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The eight short-listed design teams have been announced for a competition to redevelop the Windermere Steamboat Museum on the shores of Windermere.
The Lakeland Arts Trust recently secured initial support for a £7.4m Heritage Lottery Fund bid, including £494,000 development funding, to take the project forward. The project aims to create an exciting and active museum which will use the lake and the lakeside setting to display the nationally significant collection of steam launches, motor boats, yachts and other vessels which are all associated with Windermere.
The first stage of the competition attracted 114 expressions of interest. The short-list (in order of the architect leading the multi-disciplinary design team) is as follows: Carmody Groarke; Adam Khan Architects; Niall McLaughlin Architects; Terry Pawson Architects; Reiach and Hall Architects; 6a Architects; Sutherland Hussey Architects; Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
Martin Ainscough, Chairman of the Lakeland Arts Trust, commented: "We are very encouraged by the quality of entries in the architectural competition and the judging panel had a difficult decision to select the final eight for the shortlist. We are looking forward to working with the successful practice to create a world class facility in the heart of the Lake District.."
Gordon Watson, the trust's chief executive, added: "We are looking for a fresh, well-detailed and sensitive response for the stimulating and highly significant site on Windermere and to display the museum's wonderful collection of boats."
The second stage of the competition will seek design concepts for the project. Architects will need to take into account the requirement of displaying the boats and other items in the collection in the exhibition space and wet dock, and enabling visitors to see the boats being restored in the conservation workshop, as well as designing an appropriate facility for the location to provide a world-class visitor experience.
The design proposals will be subject to public display and comment in late October 2011 and the design teams will be invited to present their schemes to the jury panel at final interviews in late November 2011.
SPACE pirate and alien life forms could soon be seen zooming around the Lake District – thanks to a new million dollar movie.
Old Hutton writer and director Rick McLeod has teamed up with a group of American producers to make a science fiction film based on cult television series Firefly.
The US consortium, one of whom has done sound-tracks for Mr McLeod in the past, originally began filming experimental sequences in county – but then the idea turned into a feature-length film.
Although $1 million is a relatively small budget for a movie, Mr McLeod said he was 'shocked' when the group gave the figure.
"Last year was a good one for us – we're still reeling from that – so when they approached me my first question was 'Are you serious?'
"It's not easy to make films in Cumbria, especially with the UK Film Council gone. When we had Leslie Grantham here, he was unpaid because he loved the script.
"It's great to know that our hard work is starting to pay off."
The film, called Lost Transmission, follows the lonely adventure of Blake, captain of a mining ship, with no-one but his computer to talk to after war breaks out on Earth. But he leaves the planet to find life on other worlds.
Filming is expected to start in early 2012, and will be split between Cumbria and America.
CGI effects are already being worked on by the studio, which created a castle in the middle of Windermere in a previous flick.
Before filming begins in earnest, Mr McLeod is shooting a short promotional video with action sequences in Old Hutton.
And he is looking for '23rd century pirates' to star as extras in a fight scene on Sunday, to be led by a trained fight choreographer.
"We're seeking punks, goths and heavy rockers. Long or short hair, tattoos and piercings are a bonus but not essential. The more outrageous the look the better," said Mr McLeod.
Filming will last for between two and three hours and anyone interested can email email@example.com.
Participants are requested to send a head shot with their email.
Discussions with actors to play the role of Blake are still going on.
Next generation of reactors will be built at Sellafield and Heysham, the Government announced today as it pushes ahead with plans for new nuclear power plants.
In the first major announcement on the future of nuclear in the UK since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Government outlined the locations deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The plans for new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which were published today, following a public consultation.
They will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers are hopeful that, with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, they will win the argument.
Nuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together, with the coalition deal allowing a Lib Dem spokesman to speak out against any new nuclear plants, while Lib Dem MPs could abstain on the issue.
Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has since given his backing to new reactors, insisting they would not be subsidised by the taxpayer - although MPs have warned that reform of the electricity market could favour nuclear power and amount to a hidden subsidy.
The Government is planning the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as an old generation of power stations is shut down.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Mr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from nuclear chief inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations in the UK in light of the situation in Japan.
The energy policy statements aim to provide a framework for making planning decisions so projects do not face "unnecessary hold-ups".
They set out the need for billions of pounds of investment in new energy sources, including 33 gigawatts of renewable power - the equivalent of thousands of offshore wind turbines - to meet the UK's future needs.
Energy minister Charles Hendry said: "Around a quarter of the UK's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy.
"This will require over £100 billion worth of investment in electricity generation alone.
