text: LONDON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson teams up with Futurologist Ian Pearson to predict the technological innovations for kids' entertainment on holiday in 2030 Leading holiday company Thomson has teamed up with renowned futurologist Ian Pearson to uncover the technology trends and innovations that are expected to be adopted at holiday Kids Clubs in the future. In addition, it has also commissioned new research to understand what types of technology children and parents would like to see at kids clubs in the future. As technology evolves, it is clear that children are very comfortable using new gadgets, with 85% of kids stating they regularly play on iPhones and iPads and over a third (38%) claiming they often use mobile apps. That's why, Thomson, which takes one million children on holiday each year, understands the importance of providing high-tech kids with activities that encourage them to interact with one another, as well as learn new skills. The research also revealed that nearly three quarters (70%) of kids would like to use technology on holiday to practice new skills and experience new activities. With 69% of parents agreeing that this was something that their children would enjoy, Thomson was keen to work with futurologist Ian Pearson, to understand the future of Kids Clubs. In his report, Ian has identified four key predictions set to take the world of kid's entertainment by storm by 2030. 1. Building a Fantasy World 2030 Prediction: Using over-eye visors that can be worn like a hat or active contact lenses and pre-programmed content on remote computers, children will be able step into fantastical new worlds together. As well as creating new virtual environments around them, kids will also interact with each other and the creatures, people and characters that inhabit their new virtual world If they were learning about creatures of the deep-sea and the world around them was the ocean, they could pull fish closer to them by performing a reeling in motion with gesture recognition technology.


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Teachers use PowerPoint a lot! But how many use it well? How many of you have been students in a class during which the professor bored you with slide after slide of text?
What type of presentations do the students of these teachers create when they go out into the world and get a job? Faculty are starting to change, but there's still a lot of Death by PowerPoint in the educational arena.
Watch excerpts from my talk to faculty (of Maharishi University of Management) on "Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes."
Click here to get the handout I created for the talk. It contains my slides, notes, and a list of academic research relevant to presenting to students.
If you're a teacher, what is your experience presenting to students? What are other teachers in your school doing?
If you're a student (or were one recently), did you learn valuable presentation skills at school? Or was Death by PowerPoint the norm?

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In case you were confused about what the Nobel Prize winners for physics had actually done to deserve their award, the brilliant MinutePhysics YouTube channel has provided a 2-minute, 35-second animation discussing the ideas for which they won.
Basically, the winners discovered a way to measure a photon of light without the photon getting absorbed. There's even some fun stuff about Schrodinger's cat, our favorite physics cat ever.
Congratulations to the Nobel winners!
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
Watch some more cool videos: Current video game characters battle old-school 8-bit rivals Nokia admits faking phone video Watch a robot turn into a car without Michael Bay's assistance Sherlock Holmes is really good at Blue's Clues Watch this preview of Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out


