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High accuracy dual lens transmittance measurements
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On the Fall Trail. Go past the 3rd waterfall all the way up to the top of the mountain. You will see several boulders, but Gunk's Boulder is the one this problem is located on. Its the largest boulder there. Start on the right side of the boulder(where the cracks form what appears to be a box). Your hands start on the horizontal crack. Your right foot is pressed against the "raised" hump. left foot is on a jib. From there your right hand grabs a decent crimp. After that your pretty much moving straight up. Be mindful of your footing because it can easily screw you up.
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Beat pareve whip until stiff peaks from. Beat in marshmallow fluff high. Beat in chocolate crème pie filling on low speed. Pour into prepared crust and freeze. Garnish with grated chocolate if desired. Remove from freezer to refrigerator about ½ hour before serving.
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Edward Tarte Observes the Easter Season, Past and Present
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Well, that was weird. Out of all the beautiful Easter music, he picks *that* hymn?
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I can think of only one other religious Easter song that I know how to play. I am considering making a YouTube video of it next week. I think the religious melody on this video, "The Holy City", Is very beautiful; and I get much pleasure from playing it; so I recorded it. There is nothing weird about that. What is weird to me is your ungracious comment.
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I too find some of the old hymns beautiful and I even found myself humming and singing some of the words. In the video, one shot of the piano had the name on the front but it's blurry. Was it a Knabe?
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No, my piano is a Kawai.
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The first piece was beautiful yet somber. Irving Berlin pulled the wool over Christianity's eyes by writing the most popular Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, about sleigh bells, Christmas cards, and being merry without a religious note to be heard. I didn't know he had upstaged Easter, too, with such an upbeat Easter hymn.
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Hey there, can I get a General Tso's, coconut shrimp, sweet and sour pork, and a doomsday device delivered? Ugh, seriously? You are all out of doomsday devices? Fine, make it a crab rangoon.
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The Highlands has a wonderfully visible and absolutely fascinating history. From the Massacre of Glencoe and the Battle of Culloden to the infamous Highland Clearances and the first sighting of the Loch Ness Monster, use this timeline to learn more about the remarkable history of this beautiful part of Scotland.
8000 BC - Land recovers from Ice Age and trees, animals and people start to inhabit the area. The North West Highlands Geopark covers around 2,000 sq km and some of the rock is 3 billion years old.
2000 BC - It is thought that the Clava Cairns, a group of chambered cairns and standing stones date back to this time. They are regarded as one of the best-preserved Bronze Age burial sites in Britain.
AD 565 - Inverness, then a Pictish settlement, was visited by St Columba who came to convert the Pictish King Brude to Christianity.
AD 800 - Sueno's Stone, the largest known sculptured Pictish stone in the town of Forres is thought to date back to the ninth century.
AD 1224 - Elgin Cathedral, which boasts a fascinating history, was initially established and was once the second largest cathedral in the country.
AD 1230 - Beauly Priory was founded by monks. Mary Queen of Scots was struck by the beauty of the priory and orchard.
AD 1692 - The Massacre of Glencoe took place on 13 February. Discover more about this tragic episode in the Glencoe Visitor Centre and the Glencoe & North Lorn Folk Museum.
AD 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, instigated an unsuccessful Jacobite uprising.
AD 1746 - The Jacobites were crushed on the moor by government troops at the Battle of Culloden. Visit Culloden Moor and the excellent visitor centre and gain a fantastic insight into the battle which lasted barely an hour and resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 people.
AD 1769 - Fort George, one of the finest examples of 18th century military engineering, was completed. It took 20 years to build, was never attacked and remains to this day completely unaltered.
AD 1780 - The infamous Highland Clearances saw many people driven from their homes and were ongoing for around 70 years. You can learn more about the clearances at the Strathnaver Museum near Thurso.
AD 1786 - Strathisla Distillery was founded in Keith and is now the oldest working distillery in the Highlands.
AD 1802 - Internationally renowned geologist, writer and folk historian Hugh Miller was born in Cromarty.
AD 1812 - Nelson's Tower by Forres opened, built as a memorial to Admiral Lord Nelson.
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Why John Mayer's 'Daughters' is the Worst Song Ever
I have three daughters. I love and adore my three daughters. If it were possible, I would move heaven and Earth for my three daughters. I hate the song "Daughters" by John Mayer.A face only a mother could love. Well, and Katy Perry, apparently.
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Every year, I take my oldest two children to a father-daughter dance where there are three things I can count on with absolute certainty: a brave soldier falling down while attempting the Limbo, a Dad's hula hoop contest that lasts only slightly longer than a sneeze, and slow dancing to "Daughters". Instead of feeling the swell of emotions the song is supposed to evoke, I suffer through those four torturous minutes, looking forward to better times of sliding, both cha-cha and electric.
I will confess that I am not a fan of any of John Mayer's music. While it would be foolish to deny his talent as a guitarist, I find his vocals shoddy and his songwriting desperately lacking (exhibit A: "Your Body is a Wonderland"). I am less a fan of Mayer himself. In spite of his leading man looks, fame, success and fortune, he carries himself publicly like the rich, entitled, jerky character from any John Hughes movie. Yes, his list of former love interests is impressive, but the manner in which he discusses them publicly is loathsome. Getting on the wrong side of America's former (Jennifer Aniston) and current (Taylor Swift) sweethearts doesn't make him any more likeable either.
