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Serial/Series Title: NACA Technical Memorandums
Collection: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Collection
Accurate calculation of multispar cantilever and semicantilever wings with parallel webs under direct and indirect loading
Date: March 1932
Creator: Sanger, Eugen
Description: In the present report the computation is actually carried through for the case of parallel spars of equal resistance in bending without direct loading, including plotting of the influence lines; for other cases the method of calculation is explained. The development of large size airplanes can be speeded up by accurate methods of calculation such as this.
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Acoustics of a nonhomogeneous moving medium.
Date: February 1, 1956
Creator: Blokhintsev, D I
Description: Theoretical basis of the acoustics of a moving nonhomogeneous medium is considered in this report. Experiments that illustrate or confirm some of the theoretical explanation or derivation of these acoustics are also included.
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Activation of hydrocarbons and the octane number
Date: October 1, 1939
Creator: Peschard, Marcel
Description: This report presents an examination of the history of research on engine knocking and the various types of fuels used in the investigations of this phenomenon. According to this report, the spontaneous ignition of hydrocarbons doped with oxygen follows the logarithmic law within a certain temperature range, but not above 920 degrees K. Having extended the scope of investigations to prove hydrocarbons, the curves of the mixtures burned by air should then be established by progressive replacement of pure iso-octane with heptane. Pentane was also examined in this report.
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Additional test data on static longitudinal stability
Date: August 1, 1934
Creator: Hubner, Walter
Description: The purpose of this investigation was to explore the influence of weights of the controls on the stability with elevator released. The available test data were extended to stability with elevator locked. In this connection the study of the propeller effect seemed of vital importance.
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Aerial convention of October 13, 1919
Date: May 1, 1922
Creator: Roper,
Description: The aerial convention delegates are listed as well as the set of rules that were developed during the session.
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Aerial navigation by dead reckoning
Date: July 1, 1922
Creator: Maffert, Pierre
Description: The problem to be solved, as presented to the pilot or observer of an aircraft, is as follows: The aircraft starting from A must land at B, the only data being the speed of the airplane, the altitude and the orientation D of the course. The above data would be amply sufficient, were it not for the fact that the airplane is constantly subjected to a wind of variable direction and strength.
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Aerial navigation : on the problem of guiding aircraft in a fog or by night when there is no visibility
Date: January 1, 1922
Creator: Loth, William
Description: The use of magnetic fields and wire to navigate aircraft in conditions of poor visibility is presented. This field may be considered to be derived from a double lemniscate, considered in the particular case where the origin is a double point formed from the magnetic field of the slack wire, from the field produced by the return currents and from the field due to the currents induced in the conducting mass. These fields are dephased in two ways, one in the direction of the wire, the other in a direction perpendicular to it.
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Aerial photography : obtaining a true perspective
Date: April 1, 1923
Creator: unknown
Description: A demonstration was given within the last few days at the British Museum by Mr. J. W. Gordon, author of "Generalized Linear Perspective" (Constable and Co.), a work describing a newly-worked-out system by which photographs can be made available for the purpose of exactly recording the dimensions of the objects photographed even when the objects themselves are presented foreshortened in the photograph.
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Aerial transportation
Date: February 1, 1922
Creator: PIERROT
Description: The origin of air traffic dates from the war. The important development of aeronautic industries and the progress made in recent years, under the impelling force of circumstances, rendered it possible, after the close of hostilities, to consider the practical utilization of this new means of economic expansion.
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Aero dopes and varnishes
Date: July 1, 1927
Creator: Britton, H T S
Description: Before proceeding to discuss the preparation of dope solutions, it will be necessary to consider some of the essential properties which should be possessed of a dope film, deposited in and on the surface of an aero fabric. The first is that it should tighten the material and second it should withstand weathering.
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Coefficient of Determination
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R2 is the coefficient of determination, or the squared value of the correlation coefficient or multiple correlation coefficient. Simply, this is the proportion of the variation of the dependent variable that is explained by the total set of independent variables that are used in the model (if the model is well built). Usually this explained proportion is not as high as 30 or 40 percent (.3 to .4) in most models, for any set of variables.
Remember that the proportion of variation in the model explained by an independent variable may be reduced as other independent variables are added to the model. This might mean that the other factors are confounders for the model of interest, so that it is both influencing the outcome and the determining variable of interest. The new variable may also be an intermediate variable between the independent variable of interest and the outcome. This will be discussed later in this section on the topic of confounding.

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Charlie Parker: 52nd Street Theme #275, #238, #218, #214
52nd Street Theme #275, #238, #218, #214
Charlie Parker (alto sax)
The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker, Three Deuces and Onyx Club (Mosaic 129)
Charlie Parker (alto sax), Miles Davis (trumpet), Tommy Potter (bass), Max Roach (drums), Duke Jordan (piano).
Composed by Thelonious Monk.
Recorded: New York, July 1948
Rating: 100/100 (learn more)
These various performances of Parker, recorded by saxophonist Dean Benedetti, demonstrate the combination of looseness and tightness of this particular band, which I consider Bird's most effective working band. I heard about these recordings before I knew they physically existed, and I even heard a few of them long before this box set came out, so it was a real pleasure to finally hear the entire collection. For economic reasons, Benedetti usually only recorded the solos of Parker and not the other musicians, so these recordings are quite fragmented. Furthermore the sound quality is frequently poor; these are not recordings that audiophiles will be writing home about. However, for musicians studying this music, this collection is a goldmine. I compare it to finding a new ancient tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, in terms of the musical treasures it yields.
Example A: 52nd Street Theme #275
This version of Monk's composition was usually played as a break tune, a signal that the set is coming to a close. This take is really just a fragment (similar to a find in an archeological dig), but man, it swings hard! When Parker's sax solo enters after he speaks to the audience, the band settles into a serious groove, everybody responds to Yard, and the beat lays back to the extreme, giving the impression that the band is slowing down.
Bird's solo on "52nd Street Theme #275"
It's clear that this groove emotionally hits those who are present, as can be heard by the various exclamations. This reaction from the people is what I love about live recordings in general—at least recordings done in the presence of responsive audiences. The steady rhythm of the rising spontaneous melody that Yard plays in the opening eight measures creates tension and is perfectly offset by the snaking melody of the second eight, with its dancing, shifting, clave-like patterns that begin in the 11th measure (at 0:42):
Rhythm of the clave-like pattern at measure 11 of "52nd Street Theme #275"
Again, this demonstrates the use of rhythms that reveal elements retained from West-African concepts.
Example B: 52nd Street Theme #238
This version is also very dynamic. I love the space that Bird utilizes in this very loose version. Right from the beginning, when Parker plays the augmentation of the melody, we know that he is on top of his game. He does not even bother to complete the melody, immediately launching into a spontaneous statement. The bridge is beautiful! Obviously Parker meant to play the melody here, but stumbles a little. But he sounds like Michael Jordan here, if you follow what I mean, by adjusting in midstream and turning his misstep into a beautiful melodic statement where antecedent and consequent are both preceded by the same rhythmic misstep (mm 1 and 5 below), which transform the original stutter into part of the form of the statement. As with many of Bird's conversations, the form of the statement is irregular but makes perfect rhythmic sense in terms of balance, one of the traits that distinguishes him from most of his musical colleagues. Also the many alternate tonal paths and delayed resolutions (6th, 7th and 9th measures of bridge) add to the hipness of the statement.