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Morena Baccarin Fronts Los Angeles Confidential September 2013
With Showtime's "Homeland" set to make its season three debut on September 29th, Morena Baccarin graced the cover of Los Angeles Confidential's September 2013 issue.
While donning designer duds from Cushnie et Ochs and Miriam Salat for the Gavin Bond-shot spread, the 34-year-old actress chatted about her successful series and reveals how DC's elite react to "Homeland."
Check out a few highlights from Miss Baccarin's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Los Angeles Confidential!
On expecting her first child:
"I am not going to be pregnant on the show."
On Joe Biden's interest in the series:
"Apparently, in his Monday morning security meetings, Vice President Biden will talk about the show, how realistic it is. I was floored by that-here are the leaders of our nation talking about our show!"
On "Homeland's" Success:
"You pinch yourself for a long time. Every time our season comes out, I kind of feel like, 'Okay- this is the one that everybody's going to hate. This is where we go to, like, being the show that everybody doesn't like...' And then it doesn't seem to happen."
On her frequent nude scenes:
"I had my boundaries, and I had to have a conversation with myself about where I wanted to be true to the material and also to myself. There were things that I wouldn't do and certain levels of nudity that I was not comfortable with, and I was really blunt with them about it."
On her past struggles:
"Being different is something that eventually helps you and singles you out. I remember seeing a squirrel for the first time in school and not knowing how to say it in English, saying it in Portuguese, and everybody kind of looking at me really strangely. It rocks your world. Moving countries is a huge, traumatic experience, but at the same time it made me really adaptable and really fearless."
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AG against horsemeat
A statement made by New Mexico Attorney General Gary King, Monday, that claimed horsemeat processing within the state was illegal, was nothing more than an opinion and ultimately holds no legal weight, h[auth] is spokesman said Tuesday.
"His opinion does not carry the force of law in New Mexico," said Attorney spokesman Phil Sisneros. "No AG's does."
But the fact that King—a Democrat— faces leaving office next year and plans to run for governor may be key in his decision to continue public opinions on the national issue of Valley Meat Co.'s plans.
King said in the statement: "Our legal analysis concludes that state law does not allow for production of meat that is chemically tainted under federal regulations. New Mexico law is very clear that it would be prohibited and illegal."
The plant has become a lightning rod for politicians across the country. National and state leaders have thrown down on the issue in an attempt to halt the practice before it starts, while owner Rick De Los Santos continues to wait for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve its permit for inspection.
De Los Santos' attorney, A. Blair Dunn, said Valley Meat Co. is not concerned with King's collection of policy facts but the political impacts to King's actions are concerning.
"There is no legal significance to his opinion," Dunn said. "There is nothing that we don't have a test for and we don't watch to make sure those residues show up.
On a political landscape there are ramifications to what he is saying," Dunn said. "He discusses all these things that are administered to a spectrum of animals in animal agriculture.
"For him to make some sort of broad, sweeping, generalized statement … he could shut down the entire dairy industry in Roswell. He could shut down the entire cattle industry across the state," Dunn said. "It just was not a smart thing for him to have done. It's unwarranted."
King's spokesman said that although King has future political plans after his term ends, he did not believe politics played a part in the AG's continued public statements against horsemeat.
"His family has been in ranching his entire life," Sisneros said. "He has had these views his entire career as a public servant. Politics has nothing to do with it."
King's father, former Gov. Bruce King, owned an expansive ranch east of Albuquerque, Sisneros said. King also earned a doctorate degree in chemistry.
"I mean, he should know," Sisneros said.
However, in King's findings that were attached to his opinion, he sites the Food and Drug Administration, the USDA, a Scientific Journal article, a News-Medical Net web-site, and a citation from Webster's Dictionary.
Sisneros said he could not recall when King had last visited Roswell.
"That, I don't know," Sisneros said. "I'm not sure when his last trip to Roswell was but he frequents the entire state very much so throughout the year."
King is not against new business, but Valley Meat's idea to slaughter horses is not in good taste for New Mexico, Sisneros said.
"No. 1, this plant will probably employ a total of maybe 20 people, so we're not talking about a huge industry," he said. "No. 2, I think the issue itself overshadows that possibility. But it doesn't mean that he is in any way anti-jobs or anything like that of course. He is just the opposite. This particular business, it doesn't meet the criteria for a sustainable business that is actually palatable for this state or indeed most of the country.
People are not willing to be a part of horses being slaughtered for food no matter how many jobs it brings," he said.
The company actually expects to employ 40-50 people when it opens. By the end of its first year, that number should reach 100, Dunn said.
Valley Meat submitted its application for a grant of inspection to the USDA 15 months ago. The company filed a lawsuit in February against the USDA alleging it failed to comply with federal laws to provide inspection services.
Continued political wrangling at the federal level has delayed the permit, Dunn said.
"It has appeared (the USDA) has purposely dragged their feet in order to play politics with this issue to change a law they didn't like," Dunn said. "And, they have exposed the federal government to a liability of $8 million that is taxable income that could have come into Roswell, instead of acting legally and scientifically on it."
The 7,200-square-foot plant was inspected in late April but was later told a lawsuit filed by environmental groups required Clean Water Act reviews.
Monday, Valley Meat received a USDA notice to either certify that the plant will not discharge into U.S. waters or file for a Clean Water Act permit.
"It's never been a requirement," Dunn said. "The plant's been out there for 20 years. This is more bad faith by the USDA. But Valley Meat is going to go ahead and do it."
Dunn said he plans to file a letter with the USDA in hopes it satisfies the latest request. The plant was promised this letter would meet its final federal requirements in order to get the grant of inspection to begin operations.
"Of course, they said that a year ago," Dunn said. "We don't really believe them on that."
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Marcy Motorsport
Anyone from there on here or does anyone know how to reach them. Ive emailed them a few times and have tried calling all week and I get nothing?
oh no, not this again.
Keep trying to call him. He's a very busy guy.
I've religiously been calling 3 times a day almost every day since about...late January? I've tried calling from many different numbers, emails, email addresses, etc etc. No response.
I bought a red svtf rolling chassis from marcy back in...November I believe, maybe earlier.
However the shell was supposed to include a radiator w/ fan assembly, which I really needed. When Walter delivered the car to my house though he said that he forgot to bring the radiator along and that he would ship it out to me within the week.
Obviously that never happened. I completed the shell way back mid December and it still isn't running due to the missing radiator. I ended up buying one from a guy in Canada for $200 shipped, and it's on its way here now. However, I still want my freaking radiator from marcy. A deal is a deal, and that's really all there is to it.
I even tried calling him to see if I could make the 300 mile trip down there to pick the radiator up myself...no answer.
I've called at pretty much every hour of the day as well. Early morning, normal business hours, and even late night.
I think I last spoke to him in early January when he told me that he was having a family emergency (he explained the situation to me and he seemed to be telling the truth).
Since then I haven't heard of him.
I'm trying to think of alternative methods of action. Better Business Bureau? Maybe if there are enough people like me on the board that have been ripped by marcy we could take some kind of legal action? I'd rather see the whole ordeal settled outside of court, but this is just ridiculous.
Maybe people who feel they have been cheated by marcy should post up here.
Here's the email he sent me saying there was a radiator:
"Ill be in the shop tomorrow through Thursday, and I plan to take pictures then. The car was never in a collision. It has been stored outside. There are some minor dings, but nothing too serious, or in need of immediate attention. There is no rust. The wiring harness is fully intact. All that remains in the engine bay are the mounts, wiring, miscellaneous hoses and whatnot. There is a radiator and fan. It would be best if you had a donor car to get this car back on the road.
Walter Marcy
Marcy Motorsport
12504 Mountain Mesa Rd., Lake Isabella, CA, 93240
www.marcymotorsport.com "
He was really quick to respond up until I actually bought the car.[rolleyes]
^ i know how you feel. i didn't buy a car from him, but i bought my TB from MM. i called, emailed, called, called, emailed some more, and kept calling. took almost 3 months before i finally got it. it was only after i filed a complaint through paypal that it arrived at my door.
Marcy CAI
So, I'm not the only one who is being ripped off. I ordered a Marcy CAI in Jan. '07. I recieved an email telling me it was back ordered until March 16th as posted on the Marcy website. I responded that I would wait . March 16th has come and gone and I've heard nothing since. His phone goes right to a full 'mailbox'. There is no response to my emails. This was a first purchase from Marcy and will be my last. As far as I'm concerned he has stolen $175 from me. How can he think being "a little under the weather" is an excuse for non-performance and/or theft?
Wow I just posted my own thread today questioning Walter's location and was referred here...
So you mean to say that Marcy Motorsports has no staff or faculty to handle incoming orders? And if the owner of the shop is "under the weather" or has projects going around the shop, the whole place shuts down??? [?|]
I certainly don't blame Walter if he's been ill or had a family emergency. But if such an event shuts down his business indefinitely, he needs to make potential orderers aware of that on the website.
^ be safe and don't buy from him, unless you like to wait for months for your order
and yes, as far as i know, he IS the staff
I have nothing, but nice things to say about the guy! I bought a CAI from Walter. I chated with him for over an hour and 3 days later I had my CAI on my car!
Owning your own business is a bitch and you'll have NO time for nothing. Just be patient and you'll get GREAT results [;)].
I may have been a little harsh in my previous post but a short email acknowledging my order and a brief explanation/apology would go a long way toward building understanding. Hiding behind an unanswered phone and an email vacuum doesn't get it.
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About Rockhome`s 2nd Annual Car& Truck Cruise-In
Rockhome`s Car & Truck Cruise In 2nd Annual
Hosted by Rockhome Gardens & The Wheels Car Club
Where: Rockhome Gardens, Arcola, Illinois
Date: Saturday Sept 13th, 2008
Registration starts at 10am
Registration Fee: $10.00 (includes admission for the day)
Top 30 Awards + Best of Show
Dash plaques, Door prizes, music by DJ Todd Fultz@ 12&2, Heartland Cloggers@ 11,1 & 3, Rockhome Old-Fashioned Quilt Auction, Cowboy Camp & much more.
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (CDT)
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This is a really great idea. It focuses not only on Penn College but each major. Prospective students can actually see an example of the education we offer (what they can expect to receive) in a specific area of study. I hope that all classes can be shown.
The videos are excellent and a great way to provide prospective students with a look at their future careers!


