and low spin. I gave the new balls a through test. I put them through about a 500 putt test, and then short chips. I loved the way they felt. They had nice even jump off the putter, and wedge. They also seemed to stop quicker..
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I was playing the other day with my friend who plays pro-v's full time- did not say a word to him, just had him putt with 1. He didn't even know it was a test ball. He said the exact same thing about the way it came off the putter. I was really impressed.
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I used to play the NXT Tour and thought that was a great ball. This season I switched to the the Pro V1x, because I wanted a lower spinning ball that was also softer feeling ball around the greens and the cover on the Pro V1x feels great! Having said that, when the test balls arrived I immediately thought this must be a prototype for a new NXT ball, based on the material used for the cover.
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If I have a negative on the Pro V1x, it would be that it does have a little more spin than I would like off the driver. I'm a 15 handicap and sometimes my fade turns into a slice with the extra spin, compared to the NXT.
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CLEVELAND, OH — Attorney General Marc Dann; Steve Arnold, Ohio DOLC; Chief Patrick Nealon, Fairview Park City Police Department; Anthony Perry, Glazer's Distributors; Kit Arn, Wholesale Beer & Wine Association of OH; Jill Hawkins, World Association of the Alcohol Beverage Industries Inc.; Peter Minotti, Valley View Beverage; and William Georges of The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, a national not-for-profit organization funded by Bacardi U.S.A., Inc.; Brown-Forman; Constellation Brands, Inc.; DIAGEO; Future Brands LLC; Hood River Distillers, Inc; and Sidney Frank Importing Co. Inc.; joined forces today to launch a public awareness campaign in Ohio to prevent underage drinking. The initiative, called "We Don't Serve Teens," was developed by The Federal Trade Commission and is designed to inform adults that providing underage drinkers with alcohol is unsafe, illegal, and irresponsible.
Today's launch at Valley View Beverages was held in conjunction with "We Don't Serve Teens Week," a national effort aimed at educating adults on how youth obtain the alcohol they drink and how to discourage underage drinking not only during the back to school season, but also throughout the year. Attorney General Marc Dann will be working with local and national partners to distribute "We Don't Serve Teens" materials to make adults aware of the legal consequences associated with providing alcohol to people under 21. Attorney General Dann's event is one of seventeen events taking place nationwide from September 10th – September 21st.
"Study after study suggests that youth who illegally drink alcohol obtain it from individuals they know," said Attorney General Dann. "Data show, again and again, that kids cite their parents as the leading influence over their decision to drink - or not to drink - alcohol. When you talk, they really do listen. It is my hope this campaign will encourage parents to start and continue a dialogue with their teen about the dangers of underage drinking."
"We are unveiling the We Don't Serve Teenscampaign today to help prevent underage purchases and consumption of alcohol throughout the year. The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility has found that 65% of the youth say that they get the alcohol they drink from family and friends, meaning they get it from their parents, their friends' parents, older siblings or family members or older friends, with or without permission. Turning a blind eye is as irresponsible as putting a drink in their hands," said William Georges of The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility.
To determine parents' perspective on the issue of adults providing alcohol to underage youth, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility commissioned a survey of 1,000 adults. The results show that, overwhelmingly, parents do not believe it is acceptable for other adults to provide beverage alcohol to underage youth. Ninety-six percent of adults said it is unacceptable for another parent or other adult to provide alcohol to their teenager without their permission. Further, all survey respondents said if they learned another parent or adult provided alcohol to their teenager without their permission, they would consider taking recourse against the other parent, or their child.
The top actions adults would take include:
- speaking with my child about the dangers and consequences of underage drinking (93%),
- call that adult and express my objections/feelings/opinions (86%),
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- limit my child's relationship with that family (76%),
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- punish my own child (69%).
Other actions adults report they would take if such an incident occurred include calling the police (44%), reporting the incident to the school (40%), and taking legal action, such as file charges, sue them, etc. (34%).
"Protecting the safety, particularly the safety of our state's most precious resource – our young people – is a top priority for the Wholesale Beer & Wine Association of OH. Restaurants, wholesalers, retailers – all of us – need to play a role in the fight against underage drinking, to lower, and hopefully eliminate, underage drinking in Ohio," said Kit Arn.