"Daughters" is a sparse song with Mayer singing unaccompanied over light acoustic guitar and piano. This places all the focus on the vocals, which is not a good thing. Mayer's raspy, whispery voice has an unmistakable "hey, kid, want some candy?" quality to it which ratchets the creepiness of the song up to a full 11. A song that should be about something as pure and unquestionably noble as fathers loving and cherishing their daughters should not sound like it emanates from a man on the edge of the bed with his shirt half-unbuttoned. Taken in this context, the overriding point of the song seems to be for fathers to treat their daughters well for no other reason than to stop sending pre-screwed up girls into his life. Mayer would rather screw them up all by himself.
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INTERVIEW Multi-faceted Revathy is almost ready with the script for her next film
A fter a hiatus, Revathy is back to direction. On the verge of completing the script, she talks about her journey so far, being a woman in the industry, and what drives her. Excerpts.
Close to 30 years in an industry where people often disappear after one film…
I was just lucky to have started during the glorious period of Tamil cinema; a time when films ran for the value of the story and performance. They made good run-of-the-mill films then. And, I was always instinctive — I did not want to do what I did not believe in; did not mouth lines against anyone, women in particular. Also, working under the likes of Bharathiraja, Bharathan and Balu Mahendra gave me a strong foundation.
So, steering to direction was a natural progression.
Yes. And, I was not getting roles that were challenging me as an actor either.
Your directorial venture 'Mitr, My Friend' had an all-woman crew. Were you making a point?
Yes. Women are intelligent and such good storytellers. But, there weren't many women in the technical arena — cinematography, audiography, editing… It's heartening to see things have improved a lot since. But, being a woman in this industry is particularly tough because there are no timings, and it involves a lot of travelling.
So, with only women around, you get to work better?
Not really. If gender bias is what you're talking about, I can tell you this much — I haven't faced it. Perhaps, it's also because of my upbringing, attitude and being vociferous.
And, is being vociferous also why you are associated with so many social causes?
Well, I was always clear that I wanted to look beyond me and my family.
Being a celebrity clearly helps in this regard…
Of course, I use it to be the voice of many social causes. People listen when a Kamal Hassan or a Manorama or a Revathy talks, better than when a doctor does.
Cinema is perhaps one of the most powerful social media. Does it irk you to see it often being reduced to just a song-dance-stunt routine?
Cinema is primarily an entertainment, a business. I enjoy catching a well-made song sequence or an action flick. But, what irks me is their sending out a wrong message. For instance, the portrayal of politicians or cops. Their defence could be that that's the truth. I agree. All films show good winning over evil — and, that's a message too. But at the same time, it also makes evil seem very fascinating…
Talking of politicians, you contested for the Lok Sabha elections in 1996 as an independent, and lost. You've never ventured into politics again. Is it because of the loss or because you thought politics was not powerful enough?
Because, politics is the most powerful tool for change, and because I realised I was not cut out for it.
You're instinctive. Any regrets on the journey so far?
Well, my life would perhaps been better if I had planned it. But then, I'm happy where I find myself, because I'm constantly driven by change.
What next?
I want to tell stories; take direction seriously. I'm almost done with a script. It will be a Hindi film for urban India.
Actor, director, activist, dancer — you have many faces. Who do you identify the most with?
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For more than 22 years, Deanna Farrell and her lines, Nativewear Designs, Cha Cha, and Deanna Farrell Designs (her most recent endeavor) have been making their mark on the apparel industry. As owner and designer, Farrell has brought the exotic looks of Bali, Indonesia, statewide, and in the last several years has found particular success with Cha Cha Sandals. According to Farrell, staying power has come, in large part, from her ability to work with color and effectively choose color ways for upcoming seasons. For the next coming season, look for beautiful women's clothing that is not only wearable but versatile for summer days and nights. Having the ability to bring fashion into current wearable art, shows itself, not only in her clothing but also in her extensive collection of accessories that includes belts, bags, jewelry, sandals, women's clothing, accessories, bags, jewelry, fashion accessories, clothing, fashion, sandal, woman's, ladies, shirts, dresses, tops, shorts, resort clothing, summer dresses, sportswear, boots, casual, casual clothing, shoes, footwear, rayon, rayon clothing, jackets, sarongs, Hawaiian prints, island clothing. We like to give every customer the ability to put together a look that says not only "look at me" but also, "I love my self". Please enjoy Deanna's unique line. Deanna Farrell, the owner and designer for Deanna Farrell Designs and Cha Cha accessories, is a veteran of the fashion industry. Formerly named Nativewear Designs, Deanna Farrell Designs is committed to providing you with the most beautiful and unique women's clothing available. From our signature hand painted and carved wood sandals to coordinating belts, bags and fashion accessories, we have something to suit every taste. Most of our designs are hand crafted on the Indonesian island of Bali, with the exception of our expressive fall boot collection. We are proud to be one other the few companies who have stayed committed to the island of Bali, and are continuously trying to help the native people, especially in their time of need. Our sandals are like walking on a piece of art and our clothing collections are not only comfortable but fashionable. With perfectly matching outfits of women's clothing and fashion accessories, you really need to see what you are missing. Remember, Deanna likes to say "Fashion is something you wear, Style is something you choose. Let us help you achieve both.