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Removing Glued Down Hardwood
I came the the conclusion that you can't pay someone enough money to remove glued down hardwood strip flooring.
I removed about 90 sq. feet of floor in my kitchen and am still cleaning up the residual mastic.
After cutting the floor with a circular saw the removal job was accomplished with a chisel and a two pound hammer.
Each strip was removed by breaking the bond with the chisel and then popping it loose.
Often the strips seperated from their base and the remainer had to be chisled from the floor.
Each strip had kerfs about an inch apart to aid in bonding it to the concrete subfloor.
Now I'm working with a long handled floor scraper to remove the residual mastic... again this is slow, tedious work.
I would suggest if you have a large area to clear that you might want to explore using CO2 or DryIce to freeze the mastic and then chip it off easier. I tried a solvent but it was less than useless. I suspect that if you had access to a large horn C02 fire extinguisher you might be able to blast the floor one small area at a time and then scrap/chip the mastic off.
If anyone has a better idea now is the time to post....while I've still got about half of the floor to clean up.
Hi Glen, I would explore trying a different mastic removal solvent. Their are many on the market, and aside from a powered machine it's the only way it's done. The solvent will not help until it reaches the mastic so you will still need to chip off most of the flooring first but it will at least help clean up the remaining mess.
Good luck,
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Overheard In The Store Book
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Turns out you don't make money sending out funny things on Twitter! So we took our (somewhat) popular #overheardinthestore tweets and put them into a book. We even added some drawings.
Designed, printed and bound in the USA!
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Good Children's Educational Movies/Videos?
So....what would be on your list of good children's movies (ages 7 to 14) that are both educational and enjoyable....
Top of the list for me would be "How It's Made" (yes Creeper, it's a Canadian production).
When they were babies...."Little Einstein"
Any other suggestions?
Creeper has been banned again. Been there may nail me soon too. If politics do not match his, you are gone from this site.
Princess Bride is a great kids movie. So is the Robin Williams Peter Pan remake for over 3. Ants is an amazing animated film for all ages.
The colored version of the Original Wizard of Oz still scared nieces and nephews of mine and flying monkey still haunt me.
A bit older? What was the movie about racism where people started out in black and white but then ended up in full color as it went on and they learned things like there was life beyond their small town. Reese Witherspoon was in it.
4-14 is quite an age range to cover. I just liked going to films. We got in free during the miscile crisis in Cheyenne with bottle caps on milk delivery products. So we would run around and open the fans of offered products on delivery day. Our parents never said anything but enough bottle caps ended up for us to not have to duck and cover under desks weekends.
ET of course for all ages. Back to the Future ONE for a bit older.
Older kids will suggest they hate The Navigator but will not leave the viewing. It is about a kid who finds and steers a spaceship.
Born Free of course.
The Gods Must be Crazy is about a guy who marches a coke bottle to the end of the World.
Of course Babe circling sheep is both funny and educational.
What was the name of the animated film with the flying chickens?
I liked the film where the kids rescued the dogs an an antique hotel but I have a bias.
I could go on but it would be unfair. I built a Museum for the little tykes and researched just about any appropriate title out there.
Reading Rainbow has a view videos out that are good and encourage reading.
Vegitales for a more cartoony with a message series.
Trevor Romain has a video series that can help kids get through a variety of life's tough situations.
A lot of kids like the Dora and Diego videos.
If they are still young enough "Little Einsteins" is a great one for exposure to great composers, artists, and values.
If you want something that they will just like to watch there are a couple of movies called "Animusic" and "Animusic II". Google it.
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Skip the movies- give them a good book to read.
They'll hate it at first- but I bet they learn to enjoy reading
At 8pm the TV goes off and it's book time...but between 6 & 8 (assuming homework is done, they get to watch TV.
I'm looking for videos will actually teach them something...instead of watching crap like "Sponge Bob"....they have pretty much gone through the current batch of PBS specials.....
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Your children's librarian, by the way, should have many lists of recommended book and movie titles for kids.
It's so hard to find a decent tv show or movie that doesn't have a political or social message in it. And even harder to find one where the adults don't look and act like idiots and the kids are wiser than them.
I would suggest finding some of the old Lassie episodes, Andy Griffith, Mayberry RFD or almost any of the kids shows from that era. I remember watching those and learning a lot from them.
Vege Tales? Friend' son made high six figures working on that empire starting after college graduation. People he was working with, and lack of any consistent biblical accuracy scared him off. He is only making low six figures now even though they promised he would never work again.
I too remember many early television shows like Sky King, and Sea Hunt. Sea Hunt inspired me to get diving certification years later. I have a pilots license but for sailboats, not airplanes. I remember TV trays and horrible grilled canned salmon sandwiches but watching the Disney Hour as a family.
Once when it was still Canary Row, we spent a weekend exploring the tidepools of Pacific Grove and staying at the Beachcomber Motel in Monterey across from the Asilomar. I don't know how but it may still be sanding. And we went as a family to see Julie Andrews help a family escape into the Alps in a theater where the Monterey Aquarium is now. We got dragged to everything from museums to sporting events and concerts of all music genres as kids. Now a family can hardly afford one every few years! What a shame and terrible shift in thinking and funding priority.
Partly because it was California, we spent most of our time outside. It was not fashionable to be glued to a tv, video game, computer or whatever---yet.
We got the first color television of my life and I think it destroyed us. Each RGB color gun had to be adjusted individually since there was no common adjustment sent. So we would get up, over and over again, and all four of us would tweak color. And then the industry around us what start canning things and the tuner contacts would corrode.
There was no cable yet either so every weekend part of the ritual was to get up on the roof and adjust the antenna, as if we could improve on last weekend. Signals bounced off the hills so we saw two of everything. Finally antenna rotors came out so rooftop escapades stopped.
TV was so horrible we just did not watch it must I guess. We stopped going to movies as a family to though.
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Shout out to KevM3 & All The Coli Brehs
Me personally, I don't hate women. I hate how a lot of women ACT in this day and age. A woman that is feminine and holds her man down, that's a lovely thing. Who has a qualm against that? Not a soul.
Now let me clarify about 'indifference'. You should be indifferent towards low quality women who play games… but when actually dealing with a woman, you should NOT be indifferent towards her and her behavior. If you can't enjoy yourself and be passionate about your dealings with her, you shouldn't deal with her at all. For example, if you come across a woman that is playing all these little games, indifference would be you cutting all interactions with her short and not giving it a second thought. But when you are actually spending time WITH a woman, you don't want to be indifferent to her, or in other words, forcing yourself to be tolerant of her bad behaviors because you feel so privileged to have her company.
Men shouldn't tolerate putting up with that trash behavior. Refuse to deal with these broads that act like that and let them know their behavior sucks. If you have to be indifferent when dealing with something that you aren't forced to deal with, then don't deal with it, point blank. If I have to force myself to be indifferent to play a certain video game, that tells me the video game is wack and I'm forcing myself to play it for whatever reason. I don't HAVE to play video games, so I'm wasting my time playing a video game I have to be indifferent towards. Same thing with a woman. If I have to 'tolerate' her behavior, I don't need it.
One More Gem….
Honestly bruh, I just sit around and say, "Man this is real stupid." As much as you don't want to face the truth, the truth eventually rears its ugly head and you can't ignore it. You get much further in this day and age treating a woman like a ho than you do as someone who you consider anywhere near your equal and with a great deal of respect. If she gets the impression you hardly have any emotions for her, you rarely call her, she gets the impression a lot of other women are after you, etc… they go crazy for you… but you're one of those guys who always make time for your woman, who doesn't mind spending money on her and making sure she is taken care of, don't even look at other women to be respectful, she looks at you as some kind of lame to be taken advantage of. With most of these women, no matter which option you choose, you lose. You either try to live that smooth, drama-free life and have women think you are boring and end up cheating on you, or you turn yourself into a scumbag and act out of character to give her that little emotional roller coaster that she craves… and you end up having to deal with all of the emotional nonsense that comes with that while sacrificing your dignity in the process. Huge waste of time.
It's sad, but women react more to dudes that cheat on them and put them through an emotional ringer than the dude who keeps it drama free and is actually focused on BUILDING something for the future. Me personally, I don't have time to play these retarded games to keep a 'woman interested' lest I look over my back and she sleep with some other guy.
Look at the Tim Duncan situation… brought his woman a millionaire lifestyle to where she doesn't have to work another day in her life. He's not a criminal, nobody has a bad word to say about the guy… but she throws it all away for a personal trainer. Doesn't show a modicum of gratitude for the lifestyle she was able to experience due to Tim. Obviously you are going to have a ho sympathizer come out the cuts talking about, "You don't know what they were going through with their relationship! Maybe he wasn't paying enough attention to her!" Man if not being paid enough attention or whatever minor excuse is used to justify a broad's cheating was allowed for a man, a man would be cheating all and every day and never be at fault. On the other hand, you look at the baltimore prison, where ONE prisoner slept with 11 women, getting 4 of them pregnant… and they were actually helping out his little operation. You see how stupid that is?
NEVER make a woman's living for her. As soon as you upgrade her too much, she won't show gratitude… she will take off with your wealth, leave you in the dust and rush off to another guy. If not for Jesus, I would be a completely different guy and taking advantage of the situation at hand because it's really not difficult to use what I know to make attempts at personal gain off of a woman, but instead, I'd much rather retain my morals and character and instead focus my energies on more positive pursuits.