"This means twice as much investment in energy infrastructure in this decade as was achieved in the last decade.
"Industry needs as much certainty as possible to make such big investments.
"These plans set out our energy need to help guide the planning process, so that if acceptable proposals come forward in appropriate places, they will not face unnecessary hold-ups."
He said the coalition Government was determined to make the UK attractive to investors to ensure that the country had secure, affordable, low-carbon energy.
THE Bassenthwaite Ospreys have moved home to live in marshes nearer to Bassenthwaite Lake.
After successfully nesting at their treetop summer home at Dodd Wood since 2008, the pair decided it was time for a change and have been gradually building a new nest since returning from their wintering grounds in West Africa.
Fortunately, the new site is visible from the Dodd Wood viewpoint so visitors can still enjoy watching the birds of prey this season.
Ospreys are normally faithful to successful nest sites, so the move was a bit of a shock for staff at the Lake District Osprey Project (LDOP). This is only the second time staff have seen the ospreys change nest in the project's 11-year history.
Nathan Fox of the RSPB's Lake District Osprey Project, said: 'It has been an interesting and exciting start to the season, with the birds deciding to move. We have been working closely with local landowners and farmers to make sure that the birds are fully protected and therefore have a good chance of raising their chicks."


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Student housing boon in Oxford
Two more large $36 million developments were approved by the Oxford Planning Commission that are geared to student living. The Retreat and Blackberry Hills developers both offered to donate $12,500 and $10,000 respectively to the Oxford University Transit system to be included on the bus route. Both developments are veering away from typical apartment complex settings and proposing more single-homes and townhouses. (April 10, 2012, Page 1)

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Interpretive Handbook
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Iron, 24 Hour, Urine
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Iron is an essential element, serving as an enzyme cofactor and to facilitate oxygen transport. Iron is cleared primarily by biliary excretion via the feces and secondarily by renal clearance, which is a relatively minor route of clearance. Excessive accumulation of iron in iron-overload diseases leads to higher than normal urine concentration of iron, known as hemosiderinuria.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Diagnosis of hemochromatosis, hemolytic anemia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinemia, and impaired biliary clearance
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Normal excretion of iron occurs at the rate of approximately 100 mcg/day to 300 mcg/day. In the event that dietary iron is below minimum daily requirements (<2 mg/day in females, <1 mg/day in males), urinary excretion will be less than normal.
Urinary iron is greater than normal in iron overload. It is not uncommon to observe iron excretion >20,000 mcg/day in a patient with clinically evident hemochromatosis. Daily urine output of iron ranging from 500 mcg to 5,000 mcg suggests active hemolytic anemia, early-stage hemochromatosis, or impaired biliary clearance.
Because iron elimination undergoes extreme diurnal variation (serum levels 10 times higher in a.m. than p.m.), collection of random specimens can cause very misleading interpretation.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
High concentrations of gadolinium and iodine are known to interfere with most metals tests. If either gadolinium- or iodine-containing contrast media has been administered, a specimen should not be collected for 96 hours.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
0-15 years: not established
> or =16 years: 100-300 mcg/specimen
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Gurzau ES, Neagu C, Gurzau AE: Essential metals case study on iron. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2003;56:190-200
2. Ludwig J, Batts KP, Moyer TP, Poterucha JJ: Advances in liver biopsy diagnosis. Mayo Clin Proc 1994;69:677-678


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Civil Rights Cases
Welfare Cases, Dockets and Filings
Cases filed
Cases 1 - 10 of 505
NB, et al v. DC, et al
as 14-7054
Plaintiff - Appellant: NB, by her parent and next friend, Michelle Peacock, Michelle Peacock, Delilah Wynn and others
Defendant - Appellee: District of Columbia, a municipal corporation, Vincent C. Gray, in his official capacity as Mayor of the District of Columbia, Wayne Turnage, in his official capacity as Director of the District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance
Menking v. Shah
as 13-4103
Plaintiff: Marie Menking, by her attorney - in fact William Menking, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Jeffrey Espinosa, by his next friend July Espinosa, on behalf of himself and of all others similarly situated
Appellant: William Menking
Defendant - Appellee: M.D. Richard F. Daines, in his official capacity as Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, David A. Hansell, in his official capacity as Commissioner, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Nirav R. Shah, M.D. in his official capacity as Commissioner, New York State Department of Health and others
