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DIRTY ELECTRICITY! Our reader does a science experiment—cell phones kill algae!
GSG reader Susan L. wrote us that her son did his science fair experiment with the xZubi technology that you put on the back of your cell phone (also your PC monitors, microwave, TV screen, etc.). The cell phone with no protection killed the algae growing in the petri dish. The xZubi-protected phone killed nothing—the […]3 Comments • Continue Reading →
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Well WMDC is finally out of beta and is called Windows Mobile Device Center 6 for Vista in both 32 bit and 64bit flavors. (If you do install the wrong one it just won't work. Just uninstall and install the correct version and it will then work, well this worked during the Beta 3 version).
The WMDC update didn't appear in Windows Update like I would have hoped when the device was connected as a recommended update.
It is a 10.6MB download for the 64bit version and installs after you remove your older version. I had cancelled and removed the previous version before continuing. Here is a screen shot if you don't remove it first and attempt to install it.
However it didn't seem to work with my 64bit laptop. I am assuming a reboot is needed... That didn't work. So I should have read the Troubleshooting Guide and it said to try again with the device connected ...hmm I would have hoped it told me that earlier. After RTFM of the Troubleshooting Guide and finding for 64bit version you have to have your Windows Mobile Device connected during installation I performed take 2.
The Windows Mobile Device Center doesn't work on my 64-bit PC – If you installed the Windows Mobile Device Center on 64-bit Vista, and have previously used the Windows Mobile Device Center, you may need to manually reinstall the Windows Mobile Device Center a second time to successfully update it.
To manually install the Windows Mobile Device Center: 1. Connect your device to your PC2. Install the Windows Mobile Device Center from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx 3. Disconnect and reconnect your device4. The Windows Mobile Device Center will reinstall and launch
So I reinstalled it again this time with my Windows Mobile Device connected.
Now I have two listings for WMDC in my Programs and Features Unistall or change program directory.And it still doesn't work. So I uninstalled everything. Reinstalled the 64 bit WMDC beta 3. Then uninstalled it, then installed the new 64bit version with the directions above. It still doesn't recognize my Windows Mobile Device. I even tried a repair under Uninstall or change a program and it still didn't work.
Hopefully you won't have to do this, but I got it to install. I don't think all the drivers were updated correctly on the first install so I ran one of my favorite command lines for botched installs: sfc /scannow from the Start Search/Run. I also restarted for safe measure. If you aren't familar with sfc, this command will immediately initiate the Windows File Protection service to scan all protected files and verify their integrity, replacing any files with which it finds a problem. I don't know if this fixed it or not.
I then went to Windows/WindowsMobile and ran the setup again hoping at least it would install, but moreover I was hoping I could uninstall and try to reinstall again. So I still had my device connected and ran the setup.
And guesss what it worked!
This is the version that was installed.
The Windows Mobile Device Center simplifies managing media between your Windows Mobile powered device and your PC. With the picture acquisition wizard, you can easily tag and transfer all of the pictures from your Windows Mobile powered device to your PC's Windows Photo Gallery.
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Pro Ana Tips #2 – An Interesting ProAna Trick
Pro Ana Tips
Since we received very good feedback to our previous Pro Ana Tips article we decided to finally write a new article. You can see our previous article by clicking here: Pro Ana Tips #1. Also, before we get deep into our article please remember we added a free forum to the site where members have shared some very unique Pro-Ana ideas. Visit today and sign-up by clicking here: Pro Ana Forum
Also, as just a disclaimer, this website does not promote anorexia or any eating disorder. We recommend losing weight but by doing it in healthy ways. You can still lose weight fast and do it healthy all at the same time.
Pro Ana Tips and Tricks
We all want to lose weight right? If you didn't you probably wouldn't be visiting this site. However, as you probably have found out quickly dieting sucks. You are normally hungry and those hunger pains can be the main enemy to you looking the way you want to look. So we want to try to give you some cheap (or even free) ideas to keep those hunger pains away. So in our Pro Ana Tip #2 we are focusing on giving a cheap and effective way to curve hunger pains and also give you fresh breath!
Pro Ana Tips #2 – Chew some gum!
Chewing gum can be a cheap and effective way to keep those hunger pains at bay. If you think about it, when you are chewing gum it kinda satisfies that oral fixation. Now, chewing gum loaded in sugar isn't beneficial since the dentist will be counting the cavities at your next dental visit. So choose a sugar free gum. Ever seen or heard of NBC's The Biggest Loser? Contestants on that show are encouraged to chew gum. Also, there are studies out there that actually show that chewing gum can help you lose weight. More on that in just a bit. Another positive side effect of chewing gum is it gives you fresh breath. This is especially important if you smoke but even if you don't having fresh breath is never a bad thing! You can look absolutely gorgeous but if you open your mouth and speak and have bad breath it can completely kill the mood and even turn away that special someone.
The following few paragraphs is related to Pro Ana Tips #2 but it's just something to keep an eye out for the future so if you may want to skip this part if you aren't interested. I saw a recent article on the internet about a study on how they are trying to infuse an appetite hormone into chewing gum. I thought I would pass thing along because it was interesting to say the least and something to keep a eye out for in the near future. Recently a study was published (November 2011 to be exact) in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, that chewing a specialized weight loss gum after eating a meal (big or small) can actually insert a critical hormone into the bloodstream. This hormone is called human PYY. It's part of a chemical process that regulates appetite and energy.
Let's stop right there for a second. The hormone PYY helps regulate appetite and energy and what are two things that everyone has issues with when dieting or trying to lose weight quickly? Keeping your appetite at bay and filling full along with having energy not feeling sluggish. We can all cut major calories out of our diet but then you feel hungry and most importantly you feel tired and sluggish since the body uses calories to burn for energy (as well as basic bodily functions). Most sites that share Pro Ana Tips will tell you to cut out huge chunks of calories. So say you normally eat about 1,500 calories. Pro Ana users or just people who want to lose weight will say to cut that in half. That is a big deal and could be very unhealthy if you do this for a long period of time.
Ok back to the scientific stuff. So as the body consumes calories it released more PYY hormone into your bloodstream. Studies show that people who are obese have lower concentrations of this hormone in their system. So in plain English obese people eat more than they should or need to partly because they don't feel full or it takes them much longer to fill full.
Unfortunately, this special gum has not been released yet so don't go looking for it however you may be able to add it to your Pro Ana Tips bag in the next 12 months or so.
However, another study has shown that gum chewers expend about 60 calories a day. Also, if you chew gum before AND after a meal then your overall calorie burning increases by 5 percent. It also makes since to chew gum before eating a snack. Try eating after you chew gum and that snack probably doesn't taste too good. So you don't eat as much of it (or any at all). Add that to the fact that chewing gum also burns calories and you got a fairly cheap way help you lose weight and keep it off. One negative side-effect to chewing a lot of gum is the potential for diarrhea. This is due to the sugar alcohol in the gum (you can find non-sugar alcohol gum, just read the labels). So if you start getting very loose stools or diarrhea and you chew gum all the time you may way to cut back some.
We hope you learned something from this Pro Ana Tips article. Stay tuned for even more Pro Ana Tips and Tricks articles in the coming months.
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This post is part of Blog Action Day. Since I write about climate charts and graphs regularly, I struggled to find a topic that would fit Blog Action Day beyond what I usually write.
