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I just want to share my functional prototype (its fun if you're a mecha fan!) and the story as a beginner programmer.
So I wanted to build a game but I didn't know any programming. I did take a course on javascript 101 in my first year some 8 years ago, but then I failed it..
But with Google Spreadsheet and little bit of Google App script, I managed to pull this off over a terribly painful two weeks.
To be honest, I still don't know how to work with arrays... but I'm getting there!
Here's the link to the file. It is View-only, so please make a copy into your Google Drive before playing:
- This is a mecha battle online game (1 vs 1) runs on Google Spreadsheet.
- The battle system is a simultaneous 2-steps turn-base battle. Each side decides the next 2 actions, and then the game executes them in order.
- The game is about customizing your mech, choosing weapons, and wreck your opponent. Destroy opponent's main body part and you win. Destroying other parts would gain you great advantage.
You need to change the sharing access before inviting a friend into your game. For step-by-step instruction please go to this link:
The concept art and drafts:
I'm not sure what my next step is. While I could pick up proper java/ C and then Unity, but with the amount of artwork waiting for me ahead I'll probably find a real programmer to partner with...
Anyhow! I don't even have friends to share my game with cuz no one is into mecha... even less into turn-base...
So if any of you interested to give it a try and enjoy it, let me know about your experience! Duel with someone! (I'm fairly confident the game is balanced... "fairly")
Feel free to play around with the source, but its in such a gory mess, you'd probably just back away from it...
Hope you have a good game!


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Is there anyplace you would NOT bring your knitting to?????
My family and I are attending a wedding tomorrow evening and that got me to wondering about places I wouldn't take knitting to. Here's my short list:
A wedding
A funeral (unless the person being honored was a knitter)
A church service
Well, that's it for me. Anybody else???
All of yours plus:
A dinner. I'm clumsy and whatever is on the table is likely to land in my lap or on the floor near me. :oo:
A meeting at work. Can't remember where I read of someone doing this to help her get through "boring" business meetings. IMO, that's unprofessional unless your business is a yarn shop. YMMV.
I wouldn't do knitting in a job interview (unless for a knitting or craft related job). If circumstances ment there was a lot of dead time while I was waiting to go into the interview I'd make a judgement call on whether or not to do something small and easy to put away while waiting.
Cinemas and theatres would be out. If the show is that good I'll be watching it, not knitting, and if it's that bad I'll be leaving, not staying.
The only other place I can think of is inside an MRI Scanner, but only because most of my needles are metal.
Oh, by the way, what does YMMV stand for?
YMMV = your mileage may vary
I agree, but think a work meeting depends on the situation and how the boss feels about it. A lot of people, including myself, can pay attention better if our hands are busy. Obviously simple things are in order here if it's allowed.
I went to a wedding last night and boy I WISH I could've had my knitting with me!! So much time just sitting and waiting that I could have spent in productive knitting!!
Oh well. The bride was beautiful and the groom was handsome. Hope they like the afghan I knitted them!
I never take my knitting into the shower or bathtub.
Hmmm.....I actually wonder if anyone here may have taken their knitting into the tub, idk, one house I used to live in has a clawfoot tub, nah, probably wouldn't have worked out very well.
I don't take my knitting into the bathtub, but I love reading knitting magazines in the bathtub. I would often escape to knitting fantasy land when my son was an infant.
Noooooo, I'm not totally sleepless and exhausted from hours of nursing a baby, I'm pretending that It's a beautiful crisp fall day with nothing but my knitting to do.
It actually helped a lot.
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Skip to comments.THANK GOD FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB
Posted on 08/06/2014 4:18:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad Ive Remembered all this time. Its been for me a model of the short poem, and indeed Ive come upon few short poems subsequently that exhibited more poetic talent. The ad consisted of two eleven-syllable lines of verse, thus:
In life, experience is the great teacher.
In Scotch, Teachers is the great experience.
