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Want to learn how to be frugal without having to resort to the extremes of spending only a dollar a day on meals? Try living on minimum wage. I'm not recommending that you pull a Morgan Spurlock but you should try to put yourself into the shoes of millions of Americans working a minimum wage job and try to figure out how they're surviving. They do it every single day and they, through trial by fire, have learned what it takes to truly be frugal. You have to walk a mile in a man's (or woman's) shoes to truly understand.
Minimum Wage
So, how much is minimum wage and how much can you spend? The Federal Minimum Wage is currently $6.55 an hour, set to increase to $7.25 an hour on July 24th, 2009 (it may be higher in your state). If you assume an 8 hour day, that's a grand total of $52.40 in earnings that day.
Taxes: If you worked 2,000 hour (the standard number of hours budgeted by companies) year, $6.55 is only $13,100 a year. Once you deduct the standard deduction of $5,450, we're talking $7,650 of taxable income assuming no other deductions. According to the 2008 IRS tax brackets, you would be taxed at 10% for a total tax of $765.
Your $13,100 a year is effectively $12,335 after taxes. That's a little under $1028 a month.
Rent: It's difficult to assume what your rent is because it varies across the country but let's take a nice round number of $500. Deduct $500 from $1028 and you're left with $528. Divide that by 30 to figure out how much you can spend each day.
How Much Can You Spend?
The answer is $17.60. (if you assumed rent of $300, that would still leave you with only $24.27 a day to spend)
That's right, if you work eight hours of minimum wage and have a $500 a month rent payment, you can only spend $17.60 before you start going into debt ($25 if you pay only $300 a month in rent). This is why so many people working minimum wage work two or three jobs, because eight hours is simply not enough. (There may be other social programs to help, like food stamps, but I didn't want to get overly complicated in this discussion)
Eye opening huh? Try living on less than $18 a day for an entire month, I mean really try, and you'll discover some things you didn't think were possible.
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The county's municipalities were asked by Sheriff Pete Dougherty if the offices would be willing to sign an overall agreement stating that, during times of crisis, the local officers would be "cloaked" as deputies of the sheriff's department.
"One of the great opportunities that we have is that we have a decided group of people here from various jurisdictions whose job it is to keep us safe - our person and property," Dougherty said.
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Local law enforcement officers are sworn in as special deputies for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.
According to Dougherty, the state of West Virginia allows the sheriff's office the opportunity, with the approval of the county commission, to have special deputies - which the commission did.
"Contrary to what people think, we don't have enough deputies to do everything on our own," Dougherty said. "The ability to work together, and the collective relationship that we have, is a wonderful thing."
Members from the various departments were present during Thursday's Jefferson County Commission meeting. During that time, in front of the commissioners, the officers were sworn in as special deputies by Judge David H. Sanders.
Special deputies are utilized in cases of emergency when the officers from the sheriff's office are currently busy and the local law enforcement can arrive on the scene in a shorter amount of time.
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There was a similar agreement in place, but the regulations have been tightened to be more specific, and will need to be authorized again when a new chief of police in any of the participating municipalities is replaced.
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Wide-swath hay makes more milk
Wide-swath hay makes more milk
Wide rows, quick dry-down, same-day harvest leads to more milk potential.
by Tom Kilcer
The author is an ag extension program leader with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Rensselaer County, N.Y.
Forage quality drives milk production. And the only measure of forage quality that truly matters is the quality of forage that actually reaches the mouth of the cow. That cowside measure is determined by three major factors: when you start harvesting, how long it takes (start to finish) for you to harvest, and how much quality is lost during harvest/fermentation.
When you harvest is decided when you pull into the field. Meanwhile, the latter two are dramatically affected by how you harvest.
How long does it take . . .
Many farms start harvest on time, though not all finish on time. Each day harvest is delayed past the optimum date, you are losing $3,000 per 100 cows in forage quality. Our on-farm research found that same-day hay silage is easily achievable on all cuttings even with poor drying conditions.
Losses don't stop at cutting time. English researchers found that 2 to 8 percent of the hay silage dry matter is lost between cutting and ensiling. What's more, 16 percent of the dry matter is lost due to poor drying conditions. Digestible carbohydrates make up the lion's share of these dry matter losses which ultimately reduce net energy of lactation (Nel).
Every hour forage sits at high moisture in the field, more digestible components are consumed by respiration. When more respiration occurs in the windrow, it takes longer for fermentation to occur in the silo or bag. This action reduces the amount of milk you can produce from your forage. The solution? Shorten the drying time.
How you harvest makes a difference. The drying rate (Graph 1) is influenced greatly by the amount of sunlight reaching the swath. The amount of sunlight hitting the swatch is directly determined by swath width. Swath width, in turn, affects swath temperature which impacts air temperature over the swath and the vapor deficit (warmer temperature lowers humidity). These are the top four issues that effect dry-down as shown in Graph 1. Dry-down can lag behind due to higher humidity in the swath, and swath density delays drying.
Wide swath may be the answer . . .
Traditional hay silage harvesting techniques place forage in a narrow swath. But is this the proper approach? By opening the mower-conditioners to place forage in a nearly full width swath (as for dry hay), the hay surface area is increased nearly three-fold. The wide-swath hay receives more sun, boosting the four major drying factors shown in Graph 1.
To see if wide-swath hay would work for hay silage harvest, we conducted a series of field tests in 2003. During our study, fields received above normal rainfall and fields had high soil moisture levels. In each study, alternating rows of wide and narrow windrows were mowed so we could have direct comparisons. We recorded field and swath conditions by using continuous recording data loggers for temperature and humidity. These devices were inserted in the bottom center of each swath. We looked at first-cut alfalfa, and secondcut intensively managed bromegrass. We cut and harvested on the same day for wide-swath hay silage and next day for the narrow.
The results from the data loggers showed that hay drying predictors were accurate. Swath core temperatures were significantly higher in the wide swath compared to the narrow (Graph 2). It is the equivalent to having your own personal drying oven on each row. The higher temperatures reduce the relative humidity in the swath, allowing for the moisture to rapidly leave the forage. The nearly three-fold boost in surface area for the wideswath hay compared to the traditional narrow swath allowed this moisture to escape easier.
Greater forage consistency is another direct benefit of wide-swath hay. When looking at the narrow rows at chopping, we found the hay was dry on the outside while as wet as newly mowed hay on the inside. The average moisture was 65 to 70 percent. This is like being at average temperature when your head is in an oven and your feet are in a freezer! At Marty and Pat Hanehan's farm in Saratoga Springs, they found by switching to wide swath, the hay silage in the bunk was very uniform consistency throughout. No longer did compressed plates of wetter silage occur throughout the bunk.
