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President Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech tonight on job creation before a joint session of Congress. Sadly, over 20 million unemployed Americans are looking for a job but can't find one or have given up their job search entirely. Early reports indicate that the President will call for a $300-$400 billion package made up of tax credit extensions and more infrastructure spending. I'd like to share what direction I believe the President should pursue to restore the American economy and create jobs.
The building blocks for economic growth and job creation that have made America the leader in the global economy are well known. Our previous economic success has been accompanied by a commitment to the ingenuity and innovation of our entrepreneurs, a government that avoids picking winners and losers in the free market, and tax policies that allow American businesses to use their money to grow and hire workers instead of sending it off to Washington. The most recent unemployment report shows that zero jobs were created last month. Government spending will not lift us from this economic quagmire. I hope the President's speech will outline a plan acknowledging that the big-spending 'stimulus' policies have failed and returning to the principles that have proven to drive economic growth in our nation.
We need to restore certainty for small businesses and rebuild the confidence of consumers. In order to do so, we must eliminate the burdensome regulations and uncertain tax policies that have stalled our economy and job creation. In the short term, the President should submit to Congress for approval the three pending trade deals with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea -- a move that the White House itself says will create 250,000 jobs. We should audit existing and pending regulations to identify and fix those that hinder economic growth. The House has already passed legislation that addresses the negative impacts of the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases, the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality proposal, and duplicative and burdensome pesticide regulations. The President should offer his support for these initiatives. Moving quickly to eliminate unfair tax provisions, such as the 3% withholding tax that threatens to impose new costs on every company that supplies goods and services to government agencies, will allow businesses to plan for the future with greater certainty.
Over the longer term, the President and Congress should work together to increase American competitiveness and investment by simplifying the tax code, eliminating special loopholes, and bringing down the overall top tax rate to 25%. Our efforts at expanding the global marketplace for American businesses should not end with the three pending trade agreements -- we should continue to push to increase market access for U.S. goods and services across the globe. Further, we should be pursuing an all-of-the-above energy policy to increase domestic production in order to create jobs and lower energy costs. The President should also announce his support for a Balanced Budget Amendment, which the Congress will vote on this fall, to signal to the American people and entire world that the U.S. is serious about addressing our debt crisis.
We need to change our ways and get back to basics. America still is a great nation and with the proper stewardship we can reassert ourselves as the undisputed global economic leader. I hope that the President will heed the lessons of experience, turn away from what has failed, and work with Congress to embrace what we know will succeed.
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I am seeking any information regading this family .
I have Jane Pogue (or Pollock) marrying James Wiggins in Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church in County Monaghan Ireland in 1868. One of the witnesses was Thomas Pogue.
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Cameron BD, Cheng DT, Chua R, van Donkelaar P, Binsted G (2013) Explicit knowledge and real-time action control: anticipating a change does not make us respond more quickly. Experimental Brain Research, 229(3):359-372
When the target of a goal-directed reach changes location, people normally respond rapidly and automatically to the target shift. Here, we investigate whether explicit knowledge about a moving target (knowing whether a location change is likely/unlikely) improves responsiveness, with the goal of understanding top-down effects on real-time reaching. In Experiment 1, we presented participants with pre-cues that indicated a 20 or 80 % likelihood of a target perturbation on that trial. When participants made pro-pointing responses to the target perturbations, their online response occurred later for 20 % trials than for 80 % trials, but this effect may have been due to suppression of the online response on 20 % trials, rather than enhancement of the response on 80 % trials. In Experiment 2, we presented participants with 50 and 100 % likelihood pre-cues, and observed no shortening of the latency on 100 % trials compared to 50 % trials, which suggests that expectation does not enhance the automatic response to a perturbation. However, we did observe more vigorous responses to the perturbation on the 100 % trials, and this contributed to shorter movement times relative to the 50 % trials. We also examined, in Experiment 2, whether prior knowledge about the direction of the target perturbation would shorten the latency of the online response, but we did not observe any reduction in latency. In sum, the onset of the automatic response appears to be suppressible, but not augmentable by top-down input. The possibility that the forcefulness of the automatic response is modifiable by expectation is examined, but not resolved
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Forward Mitch McGary signed his National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, per a news release from the University of Michigan Athletic Department.