For present purposes we must jettison the second line (licking our lips, to be sure, as it disappears), leaving the first to register a principle whose banality suggests that it enshrines a most useful truth. I bring up the matter because, writing on the forty-second anniversary of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I want to consider something suggested by the long debate about the ethics, if any, of that ghastly affair. Namely, the importance of experience, sheer, vulgar experience, in influencing, if not determining, ones views about that use of the atom bomb.
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saved over a millions lives. Operation Downfall would have cost millions.
The Japanese were looking to surrender for months. All that they wanted was to be able to keep their emperor as figurehead. Something that they ended up getting any way.
Right decision.
I am, however, a combat veteran and I have suffered all my life from the physical and spiritual effects of killing and seeing friends killed. I know what war's really about and I know just what this authors means about all of those young men who knew that they would not leave this war alive if we continued our invasion plans for Japan.
The bombs did what all of the other horrors didn't: it caused the Japanese to quit and as a result, millions of worthwhile young Americans, Brits, Russians, and Japanese got to survive and to build a new world.
I'm giving this article to my sweet missus.
"The Japanese were looking to surrender for months."
I've never heard that before.
My wife is young and beautiful too, but her country was occupied by Japan. She is not into PC and has no time for them.
They had their chances. After Potsdam they could have given a reasonable reply that they were willing to quit on those terms. They didn't reply, so they got hit.
Some isolated factions were exploring what terms they might negotiate in a surrender. But the country's leadership -- both government and military -- remained committed to fight to the last man.
Whether the "peace movement" would've grown over time is unknown.
In 1945, the US was the most Christian nation in the world (that is, if you can label as Christian a nation whose churches overwhelmingly fail to sincerely teach or adhere to the ethics of Jesus as taught in the Sermon on the Mount).
Prior to the bomb exploding over St. Marys Urakami Cathedral on 11:02 AM, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan. The Nagasaki cathedral was the largest Christian cathedral in the Orient.
Those baptized and confirmed Christian airmen, following their wartime orders to the letter, did their job efficiently, and they accomplished the mission with military pride, albeit with any number of near-fatal glitches. Most of us Americans in 1945 would have done exactly the same if they had been in the shoes of the Bocks Car crew, and there would have been very little mental anguish later if we had also been treated as heroes.
Nevertheless, the use of that monstrous weapon of mass destruction to destroy a mainly civilian city like Nagasaki was an international war crime and a crime against humanity as defined later by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Of course, there was no way that the crew members could have known that at the time. Some of the crew did admit that they had had some doubts about what they had participated in when the bomb actually detonated. Of course, none of them actually saw the horrific suffering of the victims up close and personal. Orders are orders and, in wartime, disobedience can be, and has been, legally punishable by summary execution of the soldier who might have had a conscience strong enough to convince him that killing another human, especially an unarmed one, was morally wrong.
It had been only 3 days since the August 6th bomb had decimated Hiroshima. The August 9 bombing occurred amidst massive chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the fascist military government, who knew for months already- that they had lost the war, and therefore had been searching for ways to honorably surrender and end the war.
The only obstacle to surrender had been the Allied insistence on unconditional surrender, which meant that the Emperor Hirohito, whom the Japanese regarded as a deity, would be removed from his figurehead position in Japan and possible subjected to war crimes trials. That was a deal-breaker, an intolerable demand for the Japanese that prolonged the war and prevented Japan from giving up months earlier.
The Russian army had declared war against Japan on August 8, hoping to regain territories lost to Japan in the humiliating (for Russia) Russo-Japanese war 40 years earlier, and Stalins army was advancing across Manchuria. Russias entry into the war represented a powerful incentive for Japan to end the war quickly since they much preferred surrendering to the US rather than to Russia. And, of course, the US did not want to divide any of the spoils of war with Russia, and it wanted to send an early cold war message to Russia that the US was the new planetary superpower.
Aiming at August 1, 1945 as the earliest deployment date for the first bomb, the Target Committee in Washington, D.C. developed a list of relatively un-damaged Japanese cities that were to be excluded from the conventional USAAF fire-bombing campaigns (that, during the first half of 1945, burned to the ground 60+ major, mostly defenseless Japanese cities).