Bridge: 2-beat stutter - 6-beat antecedent, 3-beat stutter - 18 beat consequent of "52nd Street Theme #238"
Starting from the second eight of the first chorus of the solo we hear the kind of smooth melodic voice-leading that Parker popularized in this music.
2nd eight, Bridge and last eight of "52nd Street Theme #238"
These types of clear and precise statements were already present in the music of some spontaneous composers, such as tenor saxophonist Don Byas. However, it was through Parker's dynamic performances that most musicians were exposed to this concept, due in large part to Bird's unique phrasing and advanced rhythmic conception. Both Byas and Yard were from the Midwest and both had that Midwest sanctified rhythm thing happening. Byas was from Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Bird developed his musical skills in Kansas City, Missouri, although he was born in Kansas City, Kansas. The Midwest produced many great musicians. For example, Oscar Pettiford, was a fantastic bass player from Okmulgee, Oklahoma, who made tremendous contributions to this music, although these contributions are rarely acknowledged in proportion to their importance. Both Muskogee and Okmulgee are in the eastern part of Oklahoma, just south of the Kansas City metropolitan area, so this area of the country was a hotbed of activity during the 20s, 30s and 40s.
The slickness of the rhythmic concept in this example is striking. There are several clave-like rhythms where Parker plays in groups of 3 pitches, which tends to produce shifting rhythmic patterns. Overall Bird had a very rhythmic conception, even in his formative years, and it was this conception that most contributed to the change in the direction of the music during that time. Consider this statement by Dizzy Gillespie:
I guess Charlie Parker and I had a meeting of the minds, because both of us inspired each other. There were so many things that Charlie Parker did well, it's hard to say exactly how he influenced me. I know he had nothing to do with my playing the trumpet, and I think I was a little more advanced, harmonically, than he was. But rhythmically he was quite advanced, with setting up the phrase and how you got from one note to the other. How you get from one note to the other really makes the difference. Charlie Parker heard rhythm and rhythmic patterns differently, and after we had started playing, together, I began to play, rhythmically, more like him. In that sense he influenced me, and all of us, because what makes the style is not what you play but how you play it. (From Giant Steps: Bebop and The Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-65)
I would like to emphasize here that Charlie Parker's rhythmic contribution amounts to more than just phrasing. Usually people write about triplets, so-called pick-up notes, etc. These perspectives reveal more about the musicologist's academic background than they do about Parker's sensibilities. Rhythm was something that was constantly stressed in the African-American communities; as Dizzy mentions, it was associated with the way and the how something was done. In my opinion, not only was Bird's phrasing important, but also his placement of entire musical sentences and how they balanced each other.
Example C: 52nd Street Theme #218
What I like about this version of "52nd Street Theme" is the form of the first chorus, which sets up the rest of the performance, and this partly illustrates what Dizzy was referring to in his quote. This is a true example of spontaneous composition and how the micro-forms can be very complex. One cannot underestimate the power of developed intuition and insight, when coupled with preparation, logic and talent—and Yard's performance is a clear example of this.
At first listening, the phrases may seem to sound very symmetrical and smooth, yet a cursory observation reveals what at first appear to be random starting and stopping points with no clear balancing points. A more detailed examination exposes a sophisticated natural symmetry. The first antecedent is approximately 3 measures long, answered by what feels like a 5-measure consequent. This division of an approximately 8-measure space into 3 and 5 measures is something that has been discussed throughout history as being related to the proportion of the Golden Mean. Much has been written about this kind of balance on the Internet and in books, so I will not go over it in detail here. However, the linguistic quality is the result of rhythm and melody, and the timing of the phrases and their contour contribute to the effectiveness of the music.
The opening phrase is cryptic in the sense that it creates a lot of motion within a compact contour. There is a lot of doubling back (what we used to call going back for more) that is reminiscent of one of former NBA basketball player's Tim Hardaway's killer crossover moves, and Yard is truly breaking ankles here. The answer in measure 3 contains its own paraphrase, with the phrase in Gbmaj being woven into its answer in Fmaj (a 5-5-4 balance in terms of 8th note pulses) before mutating into another ankle breaking phrase from which Parker eventually achieves escape velocity. The next phrase feels perfectly centered within the second 8 measures, being contained in the internal 4 measures of the 8, however in reality it is shifted forward in time by one beat.
The question-and-answer in the bridge has that same kind of Golden Mean balance, i.e., a 3-5 measure grouping to the phrases. After one of those preacher-like exclamations to begin the last 8, the final phrase has a beautiful and subtle voice-leading device where Bird plays a ghosted Eb (3rd measure after the bridge) which announces a more complex sentence. This phrase also seems to wake Max up, as he becomes much more responsive at this point.
Here Parker's melodic choices are brilliant, seamlessly alternating between diatonicism, voice-leading chromaticism that is very carefully placed, and pentatony. As for the phrasing, Bird's sentences have the quality of someone speaking with a southern accent. If you listen carefully, there is a slight drawl to the phrases, a slightly behind-the-beat drag similar to the way people talk in the south, or in the hood.
1st chorus of "52nd Street Theme #218"
Example D: 52nd Street Theme #214
This version begins in progress, near the end of the 5th measure, but who knows how long Bird had already been playing. I paid a lot of attention to this version of "52nd Street Theme," as it is very intricate with a lot of great interaction. However, I will only briefly comment on each section.
The first chorus has Parker's typical conversation-like phrases. One thing that stands out is the repeated five-note figure that occurs beginning on the 4th beat of the 4th measure of the bridge (0:13 into the performance). What is intriguing is the rhythm, where there is diminution in the amount of time between the phrases. The first phrase begins on the 4th beat of the 4th measure and ends on the 2nd beat of the 5th measure. This is repeated 2 beats later, beginning on the 4th beat of the 5th measure and ending on the 2nd beat of the 6th. Then, as the phase shifts in tonality from the secondary dominant to the dominant, Bird immediately begins the phrase again, this time starting on the 3rd beat of the 6th measure and ending on the 1st beat of the 7th measure. Passages like this always made me feel that Parker was keenly aware of not only melodic target points, but rhythmic target points also, always balancing the starting and ending points so that the phrases, even when seemingly starting in strange places, always fall exactly in balanced proportions. In other words, Bird was very attentive to melodic and rhythmic forms, but as Dizzy mentioned, the real deal is the placement of the phrases.
The second chorus begins with an aborted attempt by Parker to play a typical lick of his that comes from clarinetist Alphonse Picou's variation on the 1901 Porter Steele march "High Society," a phrase that Bird frequently quoted (for example at the start of the second chorus to his famous 1945 "Ko-Ko" performance). It is clear that when playing this phrase Parker's G# key sticks on his saxophone—the bane of all saxophone players. However, Parker quickly unsticks the key, changes directions in midstream, and continues with a flawless execution of his improvisational statement. Two clues help me draw this conclusion. First, he succeeds in playing G# nine beats later in an immediately succeeding phrase (keep in mind this tempo is blazing). Second, while watching the video of the 1952 broadcast of Bird and Diz playing "Hot House," I noticed that Bird had an ability to very rapidly fix problems with his horn, when just before the bridge during the melody he unsticks his octave key, again in mid-flight. When I was first learning this music, I saw many other musicians do this kind of thing, notably the great Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman.