Marquez v. Reed
as 13-3171
Plaintiff - Appellee: Carlos Marquez, Charlene Humphrey, Jesi Geil and others
Appellant: Lee Williams
Defendant - Appellee: Kelly Reed, as Commissioner of the Monroe County Department of Human Services
Virgil v. Clark Housing Authority Section 8 et al
as 2:2013cv01050
Defendant: Mike Washington, Sherry Washington, Valley Hospital and others
Plaintiff: Sandra Virgil
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
Juan v. Doar et al
as 1:2013cv04028
Defendant: John Doe, Robert Doar, Jane Doe
Plaintiff: Julia Juan
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
Jana Keele v. John Orr
as 13-11908
Plaintiff - Appellee: JANA KEELE, as Administrator of the Estate of Kara Thompson, deceased
Defendant - Appellant: JOHN ORR, Individually and in his Official capacity
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Texas Champion Bank
as 2:2013cv00044
Plaintiff: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendant: Texas Champion Bank
Cause Of Action: Other Statutory Actions
Galdon-Solano v. Municipality of San Juan et al
as 3:2013cv01091
Plaintiff: Karla Galdon-Solano
Defendant: Municipality of San Juan , Orlando Franco , Marcos Molina-Vega
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
Type: Civil Rights 444
Briggs v. Bremby
as 13-48
Defendant - Appellant: Roderick Bremby, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the State of Connecticut Department of Social Services
Plaintiff - Appellee: James Briggs, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated
T.A.E. et al v. Michelle Spirtos et al
as 5:2013cv00024
Defendant: Michelle Spirtos, Jon Eardley
Plaintiff: I. E., T. A. E., Riverside County DPSS-CPS
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


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Pacific Coast News
After spending the night at Kanye West's apartment, a fully made up Kim Kardashian hit the streets with a suspicious mark on her neck. Couldn't she have covered that up with her concealer?
Splash News
Rihanna is a Good Girl Gone Bad, who recently showed off a suspicious spot on her neck.
Ramey Photo
Britney Spears isn't shy about showing off her love bites.
Splash News
Paris Hilton has been with several smokin' hot men in her lifetime, and has never been bashful about sharing her passion with the world.
Drew Barrymore and Justin Long never tried to keep their feelings for each other on the down low.
Splash News
Hollywood bachelor Gerard Butler loves the ladies, and from the looks of his neck, they love him too.
Pacific Coast News
Looks like Tori Spelling left her mark on Dean McDermott!
Keanu Reeves is usually private when it comes to his love life, but he couldn't keep this evidence under wraps.
Bauer Griffin
Kelly Osbourne may be on the Fashion Police, but the television personality must have missed her own personal faux pas
Double hickey trouble! Jack Osbourne and Kimberly Stewart show off their matching love marks.
Splash News
Did Lindsay Lohan give that you to you, Samantha? Ms. Ronoson showed off her suspicious neck marking during a night on the town.
Simon Cowell is clearly getting some love at home!
Zac Efron has graduated from his High School Musical days and has established that he is not that innocent.
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A Thematic Journey Through The Book of Romans
Although begun as a personal letter, this epistle was undoubtedly intended by the writer to serve as a systematic presentation of the Gospel which he preached. It has been heralded as the most complete single systematic presentation of the great theme of justification by faith. Of all the Pauline epistles, Romans has exerted the most influence of Christian thought! It has been appraised by many for its immense value:
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Dr. Alexander Granados, President of Southeastern Bible College, invites you to join him for a thematic journey through the book of Romans. On this exciting biblical voyage, you will explore God's complete plan of redemption provided through Jesus Christ. Evening classes will begin Monday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. and meet in classroom 244 (entrance A). Morning classes will begin Tuesday, January 27 at 10:30 a.m., and will also meet in classroom 244. To register for this free class, register online at www.sebc.edu or contact Anita Scroggins at (205) 970-9213 or by e-mail at email@example.com.


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Happy Fourth of July – Independence Day Patriotism in Pop Art
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Why is it that when you look in the mirror left and right directions appear flipped, but not the up and down?
Here's a video of physicist Richard Feynman discussing this question.
Imagine a blue dot and a red dot. They are in front of you, and the blue dot is on the right. Behind them is a mirror, and you can see their image in the mirror. The image of the blue dot is still on the right in the mirror.
What's different is that in the mirror, there's also a reflection of you. From that reflection's point of view, the blue dot is on the left.
What the mirror really does is flip the order of things in the direction perpendicular to its surface. Going on a line from behind you to in front of you, the order in real space is
The order in the image space is
Although left and right are not reversed, the blue dot, which in reality is lined up with your right eye, is lined up with your left eye in the image.