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Visual displays of Facebook metadata
More than a million people have used Stephen Wolfram's Personal Analytics for Facebook, a web app that generates a fascinating visual report of your Facebook profile: age, gender, relationship status, and location of your FB friends; the number of your friends' friends and the number of their friends in common with you; your friends' most common first and last names; your most 'liked' post; your FB use by day of the week and time of day; and a word cloud of your posts (like mine, at right).
Wolfram, best known as inventor of the computer program Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, recently invited users of his FB Analytics app to participate in a "Data Donor" program, by contributing detailed data about their FB use for Wolfram's research purposes.
This week he released a detailed analysis of this data, as usual complete with arresting data visualizations. The whole piece is worth reading, but here's just a taste:
How many friends do people have on Facebook have, and how does this vary with age?
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How far away is Mars? (a visualization)
If the earth were only 100 pixels wide (instead of 12,756 kms.), what would the distance to Mars look like? Two British designers, Jesse Williams and David Paliwoda, have devised a neat interactive animation to show you the answer, along with how far it is to a GPS satellite and the moon. .
Don't stop here. Click on the image (or here) to see the animation for yourself.
Hint: Even at an impossible 3x the speed of light, it's a long way off. ("And we put a piece of equipment on it," my friend Jeff P. observed in wonderment.)
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An interactive catalog of Chris Hadfield's photos of Earth
Last week, I posted a photo of Contrarian's home turf that Chris Hadfield, 35th Commander of the International Space Station, had taken from 370 kilometres overhead. An avid photographer, Hadfield has produced scores of images depicting locations all over the earth, including at least 10 of Nova Scotia sites.*
You may already know what I managed to miss: that geographer David MacLean and his students at the College of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, NS, have created a database of Hadfield's images (and some by fellow astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn) that you can access through a wonderful, interactive map.
MacLean has been kind enough to let me embed the map here on Contrarian:
Zero in on your favorite part of the globe, then click any thumbnails that interest you to bring up a remarkably detailed image of the corresponding location. To play with MacLean's larger version of the map, click here.
John Metcalfe has a nice piece in the Atlantic about MacLean's efforts; the Chronicle-Herald, Ottawa Citizen, and Annapolis County Spectator have also run stories.
The dramatic growth of mapping, and the development of geographical tools accessible to everyday users, is one of the great technological stories of our time. Nova Scotia is incredibly fortunately to have, in the College of Geographical Sciences,** a stellar post-secondary institution devoted to this field.
H/T: Richard Stephenson.
* Check out this view of the coastline from White Point through Dingwall, Money Point, Bay St. Lawrence, Meat Cove, Pollett's Cove, Red River, Pleasant Bay, and Fishing Cove.
** Now officially called the Nova Scotia Community College Annapolis Valley Campus. Discerning readers will note that I am resisting this unfortunate change.
How many Americans have guns killed since Sandy Hook?
100? 500? 1,000? The correct answer is much higher: more than 22 fatal shootings per day in the first 98 days since the horrific elementary school massacre.
Huffpo has an interactive chart: (Please don't just look at the graphic. Click on the link and then on "next.")
An interactive history of drone strikes in Pakistan
How often has the US attacked targets in Pakistan with unmanned drones, and how many of those killed have been children, civilians, putative insurgents, or "high-value" military targets?
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has prepared an interactive graphic to help answer these questions, which you can try for yourself by clicking the screenshot below.
Definitely worth a look. The bureau summarizes the results:
The justification for using drones to take out enemy targets is appealing because it removes the risk of losing American military, it's much cheaper than deploying soldiers, it's politically much easier to maneuver (i.e. flying a drone within Pakistan vs. sending troops) and it keeps the world in the dark about what is actually happening. It takes the conflict out of sight, out of mind. The success rate is extremely low and the cost on civilian lives and the general well-being of the population is very high.
The interactive graphic has two views. The Attack View pictured above shows each attack chronologically; the Victim View focuses on the people killed in each strike.
The category of victims we call "OTHER" is classified differently depending on the source. The Obama administration classifies any able-bodied male a military combatant unless evidence is brought forward to prove otherwise. This is a very grey area for us. These could be neighbors of a target killed. They may all be militants and a threat. What we do know for sure is that they are targeted without being given any representation or voice to defend themselves.
With increasingly sophisticated drones become ever more widely available, how long before the US regrets opening this particular Pandora's box?
The world as 100 people
If our world had 100 people…
Now you see it, now you don't
Last Friday, in one of its periodic displays of nerdy humor, Google displaced its usual search page logo with an animated gif celebrating Earth's non-collision with Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 50-meter-wide rock that passed within 28,000 meters of our planet—closer than a geostationary communications satellite.