The list of protected cities included Hiroshima, Niigata, Kokura, Kyoto and Nagasaki. Those five relatively undamaged cities were to be off-limits to the terror bombings. They were to be preserved as potential targets for the new gimmick weapon that had been researched and developed all across America during the two years of the Manhattan Project. Ironically, prior to August 6 and 9, the residents of those cities considered themselves lucky for not having been bombed as much as other cities. Little did they know why they were being spared from the carnage.
The first and only field test of an atomic bomb had been blasphemously code-named Trinity (a distinctly Christian term). It had occurred 3 weeks earlier at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The results were impressive, but the blast had just killed off a few hapless coyotes, rabbits, snakes and some other desert varmints. That bomb had totally destroyed lots of cactuses and sagebrush and had obliterated a family of manikins that had been planted in hastily built homes for the photographic portion of the experiment.
The Trinity test also unexpectedly produced huge amounts of a new mineral that was later called Trinitite. Trinitite was a molten lava rock that had been created from the intense heat (twice the temperature of the sun) of the above ground bomb blast.
At 3 am on the morning of August 9, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress (that had been christened Bocks Car) took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the prayers and blessings of its Lutheran and Catholic chaplains. Barely making it off the runway before the plane went into the drink (because of the 10,000 bomb in its hold), it headed north for Kokura, the primary target. Bocks Cars plutonium bomb was code-named Fat Man, after Winston Churchill. Little Boy, first called Thin Man (after President Roosevelt) was the bomb that had incinerated Hiroshima three days earlier.
The reality of what had happened at Hiroshima was not understood by Japans Supreme War Council in Tokyo. So there was no way for Japans Supreme War Council to make rational decisions about the issue of surrendering.
But it was already too late, because by the time the War Council was meeting, Bocks Car flying under radio silence was already approaching the southern islands of Japan, hoping to beat the typhoons and clouds that would have caused the mission to be delayed for another week.
The Bocks Car crew had instructions to drop the bomb only with visual sighting. But Kokura was clouded over. So after making three failed bomb runs over the clouded-over city all the while running dangerously low on fuel, the plane headed for its secondary target, Nagasaki.
Nagasaki is famous in the history of Japanese Christianity. Nagasaki had the largest concentration of Christians in all of Japan. The Urakami Cathedral was the megachurch of its time, with 12,000 baptized members.
Nagasaki was the community where the legendary Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier established a mission church in 1549. The Catholic community at Nagasaki grew and eventually prospered over the next several generations. However it eventually became clear to the Japanese rulers that the Portuguese and Spanish commercial interests were exploiting Japan; and soon all Europeans and their foreign religion were expelled from the country.
From 1600 until 1850, being a Christian was a capital crime in Japan. In the early 1600s, those Japanese Christians who refused to recant of their new faith were subject to unspeakable tortures including crucifixion. After the reign of terror was over, it appeared to all observers that Japanese Christianity was extinct.
However, 250 years later, after the gunboat diplomacy of Commodore Matthew Perry forced open an offshore island for American trade purposes, it was discovered that there were thousands of baptized Christians in Nagasaki, living their faith in a catacomb existence, completely unknown to the government.
With this humiliating revelation, the Japanese government started another purge; but because of international pressure, the persecutions were eventually stopped, and Nagasaki Christianity came up from the underground. And by 1917, with no help from the government, the re-vitalized Christian community had built the massive St. Marys Cathedral in the Urakami River district of Nagasaki.
So it was the height of irony that the massive Cathedral one of only two Nagasaki landmarks that could be positively identified from 31,000 feet up (the other one was the Mitsubishi armaments factory complex) became Ground Zero for the infamous bomb. The Bocks Car bombardier identified the landmarks through a break in the clouds and ordered the drop.