The key is that you are roughly left/right symmetric. The eye the blue dot is lined up with is still your right eye, even in the image. Imagine instead that Two-Face was looking in the mirror. (This is a fictional character whose left and right side of his face look different. His image on Wikipedia looks like this:)
If two-face looked in the mirror, he would instantly see that it was not himself looking back! If he had an identical twin and looked right at the identical twin, the "normal" sides of their face would be opposite each other. Two-face's good side is the right. When he looked at his twin, the twin's good side would be to the original two-face's left.
Instead, the mirror Two-face's good side is also to the right. Here is an illustration:
So two-face would not be confused by the dots. If the blue dot is lined up with Two-Face's good side, it is still lined up with his good side in the mirror. Here it is with the dots:
Two-face would recognize that left and right haven't been flipped so much as forward and backward, creating a different version of himself that cannot be rotated around to fit on top the original.
Because they don't flip left with right (or up with down), they flip the 3D space you're standing in "inside out", so far from the mirror becomes far away inside the mirror and vice versa. A hand 1 meter from the mirror seems like it's 1 meter on the other side of the mirror but in the same spot with regards to left/right so nothing is flipped.
Wiggle your left hand - you'll see the hand which is to the left in the mirror wiggle. Wiggle your toes and the toes in the mirror image wiggle etc.
This common confusion stems from our familiarity with photographs. We forget that we rotate them to face ourselves.
Take a picture of yourself and hold it up in front of you. Probably you are holding it so that you can see your image. If so, you "flipped" the image of yourself when you rotated it 180 degrees around the vertical axis. When you look to the left side of the photo, you are looking over the right shoulder of your image. These directions are flipped!
Now look in a mirror. When you look to the left, you are looking over the left shoulder of your image. These directions are not flipped!
Now pick up the picture again and turn it so it's facing the same direction you are facing. You have removed the 180 degree rotation so that you and your image are "looking" in the same direction. The left side of your image is again to your left. If the picture is transparent enough that you can see your image, you'll see not the back of your head, but your eyes, giving you the impression that you're looking back at yourself. A mirror image! But again, left and right are not flipped.
When you say the mirror "flips" left and right, you are speaking from the frame of reference of one who is used to the 180 degree rotation that you apply to view an opaque photograph. But that's what we all do because we consider photographs, rotated 180 degrees to face ourselves, as being the "correct" left-right orientation.
What a mirror really flips is the depth dimension. That which is behind you appears to be in front of you.
It's easier with images... The mirror doesn't flip left and right as you can see in the upper image. The so-called flip occurs when somebody in the real world rotates 180 degrees about the vertical axis to see you face to face, as can be seen in the lower image.
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Take a picture and look at it. Now turn the picture to face the mirror. Question one: who flipped the picture? Answer: you did. Now, face the picture back to you, and walk to the nearest refrigerator. Turn the picture to face the refrigerator. Wow! Refrigerators flip images too! Don't believe me? Take your flipped page and hold it up to a bright light. The image is flipped; no mirror required.
Now, most people will turn a page around the vertial axis when they want to face it away from themselves. However, you could flip the page around any axis you choose, as long as it's in the plane of the page. You could easily, for example, flip the page around the horizontal axis. If you still believe that mirrors flip images, you'll notice that you've now tricked the mirror into flipping the image top-to-bottom, not left-to-right. Flip the page around a diagonal axis, and you'll get a very different result.
Bottom line: mirrors don't flip images; people do.
First, lets separate the concepts; there is nothing that is "flipped" in the mirror image regarding one orientation more than others. the full group of transformations $O(3)$ includes transformations where $det(R) = -1$. You can consider the following transformations examples of this:
1) they have one random direction flipped in sign, or
2) for the special case where $D= 2n+1$, you can flip all direction signs
moreover, all these rotations are equivalent to each other, that is, any of them is equivalent to any other by a normal rotation $det(R) = 1$
explained in other way, the mirror image is also equivalent to your image with up and down flipped. You only think in the equivalent with the right-left flipped version because its easier to build in your mind. That might be related with the fact that our bodies are almost right-left symmetrical, but very poorly up-down symmetrical
Here's how I explain it (this is pretty similar to most of the other answers).
Assume the mirror is hanging vertically on a wall, and you're standing upright and facing it, looking at your own reflection. (Just to make the assumptions explicit.) And let's assume that you're facing north, and wearing a watch on your left wrist.
The mirror doesn't flip left and right; it flips forward and back. Your front is farther north than your back, but your reflection's front is farther south than its back. Your feet and the reflection's feet both face down. The wrist with the watch is on the west side, both for you and your reflection.