The clearest indicator of success was the production of 65 to 70 percent moisture hay silage the same day it was mowed (Graph 3). In each of these tests, we achieved the short (hay silagein-a-day) drying time without moving the swath.
In our test on later cuts, the forage was ready to chop in less than three hours without moving the swath. Farms that use wide swath on second and third cuts report raking or merging as soon as the mower pulls out of the field. The chopper then chases the rake removing the forage shortly after.
Ken Herrington, of Herrington Farms in Brunswick,N.Y., reports that, by drying to 75 percent moisture and then merging multiple windrows into one, the disturbance of the swath rapidly drops the moisture below 70 percent. This reduces the time between mowing and chopping even further than the dramatic reduction we had in our tests.
More milk per ton . . .
The wide swathing, and subsequent rapid drydown, allowed forage to reach the silo with minimal respiration and less consumption of nutrients needed to make milk.
The narrow and wide samples started at the same level when fresh cut. Surprisingly, the wide swath consistently rose in milk potential after it was cut. Speculation is that the greater amount of plants exposed to sun continued to photosynthesize, adding digestible components. In both examples, as with others we conducted, the invitro total digestible dry matter was significantly higher by conserving nutrients through the wide swathing. Nearly all the quality components were conserved by the rapid dry-down of wide swathing. This resulted in a significant conservation of milk-producing potential as can be seen in Graph 4. The nearly 300 pounds more milk in each ton of wide-swathed harvested dry matter means nearly $40 more in your pocket.
The impact of wide swathing and its conservation of digestible components carried over as a beneficial enhancement of the fermentation process.Wide swath consistently produced greater lactic production over acetic which resulted in significantly better lactic/acetic ratio after fermentation. The higher substrate for the bacteria allowed for a significant drop in pH for greater long-term stability of the feed. The rapid fermentation and shorter interval from cutting to complete fermentation significantly reduced the protein breakdown. This was measured by the reduction in ammonium-N of total N which is an indicator of the breakdown of complex proteins into simpler compounds.
The bottom line . . .
In each of these tests, we achieved the short (hay silage-in-a-day) drying time without moving the swath. Farms of 45 cows and of 515 cows have both been able to implement the system, enabling them to feed over 60 percent forage diets while maintaining high milk production.
The biggest problem of implementing the system is mentally and operationally changing how you approach this system. You have to figure out based on your farm and your equipment and labor how long it will take to harvest. Then only mow what you can get in the silo today. Note, mowing and leaving forage overnight will eliminate the conservation of milk potential.


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Last year, Andrea Robinson said to her husband, John, "I'd really like to take a bicycle trip with the family." Robinson, who lives near Albany, said, "I thought she wanted to go up to the Hudson River, go up and down a few miles, so I said OK. Then she pulled out this book about bike trips on the Erie Canal. I said, 'No way, that's crazy.' But the more I thought about it, the more I thought that would be really neat."
The challenges of such a trip, including more than two weeks of daily exertion in the heat and sun, would give anybody pause. But Robinson has had some experience in overcoming adversity since he was born 44 years ago without hands and with his lower legs growing from his hips.
If the cyclists on the "Journey Along the Erie Canal" keep to their itinerary, today they will travel from Weedsport to Syracuse by boat, one of three parts of the trek where they must take to the water to follow the canal. The journey, which has been punctuated by scheduled events, cheering crowds and on-the-spot education of fellow canal-trail users, will end July 8 in Albany.
Not only is Robinson tenacious and determined, but Andrea, herself a marathon runner, picked the perfect time to suggest a physical challenge. When she suggested a bicycle trip, Robinson had just returned from the XIV Summer Paralympics in London, where he and a photographer reported on the competition in adaptive sports.
"It was absolutely an amazing experience," Robinson said. "It was the first time I'd seen people who looked like me competing and achieving."
While he observed and documented the Paralympics, Robinson was suffering some pangs of regret for challenges he had missed. "I was thinking, 'I wish I had had this opportunity as a kid, because I would have done that.' So when Andrea suggested the trip, I thought, I can train for this, I can do this. But I'll only do it if we can document it on video, we can create a story for ourselves down the road, but also bring people with disabilities out, bring families with disabilities out and create awareness for all of us.
"The world is so for adaptive sports, and the United States is not up to speed with the other countries. I hope in some small way in New York we can help that along with what we are doing."
Robinson was born in Binghamton, the first child of an Episcopal priest and a dental office manager. He has a sister who is 2 years younger. The family later moved to Manchester, N.H., and Robinson attended Syracuse University. Robinson was the subject of an award-winning 2009 PBS documentary, "Get Off Your Knees: The John Robinson Story," and also wrote an autobiography, "Get Off Your Knees: A Story of Faith, Courage and Determination," published by Syracuse University Press in 2009.
He is founder, president and CEO of Our Ability, an Albany nonprofit that assists people with disabilities to succeed in education and employment through publicity, public speaking, advocacy, job services and mentoring. But the longtime advocate and inspirational public speaker is a relative novice at handcycling, which was created in the 1980s.
"This technology wasn't invented when I was a kid," Robinson said. All three of his children – Haydon, 24, Ariel, 15, and Owen, 9 – rode bikes growing up, but without hands and with shortened legs that lack knees, their father was not able to ride with them. Then about two years ago, Robinson tried out a handcycle, a long, low three-wheeled bike propelled by a hand crank. "I brought it home, got on it, and rode with my kids for the first time," he said. "My kids were smiling and having a great time, and I was enjoying them watching me bike."
The bike he is using for the canal trek has been specially modified for Robinson. He inserts the ends of his arms into two soft, lined plastic sockets, similar to those used for prosthetic limbs, and shifts the bike's seven gears with a control he grabs with his mouth.
Both Ariel and Owen are making the trek with their parents; Haydon is working out west. They will also be accompanied by Doug Hamlin, vice president of Our Ability, a quadriplegic who also rides an adaptive cycle, and his wife, Pam. "We have some friends that will join us for most of the way, but the core group is the six of us," said Robinson. Vehicles will transport the group's luggage along the way, and they will stay in hotels each night. "We definitely need real meals and beds," he said.
Part of the reason for selecting the canal trail was pragmatic. Robinson said, "As a person with a disability, I was very concerned about huge hills, so thinking about Route 20 or the Adirondacks and Catskills, that's just not feasible. What is feasible? This path."