I am currently reading David Archer's Global Warming – Understanding the Forecast and realized that telling my readers about this excellent book, accompanying lecture videos and on-line models would make a great post.
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the science behind global warming, how sunlight warms the earth, how the earth emits infrared radiation (earth light), how greenhouse gases affect the earth's climate, and how climate models work. David Archer, a professor in the Geophysical Sciences Department at the University of Chicago, wrote this book for his class on global warming for non-science majors.
The book is accompanied with video lectures from his Fall, 2009 class and access to 8 on-line state of the art interactive models used by climate scientists.
David Archer's book is the best climate science book that I have found.


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MTA News
Current News
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 07:00
MTA Arts for Transit has posted a new photography exhibition at Grand Central Terminal entitled EAT, showing color images from roadside America
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 07:00
The On the Go! Travel Station — a new interactive touch-screen that offers MTA travel information and a whole lot more -; is up and running at the Bowling Green station.
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 07:00
This weekend, workers from MTA New York City Transit rebuilt piers and replaced drain pipes on the South Channel Bridge, rehabilitated switches in the Pitkin Yard, and replaced track panels on the N Line.
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 07:00
Customers using A, B, C and D train service should expect severe service disruptions due to a water main break in the vicinity of 110th Street and Central Park West. In addition, due to a switch problem in the vicinity of the Queens Plaza station, service on the F and M lines continues to be impacted.
Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 07:00
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 07:00
The MTA has launched "The Weekender," a new feature of MTA.info intended to transform the way riders navigate the subway system on weekends.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 07:00
Train Service has resumed between Port Jervis & Harriman
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 07:00
The MTA has awarded a contract to excavate the cavern that will house the 86th Street Station of the Second Avenue Subway, and build the station's basic structure.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 07:00
Ready for football? The LIRR is again offering a special, one-ticket ride from Long Island to the Meadowlands to see the Giants and the Jets and other select stadium events.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 07:00
Work will begin this September on the last major contract needed to extend the 7 subway line to the Far West Side of Manhattan.
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 07:00
This weekend, workers from MTA New York City Transit replaced track panels at Bay Pkwy on the N Line and Newkirk Av on the B/Q Line.
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 07:00
The LIRR is introducing some new Long Island Getaways to its fall lineup of escorted sightseeing tours, travel packages and deals this year, offering more unique ways to enjoy the fall season.
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 07:00
Service Enhancements and Track Maintenance Work Means Schedule Changes for Trains on Main Line, Long Beach, West Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Montauk & Far Rockaway Branches
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 07:00
Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the MTA reflects on a decade that began with rescue and heroism, and finished with rebuilding and growth.
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 07:00
The MTA has dramatically expanded efforts security since the attacks.
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 07:00
The MTA worked quickly to restore service after 9/11 and has been crucially important to lower Manhattan's rebuilding and revitalization.
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 07:00
The thoroughbreds are back from Saratoga and the LIRR's "Belmont Special" is off and running to beautiful Belmont Park for the fall racing season starting Saturday, Sept. 10.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 07:00
The MTA reopened the southbound side of the Cortlandt Street R subway station on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in time, as promised, for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 07:00
This Labor Day weekend, MTA crews fanned out throughout the subway system to replace track, build switches and renew stations.
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 07:00
Surfing in Long Beach is a time-honored tradition for Long Islanders and MTA Long Island Rail Road is the best way to get to the first major professional surfing tournament on the East Coast getting underway in the popular seaside city.


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The county council will soon take up an issue that has swirled below the surface of Anne Arundel County politics, has the attention of environmentalists and constitutionalists alike, and will spark debate: Bill No. 2-13, which would impose fees on county residents toward stormwater management projects.
The Anne Arundel County Council will soon take up an issue that has long swirled below the surface of county politics.
It's an issue that has the attention of environmentalists, property owners and constitutionalists alike, and will surely spark debate at a time when people are already watching their pocketbooks.
Bill No. 2-13 is a measure that would impose fees on county residents in an effort to finance new projects to improve storm-water management. The funds would go toward protecting the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways from pollution caused by storm-water runoff, mostly in the form of capital projects.
"It's always a challenge to ask for new fees, especially in the midst of a difficult economy, but we must take reasonable measures to protect the bay, and we do think this is reasonable," said acting County Executive John R. Hammond shortly after taking office late last month.
The bill was introduced last month by councilmen Chris Trumbauer, an Annapolis Democrat, and Dick Ladd, a Republican from Severna Park, at the request of then-County Executive John R. Leopold. It would impose a fee of $34 per year for townhouses and condominiums, $85 for urban or suburban single-family homes and $170 for homes in rural and agricultural areas.
Nonresidential properties would be charged based on the amount of impervious surface present.
Those impervious surfaces — including parking lots, driveways, sidewalks and roofs — deflect water rather than absorb it, sending unfiltered runoff into drains and pipes rather than through the soil.
A commercial property with 56,000 square feet of impervious surface — about 1.3 acres — would have to pay about $1,700 per year under the measure, for example.
Before leaving office in the wake of a scandal early this month, Leopold had said the fees would generate up to $26.5 million in 2014, the measure's first full fiscal year, and total close to $900 million by 2025.
The funds would support creation of new infrastructure better suited to processing stormwater runoff — such as holding ponds and wetlands where water can be processed through soil — and would also help maintain existing pipes and storm-water systems.
"Some people seem to think the [Chesapeake] Bay is beyond saving. I don't share that view," said Erik Michelson, executive director of the South River Federation. "We need to take drastic action if we're going to have a chance to do what we need to do."
All fees would go into a fund dedicated for storm-water management efforts.
In Anne Arundel, whose 534-mile coastline is the longest of any county in America, the need is acute, Michelson says.
State agencies have found that runoff pours 730,000 pounds of nitrogen alone into local waterways each year, for example, about a third of the total load. Septic seepage and wastewater contributes most of the rest.
Michelson served on a committee that studied county stormwater for six months, developing a proposal for the fee. Other members included representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, environmental organizations, home builders associations and the county administration, as well as advisers from the Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland.
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The county must impose such fees based on a bill Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law last spring. The law requires that 10 Maryland counties, including Anne Arundel, collect a remediation fee from taxpayers to finance implementation of new storm-water management practices within their jurisdictions.
The bill, which passed the House of Delegates by a 91-45 vote, then the state Senate by a 33-14 vote, stipulates that any county holding a federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit must charge residents a storm-water fee. The permits aim to keep pollution from being discharged into sewers.
The jurisdictions holding those permits include Anne Arundel, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Prince George's and Baltimore counties and Baltimore City.


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Don Imus
Biographical Information
Imus served in the Marine Corps from 1957-1959, then had a series of unsuccessful jobs as a miner, gas station attendant, railway brakeman, and aspiring rock star.
The Dragon is a Yang,
and is the Fifth sign of the Chinese horoscope.
Strength SuccessGood HealthEnthusiasmPluckSentimentality
Birthday: July 23, 1940
A time for self-awareness involving courage, strength, and determination.
Birthday: July 23, 2010
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Battling the Beast
Wearing class A uniforms, they sit sometimes for days, laughing, eating, joking...waiting for one sound, a tone that transforms them.