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"This study has serious implications about how we treat women after surgery as well as women who experience chronic pain," said Bradon Wilhelmi, MD, ASPS member and author of the study. "Because women have more nerve receptors, they may experience pain more powerfully than men, requiring different surgical techniques, treatments or medicine dosages to help manage their pain and make them feel comfortable."
According to the study, women averaged 34 nerve fibers per square centimeter of facial skin while men only averaged 17 nerve fibers. Despite psychosocial expectations for men to be tougher than women when feeling pain, these findings illustrate that women's lower pain tolerance and threshold are physical.
"Eighty-seven percent of the 9.2 million cosmetic surgery procedures performed last year were on women," said Dr. Wilhelmi. "The ability to minimize pain often affects a patient's perception of their results. We hope this data will give new perspective on how to better treat post-operative pain in women."
Currently, 15 to 20 percent of the U.S. population suffers from acute pain, says Dr. Wilhelmi, while 25 to 30 percent suffer from chronic pain.
For referrals to ASPS Member Surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, call 888-4-PLASTIC (475-2784) or visit www.plasticsurgery.org where you can also learn more about cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is the largest organization of board-certified plastic surgeons in the world. With more than 6,000 members, the society is recognized as a leading authority and information source on cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. ASPS comprises 94 percent of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States. Founded in 1931, the society represents physicians certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery or The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.


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Introducing A Good Man Goes to War
Director Peter Hoar introduces A Good Man Goes to War.
Returning monsters officially confirmed, plus new prequel coming soon.
Find out who's in the mid-series finale, including returning characters.
The official Doctor Who synopsis for A Good Man Goes to War, episode 7 of Series 6.


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Carl Edwards' signature back flip off the roof his car after a victory has been copied at long last. A new commercial featuring the Columbia native shows the Aflac Duck stealing the move, much to Edwards' dismay.
Disgusted, Edwards throws his right hand in the air as three women leave him to join the duck.
"I taught him that," he says in protest. You can view the ad by clicking on the link in Related Media.
The appearance is the first for the Aflac Duck in an Aflac Racing commercial.
"Our duck is an advertising icon and is in pop culture," said Al Johnson, Aflac's Vice President of Marketing Services. "We felt that it was a great fit for Carl."
Johnson said great personalities link the duck and Edwards.
"We love the way they played off each other in the commercial and certainly at the end," he said.
The 30-second advertisement was filmed in late January at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., where Edwards won on Feb. 25. In the commercial, though, Edwards rides in the passenger seat while the duck drives to victory.
Bob Osborne, Edwards' crew chief, also appears in the 30-second commercial. Osborne was suspended six races by NASCAR yesterday after Edwards' car failed inspection following his win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last Sunday. Osborne was also fined $100,000, and Edwards was docked 100 Sprint Cup championship points.
The commercial will debut tomorrow during a red carpet screening at Atlanta Motor Speedway and will begin showing on TV March 10, according to a press release.
Aflac will be the primary sponsor of Edwards' No. 99 Sprint Cup car for eight races this season and an associate sponsor for the remaining 28 races.


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A gold seal flight instructor and former freight dog shares flying tips & techniques with an occasional bit of humor.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Killing Zone
According to the Nall Report, an analysis of GA accident data published each year by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's Air Safety Foundation, the popular ways to get into trouble in a small plane are to run out of fuel, attempt to continue VFR flight into deteriorating weather conditions, and low-level maneuvering flight. The highest risk last year was low-level maneuvering flight and the most likely to lead to a fatality was continued flight into deteriorating weather. While it's early in the accident investigation process, it seems that the crash of an SR20 yesterday into a high-rise building on New York's Upper East Side involved the intersection of at least two of these risk factors - low level flight and marginal VFR weather conditions.
Several other factors have been cited that should have helped mitigate the risks of that flight. News stories have latched onto the fact that the SR20 was equipped with an aircraft parachute that could have saved the day. Even if the 'cute had been deployed, it's unclear whether or not the aircraft would have avoided damage or injury to people on the ground during the descent. I think many Cirrus pilots are hesitant to consider pulling that parachute handle because doing so is guaranteed to total the airframe. The parachute is really a last resort when you can no longer fly the plane. Based on witness reports, it appears the pilot and instructor were still trying to fly the plane.
This brings up the second factor that should have made the flight less risky - the report that there was a flight instructor on board. According to the Nall Report, flying with a flight instructor is statistically the safest GA flying you can do. I haven't yet seen an attempt to quantify the instructor's level of experience with the level of safety, but it is my experience is that younger, low-time instructors are hungry. Many of these instructors seem willing to fly in marginal weather since flying is how they earn their meager income and build the flight time required to move on to better paying, more respectable flying. Add to this equation a client who really wants to fly that day and you have the potential for some risky decision making.