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"The memoir of the yeara book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes." -New York Times
Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to receive his PhD when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full radiation, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, and the ruthless grasping for life and sensation; the encounter with beautiful Ariel, who gives him cocaine and a blow job in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed.
Moving effortlessly between references to Don Giovanni and the Rolling Stones, Ezra Pound and Buffalo Bill, and studded with pages from his own diaries and hospital notebooks,[sic] is a mesmerizing, hallucinatory glimpse into a young man's battle against disease and a celebration of art, language, music, and life.
Audience: General
Format: Audio CD
Language: English
Published: 27th May 2014
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 13.7 x 16.3 x 1.8
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"Mary Blotter!" the wizard yelled from his high throne in the lunchroom. "Approach the sorting shoes!"
Mary swallowed as she began to walk forward. This was it! This was the big decision! She looked around the room at all the students and wondered what it would be like in just a minute from now, when the decision had been made. Would she be a Razer Diamondback Salamander or a Razer Diamondback Chameleon Gaming Mouse?
Of course, the choice was out of her hands. Even her new friends, Herman and Rhonda, had no influence over the sorting shoes. Mary felt her heart jump as she realized that they could even be assigned different mice! What would become of their friendship? If Rhonda was a Red Salamander, and Herman was a Green Chameleon! How could they find anything in common when all they shared was 1600dpi optical sensor with On-The-Fly Sensitivity™ adjustment, Seven independently programmable Ultra-large non-slip buttons, a 16-bit ultra-wide data path, GlowPipe™ non-slip side rails, Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ Teflon feet, a Seven-foot, lightweight, non-tangle cord and a Gold-plated USB Connector? How could it even matter that they shared the same driver, which can be found right here by the way, when they had to eat at different tables at lunchtime?
Mary tried to tell herself it didn't matter so that she would stay calm, but it didn't work. She felt her legs shake as she stepped into the sorting shoes. This was it, the decision, the one that might shape her entire career as a magician, the one that would certainly pick her lifelong friends, this horrible decision about what color her mouse would be was out of her hands…
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Folklore for Labor Induction:

As a woman nears her due date it is quite common to start to wonder when labor will begin and to wonder if there is anything that you can do to influence the beginnings of labor. Sometimes the goal is to simply have the baby, other times it is to avoid a medical induction of labor. Here are some of the folklore about labor induction:

Driving on a bumpy road will bring the baby.

Eating spicy foods will bring on labor, like these cookies.

Dancing naked in the moon will speed labor.

Walking, exercising or other strenuous physical activity will spur on labor.

A full moon or bad weather will bring a baby.

1. Sexual Intercourse:

The reference to sex as a way to start labor is an old one. While some studies say that labor is not influenced, other studies say that regular sex at the end of pregnancy does lower the risk of induction for being past your due date. Now the big question is what is it about sex that supposedly brings on labor? Is it the act of sex? Is it the semen that contains prostaglandins that ripen your cervix? Is it the oxytocin released during orgasm?

2. Nipple Stimulation:

Nipple stimulation is an old form of induction. It can be done by manual, oral or mechanical stimulation. Some practitioners feel that this gentle release of oxytocin from the body can provide the gentle ease into contractions for many moms, others do not agree. While we can't prove it starts labor, studies show that the number of women pregnant after 72 hours after beginning is less - isn't that the goal?

More on nipple stimulation.

3. Castor Oil:

Castor oil is an often talked about method of induction. By drinking or eating something with castor oil, or even rubbing it on the skin, it is said to bring about contractions by stimulating the bowels. This supposedly irritates the uterus and contractions of labor ensue. While no one can agree if this really works or not, the side effects can be nasty, including diarrhea and vomiting. Be sure to check with your practitioner about this method of induction.

More on castor oil.