So why do we think that the mirror flips left and right? I think it's because we mentally map the (mathematically simple but physically awkward) transformation to something that makes physical sense. The "simple" front-to-back reversal is mentally mapped to (a) a 180-degree rotation (something that people do all the time), and (b) a left-to-right reversal (which people don't do, but since we're pretty much bilaterally symmetric, it doesn't seem as strange). So the person you see in the mirror looks like a normal person who happens to wear his watch on his "right" wrist and part his hair on the other side.
If we weren't bilaterally symmetric, we might see it differently.
For an example of what an actual front-to-back flip would look like, see this scene from Terminator 2; sorry about the background music, it's the only online video I've found of that scene.
Imagine a mirror placed on the floor. Your face, looking at it, will be pointed downwards; but the face "in the mirror" is "looking" up.
The other answers here are great — I just wanted to make sure we discard the assumption that the mirror is placed on a wall!
Think about where a point above, below, left, and right of your point of view are in the reflection. Your head is still on top, your feet still on the bottom in the mirror. Likewise, your left hand is still to the left and your right hand to the right. It seems flipped because, to look behind you, you are used to turning around (which swaps left/right), rather than flipping (which swaps top/bottom). If we flipped upside down instead of turning around to see behind us, you would experience the opposite effect.
Because your eyes are set left and right and how you relate to the mirror.
When you turn a picture to reflect in a mirror, you usually turn it left or right. If you turned it vertically, the up and down reflection will be opposite, but left and right will still be the same.
All you have to do is imagine the line y=x+1 on the cartesian plane. If you reflect the line across a mirror in the vertical direction (across the y-axis), then the line becomes y=-x+1. Therefore, a vertical mirror flips the line's horizontal coordinates.
However, if you reflect the lines across a mirror is in the horizontal direction (across the x-axis), then the line becomes y=-x-1. A horizontal mirror flips the line's vertical coordinates.
The mirror just flips the axis perpendicular to its orientation!
Left and right is relative to you only but not to the rest of your environment (including the mirror), but up and down is static for the whole environment including you and the mirror.
I can't resist: Here are two real experiments I came up with to explore the assertion that mirrors invert left-to-right but not up-to-down. Fans of the scientific method (and of Douglas Adams) know that the first step in any good experiment is to figure out exactly what the question (or hypothesis) really is. So, if you like having "obvious" assumptions shaken up a bit, please read on!
So, with these two experiments, it's worth asking: Is it really true that mirrors always reverse left-to-right? The earlier answer that references Feynman's video discusses this same point nicely, so be sure to look at that if you have not already. I'll likely comment more myself at a later time. But for now, I just wanted to provide a couple of easy, fast experiments you can try yourself, ones that may make you ponder just what the question really is. (The answer of course is 42 -- that much we already know!)
The mirror is not inverting the image in either direction but rather is acting like a rubber stamp doing a 1:1 transfer from surface to surface. If you wrote a word on a rubber stamp with fresh ink, then pressed the stamp to paper, the word on the paper would be backwards but not upside down. It's just a 1:1 transfer.
A Mirror flips the image front to back, not left to right. In the mirror your nose is in front of your face, but in reality it should be behind your face. Because your image is flipped front-to back it just so happens to appear from our common sense perspective that left and right are actually flipped. The L-R flip is an illusion symptomatic of the front to back flip.
This makes sense from the perspective of symmetry groups however the wiki article on molecular symmetry groups is much more complete.
Essentially the front to back reflection is indistinguishable from a rotation.
Try this:
The flipping came from you. All the mirror is doing is allowing you to see the opposite side of an object which is between you and the mirror. For the cutout, the opposite side has the same shape, so you don't do any flipping and the image appears normal. For the paper, the opposite side isn't interesting, and you have to turn the interesting side to face the mirror.
A more real-world situation is seeing a license plate in a mirror. I you want to instead view the license plate directly, either you must turn to face it (if it's behind you) or it must turn to face you (if it's in front of you). Both of these turns would typically be about the vertical axis, because it's hard to rotate your head or car about the horizontal axis.
The simplest, but probably the only correct unswer is as follows:
"Left" and "Right" is determined WITH RESPECT TO "Up" and "Down".
Hence, when you say that mirror "flips" R and L, you ASSUME that it does not "flip" U and D.
If you will assume that mirror does not "flip" R and L, you will come to conclusion that it flips U and D.
