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Hello again!
It has been a pretty busy last few days. Over the weekend, Thom and I started tackling our future collaborator's nursery! We are so excited about how it's turning out, we go back in a couple of times each day to relish in it. Very fun. We're super psyched about the colors we have chosen, and the imagery that will go on the wall. I'm currently working on stencils for those images, which takes me back to my many years of doing installation work which required lots and lots of cutting with an x-acto knife. I'm really enjoying it (minus the occasional "flesh wounds!").
I've also been sorting through all the baby loot that Nina gave me last week! Yikes! It's funny to see all the month ranges that exist in little kids' clothes: 0 to 3, 2 to 4, 3 to 6, 6, 6 to 9, 9, 9 to 12 and so on and so forth. I love to categorize things, but even that gets a little confusing. But in the end, it's getting done, and it makes me feel quite accomplished! Ha! Ha!
Today, I'm so, so excited to present to you a new "why people draw" that is such a wonderful example of how drawing is not just art, but is rather a wonderful visualizing, knowledge-sharing, enlightening thinking tool. Mathematicians Annalisa Crannell from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and Marc Frantz from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN share their thoughts on drawing, and how they have designed ways to teach math concepts to teachers and college students through drawing! They also discuss how drawing plays a part in their own process of solving problems.
This summer, Thom and I spent a long weekend in Lancaster, PA. On our way to lunch the first day, we saw the entrance to Franklin & Marshall College and it made us curious to know what type of school it is. Thanks to our trusty iPhone I did a Google search right away…what's interesting is that on the College's home page there was a slide show of stories, one of which, coincidentally, happened to be about Annalisa Crannell's involvement in this research about combining math and art. As you can imagine, I was immediately hooked, and I just knew that once I'd get home, I'd contact her and Marc about doing a "why people draw" interview.
Lucky for me, both Annalisa and Marc were happy to participate, and I'm so glad they did. Even though they did this interview separately, they were able to establish a really nice conversation between the two of them through their answers. For those people who love math, as well as for those who might not care for it as much because of past experiences, you'll find that their approach to math concepts and their use of drawing as a way to facilitate understanding is such a welcome idea. I also hope that there are teachers and parents out there reading this who will be inspired to go deeper into this reality that drawing can have a place in all classrooms, not just the art room!
ANNALISA CRANNELL & MARC FRANTZ (tah-dah!)
So, without much more from me, here they are (drum, drum, drum) Annalisa Crannell and Marc Frantz in their own words and images. Thank you Annalisa and Marc for taking time to share such interesting ideas as part of the "why people draw" series!
HW: What's your earliest memory of drawing (of being able to draw)?
AC: Actually, art doesn't figure very large in my early memories.
I'm sure I drew a lot as a young child, but my first real memory of drawing comes from a 7th grade art class. I was with one of my smart alecky friends, Mary. The teacher gave us a pre-test with the question, "Can you name any Renaissance artists?" and Mary's one word answer was "Yes". (The teacher changed the wording of the question on the post-test). I remember the song "She's a brick House" blaring on the radio in that class. I also remember drawing a geometric design once, but I don't remember any of the other drawings we did.
I seemed to move into drawing in my professional life without any real awareness of my own drawing biography.
MF: During my first years of school, my dad was training to be a programmer on one of the early business computers. He would bring home reams of typing paper for my brother and myself to draw on, and he would let us use his flow chart template; it said "Remington Rand Univac." It was ideal for drawing spaceships. I used the Display symbol for a space capsule; the start/end symbol for elongated fuel tanks; the On-Page Reference symbol for spherical fuel tanks, the Manual Operation Symbol for rocket nozzles, and the Data symbol for fins. With these, even a little kid could make great-looking drawings. That's when I first realized the power of algorithms in drawing. (An algorithm is a process that is done the same way each time, like long division in math, or dry-on-wet in watercolor.)
HW: What sparked the idea to create a course and workshops combining art, drawing and mathematics?
AC: Indirectly, the reason is that I was trying to find ways to engage my students with problems that were more immediate and tangible than the usual "When do truck A and truck B meet?" questions. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is rich with quilts that have wonderful mathematical structures sewn into them, so quilts make a great subject for a math class. Constructing these quilts requires a deep, if intuitive, sense of geometry, algorithm, and symmetry; each of these aspects has profound mathematical meaning. (The quilts are pretty to look at, too! I wonder if the people who made them thought about that? Hmm…)
I wound up in Indiana on one of my sabbaticals at the same time that Indiana University was applying for an NSF grant. Their big idea was to have mathematicians partner with people from other disciplines to do mathematics in context. I was already hooked on the idea, and I latched onto a brilliant guy named Marc Frantz. He'd already gotten an MFA from the Herron School of Fine Art and a Masters in Mathematics. Together, we started working on a course.
Pretty quickly, I switched over from quilts to perspective. I was following Marc's lead: he realized that there was REALLY neat mathematics there that few mathematicians knew about, and I was intrigued.
MF: When Annalisa was visiting my school (IUPUI) on sabbatical, I got curious and began poking around the Franklin & Marshall College website. I saw that she regularly taught mathematics courses that required students to write, and write well, about what they did. (If you can't explain a math problem in words, then you probably don't understand it.) Her sample problems and advice about writing were spot-on.
I was impressed that someone could design a course so creatively, and envious that they would even be allowed to. Then from out of the blue, Annalisa and I were asked to create a math and art course as part of a big, National Science Foundation-sponsored project.
