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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Roll-up Blinds and Roman Shades
Units: About 1.1 million (600,000 roll-up blinds and 500,000 Roman shades)
Importer: Walmart Stores Inc., of Bentonville, Ark.
Roll-Up Blinds: Strangulations can occur if the lifting loops slide off the side of the blind and a child's neck becomes entangled on the free-standing loop or if a child places his/her neck between the lifting loop and the roll-up blind material.Roman Shades: Strangulations can occur when a child places his/her neck between the exposed inner cord and the fabric on the backside of the blind or when a child pulls the cord out and wraps it around his/her neck.
Incidents/Injuries: No incidents or injuries have been reported involving Roman shades directly sold by Walmart. However, CPSC is aware of the death of a child from one of these Roman shades sold by another retailer. No incidents or injuries have been reported in roll-up shades.
Description: This recall involves all styles and sizes of fabric, bamboo and jute roll-up blinds and Roman shades.
Sold at: Walmart stores nationwide and at www.walmart.com or www.samsclub.com from January 1999 through September 2009 for between $6 and $30.
Manufactured in: China and Thailand
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the Roman shades and the roll-up blinds and contact the Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC) for a free repair kit at (800) 506-4636 anytime or visit www.windowcoverings.org
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Walmart at (800) 925-6278 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.walmartstores.com
Note: Examine all shades and blinds in your home. Make sure there are no accessible cords on the front, side, or back of the product. CPSC recommends the use of cordless window coverings in all homes where children live or visit.
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Caregivers' Confidence in Performing Child Safety Seat Installations: What Matters Most?" Inj. Prev.. 2013."
Characteristics of Crashes Involving Injured Children in Side Impacts." International Journal of Crashworthiness. 2011;16(4):365-373."
Child occupant protection: a summary of current safety recommendations." Prim. Care Update Ob Gyns. 2001;8(4):141-148."
Cognitive Rest and School-Based Recommendations Following Pediatric Concussion: The Need for Primary Care Support Tools." Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013."
Comparison of relative and actual chest compression depths during cardiac arrest in children, adolescents, and young adults." Resuscitation. 2012;83(3):320-6."
Computer crash simulations in the development of child occupant safety policies." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154(3):276-80."

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stay classy guys!
I feel cheated, does anyone else feel something just wasn't right. The game was extremely close with both teams scoring until the third. Now in the end of the fourth both teams are scoring on eachother without ref interference and showing that they are evenly matched. the lead should have never happened
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stay classy guys!
How much worse could Camby have peerformed to Chandler.
This game also shows how big having STAT will be if he can play passable defense.
Most unnecessary loss i have seen in all my days watching basketball.
1.Playing Melo at the 4 when there is no mismatch on the other end is useless and just plain retarded. If Memphis switches A SG or SF on the other end to guard Melo then the Melo at the 4 experiment should be shut down immediately.
2.We let Gasol have a field day for no reason by having Woodhead keep Melo at the 4 to be bruised up by Gasol all game. Melo did not deserve what happened to him tonight and Woody should be ashamed to see Melon fight so hard for no reason against guys that are just too much for him. Melo played very hard tonight and i commend him for keep on trying even though he was wrongfully forced to take a pounding for no reason at all.
3. Woodson is to blame for our teams execution and i feel he coached the worst game he has coached since becoming the head coach in NY. Its common sense that you dont willingly put you star SF on Marc Gasol all game and expect not to get chewed out on the boards and having Gasol kill us all game. Hell, even Lebron would struggle in that matchup.
4.Woody cost us the game and almost cost us last night with riding Novak. We had no reason to play small against a very big team and instead of atleast realizing it would not work and switching up, he waits until we are deep into a hole and momentum and player moral down until he puts in 2 bigs.
5.Players played great with good energy besides Chandler but Woodson cost us the game with his blind arrogance and flawed gameplan against this team.
well that messed up my night...
tough team, especially on the road. It's alright, it was a good loss especially with the refs going against us. Memphis had over 30 Free Throw attempts, that doubled what the Knicks had.
Let's try not to overreact guys. We competed out there. Memphis hasn't lost at home in a long time and Ed Malloy was unstoppable tonight
I think we should be very worried about Chandler, he is looking soft and disinterested in playing and is a liability. I give him a pass because of his flu and bone bruise but he isnt even trying.
Damn I forgot how this feeling feels like... Gonna fap the rest of this night away.. relieve some tension.


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The Kauai Fire Department, with the assistance of a fire department helicopter and lifeguards from the Ocean Safety Bureau, recovered the body of a female hiker Friday morning who was swept away while attempting to cross Hanakapiai Stream the day before.
The woman, believed to be in her forties, has not yet been identified.
Rescuers located the unresponsive body further downstream at around 8:30 a.m. Friday and airlifted her out of the valley.
Rescue crews was notified of the incident at about 4 p.m. Thursday while en route to rescue 55 hikers who were stranded on the far side of the stream, unable to cross due to a rise in the water level. The female hiker apparently tried to cross on her own before help arrived when she was swept away.
A fire department chopper and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted an aerial search of the area while lifeguards on Jet Ski searched the shoreline throughout the evening, but nightfall forced rescuers to suspend their efforts for the night.
Meanwhile, rescuers attempted to assist the stranded hikers in the valley, but the stream's high water level coupled with strong winds made it difficult for rescuers to assist them safely across, forcing everyone, including 2 rescue specialists, to stay in the valley overnight.
With the assistance of the two firefighters on scene, all 55 hikers were able to cross the stream safely this morning as the water receded. Ten hikers were flown out of the area while the rest of the group opted to hike out on their own.
None of the hikers required medical assistance.
Life's Bridges, a volunteer-based grief counseling service, is assisting the family of the female hiker.
This is the seventh drowning reported on Kauai this year.