The reason that images are always flipped in a horizontal axis in flat surfaces (standard mirrors, water's surface, etc) is because you have two eyes, one which is situated left of the other rather than to the right. If you had one eye, or eyes situated in a different configuration, the optical effects would be different.
Note also that the brain performs a double-transform correction to the image you observe since the way your eye works is very similar to a converging lens with the image beyond the focal point. That is, just like normal lenses, the image appears inverted (in both vertical and horizontal axes).
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When BethAnn Telford found out seven years ago she had brain cancer, her doctors told her she would never run again.
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Telford, 43, won a chance to compete through Kona Inspired, where fans voted on videos of inspirational people they thought should go to Kona. Telford was one of eight winners to secure a spot in the IRONMAN race alongside the elite athletes. Telford has competed in two previous IRONMAN races in Lake Placid, N.Y., but the race in Kona is known as "the big dance."
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Former New England Patriots tight end AARON HERNANDEZ supposedly ASSAULTED another inmate at the Massachusetts jail where he's being held. According to TMZ, Hernandez is USUALLY in solitary confinement due to his "celebrity status" . . . but somehow he was able to come into contact with another inmate while walking down a hallway, and he beat the crap out of the guy. It wasn't just a random freak out. So-called "sources" say they had beef . . . and that the guy had been, quote, "harassing Hernandez non-stop."
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2/25/14 Celebrity Appearance Fees
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ROBIN THICKE and PAULA PATTON have split after over eight years of marriage. They released a statement saying that they've, quote, "mutually decided to separate at this time." Meanwhile, the woman Robin groped last year says she'd be interested in seeing him again now that he's available.
Want a celebrity at your next party? Well, if you're looking for a star who's a little more happening, then you can expect to PAY. Here are 10 Ridiculous Celebrity Appearance Fees . . .
Kim Kardashian commands about $50,000 per appearance. And when she turned 30 back in 2010, she reportedly made $500,000 from various clubs over the course of a week.
In 2007, a Las Vegas nightclub paid Lindsay Lohan $350,000 to celebrate her 21st birthday there. She never cashed that paycheck, though, because she went to rehab instead.
He may have had to lower his asking price in recent years, but at the height of his popularity, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from "Jersey Shore" was getting $50,000.
Cher can be had for a mere $1.5 million.
Mariah Carey was once paid $1 million to perform four songs at an event.
Elton John demands a minimum of $1.5 million to $2 million. Aerosmith is in that same range.
Jay Z can command anywhere from $1 million to $1.5 million per appearance. Beyoncé once got $2 million for a private New Year's Eve party.
Christina Aguilera once got $1 million to perform for ONE HOUR at a Halloween party. That's almost $17,000 PER MINUTE.
And finally, if you're on a tight budget and literally ANY celebrity will do . . . Vanilla Ice will show up for 15-grand.
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Justin Bieber has rejected a plea deal in his Miami Beach DUI case because he doesn't want random drug testing, TMZ reports. The gossip blog says authorities would drop the DUI and resisting arrest charges, in exchange for Justin pleading no contest to reckless driving. But he would have been required to complete 40 hours of community service, attend alcohol education classes, install an ignition interlock device for three months, and submit to random drug testing for between six and nine months. Justin reportedly said no to the drug testing. TMZ says it's because the star has a problem with weed and sizzurp.
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"The Green Collection is an amazing collection of biblical manuscripts and artifacts," said Ray Van Neste, associate professor of biblical studies at Union and director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies. "It is a great opportunity for our region to have this exhibit coming to Union University during our KJV festival. The exhibit helps to tell the story of the translating of the Bible, of which the King James is a significant part."
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Looking for a cheap TV that'll probably be dead as a bag of hammers by this time next year? Many would have you believe the day after Thanksgiving is TV day, but they'd be wrong.
To my knowledge, I've never ventured out on Black Friday before. I've been known to get out on White Wednesday or Marigold Monday, but rarely on Black Friday.
Many years ago, I ventured into a Qmart to get a television for my grandparents on Thanksgiving. It was a name brand TV and it was on sale. For whatever reason, the store was open for a few hours that day and I was put in charge of obtaining this 3-foot thick, 700-pound combination of wire and glass.
As a side note, I believe televisions should be thick and heavy. I understand the trends point to everything being thin and nearly non-existent, but frankly, these thin appliances simply have no guts about them. On the other hand, my 19-inch RCA television — with the dimensions of a dormitory refrigerator — has more guts than the floor of a poultry plant after third shift.