Filled with adrenaline, I began by revisiting some ideas that had worried me in art school. We learned perspective drawing as a bag of tricks, but with very little understanding (at least on my part). When I began reviewing these tricks, I realized that there was a lot of fascinating math behind them. We began formulating drawing problems that could be used as carrots to entice students to learn mathematics.
HW: What are some of the things you have learned about the human process of drawing and seeing throughout your research and teaching?
AC: One of the big things I've learned is that drawing takes time. And that's good. It slows you down and can be meditative. Not many people think that solving algebra problem after algebra problem is much fun, but drawing many, many windows in a building is a satisfying kind of repetition.
Drawing helps my students learn to do what I do with my own mathematical research. When I'm stuck on a problem, I keep drawing picture after picture, hoping that one of them will be the construction that explains the underlying situation in a way that I want. It's only after I've drawn a gazillion pictures (is "gazillion" a highly technical mathematical term?) that I finally "see" the answer. Then I can try to explain it to others. In the same way, my students learn to spend a lot of time drawing and drawing cool perspective pictures, and by doing this they internalized the underlying geometry.
MF: The insights that have most influenced the way I see the world have come from fractal geometry. Michael Barnsley began his textbook Fractals Everywhere by saying, "Fractal Geometry will make you see everything differently. There is danger in reading further." He wasn't exaggerating. Once you've learned about fractals—shapes that are made of smaller copies of themselves, like trees are made of branches—there's no going back. After that, you see fractals everywhere: in trees, clouds, mountains, lightning, even in the kitchen (cauliflower and broccoli). Interestingly, the artists beat the mathematicians to this discovery. Asian artists, particularly Japanese woodblock artists in the nineteenth century, often formalized natural shapes as symbols virtually identical to fractals studied today.
HW: What is your definition of drawing? Has your definition changed after your research? If so, in what way(s)?
AC: I don't think I want to define drawing, but I can describe what drawing means to me. For me, the act of drawing is a way of exploring ideas, and a finished drawing is a way of conveying ideas. These ideas could be a sense of space (as in many of my students' perspective drawings) or a mathematical theorem (think about drawing the Pythagorean Theorem) or a sense of structure (as in drawing trees or mountains using fractal algorithms).
I don't know that my research has changed the meaning that drawing has for me, but working with Marc has certainly enhanced my appreciation of drawing as a powerful intellectual tool.
MF: Sometimes a drawing is referred to as a "study." I feel now more than ever that drawing and studying are inextricably linked. When I want to understand something better, whether it's something in the real world or an idea in mathematics, I almost always take pencil and paper and make a drawing of some kind. That's just my way of relating to things and ideas.
HW: In what ways has your own appreciation for art been enhanced by teaching a mathematical approach to looking at it?
AC: I think I described above the appreciation I have for the act of drawing. Teaching perspective from a mathematical point of view has also taught me how much more I can get from a painting by looking at it from many distances: getting up close to look at the brush strokes, getting way far back to see the whole composition, and also finding the perfect middle ground where the painting "pops" into perfect perspective, where I feel like I'm actually standing in that cathedral pictured on the canvas.
MF: I agree with Annalisa that it's a revelation to see a good work in perspective, viewing with just one eye from the viewpoint—the place from which the painting has an incredible sense of depth. One of my former art professors said she was in a gallery in Italy that had tiles on the floor to show you where to stand in order to do this. For the most part, however, the experience is a well-kept secret, as are the geometric techniques used to find the viewpoints. I never get tired of treating friends to a viewpoints tour of my local art museum, and hearing their gasps of astonishment. That's where the title of our book came from.
HW: Could you explain, in layman's terms, how projective and fractal geometry relate to drawing?
AC: "Projective geometry" describes how we project the three-dimensional world around us onto a two-dimensional canvas. Cameras do this all the time, and they can do it with any shape, including a human face. Projective geometry handles mostly the part of the world that is points and lines. Because of that, my students draw a lot of man-made objects: buildings, letters, furniture, etc.
"Fractal geometry" is better at dealing with natural objects, particularly objects with neat textures. The word "fractal" comes from the same root word as "fracture"; it describes things like broccoli or clouds, where if you break a little piece off, that piece looks like the whole thing. Fractal drawings contain a lot of repetition at smaller and smaller scales, like drawing a big tree that has branches, each of which has tinier branches.
MF: I couldn't do better than Annalisa's explanation.
HW: Could you describe the objective and the process of doing tape drawings on windows that you ask your students to do?
AC: I could stand up in front of my students and say, "When you draw a picture of lines going away from you, you have to use a vanishing point." But that's not the best way to teach: it's boring, and the students think I'm telling them some weird, arbitrary rule.
Instead, Marc and I have our students work in groups to create a drawing of what they see in the world. One student (the "art director") stands about 4 to 6 feet from a large window. The other students put drafting tape on the window where the art director sees edges of buildings and other objects outside. From the art director's position, the tape lines up exactly with lines in the outside world. When the students are finished with their picture, I can show them that THEY created this thing we'll eventually call the vanishing point. So they are telling me how to draw the world; I'm not telling them.
We come back to the window-taping day over and over in our class. Almost everything else we do builds on their own experience that day, not on some textbook definitions and rules of perspective.
HW: What gets your Hamster Wheel running? (What gets you itching to draw or create?)