At 11:02 am, during Thursday morning mass, hundreds of Nagasaki Christians were boiled, evaporated, carbonized or otherwise disappeared in a scorching, radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral. The black rain that soon came down from the mushroom cloud surely contained the mingled remains of many Nagasaki Shintoists, Buddhists and Christians. The theological implications of Nagasakis Black Rain surely should boggle the minds of theologians of all denominations.
Most Nagasaki Christians did not survive the blast. 6,000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 of them eventually died as a result of the bomb. Many of the others were seriously sickened.
Three orders of nuns and a Christian girls school disappeared into black smoke or became chunks of charcoal. Tens of thousands of other innocent non-combatants also died instantly, and many more were mortally or incurably wounded. Some of the victims progeny are still suffering from the trans-generational malignancies and immune deficiencies caused by the deadly plutonium and other radioactive isotopes produced by the bomb.
And here is one of the most important ironic points of this article: What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in 250 years of persecution (destroy Japanese Christianity) American Christians did in 9 seconds.
Even after a slow revival of Christianity over the decades since WWII, membership in Japanese churches still represent a small fraction of 1% of the general population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services has been reported to be only 30. Surely the decimation of Nagasaki at the end of the war crippled what at one time was a vibrant church.
Even after a slow revival of Christianity over the decades since WWII, membership in Japanese churches still represent a small fraction of 1% of the general population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services has been reported to be only 30. Surely the decimation of Nagasaki at the end of the war crippled what at one time was a vibrant church.
In the total scheme of things, that's a small price to have paid.
I suspect our Maker would agree...
Yes. My father, who participated in the Battle of the Bulge, would have gone on to Japan. I'm thankful that was not necessary.
"Still rings true, today."
True, as the author stated: "To call it (war) a crime against mankind is to miss at least half its significance; it is also the punishment of a crime.
Consider now the Israeli operations in Gaza. Saying these are crimes against mankind is to miss the significance of the operation as a punishment of a crime.
Japan war crimes included eating American prisoners "For example, an Indian POW, Havildar Changdi Ram, testified that: "[on November 12, 1944] the Kempeitai beheaded [an Allied] pilot. I saw this from behind a tree and watched some of the Japanese cut flesh from his arms, legs, hips, buttocks and carry it off to their quarters ... They cut it [into] small pieces and fried it."[106]
In some cases, flesh was cut from living people: another Indian POW, stated.
What is the essay's connection to New Republic? It is not something I would expect to read in that publication.
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keep working the logic and that young wife...my wife who I only married 4 years ago, at age 58, actually voted for Obama, in 2008. I married her in 2009, and began directing her to new logical ways of thinking about American politics, and geo-political issues.
she has come around. she is a conservative. there is hope.
I lost 8 of my Uncles in WWII in the Pacific Theater - all from a small Tennessee community from one family. They never knew adulthood or raised families of their own and their deaths were brutal - either incinerated on board a burning ship or fighting hand to hand. When the war started all of them were peaceful civilians, too.
It also saved Japan from being divided like Korea, which would have resulted in another "Police Action".
I knew some WW-II veterans who had fought in Europe. They feared that they after fighting in Europe for most of 1944 and 1945 they would soon be shipped to the Pacific to be part of the invasion of Japan
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My opinion of bombing Japan to end the war is that it was clearly the correct decision to take.
Japan had more trained and equipped military in Japan at the end of the war than at the beginning of the war. The Allies destroyed Japans Navy and they had no way to move those troops and equipment to the forward battle areas.
The Japanese people had been indoctrinated that they would have to fight to their death if the Americans invaded.
The bombs ended the war with the least amount of casualties on either side with the added bonus of demonstrating to the entire war the enormous power available. I think that demonstration added mightily to the fact that the world has never used the bomb against populations since that time.
The next benefit is that other nations developed their own capability. The world today would be a far different world had but a single nation possessed that power.
Correct. There was a motto, the Golden Gate by 48.
The Allies knew they would win but they also believed it would take an invasion of Japan to achieve an unconditional surrender.