The start of the second 8 also begins with an aborted quote. I'm not sure of the source of the quote (it sounds to me like it's from an etude book), but I have heard Parker play it many times, for example, in performing his blues called "Chi Chi" and in other songs—so I know it should move something like this:
However Yard stumbles a bit and it comes out like this, including the spontaneous recovery, again a demonstration of how fast his mind worked:
Max's response to the phrase in the last eight is again one of those funky dialogs. Max sets up this hip transition with the single snare hit right after Parker's repeated blues exclamation, then two snare drum hits in between Yard's phrases, followed by one of those funky ratios, this time 4 against 6, that is Max's bass drum playing the 4 against the cut time 6 of the beat, again timed to end on the measure before the top. I tend to think of this kind of playing as targeting, a technique where you calculate (using either feel, logic or both) the destination point in time where you want to resolve your rhythm, a kind of rhythmic voice-leading. I alluded to Bird doing something similar above. I also dig the spontaneous counterpoint commentary of one of the listeners during this phrase, which seems to go with what Yard and Max are doing.
The next four choruses keep up the heat, and there is a lot to learn from the various techniques. Some highlights are Bird playing in layers of phrases in 3-beat groupings (0:53), the contrasts of light-to-dark-to-light beginning with the secondary dominant in the bridge at 1:04, the extreme cramming in the bridge at 1:26, the modulating descending octatonic figures (i.e. diminished) at 1:44 (which function as cycles of dominant progressions), the diminution effect in the consequent phrase at 2:12 (somebody in the audience dug it also), the extremely melodic phrase at 2:15, and finally the funky way that Max sets up the fours between Bird and Miles—which Max continues leading into and throughout the fours. The way Max Roach shifts to the hi-hat moving into the fours, and intensifies his interactions with the horn players, also demonstrates his compositional approach to playing spontaneously.
The fours are off the hook, brilliant, beginning with Parker's ultra-melodic opening. The phrase he plays at 2:46 is unusual even by Bird's standards, as it begins in a very dark dominant tonality, progresses to a bright, dominant sound, then anticipates the move to the subdominant with the last tritone. The energy that this phrase generates is resumed at 2:52 (after Miles' statement) with a pair of brilliantly placed ascending tritone progressions, unusual in their rhythm and tonal progression. The rhythm is similar to the 4-against-3 patterns that Max has been executing, where the basic pulse of the song is seen though a different perspective (that of 3 against Bird's 4). And although the tonal implications are too difficult to fully explain here, these 8 tones—Bb-E-Bb-E progressing to B-F-B-F-functionally serve to reverse the normal tonal gravity by approaching the dominant tonality (the G7 matrix) from a 5th below instead of from the normal 5th above. There exists an entire theory based on polarity that can explain this kind of movement (see my website), but here it is enough to say that the naked expression of these tritones permits an ambiguous interpretation. The Bb-E-Bb-E tritone could be seen to be the functional equivalent of the tonal spectrum represented in part by C7, F#7, Gmin6, Dbmin6 (any or all of these dominant chords, and yes, I consider a minor 6th chord as potentially having a dominant function). Likewise the B-F-B-F tritone could be functionally seen as G7, C#7, Dmin6, Abmin6; therefore, the progression represents the fairly dark transition of tonalities in progressions of ascending 5ths, which I associate with lunar energies.
This tritone phrase is a continuation of the tritone ending of Bird's previous phrase. To my ears, Miles does not seem prepared to respond to this statement. Bird is playing in a rapid stream of consciousness manner, where each idea picks up from the last, interspersed with Miles' responses. At 2:59, Yard continues this dark-to-light sound, giving us the third consecutive statement where he appears to be tonally emerging from a dungeon, and it becomes clear that he is on a roll. Even his entrance into the bridge is a continuation of this approach, as he approaches from the dark side, 7 flats or the mode of Gb Mixolydian, and, after a snaking Gdim turn, emerges into the sunlight of F major. This gives us his 4th consecutive lunar progression. Parker ends with a phrase that is a functional reprise of the descending octatonic figures earlier in the performance; however this sentence ends with a rocking melodic progression functioning as dominant-subdominant-dominant. Obviously he was at his creative peak this night.
Reviewer: Steve Coleman
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Any programmer is interested in securing his website. So I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4eMFrQYiY&feature=youtube_gdata_player which talks about crashing a website using cmd only. How to secure any website against this type of attak. Since anyone can do it which makes things harder.
Ping of Death attacks are things of the past. Operating systems no longer freak out when assembling large fragmented ICMP packets.
That video is trying to demonstrate a ping flooding attack, a DoS attack in which he's trying to send more ICMP packets than what the server can handle. Chances are that the server being "attacked" has bigger downlink that the attacker's uplink. Allow me to demonstrate.
The guy in the video is trying to do something like this:
As you can see, he'll never be able to flood the server's downlink/resources. For this attack to be successful you need something called a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), in which a large number of attackers try to flood the server's resources
To learn about mitigating DDoS attacks, you can start by checking this question about different techniques used by firewalls.


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The Council for Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully pressured National Review to pull ads for two books criticizing Islam. And Google is trying to curb expression of something or other over at the Jawa Report.
CAIR is well within its rights to call for a boycott of National Review rather than critique the books it doesn't like. And Google is well within its rights to drop Jawa Report from its list of news sites without providing even a single example of objectionable speech.
And I am well within my rights to tell CAIR and Google to shove it.
Update: Robert Spencer has a whole article about CAIR's war on National Review. Jack Lewis reminds readers that the sensitive souls at Google accepted advertising from Hamas.
Update II: Rich Lowry addresses the controversy here.
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A month and a half into a start-up accelerator
It's been more than 2 years since my last post. A lot has happened since then. Most importantly, our family has welcomed a new member, Peter, who was born on 25 March 2013. I may talk more about my family in the future. I am finishing my PhD now and I plan to defend the thesis by the end of 2013. However, I decided to start blogging about entrepreneurship. During the last year, I have discovered a new passion – everything related to business, start-ups, and good business ideas.
In February, we incorporated our bioinformatics start-up, Genialis. Our business idea, to offer a cloud-based gene recommendation product to life scientists, started to emerge in December last year. In the beginning of April, we applied to TechPeaks, "The People Accelerator", a six-month non-equity accelerator program located in Trento, Italy. It's main idea is that it's much more people-oriented than project-oriented. We started off in the end of May and last week, after the 3rd pitching round, we joined the club of 7 other teams who got funded a 25,000 EUR grant.
Before we came to Trento, I thought we'd benefit from TechPeaks by:
- Getting help from various skilled and experienced mentors
- Completing our team with skilled programmers and business guys
- Getting help from the TechPeaks team to link us to potential customers in the area
- Getting the 25,000 EUR non-equity grant
After a month and a half, I can evaluate a bit my expectations and put down some lessons learned which might be of use to others considering joining an accelerator.
1. Mentors: they are a great opportunity because they are ready to listen to you "by default". Being a participant in accelerator itself provides you with a certain level of credibility, which you can increase or lose. Of course not all mentors will give you useful advice for your specific business, but they will give you useful feedback in most cases, and, more importantly, they are usually more than willing to link you with the parts of their social network that is somehow related to your business. This expectation has been met so far.