Anthony Perry added, "We are working hard to ensure that teens do not have access to alcohol. But we can't do it alone. It is our hope these point of sale materials will remind adults that serving alcohol to underage youth is unsafe, illegal and irresponsible."
"Fighting drunk driving and underage drinking is a community effort – everyone participating in today's event is key to this campaign's success, from parents to law enforcement to retailers," said Steve Arnold, OH DOLC. "And the effort doesn't stop here. Teachers, grandparents and anyone who works with teens in our area have the power to help us fight underage drinking.
Underage drinking is against the law in Ohio. Period," said Chief Patrick Nealon, Fairview Park City Police Department. "While it is certainly important to discourage underage sales, kids get alcohol from other sources, and kids can be very creative about obtaining alcohol. Parents, retail establishments, community groups – we all have a role to play in the fight against underage drinking."
Peter Minotti added, "I am on the front lines of the battle against underage drinking every day in my role at Minotti's. The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility's We Don't Serve Teens campaign is just one of the many examples of how we can work to prevent underage drinking and purchasing of alcohol here in Ohio. I am proud to wear my lapel pin and, as you can see, we have posted the "We Don't Serve Teens" materials throughout the store to display how committed we are to fighting underage drinking and keeping Cleveland's teens safe."
Jill Hawkins added, "We are working hard to ensure that teens do not have access to alcohol. But we can't do it alone. We encourage parents to be good role models, let your teen know you disapprove of underage drinking, and supervise their activities."
Glazers has distributed point of purchase materials to 430 retail establishments in Ohio and the Wholesale Beer & Wine Association of OH will distribute materials to 250 specialty wine stores in the state as a reminder to parents and other adults that providing alcohol to teens can mean serious consequences and to encourage them to speak up about underage drinking. Additionally, the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc. will distribute at least 60,000 packages of We Don't Serve Teens materials to retailers nationwide.
The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, in conjunction with the Ohio Broadcasters Association, has distributed Attorney General Dann's radio PSA to radio stations statewide as a reminder to parents and other adults that providing alcohol to teens can mean serious consequences and to encourage them to speak up about underage drinking.
The "We Don't Serve Teens" campaign involves a coalition of public and private sector organizations brought together by the Federal Trade Commission, that includes The Century Council, Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc., the U.S. Department of Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, Students Against Destructive Decisions, the National Liquor Law Enforcement Association, the Responsible Retailing Forum, the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc., the National Consumers League, and the American Beverage Licensees. Elements of the campaign include a television public service announcements, print ad, lapel pins, cold case stickers, register signs, and posters. For more information on the campaign or to order materials visit www.dontserveteens.gov.
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Angela is six years old. She was born and has grown up in a little shack beneath a bridge of the ring road, on the outskirts of Rome. The 'garden' of her house is a small swamp created by the Aniene River, which runs in front of the shack. She lives there with her parents: Italian Piero and Russian Luba. The swamp was considered a zone that ought to be protected because of its fauna, which includes particular species of foxes and birds. But all attempts to designate it a nature reserve have failed, and its fragile environment has been left with no official protection.
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Signal Blue Intrecciato Nappa Maxi Veneta
Inspired by the timeless Hobo, the Maxi Veneta is one of the most representative examples of the intrecciato technique. The result of a lengthy study of pattern making, the contours of the bag have been luxuriously hand-finished in woven leather trim, further enhancing the unique shape. Highly roomy and functional, the design comes with a plush suede lining, large internal zip pocket, mobile phone compartment and pure leather zip pulls.
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Thread: Oh my God!
August 21st, 2008, 03:37 PM #31
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Why God, Brian? Why are we so hung up on the concept of God? We don't worship gravity or chance (though I guess gamblers do), but God?
The element of willful blindness can't be discounted. We want to believe.
I understand that we can't prove there is no God anymore than we can prove there is one. But the form in which we've conceived of this God is so outlandish and so anthropomorphic, it's just about absurd. I'd rather believe in elves and wizards.