Trouble is, another, much smaller meteor chose the same day to collide with Earth, exploding over the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk Oblast with the force of a half megaton nuclear weapon, and injuring 1,500 people below, mostly from flying glass. Google quickly yanked the animation.
"Out of respect for those injured in the extraordinary meteor shower in Russia earlier today, we have removed today's doodle from the Google home page," a spokesperson told ABC News.
Contrarian believes sympathy for the injured can co-exist peacefully with amusement at the doodle.
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A virtual heart built from10,000 parallel processors
If you're anything like me, your conception of the human heart comes from text book line drawings and plastic models in doctors' offices.
To create a more useful, virtual model, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center used 10,000 parallel processors. The beating heart turns out to be a phenomenally complex electromechanical apparatus—wondrous, and almost spooky, to behold.
The center recently released a video simulation, although based on a rabbit's heart rather than a human's.
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From NASA: 131 years of rising global temperatures in 26 Seconds
"Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have occurred since the year 2000," reports NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The first years of the new millennium experienced "sustained higher temperatures than in any decade during the 20th century."
Goddard, which monitors global surface temperatures, compiled the findings into an animation showing global temperature trends since 1885.
The animated map charts differences from the average temperature recorded during a baseline period of 1951-1980. Dark Red zones are two degrees Celsius warmer than the baseline; dark blue are two degrees colder. You can download a copy of the animation here.
The average incremental change is not great — less than a Celsius degree in total — but the upward trend is, shall we say, hard to deny:
Download a much larger version here.
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Or this?
How about this?
It's an interactive map (sadly not embeddable), produced by the Bombsight Project, showing every documented bomb strike in the London blitz between October 7, 1940, and June 6, 1941. The project is a joint effort by the University of Portsmouth, the UK National Archhives, and a charity called JISC. On the actual map (but not the screenshots above), viewers can zoom in on a particular dot, then right click for the details:
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At Lady Luck® Caruthersville, we've seen our fair share of lucky charms. Varying from small trinkets to even pieces of clothing, superstitious gamers can find luck in the most unusual items. However, there are lucky charms that most people associate with luck, like a rabbit's foot or horseshoe, but few know how the charms developed their lucky status. Here are how seven lucky charms gained their luck.
1. Rabbit's Foot
The luck of a colorful rabbit's foot is well-known and can be traced to many sources. The strongest explanation comes from African folk magic where using bones was common in rituals. People avoiding using human bones by trading in animal bones, which infused those animal bones with powers. Rabbits became popular animals for rituals as African folklore regarded rabbits as clever and courageous. Shifting to 1800s America, slaves held onto rabbit feet for courage and luck to get them through the worst days of slavery.
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On our last night in Mexico we decided to go to the observation deck of the Latin American Tower, in downtown Mexico City. It was a wet and stormy night and I'm still not sure we should have ventured up there! Anyway, with three friends from our room in the hostel (2 Australians and a guy from Israel) we went to see if the tower was open on a Sunday night...and much to my dismay....it was (my fear of heights starting to kick in as we walked in the front door of the huge building).
The tower is 42 stories high and apparently, we had to go RIGHT to the top. The elevator climed so fast our ears popped and we were at the 37th floor in no time. It took me five minutes to get the strength to go near the window but I managed to join the rest of the group after 10 minutes or so.
We took another elevator and 3 flights of stairs to the very top of the tower on floor 42...I must add at this point that I climbed the stairs almost on all fours as this top deck was outside, underneath the antenna. With the metal fence as a barrier, we looked out again over Mexico City and the surrounding suburbs, breathing in the slightly thinner air (we were about 2,300 feet above sea level at this point) and realising where the 22 million residents of the city must live.
Apart from the fact that the lights went off while we were underneath the antenna, making me think we may have been hit by lightning when it was just so we had a better view, the experience was great and surely has played a part in me slowly getting over my fear of heights. Getting back on the ground was a great relief though! :)


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He'd "feel bad" if the government paid for elderly peoples' medical care.
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Dude's 72. He should lead by example.
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To be fair, it is an insightful perspective into Japan's growing generation gap.
In many ways, Japan is still recovering from WWII, and its declining birth rate on top of that means there's a uniquely huge cultural and age gap between the older generation and the younger generation in what has historically been a very homogenous country.