They abandon their armchairs for rubber boots, and their armor heavy and hot. Instead of trading jokes they relay directions, and orders, and shout reports of the status of the ENEMY--- "FLAMES ARE VISIBLE"
Fear and excitement grip the hearts of the freshest rookie to the oldest veteran as they jump into their big red fire trucks, perfect from washing, waxing and checking over and over. They pray that they have made no mistakes. The driver navigates the BRFT(big red fire truck) through the tight city streets that he knows as well as his family, dodging those that get into the way, hoping those he can't avoid will see him first.
They spot the ENEMY from blocks away - the column of smoke rises far above the trees, licking the sky.
They arrive at the scene, and again the battle cry is heard---- "FLAMES ARE VISIBLE"
Smoke fills the air and their lungs as they approach, hoses snaking, crisscrossing, coming to life as they surge the water from the fire hydrants to the fire trucks, that then sends the water to the hoses, turning them into weapons to use against the enemy.
The firefighters force open the front door, and a flash of liquid orange flame rolls out into the air trying to escape its defeat. With swords of water and suits of armor the firefighters advance into the structure, that is fully involved with flame, heat, and smoke.
They battle the BEAST nine or ten against one seemingly great odds.
But the nine or ten will win, emerging from the battlefield victorious as they always do, and eventually, they'll retire to their armchairs, thanking GOD that this time nobody was hit by the enemy "................FIRE................"
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Karl Granzow sentenced to 18 months
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A former Prince George's County fire official who pleaded guilty to extortion and tax evasion was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday.
Prosecutors say 47-year-old Karl Granzow was part of the same corruption scheme that led to the arrest of former county executive Jack Johnson.
Granzow admitted to partnering with county developers to bribe public officials for development favors related to the Greenbelt Station development project.
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Skype has released a new beta that supports video calling with up to five people — great news for web workers, as it should make conducting remote meetings a lot easier. While there are plenty of services that already offer group video chat (TinyChat, for example), Skype's existing popularity could make it a more natural choice.
One thing to note is that group video calling will be a premium feature (so perhaps it will be rolled up into Skype's new subscription calling plans), although it's free to try during the beta. But it's only a beta, so it's probably best not to rely on it for critical business meetings as it might not work perfectly. And everyone you call will need to have the new software installed. It's currently available for Windows only; a Mac beta should be out later this year.
Let us know what you think of the new group video calls in the comments.
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|I don't know, you had him last!
|— Servo
|904 - Werewolf
|Air Date
|April 28, 1998
|Arizona Werewolf
|Movie Director
|Tony Zarindast
|Jorge Rivero (billed here as George Rivero), Richard Lynch, Federico Cavalli (billed here as Fred Cavalli), Adrianna Miles, Joe Estevez
|Preceded by
|903 - The Pumaman
|Followed by
|905 - The Deadly Bees
The Movie
A team of archaeologists unearth an animal skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. During the discovery, a worker named Tommy is injured and contaminated by the specimen when Yuri, the ruthlessly ambitious, violent team leader shoves him to the ground. The Native Americans at the site instantly recognize the signs of a werewolf from tribal legend. Noel, the head of the project, seems to know quite a bit about the legend. The remains are taken to the lab.
Yuri sees an opportunity for personal gain when Tommy begins turning into a werewolf in full view of hospital personnel. He then conducts an experiment to infect a security guard (the director) to see whether he turns into a werewolf as well. (He does).
When a writer named Paul visit the lab in the company of the beautiful Natalie, a jealous Yuri assaults him with one of the skeleton's bones, and Paul is infected. During Paul's subsequent transformations, he goes around the city "doing things", such as crawling on the ground like a worm before chasing a woman through a puddle. Natalie, the love interest (who takes a freshly creative approach to each pronunciation of "werewolf" in the film) eventually comprehends what Yuri is doing and tries to save Paul.
- This was the most recent movie to be spoofed by MST3K in terms of production, being filmed and released in 1996. The most recent movie in terms of release date was Future War, which was filmed in 1994 but wasn't released until 1997.
- Several scenes from Werewolf were shot on the campus of Glendale Community College in Glendale, California. The lab scenes took place in the old Physical Science building before it was refurbished in the early 2000s. The footbridge that crosses Verdugo Road, in front of the College, is seen in several nighttime shots.
- Director Tony Zarindast had purchased the stock shot of the car driving into the oil drums and exploding before shooting. He had his personal car painted to match the color of the car in the stock shots. This creates a notable mistake in the film: The original chase car is a Ford Taurus, but changes into a Plymouth Acclaim for the explosion sequence (which is later noted by Mike and the Bots).
- To help keep the film on schedule and on budget, actors Randall Oliver, R.C. Bates, Joe Estevez, and Richard Lynch performed their own stunts.
- The many colors of Yuri's (Jorge Rivero's) hair: Black, Orange, Brown, Blonde highlights, Black and parted like Hitler, Salt and pepper dry look and Gray skunk stripe. To be fair, Yuri's hair never really changes color - it appears to be due to the inconsistent lighting and various days that pass during both filming and the film itself.
The Episode
Host Segments
- Introduction: After a fall, Mike thinks that he's James Lipton and interviews Crow, thinking the latter is Ray Liotta and interviews him about his film career.
- Segment One: Crow hits Mike with a clown hammer, restoring him to his senses. Mike attempts to affect an escape, but accidentally lands in Castle Forrester. Mike decides to give up after Brain Guy produces a cannon and points it at him.
- Segment Two: Mike and the Bots speculate over whom they would cast in their werewolf movies, using famous celebrity relatives (including Spike Knotts and Chip Hitler) as characters. All Crow can come up with is Ray Liotta.
- Segment Three: Mike, Tom and Crow dress up as a '60s girl group and sing "Where, O Werewolf", about "Cindy" (Mike)'s doomed relationship with her werewolf boyfriend.
- Segment Four: Mike cuts himself on Crow's head and begins turning into a Werecrow. Servo is horrified, but Crow warms to the idea and tells Mike what to expect from his transformation.
- Segment Five: Mike is even further along in his transformation, but Servo comes up with an antidote. Unfortunately, Servo is now transforming into a Weremike. At Castle Forrester, Pearl attempts to create her own werewolf, but Bobo produces a cocker spaniel instead.
Stinger: Natalie's flat emotionless delivery of the line "This is absolutely fascinating."
- The wolf in the last host segment was played by Kevin Murphy's dog, Humphrey. Humphrey had previously appeared in all of the author photos in the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.
- The helmet prop that Mike wears during his ladder descent had previously appeared during Mike's spacewalk in Experiment #902 The Phantom Planet.
- Included in the 20th Anniversary Edition DVD set with First Spaceship on Venus, Laserblast, and Future War.
- Werewolf was one of the films used in the 2013 Turkey Day marathon, based on fans' recommendations to Joel Hodgson.
- This is one of iCarly actress Jennette Mccurdy's favorite episodes.
Obscure References
- "Right - King Timohoe here is going to drive himself home."
King Timahoe was an Irish setter owned by President Nixon.
- "An American Werewolf in traffic!"
A reference to the film, An American Werewolf in London.
- "...a film called 'Operation Dumbo Drop'. Let's talk about that!"
Operation Dumbo Drop was a 1995 movie starring Danny Glover and Ray Liotta.
- "...Harold Robbins' 'The Lonely Lady'..."
The Lonely Lady was a a novel by Harold Robbins, later made into a movie in 1983 starring Pia Zadora.