August 22nd, 2008, 12:39 PM #34
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Gravity exists. But you can't show it to me; all you can show me are its effects. You don't know even know what it looks like except as a mathematical concept. So, when the safe falls on your toe, you can safely cry: Aha, gravity!
You believe that the speed of light is a limit that cannot be exceeded yet one of a photon pair reacts instantaneously to the identification of the spin of its twin. Instantaneous trumps the speed of light. Yet, you are content to proceed with the certain knowledge that nothing can exceed the speed of light.
Life begins, in situ or in vitro, but no one knows why. Life ends but no one knows why. So, we are once again staring at a phenomenon that all we can identify are its effects. Some folk decide to name the cause god and you identify their belief as absurd.
This judgment business gets very tricky very fast.
August 22nd, 2008, 01:20 PM #35
The word 'absurd' was not a judgmental one in this case. It was an evaluative one. We don't attribute human qualities or physical properties to concepts like gravity and time. But God we make in our own image. It's the socialization of God that is absurd strictly in the logical sense. Well, in the sociological sense too. Qualities that pertain to humans and humans alone, compassion, honesty, humility - how is it not absurd to bestow them upon God?
August 22nd, 2008, 01:22 PM #36
Why god? I don't really know, but that never stopped me from speculating. Using a bit of amatuer psychology, I suppose it has something to do with the innate human need for some baseline of certainty in an uncertain, and very dangerous, world. Gravity and chance do not really provide the same psychological comfort as the judeo-christian-muslim concept of god. If you do believe in a god, then one that is anthropomorphic does have certain advantages over one that has the head of an elephant, or that is an impersonal force like gravity or a volcano or a whirlwind. An anthropomorphic god lends humanity the imprimature of divinity. If god looks like us and created us in his image, the it follows that we are special among animals: less than angels, more than beasts. God is perhaps a bit more amenable to a "personal" relationship when he is anthropomorphic.
August 22nd, 2008, 01:50 PM #37
I agree, and that's the basis for one of my fundamental disputes with the concept of God in our time. Worse in the past I imagine! But wouldn't you label this concoction absurd? And arrogant! We've made God what WE need.
August 22nd, 2008, 02:54 PM #38
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From the outside looking in, are not all beliefs absurd? Or, re-phrase that to: the non-believer are not all beliefs absurd? And that is a judgment on the part of the non-believer, which is as chauvinistic as the believer looking at the non-believer.
August 22nd, 2008, 03:25 PM #39
Well then HE, everything's absurd. But maybe some things more than others. Can there be degrees of absurdity?
August 22nd, 2008, 03:26 PM #40
You got me thinking, HE. I'm starting a new thread and I really hope some of you take your time before you answer the question.
August 24th, 2008, 06:03 AM #41
I personally think "God" is the easy answer to all the questions we have no real answer to.
Scientific knowledge is constantly being updated and revised and never has all the answers which it admits, but God is a nice tidy answer to all the questions which we have no real answers for.
One thing that makes me laugh is insurance, which generally has a clause that states "does no cover acts of God". Surely everything that happens is an act of God (if you're a believer) so your insurance hence covers nothing!
August 25th, 2008, 11:00 AM #42
Isn't that the ironic part of all of this God stuff? If you believe truly in a micromanaging God, then what role do we really play? If you believe in a God who chooses what to manage and what not to manage, then what role do we really play? We've created an elaborate structure of blame/guilt/responsibility around our inability to reconcile free will with an all powerful God.
Kahn, have you ever seen a list of what constitutes 'acts of God' as far as insurance co's are concerned? I'd love to see it.
August 26th, 2008, 08:45 PM #43
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I'm not surprised. Not. One. Bit.
But at least we now know the Right's alternative to universal health care.
Honestly, at this point, I wish they could just sink back into the swamp of self-satisfied ignorance that unbelievers dragged them out of and to which they so long to return.
Just quit trying to drag the rest of us in with them.
'Course, they like the results of science and reason, just not the process that makes them.
I say, make them walk the walk. Give them their own state, surround it with fences, and let them live like it's The Village and raise their kids to believe up is down, red is blue, and that all the earthquakes, storms, and diseases are the result of their own prideful refusal to submit.