AC: I start drawing when I want to solve a problem. For example, right now I'm trying to understand how a thing called a "projective colineation" can come from a series of things called "perspective colineations". I'm really, really stuck—and that's actually sort of fun. I'm drawing lots of pictures to try to get unstuck, and by drawing these pictures I'm learning more and more about the problem. The pictures aren't beautiful in the usual sense, but for me they contain some deep mathematical meaning, and that meaning is important to me.
MF: At this point in my life drawing is more fun if it involves mathematics in some way. I often get ideas for my research by drawing diagrams of mathematical ideas. Sometimes a line of investigation doesn't seem to involve drawing, but then a drawing gets me unstuck at some critical point. And whenever I'm writing for an audience of more than just narrow specialists, I try to summarize the main points using pictures of some kind. Not all mathematical ideas involve pictures, but I'm extremely partial to those that do.
Thanks again Annalisa and Marc! May drawing continue to be the tool that helps you get "unstuck"!
For more information on what Annalisa and Marc have researched about drawing and mathematics, please be sure to visit the resources below.
Annalisa's links:
Annalisa Crannell at Franklin & Marshall College
Mathematics of Art course description
Writing in Mathematics course description
Bryn Mawr Now
Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Distinguished Lecture
Inside Higher Education: Perspective in Math and Art by Annalisa Crannell (July 18, 2011)
Marc's links:
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM): How to Look at Art by Marc Frantz (May 14, 1998)
Drawing with Awareness (April 2003)
What I Wish I Had Known in Art School: Foundation of a Course in Mathematics and Art
Other links:
Princeton University Press Blog
Princeton University Press on Facebook
A Challenge from Annalisa Crannell
Annalisa Crannell
Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art written by Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell
Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art written by Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell (Google Books)
Writing Projects for Mathematical Courses written by Annalisa Crannell, Gavin LaRose & Thomas Ratcliff
Starting our Careers written and edited by Curtis D. Bennett, edited by Annalisa Crannell
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If those mantras were carried out in practice, then logic suggests that the highest paid CEOs must produce the best performance — and to be fair, the S&P 500 was up 32.4% in 2013 which is great. Does this mean you should invest in the shares of the companies run by the highest paid CEOs?
Although I have no financial position in any of them, of the top five, I would consider buying shares of two –Freeport McMoRan which looks cheap and Viacom which is fairly valued.
The five highest paid CEOs were Oracle's Oracle's Larry Ellison ($76.9 million total compensation); CBS's CBS's Leslie Moonves ($65.4 million); Liberty Global's Liberty Global's Michael Fries ($45.5 million); Freeport McMoRan's Richard Adkerson ($38.9 million); and Viacom's Phillipe Dauman ($36.8 million).
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CBS's performance has been weaker than peers in some areas. Revenue rose 1.8% in the last five years while the industry grew 12.4%; five year average return on equity was 11.6%, lagging peers by 1.2 percentage points.
On the plus side its stock price was up 64% — over 32 percentage points more than the S&P 500 and its revenue per employee of about $775,000 was 79% more than peers.
Meanwhile, CBS's valuation is not cheap. After all, it trades at a Price/Earnings ratio of 20 and its earnings are forecast to grow 15.3% to $4.01 in 2015 — yielding a high PEG of 1.3.
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Well, it is two years later, and the Democratic Party has basically dropped any pretext that they want to seriously improve the Affordable Care Act. Not only has basically every top elected Democrat stopped even paying lip service to the idea of trying to make the law more progressive, but improving it is basically absent from the Democratic platform. As far as I can tell, this is the only mention in the platform that the ACA may need improvements:
At the same time, the Affordable Care Act is not the end of efforts to improve health care for all Americans. Democrats will continue to fight for a strong health care workforce with an emphasis on primary care. We remain committed to eliminating disparities in health and will continue to make sure families have access to mental health and substance abuse services. We will strengthen Medicaid and oppose efforts to block grant the program, slash its funding, and leave millions more without health insurance. We will continue to invest in our public health infrastructure – ensuring that we are able to respond to emergencies and support community-based efforts to prevent disease.
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This is an important lesson about legislative fights. Inertia is an overwhelming force in Washington. Things rarely get improved later even when politicians say improvement is needed. That is why it is so important to fight to get the design right to begin with, or we end of living with the design flaws for a very long time. The bad state/federal partnership design element of Medicaid is still causing major issues decades after it was started.


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Comment Re:Modula-3 FTW! (Score 1) 492 492
Sanskrit is presumably readable by those who need to read it. I would assume scholars in antiquity from the region and period would be well versed in Sanskrit.
In a similar vein, C does not need to be readable to the average person on the street. However, it should be readable to who need to read it (i.e. practicing programmers). If you struggle with the C syntax, you need to find a different job because Java, Javascript, C#, C++ are among the most popular languages and they look syntactically similar to C (though they are conceptually different).
Comment Those who can't... (Score 1) 648 648
Mr Gristwood justifies the age old saying "Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach".
It's annoying that he doesn't substantiate nuggets of "wisdom" like:
- Python based on C
- Complex constructs impossible in Python that have to be done in C.
- Implied in the previous point, such impossible constructs are possible in VB.
Comment Re:Interesting they keep doing lengthly reviews... (Score 1) 305 305
Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 180 180
Also, there are obviously ways to check if the source code shown is the source code used.
Such as?
Even tiny differences such as the compiler flags used affects the final binary. How do you know that the source code presented is the source code used for any non-trivial program?