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In this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, several objects are identified as the faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe. They are so far away that we see them as they looked less than one billion years after the Big Bang. Blazing with the brilliance of millions of stars, each of the newly discovered galaxies is a hundred to a thousand times smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy.
The bottom row of pictures shows several of these clumps (distance expressed in redshift value). Three of the galaxies appear to be slightly disrupted. Rather than being shaped like rounded blobs, they appear stretched into tadpole-like shapes. This is a sign that they may be interacting and merging with neighboring galaxies to form larger structures.
The detection required joint observations between Hubble and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Blue light seen by Hubble shows the presence of young stars. The absence of infrared light from Spitzer observations conclusively shows that these are truly young galaxies without an earlier generation of stars.
Object Name: HUDF
Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration/Annotated
Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Pirzkal (STScI/ESA)
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About a month ago, I said that I couldn't tell if movies were being serious or not in an article based mostly on the idea that the difference between loving movies like Fast Five genuinely and loving them ironically was completely imperceptible to me (largely because I wouldn't know how to love something ironically, especially if that "something" was "butts and explosions"). When Fast Five thrilled critics and finished their opening weekend at No. 1, I decided to stop paying attention to movies for a while and start focusing on the real world.
Turns out it's worse.
Zombies Jump the Shark Riding a CDC-Branded Jet Ski
If you spend any time in the world, you probably know that zombies have been a pretty big thing lately. In the Zombie Renaissance that has taken place over the last decade or so, we've seen plenty of zombie movies, zombie merchandise, some zombie-related articles, a hit zombie TV show, a functionally idiotic zombie TV show and countless zombie-related books. Hell, even our New York Timesbest-selling book took advantage of this whole zombie craze.
"Buying this book will make your junk more appealing to other people." -- Scientists
Recently, the real-life Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to get in on the zombie fever that was spreading through the nation (and devouring its brains) by throwing up a goofy, official CDC-approved "Zombie Preparedness Kit" that, according to the CDC's site, will tell you exactly how to "prepare for a zombie apocalypse."
It's a joke (obviously).The kit is just a general disaster-preparedness kit -- the kind that anyone expecting an incoming disaster should have. [Sidebar.] There's nothing specific to zombies in the kit, they're just being cute. The CDC is dressing up helpful information so that it spreads around the Internet and builds buzz or whatever it is that things do. And it worked. That link was everywhere. I wrote a video about zombies and worked on a book with "Zombie" in the title, which means everyone I've ever met in the world sent me this link. Someone on the CDC's marketing or PR team is kind of clever; for the first time in a long time, the Internet was talking about the Center. With this little stunt, the CDC had gone viral.
But here's my question: Why the shit should the Centers for freaking Disease Control and Prevention care about going viral? I get that the Internet is a big huge thing, and a lot of people spend a lot of time online -- but that doesn't mean every business and organization needs to try to connect with the Internet on its level, especially an organization that's genuinely important. Look, T-Mobile is going to try to appeal to the online crowd, and Old Spice is going to hire Tim and Eric to make ads that go viral, because these are companies for which being cool, staying hip and connecting with a younger crowd is important. That should not be on the CDC's list of priorities. The CDC exists to help idiots, not impress them with cheeky, viral, publicity stunts. If I get bitten by a poisonous snake, I don't want to check the CDC's website and find a bunch of tongue-in-cheek Internet bullshit jokes tied into Snakes on a Plane, I want a step-by-step guide to getting snake poison out of my favorite body.
If my friend passes out because he thought he might get high by snorting a combination of ammonia and whatever's in a lava lamp [Sidebar], I need to be able click on an emergency link on the CDC's website knowing that it won't try to RickRoll me.
I know the Internet has stripped irony of all meaning and nothing really needs to be taken seriously on here, but that's just because we're all a bunch of jerkoffs. The CDC is run by the government. It's not supposed to be funny or hip or culturally "with it," especially when culture is at its absolute silliest (pretending zombies are real/still funny). Since when did the government need to dumb itself down to keep up with the rest of culture? Oh, hey -- speaking of the government and stupidity ...
Donald Trump Pretends to Run For President (And We Let Him)
In 2010, entrepreneur/reality show star/businessgoblin Donald Trump announced that he was considering running for president. Of the United States. Of America. Host of Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump. Sleazy, morally bankrupt and at-one-time-just-regular-bankrupt Donald Trump. He wanted to be President Trump, even though "trump," as a word, sounds like it should be slang for that sometimes flabby part of the body where the under-ass rubs up against the back of the leg. Like, "We were making out behind the shed at the mini-golf place and I was grabbin' her butt, but I had to quit because this chick had mad trump-sweat. It was gross." He said he wanted to run for president.
And we just ... let him. He had a bunch of asinine things to say regarding a position for which he was objectively unqualified, and we gave him a microphone. We had him not on our entertainment shows, but on our political shows, and we gave him a podium and listened to him spew bullshit. We took him seriously enough that we conducted public opinion polls about his possible candidacy. The result? Trump had a higher approval rating than every other potential candidate. And when Trump called out our current president, Obama would actually respond to him, despite the fact that Trumps face looks like a scrotum that got punched by a sandstorm.
But here's the thing. Donald Trump isn't running for president. Donald Trump was never going to run for president -- of course he wasn't. He's too busy pretending to be the evil mayor in a world that no one told him wasn't a cartoon. No one would ever actually elect Donald Trump. Even Trump knew this, and he's a crispy, shark-eyed troll. His media tour, where he went out and attacked Obama and China and boasted about why he'd be a great president, started when his stupid reality show was entering a new season, and it ended now that the season was over. It was a publicity stunt designed to draw more attention to Trump and his piece-of-crap show. But we let him pretend to want to be president, and we reported on it. Endlessly. Even though he looks like a wrinkled piece of spray-tanned aluminum foil, we entertained this ridiculous charade. We pretended a guy who donates money to the Democratic party and hasn't actually voted in 21 years was going to run as the Republican candidate.
Really sorry you had to see this, your boner's going to have nightmares for weeks.
It was a publicity stunt for a freaking reality show about farts. (Full Disclosure: I've never watched Apprentice.) But we turned it into the biggest presidential story of the year. Why? Because it was funny? Because someone thought it would be ironically hilarious if he actually ran and won? Because the campaign itself would make for an entertaining fucking story? Why?
Look, I know I really like writing about presidents, but I'd like to think I'm not biased when I say that the presidency is important. It should be at least important enough that when an opportunistic, canyon-faced horse's ass pretends to run in what is clearly a publicity stunt, someone can stand up and say, "Shut the fuck up, Donny."
My humble suggestion for that "someone."[Sidebar]
Oh, and speaking of entertaining potential candidates based on how sensational they'll be in terms of media coverage instead of, say, their credentials ...