- ""Louis Leakey in 'Every Which Way But Loose'!"
Louis Leakey was a renowned archaeologist, naturalist, and paleoanthropologist. Every Which Way But Loose was a 1978 movie starring Clint Eastwood and a trained orangutan.
- "Awww, the poor thing has TMJ."
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, a condition that affects the joint between the skull and the mandible.
- "It might just be the Bumpasses' dogs, we're not sure."
The Bumpasses were the family of "hillbilly neighbors" in A Christmas Story. Their noisy dogs were a constant source of annoyance to the father in the story, and the dogs eventually ruined the family's Christmas dinner.
- "They're establishing the hell out of this buliding here."
An establishing shot is used to show that the film is changing locations, or that time has passed between scenes. It's usually not nearly as long as the shot in the film.
- "E-O eleven..."
From the theme song to the original version of Ocean's Eleven.
- "A silver bullet." "Is Coors Light in your gun?"
Coors Light beer is referred to as "The Silver Bullet" in a long-running ad campaign.
- "If it's Martin, shoot to kill. Then *I* can be in Spawn!"
In 1997, Martin Sheen appeared in the movie adaptation of the comic book Spawn. (Probably a double-joke because of Spawn 's reputation of being a terrible film.)
- "It's the actual skeleton of a 'Pushmepullyou."
The Pushmepullyou was a type of llama from Dr. Dolittle that had a head on both ends of its body.
- "Hey mighty brontosaurus, don't you have a lesson for us?!"
The drum beats heard on the movie's soundtrack prompts Tom Servo to sing an excerpt from Sting's 'Walking In Your Footsteps.'
- "Travis Bickle moved out to the suburbs!"
Travis Bickle was the title character in the 1976 film Taxi Driver. He was mentally unstable and eventually shaved his head into a mohawk and went on a killing spree.
- "I'll take a walk!" "Over to Kirk Douglas's house!"
Reference to the actor Kirk Douglas and his often angry/intense line delivery, whom Yuri seems to imitate.
- This is like the time I hit that reporter with Piltdown Man's thighbone.
Piltdown Man was a famous paleontological hoax of the 1920s, where the skull of a supposed "missing link" between man and ape was found. It was proven to be a hoax decades later.
- "C'mon, 'The Sheltering Sky' moved quicker than this movie!"
The Sheltering Sky was a 1990 movie set in post-war North Africa revolving around two tourist couples. It is notoriously slow-moving and co-starred John Malkovich.
- "Flagstaff. I can't believe I'm still in Flagstaff!"
A parody of the opening line from Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Werewolf star Joe Estevez also filled in for his older brother, Martin Sheen, for some parts of the film's narration.
- "Oh, weasels ripped my flesh again."
A reference to a Frank Zappa album, famous for its cover art.
- "Word of advice, never have sex with Flo-Jo."
Track star Florence Griffith-Joyner was famous for having very long fingernails.
- "It's the Red Shoe Diaries all of a sudden!"
Red Shoe Diaries was a softcore porn (or "erotic drama") series that aired on Showtime in the 90's.
- "Ziggy played...GUITAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR"
Yuri's haristyle at that moment in the movie sort of looks like David Bowie's during the Ziggy Stardust period of his career.
- "Can't you see what I'm trying to tell you - I love you!
Groucho Marx said this line in the film Duck Soup
- "PBR me ASAP!"
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer used this phrase in an advertising campaign for their beer.
- I was playing Miss Havisham in the school play when I got attacked by a werewolf!
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations. She wore an elaborate wedding dress that had deteriorated with age.
- "You know what I really want to do?" "Is baby be friends with you."
Lyrics from Bob Dylan's song All I Really Want to Do
- Frederic Remington's Guernica."
Frederic Remington was an American artist famous for his depictions of American history, particularly the Old West. Guernica was a famous painting by Pablo Picasso depicting the Fascist bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
- Basquiat is in danger!
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a New York artist.
- Leland Sklar, survivalist
Leland Sklar is a musician noted for his facial hair.
- Live from New York, it's Saturday night!
This is the famous lead-in line to "Saturday Night Live". In the long-running sketch show's first season, the line was typically delivered by actor Chevy Chase after he made some kind of dangerous fall.
- It's a Maurice Sendak creature.
Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated numerous children's books, although the reference is probably mainly to Where the Wild Things Are.
- The death of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks is a prominent British neurologist and author of the book Awakenings.
- She learned English from the wild and crazy guys.
A series of sketches from "Saturday Night Live" in the 70's, where Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd played a pair of Czech brothers with heavy accents who are constantly trying to pick up women.
- "So, basically, werewolves are Jackson Browne."
Jackson Browne was alleged to have been physically abusive to his girlfriend Darryl Hannah, though no actual charges were ever brought.
- "And Congress enacted the Pop Rocks labelling law."
A reference to the urban legend that eating the carbonated candy Pop Rocks at the same time that you drank a carbonated beverage like Coca-Cola would kill you by causing your stomach to explode. Though this isn't true, it's still not recommended.
A list of songs sung by Mike and the bots during the closing credits:
- Pow Wow the Indian Boy: theme song from a cartoon featured on the "Captain Kangaroo" show.
- We Will Rock You: by Queen
- Tusk: by Fleetwood Mac
- The Battle of New Orleans: by Johnnie Horton
- Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves: by Cher
- The Lonely Goatherd: from The Sound of Music
- Here Comes Santa Claus: by Gene Autry
- Give It Away: by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Brand New Key: by Melanie
- Admiral Halsey/Uncle Albert: by Paul and Linda McCartney
- Cat's in the Cradle: by Harry Chapin
- Easter Parade: by Irving Berlin
- One Night in Bangkok: from Chess
- Surrey With a Fringe on Top: from Oklahoma!
- The Freshmen: by Verve Pipe
- Oh! Susanna: by Stephen Foster
Gags/Continuity Errors
An interesting thing to notice is that Tom Servo, who normally required the assistance of Mike or Joel to enter the theater, is shown entering the movie theater all by himself in the beginning of the movie, as Mike was not on the SOL when the movie started. Since Servo's hovering abilities were just as exaggerated as Crow's rarely seen feet and MST3K is a show that encourages viewers to "just relax", this was never explained.
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An unexceptional woman embarks on a loopy odyssey into the lives of others when she inherits - confiscates, really - the phone of a stranger she meets in a cafe. As the title of this poetic fantasy intimates, that meeting is a bit awkward because one of the parties happens to be dead when it occurs.*
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Swimming and Diving Closes Fall Slate
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University swimming and diving teams close out their fall schedule with a trip to the Mizzou Invitational at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Mo., on Nov. 21-23.
"Competing this weekend at the Mizzou Invite will finish our first half of the season. The teams we are facing are very talented and well coached," said coach Vic Riggs. "I look for us to raise our expectations, preparation and focus to compete at the highest level so far this year."
This year's field includes Florida International, Utah, Nebraska, Southern Illinois, Arkansas, UC-Davis, Northern Colorado, Missouri and the Mountaineers
Prelims of events will begin at 10 a.m. CT on each day, while finals of the events will begin at 6 p.m. CT.
The Mountaineers have been off the past week after traveling to the Big 12/ACC Challenge quad meet at Virginia on Nov. 8-9.
"It's a great pool, great competition, and a great opportunity," said Riggs. "It should yield great performances from us and that's why we are here."