Comment Re:Continuous improvements to IE for Windows 7 (Score 1) 79 79
jQuery hardly qualifies as a "huge ass" javascript framework. The gzip minified production version of the script weighs in at under 34kB. Worst case scenario if you're hosting jQuery yourself, this is a one off download. This is hardly going to cause problems, even on a mobile data connection.
On the other hand, jQuery does make code a lot neater. Especially with judicious use of selectors
p.s. Nice going trying to pin the Obamacare fiasco on jQuery. I don't think I've heard that one before.
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Comment Re:FreeBSD network stack (Score 1) 195 195
That's a useful list, especially if you have no clue as to what to actually search for. Like me.
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Comment Re:It's like learning to drive vs taxis (Score 1) 391 391
However it's very clear that you are just winding me up for a bit of fun and nowhere near as ignorant and stupid as you are pretending to be.
Seeing as you're genuinely confused as to what I'm talking about, we've been running tasks in parallel in Python ever since the beginning. Just use processes instead of threads. There are differences (no shared heap, IPC) but there are benefits (no shared heap!). If you're used to the thread pool paradigm, Python has both a thread pool and process pool with the thread pool obviously limited by the GIL while the process pool isn't.
So what's with the thread obsession? It's not the only way to run tasks in parallel.
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Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 213 213
What the hell is ACM and why would it benefit me to join them?
If you were a halfway competent software developer, you'd already know, and if you were an elite software developer, you'd already have joined...
If you were an elite software developer, you'd be too busy to join a jumped up organisation like the ACM.
Comment Why is it silly? (Score 1) 435 435
(silly in my opinion, apparently they haven't heard of "partners" or considered requiring such cars have a police controlled "slow down" command)
Why is that silly? Do we really think crooks will not find some way of overriding the "slow down" command? As for "partners", a computer does not get stressed or feel under pressure when chased by cops and thus will be less likely to make mistakes.
Why is worrying about this silly?


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Clinical experience suggests that in psychotic patients, administration of amphetamine may exacerbate symptoms of behavior disturbance and thought disorder.
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Acidifying agents -Gastrointestinal acidifying agents (guanethidine, reserpine, glutamic acid HCl, ascorbic acid, fruit juices, etc.) lower absorption of amphetamines.
Urinary acidifying agents -(ammonium chloride, sodium acid phosphate, etc.) Increase the concentration of the ionized species of the amphetamine molecule, thereby increasing urinary excretion. Both groups of agents lower blood levels and efficacy of amphetamines.
Adrenergic blocker - Adrenergic blockers are inhibited by amphetamines.
Alkalinizing agents -Gastrointestinal alkalinizing agents (sodium bicarbonate, etc.) increase absorption of amphetamines. Co-administration of ADDERALL® and gastrointestinal alkalizing agents, such as antacids, should be avoided. Urinary alkalinizing agents (acetazolamide, some thiazides) increase the concentration of the non-ionized species of the amphetamine molecule, thereby decreasing urinary excretion. Both groups of agents increase blood levels and therefore potentiate the actions of amphetamines.
Antidepressants, tricyclic - Amphetamines may enhance the activity of tricyclic or sympathomimetic agents; d-amphetamine with desipramine or protriptyline and possibly other tricyclics cause striking and sustained increases in the concentration of d-amphetamine in the brain; cardiovascular effects can be potentiated.
MAO inhibitors -MAOI antidepressants, as well as a metabolite of furazolidone, slow amphetamine metabolism. This slowing potentiates amphetamines, increasing their effect on the release of norepinephrine and other monoamines from adrenergic nerve endings; this can cause headaches and other signs of hypertensive crisis. A variety of neurological toxic effects and malignant hyperpyrexia can occur, sometimes with fatal results.
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Chlorpromazine -Chlorpromazine blocks dopamine and norepinephrine receptors, thus inhibiting the central stimulant effects of amphetamines, and can be used to treat amphetamine poisoning.
Ethosuximide -Amphetamines may delay intestinal absorption of ethosuximide.
Haloperidol -Haloperidol blocks dopamine receptors, thus inhibiting the central stimulant effects of amphetamines.
Lithium carbonate -The anorectic and stimulatory effects of amphetamines may be inhibited by lithium carbonate.
Meperidine - Amphetamines potentiate the analgesic effect of meperidine.
Methenamine therapy -Urinary excretion of amphetamines is increased, and efficacy is reduced, by acidifying agents used in methenamine therapy.
Norepinephrine - Amphetamines enhance the adrenergic effect of norepinephrine.
Phenobarbital - Amphetamines may delay intestinal absorption of phenobarbital; co-administration of phenobarbital may produce a synergistic anticonvulsant action.
Phenytoin -Amphetamines may delay intestinal absorption of phenytoin; co-administration of phenytoin may produce a synergistic anticonvulsant action.
Propoxyphene -In cases of propoxyphene overdosage, amphetamine CNS stimulation is potentiated and fatal convulsions can occur.
Veratrum alkaloids -Amphetamines inhibit the hypotensive effect of veratrum alkaloids.
Amphetamines can cause a significant elevation in plasma corticosteroid levels. This increase is greatest in the evening. Amphetamines may interfere with urinary steroid determinations.
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Amphetamine, in the enantiomer ratio present in ADDERALL®(immediate-release)(d- to l- ratio of 3:1), was not clastogenic in the mouse bone marrow micronucleus test in vivo and was negative when tested in the E. coli component of the Ames test in vitro. d,l-Amphetamine (1:1 enantiomer ratio) has been reported to produce a positive response in the mouse bone marrow micronucleus test, an equivocal response in the Ames test, and negative responses in the in vitro sister chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberration assays.