4. Herbs and Remedies:

Herbs for induction have long been used by midwives and older practitioners of medicine. These days many of the hospital based methods of induction are from the same lines of care as the original herbs. Herbal inductions should only carried out with the help of your doctor or midwife as their safety and effectiveness are not proven. They may use some combination of the following herbs/remedies:

caulophyllum

evening primrose oil (EPO)

black and blue cohosh

5. Relaxation and Guided Imagery:

Relaxation and guided imagery can be very helpful in starting labor for some women. This is merely a way to help release tension and worries, particularly those surrounding birth and parenting. There are some professional products out there to guide you or you can write your own script. These are not harmful and even if they do not start labor, can help aid in relaxation and a feeling of calm about your upcoming birth.

Remember:

It is important to remember that induction of labor, either using natural techniques, or using medical intervention, is the forcing of labor. This can increase the risks for baby and mom. Labor may be longer, harder, and even more painful. There should be a good reason why you and your practitioner decide on an induction of labor using any method.

Sources:

Kavanagh J, Kelly AJ, Thomas J. Breast stimulation for cervical ripening and induction of labour. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005 Jul 20;(3):CD003392.

Kelly AJ, Kavanagh J, Thomas J. Castor oil, bath and/or enema for cervical priming and induction of labour. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD003099. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003099.pub2

Evaluation of the effect of castor oil on initiating labor in term pregnancy. Azhari S, Pirdadeh S, Lotfalizadeh M, Shakeri MT. Saudi Med J. 2006 Jul;27(7):1011-4.

Methods for cervical ripening and induction of labor. Tenore JL. Am Fam Physician. 2003 May 15;67(10):2123-8. Review.


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- 1 medium-size sweet onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
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- 1 large sweet potato (1 lb.), peeled and diced
- 2 cups fresh corn kernels (about 5 ears)
- 1 (14-oz.) can chicken broth
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- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pound peeled, large raw shrimp (2 6/30 count)
- Toppings: toasted coconut, thinly sliced green onions, coarsely chopped roasted peanuts
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Sauté onion in hot oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat 5 minutes or until tender; add garlic, and sauté 1 minute. Add Yukon gold potatoes and next 7 ingredients; bring to a boil, stirring often. Reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 25 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir in shrimp; cook 4 to 5 minutes or just until shrimp turn pink. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with desired toppings.
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This leaves us with constructions like "John Doe is a person who immigrated to the United States illegally."
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Serve a 'John Doe' on him and bring him to my office, otherwise trail him to the jumping-off place—in other words, get him!
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Write up the account of John Doe, showing also the accounts necessary to complete the double entry, as per example in Article 11.
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Have you ever picked up a book and while reading it felt like you were having a conversation with the author? That doesn't happen to me very often and it's rare these days if I even get to finish a book. I have been following Lauren Evart's blog for a while now because well, she's witty and sarcastic and tells it how it is and I love that. So when I was contacted to participate in her New Year New You Virtual Book Tour I was all over it. She just released her first book called The Skinny Confidential: A Babe's Sexy, Sassy, Health and Lifestyle guide.
If this was anything like her blog, I knew I would enjoy it…and I was right. I found myself laughing at almost every page.
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I decided to take a close look at the recipes because, well, let's face it I love to eat, so I'm always looking for some new recipes. And these are "Skinny Recipes that will change your FREAKING LIFE." I also love a good cocktail recipe and ya'll know that I LOVE my bubbly. So I decided to try out a few of Lauren's recipes and oh my were they good.
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This guy is a riot, thinks this is his little kingdom.
Lancaster's flamboyant mayor putting town on map
By John Rogers, Associated Press
Posted: 07/17/2010 05:59:04 PM PDT
Updated: 07/17/2010 06:01:52 PM PDT
LANCASTER - Never mind being mayor. If he could just be appointed king for a year, jokes Mayor R. Rex Parris, he could really turn this wind-swept, sagebrush-dotted corner of the sun-baked Mojave Desert into an oasis of comfort and modernity.
Crime? Forget about it. There would be a military-style surveillance plane flying overhead. There would be a steady revenue stream from flashing billboards and musical roads placed all over town.
Problem is, say the mayor's critics, he already acts like he's king, bullying others until he gets his way, sometimes proposing silly ideas that trample on people's civil rights and sometimes getting the city sued, as he did earlier this year when he championed a successful ballot initiative directing the City Council to open its meetings with a prayer.
"People either love him or hate him, and a lot of people hate him," said Arnold Rodio, a local plumbing contractor who, like Parris, grew up in the area when it was little more than a rural outback on a desert highway to nowhere.
Still, even Parris' fiercest critics acknowledge he often gets things done for this city 70 miles north of Los Angeles.
Parris was the guy, after all, who kept hundreds of members of the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang out of town last year by using a back-tax issue to padlock a run-down hotel the gang had booked for its annual summer blowout.
The mayor, 58, promoted an anti-crime campaign, fueled in part by threatening to throw poor people
out of subsidized housing if their children didn't behave. Crime dropped more than 30 percent in two years. And he pushed through a law giving the city the right to cut the testicles off pit bulls after he decided the dogs were being used by street gangs to intimidate people.
"No gang-banger wants a pit bull that doesn't have dangling parts," Parris says, laughing heartily.
Parris, a wealthy litigation attorney easily re-elected to a second two-year term last April, insists most people like what he's doing. He does acknowledge, however, that his hard-charging approach doesn't endear him to everyone.
Some proposals have drawn harsh criticism, including a plan to reduce the homeless population by giving them bus tickets out of this city of 145,000 people.
Parris has no plans to change his style.
He's pushing hard to win support for a "sky sentinel" program in which a surveillance plane would track criminal activity all over town. Critics say it would also invade privacy.
An experimental musical road that played a snippet of "The William Tell Overture" every time a car drove over it drew some noise complaints, but when he has time, the mayor wants to put in more roads and have them play commercial jingles for local businesses.
While other cities are taking billboards down, Parris wants to put more up, saying his law firm's business quadrupled when he began using them.
He's also busy wooing Chinese companies, including the behemoth battery and electric-car maker BYD, which announced earlier this week it had partnered with the city on a solar-powered house the mayor believes will be the prototype for future home construction.
That partnership speaks directly to Parris' recent edict that all city officials, including himself, learn Mandarin.
Overall, it's an ambitious agenda, but Parris says this is no time to waver.
"Because eventually," he adds with a laugh, "they have to get tired of me."
Despite his reputation for flamboyance, Parris is surprisingly soft-spoken in person. He can hold court on any number of topics, however, from management strategies to race relations, philosophy to high-end cars, displaying not only a broad, eclectic knowledge but also a quick wit and an often self-deprecating sense of humor.
Greeting visitors at the mayor's office on a sunny afternoon when the desert temperature has already risen above 90, Parris is smartly dressed in a well-tailored dark suit, crisp white shirt, dark tie and black cowboy boots. Parris acknowledges the flashy footwear is part of a deliberate effort to set himself apart from the crowd.
"You could get the same thing by adding a bow tie," he notes with a chuckle. "But I choose boots."
Talk to almost anybody on the city's main drag, Lancaster Boulevard, and they have an opinion on him.
"He's brought vision and leadership together and it's improving our quality of life," Tim Christoson said as he had lunch with his family at a new upscale restaurant near City Hall.
Elsewhere in the Antelope Valley, Parris' name is plastered on giant billboards promoting his law firm and on R. Rex Parris High School in neighboring Palmdale.
Although modest about his accomplishments, Parris expresses some pride in having a school named after him. He notes it's a continuation school, the kind of place they send troublemakers to, the kind of place they sent him to 40-some years ago before he got his act together.
A judge was about to put him in jail for nearly two dozen speeding tickets - "I like to drive fast," the mayor says sheepishly - until his mother persuaded him to give her son one more chance.
"I pretty much decided then I had to figure out a way to get on this side of the bar because that's where the power is," he said.