A very well written paper from an honest perspective. You could substitute the idea of War in place of the atom bomb. They are one and the same. The choice to use the bomb is the same choice for going to war to begin with. The moral choice to kill one man defending yourself or others from a killer intent on taking you or your loved ones life is the same moral decision regardless if you are faced by one man or a nation of men. God created all men and all are equal in His eyes. The killing of one man is just as sinful as killing millions. But defending oneself is also the same as defending millions. It is a sin to take a life unjustly. It is not sin to defend oneself or others or lay down ones own life while protecting the innocent.War was let out of the bottle when Cain killed Able. The atom bomb was let out of the bottle the same day that Adam ate from the tree of knowledge. Sooner or later more nuclear weapons will be used. The answer is to end war and as long as evil exists in the world there will be no end to war. It therefore ends when God puts an end to it. Jesus accomplished that on the cross when He conquered death. So it is an individual choice to either except His love and salvation or not. In the end when He returns and restores the order of things your choice will have been sealed and goats will be separated from the sheep. That is the truth of life.
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And a excuse to surrender without losing face. Which they got.
In the final days of the war, the Jap emperor was about to talk directly to the people for the first time and tell them to lay down their arms. (The emperor figurehead was actually Ivy league educated) When the generals found out about his plans to surrender they contemplated killing him.
The military faction was still holding out for a negotiated settlement. Only the intervention of the Emperor ended the war. On the night of August 14 some young military officers attempted a coup to oust the Emperor and continue the war.
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I using 3.4.1. The Facebook 1.0.1 plugin brings the admin page to a crawl and unusable.
Load times are in the multiple minutes in the admin page for me as well. I spent a *long* time trying to isolate conflicts with my other 3 plug ins til I realized, it's just the Facebook plug that is killing it. It is also killing page load speeds on the blog itself. Literally multiple minutes loading a page if you're logged in to Facebook. Page speed testing scripts are not affected by the grind.
Dedicated server, less than a thousand visitors a day, only one admin, it's definitely not another app.
Same here. Super slow. So slow that php timeouts. I have to prolong timeout period to finish up setup process.
Even so, every time going to the Facebook plugin setting page in admin panel takes minutes.
Can't use this version in my site.
This may be caused by your server not having PHP support for "curl". Check and see if the curl module is available on your PHP configuration.
I had the same issue and had to deactivate it.
Same here. Super slow speeds. It's putting lots of code into the theme and making redirects. I'm using total chache and a cdn and it's still bogging down my site. I'm going to have to manually add in the code. Sad. I was really hoping Facebook was going to rock this plug in.
I'd like to use the recommendations bar and perhaps the like button but do not know how to manually parse out the code. I know how to edit my theme's CSS and PHP but not which parts of the facebook plugin to extract.
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I'm using v1.0.3 and I sometimes get php timeouts due to the slow speed. Often the plugin takes several seconds, sometimes >20, to display a single comment form on a simple page or post.
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Arsenal are in a fantastic position and will spend money says Gazidis!
With new financial regulations coming into play next season, quite a few clubs in the Premier league and around Europe will have a lot of work to do to change and get ready for the new rules, but Arsenal are already in the perfect position and are a role model to other clubs, according to our chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
Oxlade-Chamberlain: Arsene Knows Best!
The young Arsenal and England U21 striker Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain arrived at the Emirates in the summer after a year of negotiations with his old club Southampton. He immediately stamped his arrival at Arsenal in both of his first two games for the Gunners and Arsenal fans have been clamouring for Wenger to play him in the first team on a regular basis.
Ian Holloway – Arsene Has Done An Incredible Job but Arsenal Are Getting Left Behind
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway is well known for his off the cuff quotes and sayings, but he is actually very well respected in the footballing world despite his funny remarks. He now writes regularly for the Daily Mirror and his column this week makes for an interesting read.
Arsene Wenger Worried More Players Could Leave Arsenal
After the tumultuous summer at the Emirates which saw the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy leave, Arsene Wenger fears the worst as more players could leave Arsenal next summer.