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From the article, what he said (my boldface):
When he says he would "feel bad," I think he means that if he was in that situation, himself. He clarified that he was speaking about end of life medical care. Not so outrageous, imo."Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. I would wake up feeling increasingly bad knowing that [treatment] was all being paid for by the government," he said during a meeting of the national council on social security reforms. "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."
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Yeah.... this shows the benefit of actually reading the article.
I pretty much agree with him. You should be allowed to die when you're ready to go.
I hope I die like my grandmother did. In her own bed, surrounded by family.
If not, then I just want it to be quick.
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I read the article. The guy still sounds like an asshole.
Aso (rhymes with asshole) seems like he'd be right at home immigrating to America and running as a Tea Party politician."I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor," he said at a meeting of economists. "Why should I have to pay for people who just eat and drink and make no effort? I walk every day and do other things, but I'm paying more in taxes."
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Beyond the 'welfare state' argument that this is, there is a real question about "quantity vs. quality" of life, I think. I'm one of those who would rather be able to "step off' at some point.
My biggest fear is that I will in some way be physically or cognitively debilitated to the point that I won't be able to make that decision when the time comes.
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I don't suppose any of our members who live or have lived in Japan can comment on the growing generation gap issue the country is facing? It seems like understanding the cultural issues at play here would be pretty important in understanding the perspective in this story.
I fear getting old a lot more than dying.
Bennett The Sage made an interesting connection with Grave of the Fireflies to the generation gap.
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Most of the talk, though, is more about raising birth rates. It's not that easy to do, though, as a lot of the reasons they are having fewer children have to do with problems with family and work traditions that are difficult to change.
In Japan, typically speaking a couple gets married, the woman stays home (especially after having kids) and the husband works. However, overtime is common and expected, and it's considered a bad thing to leave early, to the point that in a lot of places you don't leave before your superiors, even if your work is done. Husbands often work until nine or ten, then go out and have drinks, and don't return home until late. They get up at five or six in the morning and do it again.
That means wives are left to fend for raising children increasingly on their own, and often feel like single mothers. They often don't want to have more children because they know they'll be doing much of the child-rearing and household work on their own.
There's been a push to try to limit work hours and overtime to help this situation, but what happens is they'll declare that work ends at a certain time and people just stay late anyway.
So there is some push to try to change the way things are and increase the birth rate, but a large percentage of the population are seniors, and while I was there it was usually seen as a problem on the young end, not the old end.
The imbalance has been used as a plot device in anime for years. I'm remembering specifically a couple of Ghost in the Shell episodes, where the elderly 'adopt' orphan children, or rely on robot care.
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My grandfather, sick and weak, told me this Christmas: (from memory, so maybe not perfect)
"Those scientists think they're so damned smart, keeping people alive longer than ever before... and everybody thinks, 'oh, isn't it great how long people are living?' but nobody tells you what it's like to live this long. It's miserable. Just terrible. No one should be forced to outlive their usefulness. Living like this - helpless, weak, hurting all the time, can't even get to the bathroom right - nobody should be forced to do that. They got me in the hospital all the time now... why can't they just let me die? Let me have some damned dignity."
The "usefulness" thing echos what the finance minister said almost eerily. It stuck out to me at the time, and I tried arguing with Grandpa about it... but what it came down to is he felt useless, and therefore worthless. He was beginning to hate himself because of what he had become.
It's worth noting that Grandpa has a degenerative nerve disease, and is not doing at all well. On the other hand, there are people like my husband's grandmother - well into her eighties, she's spry, witty, and a joy to be around. She takes pleasure in life and in her family. It would be a travesty to let her die from anything remotely recoverable. She's worth fighting for... and more importantly, she'd want that chance.
I think the US goes too far in some cases, in that it does not allow for assissted suicide and often treats patients even when they would prefer to let their maladies take their toll. But any nation who didn't do it's damnedest to cover the basic healthcare needs of people like my husband's grandmother would be going too far in the other direction. There needs to be room for personal choice in end-of-life care decisions, and whatever choice is made, I think our laws and our healthcare should respect it.
Before one of my grandmothers died, she told her three kids that if they did anything to unnecessarily prolong her life, that when she really did die, she'd come back and haunt them
One of my grandfathers suffered a series of strokes and spent the last year of his life in a hospital bed paralysed on one side. He was miserable the entire time and it was compounded by the knowledge that he wouldn't get better. No thanks.