Ayn Rand said it better than I ever could.
I don't agree with everything she says, but she makes a point. Skip past the Nazi imagery and other stuff at the beginning, the good stuff starts about three minutes in.
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Honestly, do you expect to default to dynpm before the end of 2013? I doubt it.
Honestly, do you expect to default to dynpm before the end of 2013? I doubt it.
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
OMG, having actually working dynpm and UVD in open source drivers would be so amazingly brilliant. Plus GL3.3, which should come rather soon....
Please AMD, make it happen
On the other side as a end-user you can simply just chose Intel hardware then you get the video-acceleration stuff and power management then you don't need to wait for the future.
The "Go fuck yourself AMD" way is much more effective for an end-user.
Maybe the AMD-insolvency is the final solution.
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AMD offers value for money in their APUs and almost always have offered value for money for as long as they've existed. Theres no reason for them to be in their current mess beyond consumers lead by marketing and AMDs apparently failure to compete with that.
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Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership. The term is mostly used by animal rights advocates, who argue that speciesism is a prejudice similar to racism or sexism, in that the treatment of individuals is predicated on group membership and morally irrelevant physical differences. The argument is that species membership has no moral significance.
Speciesism is something I came across not terribly long ago on gaia while reading a debate about whether or not people should be allowed to have sex with animals, or judged for having sex with animals. The argument was that just because animals do not vocalize consent, does not mean they cannot consent. After all, dogs have been used for sex for decades at the very least, and seem to show just as much interest in mounting a human as they do another dog (or the house cat, or whatever).
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Pomegranate and Pistachio Couscous
I often like to serve my tagines over a bed of light and fluffy couscous to soak up all of the extra tasty gravy. Normally I like to keep the couscous nice and simple so that it does not steal any of the thunder from the tagine but this time I wasted to dress it up a bit. I just could not resist adding some of those beautiful pomegranate jewels to the couscous and with a the red there already I just had to round it out with some green in the form of pistachios. Couscous can sometimes be a little on the dry side so I thought that tossing it in a vinaigrette would help keep it nice and moist and a pomegranate vinaigrette using pomegranate molasses was the perfect fit. I finished the couscous off with some fresh chopped mint and parsley. The pomegranate and pistachio couscous went really well with the pomegranate and date lamb tagine but it could also easily be served as a side for any number of dishes or even as a salad all by itself.
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1 tablespoon lemon juice
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Test or analyze geological samples, crude oil, or minerals to detect presence of petroleum, gas, or mineral deposits indicating potential for exploration or production or to determine physical or chemical properties to ensure that products meet quality standards.
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- Collect or prepare solid or fluid samples for analysis.
- Assemble, operate, and maintain field and laboratory testing, measuring, and mechanical equipment, working as part of a crew when required.
- Compile and record testing and operational data for review and further analysis.
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- Prepare notes, sketches, geological maps, or cross sections.
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|Magnetometer geophysical instruments — Cryogenic magnetometers; Proton magnetometers; Spinner magnetometers
|Spectrophotometers — Fluorescence spectrophotometers; Optical particle detectors; Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers
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|Computer aided design CAD software — Autodesk AutoCAD software; Midland Valley 2DMove
|Graphics or photo imaging software — Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator; Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
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|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
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|Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
|Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
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|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
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Work Context
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|Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
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|Faster than average (15% to 21%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
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A dazzling collection of stories from internationally acclaimed writer Helen Simpson, touching on everything from global warming and technology to health and aging to marriage and family life. Whether Simpson's subject is single women or wives, marriage or motherhood, youth, young love, homework or history, In-Flight Entertainment is addictive reading that walks a line between being wickedly funny and dark. These thirteen stories brilliantly share the small details of interaction that reveal larger secrets and inner conflicts of contemporary living. They unerringly capture a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior, a generation.
Excerpted from In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson. Copyright © 2012 by Helen Simpson. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Helen Simpson is the author of four previous collections of short stories, Getting a Life, Four Bare Legs in a Bed (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Dear George, and In the Driver's Seat, as well as one novel, Flesh and Grass, and A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories. She is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in London.