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As a game developer, and very likely as a gamer yourself, you've probably seen products being advertised as "ultrarealistic," or as "using real-world physics." At the same time you are wondering how you can spice up your own games with such realism. Or perhaps you want to try something completely new that requires you to explore real physics.
Say, for example, you're writing a baseball video game and you want to model the various pitches, such as curve balls, knuckle balls, and fast balls, based on real-world parameters such as release speed, spin, the altitude of the playing field, and so on. Considering all these factors would allow you to distinguish between different pitchers and even between different playing fields. This would offer greater challenges to your gamer, and perhaps more importantly, greater intrigue and variety.
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Now, I can't explain how to write such a physics simulation in this short article; instead I've written a book, Physics for Game Developers, which explains the physical and computational principles you will need to know to write such a simulation. In this article, I'll give you a general overview of the five major steps you must take when developing physics-based simulations for your games.
The first thing you have to do is decide what it is you'd like to model physically. This may seem obvious, but it's not trivial. You could decide that you'll just model everything in your game physically. While this makes your decision easy, you just significantly increased your development workload. Further, your game's performance will suffer unnecessarily. It's important to remember why you're adding physics to your games in the first place. Presumably, it's because you want to enhance the immersive experience for your players. You've already created a gaming environment that looks realistic, and now you want it to behave realistically as well. What you must do is determine which elements of your game will benefit the most from using real physics and which elements won't make a difference at all in terms of the overall gaming experience.
Generally, your game environment will be full of visual detail so as to create a visually immersive experience. However, it isn't necessary for every little visual element to be modeled physically to achieve this.
Consider this example: You're working on the next blockbuster hunting game complete with first-person 3-D, beautiful textures, and an awesome soundtrack to set the mood, but something is missing. That something is realism. Specifically, you want the game to "feel" more real by challenging the gamer's marksmanship, and you want to do this by adding considerations such as distance to target, wind speed and direction, and muzzle velocity. Moreover, you don't want to fake these elements, but rather you'd like to realistically model them based on the principles of physics.
So now you're faced with deciding what exactly to model physically. Well, for this example, you'd want to model the flight dynamics of the bullet fairly realistically. Do you have to model the gun, too? Probably not, unless you want to use a force-feedback mechanism to simulate the kick of the gun when it's fired. What about the target? Say your gamer is shooting at some tin cans for target practice. You could include the tin cans in your simulator and model the collision between the bullet and tin can so that when struck the can goes tumbling through the air. That would be neat.
On the other hand, what about the stand that the tin can is set upon? Do you really need to model that to yield an immersive shooting experience? Probably not. The point is that you should carefully select what game elements are most important for immersion and focus your attention on those. Leave everything else out of your physical model so you don't waste CPU time.
Now that you've decided what it is you want to model, you have to decide how to actually model it. Recall from your physics lessons that rigid body motion is governed by Newton's second law of motion, which states that the acceleration of a body is proportional to the resultant force acting on the body and this acceleration is in the same direction as the resultant force.
In equation form this is simply the familiar equation,
F = ma; where "F" is the resultant force vector, "m" is the mass of the body, and "a" is its acceleration. You can write an analogous formula relating applied torque to a body's moment of inertia and angular acceleration. Don't worry if you've forgotten these fundamental principles of rigid body dynamics, I've devoted
several chapters in my book to this subject as a refresher course.
The formulas for Newton's second law form the equations of motion for the objects in your simulation. Given some externally applied forces and torques (moments), your objects of known mass and inertia will accelerate. While accelerating, their speeds and positions will change; for example, they'll move around under the influence of the external loads. This last statement is critical. It's true that you must solve the equations of motion in a manner such that your simulation is stable. It's also true that you must incorporate accurate collision detection and response in order to capture the interaction of the objects if they run into each other. I'll talk more about this in step 3 later in this article. What ultimately determines the behavior of your objects, however, are the forces and moments that act on them, so it is important to get them right.
While the concept put forth by Newton's second law is easy to grasp, the simplicity of the governing formulas are deceptive because these forces and moments acting on your object are not always easy to calculate. This presents you with a dilemma: It's crucial that you model the forces and moments accurately, but you must trade absolute accuracy with ease of implementation and computational speed. This requires a practical understanding of the object you are trying to model. For example, if you are writing a flight simulator and you want to accurately model the flight dynamics of your plane, then you need to understand how wings generate lift, how tail rudders cause a plane to yaw, how flaps cause a plane to bank, and so on. All these elements effectively apply forces and moments to your plane in order to get it to fly, yaw, bank, and so forth.
What ultimately determines the behavior of your objects are the forces and moments that act on them, so it is important to get them right.
Here's another example: if you want to model the flight of a baseball in your game, then you must consider aerodynamic drag, Magnus Lift forces, and gravity. If you don't get these right, your baseball won't behave like it should. If you leave out Magnus Lift forces, for example, you'll never get a curve ball in your simulation (unless you fake it, but that defeats the purpose of implementing accurate physics in the first place).
Many game physics references that I've come across spend little time discussing the physical nature of forces and moments. Instead, you often see simple, generalized formulas for forces such as viscous drag (commonly called damping in the literature) and spring forces. Generalized formulas are great for modeling generic objects, but they won't cut it if you're going to accurately distinguish the behavior between, say, airplanes and cars, baseballs and cricket balls, or hovercrafts and boats. That's why I've included several chapters in my book that discuss the nature of a variety of forces acting on common objects, including practical formulas and data.
While there are an infinite number of things you may try to simulate in your games, there are a handful of different types of forces that are common across a wide variety of situations. The first type is field forces. These are also known as forces-at-a-distance since the forces are generated between objects that are not in contact, but which are separated by some distance. The best example of this type of force is the force due to gravity. If you are simulating any sort of projectile in your game, then it's safe to assume that you'll have to include gravity in your force calculations.
Another common force is friction. Friction acts between objects in contact and always resists motion. If your hero has to push barrels or crates around in order to navigate a level, then you'll have to model the friction between the barrel or crate and the ground in order to simulate its motion as it is being pushed.
Any time you have an object moving through a fluid, which could be air, water, or any other gas or liquid, the object will experience drag forces opposing its motion. Whether your object is a plane, a bullet, or a person jumping through the air, fluid dynamic drag is a factor that you should consider. In addition to contributing to physical realism, drag, or damping, is always good to help stabilize your simulation.
Many objects moving through fluids also generate lift forces. The best example of this is an airplane wing that generates the lift that allows an airplane to fly. Most people normally associate lift with wing-like, or airfoil shapes; however, even completely round objects can generate lift, if they are spinning. This is the so-called Magnus Lift force that is created when an object rotates as it moves through a fluid. As I mentioned earlier, this is the physical mechanism behind a curve ball in baseball. It's also a significant factor governing the flight of golf balls as well as many other types of sports balls.
One means of connecting objects in a simulation is through the use of springs. A spring applies a force between two connection points, which is proportional to the elongation or compression of the spring. Springs are often used in particle-spring assemblies to simulate the motion of flexible objects, such as cloth. The last chapter of Physics for Game Developers goes through an example of how to use a spring-particle system to simulate a cloth flag waving in the wind while suspended from a flagpole.
It is important to make the distinction between collision detection and collision response. Collision detection is a computational geometry problem involving the determination of whether and where two or more objects have collided. Collision response is a physics problem involving the motion of two or more objects after they have collided.
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Collision detection is a crucial aspect of any real-time simulation where objects are not supposed to be able to pass through each other. Your collision-response algorithms rely on the results of your collision-detection algorithms in order to accurately determine the appropriate response to any collision. Therefore, you should take care in making sure your collision-detection schemes are accurate and reliable. That said, collision detection is no easy task. I personally find it much more difficult to implement robustly than it is to implement the physics aspects of rigid body simulations. For game applications, as I'm sure you are aware, speed is also a major issue, and accurate collision detection can be slow. Generally, you'll want to use a two-phase approach to collision detection. First, you can use a bounding sphere or box check to test whether there are possible collisions between objects. If this check indicates possible collisions, then you'll want to do a more detailed check on the candidate objects to see if they are indeed intersecting.
There are many approaches you can take for this detailed collision check. The thing you have to keep in mind is the trade-off between accuracy and performance. Kevin Kaiser addresses triangle-to-triangle level collision detection in detail in Chapter 4.5 of Game Programming Gems. Nick Bobic also treats polygonal collision detection in his Gamasutra article Advanced Collision Detection Techniques. Brian Mertich has also written several useful papers on collision detection for real-time simulations.
Whatever collision-detection scheme you use, there are certain pieces of information that it must provide to you in order for you to simulate physically accurate collision responses. Your collision-detection routine must tell you:
If you're writing a 3-D game complete with detailed polygon models for high-quality rendering, you might be tempted to use those same models in your collision-detection checks for your physics simulation. However, you may not want to do this since it will take more CPU time to do the collision check and may be unnecessary in terms of physical realism. Don't confuse the requirements for visual realism with physical realism. You may find that you need highly detailed polygon models for quality renderings, but your collision model for that object may only need a fraction of the number of polygons. Granted, this approach means you'll have to keep track of two models for each object in your simulation, but the payoff in terms of performance may be well worth it.
It is important to make the distinction between collision detection and collision response.
My treatment of rigid body collision response in my book is based on classical Newtonian impact principles. Bodies that are colliding are treated as rigid regardless of their construction and material. Rigid bodies discussed here do not change shape even upon impact. This, of course, is an idealization. You know from your everyday experience that when objects collide they dent, bend, compress, or crumple. For example, when a baseball strikes a bat, it may compress as much as three quarters of an inch during the millisecond of impact. Notwithstanding this reality, you can rely on the well-established impulse method to approximate rigid body collisions. In this method, an impulsive force is applied to each colliding object at the point or points of impact. This force is calculated such that it changes the velocity of each object instantly, not allowing them to penetrate one another. The method is semi-empirical in that it uses so-called coefficients of restitution to simulate the hardness or softness of various objects. For example, different coefficients of restitution can be used to simulate a rubber ball bouncing off of a hard surface, or a lump of clay that sticks to a surface after a collision.
This classical approach is widely used in engineering machine design, analysis, and simulations. However, for rigid body simulations there is another class of methods known as penalty methods at your disposal. In penalty methods, the force at impact is represented by a temporary spring that gets compressed between the objects at the point of impact. This spring compresses over a very short time and applies equal and opposite forces to the colliding bodies to simulate collision response. Proponents of this method say it has the advantage of ease of implementation. However, one of the difficulties encountered in its implementation is numerical instability. David Baraff reviews several aspects of penalty methods (as well as other methods) in his paper Nonpenetrating Rigid Body Simulation.
The next aspect of implementing your physics simulator deals with actually solving the equations of motion. The equations of motion can be classified as ordinary differential equations. In some simple cases you can solve these differential equations analytically. However, this won't be the case for general rigid body simulations. Force and moment calculations for your system can get pretty complicated and may even rely on tabulated empirical data, which will prevent you from writing simple mathematical functions that can be easily integrated. This means you have to use numerical-integration techniques to approximately integrate the equations of motion. I say approximately because solutions based on numerical integration won't be exact and will have a certain amount of error depending on the chosen method. I discuss several integration methods, along with sample code, in Chapter 11 of my book.
By far, the easiest integration method to implement is Euler's method. In this method you first calculate the forces and moments on each object in order to determine acceleration. Recalling the equation for Newton's second law, you can obtain acceleration by dividing the resultant force acting on an object by the object's mass (for angular acceleration you need to divide torques by inertias). Once you have acceleration you can obtain the change in velocity by simply multiplying the acceleration by a small change in time called a time step. The object's new velocity is simply its old velocity plus the change in velocity for the current time step. To obtain the object's new position, you first multiply its velocity by the time step to obtain a change in displacement (position) and then add this change to the object's last position. To minimize numerical errors you must step through your simulation at very small time steps with this method.
A major drawback of Euler's method is instability. If your time steps are too large, then your solution may diverge from the exact solution, and your simulation may blow up.
A major drawback of Euler's method is instability. If your time steps are too large, then your solution may diverge from the exact solution, and your simulation may blow up. For example, I was recently implementing a simulation of water flowing over a dam using a method called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Initially, I was using Euler's method just so I could get the simulation up and running quickly, with the idea of implementing a better method later. While running the simulation for the first time, the water started flowing over the dam in a fairly realistic manner. However, after a few steps all the particles representing the water took to the air and flew out of my computational domain like meteors. Obviously this is wrong, and is a good example of a solution becoming numerically unstable. To solve the problem I was forced to implement an alternative method sooner than I had anticipated.
One such method is known as the Improved Euler method. For ill-conditioned problems, this method is far more stable than Euler's method. However, it requires two force calculations for each object in the simulation. Thus, improved accuracy and stability come at a price in terms of CPU time. Other methods, including the Runge-Kutta and Leap-frog methods, also improve accuracy and stability but again at the cost of CPU time, and in some cases increased memory requirements. Sometimes you can offset the increased CPU burden with these improved methods since they allow you to take larger time steps while still maintaining accuracy. The bottom line is that, here again, you're faced with trading off ease of implementation and speed with accuracy and more importantly, stability.
The final and arguably the most time-consuming aspect of implementing your physics simulator is tuning (also known as parameter tuning). Many times I've gone through the steps outlined above only to run my simulation to watch it fail. Either the simulation blew up or the behavior of the objects I was trying to simulate was less than accurate.
When writing any simulation you'll find that there are many empirical coefficients and parameters that you have to estimate, for example, collision tolerances, coefficients of restitution, mass properties, and drag coefficients, among others. In many cases your initial estimates for such parameters may be off, resulting in instability or unrealistic behavior. This means that you'll have to tune such parameters until you get the results you want. By tuning I mean the trial-and-error process of changing certain parameters to see what effect they have on your simulation until you get it to work right. In some cases it may mean implementing new algorithms, as I had to do with the integration scheme in my water simulation, for example.
There are a couple of things you can do to make this job easier on yourself. First, research the physics behind what it is you are simulating. Try to obtain an understanding of how the system you are simulating actually behaves in the real world. Find out what factors are important: for example, what forces govern the system's behavior, and try to find some real-world empirical data for things such as drag coefficients, coefficients of restitution, friction coefficients, and so on. This will help take some of the guesswork out of setting initial values for such parameters, and help to identify unrealistic behavior.
Second, don't bury (or spread out) all this data in your source code. Set up a bunch of defines for such data in one file so you can quickly find and change the data as you go through the tuning process. Something you might consider is implementing a mechanism that allows you to change specific data on the fly so you can tune certain aspects of the simulation in real time. I've found this helpful in specific simulations where, for example, I wanted to see the effects of changing viscous drag as the simulation ran. I found it difficult to observe subtle changes in behavior if I had to stop one simulation, change some data, and then rerun the simulation again; especially if the behavior I wanted to observe didn't occur at the start of the simulation but only after many hundreds of time steps.
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Schools Promote Healthy Eating Habits Through Federal Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Schools statewide receive a total of $3.3 million to increase fruit & vegetable offerings; More students have access to healthy eating choices
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced today that 188 schools in Illinois will participate in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) during the 2010-11 school year.
"This program not only increases children's access to fresh fruits and vegetables but also teaches them why it's important to eat healthy foods and exercise," said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "Incorporating healthy food choices with nutrition education during the school days makes it more likely that students will develop good eating habits."
The 188 schools participating in the federally-funded FFVP will share equally in more than $3.3 million based on each school's student enrollment numbers. The program requires the same amount, about $50, be allocated for each student in participating schools. Program funding runs through June 30, 2011.
FFVP provides all students in participating schools access to a variety of free fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the school day. It allows schools to make available the additional produce anytime during the regular school day, except during breakfast and lunch when the School Lunch and Breakfast Programs are in effect.
The idea is to expose students to lifelong healthy eating habits. For example, schools can incorporate nutrition education into numerous daily classroom activities such as math, health, geography and science, by developing lesson plans involving fruits and vegetables.
The 2005 United States Department of Agriculture's nutrition guidelines increased intake of fruits and vegetable consumption to two cups of fruit and 2-½ cups of vegetables per day for a 2,000 calorie diet. Research shows the average consumption of fruits and vegetables among school children is approximately half that or two cup equivalents per day.
The USDA first piloted the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in 2002 and it was expanded to include all states for the 2008-2009 school year. More than 360 schools statewide applied for the 2010-11 grant program. Each school will be reimbursed on a monthly basis for allowable expenses up to the school's total awarded amount. The fresh produce purchased under this program cannot be used to replace fruits or vegetables already being served to students at breakfast or lunch.
Click here for the complete list of 188 schools in the Fresh Fruits & Vegetable Program. A map of the selected schools is available online at http://www.isbe.net/nutrition/pdf/fv_awardees11.pdf