But as Robinson and Hamlin met with officials of the state Canal Corporation, Parks & Trails New York and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, they discovered more intersections of interests and themes. In a statement, Canal Corp. Director Brian U. Stratton said the agency is "thrilled" about the tour. "The event will highlight the many opportunities that exist for people of all ages and abilities to experience the scenic beauty and rich history of the canal system," he said.
Robinson said that from the time it was created, the canal has been "all about economic development, about working together and building. We're at that stage right now, as people with disabilities, in finding employment and education."
Also, Robinson said, like the talents of people with disabilities, "I think the Erie Canal is underappreciated. The state has a lot of beauty, and we all know about Niagara Falls, the Adirondacks, the Catskills, but the Erie Canal is just as beautiful in its own way. "
Along with raising awareness, Robinson and the other participants hope that the trip will raise funds. "The money we raise on the canal will be used to build a scholarship fund, money that we can give to students with disabilities for years to come."
Last Sunday, the trek began with a brief ceremony under brilliant blue skies in Niawanda Park in Tonawanda. Rep. Brian Higgins, representatives of the Canal Corp., the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, New York State Industries for the Disabled and Disabled Sports USA praised the effort and pledged their support. "These guys are incredible; this is quite the commitment," said Higgins.
Then, with cameras rolling, about a dozen bicyclists accompanied the Journey cyclists as they pedaled down the trail, headed east. On their second day, a crowd bid them farewell as they left Lockport.
Heat and humidity added to the stress of the early days of the trek. "We're grateful for shade when we find it," said Robinson, who was already battling some soreness in his shoulders, but was buoyed by the company of people who came out to walk, jog, bike or rollerblade along for a bit. He said, "If you're differently abled, or disabled, or aging, and you don't think you can get out and do something big, you can get out on this path, which is accessible in a lot of places, and walk or ride or whatever it is that you can do. Get out there in nature and do it."
In a year or so, Robinson hopes that the film being made along the way will be ready to be televised on PBS. While he says that this film may not be as popular as "Get Off Your Knees," which was shown on every PBS station in the country and in several other nations, he's prepared to be pleasantly surprised. "I think that the nine public broadcasting stations in New York will air this, as long as we do our work well, and I think it will tell the story of achievement, of me persevering, certainly, but a good part if this story will also be the people we meet along the way and the pretty canal. I know we can make a good documentary, so I'm not worried about that," he said.
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The Bachelor's Selma Alameri: Tierra Has Sean 'So Fooled'
Selma, 29, explained her actions (or, well, lack there of) and talked about "black sheep" Tierra during a press call on Thursday.
You seemed disappointed – not to mention scared – when Sean took the "Iraqi to the desert" for rock climbing.
I was so scared but [I went into] survival mode and hauled ass up that rock. I was like, "I can't think about where I am or what I am doing or I'll go out of my mind." I loved him so much for him giving me the opportunity to prove to the world that I am more than just a glamour girl.
Refusing to kiss Sean had everyone talking. Why wouldn't you kiss him?
I don't believe that showing affection in public is a bad thing but my mom does. ... Her one simple request was don't make out with somebody on television. ... She didn't mind that I was going to do the show, which is so huge, and she clearly knows that I go on dates and that I've kissed a boy before. It was more for the people in our Arab circle. ... We have such a strong culture and my family is big in my life, so I needed to test Sean to see if he'd respect my family and culture. And it was a huge test for me to see if I could resist.
Did you regret withholding kisses or worry it'd put you at a disadvantage?
Honestly, I never regret anything ... [I was] afraid that he'd take that as [as a sign that] I don't really like him. But Sean is such an amazing man that he totally understood.
You said you wouldn't kiss Sean until you were last woman standing. Seriously?
At that moment, I meant it. ... I didn't know if I would end up kissing him. Things change. Life happens. You act on emotion. You'll have to wait and see what ended up happening.
Acknowledging the obvious cultural and religious differences, if Sean does pick you in the end, would he be welcomed by your family?
Yeah. Our family is American and lives the American culture. I was born into a Muslim family. I'm spiritual and believe in God, but I'm not a practicing Muslim. My brother-in-law is blond-haired, blue eyed, very Catholic, very American. Every guy I've ever dated was American. He would fit right in.
If it can't be you, which of your housemates should end up with Sean?
None. I'm the best match for him. That was my man.
But seems Sean is falling for many girls at once.
I believe him that he has a connection with each of the girls. I loved and got along with all the girls in the house after living with them and all the drama with the exception of one. We won't mention in names.
Assuming you mean Tierra, was she as bad as she seems on TV?
Tierra was definitely the black sheep. ... She just doesn't know how to get along with other girls. Not everybody can handle dating a man with [25] other women – it's harder than you realize – but you signed up for this so don't take it out on us. I was like, "Lady, hide your crazy for a little bit."
It's hard to believe Sean doesn't see that side of her.
I don't blame him because she was so good at switching it on and off. She's got him so fooled. He didn't live with us or see her daily. She was a completely different person with him. I'd watch her with Sean and she'd be batting her eyelashes and be like a sweet puppy just looking into his eyes.


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Anuthin Wongsunkakon
Much of his work deals with print, logotype, and lettering, but he is best known for his contribution to Thai typography and for reintroducing custom font design service to the local business industry. Anuthin had provided fonts for many leading companies in Thailand including Advance Info Service; The largest mobile phone operator, Creative Technology of Singapore. dtac - Telenor (Thailand), Ikea (Thailand), Nokia (Thailand), CAT Communication Authority of Thailand, and Tesco Lotus. In publication area including Thai Edition of Men's Health, Arena, Wallpaper* and L'Officiel. Aside from his custom-made ones, his Thai and Latin typefaces has been used by various enterprises, most notably in local and international magazines.
Besides being a designer, Anuthin is known as a writer and design educator. He frequently writes for several influential Thai magazines including Wallpaper* (Thai Edition) and art4d. In education, he first started his teaching career at Rangsit University, and later Bangkok University and Chulalongkorn University. Most of the articles from his controversy book on graphic design education in Thailand, Note The Norm, along with his various essays can be viewed at anuthin.org, a graphic design and typographic design archive weblog he found in 1999.
On the following page, you will find an interview with Anuthin Wongsunkakon, in which the designer of Helvetica Thai talks about various aspects of typography and typeface design.
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Jets signed ILB A.J. Edds and G/T Markus Zusevics.