The last factor that has been mentioned is the advanced avionics found in Cirrus aircraft, which some say should have prevented the crash. I don't know the vintage of the SR20 involved in the accident, but some of the older SR20s are steam gauge planes and lack many of the advanced features of the later models. And this just in - a glass panel cannot keep a pilot from hitting an obstruction. Used properly, terrain awareness can increase the safety of flight, but it is no guarantee.
After learning of the accident, I did a quick check of the surface weather observations for Tereboro Airport, where the flight originated, for the time period before and after the accident.
It's too early to know all the details of this particular crash, but it clearly was not a good day to be flying VFR. While the visibly at times was more than 5 miles, the cloud ceiling was never above 2000 feet.
The probability of a technically advanced aircraft with a qualified and appropriately rated flight instructor on board flying into a building at a low altitude in marginal VFR conditions is very, very low, but that probability is not zero. If you think it can't happen to you, think again.
12 comments:
- Anonymous said...
"The Killing Zone" is an excellent book and should be assigned to every student as required reading by CFI's.
I had the exact same thought when they were talking about the chute, which doesn't save the plane from pilot error.
Well said. - 10:19 AM
- Neil said...
Well said indeed.
Ive tried to answer alot of questions about yesterdays events from co-workers and friends, being the only pilot they know, apparently, and also as a pilot preparing to fly a new Cirrus. I avoid speculation in cases such as this at all costs, but I point out exactly what you have done here. Parachutes, the avionics suite, an instructor in the right seat, all great steps towards safety in GA aircraft, but you will never be able to foolproof the system to where pilot error is no longer a factor. We just continue to learn and respect the responsibilty of flying an aircraft, and hope everyone else does too. The fallout in the media from this event has been as expected I suppose, but incredibly disapointing none the less...
Nicely done as always, John, and I'll look into that book. - 11:39 AM
- Jack said...
I've heard good things about the book John...definitely on my list of things to read.
It will be interesting to read the NTSB's final report on this one. - 3:17 PM
- Dave Starr said...
Thanks for the tip on the book as well, John. I often remember rule of thumb conclusions along the same lines from some of my instructors back in the dim and distant past.
The TEB sequences are born out by the news videos within minutes after the crash ... in fact before the flight history was known I thought the accident aircraft might have been just out of or inbound to LGA, and the camera views I saw certainly didn't look very much like VFR.
I haven't been current for years, but I stay mentally active. I learned to fly out of N07, I've been in and out of TEB often and we used to go over to LGA late in the evening and get ASR's from the long-suffering controllers after the evening pushes were over.
According to reports and looking at the map the flight was probably technically legal, but flying down the East River into a "box canyon" of uncontrolled air space and only an 1100' "lid" is one of the other risk factors to think about ... it's akin to the high-speed "lane splitting" one sees adventurous motorcyclists demonstrating on California freeways ... probably technically legal but with absolutely no margin of error.
One thing that might keep a lot of pilot's safer is to think as if there were no insurance and the whole cost of a $300K Cirrus would come out of your own pocket. If I were able to buy an SR-20 I wouldn't be flying it over a river with no place to land at <1,100 feet ... what if the engine hiccuped? I'd need three lifetimes to pay off that debt. I'd rather fly it where I had someplace to land. - 3:56 PM
- Kevin said...
I was in that area at that time on that day. I am a Cherokee Six pilot and will be taking my IFR checkride on December 6th.
I would not have been flying on that day.
It is also perhaps worthy of note that the location of the accident was exactly opposite (on the other side of the East River) from the Yankee Stadium - where the P-I-C was a pitcher. Perhaps a buzzing gone wrong?
Just a thought. - 6:54 PM
- Greybeard said...
With time in Cirrus aircraft, you are a good one to advise....
Does it seem like there are an awful lot of accidents in Cirrus machines lately?
The Ballistic 'chute is a great idea, but it sure seems like Cirrus aircraft are involved in more than their fair share of incidents/accidents recently.
I'm hearing insurance rates on them are terrible.
I'd like your thoughts, please. - 7:18 AM
- John said...
I don't know if there have been a disproportionately high number of Cirrus accidents. There certainly are a lot of these aircraft in service now, given that Cirrus has sold more single-engine aircraft than any other manufacturer for the last couple of years.
While the ballistic parachute has saved several lives, it can't always save a pilot who has made poor aeronautical decisions and has gotten him/herself into a tight spot. Many non-Cirrus pilot don't realize there are airspeed and altitude limitations for a successful parachute deployment - It is a parachute, after all, not a whole-plane airbag.
There is research that suggests that new automobile features like airbags and anti-lock brakes have resulted in some people driving more aggressively, effectively canceling out the added margin of safety these devices are meant to provide. I've often wondered if the inclusion of features like the parachute, non-certified anti-icing equipment, glass panel, terrain awareness, and XM weather has led some Cirrus pilots to make some risky aeronautical conclusions.