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By Carlos Vasquez
Architect, Child Friendly School Designer, UNICEF
NEW YORK, USA, 7 February 2014 – As we publish the 2013 edition of the Compendium of Transitional Learning Spaces (TLS), over 2 million people have fled Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, making this one of the largest refugee exoduses in recent history, with no foreseeable end. The refugee population in the region could reach over 4 million by the end of 2014. Children must endure far-reaching hardships and danger to escape and seek refuge across neighboring countries. This disrupts their schooling and moreover, the most vulnerable children are often disproportionally affected.
Similar conflicts and natural disasters are affecting local communities and marginalized children in many parts of the world today: escalating violence in the Central African Republic is posing a threat to children, where thousands are being recruited into armed groups instead of going to school; the Arab Spring has disrupted access to education for millions of children; and in areas of the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan, about 90 per cent of school buildings were damaged – more than 3,200 schools in all – leaving over a million pupils and 34,000 teachers with no place for learning.
Less than a month after the Typhoon, I was very happy to hear that the Ministry of Education in the Philippines was using the TLS 2011 to budget, program and plan a back-to-school campaign for the hardest-hit children in Tacloban. The TLS Compendium has helped drive the emergency response and enabled partners to rebound quickly and start designing appropriate and cost-effective learning spaces for children and families impacted by the Typhoon.
There is a critical difference between spending money versus investing in education. In Jordan's Zaatari camp, which hosts nearly 130,000 Syrian refugees, we convinced donors of the long-term benefits of healthy learning environments in emergencies. A TLS is not a stand-alone structure 'classroom,' but a holistic learning environment with a set of facilities, including WASH services, areas for external play, internal learning spaces, teacher and staff space and perimeter fencing. In the Zaatari refugee camp, we designed and built three schools to serve more than 15,000 students in two shifts.
The TLS Compendium is predicated on the principles of Child Friendly Schooling, the minimal components to activate healthy learning environments for children. The profound social benefits of this programming are far-reaching. The second edition of the TLS compendium follows the same initiative of the 2011 edition: collect and centralize technical information, develop basic architectural drawings and provide cost-effective recommendations to improve the quality of these spaces in the context of emergencies.
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Dear friends of Istituto Acton,
With the election of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church is now led by a humble, simple pastor who will capture the world's attention with his care for the poor and suffering. This is not to say that his more intellectual predecessors did not have this same concern for the lowly; a look at their first encyclicals, John Paul II's Redemptor Hominis [2] and Benedict XVI's Deus Caritas Est [3], reveals how Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect Man, is our model in thought and action, and we can expect Francis to do the same. In fact, he already has by his deeds eschewing some of the pomp that is currently associated with the papacy. While this has turned off some more traditional Catholics, it is likely to appeal to others who have fallen away from the faith, not an insignificant number of people according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life [4]. It's therefore important to remember that the tradition at the heart of the Church is meant to serve the larger mission of saving souls by bringing them closer to Christ, which is what the New Evangelization is all about.
The problem of belief in the modern world cannot be solved by a few gestures, of course, and there are many reasons why so many people have a hard time trying to be good Catholics. The Church has never claimed that living according to the faith is easy or necessarily convenient. But the more worrying trend is that many are not even trying. As G.K. Chesterton remarked [5] at the beginning of the 20th century, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." Being a Christian is not simply a matter of showing up at Sunday Mass but of thinking and acting according to a certain understanding of God and man. It's why theology and philosophy are so important in Christianity, much more so than in religions such as Judaism and Islam that put more emphasis on following the law in all its details. Belief in the Triune God goes much beyond doing good deeds or practicing sexual morality, and belief makes the deeds more coherent and even easier to do. The mistake many fallen-away Catholics make is that they focus on one or another aspect of the teaching at the expense of all the others, and Francis will do a lot of good if he can get some of these to re-examine the Church's claims and show us that living a Christian life is not only possible but what God wants for us and therefore something He helps us do if we get up and try again after our inevitable falls. The Church is made up of sinners who are called to be saints and the whole point of the Church would be absurd if it were only made up of perfect men and women who don't exist anyway.
So perhaps Francis will help us realize that Christianity is true by the way he lives and his concern for the poor; as both John Paul II and Benedict XVI said, witness is often a stronger example of faith than mere words. We already know that the poor are at the center of Francis's thoughts and actions, so it will be useful to re-examine what the Church means by spiritual and material poverty. It's not that the things of the world are to be despised and rejected but that we should put these goods at the service of their Creator and for the good of others. This means having a spirit of detachment, of appreciating and enjoying material goods while also being able to put them aside voluntarily and for a greater good. This detachment is good for its practitioner as much as for the recipient of someone's charity because it helps him live a calmer, more balanced life by making space for God in his heart.
When it comes to actually helping the poor, it involves much more than simply giving away our goods or, even worse, letting the State take from the rich and give to the poor. One thing we've learned with the help of economics is that wealth can be created, not just redistributed. Wealth creation involves the division of labor, protection of property, along with "peace, easy taxes and a simple administration of justice" as Adam Smith explained. Making these things the focus of government results in "the commercial society," something quite different than a pre-commercial or feudal society that did not have commerce as its focus. By putting commerce at the center, the proponents of the commercial society were aiming at providing as much material prosperity as possible, thinking that this prosperity would provide more liberty and security for all. Calvin Coolidge, the subject of Amity Shlaes's new biography [6], put it best: "America's business is business."
Material prosperity need not promote spiritual development, as we can easily imagine and in fact see all around us, so it's perfectly natural and understandable why religious-minded people might be critics of the commercial society. If commerce is at the heart of society, that means others things, including religion, are not, and it's worth thinking about what has been lost with the promotion of economic growth and opportunity. But it's not very likely that we're going to find something else to replace it and create a new "post-commercial" society, so it's better to think of ways to improve rather than replace commerce. It may not be very revolutionary or exciting but it's more achievable and actually quite likely if we re-learn what we've forgotten about wealth creation.
Part of this re-learning will mean re-learning what the Church teaches about poverty. It's tempting to turn poverty into a virtue, which would make wealth a bad thing or even a vice. If it's better to be poor than rich, why not make everyone poor? The best way to do this would be to return to a pre-commercial or feudal society with all its fixed hierarchies, landed aristocracies, primogeniture and few opportunities for growth and innovation. It would also mean less freedom and less security because the poor would be even more dependent on and envious of the rich than they are now. If you can't become rich by working, why not take it by stealing? Not a very good deal for the downtrodden. If we want to help the poor, it would mean helping them become non-poor and even wealthy, which means going into business. Again, not very dramatic but it works.
The question for Christians is how to be poor in spirit while being materially rich, because when we're creating wealth, we're helping others and we don't have the option of shutting down the commercial society in the name of the poor. We have to learn the spirit of detachment while living amidst the riches of the world, not an easy task but a possible one if we think about it correctly. And try.
All of the above is part of the PovertyCure [7] initiative, which has been perfectly timed with the election of Pope Francis. Parts of the documentary were filmed in Buenos Aires and describe what happens when the rule of law and private property are not respected. It's worth keeping this in mind when we hear Francis talk about inequality between rich and poor because one big reason the rich are rich and the poor are poor in Argentina is the missing rule of law there. Argentina has anything but a free economy, so helping the poor there, it would involve liberalizing rather than further restricting the economy, while needing pastors such as the former archbishop of Buenos Aires who is now our bishop and neighbor in Rome. We have to work together to ensure that Christianity and the free economy complement each other and thereby truly help the poor materially and spiritually, in word and deed.
A happy and blessed Easter season to all of you,
Kishore Jayabalan