The teams are off for their winter training trip in Florida following this meet, they will be in multiple cities and participate in the Orange Bowl Swim Classic in Key Largo, Fla., on Jan. 2.
All sessions of the meet will be available to watch via live stream at the following address: http://new.livestream.com/mizzou/2013MizzouInvite/
Live stats can be accessed at: http://www.mutigers.com/livestats/c-swim/mizzouinvite13/
Apple and Android users can also follow the meet on the MeetMobile App.
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This will be our first baby, and planning on doing as natural of a birth as possible, which OB supports. The hospital we chose also has a reputation of being natural-birth friendly, but keep in mind, it's a hospital!
Anyways, the doula who lead our birthing classes recommended some things to bring to the hospital. I liked all these ideas, but now that I'm packing the bags, it seems like a lot! I don't want to bring "too much" either. I thought I would run the list of the things I'm on the fence about by you guys, and maybe you have opinions on what will just be added clutter and what would be useful. Thanks in advance!!! :)
Note that the doula will not actually be there, this is just what she recommended.
-portable battery-operated fan for hubby to hold (instead of him fanning me with a magazine, she says). But I guess the rooms will have their own A/C, so how helpful would that be?
-yoga ball to sit on, because the position of sitting on it opens up the hip bones (hospital doesn't have them). Is there another position I can do where I don't have to lug a yoga ball?
-flameless candles: doula says it causes the nurses coming in and out of the room to speak in a quiet voice and be soothing (subconsciously)....so it's not necessarily just to calm me. However, I"m like....should I really bring these things?!?!
-someone said Preparation H, but would hospital provide that?
-plug-in heating pad. I feel this would be good.
Supposedly we should plan on at least 2 nights? I have some of the obvious things, like my own pillows/stuffed animal!, clothes, toiletries, snacks, drinks for me in a cooler (coconut water, Gatorade), laptop and other distractions. Any other suggestions are welcome. I would like to be prepared to be comfortable for the work of labor, so that I don't just kinda break down and then loose my stamina/focus, and then need more interventions (though I realize it's not that simple).....that is the mindset I am going for. I can be high maintenence when I'm in pain...but who isn't?
I plan on moving around as much as possible in my room.
Beyond that, I am just not really sure what "I" will need/want to feel comfortable. Thanks!
For one of mine the birth ball was wonderful through the whole labor to sit on, have one at home at least and if you find you *need* to bring it when you go in, then bring it. For my next baby I had the ball but didn't like it.
I don't understand Preperation H or a need for it, but maybe I just lucked out with my births? An herbal compress for inflammation might be nice though.
My face gets hot and the rest of me gets cold, fanning might be nice sometimes.
Setting the scene for the nurses' sake makes sense, most are used to the medical thing and moms on epidurals. Dimmer lights would help, and music, and EO room spray in a favorite scent. But if it won't help *you* feel comfortable then skip it.
Extras aside, my #1 labor supply is pillows, many of them to prop me up however is comfy at the moment. And lots of water and juice or whatever. And the patience to hold on and know however it goes I'll get to the end of it - turns out mine are powerful, loud, and nothing like graceful, but it gets the baby born.
* My own clothes to labor in. I'm going to be bringing a couple pairs of pajama pants, mainly to encourage the hospital staff to think of me as a woman in labor and NOT a patient, and to remind them that they can't just do a cervical check whenever they want. A couple pairs because I know I'll want to change after my water breaks, and that's usually later in labor for me. Obviously, at some point I'll take them off, but not until I'm ready.
* A yoga ball. This is to encourage ME to stay out of bed as much as possible. I kinda like to lay around in bed in labor, but this slows things down and promotes the whole "woman in bed on her back in labor" thing. A lot of things I don't like go along with that, like IV, continuous monitoring, and people thinking they can stick their fingers in my cervix whenever they feel like it. I feel like providing myself a comfortable place to sit AWAY from the bed sort of disrupts all of that. Especially if I'm wearing pants. :P
* Distractions like laptop, tablet, e-reader. Obviously.
That's pretty much all I like to bring, other than obvious things like clothes to wear home, clothes for the baby to wear home, carseat, etc. If I get hungry, I send my DH to get me something to eat. If I got hot, I think a magazine would work as well as a battery-operated fan (though usually I get cold in the hospital! It's always cold!!) I don't think I'd want to lug along flameless candles, and I'd definitely think the hospital could provide Prep-H if you needed it. They always gave me witchhazel pads after the birth, but I honestly didn't need them.
Although, if you think you'd like a heating pad, you should definitely bring that. Getting the hospital to bring you one will most likely be a PITA. They might even try to tell you that you can't use the one you brought, but I'd do it anyway.
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"But I guess the rooms will have their own A/C, so how helpful would that be?"
Do they? When I've been in hospitals, I haven't found that it's easy to change the temperature.
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Good luck!
Mama to P. born at home 10/09, and W. born in the hospital 2/13
about the pj pants suggestion.....do u think anyone will ask me to not put them on, or not wear them? Just wondering. I like the idea of wearing them. Especially while on a ball!!!
I like the idea of pictures to focus on too. Wasn't sure if putting up a poster is excessive?
Thanks a bunch!!!
One last thing... Someone told me to bring my own maxi pads because the hoSpital ones are from the Stone Age. Was that your experience??
about the pj pants suggestion.....do u think anyone will ask me to not put them on, or not wear them? Just wondering. I like the idea of wearing them. Especially while on a ball!!!
One last thing... Someone told me to bring my own maxi pads because the hoSpital ones are from the Stone Age. Was that your experience??
They might not be thrilled about you wearing your own clothes, and might suggest you'd be more comfortable in something else, but it's not like they can say it's unsafe or anything. They might not care at all.
TThe hospital pads that I've gotten were really huge and uncomfortable, but I felt like they worked better considering the amount of blood. When I get home, I usually switch to Depends rather than regular maxi pads.
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JJ SD and my UC baby HD And married to my highschool sweetheart
Nursing clothes, nursing pillow, nursing lanolin, camera, comfortable clothes including slippers, your own care products if you want to take a shower, phone, laptop, outfit for baby
DH - snacks, more snacks, beverages, laptop, phone, snacks.
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I had a bad experience with being passed over by the hospital dinner cart, and, after waiting for hours, getting nothing but a dry sandwich and an apple. So I would bring some canned soup or something like that, just in case. The hospital might have a refrigerator and microwave available for patients to use.
Being in the hospital was a lot like camping--no comforts except the ones I brought myself.
Yoga ball uninflated and a pump is quite pack able and the nicest to sit on for my births.
Get Earth mama angel baby bottom balls instead. Feels nicer, smells nicer, better ingredients. But they have everything to treat heroics there.
Bring snacks. I was starving after.
Your own water bottle. Just nicer to drink from.
Mama to J (Jan '09), E (May '11), and C (August, '13)
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Does the hospital have a tub for either labor or birth? I wanted to labor in the tub, but got very hot. With my first birth I needed two fans blowing on me while in the tub, and with my second I needed a constant stream of cold washcloths on my neck. The fan is a pretty good idea.
I LOVED the yoga ball for my first birth. I'd say it's a pretty good idea.