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So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room...
Now, don't go getting the wrong impression: I have a few friends who could be called plump. I'm not some size-ist jerk.The author, one Maura Kelly, goes on to suggest how simple losing weight is and offers her own helpful tips to get there. (Eat Less! Exercise! Count Calories!) Gee thanks! Honestly this sort of thing gives me so much rage it is hard to know where to begin with all that is horrible with her point of view here.
First, if you have to say that you have "plump" friends to prove that your comments aren't from a prejudice of your own then you are exactly the size-ish jerk you are trying to say that you aren't. It is like saying that having gay friends means that saying homophobic things aren't really homophobic at all.
Do you shame your "plump" friends regularly too Maura? Is that your way of helpful motivation? Because most obese people that I know, myself included, realize that weight loss involves eating less, counting calories, and exercise. And yet, I haven't figured it out how to do master the weight loss for myself. I struggle with it, I have set-backs. But like all fat people I know, I am working on it.
But I'll let you know something too. I "make out" with my fat husband. We have sex. (I would hope so since we have a kid). We love each other. Does that disgust you Maura Kelly? It shouldn't. It is love between two people and I am worthy of love. Obese people are worthy of love. The fact that there is a TV show that shows two characters working on their weight and loving one another is not revolting. It is a sign that media is beginning to recognize that the world is full of diverse people all worthy of love.
I am disgusted by Marie Claire's willingness to publish this article. Sensationalism is one thing but this is downright shame and prejudice. Hollywood and the fashion world has been shaming people into thinking they are fat and less acceptable for years and perhaps this is one more addition to the "fat is bad" refrain. Worst of all Hollywood doesn't argue about obesity from a health standpoint; they do so from an asthetic one. Their refrain is that there is no beauty or worth in being overweight. I want to be thin to be healthy but it doesn't change my worth!
I am worthy of love. And so are my other "fat" friends, and the "plump" ones, and the thin ones too.
Even, you Maura Kelly, are worthy of love. I'm just sorry that you feel it is because you are thin and not because you are simply you, prejudiced, fearful, God-created, you.
And Marie Claire, I guess you can plan on not having me as a reader. But I imagine you don't mind. I'm sure my obesity would offend you if I were seen reading your magazine too. I wouldn't want to hurt your image.