I am in no way saying that people should be pushed to die just because they are old. Like everyone else, the older I get, the older my definition of 'old' is getting.
But if I have no quality of life, like some of the people mentioned in the thread, just let me go.
Okay, I'm just going to say now that I think the generation gap is a more interesting discussion than the right-to-die and life-quality stuff which (I think) isn't exactly a debate that hasn't come up before around here in various forms (with some frequency).
The particular quote that inspired this thread probably is more about that, but I'm more interested in the politics of a population dealing with a major cultural gap between its generations. I don't think it's entirely impertinent to other states, either.
For a long time in the US, for example, issues like social security are something that no politician's really been willing to touch...
On the one hand, that's something that could very quickly lose you the vote of older generations, nor is distributing money to the elderly who've "earned it" as controversial as welfare or socialized healthcare and that kind of thing. On the other hand, I don't think it would be possible to win an election today without winning a substantial proportion of the youth vote.
But as much as older Americans (like every other nationality and every generation before them) might like to complain about "kids today," we don't have quite the cultural gap that a nation like Japan has.
So what happens when you have a divided population? When it's not so much as question of "right" or "wrong," even in the minds of those who are voting, but more a matter of who arbitrarily gets left out in the cold, north of the Wall. It's not as if America hasn't experienced that kind of thing before...
On the one hand, you have what the up-and-coming generation wants. You have the future. On the other hand, you have what the elders want. Maybe it's the past, but is it really right to expect them to vote against their own interests just because they're on the way out?
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Those are beautiful! Tell us more about the photo! It's snowing here in Chicago so I can't imagine if those are blooming near you!
My back yard is a'bloom in daffodils, white and yellow, and even the crocus are coming up. Makes my eyes dance! My mother plants about 50-100 bulbs every year because she knows how to plant things in such a way to make them grow, whereas I do not.
I like to send Sean outside with a pair of scissors and tell him to clip 5 or 6 daffodils and have him put them in a vase. He takes great care with this task. He feels like he has been given an important job! Tremendous fun. ~ AM
February 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Shoe says:
Daffoldils! I love them all. Flowers. Spring. In Illinois they say we are to get 7-8 inches of snow in mid week. Hope they are wrong. They were about the last storm. I love flowers!
February 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am
HarryJacksMom says:
Ah, ours are still to be seen, tho the little green leaf heads are poking thru the ground. Those are beautiful – tell Sean his job was even more important this time because he brought such sunshine to all of us 🙂
My beloved gramma loved this little poem, and I can't see a daffodil without a whole lotta loving memories: it isn't raining rain to me, it's raining daffodils, and every dimpled drop I see, wild flowers on the hill (I found a link and there are more words by Robert Loveman, funny she didn't say the roses verse despite loving them) Thank you for the rush of memories – Happy Valentine's!
February 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Roxanne says:
Daffodils are my favorite. . .all kinds of memories bound up in them from childhood. . .sounds like Sean and I will have something in common. 🙂
February 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
JanMary, N Ireland says:
Filling me with thoughts of spring! Here just snowdrops so far.
February 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Amy says:
As a former high school English teacher, you have spoken my language with the poetry of Wordsworth.
And the pic – glorious!
Come soon spring.
February 15th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Sarah says:
Those are beautiful! I love this celebration of daffodils.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Beverlydru says:
Ahhh… you are definitely talking my language. Dancing with the Daffodils… that's me. : )
February 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Jenn @ Casa de Castro says:
Absolutely gorgeous! Our great God has such a wonderful imagination. The designs and colors He used in creating flowers still blows my mind.
Great photo.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Keary Naughton says:
I love daffodils. We went to ireland and england years ago at Easter time. Daffodils and little baby lambs everywhere. So beautiful….
February 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
diXymiss says:
Gorgeous! Looking forward with great anticipation to the arrival of jocund beauties in our yard ~ probably neXt month sometime…
February 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Meg @ Spicy Magnolia says:
My daffodils are blooming as well!! I can't believe it; they sprout earlier and earlier this year. I love your photo. 🙂
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TV's biggest superheroes have gathered for the latest issue of EW to celebrate their "Arrowverse" crossover episode.
"Supergirl" Melissa Benoist and "Arrow" star Stephen Amell are joined by "The Flash"'s Grant Gustin and "Legends Of Tomorrow" stars Brandon Routh and Caity Lotz for a superhero-sized photoshoot for the cover of the magazine's latest issue.