A.J. Green caught 10-of-12 targets for 173 yards and a touchdown in Cincinnati's Week 4 win over the Dolphins.
Ryan Tannehill completed 15-of-25 passes for 189 yards, one touchdown and one interception in Miami's 22-7, Week 4 loss to the Bengals.
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports J.J. Watt underwent back surgery on Thursday and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
Redskins CB Josh Norman is not expected to shadow Terrelle Pryor on Sunday.
Jimmy Graham (knee) was downgraded to "DNP" in Thursday's practice.
The Dolphins have announced Damien Williams as their Week 4 starter at running back.
Dolphins declared LT Branden Albert (ankle) inactive for Week 4 vs. the Bengals.
The Miami Herald reports the Dolphins are scaling back CB Byron Maxwell's snaps for Week 4.
Both the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Akron Beacon-Journal believe Josh Gordon has played his last snap for the Browns.
Contract-year WR Terrelle Pryor says he'd love to re-sign with the Browns "if Hue Jackson's here."
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I know that im not the only person that thinks Kuznetsov is a very intresting player, so why don't start a thread?
Kuznetsov has FINNALY arrived to the NHL and the Capitals after almost 4 looong years.
He has done great in the WJC, and his KHL stats are similar to what Ovis and Bures stats where at the same age.
So? Did anyone watch the Pens/Caps game last night? How did he play? Will he be a established NHL player or will he return to the KHL in a few years?
His had 2 shots on goal and was +/- 0 after seeing about 10 minutes of ice time. He also got to see some time on the powerplay.
And also, can you compare him to some active or former NHL player?
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - California Highway Patrol recognized two local residents Wednesday with the highest of citizens awards, the Commissioner's Resolution, for their acts of bravery during a Jan. 9, 2012, accident on Highway 89.
William B. Nern, a Truckee resident, and Brian L. Bartlett, who lives across Bridge 11 on the Truckee River, responded shortly after a head-on collision occurred when the driver of a southbound vehicle allowed his Toyota Tacoma to cross over the double yellow line and hit a northbound Volkswagon Vanagon.
"I was shocked at the scene, and heard a lady scream," said Bartlett of his arrival at the accident. "I saw flames, and just kind of reacted."
Bartlett parked his vehicle and ran to the driver's door of the Vanagon. He saw flames in the engine compartment that were getting worse.
With the assistance of Sam Keiper (who will be honored also, when he and his family are in the area), he carried the driver out and placed her on the side of the road.
Nern was home at the time, across the Truckee River, and heard a massive explosion. "I told my wife to call 911, and jumped on my ATV and jammed down there," said Nern. "It was horrible."
Nern saw the Vanagon nearly engulfed in flames, with Keiper and Bartlett pulling the driver out. He returned to the Toyota driver, shielding himself from the flames with the truck's door.
Nern, Bartlett and Keiper with an unknown citizen obtained a tow chain and dragged the Toyota away from the van.
CHP Officer Morin, who responded at the scene, said, "I knew it was bad; the van was fully engulfed. We are thankful the citizens there got everyone out of the cars."
The Vanagon driver did not survive, however. The driver of the Toyota did.
"We (CHP) often arrive and there is a Good Samaritan already helping," said CHP Capt. Timothy Malone, commander of the Truckee office. "We're in awe when citizens put themselves in peril through selfless acts. It's amazing, just awesome."
"I'm honored to receive the award," said Bartlett. "It's a tragedy for the families, but I didn't think about it, I just reacted."
Nern and Bartlett said they hoped someone would do the same for them.
Both men received a framed copy of the Commissioner's Resolution, which ends by stating the men are "recognized, honored, and saluted for a superior act of bravery, committed without concern for his own safety, while assisting fellow citizens in peril."
"These individuals are extremely worthy of this award," said Malone.


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|Synchrotron Education Collaboration
The Synchrotron Education Collaboration held its first meeting October 20-22 at Synchrotron Soleil, in St Aubain, France. The symposium, "Student Science at Synchrotrons: Educating the Next Generation of Scientists," was attended by scientists, educators, as well as representatives from eight synchrotrons. Participants listened to several presentations about current practices in engaging middle- and high-school students in science through hands-on activities including beamline experiments, visits to synchrotrons, and discussions with scientists. From the presentations, and input from other synchrotron facilities, a survey has been created to send to all light source facilities in order to assess the which best practices in education
This collaboration, funded by a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund, comprises representatives from the ALS, Soleil, and ESRF with the goal of developing an engaging and effective educational program for high-school students that will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of scientific research with the intention of attracting and developing the next generation of young scientists. In particular, there is a focus on strategies to engage students that are underrepresented in science by gender, race, and economic status.
Participants in this first symposium included representatives from light sources in France, Canada, Australia, Japan, the United States, and Italy; the next meeting will be the day preceding the AAAS in Chicago. Anyone interested in participating in the project should contact Elizabeth Moxon (ALS) or Claus Habfast (ESRF).


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Last Friday's shooting deaths of 26 children and adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut is the latest in a long series of mass shootings of random innocents by deranged persons. Like many Americans, Diogenes is deeply troubled by these recurring tragedies, and thinks this is an appropriate time to consider the role of guns in American society.
The Right To Bear Arms
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, as ratified by the states in 1791 states
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Why was this right considered so important that it was enshrined in the Bill of Rights? Here is a partial list of the key reasons:
- The United States had only recently won its independence after a revolutionary war that had lasted eight years. There was an uneasy peace with England that would again devolve into war in the next 20 years.
- There was no standing national army, and most (white) male American adults were members of armed militias that could be called out in the event of war.
- Many of the states had western borders which had Indians (potentially) threatening American settlers on the frontier.
- Hunting was a significant means of putting food on the table in all of the states.
Guns in the US Compared to the Rest of the World
Gun regulations in America are lax compared to the rest of the world. Nearly half of all households (47%) have a gun, although many homes contain multiple guns. About 1/3 of Americans own guns, although the percentage of the population owning guns has been declining in the last 50 years. About 2/3 of gun owners state that they own firearms for personal protection, 2/3 for hunting and over 1/3 for target practice. The reasons overlap quite a bit and so add to more than 100%. According to the Washington Post, guns per capita are sharply higher in America than anywhere else in the world, and as the chart below shows, about double that of the rest of the developed world.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) will tell you that "Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Guns are only tools." This may all be true, but gun violence in the US is higher than anywhere else in the western world, perhaps because we have more tools readily available? A bit more than 100,000 Americans will likely be killed or injured in gun violence next year. To be "fair", about 20,000 of them will be suicides, but guns are involved in about 2/3 of violent crimes in America, almost all of these are handguns. Hunting rifles are rarely used in violent crimes.