I remind Cirrus pilots that while you are flying a high-performance, go-somewhere kind of aircraft with a lot of capability and safety features, you are not invincible. A Cirrus is a single-engine (predominantly non-turbocharged), fixed gear airplane and is heir to all of the same dangers faced by a 35 year old Cessna or Piper or Beechcraft or Mooney. - 9:20 AM
- Neil said...
I think those are great points, and echo my thoughts exactly. As ive mentioned on my blog, I will soon be the PIC of a Cirrus SR-22. Im keeping it in my head all the time that:
A) You still need to look out the bloody window, despite the huge amount of information available inside the aircraft.
B) A parachute means nothing until you are ready to give up your airplane and your life.
I alos feel like Cirrus may be a little irresponsible in the marketing of these aircraft. They are marketing them as super safe (It has a parachute! What could possibly go worng!?) and they are targeting new pilots. I also beleive that with all that information infront of you, you can forget the basics of safe flying, and develop an invincibility complex. All pitfalls I plan to avoid in my SR-22.
It also concerns me that other companies appear to be taking the same marketing approach, except they are selling VLJ's...(Eclipse, et al) - 1:40 PM
- Eric Gideon said...
I agree - Cirrus targeting new pilots is irresponsible. It's a ridiculously high-performance machine, and in my experience the side-yoke is remarkably sensitive to the slightest pitch input.
Cessna's thinking with their LSA design - using it as an entry-level aircraft much like the good old 150/152 - is a lot more logical and probably a lot safer. It's much easier to put a 160 knot airplane in the wrong place at the wrong time than it is a 90 or 100 knot one, and a lot harder to get it out again. - 11:16 AM
- Stephen Wilson said...
Dead pilots dont lie. NTSB reports show Cirrus planes advertised with a safety parachute are three times more deadly than their aluminum rival without.
- eric said...
Great comments and posts!
I agree with Eric Gideon and I'm finding people coming to me as a CFI, and saying "I'm going to buy an SR22 and I want you to train me. By the way, I have been in a small plane only a couple of times." Marketing is implying that this SR22 will look good next to your BMW, so why not?! It goes 180kts!! It has a parachute!! What could go wrong?? The problem is that these individuals are thinking about whether they can, when they should be asking themselves whether they should. Terrifying...I truly hope that the strong work of COPA, and their push for training, more training, and recurrent training (along with Cirrus) will turn the tables on the chain of events that have led to numerous recent Cirrus fatalities. - 9:05 PM
- William Knecht said...
Unfortunately, Craig repeatedly commits a rather serious statistical error in this book. He uses accident frequency counts, rather than accident rates, as the statistical basis for his conclusions about the range of the "killing zone." Frequency counts are interesting, of course, but they don't account for the number of pilots at each range of flight hours (which accounts for most of the effect he claims). Therefore, they say little about the risk that you yourself face as your flight experience increases. My concern is the nature of that zone, and that we use the right methodologies to explore the issue. You'll have to forgive me for being geeky about this. It's just that it's part of what I do for a well-known agency having to do with aviation (which can't be named, because I'm speaking here as a private citizen).
Statistically, rates aren't interchangeable with frequencies. Rates subtract the effect of how many individuals are present in each "bin" of a frequency distribution (in this case, the y-axis, where the x-axis would be flight hours). In fact, it appears that about 70% of the "zone" may be an artifact, and can be explained just by the fact that the frequency distribution of NON-accident pilots looks nearly identical to the distribution of accident pilots. See my paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457513003242 regarding this.
Bottom line: The kind of analysis we use on data like these is very tricky, is all I'm saying. - 12:50 PM


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"Wash under your wings", she says.
I'm a grown bird. I'm perfectly capable of deciding when I need a bath. What do the neighbors care if I bathe? They're flamingos, they smell like shrimp. Who could possibly smell 'keet over the stench of shrimp?!?!
HEY! What are you lookin' at?!?!
"Mabel! Don't let him catch you watching him! Can you believe he fell for that old 'we're having company' trick again? Squawk! I'll see you girls at the Nectaraunt at 6!"


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Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'
NEW YORK In recent weeks, Daniel Radcliffe has spent most of his waking hours either preparing for or performing in his first Broadway musical, a revival of the 50-year-old Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. But he has had sufficient down time for at least one new adventure.
"I just moved into the world of Xbox Live," Radcliffe says in the lobby of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where How to Succeed is in previews for an opening March 27. "And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round."
The anecdote is typical of the 21-year-old, who in person is at once sweetly boyish and disarmingly poised and articulate. Radcliffe sprinkles his conversation with self-effacing quips, references to people more accomplished at this or that — as if trying to deflect attention from his own remarkable achievements and lingering ambitions.
Prominent among the achievements, of course, is Radcliffe's decade-long run as star of the blockbuster Harry Potter film series, which concludes with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, out July 15. Soaring to fame at such a tender age, and in such an enormous enterprise, can be a mixed blessing; there are many cautionary tales of child stars who couldn't age gracefully and of actors typecast by beloved characters.