2. Team: getting new members into an existing team is very hard on itself. It is even harder when you only have two weeks to do it (if the team loses a member after it gets funded, it loses the funding*). It is something completely different from building a team from scratch. We had a rather unpleasant experience in this aspect, as our freshly-enlarged team fell apart right after the first pitching round. I believe it was mostly our fault as we were not careful enough to be as transparent as possible. We failed in putting ourselves in our new teammates shoes and explaining them all the important details of our business idea history, differentiator, relationships etc. I think there's a reason why most of the teams that already existed before coming to TechPeaks, stayed the same. This expectation has certainly not been (and probably won't be) met.
3. Network: we are already leveraging our "TechPeaker" status to get introduced to relevant people in the area: potential customers, domain experts, potential partners etc. It looks like this expectation will be met.
4. Grant: even though we still don't know what will be the conditions for spending the grant, we are happy we got it. Obviously, this expectation was met.
But wait, there's more.
5. TechPeakers: I could not imagine before what a powerful and friendly crowd of people will the TechPeakers be. I really enjoy coming to the office every day and meet other teams and individuals and discussing various matters. I am astonished to see how these guys are eager to help. I really feel they all took Evan Nisselson's advice seriously when he said something like this in one of his first talks at TechPeaks: "If you don't help at least one of your colleagues every day, you're failing them and yourself". I believe it is such networks of people, which add the most value to accelerators like TechPeaks. Thanks guys!
6. Be humble: It's really hard to be humble and open to critiques when you think you have already spent too much time on fixing something and when you don't see a clear way how to improve it further. You start to believe people providing the critique are malevolent or not smart, which is a dangerous thing. Our team was disappointed after not getting funded in the first round. That's OK. But we were angry and shocked when we didn't get funded in the second round. We have been considering all sorts of scenarios, even leaving the accelerator right away. In the end we realized it was us who didn't really try hard enough to understand and implement the feedback we got from the jury. It was a painful but very important process for us.
That's it for now. I'll try to write the next post before 2015, I promise.
*Update 2013-07-25: One of the funded teams lost a member after it got funded and they kept the money. So apparently there can be exceptions.


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Mr. Jarboe's store was closed today
Greenspeed Anura in front of Jarboe's Store. Did I miss the going out of business sale?
This ruin is adjacent to the C&O Canal at the entrance to the parking lot that marks the location of Edwards Ferry* that once operated across the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland.
The blurb on the nearby information panel reads:
The crumbling Jarboe's Store remains here today. It was a general store and post office operated by Eugene E. Jarboe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Flood damage in 1996 forced the National Park Service to partially tear down the unstable structure.
*Although the correct spelling should be "Edward's Ferry", This is one of those phrases that is usually spelled without an apostrophe.


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When my daughter was born last summer, I knew I wanted to do an outdoor celebration for her 1st birthday. Living in Southern California, the beach quickly became a natural fit for the venue. The mermaid theme emerged upon inspiration from a mint and purple swim suit that I knew would be perfect.
When it comes to kids parties I don't like to take the theme too literally. I feel like there is a very fine line between pretty and too kiddie. In fact, you won't find any actual mermaids anywhere in this party. Instead, I focused on mermaid-like elements like the mermaid "tail" tier of the birthday cake and the fun mermaid hair chalking station. I utilized other elements of the ocean to create a cohesive feel – sea shells, sea creatures, sand, bubbles, and loose gems.
I got to get down and DIY dirty by crafting the tassel garland, making the white chocolate sea shells for favors in upcycled baby food jars, re-purposing additional jars for simple centerpieces, and coordinating a candy bar onto the dessert table. I absolutely love how the party turned out and all of our guests had a blast at the beach. I am so very thankful to my wonderful vendors for their amazing talent
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Tibetan Martyr's Day 2009
I just have 5 minutes of computer-time left for now, so I'll just post a quick edit of some photos I took yesterday, when local Tibetan exiles observed their Martyr Day. Commemorating the 11th anniversary of some monk who died, setting himself on fire down in New Delhi.
About 200 people or so, held a candle light march around the stupa, chanting prayers, shouting slogans ("Free Tibet" and along those lines) and finally just stodd still and sang a song. It was all very peaceful, but with heavy police presence in the background.
I did some sound recordings as well and would love to make a little multimedia presentation. Will have to wait a bit, unfortunately, since it'll take some time that I don't have right now. So for now, just the pictures. Have a good weekend!
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r the sun, called SOLAR -to the Columbus module for installation. Pilot Alan Poindexter worked to guide Walheim and Love from inside the International Space Station, while Mission Specialist Leland Melvin operated the station's robotic arm to guide the astronauts and experiments to the proper locations.
After the installation of SOLAR, the crew transferred a failed gyroscope that controls the orientation of the ISS into Atlantis' payload bay so it can be returned to Earth. The two astronauts completed the final major objective of the mission by installing a second experiment onto the outside of Columbus, the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF). This experiment will allow scientists to expose experiments to the vacuum and elements of space.
Once this work was completed, Walheim and Love examined a damaged handrail on the outside of the station's Quest airlock. They used an improvised tool covered with spacewalk overglove material to rub the area to see if it could be the source of some glove abrasions that have been noticed on recent activity outside the station. Mission managers in Houston will discuss the results to determine if the area is indeed the source of the issue.
Tomorrow at 6:17 a.m., the shuttle will fire its propulsion system for 31 minutes and 13 seconds in order to re-boost the orbit of the ISS. This will allow the station to achieve the proper alignment needed in advance of next month's arrival of Endeavour on the STS-123 mission.
A crew news conference is scheduled for 7:40 a.m. tomorrow, with all 10 crew members participating in a question-and-answer session with media from the United States and Europe.
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Steam is the most popular electronic desktop game distribution method in the planet. So popular that its developers think it will be a great idea to make a Steam Box, a custom gaming and media PC that will connect to your TV and compete with the Xbox One or the PS4.


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A few dozen long tops, tanks and cardigans hang on a rack at Animal House, a new
and vintage clothing store in Venice. (Photo credit: Sabrina Enayatulla)
When Ronny Kleyweg, owner of Animal House, a new and vintage clothing store in Venice, Ca., opened his store in the 1980s, vintage clothing hadn't yet found its niche in the clothing market, which made Animal House a hot spot amongst locals. Overtime, as vintage apparel's popularity started to gain a following, Kleyweg began incorporating new designer items to his inventory as well, making sure to always stay ahead of the local fashion game.
"Back then no one really had stuff like Diesel, and Juicy Couture," Kleyweg said. "That stuff doesn't sell anymore, so the new brands we carry now are [designers like] Joe's Jeans, and Ella Moss."
Kleyweg hand picks every piece in the store, and says that although he gets customers that range in age from their early 20s to mid-50s, from skater types to movie stylists, Kleyweg's largest customer base comes from Japan.
"They buy American vintage and take it back to Japan with them and sell it in their shops," Kleyweg said. "It does put a dent in our inventory, but they're buying stuff that the Americans here aren't going to buy."
Animal House carries men's and women's clothing, with a small selection of children's pieces. Women's clothing includes long dresses, and oversized tops, easy layering pieces, tank tops and dozens of scarves to chose from ranging in price from $2 to $18. The store also carries books on fashion, design, surf and skate, and has a small selection of Emilio Pucci bags, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton.