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sam wiggin's 2011 recap.
Friday, December 30, 2011
got my hair did.
rolled in the leaves.
played with my boy iggy.
took trips with mom and dad.
mostly snuggled with dad.
hung out with mom in central park.
survived a hurricane.
rode in a lot of cars.
went to the beach, twice!
turned 3 years old.
modeled for a doggy magazine.
which later showed up on amazon.
i told mom she should make a list to recap her 2011, maybe make some goals, resolutions. but she's a lazy bum so i did it instead.
21 comments:
- The Egg said...
i love the first "got my hair did". i love when dogs get their summer dos!
- December 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Rebeka said...
Ha I love this! Sam Wiggins is the cutest. And, I agree with @The Egg, "Got my hair did" made me laugh. Ohhh sam!
- December 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- April said...
This is ADORABLE!
- December 30, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Ashley said...
Sounds busy! Always love the dog pictures!
- December 30, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- Stacee at Darling Kichaa said...
Hey Rebecca! Happy New Year to you! That Sam Wiggins sure had quite a year! Your blog is great, btw! I'm gonna check out some of your eats when I'm in NYC next, for antiques week. Take care!
- December 30, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Joanne said...
That puppy is just too cute. Seriously.
And Sam was quite adventurous in 2011! Here's to more awesomeness in 2012!
- December 31, 2011 at 7:49 AM
- Shoko said...
What a great year for Sam Wiggins! Here's to an even better 2012 :)
- December 31, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- rebecca said...
it should be noted that sam looks drunk in this pic.
- December 31, 2011 at 6:11 PM
- Felicity said...
So glad that you're onto it SW, a list like this does need to be celebrated.
Hoping that you and your humans have a corker of a year to come.
Happy waves from across the seas,
Felicity x
- December 31, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- Gaby [The Vault Files] said...
Honestly, your dog is just damn perfect, he looks like one of those very real looking plush toys ;) So adorable! Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 1:42 AM
- Pacheco Patty said...
Seriously the cutest dog I've laid eyes on!
- January 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Susan said...
Billy saw this and just had to do the same...he mentions Sam! ;)
- January 2, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Lottie said...
I hope that when I eventually have a dog, he talks and writes blog posts. And I hope he is cute and cool as Sam Wiggins.
- January 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM
- Ashleigh said...
I am dying - this is so cute!!
xx Ash
- January 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- hila said...
so adorable! and look at that puppy face :)
- January 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM
- la petite coquine said...
Sam's got the best life.
- January 3, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- Monica Lee said...
omigoodness, he is the cutest doggie ever! Don't tell my doggies I said that!
- January 7, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Lindsay said...
Awwwwww, that dog is the CUTEST.
- January 9, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- kitchu said...
Oh Sam. You da bomb.
- January 20, 2012 at 11:49 PM
- ginanorma said...
I can't take it with your pooch,! I have a Apricot BichonPoo but we use to have a Golden-doodle!
He is SOSO cute and darling, love him !!! And he's a model, it doesn't get any better than that. I love his re-cap. I need to do that with my dog on my blog LOL
- January 22, 2012 at 1:37 AM
- Jazz said...
This is amazing.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:18 PM