Radcliffe is plainly determined to be neither. He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a London-based production of Peter Shaffer's brooding 1973 drama Equus, playing a tormented teen who commits a heinous crime.
In How to Succeed, Radcliffe is once again playing against type. J. Pierrepont Finch, the central role in the beloved Frank Loesser musical, is a young window washer who, with the help of a Machiavellian guidebook, merrily connives his way up the corporate ladder in early-1960s Manhattan.
For Radcliffe, who had never portrayed an American but is fascinated by our country's history and culture, it was an irresistible foundation. "The show is set not only in New York before 9/11 but in America before JFK was assassinated. There was no fear, and no shame in wanting to rise to the top. It's thrilling to be able to remind an audience of that."
Mind you, Finch's behavior isn't always endearing. But director/choreographer Rob Ashford had seen Radcliffe in Equus and also knew him socially, and he felt the actor could make the character — played by Robert Morse in the original production and 1967 film, and Matthew Broderick in a 1995 Broadway revival — more sympathetic.
Radcliffe's Finch "has the naïveté of youth," Ashford says. (Morse and Broderick were 30 and 33, respectively, when they tackled the part.) "This Finch has a young man's front-footed nature — that ability to dive off a platform and figure out halfway down how you're going to land."
Radcliffe's approach to musical comedy is decidedly humbler. The actor had always liked show tunes: "My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car," in addition to the scores of South Pacific and another Loesser classic, Guys and Dolls. But the prospect of dancing "scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it."
Ashford begs to differ, citing the "real physical life, a real sense of being in his body" he observed in Radcliffe's work. He also notes that his leading man was "hard-working, driven, a perfectionist" — qualities that the actor doesn't contest.
"It was a matter of putting in the time so I could develop the confidence," Radcliffe says. "My dance teacher keeps telling me, 'If you're smiling, your feet could be doing pretty much anything and no one will care.' But if you have that rigor mortis look of concentration, it doesn't work."
Audiences have been pleased with his progress, apparently. "Everyone is going nuts for the show, online and in the theater," says BroadwayWorld.com editor Robert Diamond. "I hear that when he comes out for his curtain call, (it's) one of the most boisterous standing ovations on Broadway."
Musicals usually schedule longer runs than plays, one reason — song-and-dance requirements aside — that the former attract fewer A-list film stars. But Radcliffe is scheduled to remain in How to Succeed into early next year.
"To just do a show for six weeks, that's not doing it properly," Radcliffe says. "I did Equus for five months, and by the end I was definitely ready to stop. But this show is so different, so much fun. I think it will be hard to stop enjoying it."
He'll have a few distractions. How to Succeed has no performances slated July 7-8 and no matinee July 9 so Radcliffe can squeeze in promotion for the final Harry Potter film. He has "bittersweet" feelings about ending the franchise.
"It was very sad, on the final day of filming," Radcliffe says. "But it had to end. To have me doing it at 30 would be awful. I think we can look back at the last 10 years with pride — not just in the films, but at what they achieved for the British film industry. At the moment it's doing fantastically, but there was a time in the early 2000s when we were the only big film shooting in Britain."
For his next film, Radcliffe chose to work with "one of the bright lights of the British cinema": James Watkins, the thirtysomething director of the acclaimed 2008 thriller Eden Lake. Radcliffe will star in Watkins' The Woman in Black, adapted from Susan Hill's novel.
"I play a young lawyer who's asked to sort out the documents of a recently deceased woman," Radcliffe says of Black, which wrapped production in December but has no firm release date. "It's truly chilling, but it's not just a horror movie; it's a film about grief, and the different ways that people deal with it. Every character has been touched by death, but it should be beautiful as well as terrifying."
David Heyman, who produced the Harry Potter film series, expects that the young actor will continue to seek out challenging projects. "Dan is an incredibly curious person," Heyman says. "He always pushes himself, never inhabits the safe zone. He's not one to sit quietly and do nothing."
That said, Radcliffe seems to cherish his moments of repose.
"I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring." Home is an apartment in New York's West Village. "I love it, because it's possible to be kind of anonymous. I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance."
He acknowledges having a girlfriend, based in England. "She's here with me as much as she can be. She's about to start a new job in not too long, though, so I won't see her for a few months."
Is she an actress?
"No! God, no," Radcliffe says, looking a bit horrified. He prefers to keep her identity private, "not so much for my sake as for hers."
An avid reader, Radcliffe carries with him a paperback collection of writings by the famously witty, distinctly New York-based author Fran Lebowitz. "I'd love to write. But then you read something like this" — he holds up the book — "and you go, well, maybe not. She's just so brilliant."
He says he does write poetry and would like to craft a screenplay one day. He's also interested in other aspects of the medium that made him a star, noting that his friend and role model Gary Oldman has tried his hand at directing.
"If I could show just a fraction of the versatility (Oldman) has, I'd be happy," he says. But even if Radcliffe underemphasizes the ground he already has covered, he's clearly grateful for the ride.
"I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK," Radcliffe says. "People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this."