My TV is not stylish, but it's still pumping after 20-plus years of service. I don't believe I need an HD TV to enjoy "30 Rock," "Justified" or a rerun of "Columbo." An HD TV might make Peter Falk's bad eye more vibrant, but it'll have little to no effect on whether or not he can prove Robert Culp used subliminal methods to trick someone into committing murder.
I also believe music should be listened to on real speakers instead of those sissy little ear buds, women with a little meat on them are gorgeous and all non-black and white episodes of the "Andy Griffith Show" should be incinerated.
Also, Anson Williams is most underrated actor of his generation, mushrooms on hamburgers are disgusting and button-fly jeans are some sort of terrorist plot.
So I call Qmart to make sure the TV in their circular is in stock. The person on the other end answers in the affirmative, but I'm not getting the sense loads of research was used to come to said conclusion. I tell the alleged person on the other end of the phone that I'm on my way and to please put my name on one of the sets.
I was told this would be no problem.
Driving into town on Thanksgiving afternoon was surreal and quite pleasant. The moron who usually putts along in the left lane at 29 mph. wasn't there. The over-caffeinated bully in his truck fashioned after a Panzer tank was apparently told he'd drank too much gravy to drive and was busy lobbing air biscuits into a defenseless couch cushion.
The amoeba who crosses the street with the velocity of an arthritic slug while texting had apparently been distracted by the shiny bits on "Rachel Ray's Cooking With Glitter"-themed float in the Macy's parade and forgot how to walk altogether.
With the store circular in hand and the name of the employee I'd spoken to fresh on my mind, I made a beeline for the TV section. I asked a man behind the counter in the electronics department if he could help me, but he told me he didn't work in the electronics department. I apologized to him for assuming the person behind the counter in the electronics department actually worked in the electronics department.
The employee thought about this statement for a minute and then asked me if I could spare any cheese.
After a few phone calls to J.T. Walsh, the person I'd spoken to on the phone was located. I pointed to the circular and requested the TV. The sales associate went back into the warehouse and didn't reemerge for nearly 15 minutes. The associate then walked up to the display model and wrote down a few numbers and disappeared into the warehouse again.
Eventually, my earlier suspicions were confirmed when I was informed that not only were there none of the televisions I wanted in stock, they'd in fact never been in stock other than the display model.
I spent the next several minutes describing in a somewhat animated manner the discussion we'd had on the phone earlier that day. Much emphasis was placed on the portion of the conversation where he'd assured me the TV was in stock. After realizing the gastrointestinal issues that could have arisen from my suggestion of what he could do with his offer of a rain check, he called over the store manager.
When I explained to the store manager what had transpired, he was very sympathetic but still unable to produce the TV I'd been dispatched to retrieve. To appease me, the manager offered coupons, a free Gerry Cooney grill and Jaclyn Smith's home phone number.
I informed the manager I wasn't interested in coupons, I already had a Joe Frazier grill and that Jaclyn Smith and I had an amicable breakup back in the summer. The only thing that would get me out of the store would be the display model of the TV with a 20 percent discount.
The manager swore up, down and over he couldn't do it, but eventually he gave in. I returned to my grandparents' house with the TV expecting a hero's welcome. In reality, what I got was a complaint that it wasn't like their previous TV.
Even though the screen was a little larger and I made sure to get the one with the easiest to read display, I was asked if I could take in the old TV to see if they had another one just like it. I did my best to explain it would be difficult to find a brand new 1984 Zenith TV in 1999, but I'm pretty sure they thought I was inept.
Eventually, the grandparents accepted the new TV and Jaclyn and I still get together for the occasional latte and kibbutz about the good times. The TV purchased on that fateful day is still working, yet no one in the house knows how to operate the remote.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Getting library books
How to find and get books
Books from Foley Library
- Search the Library Catalog
- When you find a book you want, click on the title.
- To request the book, use the Make a Request feature. Click here: Foley Book Requests
POLICIES AND DUE DATES: Before placing a request for a book, consider that books are mailed to distance students and will take at least a week (or several weeks if you are in Canada) to arrive. You are also responsible for return postage. Library policies regarding overdue fines and lost/damaged book replacement charges apply to both on campus and distant students. The loan period for a book from Foley Library's General Collection is 8 weeks for our graduate students. It's easy to avoid overdue charges by renewing books as the due date approaches. You can renew a General Collection book online and up to 8 times (as long as no one else needs it)!
Books from other Libraries - Interlibrary Loans (ILL)
- Go to the library homepage
- Under the Find Books Section, click on the link to WorldCat.
- Search for items you need
- Use the Send request by ILLiad link to place a request
ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME! Ordering books from other libraries is not your best option for "last minute" research. Books are mailed to us from the lending library and after we process them they are mailed to you.