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Going from Prairie Ridge to the University of Missouri was a big leap for wrestler Zach Synon.
"It was like being thrown into a bigger pond," he said. "I realized that I had to get a lot better. When I first came in, I knew I had my work cut out for me."
After spending a season as a redshirt for the NCAA Division I Tigers, Synon is hoping a strong offseason makes him a bigger fish in that pond.
Synon will compete June 21 to 23 at the Fila Junior World Team Trials in Stillwater, Okla., in the 132-pound freestyle class. Top finishers at the event – which includes standout wrestlers from across the country ages 17 to 20 – will qualify for a chance to represent the U.S. from Aug. 13 to 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the world championships.
"I'm really excited to compete with the best of the best," Synon said. "At the very least, it'll be a great learning experience for me."
Synon won the 132-pound freestyle division at last month's Northern Plains Regionals in Waterloo, Iowa, to qualify for the World Team Trials.
The freestyle competition this summer has been a major boost for Synon.
"[I've improved] my skill level and been able to compete with better guys," he said.
Synon is used to competing in freestyle events, something he did as a youth with the Cary Matmen program.
"It's more fast-paced," Synon said. "You have to be a little more careful because you can get a lot of points scored against you real fast. I've competed in freestyle events since I was a kid. I kind of pick right up where I left off when I was in sixth and seventh grade."
Synon's biggest gains this offseason have been in his offensive skills.
"My big thing that I'm working on is having more attacks off of my feet," he said. "I have a go-to move, but I need to mix it up a lot more."
During the college season, Synon finished 19-8 while competing as a redshirt at 141 pounds. He placed second in two of the five tournaments he competed in this season.Synon said he hopes his work this offseason pays off with a spot in the Missouri starting lineup at 125 next season.
"If I keep working hard like I have been, I think that spot could be mine," he said. "My coaches have mentioned how much I've improved over these last few weeks."
Super Star Mahoney: D-III Dominican University senior softball pitcher Emily Mahoney (Crystal Lake South) was honored Monday as the school's Female Athlete of the Year.
While posting a 21-8 record and a 1.95 ERA as a pitcher, Mahoney broke the school's career strikeout record this season and tallied nine shutout wins.
She was voted to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's All-Great Lakes Region First Team and the Northern Athletics Conference's Pitcher of the Year.
At the plate, Mahoney hit .348 for the Stars. In the opening round of the NAC Tournament, she pitched the first perfect game in school history in an 8-0 victory against Wisconsin Lutheran.
For the season, she ranked in the top 10 nationally in strikeouts, shutouts and strikeouts per seven innings.
Polk picks up all-conference: Crystal Lake Central grad Alex Polk earned honorable mention All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors last month in the javelin at the MIAC outdoor men's track and field meet in St. Paul.
Polk, a sophomore at D-III Carleton College who also plays safety and punter on the school's football team, placed sixth in the MIAC meet with a personal-best throw of 171 feet, 3 inches.
Polk was named MIAC Field Event Athlete of the Week on April 23 after a second-place performance (160-4) in the Carleton Relays. A week later, he won the event with a throw of 147-7 at Carleton's Rolex Classic meet.
Harper slugger Miguel: Jacobs grad Mike Miguel earned first-team All-Region IV honors in baseball this spring at NJCAA Harper College after batting .359 for the Hawks.
A freshman designated hitter for the Hawks, Miguel compiled a .456 on-base percentage and nine RBIs for Harper (20-22). The team finished one victory away from the school's first trip the NJCAA Division III World Series.
CCAC standouts: Catcher Johnny Amann, a senior at NAIA Judson University, was named to the All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference second team on May 31.
Amann, a Jacobs grad, batted .274, scored a team-best 53 runs and drove in 36 runs for a Judson baseball team that finished 46-17 and broke a school record with an 18-game winning streak this spring. The Eagles also won the CCAC regular-season and tournament championships thanks in part to Amann's team-best .492 on-base percentage.
Prairie Ridge grad T.J. Swank, a senior pitcher, made the CCAC's Gold Glove Team. This season, Swank posted an 8-2 record with a 2.92 ERA while not committing an error all season.
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Make sure no branches or trees snap and land on or near your camaro! When I lived in washington state, anytime there was a big storm with wind I always was strategic with where I had to park my cars outside because of falling branches/trees.
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A good indicator of the level of artistic integrity that exists in Hollywood is the amount of scripts that get recycled. I don't mean stuff like "Oh, Avatar is just The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie with blue people" (even though it definitely is, goddammit) -- I'm talking about when they take a random script, change all the names, and turn it into Rambo 7 or something. Or vice versa: Maybe it started as Rambo 7 and they turned it into a "new" movie with Jason Statham. The point is, they don't give a shit about the intention of the original writer, unless said intention was "make me lots of money." Which it probably was, so forget what I said.
Other Cracked columnists have already told you about how Die Hard started as a sequel to Schwarzenegger's Commando (and Frank Sinatra's The Detective), while Van Damme's Cyborg would have been a He-Man movie if not for Spider-Man. Yes, I did want to use those movies in this article before finding out they'd already been used, but no, I'm not bitter about it. Anyway, those examples are stupid and suck compared to these ones ...
4 Alien Is Based on the Wacky Sci-Fi Comedy Dark Star
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John Carpenter's Dark Star ends with an astronaut surfing in space as country music plays, so yes, I think that counts as wacky. For those who haven't seen it, Dark Star is a low-budget 1974 sci-fi comedy about blue collar workers in a spaceship, and sorry for spoiling the ending just now. It's also the blueprint for Ridley Scott's Alien, and not because the plots are kinda similar -- it's because the writer of both movies, Dan O'Bannon, straight up said Alien was "Dark Star as a horror movie instead of a comedy."
In fact, there's even an early version of the monster from Alien in Dark Star. Here it is:
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It went from a ball to a phallus, but then again, didn't we all at some point?
If that looks like a beach ball with claws, that's because that's literally what it is. A beach ball, two claws, and some glue were the only special effects Dark Star's budget could afford for the space monster who hides in the ship in the second act of the movie. O'Bannon and his writing partner Ronald Shusett later took that second act (and the whole thing about the blue collar workers stuck in space for a long time and occasionally being cryogenically frozen) and expanded it into a full script, also using ideas from an earlier story O'Bannon had written about gremlins causing shenanigans in a World War II plane.
However, "It's like this obscure movie I did, but scary!" is a harder pitch to sell than you might think, so O'Bannon avoided starvation by getting involved in other projects, like this thing called Star Wars and Alejandro Jodorowsky's doomed Dune adaptation. It was on Dune that O'Bannon hooked up with Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who eventually revamped the beach ball with claws into the hideous dick monster we all know and love.
Th-thank you?
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While on the subject of Dicks: I mentioned Ron Shusett, who helped O'Bannon with the script that would become Alien. At the same time, O'Bannon was helping Shusett with a project of his own, an adaptation of a story called We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by cult (read: poor) author Philip K. Dick. It took a little longer to get this one off the ground, but it did finally come out in 1990 with a shorter title: Total Recall. Yes. That's right. The obscure original version of the Colin Farrell classic.
To further complicate matters, Total Recall itself almost had a sequel based on another Philip K. Dick story, or Dickstory, called ... Minority Report, which later got recycled into a Tom Cruise thing (the precogs were supposed to be Martian mutants). Oh, and because these people never let a single idea go to waste, O'Bannon's "gremlins in World War II" script I mentioned above ended up in the animated movie Heavy Metal, only with zombies.
So, to recap, all these movies came (at least partially) from two unknown, starving writers sitting in a room in the mid-'70s:
Bryanston Distributing, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures
On the one hand, that's $2 billion. On the other, that last row.
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Trying to imagine Beverly Hills Cop without Eddie Murphy is as hard as it is pointless, since there's no way anyone would give a shit about this film if Murphy wasn't in it. Good thing we don't have to imagine that, then, because the movie did (sort of) get made again with the guy who almost played the main character instead of Murphy. Here he is:
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Wha? How? When? Calm down and I'll tell you. The Beverly Hills Cop project dates back to the mid-'70s, when a Paramount executive got stopped by an officer in Hollywood and thought that was just the most hilarious thing. "A cop? Where the rich people live? What will they think of next?" The project went through several iterations, until Sylvester Stallone finally signed up to play the main character, but he had a few notes on the script, by which I mean that he rewrote the whole fucking thing. He renamed the character Axel Cobretti ("Foley" wasn't sufficiently Stallonesque), killed off Judge Reinhold's character for dramatic effect, and added D-Day levels of violence. That's his comparison, not mine.
However, only two weeks before the movie started filming, Paramount decided Stallone's script was too expensive, and Sly bailed. Eddie Murphy was brought in at the last moment, and since the script was still being hastily rewritten while the scenes were being shot, that gave him ample space to improvise his own lines, and the rest is movie magic.
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They had to remove all those references to the LA sun being bad for Axel's pale complexion.
After that, Stallone took all his ideas for the gritty version of Beverly Hills Cop and turned them into another movie called Cobra (you know, because the main dude's name is Cobretti). Since he couldn't use the "out-of-town cop moves to LA" plot anymore, he filled in the gaps by adapting a crime novel called Fair Game -- which Cinemax watchers of the '90s might recognize as the basis for that 1995 Cindy Crawford/Billy Baldwin soft-core action flick of the same name. Yes, the one with the train fucking scene. I forgot what we were talking about.
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Oh, right. Thanks to Beverly Hills Cop's last minute change, the movie's producers, Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, accidentally ended up with a winning formula: young black cops in sunny settings shooting guns and improvising funny one-liners. When they left Paramount in the '90s, they just replaced Eddie Murphy with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and continued cranking out sequels and making big bucks with Bad Boys. Except that, no, there's no formula, because Bad Boys was a total accident, too: It was originally written for non-black, non-young Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz (they were both around 40).
As a consolation prize, Carvey and Lovitz did end up making a movie with Bad Boys' writer, George Gallo, called Trapped in Paradise.
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With Nicolas Cage thrown in for extra WTFs.
Here's all you need to know about this movie: Lovitz calls it "Trapped in Shit." That's the same Jon Lovitz from City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, by the way.