Adam Kemp – Eight massive reasons to sack Wenger!
When Arsenal lost 2-1 to Barcelona in the Champions League final back in 2006 I was in tears. This was the first and only game that I succumbed to visual anguish; expect today was the second time ever that I cried over a defeat. The disappointment and anguish I have felt today will take a very long time to forget. I almost wish I was not an Arsenal fan and supported the likes of Peterborough United. At least with those clubs the expectations are realistic where success is a bonus. We were outclassed, outplayed and humiliated across the park. Did this result honestly surprise any of you? This result almost flattered Arsenal as it could have been double figures for United. Arsene Wenger has yet again failed tactically to deliver some kind of performance from the Arsenal.
Gaz's match report – Have Arsenal lost the desire to win?
This season goes from bad to worse! by Gaz
Arsene Rules! – A reply to Adam Kemp
As usual Adam Kemp got our readers talking yesterday with his article asking "Is Wenger bigger than Arsenal", well today another regular contributor, Luke Shephard, is using his Right To Reply!
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Legend of Grimrock has sold 17,000 through GOG.com
GOG.com has revealed that its new indie release strategy is going well, with over 17,000 copies of The Legend of Grimrock sold since the dungeon crawler released in March.
"This nice sales performance is showing – in our humble opinion – that GOG can be a valuable partner for any developer," managing director Guillaume Rambourg told Forbes.
"And that's nowhere near all. We have many more great indie titles up our sleeves for the coming months."
GOG.com recently rebranded itself from former appellation Good Old Games to reflect an increase in newer and indie titles alongside classic releases.
Legend of Grimrock developer Almost Human said the RPG has paid for itself "many times over".
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Become familiar with all the food terms for your specific allergy. For example, if you are allergic to milk protein, you need to avoid all foods made from milk, including cheese, yogurt, half-and-half, and cream. Avoid all foods that contain whey, casein, caseinate, nonfat milk solids, lactoglobulin, cow's milk protein, nougat, curds, sodium caseinate, or lactalbumin. Look carefully at butter, margarine, ice cream, cakes, puddings, sorbet, breads, soups, vegetables with sauces, and more.
People with allergies would benefit from a diet that is less processed and closer to natural foods, because there are fewer additives in these foods that could cause problems.
How are allergies diagnosed?
There are several ways to confirm an allergy. First is the old-fashioned prick test, where the skin is scratched with the allergen and observed for reactions. The second is the patch test, which is similar to the prick test, and the last are specific food allergy blood tests. In all of these tests, there is a possibility for false positives and negatives, so physicians usually try an elimination diet, in which the suspected food is avoided. This is followed by a food challenge in which the suspected food is reintroduced under careful observation on three separate occasions to confirm the allergy.
How do you treat allergies?
At this time, there are no medications that cure food allergies. The most important treatment is the elimination of the allergy-causing food. Careful reading of ingredient labels is essential to avoiding all foods with the allergy-causing ingredient. For example, milk may be listed by its components casein or whey, and eggs can be labeled as albumin. If you have an allergy to a certain food, you must become familiar with all related ingredients that could potentially cause a reaction. A good rule of thumb is, when in doubt, don't eat it.
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CuriOdyssey Animal Enrichment: November 14, 2015
Recommended for children ages 7-11 years old.
Ever wondered why the ravens have a cereal box in their enclosure or why the keepers hang paper grocery bags with the bobcats? It's not trash; it's what zoo keepers call "enrichment" and it helps stimulate and engage the senses of CuriOdyssey's resident non-releasable animals. Make an enrichment package, get up-close with a live animal, and observe how our animals interact with your creation. Puzzle boxes for the ravens, twisty containers for the raccoon, and scent bags for the bobcats might look like garbage to us, but are treasures to the animals.
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Water is the substance that supports all life on earth. We find water in all forms around us…vapor in clouds, liquid in a stream, or a solid piece of ice in our drink. Dive into the different characteristics of water and discover how many drops fit on a penny, the reaction of putting salt on ice, or how water can be sticky. Students are sure to be engaged in this wet and wondrous water workshop.