Amphetamine, in the enantiomer ratio present in ADDERALL® (immediate-release)(d- to l- ratio of 3:1), did not adversely affect fertility or early embryonic development in the rat at doses of up to 20 mg/kg/day (approximately 5 times the maximum recommended human dose of 30 mg/day on a mg/m2 body surface area basis).
Pregnancy Category C. Amphetamine, in the enantiomer ratio present in ADDERALL®(d- to l- ratio of 3:1), had no apparent effects on embryofetal morphological development or survival when orally administered to pregnant rats and rabbits throughout the period of organogenesis at doses of up to 6 and 16 mg/kg/day, respectively. These doses are approximately 1.5 and 8 times, respectively, the maximum recommended human dose of 30 mg/day [child] on a mg/m2 body surface area basis. Fetal malformations and death have been reported in mice following parenteral administration of d-amphetamine doses of 50 mg/kg/day (approximately 6 times that of a human dose of 30 mg/day [child] on a mg/m2 basis) or greater to pregnant animals. Administration of these doses was also associated with severe maternal toxicity.
A number of studies in rodents indicate that prenatal or early postnatal exposure to amphetamine (d- or d,l-), at doses similar to those used clinically, can result in long-term neurochemical and behavioral alterations. Reported behavioral effects include learning and memory deficits, altered locomotor activity, and changes in sexual function.
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. There has been one report of severe congenital bony deformity, tracheo-esophageal fistula, and anal atresia (vater association) in a baby born to a woman who took dextroamphetamine sulfate with lovastatin during the first trimester of pregnancy. Amphetamines should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Infants born to mothers dependent on amphetamines have an increased risk of premature delivery and low birth weight. Also, these infants may experience symptoms of withdrawal as demonstrated by dysphoria, including agitation, and significant lassitude.
Amphetamines are excreted in human milk. Mothers taking amphetamines should be advised to refrain from nursing.
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What Is Justin Bieber Trying to Say?
Has our favorite teeny-bopper gone all "Charlie Sheen" on us? Doubtful. It just looks like the normally well-mannered singing sensation may have just had enough of the paparazzi following his every move. He and Gomez were mobbed earlier in the day while out shopping.
Check out some other stars who decided to use hand gestures instead of words after the jump!
Joan Rivers is certainly no stranger to speaking her mind. She let the bird fly last week, reportedly saying it was directed at those people who did not nominate her reality show, 'Joan Knows Best,' for an Oscar. Yes, that doesn't make much sense to us either, but at least it's entertaining.
Flipping the bird to photogs might just be some self promotion for Cee Lo. With his song 'F**k You' a huge hit, maybe he just wanted to give a reminder to everyone as he walked the red carpet at an event last month. Either that, or he really didn't like what someone had to say.
Ben Affleck can feel Bieber's pain. He was seen here giving photographers a piece of his mind while out with his wife Jennifer Garner and older daughter Violet. The family was on a frozen yogurt run when Affleck had had enough of the paparazzi snapping photos, and gave them a not-so-friendly signal to bug off.
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- Wednesday 02 MarchBy SandyHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Wish this highly overrated kid would flip himself back to Canada. I'm sick of looking at his homely mug.
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- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Caitlyn
Btw, I can't stand that SNOT Selena!
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HE like any other celebrity is telling the media & the Popperazzi's to BACK OFF and give him and his girl thier privacy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AS USUAL THE POPPERAZZIS SCREWS THINGS UP FOR OUR ICONS and THIER PRIVATE LIVES;I THINK we need to find out where these poporazzis live and turn the tables on thier private lives and see how they squirm???????????????
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Sandy
First . . . it is paparazzi. And I had to disappoint you, but the very young and arrogant Mr. Bieber is not recognized as an icon by most. Elvis Presley is an icon. To go a few generations younger, Rod Stewart, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Steven Tyler, Bon Jovi, just to name a few . . . those are icons.
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy gregg
bieber sold his right to privacy when he became
a multi millionaire catering to the tweens- sucking
every dime he can from them. He deserves no privacy
as the media made him richer than any of us could
ever imagine.
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Jimmy Neg
- Wednesday 02 March
Sure this photo features Justin "flipping-off" an unknown person behind a camera, but we have no idea what was said or done to him by said individual to cause that response, so lay-off the kid, will you?
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy amstel beer
JUST GOES TO SHOW how ugly he really is! sick of the gaylord!
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy chicobombico
He is trying to say he is an ignornant little turd who learned this at home from Mom and Dad. The photog should have given him a good swift kick. Why does society allow this to go on, we are going to hell in a hand basket what a shame.
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Mr. Kidd II
Have you seen how typical paparazzi act? Someone ought to give THEM a hard kick in the arse!
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Mr. Kidd II
My God, this needed its own article? Other Captain Obvious article.
Why did he "bip the flird?" (a local twist on the figure of saying)
THE PAPARAZZI PISSED HIM OFF! HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Most of the time they act like dirty leeches not worthy of any respect.
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy susan
Ah, another young Hollybong starting out oh, so, fair! Gosh, at 17 he is on the fast track with all the other "roll models" for our youth! How sweet! At 17, had either of my parents caught me giving the bird to anyone, I would have been given one heck of an attitude adjustment! And, oh, by the way, I suppose when he's the ripe old age of 23, like Anguelira (sp.?), we can read all about his "adult" behavior. At least he doesn't have a child to watch his antics!