Current Gun Regulation and Proposed Changes
Policies at all levels of government have attempted to address gun violence through a variety of methods, including restricting firearms purchasing by youths and other "at-risk" populations, setting waiting periods for firearm purchases, establishing gun "buy-back" programs, targeted law enforcement and policing strategies, stiff sentencing of gun law violators, education programs for parents and children, and community-outreach programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she will introduce legislation next year to ban new assault weapons, as well as big clips, drums and strips of more than 10 bullets.
Perhaps of even greater significance is the call for more scrutiny of the ways government can keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Methods for doing so will require much discussion.
Guns & Self Defense
The 2nd amendment's protection canards are at best disingenuous, as technology is wildly different today than in 1791. Guns then were almost all single shot muskets with limited effective range. No one had the capability to kill 10 or 50 people.
Today's total of 290 million guns in almost 50% of households is ridiculous. The shooter in Connecticut took his mother's guns to kill her and 26 others. Purchasing verification would not have stopped him.
Self defense, the stated primary reason for owning a handgun, is a non sequitor. A study from the University of Philadelphia suggests that victims in possession of firearms are 4.5 times more likely to be shot and 4.2 times more likely to be killed than those unarmed.
"gun possession by urban adults was associated with a significantly increased risk of being shot in an assault. On average, guns did not seem to protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. Although successful defensive gun uses can and do occur…such successes are (not) likely…
A gun may falsely empower its possessor to overreact, instigating and losing otherwise tractable conflicts with similarly armed persons. …individuals who are in possession of a gun may increase their risk of gun assault by entering dangerous environments that they would have normally avoided. Alternatively, an individual may bring a gun to an otherwise gun-free conflict only to have that gun wrested away and turned on them…
when victims had little to no chance to resist, they were almost always confronted with events that happened very suddenly, involved substantial distances, had no face-to-face contact, and had physical barriers between them and the shooter (e.g., bystander or drive-by shootings). These victims likely had no meaningful opportunity to use a gun even if they had one in their possession."
"Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault", Branas, et al, American Journal of Public Health, November. 2009
What More Needs To Be Done?
Diogenes believes that current proposals do not go nearly far enough to safeguard the public from gun violence. The following steps should be taken to stop the continuing massacre of innocents.
- Sale and possession of handguns should be severely restricted to law enforcement and those few occupations where armed force might be necessary, such as jewelers and armored truck drivers and guards.
- Biometric "trigger locks" should be mandatory to prevent illicit sales and use of stolen firearms.
- Possession and display of unlicensed firearms should be grounds for mandatory prison terms.
- Federal funding should be made available for the buy back of semi-automatic weapons and handguns from the public using a carrot and stick approach. Time limits should be imposed for the purchase and surrender of such weapons, after which private ownership should simply be made illegal.
- For those citizens who insist on personal protection, non lethal means of defense at close range should be used. Pepper spray and personal stun weapons such as Tasers are the solution. (The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductive wire as they are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges. The air cartridge contains a pair of electrodes and propellant is replaced after each use. There are a number of cartridges designated by range, with the maximum at 35 feet for law enforcement and 15 feet for consumer use. Tasers primarily function by creating neuromuscular incapacitation; the devices interrupt the ability of the brain to control the muscles in the body. This creates an immediate and unavoidable incapacitation that is not based on pain and cannot be overcome. Once the electricity stops flowing the subject immediately regains control of his or her body.) Taser devices are not considered firearms by the United States government. They can be legally carried (concealed or open) without a permit in 43 states. Tasers typically fire one cartridge, although a new model has three shots in case of a miss.
Armed criminals will always be a challenge as long as handguns are made anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, these proposals would allow for legitimate hunting and sporting uses by citizens while adding protections for the general public. Knives and other deadly weapons will still be available, but mass killings would be made far more unlikely. It is time to break the "cowboy culture" of violence in America.


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A current University at Buffalo wrestler and a former teammate were arrested early today in connection with the beating of a man at Main and Heath streets, Northeast District police reported. Justin L. Lozano, 20, of Selma, Calif., whose local home is on Callodine Avenue, and former UB wrestler Clayton J. Reeb, 22, of North Rushford Lane, Cheektowaga, were arrested at 3 a.m. and charged with second-degree assault and first-degree loitering in connection with the beating of Joshua Rubin, no age available.
Rubin told Northeast District police he was knocked unconscious and had his face cut open when Reeb and Lozano jumped him after following him and some of his friends down the street, taunting them, between 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. Saturday. Rubin was released after treatment in Erie County Medical Center.
Joe Kepler, UB assistant director of athletic communications, said Reeb, a junior who wrestled in the 149-pound class, left the team in December, with no reason publicly disclosed. Lozano, a sophomore, competes in the 174- and 184-pound divisions. Kepler said the team's coaches will assess the situation before deciding on any action.


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5 Ways the '90s Made Us Strong
What was scary about it
We'd tried paranoia in the '70s, pitting men with terrible haircuts against corrupt factions within government. By the '90s evil overlords were the entire government, or at least our TV government, which the average American is more informed about. X-Files explained that we were to trust no one except Gillian Anderson.
I don't want to live in a world where you can't trust redheads
Making things worse
By the time the FDA classified The X-Files as a sedative, people were reading conspiracies in between the lines of their Alpha-Bits -- or they would have if they weren't confident that pouring milk full of bovine growth hormone into their bowl wasn't exactly what the New World Order wanted. It got so you couldn't distinguish gnostic fact from covered-up fiction.
When you have no way of filtering out crap, you start blaming local cable news stories on Zeta Reticulans time-funneling technology to the CIA/NSA composite Project Aquarian. That's why today we go beyond conspiracy theories that lay bare a chilling truth we want to deny, and go straight to making up things we want to believe.
For example: when President Obama took office, a lot of people insisted he was on the brink of taking away America's guns. Obviously that hasn't happened, because I'm still packing heat everywhere -- at work, the bar, and especially to football games where my team is losing. Now for the twist ending: What if Obama does confiscate our guns, but replaces them with cake?
Cake Wrecks
The downshot is it's not a very good cake
It turned out okay, though
When the government decided to bypass the Constitution, they didn't even half try to hide it, and unless you were a terrorist, or had the same name as a terrorist, or came from the same region as a terrorist, your life went on the same, but secretly recorded without a warrant. Basically, they were doing your Facebooking for you.