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Obama's European Socialist Empire
It has been a long time since Europe has featured so prominently in an American presidential race. Republicans, in particular, have seen the crisis plaguing the Eurozone as an opportunity to attack president Obama, who—they claim—is leading America away from its core values and towards the sickly collectivism prevalent in the European Union. Mitt Romney, in one of those hilarious-but-horrifying Republican debates last September, spoke of a president "taking his inspiration […] from the socialist democrats in Europe," before pointing out that he, in contrast, believed in America. His vice-presidential pick, Paul Ryan, was complaining to the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza about the lurch towards a European style of government in March 2009, before the crisis in Greece had begun, and has continued invoking the frightening specter of the Europeanization of American as the Eurozone's woes have deepened.
It is well known that political campaigns leave little room for facts and sober analysis. I will nevertheless attempt to inject some of both into the debate, to correct three misconceptions that are running through the straw-man concept the Republicans call "Europe": that there is a single "European" model instead of many different national models, some of which the United States could benefit from emulating; that the fundamental cause of Europe's troubles is "socialism"; and that President Obama is a closet collectivist who aims to turn the United States into a European-style social democracy.
When Republicans talk about Europe, mostly they seem to mean Greece, i.e. a country where "out-of-control spending" (as Romney likes to put it) led to a sovereign-debt crisis and to national bankruptcy. But how typical of Europe is Greece? In no other European country is tax evasion, a crucial element in Greece's debt crisis, so widespread—not even in Italy. Spain, often lumped in with Greece in discussions of the Eurozone crisis, had one of the lowest debt-to-GDP ratios in the advanced economies before the crisis—far lower than that of the United States. In fact, the severe downturn there was caused by an enormous bubble in the property market, whose bursting has wrought incalculable economic damage—sound familiar?
When one leaves the Mediterranean South, the differences between national models grow even further. Germany, for example, has been the West's star performer during the ongoing global economic crisis, thanks to labor market, training, and social welfare policies and that have helped it retain its manufacturing base and achieve a powerful, export-led recovery. It grew by 3 percent last year (compared with 1.8 percent in the United States) and today has an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent (as against 8.3 percent in the United States, despite Germany's stronger social safety net). Its balance of trade for 2011 was a surplus of 120 billion euros, which compares rather well with the 423-billion euro trade deficit of the United States. Surely, then, when Romney says that "Europe doesn't work in Europe", he must not be thinking about Germany.
On the idea that Europeans were brought low because of their devotion to socialism and its wicked ways, again the facts beg to differ. As we saw above, it was not "socialism" that led to Spain's big crash. Nor did Ireland end up needing official assistance to pay off its debts because of governments spending too much on entitlements (it was because of banks lending to much to construction companies). Furthermore, as has been often documented, the debt-to-GDP ratio of the Eurozone as a whole is lower than that of the United States. The reason why the U.S. government is selling ten-year Treasuries at under 2 percent while four (it may soon be five) European countries have been locked out of the bond markets is not Washington's fiscal prudence and its stalwart refusal to follow the road to serfdom. It is that the United States has a national government that can transfer funds from prosperous to struggling states and that controls its own currency. Spain, to use the most topical example, does not have access to sufficient funds from the EU to make a dent in its disastrous recession—it would only gain these funds if a "transfer union" was created on a European level, which Berlin is most keen to prevent. Nor can Madrid loosen the reins of monetary policy to help itself, because control over it has been ceded to the European Central Bank.
The final conservative shibboleth, that Obama aims to turn the United States into a European social democracy, also stretches the truth beyond breaking point. I will leave it to American commentators to debate whether the much-trumpeted rise in federal payments to individuals is the result of a new "dependency culture" fostered by the Obama administration, or whether it is due to the Great Recession and the immense and ongoing difficulties it has created for U.S. households. I'll stick to the two most significant of the president's legislative accomplishments, the Affordable Care Act and the 800-billion-dollar stimulus, which have both been central to the accusation of his socialist tendencies.
On health-care, all advanced European countries have government-owned, single-payer systems: the state provides health-care services, and all citizens are covered, regardless of their ability to pay. Health-care reforms promoted by the White House kept the system private, providing insurance companies, through the Heritage-Foundation-inspired mandate, with hordes of additional customers. Obama even resisted pressure from the left to add a public option to the law, which made him into a turncoat in the eyes of many progressives.
On the stimulus, it is true that European governments that could afford to chose the Keynesian path of increased public sector spending to counter the depressed private sector in 2008-9. But they did not do this because they are socialists addicted to spending, but because it is a well-established economic fact that stimulus helps dampen recessions and hastens the recovery. It is the same path that was followed by Republican presidents Reagan and Bush Jr. early in their first terms to counter milder downturns than the one Obama had to face. And Obama's stimulus, like those of his predecessors, contained a healthy dose of tax cuts—almost one-third of the total—not just new spending.
In short, the view of Obama as a European-style socialist—and of European socialism itself entailed in the Republican attack on the president—is an extreme caricature. The Ryan pick means that the Republican ticket will emphasize variations of it in their attempt to convince voters that they offer revival where the incumbent offers decline. It is an argument that deserves to be ignored.
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Wed, 2012-08-15 15:03
I live in an area dominated by Christian radio. "European style government" and "socialism" are used in the programs I hear as descriptors for the "One World Government" that is the supposed to be a precursor to the End Times. I would not be at all surprised that the otherwise irrational characterization of Obama as a European style socialist is yet another shout out to the base.
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Keynesian stimulus was used in the
country _____ in the years ______,
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pay off all the deficit the stimulus
had created within ______ years.
Keynesian stimulus has been used nigh on 27 years here in the US, and the deficits keep rising. Same for all 20 top western democracies: All have massively increased deficits so they are larger per capita than the US over the last 2 decades. None are paying back the increasing debts. The US has printed $2.9 trillion dollars to prop up the failure, Europe has printed $4 trillion.
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I have an application that is strictly used in the central time zone. Our web server is on pacific time zone. Data is passed to the web server from the central time zone and I want to display it this way. Every non-kendo control shows the time as is. The kendo grid is showing the date with an adjustment of +2 hours so it appears there is a conversion - which I do not want.
My column format is as follows:
c.Bound(g => g.LastUpdated).Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt}")
Posted 15 Oct 2012
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I'm also trying to do something similar. I am using a remote datasource that uses strings such as "2012-10-15 19:17:07
" to always represent time in Eastern (both EDT and EST depending on time of year). I am reading this from an XML feed. Is there a way to a) format the data so it is read with date and time, and b) is there a way to leave the time as is?
schema: {
type: "xml",
data: "/CMReport/changes/change",
model: {
fields: {
Start: { type: "date", field: "startDate/text()" },
End: { type: "date", field: "endDate/text()" },
Posted 02 Apr 2013
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I'm also looking for something like this.
It would be really helpful if kendo would not touch timezone
Did little search, this can help somebody else: http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/date-time-pickers/format-date-in-grid.aspx
Posted 05 Apr 2013
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Since the dates are created on the client when the response from the server is returned - the dates are always created with an offset according to the timezone of the browser:
You can try to create date in the browser's console and see the result (you will see the difference if your timezone is different than the UTC 0):
new Date("2012-01-12T18:45");
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Missouri State's Springfield campus sees record spring enrollment
Official enrollment numbers for Missouri State University's Springfield campus and the Missouri State system set new spring enrollment records. The official spring 2013 enrollment on the Springfield campus is 19,919 students, up from 19,715 in spring 2012.