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy bs
And the paparazzi was inoccent right? they probably deserved it..
he needs to learn to ignore them.
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Rpr444
Bieber is the biggest moron on the planet! Just a tool used by adults to make money. When the ignorant idiot turns 18 years old, he will be dropped for the next cute little jerk.
Pretty soon, we will be bored by stories of him drunk or on drugs. EFF HIM!!!
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy bs
Give me a break...how can anyone be on the paps side..they are a bunch of jerks..they were probably being idiots.
I don't know any teen that listens to their parents...
he was smart to flip them off
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy kylie
Okay wow, he's not just doing it because paparazzi some idiot "belibers" beat up Selena Gomez! she had a split lip and bruises, from tons of hormonal teeny boppers. Get your facts straight please.
- Friday 04 MarchBy Cici
Isn't that a huge sign the paparazzi should go away? Celebs have lives like us, and they don't have to have cameras in their faces all day!
It must be very annoying... well, hence the pictures.
I'm glad I'm not like them in that way.
But this is only my opinion.
And one more thing... why does everyone hate Beiber!
I have nothing against him!
Sorry Biebs, I'm not a HUGE over-the-top fan, but I'm not one of your haters.
P.S. Happy late b-day!
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy ava
well it doesnt even look like its his middle finger the paparazzi just want to ruin his reputation.poor justinn :( i still love him
- Wednesday 02 MarchBy Elaine
He is turning into a little ungrateful punk. He can't sing, he should be happy the little girls love him.
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Some people train for marathons or triathlons. Even if you're not ready to get into those, there's one thing you should always be training for: the zombie apocalypse.
Laugh all you want, but when you see your neighbors slobbering bloody foam at the mouth and pawing at your front window like you're a porterhouse, you'll wish you clicked through the following slides about how to avoid becoming food for walkers.Illustration by Alexander Iaccarino
Columbus in the movie Zombieland used a set of rules to keep him alive. Rule number one? Cardio. That's one of many reasons he was still alive at the end of the movie.
Your heart and lungs are going to get a gnarly workout just from the fear and anxiety that the undead are walking the earth. You'll need them to be in top shape if you're going to be regularly running for your life. Even if you think you're in safe territory, running for 30 minutes a day can help get you ready for the untiring nature of walkers.Illustration by Alexander Iaccarino
Stretch Regularly
Stretch Regularly
Tired, sore muscles can build up lactic acid, a natural byproduct of muscle metabolism. Stretching can help release this buildup for more energy and agility.
Stretching your neck is extremely important because while you're outrunning walkers, you want to make sure none catch up or hit you from the sides. Stretching twice a day is a good start.
Keep Your Legs Healthy
Keep Your Legs Healthy
Do not depend on your car. While good for long distances, eventually we'll run out of fossil fuels and that car won't be anything but a zombie food incubator.
High ground is the safest place in a zombie apocalypse. Thankfully, walkers are horrible climbers. Getting there while out-running the undead up stairs or steep hillsides is going to take some serious leg power. Sneak some squats in to make your legs stronger than any walker's.
Work Out Those Arms
Work Out Those Arms
You'll need your arms not only for climbing trees in an emergency, but also when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. Your "guns" are going to fuel the power behind baseball bats, axes, machetes, and crossbows, so keep them loaded.
Grab whatever weighted item you can and do some free weight exercises, like curls or presses. If all else fails, you can't go wrong with pushups or a few yoga poses.
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Use Polyphasic Sleep
It should be no surprise that you won't be able to get a full eight hours of sleep every night. That's why you should use the polyphasic sleep method: multiple short periods of sleep throughout the day. This method has been tested in extreme situations and studies have shown that it prevents inevitable sleep deprivation.
The U.S. Air Force recommends naps long enough to get at least 45 minutes of sleep at a time. Two-hour naps are optimal, but hey, it's the apocalypse. Get in what you can when you can while fighting in World War Z.
Protect Your Eyes and Ears
Protect Your Eyes and Ears
Your hearing and vision are going to save your life more than once. The sooner you can see or hear walkers coming, the longer you have to live.
Wearing sunglasses while regularly exposed to bright light can protect your vision and keep it sharp. As for your ears, if you know you're going to be around a lot of gunfire, ear plugs or other ear protection can make a huge difference in the long run.
Protect Your Skin
Protect Your Skin
Your skin is your body's largest organ. If you're going to be out and on the move, you should protect it. Since sunscreen will be in short supply, your best bet is to keep your skin covered with multiple layers.
It not only protects from sun exposure, but it minimizes your bite risk when those walking undead scumbags get too close.
Stay Hydrated
Stay Hydrated
This cannot be stressed enough. You're probably not even drinking enough water now, while the dead remain in the ground. You better change that bad habit before the apocalypse. Water is the body's most important resource. Your body will run like crap without it.
The trick is to find clean sources of water, such as bottled water or uncontaminated streams. If The Walking Dead taught us anything, it's that you should always check the well before drinking out of it. You might have an aquatic walker down there.
Stay Up on Your Proteins, but Avoid Canned Meat
Stay Up on Your Proteins, but Avoid Canned Meat
You need proteins to keep your muscle moving, but during a zombie outbreak, you're probably the only available fresh source of protein. As meat typically spoils quickly, hunting is your main option, but even that isn't easy. Other sources, such as peanut butter, are portable, lightweight, and last longer.