Q: Climate change is a theme that runs through many of the stories in "In-Flight Entertainment." Was this a conscious decision on your part, or did the environmental themes develop within each story organically?
A: No, I don't think it was a conscious decision, and I know I'm not interested in writing polemic (my view being, Why would anyone want to know my views on climate change? They're no more illuminating than anyone else's!). But it's always enjoyable when you're writing to zoom in on what's currently uncomfortable, and I'd noticed that one such usefully touchy subject now is whether we ought to cut back on air travel for the sake of the future. This suggestion never fails to annoy. That's what started me off, I think; then, over several years, I found myself returning to the subject from different angles, treating it as a love story, a dramatic monologue, a satirical comedy, a sales pitch and a dystopian diary. They're all here in this collection.
Interestingly enough, the short story form is particularly good for uncomfortable or edgy subjects like this because it doesn't allow you to sink down or lose yourself. When you read a novel, it feels natural to hand yourself over and suspend your critical faculties—you're lulled and dulled as (on the whole) less is demanded of you. Whereas reading a short story you have to stay alert; it's more of a performance. Ideal for an awkward theme like climate change…
Q: In a discussion of your previous collection, you wrote that the only rule you'd been able to come up with for short stories is: "Something's got to happen but not too much." Do you still find this to be true? Do readers ever write to you wanting to know what happened next to the characters in a story?
A: Yes, I think that still holds true for me. It's almost impossible to lay down the law about the short story form because it's capable of such variety. That's also why story collections are harder to sell, of course—because of their very variousness they're far more difficult to describe or review than novels. With a collection of stories of varied tone and voices and different subject areas, how is it possible to sum it up in a few words?
And yes, readers have occasionally asked about what happens next to the characters in a particular story. The simple answer is: I don't know.
One of Katherine Mansfield's most anthologized stories is 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel,' and at one point she commented, "Even dear old [Thomas] Hardy told me to write more about those sisters. As if there was any more to say!" It's lightness of touch you're after as well as power.
Q: Many of the issues that you discuss through your stories are ones that readers will personally identify with—such as child rearing, caring for an elderly parent, relationship troubles—albeit with a twist. Do you write stories with your readers in mind or do just pick up themes and ideas to incorporate into your work from daily life?
A: Yes I do draw on daily life, but in the sense of, "Oh, that's useful, I'll have that." More than a decade ago a stranger died near me on an aeroplane; it was distressing and sad at the time, but the writer in me stored it away for later. Years on it became the central incident in the title story here. But this sort of useful event or scene can equally well appear in a dream—a fair number have to me. So, yes.
In a way, though, I imagine short stories are less likely to be autobiographical than novels—by their nature they are likely to draw more heavily on generic experience and less on the idiosyncrasies of individual characters. (More than a little character exploration in a story and you're edging towards a grotesque.) The stories I've been interested in writing recently have been those where the experience is common or typical—as in a song; that way you can cut down on names and status details, particularly if the story is very short (for example, 'Charm for a Friend with a Lump'). Although of course the minute I say that I think of other sorts of story where the interest lives in precisely those details…
Q: Perhaps the most powerful story in the collection is "Diary of an Interesting Year," in which the fears of climate change from previous stories culminate in a post-apocalyptic world. Was this a difficult story to write? Did it take you longer than some of the others?
A: No, it was far less difficult to write than some of the others! I love black comedy, and once I'd hit on this particular disgruntled but stoical voice, I was away. As the story is set in the year 2040 I was able to have some fun with the diary form, using family birthdays (grandmother's, mother's, daughter's, sister's, niece's) for some of the date entries; the story's central character is a woman of thirty, and my own daughter will then be fifty so any daughters she might have would probably be at or nearing child-bearing age (like the story's heroine). Because of course it's the next unborn generation which is set to inherit the real problems…
Q: A lighter moment can be found in the story "I'm Sorry But I'll Have to Let You Go." How do you decide when to use humor in a story to make a social commentary?