"This year in the crossover in group scenes, we're all in scenes together," Gustin reveals from the set of the photoshoot which has the actors playing video games in their alter egos' costumes. The stars gathered in a hangar outside of Vancouver for the one-of-a-kind shoot with the magazine.
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"Everyone's there," Benoist says excitedly. "I got to play in the sandbox with almost everyone it seems like."
The massive team-up for the super friends takes place over the four series, beginning on November 28 episode of "Supergirl" and continuing over the next three nights on "The Flash", "Arrow" and "Legends Of Tomorrow".
"We need more girl power. I'm into it," Lotz says of her desire for her "Legends" character to team up with Supergirl. "I know for Sara, when she meets Supergirl, she's a little intimidated. She's so used to being the chick that has everything under control and now all of a sudden there's this alien that can levitate and she's like, 'Okay, I respect you. I see you. You're kinda hot.'"
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"I never get to work as much with The Flash as I'd like to," Routh adds. "Barry and Ray could be good friends."
Benoist teases the upcoming crossover episode and says that fans will be excited to see the characters interact.
"People will be really excited about the people that fight each other, people that interact with each other. I kinda forget what happens," she laughs.
"There's something you haven't seen before which I think is pretty fun," Lotz adds.


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Few things come more naturally to us than sex―or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused.
Peter Gray and Justin Garcia provide an interdisciplinary synthesis that draws on the latest discoveries in evolutionary theory, genetics, neuroscience, comparative primate research, and cross-cultural sexuality studies. They are our guides through an exploration of the patterns and variations that exist in human sexuality, in chapters covering topics ranging from the evolution of sex differences and reproductive physiology to the origins of sexual play, monogamous unions, and the facts and fictions surrounding orgasm.
Intended for generally curious readers of all stripes, this up-to-date, one-volume survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior explains why sexuality has remained a core fascination of human beings throughout time and across cultures.
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Peter B. Gray, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Justin R. Garcia, M.S., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Research Scientist at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, Bloomington.
I am convinced this book will become a classic, and I don't use this term lightly. It is a superb overview and synthesis of the literature, along with discussion of the newest data from a remarkably wide range of academic disciplines. I am impressed. (Helen Fisher, Ph.D., Biological Anthropologist and Research Professor, Rutgers University)
In addition to excellent writing, this book is appropriately and impressively thorough--including a great amount of cutting-edge research. Further, this book is deeply integrative in its disciplinary scope. It includes research from physiologists, cross-cultural anthropologists, social psychologists, historians, and more. The scholars are masters of interdisciplinary work--and this fact emerges clearly and effectively in this book. (Glenn Geher, Ph.D., Director of Evolutionary Studies and Professor of Psychology, SUNY New Paltz)
Comprehensive and charming, Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior is bound to become a classic. A fine starting point for productive debates. (Elaine Hatfield, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Hawai'i)
A great integration of animal evidence and habits from a wide variety of species, in discussions ranging from the mechanisms of romantic attraction, to comparisons between bonobo and human sexual play during development, to digit length comparisons in rats and human beings linked to hormone exposures that may in turn be linked to sexual orientation. A marvelous contribution. (Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D., Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)
A very good book...A strong case can be made that real sex education would go beyond Plumbing 101 and emulate this book--actually teaching about sexual behavior from an evolutionary perspective. With backgrounds in anthropology...the authors do an especially good job describing what William James might have called the varieties of sexual experience. (David P. Barash Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-10-14)
An intriguing treatment of an intriguing subject. (S. M. Valente Choice 2013-12-01)
This work provides a fresh perspective on human sexuality and sexual behaviors, placing human animals within a larger historical context, and gives readers the opportunity to perceive human sexuality as malleable, a product of thousands of years of change...Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior provides an insightful review of sexual behavior and sexuality across species, across history, and across the individual lifespan with an evolutionarily informed perspective. This fascinating text put forth by Gray and Garcia is pleasurable for the layman reader interested in the evolutionary underlining of human sexuality, as well as the advanced evolutionary scholar. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior is more than an easily digestible pop-evolutionary text; this book can be successfully applied in academic contexts, and bring a fresh perspective to evolutionary psychology and human sexuality courses. (Lora E. Adair Human Ethology Bulletin 2014-06-01)