In addition to the 19,919 students on the Springfield campus, 1,768 students are enrolled on the West Plains campus. Some 58 students are enrolled on both campuses; these students were only counted once in the system total. The unduplicated total of 21,629 is believed to be a spring semester enrollment record for the Missouri State University system.
The spring 2013 official enrollment figures are based on the 20th day of classes, the State of Missouri's official enrollment census date.
Enrollment of students from under-represented groups increased by 11.8 percent to 2,105 students and enrollment of international students increased by 12.4 percent to 1,397 students.
Spring enrollment on the Springfield campus was largely fueled by significant increases in the following areas:
- High school dual credit is up 6.8 percent to 1,953 students
- Executive MBA is up 58.9 percent to 178 students
- English Language Institute is up 40.4 percent to 212 students
Missouri State also saw significant increases in the number of students primarily taking courses online, up 20.5 percent to 1,004, and students predominantly taking evening courses, up 8.9 percent to 1,750.
"Students are interested in having more options in how and when they take classes," said Missouri State President Clifton M. Smart III. "In response, in recent years we've increased the number of classes and degrees that are offered in the evenings or online."
The biggest percentage increase in enrollment occurred in the William H. Darr School of Agriculture, which has 488 students enrolled this year (up from 432 last year), an increase of 13 percent.
"Generous donors continue to provide new opportunities for agriculture students," said Smart. "Dr. Norm Shealy's recent gift of his 250-acre Fair Grove farm – which includes farmland, livestock, a conference center and other structures – will allow us to expand our cattle operations."
Other departments that have seen strong growth since spring 2012 include the following:
- Computer science increased by 23.1 percent to 197
- Criminology and criminal justice increased by 12.8 percent to 520
"Students planning to attend Missouri State for the summer or fall 2013 semesters are encouraged to apply soon," said Don Simpson, associate vice president for enrollment management, who noted that the university is experiencing an increase in applications from new students for the fall semester.
Simpson noted that the university's priority deadline to apply for financial aid is March 31.
"Students interested in taking graduate classes should apply at least 4-6 weeks prior to the start of the semester," said Dr. Thomas Tomasi, associate dean of the Graduate College. "To be considered for a graduate assistantship, which includes a monthly stipend and a fee waiver, students are encouraged to apply 6-9 months before the semester begins."
Information for prospective students, including freshmen, transfer and graduate students, can be found on the Future Students website at http://www.missouristate.edu/futurestudents/.
Information on programs available online, off-campus and during the evening is available through the Missouri State Outreach website at outreach.missouristate.edu.
The university will host Showcase, a special program for prospective undergraduates, on April 20. More information is available at www.missouristate.edu/admissions/showcase.htm.
For information about admission to Missouri State, call (417) 836-5517 or (800) 492-7900 or visit www.missouristate.edu.Missouri State University is a public, comprehensive university system with a mission in public affairs, whose purpose is to develop educated persons while guided by three overarching and enduring commitments to student learning, inclusive excellence and institutional impact. The university's identity is distinguished by its statewide mission in public affairs, which entails a campus-wide commitment to foster competence and responsibility in ethical leadership, cultural competence and community engagement. For more information about MSU, visit www.missouristate.edu. You can also be our fan on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, add us to your circle on Google+ and see what's happening on YouTube. Receive notification of Missouri State news releases as soon as they are posted by subscribing to our RSS feed.
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On a much bigger timescale, looking back 600 million years or more - when CO2 levels may have been as high as 5000 parts per million at times - there are substantial questions about whether the CO2-temperature correlation holds up. Some studies suggest that there are major discrepancies during at least two periods. Others claim the relationship holds up fairly well, including this recent study.
The jury is still out because the reliability of estimates of temperature and CO2 levels so long ago is extremely questionable. For instance, estimates of past CO2 levels based on isotopic ratios in carbonates in fossil soils can differ substantially from those based on the density of pores in fossil leaves. These pores, called stomata, let in CO2, so fewer are needed when CO2 levels are high.
As with the warming in recent decades, to understand the causes of climate changes in the distant past we have to look at all the factors involved, from the steady increase in the Sun's luminosity to the dust thrown up by volcanoes. If one or more of these factors had a much bigger impact than CO2 at certain times during the past, then the link between CO2 and temperature will be obscured.
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Olympic Champ: Life Ban Could Happen Over Doping
Olympic champ life ban: Asli Cakir Alptekin, a Turkish gold medal winner for middle-distance running, is facing a life ban from the Olympic Games over doping. She could be stripped of her medal.
LONDON—Olympic 1,500-meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey was charged with doping and could be stripped of her gold medal. Another female Turkish athlete, hurdler Nevin Yanit, also was charged with doping violations and could lose her European indoor title.
Alptekin had abnormal blood values in her biological passport, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies told The Associated Press on Friday. The passport system tracks variations in an athlete's blood profile over time for signs of cheating.
Yanit, meanwhile, had "multiple positive findings following target tests carried out in-competition and out-of-competition" by track and field's governing body, Davies said.
Both cases have been referred to the Turkish athletic federation. Pending a verdict, both athletes are suspended and ineligible to compete.
"If they are convicted, they will be stripped of those medals," Davies said. "For now though, they are just stopped from running until the legal process is completed."
Alptekin also could face a life ban for a second offense. She served a two-year suspension for doping after the 2004 world junior championships.
Alptekin finished ahead of teammate Gamze Bulut to win the gold medal in London in 4 minutes, 10.23 seconds. If Alptekin is stripped of the victory, Bulut would stand to be upgraded to the gold. Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain was third and Tatyana Tomashova of Russia fourth.
Yanit, a two-time European champion in the outdoor 100-meter hurdles, won the 60-meter hurdles gold at the European indoors in Goteborg, Sweden, in March in 7.89 seconds. Alina Talay of Belarus was second, followed by Veronica Borsi of Italy and Derval Orourke of Ireland.
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Ample MoistureApril 30th, 2013 at 9:33 am by Jeremy Wheeler under Weather
You may have noticed that the humidity has increased quite a bit in the last couple of days. Many ladies heading out the door have been worried about bad hair days returning. Of course as my coworker Cheryl Tan said: "There are no bad hair days if you have enough hair spray". Yesterday we had widespread rainfall as predicted. It became more showery in the afternoon, but it put down a solid 1.5″ across the region. I had many weather watchers and instruments record readings close to that. Today we had more fog and drizzle than rain. The fog was very thick in many locations. There were even 4 school delays in North Carolina.
A large area of higher moisture was pushing in off of the ocean. This helped create the rain yesterday, and it led to the reduced visibilities this morning. We'll hold onto a lot of clouds today with some peeks of sunshine.
I do expect pockets of drizzle, but I don't see a high chance for actual rain showers. (20-30%). The winds will continue to bring in the cool marine air from the Atlantic. This is coming off of the area of high pressure near Nova Scotia. There is also a weak trough near the coast. This is a line of lower pressure that is also a windshift line. It is where the isobars kink on a map, as opposed to a close area of low pressure where the isobars connect. Anyway, that will help to create a few of those showers in the region.
Tomorrow the models show a deeper layer of moisture. So the chance for rain goes up a bit. (40-50%). Our high temperatures will be in the mid-upper 60s for the next few days due to this cool weather pattern. There will be some heat to our west today with highs in the 70s and 80s across parts of the Plains and Midwest states.