"There is something here for everybody," Kleyweg said. "This is stuff that people can afford, and it's stylish, not like the stuff you'd find at a thrift store."
Currently, Kleyweg said his hottest-selling women's items are the 1970s India gauze hippie dresses and blouses he has in the store.
Animal House is located on 66 Windward Ave. in Venice. The store is open seven days a week from 11 a.m to 7 p.m. Call 310-392-5411, or visit AnimalHouseVenice.com for more information.


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|My goal of 5K in one month is now within reach, just reach out and grab it.
Hello All. I am brand new at this and I have never written an article like this before, however I have been following this web site and other Warcraft-econ based websites for a couple of weeks and I wanted to share my story. Basically I went from 0 gold -4,500 gold in under two weeks (10 days) with no help whatsoever. While my goal was to get 5,000 gold within one month I decided to write this now because I enjoyed 5 days off from work due to the Holiday and a snowstorm and now I have to catch up on a lot of things.
I picked up the trial version of WOW on December 10th. I had played it about a year ago and enjoyed the game but it consumed months of my time so I gave it up. I remember never having more then 300-500 gold before buying my mount. This time around I wanted to focus on the economic side of the game.
I created a Troll Hunter with Mining/Eng and spent the early levels doing quests and finding copper nodes in Durotar and the Barrens. I read that small eggs sell well for the Christmas event so I was pleased to see that they dropped from the vultures in the barrens. (I don't remember their exact name). I now know that the Blood elf Dragonhawks are one of the best sources.
I spent the first two days collecting Copper ore and gems and selling trash to vendors. As I gathered up the ores I soon ran out of the little money I had and took my treasures to the AH. I now know that WOW trial accounts cannot sell on the AH. After buying the full version I started posting the eggs, copper bars, and clam meat from the Turtles in the Barrens.
The Small Eggs and the Gingerbread cookies were a gold bonanza. Ranging from 10g-50g for a stack of 5! Clam Meat was also huge at 50+g a stack. I was in the egg market early and earned a bundle. But the market became very volatile very fast. The copper bars on the other hand were a steady source of income at about 8-12 g a stack and I am still earning on them.
This is my overly complex pie chart, cleverly entitled Chart Title, which tells me what I already know, stop wasting your time and get back to work! Just kidding. It tells me that Clam Meat (39%) and Small Eggs (10%) sell very high. What it fails to reveal is that copper Bars (6%) and low level gems (10%) are a stable source of income.
As a side benefit I shot through levels at blinding speed. It was definitely much more difficult to do this a year ago, but I guess Blizzard is focused on getting people higher, faster before the plateau, (sought of like a drug dealer) When it was all said and done I had a level 53 Troll Hunter with Mining at 225 and over 4,000 gold in the bank.


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So here we go, Patty and Selma is about to be released and we have the goodies for you.
This will be a quick edit to show you what's in there, the full post will be available soon.
So, the obvious characters are Patty and Selma, including their pet Jub Jub.
The surprise character is Disco Stu "Oh Yeah!".
The buildings include the DMV, Spinster City Apartments, Springfield Pet Shop and Stu's Disco.
Then there's a few decorations including the DMV Limo, Popsiclestick Disco Stu and Popsiclestick Patty and Selma.
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It has been confirmed that there will be a "Teen Mom" season 5, with new episodes airing in 2015. The MTV reality show will have cast members Maci Bookout, Amber Portwood and Catelynn Lowell all returning. Earlier this year there were rumors that Farrah Abraham would not be on another season. Those rumors turned out to be true because she will not be seen on the upcoming season. On Aug. 13, WetPaint reported what can be expected when the girls return.
Fans have heard about Maci's boyfriend, Taylor McKinney, but in the new season it will be the first time viewers will actually see him on screen. The two have been together for two years and things must be going well because he moved from Texas all the way to Chattanooga to be with her. Her son, Bentley, is now 5 and she told Us Weekly that she and her family are in new and interesting places in their lives. She feels that she has grown up a lot since the last time she filmed and it will be interesting to show fans how their lives have evolved.
Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra worried fans when it was announced they were going to be on VH1's "Couples Therapy." But there was no reason to worry and the two are doing great. Fans have already heard the great news that they are expecting their second child together and they are planning a wedding.
Catelynn and Tyler gave up their first child, Carly, for adoption. She says that this time it's totally different, because it is their time to be parents. She added that they did "Teen Mom" to help others. She also said,
"Now people can see what it will be like to juggle the responsibilities of taking care of our new baby while navigating our relationship with Carly (their first child) and her adoptive parents."
Amber has had a rough couple of years. She had an explosive temper and had issues with substance abuse. She ended up behind bars for 17 months, but since she is out, fans see a totally new and improved Amber Portwood. She is still sober and has a book that is due to be released later this month, titled "Never Too Late." Not only has she written a book, but she will be graduating from school in December and just started a job as a social marketing specialist.
Her daughter, Leah, just started kindergarten and even though her ex, Gary Shirley has full custody, Amber tries to spend as much time with her little girl as she can. She also revealed,
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Scrabble word: LOOM
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Definitions of LOOM in dictionaries:
- noun - a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
- verb - come into view indistinctly, often threateningly
- verb - appear very large or occupy a commanding position
- verb - hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- verb - weave on a loom
- To come into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image.
- To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: "Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933" (Robert Conquest).
- A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.
- An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.
- verb - to appear in an enlarged and indistinct form
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The safety manager for a major contractor on the Sky Train construction project in Phoenix was among the dead in Friday night's shooting at a northern Arizona campground, authorities said Sunday.
Edgar Atzin, 45, died of gunshot wounds during a motorcycle rally at Mormon Lake in what detectives suspect is a murder-suicide.
Also dead from gunshots were his wife, Trina Ann Atzin, 43, and Christian Tejada, 38, of Peoria.
A fourth victim, an unidentified 33-year-old woman, was in critical but stable condition at Flagstaff Medical Center.
The Atzins lived in the 2500 block of West Straight Arrow Lane in Phoenix. Edgar Atzin was safety manager at the Phoenix office of Weitz Co., a national general contractor.
Right after the shooting at about 11:20 p.m. Friday, Coconino County sheriff's deputies found the Atzins and the second woman lying near a camp trailer. The survivor had been shot six times, sheriff's spokesman Gerry Blair said.
Some distance from the trailer, a witness found Tejada lying on the ground with a single gunshot wound under his chin and a handgun close to one of his hands.
Detectives are investigating the possibility that the shooting were fueled by alcohol and "the strong possibility" that Tejada argued with another member of the group regarding food, leading to the shooting, Blair said.
It is believed that the four were camping together and were friends, he said.
Bryan Bernardo, a vice president at Weitz's Phoenix office, said Edgar Atzin had worked in construction his entire adult life and that he had been with Weitz about three years.
"He was just a great guy, a great worker," Bernardo said.
Weitz is one of the contractors building the PHX Sky Train, the new rail connection to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The first part, from 44th Street in Phoenix to the East Economy Lot and Terminal 4, is under construction and scheduled to open in 2013.
One of Atzin's friends was Sergei Guk, who owns a building-restoration company. He said Atzin had been a client.
Guk said their working relationship morphed into a friendship, and the two had been planning to attend Bike Week in Las Vegas in September.
Guk said Atzin was conscientious in his job.
"His job was to be the guy who was responsible for everybody's safety on the project," Guk said. "It was a demanding position."