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GMC moving investments away from fossil fuel companiesMay 14,2013By Lucia Suarez
POULTNEY — Green Mountain College joins a growing movement of colleges and universities that are moving their investments away from fossil fuel companies.
Last Friday, the college's Board of Trustees approved to divest it's endowment from 200 publicly-trade companies which hold most of the world's known coal, oil and gas reserves. The decision, announced Tuesday, aligns the college with its strategic plan "Sustainability2020" that commits the college to socially responsible investments.
"We see this as another step in an ongoing effort to connect our investment decisions with our ideals," said college President Paul Fonteyn, in a statement.
"Investing endowment funds on the basis of social, economic and environmental criteria is one of the ways Green Mountain College expresses its values."
With this decision, GMC becomes the second higher education institution in Vermont to divest from fossil fuels. Earlier this year, the board of trustees at Sterling College in Craftsbury Commons voted to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies.
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Hi my daughter aged 13 has just been referred to the Stanmore under Mr Lehovsky, we are due to see him on 20th March. The doctor that referred her said that due to the increase in her curves ( last measured in December at 33 degrees) she will need to be braced within the next few months.
I wonder if anyone can offer any advice regards bracing and what to expect at her first appointment with Mr Lehovsky. Also if anyone can suggest questions that would be useful to ask at this appointment. My daughter stands very straight at the moment and her back muscles are pretty strong due to her training between 5 and 8 hours per week in gymnastics. Does anyone know if it will be ok for her to continue with this as she would be extremely upset if she had to give it up as a result.
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Visitors cautiously avoid crosswalks
A cloud of dust hovered over the Greene and Front streets intersection Tuesday morning as a Marietta streets crew continued to prepare for replacement of three brick pedestrian crosswalks along Front Street with a more durable brick-stamped concrete surface.
Traffic -both vehicle and pedestrian -was heavy as people flocked downtown to see the American Queen riverboat at the Ohio River Levee.
Among those sightseers were Marietta residents Angela Martin and her two children.
"We planned ahead and parked on one side of Front Street so we wouldn't have to cross back and forth on our way to see the American Queeen," Martin said.
All three pedestrian crosswalks in the 100 and 200 blocks of Front Street have been cordoned off with yellow caution tape. Many people cautiously navigated around those areas and through oncoming traffic in order to cross the street Tuesday.
Jodie Leach of Waterford was also in town for a glimpse of the American Queen. She appreciated that the work had to be done.
"It would have been nice if they could have kept real brick in the crosswalks, but I can see that economically this project makes sense for the city, and they're trying to keep it looking like real brick," she said. "I like to see the brickwork here in town. I think it's a good reminder of our past."
The stamped concrete will replace the current crosswalks that were installed using real bricks during a $515,000 resurfacing and pedestrian safety upgrade project along Front Street in 2009.
Brick-stamped concrete was originally recommended for the crosswalks by the city engineer's office in 2009, but concerns were expressed by some downtown property owners that the red stamped concrete would not look like brickwork, so real bricks were used on a total of seven Front Street crosswalks.
Within the first year the brick walks began to loosen and deteriorate, and in 2012 city council approved replacement with stamped concrete.
Last year four of the most damaged crosswalks, located at the intersection of Front and Butler streets, were replaced with stamped concrete by Design-Crete of Marietta. The company was also awarded the stamped concrete contract for the remaining three Front Street crosswalks that will be completed over the next 10 to 12 days.
Eric Lambert, project manager with the city engineering department, said it was difficult to schedule the project so that it would not interfere with summer events taking place in downtown Marietta.
"There's something going on almost every week here, and we were definitely trying to avoid doing the work during the week of the Sternwheel Festival," he said. "We've been planning this since the end of May and early June, and have tried to work in between the festivals as well as the monthly Merchants and Artist Walks."
City streets crews are removing the old brickwork and preparing the crosswalk subgrades. Design-Crete is expected to begin pouring the new stamped concrete today.
City streets superintendent Todd Stockel said two-way traffic will be maintained throughout the project, and, weather-permitting, Front Street will be open to normal traffic flow by Aug. 12.


text: OK ladies, ds is now 12.5 months and all of the sudden nursing, many times through out the day is pretty painful! This is strange to me BC I feel like I have had a pretty easy time nursing him. Sometimes when he comes off there are teeth marks on my nipples. He does not take a paci or any bottles, just a sippy cup through out the day. I am finding myself encouraging him to nurse a shorter time when I am feeding him bc it really is sore. I do take him off and try to re-latch him, sometimes this helps but then the soreness comes back? Anyone else had this? Any ideas? Thank you as always!


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After agreeing on three finalists, HCCŌĆÖs board of trustees sent its list to the state in February to be vetted and OKŌĆÖd per state policy. The state has now sent the finalists names back to HCC, and all that is left now is for the board of trustees to vote on their appointment for the next president of HCC. However, it is unknown whether the board will vote at its next meeting or call a special meeting.
ŌĆ£I canŌĆÖt give a date,ŌĆØ said Trustee Richard Lanning. ŌĆ£We just want to make sure we get behind that person whoever it is.ŌĆØ
The board of trustees began looking for a new president last year after former HCC President Rose Johnson announced her impending retirement. A search company was hired, and the pool of applicants was narrowed.
After the college agreed on three finalists, their names were made public, and they were even invited to HCC to meet with stakeholders. But in the end, the trustees could not agree on whom to hire and voted to start the search process over.
This time around, the board of trustees has kept everything under wraps ŌĆö not announcing the finalists or holding any public meetings for employees, student and community members to meet them.
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Hulu's Future Depends On Which Company Buys It
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Multiple companies — from Time Warner Cable to Yahoo — are said to be interested in acquiring Hulu. The site streams TV shows and movies online. Some shows on Hulu are free, but paid subscribers get access to more programming.