Gray and Garcia offer an updated look at the evolutionary roots of human sexual behavior and deliver an entertaining yet scientific account of how and why we humans are similar to other animals but still unique when it comes to our sex lives...Walking the line between reaching the general public, while providing a comprehensive enough scientific background to educate college students, is a difficult task, one that is achieved here in part by extensively reviewing recent primary literature. Even if I was kept awake by knowing how crocodile dung was used in Egypt, and by thoughts of Darwin in my bedroom, I will rely on this book both for teaching in the classroom and entertaining at cocktail parties. (Patricia L. R. Brennan Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2014-03-01)
This is a well-researched, well-written, and engaging volume. Gray and Garcia navigate cross-cultural, cross-species, and diachronic data on sexuality and reproduction to illuminate human sexual behavior...Stimulating, useful, and well reasoned. (David A. Puts Quarterly Review of Biology 2014-09-01)
It is one of the best that I have read on the subject and is a useful resource for anyone interested in the field of sexual selection and reproductive behavior in humans...I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in human reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. The amount of material covered is impressive and the maintenance of academic rigor while producing an interesting, readable text is to be applauded. This is a valuable read for undergraduate and graduate students who will set this book down with a greater understanding of the dynamic nature of reproductive behavior, free from normative language regarding human sexuality and essentialized sex roles found in other published materials. (Ryan Schacht American Journal of Human Biology 2013-10-01)
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Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy — an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity...In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea…Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for thousands of years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world — and those beyond it…Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan's charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power strong enough to overcome Lilith. A circle of six: himself, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms, and the one he's lost. And it is in this circle, hundreds of years in the future, where Hoyt will learn how strong his spirit — and his heart — have become…
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Our yachts, including Beaufort Venture, and 1720s will be in action next week.
The February Mid-Term Sailing Course is taking place from Monday 20th to Friday the 24th of February and running from 9am-5pm each day. As a number of schools don't have the whole week off we have generous discount and pro-rata pricing options for those who can only do a day or two! There's full details on this here.
We've spent a number of years building up both our yacht and keelboat fleet as well as the advanced qualifications among of team of staff that are required to bring sailors afloat on these exciting machines safely. Our 1720 fleet stands at 7 high performance, yet very manageable keelboats while recent expansion in the yacht fleet sees Lynx, a Reflex 38, joined by Beaufort Venture and Jedi.
We're keen to get the junior course attendees sailing these boats and learning a whole new set of skills - skills that extend far from the practical ones needed to make the boat move, but team work and communication skills that a crew require to all work together to make one of these larger boats move.
As part of the February Mid-Term sailing course we'll spend a bit of time on these boats in addition to dinghy sailing, kayaking and much more. Our experience is that children not only enjoy the challenges of sailing one of these larger boats but become great friends from striving to achieve a common endeavor. I'll be personally overseeing this component of the programme which I'm really excited to have the oppertunity to offer to our junior sailors.
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Yorick, although most people say he is underpowered in all forums he is a really strong mid-end game champion and i see he relays on his weapon alot and has powerful spells/ghouls that support him
Runes arent that of an impact in this build, i mostly concentrate on armour pen, him being a mele character and his ghouls taking his damage and healths he needs it, health quints added coz he has low health at first and really squishy and hard to farm at the first levels, it helps in survivability
because after level 11 he spams his spells always , he needs the utility section of a mage and some defense that will help him though, every build i tried with full offense masteries fails
Survivalty that what Yorick needs at first, his mana regen is so poor same with his health, the masteires should help alot with that but picking up a phils stone the moment u get that 300 gold in lane will HELP ALOT, then u build ur manu.. gives u mana that can hardly finish and scales with ur ad, its a must item in Yorick, it removes one of his biggest problems and that is mana and mana regen , and gives u a boost in ad too that scales with ur spells, being a mele you will need that cc red shoes with the extra magic resist, after that u build ur warmog and impler, ur manu will keep ur ad fine till u finish those two, after those two u caan crush them squishies easily in battles, mostly games finsih here but if it extendes , id build a banshee and a sheen that will make ur Q attack hit like poppy's , really hits hard, if u get a trinity then GG , ul own team fights with ur ghouls spwaning every 3 secs
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quite obvoius, the Q gives u damage and scales with ur ad , while the e will heal u and its really kinda good amount , the w is an aoe slow and damage that one rank would be enough
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The decade-long super-edition of Where's Waldo ended last night when Evil Mastermind, Boris Badenov, I mean Osama Bin Laden, was killed at his luxury secret lair and disposed at sea.