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Hugo Chavez, junior class petty tyrant, wants to help Muammar Gaddafi, senior class petty brutal dictator to remain in power. He has offered to "mediate" which is simply another word for the rebels to "surrender." Rebel leaders responded to the vague offer by President Chavez from Venezuela who has transformed a democracy into a kleptocracy for those who are friends of the modern, "Bolivar" now wants to help his buddy in Libya escape the wrath of angry Libyans. One rebel leader commented about the "offer," that "no one has told us a thing about it and we are not interested anyway." Another leader was even blunter, "talk of peace is far too late" and expressed the feeling of most Libyans by arguing that Gaddafi lost the right to remain in power once he unleashed his army of mercenaries on his own people.
The Arab League said they had heard that Chavez made some such offer, but had not idea what it was all about.In Benghazi, Khalid Alsably, a lawyer made clear that young men are "full of desire to change the Gaddafi regime and we will march on Tripoli because we have the will to fight and his people do not."
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WBO #1 rated welterweight Kell Brook (21-0, 14 KOs) says fight fans will see a special performance when he takes on Michael Jennings – inspired by a fellow Sheffield fighter. Brook has fought just once this year because of injury, and has seen his clash with Jennings postponed three times. But now the former British champion finally gets his man on September 18 at the LG Arena, Birmingham on Frank Warren's 'Magnificent Seven' PPV event. And Brook says he will halt former world title challenger Jennings in a manner which will bring back memories of close friend and British great Naseem Hamed.
"I see Naseem a lot, and he'll be dead proud of the way in which I get rid of Jennings," said Brook, who like Hamed is a product of Brendan Ingle's gym in Sheffield.
"He has taught me a few of his punches, and I've definitely got some of his power.
"You are going to see an explosive knockout on September 18.
"I'm ready for this fight and there is no way that it is going the distance.
"Michael Jennings is a good guy and I have a lot of respect for him, but once I land on his chin, it will be all over.
"It's been hard sat on the sidelines for the last few months. I really wanted this fight to happen back in the autumn, so I was so happy when Frank phoned me and told me it was finally on."
Brook is now unbeaten in 21 fights, and at 24 is coming into his prime.
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League City police shoot, kill suspect in SWAT standoff
There are 16 comments on the KHOU-TV Houston story from Jun 30, 2008, titled League City police shoot, kill suspect in SWAT standoff. In it, KHOU-TV Houston reports that:
A police sniper shot and killed a man who barricaded himself inside his League City apartment Monday afternoon.
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#1 Jul 1, 2008
This was a senseless killing of an individual. I was there and 10 rounds of gas were shot into his apartment. Not less than a minute later, the man was shot by a sniper.
#2 Jul 1, 2008
This gentleman was shooting randomly. Its not as though this was some defensless guy the police barged in on. I was there too, and I'm thankful that the police did their job before anyone else got hurt.
Since: Jun 08
#3 Jul 1, 2008
Does anyone know where this was?
#4 Jul 1, 2008
Took place at my dear friends apartment Sorrento at Tuscan Lakes. This man wouldn't hurt a fly. He had the best heart ever after undergoing massive brain surgery several years ago for Parkinsons. I'm extremly sad to hear that police knowing his medical condition could not of handled this better. Family surrounding the situation must know that something else has had to trigger this unknown behavoir of this great man, who has even survived cancer. He was a great friend, co-worker and inspiration to our family.
#5 Jul 2, 2008
This Gentleman was reaching for help. There were several family members on location before the police arrived, 3 of which he had called on their phones pleading for help (talking randomly as a result of a chemical imbalance that had to be a result of his many medications reacting together to create a sense of confusion that was beyond his direct control). This man had many medical conditions which he normally controlled quite well, and this is the one and only time that anyone knows of where the medications caused a reaction that distorted his mental state and judgment. The police were informed of this when they arrived on the scene, and they were very negligent,(and technically guilty of murder) for using deadly force when it was not necessary. There were many alternative methods they could have deployed to gain control of the situation without storming into the mans house and killing him. They could have let his daughter,(who was on the scene and pleading to the police "please let me talk to my daddy, don't hurt him, he is not violent, I can talk to him, his medications are causing this"),call him on the phone or PA and maybe snap him back into reality. Instead, the police (LCPD),(who are obviously inadequately trained to properly deal with real life situations in a professional manner), decided to fire tear gas into the apartment, and instead of giving the gas time to effectively react and subdue the man, they immediately forced their way into the apartment and shot him to death. They could have used high voltage projectiles instead of hollow points !! All the man was guilty of at that point was discharging a firearm in the city limits. This is not a crime punishable by death !!
I am a gun owner/collector and avid shooter myself, and I have seen many men that have committed violent and perverted crimes who deserve to be shot .... but this man was not one of those, he was a very good man who's life was ended senselessly and prematurely due to very poor judgment by the LCPD.
#6 Jul 3, 2008
The police were doing their jobs ! Protecting the public ! He was a nut !
#7 Jul 5, 2008
you folks they say you were there you were not the ones that saw what was really going on when a man threatens to kill an officer or anyone that trys to come in the door is not some gentle person, oh that brings me to if he was gentle then why was he shooting out the window that is more than discharging a firearm in the city limits can we say that all bullets must stop some where and when shooting randomly through walls, out of a WINDOW in a complex and that you say if harmless. he had numerous chances to comply with the officers but refused, I don't know about you but if my family member did something like that you do what you have to do lets see one life or the possibility of several let me think on that I will agree take one not many. I just lpove how those that say they they were tere and are slaming the PD make sure you know what the true story is as opposed to passing judgement who don't have the whole truth.
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#8 Feb 14, 2009
if you think you can do a better job go apply and become a LC police officer!
#9 May 30, 2009
Our SWAT team feared a 63 old man with a pistol locked in an apartment enough to snipe him. Are you kidding me?!? Did they not have enough tact between the 10 or so of them to find a resolution not resulting in death.
#10 May 30, 2009
Thank goodness someone on here hs some sense. I too believe that the police should go to a scene and allow someone to threaten to kill them and allow him to randomly fire rounds out a window putting the general population in harms way. Poor, poor guy. Why would they shoot him? Why didn't they let him just keep shooting until he killed a few! You are an idiot!! Thank God for the police department and the quick action they took to prevent the death of an officer or innocent bystanders! I do agree however that he had problems but everyone who does actions like he did does. Let's be grateful that they handled the threat as quickly as they did. If other agencies acted as quickly as they did, maybe we would not have as many mad men killing multiple victims. GREAT WORK SWAT!!!
#11 May 30, 2009
Your post name "irrational" certainly reflects your opinions. His actions are the only reason that the resolution resulted in his death.
#12 May 30, 2009
Next time they have a Columbine type incident or a shooter like the Austin Tower, why don't you take your bleeding heart there and go in and try to talk to the poor deranged individual that is crying out for help.
#13 Oct 21, 2009
wow. Im just now finding out about this. man i have been away alot longer than i thought.
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#14 Oct 21, 2009
I wonder if you guys could be this cold hearted if it were you father or grandfather. Yes i am sure the family is glad that no one else was hurt. Bet you all have little fishys on the back of your cars.
#15 Aug 12, 2011
I'm being harassed right now by the League City Police Department! Apparently I wasn't properly respectful when six of them attacked my home with shotguns and body armor. An understandable amount of force since they were looking for my 41 year old mother of two wife. She's mega dangerous. It wasn't even a violent crime warrant. Her ex boss accused her of stealing. BS; he is just mad because she rebuffed his advances and eventually quit over it. Even though my wife wasn't home and I told them that, her employer who was sitting in his truck outside our home, with the police, told them she was. So they forced me and my 18 year old son out of our house and down on our knees, in our own front yard, handcuffed us and put us in a squad car. With no air condition in the 102 degree Texas heat for a half hour. They searched our home but I bet you have guessed that she wasn't home. They were so mad about that that 2 days later they filed charges on me! For Harboring a Fugitive! How could I be harboring her when they searched the house and she wasn't thee?!!! The answer is they don't care; they are filing a bogus charge on me just to get me behind bars because in spite of a ridiculous of fire-power they FAILED to apprehend a 41 year old mother of two housewife! They are so embarrassed and upset that they didn't get to cuff anybody that they are betraying the trust we, the public, put in them and filing charges they know to be groundless. Oh, they'll drop the charges but not before I spend a lot of time in jail for a crime I couldn't have committed. If I'm lucky this will satisfy their sensitive fascist egos and they won't frame me for striking an officer or something like that. My dad was a Pasadena Police Officer for 25 years and he shamefully admitted that they did this to innocent men, that hadn't been properly respectful, many many times. Retired he regrets ever having been an officer. I fully expect to be framed, for assault probably, even though I swear to God and on the lives of my children I will not strike an officer of the law. Still, my word against however many police officers are there when they beat and frame me.
#16 Aug 22, 2011
I have just one thing to say, thats all B.S.!The lady is a felon and it was a felony warrant. They had information she was there.She is your wife and even if she was no there hen thy arrifed you had been harboring her. GO TO JAIL and TELL YOUR WIFE NOT TO STEAL.
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A box with a mass of 7.00 kg is at rest on a ramp that is at an angle of 20 degrees with the horizontal. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the ramp is 0.800. Use g = 9.80 m/s2. You now want to make the box move by applying a force. To start the box moving, what is the minimum force you need to apply if your force is directed ...
(a) parallel to the slope?
(b) perpendicular to the slope?
(c) horizontally?
I know that (a) is The static friction in the x direction minus the box sliding down in the x direction, but I cannot wrap my head around the other two.
i have this same problem but my coefficient of friction is .7 not .8. the answer i got for a) was 21.6614. i havnt gotten b or c. the equation i used for a. was F+Fgx'=fs
for b, the formula I used is (if P is the perpendicular force) Fgx'=uS(Fgy'-P) (can you let me know if that is right. ive used 5 attempts before i figured out this formula and want to make sure. for , the formula i used was (if H is your horizontal force) Hx'+Fgx'=uS(Fgy'-Hy') this one is correct
Can you explain what Hx'+Fgx'=uS(Fgy'-Hy') means? It's hard to elaborate when the variables aren't defined.
same for Fgx'=uS(Fgy'-P)
H is your horizontal force applied. it is your unknown Since the motion is on a ramp, you have to redefine your axis. the x' axis is parallel to the ramp and the y' axis is perpendicular to the ramp. so Hx' is the x' component of the H force. Hy' is the y' component of the H force. Fgx' is the x' component of gravity. uS is your coefficient of static friction.
does that make more sense?
Yeah I got that, but I was hoping you could explain what you defined as the x' and y' component of each like in terms of cos and sin seeing that we might not be on the same page so i cant check ur answers exactly if i use something different.
also, P is the perpendicular force you apply. it is also your unknown. in the Hx'+Fgx'=uS(Fgy'-Hy')Hx'=Hcos20 and Hy'=Hsin20
thus you assume Fgx' is mgcos20 and Fgy' is mgsin 20?
no, Fgy'=mgcos20 and Fgx'=mgsin20
ps, i just confirmed that if you plug in the correct numbers for those equations, you will get the right answers
okay, just making sure
I am trying your equation from for P. I have a feeling it will come out as a negative force and if you apply a perpendicular force it will only increase the contact force and thus not move the box, but let me see.
Yes, your equation is right so if you just plug in your given numbers for P=mgcos20-(mgsin20/uS) you should get the correct answer.
yea, P is pushing the box away from the ramp not into it