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RRS Team - Einstein@Home
I have created a Rational Response Squad team for Einstein@Home, which is a program that uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (i.e., pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Please download BOINC, install it, provide the information it asks for, and when prompted for the address (or URL) of the project, enter "http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/" without quotes to get started searching for pulsars, and visit the RRS team page and click join and provide your login information (created during BOINC installation) if you're prompted to do so. To contribute to the project, just let the BOINC program run on your computer. The longer you let it run, the more tasks it can accomplish, which gets you credits (i.e., points). I've started us off with 3,327 credits. Please contribute to the search!
I just learned of the Rational Response Squad team for Folding@Home. This is similar to Einstein@Home, except it does various calculations on proteins to see how they fold and how they misfold to cause certain diseases. If you want to contribute to the project, just download the folding@home client, give it a username, and enter the number 79973 for the "team number."
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!
There is also a:
site. It uses BOINC too.
Best projects:
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Project
Let's make a team there too.
"Skynet will become self aware"
Sarah Connor "It's not every day you find out you caused the end of the world, he took it pretty well".
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Sweet dude. I'd join it, but I've already contributed a bunch under my own ID. Might as well keep going that way.
Yay PS3 for folding proteins while I sleep.
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It doesn't matter under which name or team you do it, just do it
I'm surprised I found this thread so easily. As it happens, I did join the RRS team. Now I find that I've contributed about twice as much as everyone else on the team combined, not including what I contributed on my own before joining the team. Worse, I haven't noticed anyone else going up for months. C'mon slackers! Donate a few CPU hours to unlocking a potential cure for cancer, and other genetic disorders!
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Good job, Vastet
I apologize for the slack on my end. My time contributing to these projects declined so imperceptibly that I really didn't notice the change. I will solve that little problem. Since making this thread, I switched to the Linux operating system, and I'm having some trouble getting the stuff working. I have worked around my problems in BOINC and now have an Einstein@Home task running. Folding@Home is being a bit of a bother though. I've solved the problem before, I just need to remember how I did it. Sooner or later, I'll have a folding task running
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!
I keep trying to sign up to the Einstein at home group, and when it asks for the URL to link to I put this in: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=9377
It keeps telling me it's unavailable... am I doing it wrong?
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I just came back here to say something about that.
It seems that the original team got shutdown because it was inactive. I have created a new RRS team
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!
Damn I'm still getting "This project is temporarily unavailable"
- Brian Sapient
Buy popular atheist books and support the Rational Response Squad at the same time on Amazon.
Maybe it took awhile to get the page up? Or possibly they were caching data at the time. When clicking the link below, I found the page linked below the link below.
So it's up. I don't have a system to put on Einstein@home or I'd test it further.
Proud Canadian, Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
I have also been able to access the team page, before and after Brian said he couldn't. I don't know what the problem is.
Anyway, I finally got Folding@Home working again
Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!
Lol. I thought about looking for this post to bump it the other day. I sign in this morning and I find a spammer found it for me. What a lovely coincidence.
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Since the subject has been raised publicly, I want to confirm for your readers that this summer I have been laying the groundwork to run for the Ward 5 Alderman seat in 2013.
My top priority continues to be to serve Ward 5 as its representative on the School Committee, which I have done for 6 1/2 years now. I will continue to work hard and do everything I can to improve our schools in that role through the end of 2013.
This summer I have been spending a lot of time working for the election of three terrific candidates, Denise Provost for State Representative, Elizabeth Warren for U.S. Senate, and Maryann Heuston for Register of Deeds.
I did not think it appropriate to speak publicly about my interest in running for Ward 5 Alderman because the next municipal election is 15 months away in November 2013 and there are two extremely important elections coming up on September 6th and November 6th, 2012. But since the subject has been raised, and rumors are flying around which may affect some of my colleagues on the School Committee, I wanted to clarify things.
Mark Niedergang
Ward 5 School Committee Representative
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Yahoo — another progressive will bite the dust.
Dont get upset…Massachusetts & local politics have a history.
Yup some of them start on the schoool committee, thus learning the political bad habits of Somerville politics and then graduate on to another political city office to learn how to "progressively" move up the ladder of "screwing the taxpayer" and "white envelope puhleez 101″. Then later for some, they move on to "Corrections 202″ for a new career "Making License Plates 10-12″…..lol Aint politics grand? His score on the choice of candidates (1 out of 3) wouldnt make him rich if he was betting at Foxwoods…lol


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nice chandelier Nice, chandelier. The best part is that it was already assembled. All I had to do was push the arms out and put the shades on. It matches the rest of my oil rubbed bronze fixtures. I was alittle concerned about that, but It matches well. The big box stores wanted at least $150 dollars more for one like this, but these glass shades are much thicker glass.
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beautiful and simple for dining room The color is an oil rubbed bronze finish without the variation. I had a lamp shade that was broken upon arrival and overstock sent a new one no problem. Would purchase again! I love the chandelier. My husband likes it too - clean looking design. I did take a pic of it but I don't see a place to post, sorry.
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Is there a match chain (extension) that can be purchased separately?
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Do you carry coordinating pendants?
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Now, suppose many people who actually fed their children public apples discovered something wrong with them. Some apples were bitter, others mushy and others rotten to the core.