Atkin recently had a close call on the road when a car sideswiped his motorcycle.
"He just got it worked on and built the way he wanted," Guk said. "He got his bike fixed and put back together."
On Friday night after the shooting, two other women in the area were taken to Flagstaff Medical Center for possible shock, Blair said.
"It was very chaotic," said rally participant Ken Daniels, 48, of Phoenix, who was about 200 feet away from the campsite when the shooting occurred. The annual motorcycle gathering was billed as the "Too Broke for Sturgis" rally, a reference to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the largest in the nation, which takes place in South Dakota. The 71st anniversary rally in Sturgis is scheduled Aug. 8-14.
It was the first time Daniels had attended Too Broke for Sturgis, but he has been to other rallies.
"This is an extremely rare situation," he said. "It was probably something personal, and it could have happened anywhere."
The Coconino County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate.
Mormon Lake is in Coconino National Forest.
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It is always nice to go to Temecula for a day of wine tasting. Temecula has really grown and modernized into one of San Diego County's nicer cities, complete with many excellent wineries. Right next door, however, lies Fallbrook, a small town where ranches dot the outskirts and no fancy restaurants or upscale malls dot the landscape. It is the perfect place to decompress after wine tasting, or enjoy a good old-fashioned meal before beginning your winery crawl. Right in the center of Fallbrook, the Fallbrook Cafe provides a perfect place to have some delicious home cooking in a place that looks like it has not changed much in decades.
The Fallbrook Cafe advertises itself as "Home Cooking at it's Best" and it delivers. The signs in the dining room make sure to say that the chicken pot pie is a specialty and completely made on the premises. It really looks like that too. It is delivered to the table on a plate with the Chicken Pot Pie on it. This is not a chain restaurant pot pie.
The crust hangs unevenly well over the edges of the pie dish, with gobs of creamy chicken gravy cascading done some of the edges. The pie also has that just-baked golden brown sheen to the crust. At the first push with the fork on the edge of the crust, you can watch the crust break off to reveal many flaky layers, the sign of a nice handmade crust. It is much closer to a fine puff pastry crust than the usual hard crust. Putting a spoon into the top allows the crust to break away, releasing a puff of steam from the hot interior. Dipping the spoon into the gravy, large chunks of chicken and carrots come up, coated with the golden yellow thick chicken gravy.
This could easily be the poster child for a chicken pot pie. The gravy is not overly salty, instead seasoned properly with the taste of good chicken stock and nice herbs. The carrots arre tender and the chicken still has a nice firmness to the bite. It is hard to tell if there are potato chunks in it since they blend in so nicely that they did not dominate the chicken. This is a dish where you will find yourself scraping the plate and the dish to get every last bit of goodness out of the chicken pot pie.
The chili size remains one of Los Angeles' greatest culinary creations, easy to find now all all throughout California. It was originally a dish created at a place in the 1920's called 'Ptomaine Tommy's'! The Fallbrook Cafe's version runs true to the original, with a bun lightly toasted with the top split. A hamburger patty covers the bottom of the bun and is topped with a generous portion of delicious chili. On the side comes a dish of chopped onions and grated cheddar cheese to top the chili size with.
The Fallbrook Cafe's Chili Size delivers the flavor. Their house-made chili is seasoned just enough to not overpower the flavor of the hamburger patty. The chili has some beans in it but is not overly loaded with them. The crisp bun and chopped onions add nice texture to the dish. Overall, it is a delicious chili size and quite satisfying, another dish worth using a spoon to scrape up every bit of chili.
After a nice meal at the Fallbrook Cafe, a nice time can be had driving around Fallbrook and Temecula, enjoying the views of horse ranches, vineyards and wineries. A nice glass of wine at one of the wineries makes a perfect way to cap off a day in Northeast San Diego County, a nice day trip from Los Angeles. Add to that a meal at the Fallbrook Cafe and it makes for a nice way to enjoy a lovely spring day.
Fallbrook Cafe
739 East Mission Road
Fallbrook, CA 92028
Ph: (760) 728-1898
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- Dining on the chili size and the history of a Los Angeles original
- International Chili Society's Carol Hancock talks about National Chili Day
- Original Tommy's is comfort food from an old friend
- Rubio's New Ancho Citrus Shrimp Burritos and Burrito Especials have great taste
- The Park Bench Cafe in Huntington Beach is a great place for dogs and people too


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Netflix Earnings Play: Is Netflix Acquirable Or Is Icahn Wrong?
My whole family, including myself, are movie buffs. We've been Netflix members from almost the beginning. We have Rokus on every TV and I'm not at all unhappy with my Netflix (NFLX) account. But the relationship with Netflix has not always been easy. We started by having a combined DVD and Streaming plan that costs (to the best of my memory) about $14.95 per month. At the time, we had unlimited Streaming and no limit on the number of DVDs per month with a maximum of 3 out at a time.
Netflix Qwikster Debacle
Then Netflix sent us the "Dear John" email. They were changing the plan. First, they would raise their rates and reduce their services. We would get less for more. But honestly, that wasn't the weird part. The strange part was they were trying to split-off and re-brand their DVD service. They would call the DVD service Qwikster and keep the Netflix brand for their streaming service. A user would now have to manage two separate accounts and two different queues for reasons that just didn't make sense to most subscribers.
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Coroner: Man whose car crashed Wednesday had medical issues
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 10:32 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 10:32 a.m.
The Spartanburg County coroner has determined a Roebuck man whose car crashed Wednesday morning likely had medical issues that caused his death.
In a statement, Coroner Rusty Clevenger said an autopsy showed that 50-year-old Robert Wade Satterfield didn't have injuries associated with the crash, and other tests will have to be performed to determine his exact cause of death.
Satterfield, a newspaper carrier for the Herald-Journal, was delivering papers early Wednesday when he ran off the Industrial Park Road about 5:24 a.m., troopers said.
Satterfield then struck a tree, ran off the right side of the road before crossing a small grassy area and Highway 295 and into a wooded area, Highway Patrol Cpl. Bill Rhyne said.
Satterfield was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The Earth has been visited by advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other dimensions faster than the speed of light. What we have learned from them about energy propulsion can bring us to a new era, but those in power have suppressed this information in order to keep us at their mercy. It is time for you to know... and this documentary will let you in.
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InsideARM recently released information from an industry survey they conducted regarding what part of the debt collection industry is more likely to work in cooperation with debt settlement companies.
They survey 649 creditors, collectors, debt buyers and legal recovery firms to ask about their perception or willingness to work with debt settlement companies.
The survey indicated a growing willingness to work in cooperation with debt settlement companies to recover funds but there were some clear differences between the various vertical niches.
Debt collection agencies outnumbered debt buyers 3:1 in their cooperation with debt settlement offers and legal recovery firms 4:1. Ironically, original creditors ranked lowest in the different segments surveyed.
It appears from the results of the survey, as well as the numerous comments provided by respondents, that the concerns about reputational credibility of the industry and the past practices by bad actors (now legislated in a manner designed to strictly mitigate future offenses) has taken a back seat to liquidation performance and concerns around data security, privacy, compliance, and the FDCPA. The top three reasons provided for not working with the debt settlement industry related to these issues while concerns around reputation came in fourth, with only 13% of participants stating reputation as a concern. – Source
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Steampunk: the Beginning will feature over 60 illustrations created by Cal State University, Fullerton Visual Arts alumni, faculty and current students, which are inspired by three Cal State University, Fullerton alumni and their Steampunk related publications: Homonculus by James Blaylock '72, '74 (B.A., M.A. English); Infernal Devices by K.W.Jeter '73 (B.A. Sociology); and Anubis Gates by Tim Powers '76 (B.A. English).
Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term steampunk originated in the late 1980s from K.W. Jeter, then a recent graduate of CSU Fullerton. Jeter had been trying to find a general term for works produced by fellow students and friends, Tim Powers, James Blaylock—who's stories took place in a 19th-century Victorian setting, which imitated conventions of such actual Victorian speculative fiction such as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Steampunk has since gained popularity in mainstream culture, fashion, movies and television.
PUBLIC EVENT | SATURDAY, APRIL 7th, 2012 @ 4:30PM in Visual Arts, Room 113: Conversation with authors, James Blaylock and Tim Powers, lead by Mike McGee.
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In May 1969, Joni Mitchell released her second album Clouds, which would be her first foray into the top forty, peaking at number 31 on the US charts, and two positions shy of the top twenty in Canada. The album featured three of Mitchell's best known songs including "Chelsea Morning" "Both Sides, Now" and "The Fiddle and the Drum".
Clouds is also the first album where Mitchell would produce, with the exception of the track "Tin Angel", which was produced by Paul A. Rothchild. Mitchell would also paint a self-portrait for the album's cover. Clouds was seen as a contemplative of various subjects, including the Vietnam War ("The Fiddle and the Drum"), mental illness ("I Think I Understand"), and love ("I Don't Know Where I Stand" and "Tin Angel").
In addition to a gold certification, Clouds would also win Mitchell a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. One of the songs "Both Sides, Now", has been ranked as one of the top 200 greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. But perhaps one of the biggest fact about the album, are the covers that it would spawn. Most notably, two songs "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides, Now" were hits for Judy Collins. There would also be covers from other artists including Neil Diamond, alternative bands A Perfect Circle and Hole, Tori Amos, and Herbie Hancock.


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Escape From Planet Earth
Score: 7.67 / 10Release Date: February 15, 2013
Director: Cal Brunker
Producer: Brian Inerfeld, Catherine Winder, Luke Carroll
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Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, William Shatner, George Lopez, Sofia Vergara, Rob Corddry
Genre: Family
Running Time: 88 minutes
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Astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is considered a national hero on planet Baab by the blue alien population. Scorch and his quiet, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA, pull off astonishing feats.
When BASAs strict chief Lena (Jessica Alba) tells the brothers about an SOS from a planet known to be dangerous planet, Scorch ignores Garys trepidation about traveling there and sets off on what he believes will be another exciting mission.
However, Scorch finds himself in a trap set by the evil Shanker (James Gandolfini) and Gary has to rescue not only brother, but his planet, his wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and their son Kip, who's eager for adventure, just like his uncle.


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We've had so many celebrities walk on in recent weeks, so people always ask this question of astrologers. "Is it possible for astrology to reveal a person's time of death?" My answer would have to be no, however, there are death and dying indicators that would have to be taken into account because it's not one planet, aspect or something that could pinpoint an exact time. We have to look at all planets, several aspects, progressions, harmonic ages, midpoints, transits, etc. If clients asked me could I tell them when they were going to die, I would say absolutely not. Just like your life is in your hands, so is your death. If an astrologer says she or he can tell you when you're going to die, and does, he or she is not a professional. Remember that. I usually take the time after a person has taken his or her final journey to see what indicators were apparent in the transit, but for every person, the aspects are different.
There are things we look for when searching for death indicators in a person's natal chart:
- The 8th house is the traditional death house; we note the cusp, the ruler and the planets in the eighth house.
- The Ascendant or 1st house, the ascending degree, the ruler as well as exact aspects involving the Ascendant.
- The Nadir, or 4th house which could describe the end of a matter or end of physical life on earth; the planets in the 4th, the ruler and exact aspects involving the Nadir
- The 12th house, the traditional self-undoing house; the planets in the house, the exact aspects as well as the ruler.
- The 45 degree aspect Quincunx (also known as Inconjunct) is a tension point that reveals major changes in life (and death is a major change).
- Arabic Parts (and there are many which could be considered when looking for indicators)
- Part of Death formula 1 is: Ascendant + Cusp of 8th House – Moon
- Part of Death formula 2: Ascendant + Saturn – Moon
- Part of Fatality: Ascendant + Saturn – Sun
- Part of Self-Undoing: Ascendant + H12 – Neptune
- Part of Danger/Violence: Ascendant + Mercury – Saturn
- Part of Suicide: Ascendant + H8 – Neptune
- Part of Catastrophe: Ascendant + Uranus – Sun
- Part of Murder: Ascendant + H8 – R8 (R = Ruler)
- Part of Cancer/Illness: Ascendant + Neptune – Jupiter
- Part of Most Perilous Year: Ascendant + R8 – Saturn
- Part of Sickness: Ascendant + Mars – Saturn
- Part of Soul: H4 + Moon – Sun
- Solar Arc
- Year (Age) Harmonics
- Progressions can reveal the windows of opportunity will emerge from.
- Transits – the planets in the Ascendant, 4th, 8th and 12th will indicate the possibility.
- Midpoints
- 4th and 8th house planets in transit in the charts of next of kin, especially parents and siblings
That's a great deal of study even for the most experienced of astrologers. It's not the end of the journey that matters, it's the people one touches along the way. So live your lives to the fullest, and stop worrying about death and dying.
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We may have all heard the nursery rhyme from the 1700's, Hey Diddle Diddle:
"Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the Moon;
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon."
Poetry uses the Moon, the Sun, and the Stars as poetic metaphors and similes, and we stare out in space at night musing on what lies beyond our own understanding. The following are just some of the ways poets have used these heavenly bodies as inspiration for their verse.
From Christina Rossetti's Sing Song (1830-1894):
Is the moon tired?
she looks so pale
Within her misty veil:
She scales the sky from east to west,
And takes no rest.
Before the coming of the night
The moon shows papery white;
Before the dawning of the day
She fades away.
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,
In the dawn clouds flying,
How good to go,
light into light, and still
Giving light, dying.
By Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
In honor of this week's New Moon and Solar Eclipse in Taurus, on Tuesday, April 29, we dedicate D.H. Lawrence's (1885-1930) poem, New Moon:
The new moon,
of no importance
lingers behind as the yellow sun glares
and is gone beyond the sea's edge;
earth smokes blue;
the new moon,
in cool height above the blushes,
brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses.
~Edgar Allan Poe
'Twas noontide of summer,
And midtime of night,
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, through the light
Of the brighter, cold moon.
'Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves.
I gazed awhile
On her cold smile;
Too cold—too cold for me—
There passed, as a shroud,
A fleecy cloud,
And I turned away to thee,
Proud Evening Star,
In thy glory afar
And dearer thy beam shall be;
For joy to my heart Is the proud part
Thou bearest in Heaven at night,
And more I admire Thy distant fire,
Than that colder, lowly light.
From Hannochi's collection of poetry, A Star's Poetry Collection:
I Am There
I am the breeze that kisses your cheek.
I am the sun that warms your face.