If you come across a stash of canned meat, make sure you have plenty of water available. Processed meats are often laden with sodium, which can dehydrate you.
Take Care of Your Feet
Take Care of Your Feet
Do not neglect your feet—you're going to be on them a lot. Something as small as a blister or an infected hangnail can become excruciating, so practice proper foot care. Find a pair of comfortable, sturdy shoes that fit properly. If you can, find a pair of waterproof boots with a steel toe. They're fashionable and functional as a weapon.
Give your feet time to dry out after wading through rivers or other wet terrain.
Change into dry socks twice a day to prevent fungus and other foot problems, which will slow you down turn you into zombie food.
Get First Aid Training
Get First Aid Training
While you're going apocalypse warrior, you're going to get a number of bruises and scratches. While these may seem small compared to the horde of flesh-hungry walkers on your trail, you want to handle them properly. Learning proper wound care and first aid can keep your small problems small so you can actively work on the big one: stopping the spread of the zombie virus and repopulating the earth.
If you're trying to fix yourself after a bite, you know what you have to do. It's the right thing.
Be Smart Outdoors
Be Smart Outdoors
Before Patient Z strikes, you should get outside and explore your natural surroundings. Cities are going to be death traps, so you might want to brush up on your outdoor safety. We suggest checking out these resources:
When the zombies come, we'll be on the roof. The password is "pineapple."
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The Hungarian Grand Prix today gave us a real race of attrition. Hamilton calmly controlled the race from the front to take the chequered flag but there were quite a few events through the race I'd like to discuss and analyse. One big point to note however is that Fernando Alonso is arguably the real winner on the grand scheme of things. On his 31st birthday he has increased his world championship lead to 40 points going into the summer break
Lack of Overtaking – The Dirty Air Problem
As I wrote in my qualifying analysis, the Hungaroring is a downforce heavy circuit where the exit of one corner leads to the entry air of another. 'Dirty Air' is the term used to describe the air that comes off a Formula One car, that's been worked hard to produce downforce. This air can't produce as much further downforce so if two cars are following each other, the following car struggles compared to the one infront.
At a downforce heavy circuit like the Hungaroring, that's a substantial disadvantange for the following car. The only real overtaking opportunity here is at Turn 1, after the straight. The last corner is tight, tricky and downforce heavy. Because of the dirty air, the following car has to get on the throttle much later. This means with a full battery of KERS, the leading car holds a substantial advantage.
The best illustration of this dirty air effect was with Raikkonen chasing down Hamilton. He had a consistent advantage of half a second in the downforce heavy middle sector which disappeared when he came within one second of Hamilton. This same happened between Button vs Vettel and Hamilton vs Grosjean.
Hamilton's advantage over Lotus
The McLaren has had a big advantage in traction heavy the final sector. As explained above, the only real overtaking opportunity is down the straight. Hamilton was consistently a few tenths faster in the final sector, giving him a buffer down the straight to stay ahead.
Furthermore, Raikkonen had a KERS problem from the start of the race; he could only utilise up to 50% of it's total power. The Renault KERS system is also weaker in terms of full KWHr output compared to the McLaren system (40 vs 60 respectively).
McLaren's atrocious call for Jenson
McLaren shot themselves in the foot by making Jenson Button pit for the second time. He was running P3 and holding off Sebastian Vettel, who was suffering in his dirty air.
When he pitted, he had a rapid 2.8s pit stop but was held up behind Senna. Vettel was released and able to go faster. When the pitted, he made it work and overtook Button. Worse for Button, so did Alonso & Raikkonen.
Jenson Button expressed his frustrations for the strategy post race, saying he had life in the tyres left when they pitted "far too early". He then lightly said "I did ask the team after pitting whether my pace in traffic was faster than the others". However, those are strong words well said.
Raikkonen's pace
Raikkonen made up places by utilising the Lotus' low tyre wear and pumping in fast times just before putting. He made one place in the first pit stop phase and 3 places in the second pit spot phase, jumping Grosjean, Vettel and Button.
Other Stats & Facts
- Lotus are now third in the championship, just 1 point behind McLaren. They are 4 points ahead of Ferrari.
- Michael Schumacher had his 6th retirement in 11 races. What actually happened at the start isn't revealed as yet. He had a full telemetry failure when his car overheated on the grid.
- Bruno Senna finished P7, whereas Maldonado finished P13. I'm personally pleased with his result as Maldonado remarked after qualifying "Even Senna can go fast here".
- This is Lewis Hamilton's third victory at the Hungaroring.
- Both Hamilton and Grosjean had slow first pit stops. Hamilton's was 4.2 seconds whereas Grosjean's was 4.9.
- Red Bull tried a 3 stop strategy but there wasn't sufficient tyre degradation to make it work.
- Mark Webber had a great start and made up 4 places to go from 11th to 7th. That's sadly for him pretty much where he stayed all race.
- Narian Karthekeyan suffered a full front suspension failure and thus went off at Turn 4.
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(McAlester-AP) -- An Arkansas gun dealer testified today in the state murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. Roger Moore says man wearing a ski mask and military-style clothing robbed him at his home near Hot Springs, Arkansas, in November 1994. He says the man took dozens of rifles and handguns, cash, gold and silver coins and precious jewels.