What was scary about it
We were told that if we didn't recycle, every day of our lives would be like the movie 2012: expensive, overwrought, and deadly boring.
Perhaps incredibly so
There would be nowhere to live, nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide - I'm still talking about 2012. They promoted that film so hard you'd think it had taken their daughters hostage.
As a child I actually saw a public service ad set in the future, in which Niagara Falls ran out of water because people wouldn't stop using water. An entire team wrote, filmed, edited and broadcast an ad that didn't understand how rain works, or assumed future societies would trough up in Canada.
Making things worse
Not crapping in your nest should be apolitical. Unfortunately, hippies can overshadow any good cause with their unbearable stink of idiocy (as well as their more literal stink). If a hippie had prosecuted the Nuremberg Trials, everyone would find themselves thinking to their momentary horror how sharp the Nazis' haircuts looked. There, I just pulled off a reverse-Godwin for irrefutable victory.
Suddenly, the term "tree-hugger" got thrown at any one who suggested keeping the stuff we like around. The Religious Right even said God would prefer it if we tapped Earth dry in a generation or two, since Jesus is coming back in our lifetime.
Just not Falwell's
It turned out okay, though
The threat is over now that we have cheap, renewable energy sources, like...like...
Oh shit
So yeah, you're screwed. But at least there's this:
Wooden teeth, steel abs. And the teeth come out.
Brendan McGinley writes comics, though nothing x-treme enough for the '90s.


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I knew darned well that upon Obama's inevitable win there would be one heck-of-a-gaggle of exceedingly disgruntled ultraconservatives squawking about. Yet, I am quite baffled with their ongoing obstinate indifference to the election results: They remain doggedly steeped in their tired cattle-call of "repeal and replace"! Seriously. The day after the election, the esteemed (retired but still Texas Gov.) Rick Perry proclaimed that he is again/still calling for the repeal of Obamacare.
In the past, Perry has hollered for Texas to entirely secede the union as a solution to the entire Obama "problem." Other states are also summoning 25,000-signature petitions for secession, but Texas, with its annual threat/promise to do so, is the natural leader of the pack, which makes it perfect exemplary fodder for my sarcastic-self/alter-ego. I do not hold animus for Texans, per se (shucks – my best friend is from Texas); I appreciate that there is a huge population of admirable, progressively minded Texans, yet I cannot resist the beautiful mockery that Texas otherwise offers.
I suppose the idea of a country Texas-free is supposed to elicit some dreadful national sentiment. Shoot: What the hell has been holding us back? Texas, so fond of the phrase of "repeal and replace" and so proud of its self-proclaimed Republic status (it thinks itself more than a mere state) status: Let's take it up on its secession already. I say we simply repeal its inauguration – it can replace itself. Those elsewhere petitioners can all go down and join up; all ultraconservatives would be welcomed with that down-home Texan conservative hospitality.
I say, "Later, dudes!" And enjoy your secular ultraconservative small government utopia. Ban all regulations and taxes – the repeal of estate, property and business tax laws is now unnecessary. Without federal restriction, they can bolster their firearms and completely do away with all of that equality mumbo-jumbo. No need to repeal or replace the Voter's Rights Act of 1965, much less Roe v. Wade. Texas already functions without income taxes, which is usually the given reason for its heavy on reliance on federal funding, but surely this innovative bunch will make do with privatized police, fire and emergency companies, even in the case of an unforeseen disaster.
With Perry at the helm and no taxes, Texans could do away with all of those detested social services they so wholly despise. Welfare programs would be abolished: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security (being so opposed to it tells me that these sturdy folks don't mind forfeiting their lifelong savings to that retirement plan). With pay-as-you-go healthcare and no requirement for insurance; they will finally have the opportunity to prove that church charity can alone care for those not quite with the financially stable program. Texas can take its "low taxes, low services" ideology to "no taxes, no services" without a peep from the peanut gallery.
In terms of industry, Texas has it all for self-sufficiency. The elite infrastructure of job creators is already running full-throttle with some 350,000 to prod the flocks. And, without a care for the unique Texas landscape, they can rip it to shreds with their oil fields and mine to their hearts' content – all that Texas gold will support them for a couple of generations to come. Furthermore, with the elimination of OSHA, workman's compensation insurance, vacation and sick pay, the Family Medical Leave Act, 401-K plans, and unemployment benefits, production costs will decrease dramatically allowing for even greater profits. No unions mean no strikes, which consequently infers that cost-of-living wages won't (can't) ever be an issue.
Land abounds for them to cram their herds into inhumane pens and to cultivate their own crops. New-Republic Texans can virtually eliminate illegal immigration by stooping in their own fields, leaving that unfathomable 1.2 million without viable work; they will gladly self-deport. Of course, once the Texas agriculturists who've made their fortunes off of that loyal base realize a profit-margin decrease there may be some regret, but who gives a durn once their dirty little secret is known?
Naturally, public education will be eliminated in lieu of home-schooling – and without birth-control, there will be plenty of that fundamentalist-indoctrination to be done. No more frettin' little heads over evolution, global warming, ecology or any other abstract concepts involving that science crud. Without child labor laws, the kids can head straight out to the fields right alongside the women, fair-wage worry-free.
Socially, conservatives would thrive: No longer forced to intermingle with we progress-minded idiots, their amygdala-based fears will subsequently subside. In terms of entertainment, they've already got two football, three basketball and two baseball teams – they probably wouldn't even notice their playing one another repeatedly. Texas is amply churched for their Sunday socials; the empty schools can be converted into 4-H Club hubs; and, all of those closed librul-thinkin' colleges can be repurposed as coliseums for livestock shows and revival shin-digs. No gun laws translate to no pleasure in shooting ranges but, with those imaginative minds, who knows what they'll come up with in its place?
One problem – and it is major: There are a great many lovely non-ultraconservative Texans, and I would hate to place them in the position of having to fend for themselves in such a bound-to-be-prejudicial environment. No one deserves to live in such an inevitably tantamount state – I mean Republic – of regression and repression: We'd have to devise a well-devised escape-route for those unwelcome, progressive-minded 'others' (perhaps with a way to keep Austin in our folds). I sincerely sympathize with these particular Texans, but I still think it to be the most reasonable place for our more ardent whack-jobs to reside.
For the life of me I don't know why this secession thing isn't fait accompli. Of course, the true patriots would remain with the country, keeping us all on an even keel and we would continue to move forward in collaborative, bi-partisan spirit with conceivable societal solidarity goals. I'd question the ultraconservative mental survivability without its steady fare of acrimonious hostility, but I'd sure as heck like to see them try.