A: The honest answer is, I never decide to use humour—it just comes out that way. It's how I see things. And, usefully for me, the short story does seem a form particularly well-suited to tragi-comedy. I think that's partly to do with the speed it goes at as well as its mercurial quality. You've heard the definition of farce, that it's just tragedy speeded up? In the short story you can lurch from farce to misery inside a single sentence.
Q: Again, most of the stories in this collection deal with very real issues between families, lovers, and friends. It's late in the book when you add in a fantastical element to the story "The Festival of the Immortals," where long-dead famous writers (Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, Virginia Woolf, etc.) speak at a book festival. How did you come up with this idea?
A: Literary festivals are big business now in the UK, appearing to double in number on an annual basis, and all sorts of unlikely writers, from the hermit to the curmudgeon, have had to learn how to smile and speak up and run workshops. I found myself wondering how writers of the past might have performed at such events if called upon to do so…
Mega-star Shakespeare would arrive by helicopter, for example, on a half-promise to give a masterclass on the sonnet; while Coleridge and Mansfield might appear at an event called 'The Notebook Habit.' And Jane Austen would doubtless be very sarcastic in interviews if you were to ask her an autobiographical question; she'd probably bite your head off if you quizzed her on what effect she thought being fostered by a wet-nurse had had on her.
Q: Are short story advocates going to lose you to the novel any time soon?
A: One thing the novel can do that the short story struggles with is to show character developing in time. For me, that would be the main temptation offered by the longer form. As I'm older now it stands to reason I might also now be better at this than I would have been at twenty.
I must say, though, that I still find the short story form as flexible and satisfyingly anti-boredom (from the point of view of both writer and reader) as I ever have. It's quick and light and adrenalized; it can turn on a sixpence. It means I can do something new every time. I like to do something different, formally—shape them differently from each other.
Q: Some writers have words of wisdom and encouragement pinned up above their desk. Do you?
A: Flaubert's "Faire et se taire." This translates as "Do your work and keep quiet about it"--though interviews like this one would soon fizzle out if we all took that advice. I like to (mis)translate it as "Shut up and get on with it."
Praise for Helen Simpson's In-Flight Entertainment:
"Funny, shrewd, alternately wicked and warm. . . . Simpson's short-story collections are such a pleasure to glide through."
—Entertainment Weekly
"All lovers of the short story will recognize this collection as brilliant examples of the genre. . . . A book to savor and think about for a long time."
—The Washington Times
"Fearless, funny writing shadowed with dread. . . . The hat trick Simpson scores here is to render characters who could have been straw men fully three-dimensional, make organic a debate that might have seemed ginned up, and—most astonishingly—shield the reader, with wryness and sharp observation, from feeling oppressed."
—The Boston Globe
"Simpson has proven her mastery of a difficult form."
"Simpson revels in the undomesticated part of domestic life. . . . There's not a moment of preciousness or sentimentality in these stories. It's enough to give everyday life its good name back."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Simpson's] dark humor will keep you reading. . . . A wicked take on domesticity. . . . There's delight . . . in her mood-enhancing drop-ins: lines of poetry, descriptions of paintings, evocations of music—treats you might want more of on your own."
—The Dallas Morning News
"For anyone who savors the acerbic literary likes of Evelyn Waugh or the Amises, father and son, Helen Simpson is just the ticket. . . . The stories assembled here are filled with crisp observations about mortality, infidelity and the looming apocalypse of climate change. Melancholy subjects, to be sure, and Simpson accords them their emotional weight; but one suspects that even as the ice caps melt, Simpson's hardy strain of Brit wit might well be wheezing out a rueful quip or two."
"Simpson's writing is spare and intentional; you never doubt you're in the hands of a master."
"On first glance the prose appears lilting, unfussy, harmlessly sly. Quickly, though, a steady theme clarifies: that of the planet's self-annihilation."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"Simpson suggests that society is too busy with minutiae to deal with critical issues. . . . In-Flight Entertainment provides a bumpy, often jarring flight in which the captain is warning us to prepare for a crash."
—Houston Chronicle
"Short and sharp, the latest stories from the award-winning British author are as pointed as ever."