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Polish émigrés were not exactly thick on the commons of Oxford in the early 1980s when Pawel Pawlowski was there doing post-graduate studies in German literature. So when the Warsaw-born student, who'd left Poland at 14 in 1971 after his divorced mother married an Englishman, encountered a Polish-speaking Marxist economist beneath the university's gleaming spires, the two soon struck up a friendship. The economist's wife also was Polish – "a lovely old lady," as Pawlowski tells it, "who cooked and told stories and was the soul of the party and very sweet and very wise. I really liked her and they invited me home quite a bit."
Pawlowski offered the reminiscence during an interview at last year's Toronto International Film Festival by way of explaining the wellsprings of his latest directorial effort, Ida. The feature, a world premiere that won best picture honours from the foreign critics attending TIFF, begins its long-anticipated Canadian theatrical release this weekend in Toronto.
"Maybe seven years later," he continued, as the communist regime in Poland crumbled, "I heard on the news that the Polish government was asking for her extradition, on grounds of crimes against humanity. This sweet old lady," Pawlikowski chuckled, "had been a Stalinist prosecutor in the early 1950s and actually engineered the deaths of completely innocent people."
By the late eighties, newly embarked on what would prove an illustrious career, first as an award-winning documentarian, then as a feature filmmaker (Last Resort, My Summer of Love), Pawlikowski thought the woman's story might make a good documentary. However, she died soon after the news broke, thereby avoiding extradition. Still, "this idea of one woman being two different people in one lifetime stuck" with the director. So did another "obsession," that of a Catholic Pole, born before or during the Second World War, who discovers he is, in fact, Jewish. Highly alchemized versions of these two characters have found their way into Ida (pronounced Ee-dah), for which Pawlikowski co-wrote the screenplay.
Originally, Pawlikowski saw the Catholic/Jew as a priest. "But then I thought it would be more interesting if the character is a young girl, a nun, in the early sixties, who hasn't quite yet discovered life." Thus, we now have the titular protagonist (Agata Trzebuchowska, the reincarnation of Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring), a novitiate on the cusp of taking final vows, being commanded by her Mother Superior to meet the chain-smoking, hard-drinking, unabashedly promiscuous aunt she never knew she had – and a high-ranking communist to boot (Agata Kulesza). Virgin and "whore" then go on a journey, physical and existential, personal and political.
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More audacious to Pawlikowski's mind is the utter lack of camera movement until the film's final minutes. Coupled with the hunkered-down action, this conveys "the feeling of being stuck somewhere, boxed-in, a feeling that life has cornered you in a world of limited dynamism, of vulnerability." Pawlikowski acknowledged he was only five when the events of Ida unfold – but he's long had an interest in the Poland of that time, as it shrugged off the worst of Stalinism and developed a taste for the cheesy pop and exalted jazz (Coltrane!) of the West. "The look of the film just felt right, y'know?"
With the exception of stays in Germany, Italy and France, Pawlikowski's adult life has been spent mostly in Britain. But last spring, after casting and shooting Ida in Poland (a first in his feature-film career), he decided to move back to his homeland, to the very Warsaw neighbourhood, in fact, in which he was a school child and where his casting director found "Ida" waitressing in a cafe. "It feels good; it feels like home but not in any sentimental way," he said. "It seems to be the one country which I don't look at from the outside and judge."
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Ballard High School is highlighting two outstanding students for February's "Student of the Month." See what they have to say about Becca Ehlers and Evan Porcincula below.
Becca Ehlers is a stellar Ballard student. She has a 3.97 GPA and graduated from Ballard's Biotechnology Academy last spring. Becca is a four year lettermen in swim and was captain this year. She is the co-president of the Gay-Straight Alliance and has been in the National Honors Society for three years. Becca is a member of Ballard's thespians troupe and Key Club. She is heavily involved in the drama department, focusing on set construction but also acting, ushering, and working on costumes. She has worked as a life guard, at a coffee shop, and in a daycare. Becca is a member of Diverse Harmony, the nation's first LGBT youth chorus. She is applying to Northwestern, New York University, and Harvard, and plans on majoring in creative writing.
Evan Porcincula is an exceptional Ballard student. He serves as the ASB Communications Director and as a DECA President. This is Evan's third year in DECA, and last year he served as the program developer. Evan was also in FBLA for two years, and was a member of Link Crew last year. Evan was a tennis captain this year and it was his fourth year on the team. He has also played basketball for Ballard. Evan is also a member of Ballard's Unified soccer and basketball teams. He has a role in this year's school musical, The Sound of Music, his first time participating in the drama department, and he is thrilled about the show. Evan has volunteered at the Ballard Boys and Girls club, and for Childhood Cancer Careline. Over the summer he had an internship at Mario Madayag Architecture, learning about architecture through computer-based projects. Evan has applied to The University of Washington, San Diego State University, and The University of California Irvine, and while he is undecided about his major, he wants to do something in the field of business marketing and communications.
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