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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Natalie Portman
- 1994
The Young Professional
"She was camera-ready when she arrived," Todd Thaler, casting director for The Professional, tells PEOPLE. Portman lands the role of a kid who charms a middle-aged hit man. "They literally could have gone into production without a stitch of rehearsal."
- 1996
Playing the Old Soul
Tapping into her wise-child persona again, Portman gets attention for her Beautiful Girls role. She plays a precocious 13-year-old on whom her older neighbor Timothy Hutton develops a harmless crush. Meanwhile, Portman racks up prized parts in films including Heat and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.
- 1997
Taking on Anne Frank
Portman tackles the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway. The actress earns critical praise in the $1.6 million revival. "There is ineffable grace in her awkwardness, and her very skin seems to glow with the promise of miraculous transformations," writes The New York Times critic Ben Brantley.
- 1999
Star Wars Calling
Portman wins the role of Queen Amidala in the blockbuster Star Wars prequel and worries about the attention she'll get from avid fans. "I thought it would be awful," Portman says to PEOPLE after the first installment, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. "But I can still walk down the street alone and not worry about anyone accosting me."
Harvard Bound
Portman enrolls at Harvard. "I felt like I had to prove myself more," she tells Vanity Fair in 2006, "and it made me nervous all the time, because I feel that people always thought I was there because I was famous and not because I deserved to be there." In 2003, she graduates with a degree in psychology.
Maturing Roles
Portman appears as the responsible teen to flaky mom Susan Sarandon in Anywhere But Here. Of the young star, PEOPLE film critic Leah Rozen says she has "the kind of ravishing beauty not seen in an adolescent actress since Elizabeth Taylor galloped through National Velvet." Anywhere But Here is followed by another starring part as the spunky mom-to-be in Where the Heart Is. "She's gorgeous," director Matt Williams says to PEOPLE, "but people are also drawn to her for her intellect, substance and heart."
- 2002
The Trilogy Continues
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones premieres, followed by the last pre-chapter, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith three years later. "The attention I get at college isn't always flattering," Portman tells Allure in 2002. "Someone at a party will dare someone else to scream out 'Queen Amidala' to see if I turn around."
Unlikely Buds
Portman and Britney Spears meet at a 2001 listening party for the pop singer's latest album and become friends. The 21-year-olds decide to ring in 2003 together, cohosting a New Year's Eve party for 40 friends – including Keri Russell and Sam Rockwell – at Manhattan's Hudson Hotel.
- 2003
Romantic Link
Though Portman adamantly guards her private life, the star is linked with Y Tu Mamá También actor Gael García Bernal. Portman is also spotted with Jake Gyllenhaal in the coming years, but both decline to comment. "I'm a really open person," she tells USA Today. "Everyone I'm close to knows everything about me. But I have friends to tell my problems to, and I have no desire to tell them to strangers. Public confessional is not something I'm tempted to do."
The Brain
The recent grad appears in Cold Mountain, costarring Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger and Jude Law. She's "disarmingly intelligent," director Anthony Minghella tells USA Today. "She reminds me a little of Jodie Foster, because I can see her, as time goes on, wanting to spread her wings beyond acting. Her big brain wants to be fed."
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A very sophomoric word supposedly with some cheap, mushy sentiment akin to saying that "love isn't enough". The word is annoying as all hell to hear, and people will only think less of you in any serious matter.
Person 1: Hey, I lurve you.
Person 2: Get out of my house.
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When you feel so unbelievably amazing about somebody that love doesn't seem to do it. It's the greatest feeling in the world, and you'd take absolutely any opportunity to be with the person you lurve. Staying up late at night thinking about them, staring into their eyes to escape reality, longing to hear their laugh, see their smile, feel their hug. You can't compare lurve to anything else, so unless you lurve someone you can't imagine the feeling. If you lurve someone, you know.
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THe bestest feeling in the whole wide world. :)
I lurve kelly.
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lurve is love without the committment. A word to convey interest, passion, and investment but without the pressure of using the word love.
I've been seeing this girl for 6 weeks and I think I lurve her, but I don't know her last name.
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similar to love in that is has the letters "L" "V" and "E"...but thats about it.
Lurve is much deeper, stronger and more meaningful than love. It is possible to make lurve, this feels much better than making love, and is more fun for everyone involved.
Lurve is much deeper, stronger and more meaningful than love. It is possible to make lurve, this feels much better than making love, and is more fun for everyone involved.
heck I lurve you!
hey baby, lets make lurve.
hey baby, lets make lurve.
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A feeling of love between friends.
Me: Ac, I lurve you babe.
Ac: I lurve you too.
Ac: I lurve you too.
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the stalker way of saying love.
i lurve to watch you brush your teeth at night.
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Dunkirk police arrested a Canary Street man Wednesday whom they believe may be connected to a series of house burglaries in the area, officials said Thursday.
Gualberto Gonzalez, 35, was taken into custody following a burglary Wednesday in the 300 block of Dove Street. Investigators developed information that led to them to suspect Gonzalez, officials said. As police began searching for him, they spotted him and tried to stop him for questioning.
But Gonzalez fled on foot. Dunkirk police were assisted by the Chautauqua County Sheriff's K-9 union as they searched for Gonzalez and set up a perimeter.
Police said that just before 6 p.m., Gonzalez was seen going up the back stairs to his upper apartment and he was detained.
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I am overwhelmed by the tragic paradox of it all. As lawmakers, gun control advocates and the National Rifle Association prepared to debate guns rights on Wednesday, the death toll from gun violence continued to rise.
A teenager with a promising life ahead of her—and who had performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington last week with her school band and drill team—was gunned down on Chicago's South Side on Tuesday.
It is another painful, shameful statistic in Chicago's escalating genocide-like gun violence. It's only January, the first month of the new year, but CNN reports that already 42 people have been killed by gun violence on the mean streets of Chicago. Hadiya was number 42.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old sophomore at King College Prep, was shot and killed as she was hanging out with friends at a park after taking exams at school. The shooting, which occurred around 2:20 p.m., also wounded a 16-year-old boy; he remains in critical condition.
NBC News reports that Pendleton, referred to as "walking angel" by a relative, was standing under a canopy at Vivian Gordon Harsh Park with a group of kids from her school when a gunman ran up, opened fire on the crowd, then fled in a white car. Pendleton was shot in the back but managed to run a block before she collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital, where she later died.