With expansive Jupiter conjuncting warriorlike Mars in its ruler, Aries, it was the perfect moment for a BIG event in a matter concerning war.
While no one knows Bin Laden's exact date of birth, or year, or even sign (as befits an International Man of Mystery), we do know the event chart of 9/11, and there are several interesting transits being made.
Saturn in Libra is conjuncting Mercury on the Ascendant of the 9/11 chart. Saturn is the planet of confinement, while Mercury is the brains of the operation, signifying the endgame for the person who set the entire thing up.
Transitting Mercury in the house of open enemies opposing Mercury of 9/11 shows that we finally got the intel needed to locate and outwit Bin Laden, while transitting Venus opposing Mercury means we were able to get rid of him in the most harmonious and discrete way possible.
The transitting South Node in Gemini is close to 9/11's Moon, allowing closure to a painful past situation. There will be an eclipse on June 1st in Gemini, close to 9/11s Saturn. On the 15th, a lunar eclipse will fall very close to the Moon of the 9/11 chart. Eclipse events often are surprising information comes to light that puts an end to situation and can occur up to a month before the eclipse.


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Laura brought along a very interesting scrapbook that someone had painstakingly compiled from cuttings of beautifully intricate crochet designs. She discovered it at a car boot sale and felt that it was far too beautiful not to be rescued.
There were also some other very talented crafters at the event. Here are two very beautiful quilts.
And look at this Knitivity!
In other news I am about to head off to the Isle of Wight for a few days with my sister and her kids to annoy our dad. She doesn't know it yet but part of her belated birthday present is the Manos clapotis. I have also put together a couple of presents for the kids from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival - a couple of colourful drop spindles (I keep producing festival booty like rabbits out of a hat, I know). I've made them up little packets of multi coloured fluff and thought that as the weather forecast is not marvellous, they might enjoy having a bit of a play with these. I'll let you know how we get on!As far as knitting news is concerned, I remain obsessed with the Schaeffer Heather sock and have already finished the first one. It will becoming to the Island with me so there may be a pair to report when I see you next. Of course they are going to be accompanied by the usual entourage of the rest of the sock family plus several potential band members in the form of spare balls of sock yarn.
Well I wouldn't want to run out would I?
I nearly forgot to say. I had a lovely comment from Nick, who makes the sock blockers who said that if anyone orders a set of blockers and mentions this blog they will get a free set of stitch markers.


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Life. It's what happens when we're busy making other plans. Other plans like what this post was supposed to be – a) written for Monday and b) all about being Back in the Saddle again. See, Monday was supposed to be my first mountain bike ride since I took a tumble last fall. And I had this whole plan for pictures and talking about friends who we rode with and shaking the cobwebs off and how awesome it is to have riding friends in Bethany Jane and her sweetie.
|This post is supposed to be filled with photos like this
And then half an hour before we were meant to go meet said friends, I learned that my grandma had passed away that morning. Life.
We could still have gone for a ride, but given my lack of confidence, my heart and head just wouldn't have been in the right place. I needed some quiet to reflect, so instead I headed to the garden and let my tears make clean streaks through the dirt on my face. Somewhere in the conversations I was having in my head with Gram, I realised that if she had been more herself these last few years (her memory was all but gone by the end), she would have loved that I've taken up this crazy sport in my slow-moving old lady sort of way. She always had an adventurous spirit; I can imagine her loving the freedom a bike gives.
Life is also why there's a spot for me to write today, instead of on my usual Monday spot (and thanks, Jenn, for filling in so beautifully). You see, today should be team member Phil's spot, but our illustrious pro racer on the Evil Vengeance Tour has rebroken a wrist, which makes both riding and writing more than a little difficult. Being the wheel-obsessed man that he is, Phil has found a work-around for the riding. If only it were as fun to teach oneself to type one-handed.
|Photo courtesy of Phil, who is determined to bike whatever way he can.
When we started The Mountain Bike Life, we all had things about mountain biking we wanted to share. The rides, the trails, the bikes, the gear, the racing, the learning. We – the team members and our building roster of guest writers – wanted to create a place on the web that was slightly different from other mountain biking sites – a place that had great content, and a little bit more – to get to what drives all that other stuff.
So this post is out of time. It's short. There aren't the normal number of pictures. And, sometimes we do the best we can with what life hands us – the mountain bike life, or any other.