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CHARLESTON -- Three local high school students attended the annual West Virginia Governor's School for Mathematics and Science this summer. The two-week-long, all-expenses-paid, residential science honors program, held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, utilized the field of radio astronomy to educate and encourage students to further explore careers in STEM fields.
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RSU Library and Local Reading Group to Present Film and Book Discussion of 'Fahrenheit 451'
The Claremore Reads Together organization and the Stratton Taylor Library at Rogers State University will present a public viewing of the film "Fahrenheit 451" on Sept. 19 and a discussion of the book "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury on Sept. 26. Both events are free and open to the public.
The film "Fahrenheit 451" will be presented in the Will Rogers Auditorium on the RSU campus in Claremore at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
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The book discussion will feature a panel of RSU faculty members including Dr. Emily Dial Driver, Dr. Chip Rogers, Lori Butler and Alan Lawless, director of the Stratton Taylor Library.
Claremore Reads Together is the local chapter of One Book, One Community, a reading program founded in 1996 by two Seattle librarians to allow communities to read the same book at the same time and discuss it at different venues. One Book, One Community has since expanded to many communities throughout the U.S.
This is Claremore Reads Together's first year, and they have chosen to feature "Fahrenheit 451," which is a warning about government censorship, featuring "firemen" who burn books to keep people ignorant.
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(2) Size. All other things being equal, the smaller the fish, the more rapid the
onset of rigor mortis.
(3) Method of catch. Any method causing fish to struggle hastens the onset
of rigor mortis. In the struggle, muscle cells convert the stored glycogen to energy
causing a sudden release of lactic acid in the cell. During life, this lactic acid is normally
carried away by the blood. If large amounts of lactic acid are present in the cell at
death, there is an almost immediate onset of rigor mortis.
(4) Method of handling. Stunning the fish prevents a violent death struggle.
Evisceration and packing the body cavity with ice immediately after catching will hasten
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c. Autolysis. Autolysis is the softening of the fish flesh caused by enzymes
which are normally present in the body. It starts immediately following death and
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Willamette Women's Team Finishes First at Northwest Cross Country Classic
Gildehaus Earns Third Place in Women's 5-kilometer Run
EUGENE, ORE. -- Stevie Gildehaus (Jr., Spokane Valley, WA/University HS) finished third and three other Willamette runners finished in the top 10, as the Bearcats took first place in the Northwest Cross Country Classic at Lane Community College on Saturday, Sept. 22.
Willamette tied the University of Oregon Running Club for top team honors with a score of 36 points. The Bearcats won the tie-breaker, which was the head-to-head score for each team's top five runners.
The first two finishers for the U of O Running Club each completed the race ahead of Willamette's top two finishers. The next three Bearcats, however, finished in front of the corresponding finishers for the U of O Running Club. Willamette claimed the tie-breaker, 3-2.
Renee Knapp of UORC won the individual title over the women's 5-kilometer course with a time of 19:00. Jaclyn Rushing, also from UORC, placed second in 19:27. Gildehaus was next at 19:33, as she edged out Rachel Schreiber from Pacific University, who took fourth at 19:35.
In addition to Gildehaus, Willamette's other top 10 finishers were Juliet Farnan (Fr., Lafayette, CA/Campolindo HS) in sixth place, Amanda Tamanaha (Sr., Honolulu, HI/Saint Andrews Priory School) in seventh place and Taylor Ostrander (Soldotna, AK/Kenai Central HS) in ninth place. Farnan's time was 19:55, while Tamanaha completed the race in 20:06 and Ostrander reached the finish line in 20:16.
Kellen Friedrich (Fr., Salem, OR/South Salem HS) of Willamette was 12th in 20:26. Erynn Rebol (Jr., Cottonwood, CA/Red Bluff Union HS) took 15th place for the Bearcats in 20:44.
Willamette entered three runners in the men's 4-mile race. Jacob Shafi (Fr., Pleasanton, CA/Amador Valley HS) was the top finisher for Bearcats in 19th place with a time of 21:51.
The individual men's champion was Casey Campbell with the University of Oregon Running Club, who reached the finish line in 20:20. Robert McLauchlan, also from UORC, was second in 20:37. Tyler Shipley from Pacific earned third place with a time of 21:14. UORC claimed the men's team title with a score of 18 (1-2-4-5-6).
Willamette will host the 38th Annual Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 29. The event will be held at Bush's Pasture Park in Salem, Ore., with the action getting underway at 9:30 a.m. (PDT).
The Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational is one of the largest collegiate cross country meets on the West Coast each season.
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Today they fed me this: Getting things done with Tracks, which leads to the full article at linux.com.
To make a long story short: The heading (GTD) caught my eye, so I felt I had to tell you about this. Apparently the author uses a software called Tracks to GTD.
I was determined to adopt the popular organizational method. I searched for a solid software tool to track projects and next actions, and found dozens of desktop-oriented applications to choose from. One of the GTD axioms is to collect all of your tasks, projects, and lists in one place; since I regularly use four PCs and laptops and a mobile phone, finding a GTD-aware tool that would run as a Web app was paramount. I settled on Tracks; it is open source, easy to use, and accessible from anywhere.
I have not tried to GTD, with or without Tracks; however I remembered it was a rather important "thing" (for lack of a better word) on donationcoder.com. I hope someone will GMTD (get more things done) with tracks, or at least G1TD (get one thing done). While I didn't take active part in the GEO experiment I do have it in the back of my mind constantly.
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