When they complained to the public-apple agencies, agency bureaucrats and their union would say: "Excuse me, the bad apples are not our fault. You need to give us more money so we can build better apple storage facilities, and so we can pay better wages to apple handlers."
So the government forced everybody to pay more for its apples.
Now, the public-apple agencies built beautiful new apple storage facilities. They paid their apple handlers handsomely. Still, a disturbing number of apples remained bitter, mushy or rotten to the core.
In the face of new complaints, the bureaucrats and their union declared, "We need a federal Department of Apples."
Conservatives fruitlessly argued that the Constitution does not authorize a federal Department of Apples. Congress created one anyway. The new DOA spent vast sums paying its own bureaucrats and subsidizing local government apple agencies. Still, many public apples remained bitter, mushy or rotten to the core.
A "compassionate conservative" -- N.B. a "big government conservative" -- was elected president. He advocated giving even more federal aid to local public-apple agencies in exchange for a federal "apple accountability" program. Under the program, states were required to test their apples every year, with the goal that after 13 years every public apple would be good enough to eat.
After several years, the tests showed almost no improvement in public apples. Apple agency bureaucrats and their union representatives complained that the apple-accountability standards were unrealistic. So the secretary of apples relaxed the standards, and the compassionate conservative president called on Congress to reauthorize the program.
The public apple in this parable, of course, is public education -- which is indeed rotten in many places.
If there is one thing the Department of Education does well, it is collect statistics about schools. According to its National Center for Education Statistics, Americans in recent decades paid for a massive increase in spending on government schools. Between the 1970 and 2002 school years, average per-pupil spending in public elementary and secondary schools rose 111 percent, from $4,170 (in constant 2001-2002 dollars) to $8,802.
From just 1990 to 2003, average per-pupil spending increased 25 percent, from $7,692 (in constant 2003-2004 dollars) to 9,644.
This big run-up in spending did not cause a big run-up in student performance.
Since the early 1990s, NCES has periodically administered National Assessment of Educational Progress tests to a sampling of elementary school students. The tests are graded on a scale of zero to 500, and students are anonymously assigned an achievement level of "below basic," "basic," "proficient" or "advanced." "Basic" means the student had only a "partial mastery" of the subject appropriate for the grade level.
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Math results were a little better. Between 1990 and 2005, the average eighth-grade score rose from 262 to 278. Again, only 29 percent were rated grade-level proficient or better.
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Private schools did better. The 2005 NAEP tests rated students in Catholic and Lutheran schools. Forty-nine percent of eighth-graders in both rated "proficient" or better in reading. Forty-four percent of eighth-graders in Lutheran schools, and 40 percent in Catholic schools, rated "proficient" or better in math.
Increasing per pupil spending by another 111 percent -- whether it is done by compassionate conservatives in Washington, D.C., or plain old liberals in your home state -- will not fix public schools.
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Wards of Faerie: The Dark Legacy of Shannara
Series: Dark Legacy of Shannara Ser.
Volume: 1
Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: 08/21/2012
Seven years after the conclusion of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks at last revisits one of the most popular eras in the legendary epic fantasy series that has spellbound readers for more than three decades.
Tumultuous times are upon the world now known as the Four Lands. Users of magic are in conflict with proponents of science. The dwindling Druid order is threatened with extinction. A sinister politician has used treachery and murder to rise as prime minister of the mighty Federation. Meanwhile, poring through a long-forgotten diary, the young Druid Aphenglow Elessedil has stumbled upon the secret account of an Elven girl's heartbreak and the shocking truth about the vanished Elfstones, which once warded the lands and kept evil at bay. But never has a little knowledge been so very dangerous—as Aphenglow quickly learns when she's set upon by assassins. Yet there can be no turning back from the road to which fate has steered her. Whoever captures the Elfstones and their untold powers will surely hold the advantage in the devastating clash to come.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Terry Brooks's Bloodfire Quest.
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Category: Interviews Posted by: admin A TRAINEE solicitor who quit to become an actor is taking on the role which inspired him to pursue a theatrical life a year ago after seeing it at the Fringe.
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Gerard Butler, 26, from Paisley, was only a month away from completing his traineeship with a leading Edinburgh law firm when he saw the stage interpretation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, with Paul Ireland in the lead.
He explained that the move was not, in fact, unexpected. "I had always wanted to go into acting," he said, adding that he had been with the Scottish Youth Theatre.
After completing an honours degree at Glasgow University, he took 18 months out to live in Los Angeles and developed a taste for the big screen with an appearance as an extra in The Bodyguard, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
He returned to Scotland to pursue a legal career and secured a traineeship, until a visit to the 1995 Fringe.
'I suppose it was just the final nail in the coffin. I watched Paul Ireland in the lead role and that just confirmed it.
"I thought,'What am I doing with my life?'."
He then worked in a variety of jobs in London, before his first break in the Steven Berkoff production of Coriolanus.
From there, he secured he secured the main role of the anti-hero Mark Renton in Trainspotting.
The show opened in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday and will move to Glasgow for a week next month before a tour of Britain.
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