When you look at the purple evening sky, it is me.
When you see the majestic mountain, it is me.
When the birds sing sweetly, it is my voice.
When the water gently laps against the shore, it is my heartbeat.
I am the green grass against your feet. I am the refreshing shade of summer.
In the stars, you see my eyes. In the blue sky, you see my body.
Feel the air that surrounds you, I am there.
Feel the love in your heart, I am there.
An Algonquin Poem:
We are the stars which sing,
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice;
We make a road for the spirits;
For the spirits to pass over.
Among us are three hunters
Who chase a bear.
There never was a time
When they were not hunting.
We look down on the mountains
This is the song of the stars.
~ Marjorie Pickthall
Now in the West the slender moon lies low,
And now Orion glimmers through the trees,
Clearing the earth with even pace and slow,
And now the stately-moving Pleiades,
In that soft infinite darkness overhead
Hang jewel-wise upon a silver thread.
And all the lonelier stars that have their place,
Calm lamps within the distant southern sky,
And planet-dust upon the edge of space,
Look down upon the fretful world, and I
Look up to outer vastness unafraid
And see the stars which sang when earth was made.
A Sonnet on a Star
~Tamara Beryl Latham from Millford, Connecticut.
If I could write a sonnet on a star
Then bottle it and toss it to the sea
Would it travel to the corners of the Earth,
And echo there the love I hold for thee?
If I could write a sonnet on the moon
Then bottle it and toss it to the winds
Would it find your heart So you may briefly know,
Where your love ends Is where my love begins?
If I could write a sonnet on the sun
Then bottle it and toss it throughout time
Would someone from a distant galaxy
Find no greater love
Than that was mine
Yet, I cannot write a sonnet on a star,
Nor moon, nor even on the blazing sun,
Nor bottle words to send them
Where you are
Nor coerce our separate hearts
To beat as one
And so my darling
You will never hear
The humble words of love I wrote for thee
They remain encrypted, tightly sealed
And yet they travel on eternally
What is your favorite poem about the Moon or the Stars? Try your hand at writing a poem about the Moon, the stars, and the heavens. If you write it, I will share it here in this column. Send your poem to me at email@example.com. Let's fill this column with poems from our readers as a grand finale of National Poetry Month.
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yields 6 servings _1 pound small littleneck clams or Manila clams, scrubbed 2 tablespoons packed chopped fresh basil 11?2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 1 pound mussels, scrubbed and debearded 11?2 tablespoons drained capers 1 cup dry white wine 11?2 large cloves garlic, minced 1 pound sea scallops, connective side tissue trimmed 11?2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1?4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper 3?4 pound uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1?4 cup extra virgin olive oil Collard Greens Slaw for serving 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar_ 1. In large wide pot, combine the clams, mussels, and wine. Cover lid tightly, and cook over high heat for about 4 to 5 minutes, until the clams and mussels open. Discard any clams and mussels that do not open. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the clams and mussels to a very large bowl. Strain the cooking liquid into a medium bowl and set aside. 2. In a large saucepan of boiling salted water, cook the scallops until just opaque in the center, about 3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, remove the scallops from the saucepan and add to the clams and mussels. 3. Return the water in the saucepan to a boil. Add the shrimp and cook just until opaque in the cen¬ter, about 3 minutes. Drain the shrimp and transfer to the bowl with the shell?sh. (Seafood can be prepared 4 hours ahead and refrigerated until serving.) 4. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, basil, parsley, capers, garlic, mustard, and crushed red pepper. Season with salt and pepper. Whisk 1?3 cup of the reserved cooking liquid into the dressing (reserve remaining cooking liquid for another use). Dressing can be made up to 4 hours ahead; cover tightly, refrigerate, and bring to room temperature before using. 5. Pour the dressing over the shell?sh and toss to combine. Serve over Collard Greens Slaw. From B. Smith Cooks Southern Style by Barbara Smith (Scribner). Available now at Amazon.com." For more great summer recipes from Top Chefs' click here
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The maxim "Honesty is the best policy" is challenged—perhaps the word should be trashed. Frederick V. Malmstrom and David Mullin explain how reluctant we are to speak up even when deceit, lying and cheating are not far from us at the highest levels of business and government, such as in the New York City Police Department, Enron, the Tour de France, and the school systems of Atlanta, New Orleans, and the District of Columbia. Their research of our national service academies--the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy-- impressively illustrates this. For example each of these school's honor code states reads specifically, "We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does." Our nation's best and the brightest young women and men are to be intolerant of dishonesty. Their findings, as well as scandals within their campuses, have shown that they fall short on intolerance for dishonesty. (See the summary of these findings in the box below.)
The Service Academies and Toleration of Dishonesty
By 2010 the effective rate of admitted toleration of dishonesty by graduates of all three major U.S. service academies (Army, Navy, and Air Force) violations had risen to 65%. What's more, for the first time the rate of toleration of dishonesty had outstripped the rate of self-admitted honor violations, 65% to 55%. This is in clear contradiction of their honor oath, for large numbers of cadets and midshipmen no longer consider toleration of dishonesty as dereliction of duty.
1. Toleration of dishonesty seems to be an especially sticky problem at all three major U.S. service academies, and our calculations also show toleration quickly leads to cynicism. Results from a longterm survey returned from 2,465 service academy graduates from the classes of 1959 through 2010 showed that toleration of dishonesty is by far the strongest predictor of personal dishonesty, accounting for a whopping 50% of variance. Toleration is equally predicted by the following factors: (1) Lack of respect for the honor codes, (2) Lack of resolve (lack of courage) to either report or confront others' dishonesty, and (3) Subsequent lying, cheating, and stealing by the academy graduates. In other words, personal toleration of dishonesty almost inevitably led to cynicism. –"Why Whistleblowing Doesn't Work: Loyalty is a Whole Lot Easier to Enforce than Honesty" by Frederick V. Malmstrom and David Mullin in Skeptic Newsletter, August 13, 2014.
There are several factors at play within a group and organization when it comes to coping with wrong doing, such as cheating by free-riding rather than carrying one's load of work to be done. This is to say that individuals may elect not to speak up about what they think isn't right because of loyalty to the group/organization, or from a sense of duty, and or because of fear of reprisal. Sometimes even swallowing what isn't fair rather than confronting individuals who don't do their share or are irresponsible is because you don't want to be labeled as a trouble maker or not a team player. Free-riders may justify their cheating by saying it isn't really cheating in not pedaling, everyone loafs some of the time. Cheaters often justify cheating by reasoning that's what you must do to get ahead or just survive. Those who tolerate what they know isn't right, after that is found out may say they were loyal to the group and didn't want to upset it. This is to suggest that self-managing a small group is a balancing act between maintaining harmony and confronting unfair allocation of and carrying out member responsibility.
One of the ways to make honesty and dishonesty important is for a group to set forth its expectations about communication and accountability. More formally that is called a Code of Conduct. Even gangs have codes of conduct; most important of those is a Code of Silence. A Code of Silence states that loyalty to the group comes first and no gang member cooperates with authorities--You will not snitch. Breaking the code of silence can result in severe punishment, expulsion and even death.
Some religious leaders, like business and government leaders, have protected their own and covered up wrong done by clergy rather than have welcomed whistle blowers. So it is that the Code of Silence has affected even those who preach that the truth shall make you free.


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