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The Lexus LF-CC concept has been revealed at the Paris Motor Show.
The sleek LF-CC will preview the next generation of IS saloon models, which are likely to be unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show in January. It also hints at an IS coupe version that will probably arrive later in 2013.
The bold new concept gets a dramatic grille, new L-shaped 'arrowhead' LED lights and three separate housings for the headlamps, while an aggressive rear light design follows on from the daring design of the front.
The LF-CC has a new hybrid powertrain, due in the next IS. Lexus says the 2.5-litre petrol engine and electric motor will produce around 200bhp and emit less than 100g/km of CO2.
Takeshi Tanabe, who worked on the designs of the RX, CT and new LS models, said that Lexus is going for "something different, something unique from the big three German companies" with the LF-CC and, by extension, the next IS.
"Lexus models are seen as good but maybe a little bit boring," he admitted. "That is something that cars like the LF-CC are going to change."
The concept car's cabin has been designed to showcase what we can expect from Lexus models of the near future.
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America Leads, the World Follows
So for, like, YEARS, the Europeans have been all: "You stupid Yankee twerps. You don't know about painting. You don't know about literature. You don't know about classical music. Nyah, nyah, nyah."
Well guess the fuck what? As usual, we were just waaaaaay ahead of the pack. From the Guardian:
"More than half of Britons polled do not realise that Elgar was English or that Beethoven was born in Germany, according to a survey for the digital arts and culture channel Artsworld.
In a poll of nearly 1,200 people, Artsworld discovered that more than 85% of those surveyed described their knowledge of classical music as 'average' or 'worse than average'.
Nearly two-thirds were unable to identify Mozart as composer of The Marriage of Figaro. The poll found that only 46.7% identified Sir Edward Elgar as English, with the remainder plumping for German or Austrian."
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In 1898 Banti postulated that increased splenic blood flow could cause profound changes in the portal system.1 He felt that the increased flow led to splenomegaly, portal phlebosclerosis and eventually cirrhosis. When it later became apparent that obstruction to flow rather than its increase was the usual cause of portal hypertension in liver disease, Banti's concept fell into disfavor.
In recent years, however, portal hypertension which could be attributed to increased portal flow has been described in a number of nonhepatic diseases. Listed among the diseases are myeloproliferative disorders, leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, tropical splenomegaly, and systemic-portal arteriovenous fistulae. A new addition to the list of "forward-flow" conditions is osteopetrosis with splenomegaly, reported in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.2
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MB, TSP, STS, Lugol's, Turp, Borax
Hi all,
I would like to know if there are any known issues with the following remedies. More specifically, if they would interact/hinder each other.
Borax, sodium thiosulfate, turpentine, methylene blue, lugol's iodine, trisodium phosphate. I guess I should add in my thyroid medication Armor.
My current regiment is to take Borax M-Th as told by Ted 1/8 tsp. First thing in the morning I'll take 1 drop of 2.3% MB - that gets put into a cup and mixed with 1000mg of ascorbic acid. Fr-Sun I'll take 12-30mg of Lugol's. No MB on those days, or if I do, I put 12 hours between them.
TSP I'll take after work, 1 oz of a solution (1/2 tsp in liter water).
I plan on taking STS and turpentine on different days since they are so powerful. Perhaps Saturday and Wednesday nights before bed.
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Following the recent attacks on Google, which lead to the search engine threatening to pull out of China, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come in for a lot of criticism.
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This study focuses on the determinants of self-reported measures of national pride. Using pooled cross-sectional data for European countries obtained from the Eurobarometer, it is estimated that pride is not correlated with GDP per capita nor with household income levels. Using the 2000 UEFA European Championship as a natural experiment, it is estimated that individuals from both host and winning nations report, on average, higher levels of national pride in the period immediately following the event, supporting theoretical arguments of a "feel-good" factor associated with sports events. Accounting for performance relative to expectations produces results along the same lines.
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