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By Judy Sedbrook, Colorado Master GardenerSM, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Denver County
Evergreens are most commonly used to brighten the winter landscape, but deciduous trees can offer multi-season interest as well. Many have fragrant spring blooms and colorful fruit or berries in summer. Others are noted for the brilliantly colored foliage they display each fall. Trees with an eye-catching form or attractive bark can break the monotony of a dreary winter landscape.
Whether renovating an existing garden or designing a new one, think ahead. Does your plan provide for year-round interest? Most gardens are planted with only spring and summer in mind. Little thought is given to making the garden equally attractive in fall and winter.
The well-planned garden includes a variety of plants. Of these, trees are often the most visible during the colder months.
In making selections for the garden this year, consider trees that offer visual appeal in more than one season. The following are a few that have adapted well to our unique growing conditions.
Seasonal Photos can be seen by clicking on the name of each tree:
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Imagine a land of stark contrasts: ocean and desert, cactus and pine, teeming seas and sparse shores.
This is the Baja Peninsula, a land of unique wilderness opportunity. NOLS Mexico is the home of our ocean-based programs where you can learn how to sea kayak and sail as well as backpack.
You'll learn about the rich diversity of this marine ecosystem, about the whales and sea birds and fish that call this place home. There will also be occasion to interact with the people of Baja California. We provide educational opportunities for local educators, students, and land managers, as well as financial aid and scholarships for NOLS courses in both Spanish and English.
We have a long-standing partnership with the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, collaborating with their departments of marine biology, geology, and alternative tourism.
We have been off the grid in Coyote Bay near Mulegé in central Baja for over 30 years, and our high-tech, low-impact facility was specifically designed to meet the needs of our students.


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Watch teachings on meditation
Sogyal Rinpoche explains that there is much more to meditation than saying mantras and burning incense.
Sogyal Rinpoche explains how the 'calm abiding' of shamatha and the 'clear seeing' of vipashyana can lead to the realization of the nature of mind.
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"The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment."
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death.
The booklet, Natural Great Peace, compliments the instructions given in this chapter.
The link below gives details of some recent scientific research which has shown that meditation can have a significant impact on the function of the brain.


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Case Study Using English Records
Learn from this case study about what we can now do in 30 minutes that may have taken 30 days before. Jan tracks down family information online.
Researching Maximilian Parker, the father of Butch Cassidy, using the Internet, Lancashire England records, and LDS records.
Overseas Births, Marriages and Deaths: Records in The National Archives
There is no single place to find all the birth, marriage and death records of the British overseas. However, The National Archives holds a substantial number of them, in a variety of record collections. This talk looks at civilian and military registers kept by the British authorities, and by churches, consulates and other bodies abroad. Please note that this talk does not include events at sea, which are the subject of a separate talk. Speaker Keith Mitchell joined The National Archives ten years ago and specialises in overseas birth, marriage and death records.
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Tracing Marriages in 18th Century England and Wales: A Reassessment of Law and Practice
The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 marked an important development in the history of marriage by putting the requirements for a valid marriage on a statutory basis for the first time. But what was the situation before 1753, and what practical impact did the Act have on popular practice? This thorough reassessment of law and practice is of particular relevance to those tracing their ancestors. First, the universality of formal marriage increases the likelihood that a record of an ancestor's marriage will exist somewhere; secondly, parish-level studies provide us with a clearer idea of where one may need to look for a marriage; and, thirdly, success or failure in tracing a marriage can be set within the context of the marriage law and practice of the time.


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Varies by solicitation; check website for Public Notices Requests for Proposals
The Michigan Energy Office (MEO), within the Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE), provides funding for energy efficiency activities on a recurring basis, subject to availability of funds. Eligible projects may include activities such as providing education/outreach and technical assistance to communities and businesses on energy efficiency topics, utility bill analysis and Energy Star benchmarking, energy evaluations and audits, demonstrations of commercially available energy efficiency technologies, and/or other activities that promote energy efficiency as an affordable, reliable, adaptable, and environmentally protective energy solution. Grant award amounts vary according to each individual solicitation. Those interested in participating should contact Mathew Thomas or Roger Doherty at the Michigan Energy Office for additional details.


text: Da f*ck kind of thread is this? Man it's bad enough when people attention whore the fact they're leaving. Now they get counseling? It's not a change or religion it's not that serious. Most new Nyets fans are going to be in a rude awakening when that ticking time bomb explodes anyhow and will likely crawl anyhow.... And the Rockets are going to scrape the bottom of the barrel next season themselves.


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Little Folk Singer
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This plum colored tank is inspired by Ani's nickname and features a playful guitar with "little folksinger" printed on the front and the signature babe logo with a cute heart deatil on the back.
Also printed on a purple t-shirt version to replace the tank top that they no longer make. (Not Photographed)
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Evolve lure designers studied the habits of both predator and prey to develop the revolutionary Evolve Original Pulse Frog. Designed to trigger strikes, even in heavily pressured habitats, its a finesse topwater spitter - not a strictly walk-the-dog bait. Its ultra realistic hand painted color schemes, combined with Peepers in-depth eyes, and premium, natural-toned skirting, offer a lifelike presentation bass have trouble resisting.
Durable as well, its solid hard plastic body construction with an internal rattle chamber also stands up to bass after bass. Available in several killer colors and equipped with premium, micro-honed sticky sharp twin weedless Japanese hooks, Evolve recommends using a steady retrieve with constant, light rod twitches when fishing the Original Pulse Frog. Use a medium to medium heavy rod with 10-15lb line. Pause. Repeat. And hold on.
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Comments: I also posted feedback on the Species frog. I really like this bait. Easy to use, solid hook ups and catches big fish. I've only had a chance to fish it on post spawn fish. Try working it around sunfish/ bream beds. Those bigger post spawn females love any easy meal and the Pulse frogs worked great for me. 30lb test braid and a flipping stick will ensure you get 'em to the boat. I can't wait to try them on some of our heavy slop lakes once the summer heats up.
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Guanajuato prepares move; Mr. Webo to take place
The last day of service for Guanajuato Mexican Restaurant at 2301 S. Howell Ave. will be Dec. 11. The opening date at its new home down the block, 2317 S. Howell Ave., will be announced later, the restaurant said on Facebook.
Once it moves out of 2301, a new Mexican restaurant, Mr. Webo, will start renovating so it can move in. »Read Full Blog Post
Times Cinema to reopen Dec. 28
The Times Cinema will reopen Friday with floodlight hitting the skies, a red carpet purportedly filled with paparazzi and "Django Unchained" on the screen.
The Times, at 5906 W. Vliet St., has been closed since March, when the lender for the building and other properties, including the Rosebud Cinema in Wauwatosa, began foreclosure proceedings. Investor Lee Barczak, who owns the Avalon Theatre property in the Bay View neighborhood, bought the Times and Rosebud at a foreclosure auction in May, and reopened the Rosebud in August »Read Full Article(1)
A Free Playlist of Country Christmas Favorites
As the Christmas holiday approaches this week, I pulled together a Spotify playlist of my 30 favorite Christmas tunes for Country music fans to enjoy while wrapping last-minute presents, entertaining with family or heading out to your holiday get-togethers. This list spans the genre's generations with classics from the likes of Jim Reeves, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Gene Autry and Kitty Wells and updated holiday hits from Toby Keith, Kellie Pickler, Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, Brad Paisley and many more. Did I miss your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
I also tossed the music video of Kenny Rogers and Parton's "A Christmas to Remember" at the end of this post. The song isn't available on Spotify, but that's okay because the music video is so pricelessly unique that you just need to watch it to get the full experience. Check out Kenny and Dolly singing together in a ski lodge filled with stiff mannequins from a 1980s Christmas special. There's no explanation needed - it's just one of those quirky Christmas moments! »Read Full Blog Post


text: My DS hasn't had a bowel movement for 7 days now! He is very gassy though. When I pull his legs up to his ears he gets very red- almost like he is straining. He has also been waking up every 2 hours at night. He is 3 months old and having PLENTY of wet diapers! What should I do?


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2 men charged in Conn. murderNovember 20,2012NEW LONDON, Conn. New London police say two men face charges in the 2006 killing of a 32-year-old man found shot to death in the doorway of a local cafe.
Police say Darius K. Armadore Sr. and Gerjuan Tyus face charges including murder in the death of Todd Thomas. Both men are serving prison sentences on unrelated charges.
Armadore was ordered held on a $1 million bond at his arraignment Monday in New London Superior Court. Tyus is expected to be arraigned Tuesday.
The 30-year-old Thomas was shot in the head in December 2006. An arrest warrant affidavit detailing the case against the suspects, both 32-years-old, is sealed for two weeks.
Armadore is serving a sentence for violating a protective order.
Tyus is in prison after being convicted of the carrying or sale of a dangerous weapon.MORE IN NewsNarration and audio production by RH Alcott Full StoryNarration and audio production by RH Alcott Full Story
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