Pendleton, an excellent student who had never been in trouble with the law, was apparently not the target of the shooting. But it is collateral damage like this in the sickening gun violence that has gripped Chicago and other cities in across America.
"As usual, the bad guy aims, but he never hits the other bad guy ... He hits the one that hurts the most to lose," Pendleton's godfather, 36-year-old Damon Stewart, said.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) spoke of Pendleton's murder during Wednesday's Senate showdown on gun control. He talked about her performance at the inauguration a mere week ago, saying "it was the highlight of her young 15-year-old life."
"Just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life, she's gone."
More than 500 people were shot and killed in Chicago last year, more than in war-ravaged Afghanistan. This statistic is stunning, especially for the so-called leader of the free world. What's even more alarming is the inaction by our leaders. This is an national crisis, yet it's practically ignored by the Obama administration and Congress.
If the tragedy in Chicago weren't enough, a 6-year-old boy is currently being held hostage in Midland City, Ala., by a gunman who held up the boy's school bus on Tuesday and shot the driver four times, killing him. Local law enforcement and the FBI are trying to rescue the child, who is being held in an underground bunker on the remote property of the 67-year-old gunman. And on Wednesday, as a Senate panel was debating gun control, three people were shot at an office complex in Phoenix; the gunman is still on the loose. [Read more on both cases here.]
Guns flooding our neighborhoods are a problem, but they are not the only problem. Poverty, substandard education and housing, drugs and gangs—these combined societal ills, if left to fester, will breed.
So as our politicians continue to squabble and the powerful leading gun organization in America split hairs with rhetoric like "guns don't kill people, people kill people" or "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the body count rises. Hey, why should we give up our right to bear every and all kinds of arms (high-capacity ones included) just because it might save a life?


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When you are taking a shower, and a family member or roomate comes into the bathroom and takes a shit at the same time. The mixture of shit smell and hot humid air is absolutely intolerable.
No fucking way, John. Wait till I'm done with my shower, asshole.
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Taking a large dump on the chest of another during some type of sex act. Usually, performed as a ritual to celebrate the miracles of poop.
"Danny dont give me a stanley steamer tonight I want to be able to go out without having to take a shower. Plus, its not Poopmas!" - Jane W.
by John Trian July 27, 2006
an act where one's partner shits on their dick and then proceeds to "Stanley Steam clean" their dick off via fellatio.
Sheila worked for Stanley Steamer for Pat last night in his car.
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verb; when your partner sucks on the pubes or "carpet" of their partner to search and clean out any goodies in such area
Guy 1: Dude how was your date with Kristy last night?
Guy 2: Dude it was so nasty! I gave her a stanley steamer and found a tooth, troll doll and a bag of box tops!
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by grimmith September 28, 2009
A Stanley Steamer is the act in which anal sex turns into a scat-like disaster. When you pull your cock out of the ass and you get a diarrhea surprise on your chest and/or pubic region.
Craig is asking Santa Claus for new bed sheets because they are stained with shit from the Stanley Steamer his wife gave him after Thanksgiving dinner.
by James & Ann December 12, 2007
Stanley Steamers may be performed when you are at a friend's house to visit (eg. for a LAN party, etc.) but he's being a *very* shitty host, so you proceed to pull your pants and underwear down and rub your bare, nasty ass on one, very concentrated spot of his bedroom carpet. If he's being a particularly flagrant ass hole, proceeding to the rubbings of his bed sheets, pillow cases, and/or other miscellaneous personal belongings may ensue.
Kurt was completely ignoring all of his guests, so Chad proceeded to giving his carpet a thorough Stanley Steamer, though this wouldn't be the first time...
by sso33 December 19, 2008
Since their motto is "Tough on dirt, gentle on carpet", the sex act entitled "the stanley steamer" is when you punch a girl in the asshole repeatedly (tough on dirt) while rubbing her pubic bush tenderly (gentle on carpet). Some consider this a contradictory act, but nothing shows your love for a woman (or man?) like a good 'ole stanley steamer.
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Mass spectrometry (MS) has become a fundamental tool for compound identification or confirmation by virtue of its ability to perform elemental composition determination (formula ID) by accurate mass measurements. The speed, sensitivity, and ease of interfacing the technique with gas and liquid chromatographs make MS the technique of choice for many applications.
In addition to accurate mass measurements, the isotope abundance distribution for an ion also provides information unique to a given chemical formula. The mass spectral accuracy required for accurate isotope modeling, however, has previously not been easily obtainable.
Mass accuracy is the measure of an instruments error in determining the theoretical (exact) mass of an ion. It is usually expressed in parts per million relative to the measured mass values or in absolute units of milli-Daltons (mDa) (Figure 1). Every unique formula has a unique mass value, which is the basis for formula ID using accurate mass measurements.
Unfortunately, due to measurement error, mass accuracy alone can rarely provide a unique formula, particularly at higher mass values (above 400 Da). For example, the formula search on an instrument capable of obtaining a mass accuracy of 1 ppm results in a list of 34 formula candidates for an unknown compound at 500 Da containing the elements C, H, N, O, S, and Cl.
The formula candidates can be pared down by imposing chemical constraints such as: limiting the possible elements in the formula search, restricting the minimum and maximum number of atoms for each element, electron state, and utilizing any other complementary knowledge of the unknown sample. For true unknowns, even on the highest resolution instruments such as FT-ICR systems, mass accuracy alone is not enough to identify a unique formula.
An ion's isotope pattern is also unique for each formula and significantly richer in information than the measurement of a single peak position, as with accurate mass measurements. It is composed of many peaks, each with unique relative intensities based on their isotopic abundances and unique relative mass positions based upon the mass of each isotope.
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TOKYO, 3 September 2012 - Taizo Nishikawa, Deputy to the Director-General of UNIDO, led a delegation to Japan between 27 and 31 August. The UNIDO delegation promoted the work of the organization, and strengthened collaboration and explored complimentary activities with partners in Japan.
A UNIDO seminar, titled "Partner for Prosperity", was held at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo on 28 August 2012. The seminar, which was supported by the UNU, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), was attended by 150 people, including representatives of the Japanese government and private sector, the diplomatic corps in Tokyo and international organizations. It featured addresses by UNIDO's Taizo Nishikawa, and Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of the UNU and Under-Secretary-General of the UN, as well as presentations by senior officers of UNIDO, and a panel discussion including representatives of Japan's private sector. The seminar promoted UNIDO as a partner for Japan, with a focus on development projects in UNIDO member states.
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