BE VERY SELECTIVE - Please limit your requests for Interlibrary Loans and order only what you can truly use in your research. We want to keep the Interlibrary Loan service free to all students, but the reality is ILL is very expensive for the library, so please use it judiciously.
SPECIAL "ILL" RELATED POLICIES - Because loan periods may be short and overdue charges are so high, interlibrary loan cannot be used as a substitute for purchasing textbooks. Books we get for you through interlibrary loan (ILL) are subject to the policies of the lending institution. In other words, libraries that are kind enough to loan us their books get to call the shots! While most ILL books come with a 4-week loan period, in some cases the loan periods may be as short as a week and renewals are always at the discretion of the lending library. Please give "ILL books" your immediate attention when they arrive so you will be prepared to return them on time. Overdue charges and lost/damaged fees do apply.
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Adam Levine Makes the Ladies Scream – The Daily Swoon
Adam Levine, for all intents and purposes, is pretty much the guy you never want to take home to your parents. But that doesn't make him any less sexy.
Confession time: There's something about Adam that rubs me the wrong way. It's not the string of ladies he's dated — I mean, come on, most of us have pretty lengthy dating histories. It's just that he seems sort of … too cocky, I think. Or maybe it's that he has a song where he tries to convince you that he has moves like Mick Jagger. Sorry, dude, but no.
I look at him and I'm like, yeah, I would never get into a long-term situation with this guy. But? I would definitely have some fun with him.
Regardless of how you feel about Adam Levine on a gut-level, the guy is super sexy. You see him with his shirt off and all you can say is "YES, THIS EXACTLY." It doesn't matter that no one asked you a question. Your friend could be sitting next to you while you're looking at Adam Levine, and she could be asking you to pass the ketchup, and you'd just shout out nonsense.
Because he's super hot and we all know it — whether we're willing to admit it or not.


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Short bursts of gunfire drowned out the rattle of bullet casings as they piled up on the deck of the boat. When the firing ceased, a Marine climbed down from the elevated boat and another stepped up to man the gun.
Marines with Bridge Company, 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group conducted a training exercise here that not only tested their shooting abilities but all aspects of their jobs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1.
They practiced shooting the boat-mounted guns, assembling bridges, and rafting gear and personnel during the exercise.
This was the first time – in nearly a decade – that the company's Marines stood behind machine guns mounted on their boats.
"[While rafting] our boats really aren't set up for an assault, but more for a defensive position," said Cpl. Erikon C. Rosamond, a Kosciusko,
The Marines adjusted to other differences while firing apart from what they have learned. Marines are trained to lie behind the M-240 machine gun while firing on land; however, on the boat, the Marines had to stand instead. Normally, the M-240 machine gun rests on a tripod, and the shooter must adjust accordingly when switching targets; on the boat, the machine gun was mounted on the side, so it moved more freely. They adjusted techniques used for loading the weapon and correcting weapon malfunctions.
During rafting operations, these boats with mounted guns are used to guide sections of an improved ribbon bridge, or IRB, across bodies of water. This exercise tested the Marines' abilities to maneuver the sections, which are approximately 22 feet long and 28 feet wide, through shallow water improving their navigational skills.
"The training was good because the Marines were actually operating in confined spaces," said Rosamond. "They sometimes have only a little less than three feet of clearance on either side of their boats as they were bringing the bridge pieces down the creek."
When the bridge reached its destination, the sections still needed to be locked together and put into place to bridge the gap, something that can be tricky, Rosamond said.
"They need to know how to place a bridge, and then open and close it so that the waterway is still passable for boats and other watercraft," said Rosamond.
When the sections come together, the bridge is called a continuous-span bridge, which is effective, but not always is the best choice.
"If you can't build a continuous-span bridge, you can use [an IRB] and raft tanks or equipment across the water," said Lance Cpl. Brian A. Fagan, a native of Oakland, Calif., and a combat engineer with Bridge Co. "If it can be driven or walked onto the bridge, you can get it across."
The company also assembled another type of bridge, known as the medium girder bridge, which is lightweight and can be assembled quickly and easily to cross gaps – with or without standing water.
As a final learning point during the exercise, Bridge Co. used sections of the IRB as rafts to move tanks and personnel with 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division across New River aboard Camp Lejeune.
"[The Marines] gained a lot of knowledge," said Rosamond. "A lot of questions were asked, and I like when Marines ask questions; it doesn't show that they don't know what they're doing, it shows that they're learning."