—Kirkus Reviews
"These 13 new stories showcase the work of one of the finest contemporary writers in the form . . . If there's a flaw to be found in Simpson's latest collection of stories, it's that they're so clever they can distract readers from the characters as they admire the author's technique. Simpson's prose is crisp, her insights unsparing, her passions transparent."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Simpson's wit, and her insight into birth, mortality, marriage and families, certainly mark her out as a writer whose ambition is both constrained and enhanced by choosing this most modest of fictional forms. There are other female writers today who work this territory in novels . . . but Simpson's art is more refined for being so seemingly effortless, unforced and entertaining."
—New Statesman
"A new collection from one of our finest exponents of the form. . . . She merits comparison with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro. Why read it? Because she's the real deal."
"The appearance of another book of short stories by Helen Simpson always causes the heart to lift and this year's In-Flight Entertainment gave me particular pleasure. Its elegant slenderness contains more subtle intelligence and emotional truth than many a bloated novel."
—Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph
"In-Flight Entertainment is quite delectable, confirming Simpson as the queen of the comic short story."
—David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
"It is a blissful relief to turn to the coolness and clarity of Helen Simpson. . . . Simpson is, to my mind, the best short story writer now working in English."
—Ed Crooks, Financial Times
"Simpson's gifts are a lyrical vocabulary, an authoritative form, a special funny-sad quality and a subtlety of understanding. Add in political argument, and she is a key voice for our time."
—Margaret Reynolds, The Times
"Wickedly funny and painfully true. . . . Dangerously close to perfection."
—Kate Saunders, The Times
"Superbly crafted morality tales, such being Simpson's speciality. . . . [Simpson's] stories, like the best stories, give the impression of being the last word on the subject, even if, or especially if, that word is enigmatic and open-ended. She ends her stories beautifully, and never quite the same way twice."
—The Guardian
"Very black comedy. . . . Simpson is a wry, humane and brilliant observer of our peculiar condition."
—The Independent
1. What would you say are the main themes of these stories? Which stories best explore those themes?
2. What traits do many of the characters share? Which character(s) would you like to spend more time with?
3. In general, what is Simpson's attitude toward her male characters? Does she treat them differently than the females?
4. In the title story, Jeremy says to Alan, "'I don't care what you do.'" . . . "'I don't care about you. You don't care about me. We don't care about him.' He gestured in the direction of the dead man. 'We all know how to put ourselves first, and that's what makes the world go round.'" (page 16) What do you think Jeremy—or Simpson—would prefer Alan to do?
5. By the end of the story, how has the flight affected Alan?
6. In "Squirrel," how does Simpson use Henry VIII to make a point?
7. What's the moral of "I'm Sorry but I'll Have to Let You Go"?
8. In "Scan," the protagonist considers her existence: "What about before you were born, though; before you were conceived? Well, you can't remember it so it can't have been too bad, she told herself; presumably it will be the same after you've died. The trouble with this idea was, before you've been born you've not been you; but once you've been alive you definitely have been you; and the idea of the extinction of the you that has definitely existed is quite different from the idea of your nonexistence before you did exist." (page 44) Where will this thinking lead her?
9. How does Simpson use first-person narration in "Ahead of the Pack" for a humorous effect?
10. Why is Patrick hearing his daughter's thoughts in "Sorry?"? Is he really hearing them, or is something else going on?
11. Several of Simpson's characters, like the narrator of "The Tipping Point," are commitmentphobes. What connection does Simpson make between fear of commitment and global warming?
12. What exactly is the tipping point in that story?
13. In "Geography Boy," how does the apocalyptic thinking of the Middle Ages relate to current thinking on climate change?
14. Ultimately, what do you think will happen to Adele and Brendan? Will they stay together?
15. Other than their choice of television programming, what connects the people in the three rooms in "Channel 17"?
16. Whose story is the narrator really outlining in "Homework"? Is it what she wishes were true or just a flight of fancy?
17. The tone of "The Festival of the Immortals" is quite different from the stories that came before it. What does it have in common with them?
18. How likely do you think it is that events similar to those in "Diary of an Interesting Year" will come to pass? Do you think Simpson believes they might?
19. After having read the somewhat dire stories that led up to it, what did you make of the optimism of "Charm for a Friend with a Lump"?


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