The heat to our west will be replaced by a large and unseasonably cold air mass. This will be accompanied by an upper level low and more wet weather. As we go into the weekend that system will sit over the central U.S. for a few days. Meanwhile we will develop more high pressure along the coast.
Finally, whether or not you believe in Global Warming, you have to acknowledge the abnormally cold air that has resided over other parts of the country recently. Here is an article from USA Today that sums up some of the recent cold: Cold Weather Pattern I talked in a previous blog about how the persistent and abnormal cold/warm weather patterns over the last couple of years can be attributed to very long blocking patterns.
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Fred has won 15 "Best of Louisville" Awards from Louisville Magazine, 5 "Best of Kentucky" Awards from Kentucky Monthly and 2 "Kentucky Best Sportscaster" Awards from the Associated Press.
Fred has covered almost every major sporting event in the country in his 35 year TV sports career, including 29 Kentucky Derbys, 16 Final Fours and 5 national college basketball champions (1 U of L, 3 UK, 1 IU). His favorite story is the historic 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup win at Valhalla.
He has hosted charity golf tournaments in Louisville for over 2 decades, which have raised more than $2 million to fight diabetes and cancer.
He now co-hosts "The Cowgill-Valvano Wild Eggs Scramble Fore Cancer," which benefits The V Foundation.
Fred is a member of The Greater Jefferson County Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame and The American Diabetes Association Hall of Fame.
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Unfortunately I have an iMac, was a gift for my home office and is getting outdated fast. I have not had the "want" to upgrade it, where-as, my Windows 7 / Linux machines are quite easy to upgrade as I go along.
A "Hackintosh" would solve this problem and on some level would be more realistic to my target audience if I could keep it running but I am not quite clear on Apples stance on this.
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Sadly I think it's pretty clear - it's against their terms of use for the product. But I don't see how it matters provided you actually buy a copy and then tinker with it however you want.. you're not going to be reverse engineering it, making money from it, trying to go to them for support, etc and I'd imagine from a legal point of view they have bigger fish to fry than chasing down random individuals on the internet who are trying to run their operating system.
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There are basically two kinds of Science Fiction themes that are preponderant within this genre. One looks at the Science that influences the stories and the other investigates the moral and social implications within a story. Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and A.J. Deutsch are among those who did the math and physics within their storylines, while H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury tended to ponder the social and moral implications of their futuristic novels.
On rare occasion, an author would combine both into a story line with great effect. One such was Forbidden Planet by W.J. Stewart. He combined elements of physics and psychology known to an advanced alien civilization (the Krell) that was experimenting with the "ID". It subsequently created a mental monster of such magnitude that it destroyed their civilization thousands of years before the arrival of earthlings to their planet. The term "Monsters from the ID" became a household word back in the 1950s for adventurers of Sci-Fi. It was devised in the mind of the Krell and became as real and ferocious as any creature here on earth. So the story was a moral parable as well.
The two authors chosen for this expose are Deutsch and Bradbury because they represent these two themes in fascinating and compelling ways, much like Stewart did with Forbidden Planet. Deutsch looks at what can happen to a subway system from a postulate about systems connectivity in A Subway Named Moebius, while Bradbury postulates what can happen to a society when it is denied the availability of reading books in Fahrenheit 451. I will begin with Deutsch and later return to write about Bradbury's tale of woe.
A SUBWAY NAMED MOEBIUS: A.J. Deusch 1950
The principles of connectivity state that as a system makes more connections to other parts of itself, the connectivity of that system increases in an exponential fashion to staggering levels. The subway under Boston had been growing in complexity for years. When the Transit Authority entered a new line into the system, it became so complex, that the best mathematicians could not calculate its connectivity. The topology of the system became overloaded.
Then the first train disappeared. The system was closed, so it couldn't have gone anywhere, but when all the trains were pulled, the transit Authority still couldn't find it. The searchers would see a red light, wait curiously, and hear a train passing in the distance, sometimes so close that it appeared to be just around the next bend. Where was the train? What happened to the passengers?
This is a cautionary tale of what could happen if you make your subway system too complex. And it revolves around the idea of a moebius strip; a twisted plane that goes from having two sides to just one in a closed system. Deutsch was a U.S. astronomer who understood the math of complex systems and made an example of extreme complexity to the degree that a moebius was created causing two parallel planes within a singular closed system. The mathematical connection with a moebius band is tenuous but the story is still intriguing.
The danger became real enough when two trains were found traveling within the same space but in two separate planes. At any time, the one train traveling within the other dimension created by the moebius could return to the plane and the track that the other train was traveling and cause an accident.
The whole idea is quite "Frankensteinian" . Deutsch seems to want to suggest that a Quantum Monster has been created underneath the city of Boston. These are not Monsters from the ID however, but rather monsters of Mathematical Complexity. And he is pondering the moral prerogative of examining the responsibility involved with making decisions about interacting too much with exponentially complex systems. Is he suggesting perhaps, that we "look before we take that quantum leap" accidentally into another dimension? Intriguing stuff, indeed…
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|Electric valve does not operate properly
1) Wrong valve size, flow too low
2) Valve diaphragm orifice is plugged
3) Solenoid faulty
1) Replace with correct size
2) Clean or replace diaphragm
3) Check wiring, or replace solenoid
|Battery operated controller does not operate properly
|Check the battery, make sure the controller contact touches the battery
|Replace battery or with your finger lift the battery clip upward
|Pressure regulator leaking
|Dirt inside the pressure regulator
|Remove from line, remove the washer and wash with water or replace
|Dripper or micro sprinkler has uneven or no flow
|Line broken, filter clogged, dripper clogged or faulty, pressure too high or too low
|Check drip line, clean or replace screen filter, replace or clean dripper or nozzle of micro sprinkler, check pressure regulator.
|Dripper or micro sprinkler has uneven or no flow at the end of the drip line
|Too many drippers on the drip line
|Make sure that you did not exceed the recommended maximum flow of 200 GPH
|Fittings separating from drip tubing or drip line
1) Fittings improperly installed
2) Wrong fittings with use with your drip tubing
1) Tubing is not far enough inside the compression fitting
2) Make sure you used the correct size fitting
|Dripper or micro sprinkler popping out of drip tubing
1) Pressure regulator is defective, drippers or micro sprinklers are installed improperly; faulty or worn punch
2) Pressure is to high
1) Replace pressure regulator, check or replace drippers or micro sprinkler, plug hole with goof plug, replace or clean punch
2) Install pressure regulator or replace
|Clogged drippers, what steps do you try
|The use of a proper filter should avoid clogging problems, but if you do find clogged drippers, here is a step to try
|While the water is on, hold your finger over the dripper outlet for a few seconds. This "back flushing" will usually work.
|Clogged drippers at the end of the line
|If many drippers are clogged, chances are there is a break in the line. Check your 1/2" poly tube
|No water flow from drippers or micro sprinklers
|The use of a proper filter should avoid clogging problems, but if you do find clogged drippers, here is a step to try
|Clean screen in faucet adapter or open the filter and clean the screen by washing with water
|Drippers or micro sprinklers have calcium deposits (white color buildup)
|Hard water
|You can remove dripper or micro sprinkler from the line and soak for one hour in a chlorine solution
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1) Drippers near the plants are plugged
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