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Postdoc Positions - Fisheries Population Modeller/Fisheries Oceanographer, Technical University Of Denmark
Postdoc position - Fisheries Population modeller/fisheries Oceanographer to investigate effects of climate change on cod spatial distributions and trophic interactions in the north Atlantic. The period of employment is 1.5 years with possibilities for prolongation. Starting time is January 17, 2012.
DTU Aqua is part of the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate based at the University of Copenhagen. We have three positions vacant in the area of fish population dynamics and biodiversity. Additional information about the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate can be found here: http://macroecology.ku.dk/
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Cod is a widely distributed high level predator in marine ecosystems of the north Atlantic. It preys on species such as herring, capelin, and northern shrimp. The predator-prey interactions between cod and its prey will likely change as climate change progresses during the coming decades. These changes could occur because distributions of cod and prey species will shift. However, some species may change their distributional ranges more than others and the changes themselves will depend on regional differences in the impact of climate change on hydrographic conditions in local areas. Research will investigate how the distributions of the species will change, and how to integrate knowledge of species interactions between cod and its prey into species distribution models. Expected outputs are new combined species distribution – trophic interaction models which include process knowledge of both predator and prey biology, and maps of forecasted distributions of predator and prey.
The work should consider species' entire ranges, rather than on a local stock-by-stock basis, and address the regional impact of climate change on key life history parameters (e. g., recruitment, growth, maturation). The work should integrate species interactions (e. g., predation), population dynamics modeling (e. .g, cohort analyses, predator-prey interactions) and species habitat modeling, and yield process-oriented insight to mechanisms affecting distribution and abundance in different areas of the north Atlantic.
Candidates must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).
We are seeking a population or ecosystem modeller/fisheries oceanographer with interests in effects of climate change on population dynamics, marine ecosystems and biogeography. The candidate should have a strong background in fish population/ecosystem modeling, quantitative statistical methods and computer programming (e. g., R, Matlab); experience with GIS desirable.
The candidate should also have excellent writing and oral presentation skills in English (i. e., as documented by publications in peer-reviewed literature and conference presentations), and is expected to present results in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences.
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The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed with the relevant union.
The candidate will be located at the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, but will be employed by DTU Aqua.
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Further information can be obtained from Professor Brian MacKenzie, e-mail: ---, +45 3588 3445.
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5 Baltimore rappers on the rise [Pictures]
Meet 5 of Baltimore's most promising MCs, and listen to some of their best tracks. --By Wesley Case (@midnightsunblog)
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When asked about his inspiration to pick up a microphone, Jay Verze (born Darius Exum) doesn't cite Snoop, Wayne or Eminem.
"When I was younger, my father played old records in the house," Verze said. "I was the biggest Temptations fan."
You won't mistake any of his music for "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," but Verze's answer makes sense after hearing his most recent effort, "21117" (named after the zip code of his hometown, Owings Mills). Verze has a singsong flow that puts melody over wordplay, an artistic choice that has launched plenty of rap careers (Wiz Khalifa, most recently).
"I love singing," Verze said. "For my song 'Cruisin',' I didn't want to focus on the lyrics too much. I had the melody in my head first."
That might make some hip-hop traditionalists (read: curmudgeons) cringe, but that type of rapping has become immensely popular in recent years. Verze, an observant and mature teen, has taken mental notes on how rap has diversified its sound since he began listening at age 7.
"Starting at a young age has given me time to make mistakes and to learn the game as much as I can," he said. "I know what not to do."
Verze is cautious about how he presents himself. He knows the perceptions older people have of his generation, and he aims to change them.
"People always think we're loud, ignorant, hot-headed," he said. "People think we're immature. But that's not everybody. I don't smoke or drink, honestly."
His next project is a currently untitled EP Verze hopes to release next summer. To hold fans over, he plans to release a new single, "David Ruffin," named after -- who else? -- the Temptations singer.
Verze says Baltimore's rap scene is still finding its place, which he considers an exciting prospect.
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Extracting causal relationships from Chinese written text
Liu, X. and Hoede, C. (2002) Extracting causal relationships from Chinese written text. [Report]
Expert systems form one of the most important research areas in Artificial Intelligence. The main parts in expert systems are knowledge bases and inference engines. In the knowledge bases the main knowledge is knowledge in the form of ``IF-THEN" statements. In knowledge graphs, a new form of knowledge representation, the ``IF-THEN" statements are tied up with causal operators (CAU-relations). In this paper, we picked out some Chinese operators with ``CAU" meaning, and investigated these operators. We also show by an example how to extract causal relations from a given Chinese writing text.
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(Moonbattery) – New photographic evidence documents the horror of white supremacy. Black women have apparently resorted not only to hair-straightening but to actual surgical alteration of their faces to make themselves look more like Caucasians. Check out the schnozzles of infamous moonbats of color Michelle Obama and Susan Rice before and after whitification:


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Mexican at Santa Fe #food #restaurant #perth #margarita #friends (Taken with Instagram at Santa Fe)
Snapper and mash! Seafood here is so amazing!
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Lowdown was closed for the christmas period so came here instead :)
Sorry Bench, but I like Lowdown better :$
It is still on the tasty end of cafes though :) and the sandwich was nice!
And this place does siphon coffee! Very intrigued by this concept so have to come try one day :)
San Churros, Subiaco
Well to say the least I was disappointed. After having some of the greatest churros at Northbridge these ones came as quite a shock. They were thin and way too crispy and the dipping sauce was thick and not abled to be dipped in. Although somewhat generous with the icing sugar, this does not make up for the pathetic piece of dough they tried to pass off as a churro. I hope that this was a one off thing, and I'll probably go back to give it another shot however I do recommend the one in leederville or northbridge. The service too was rather slow, but I do commend them on their great milkshakes but then again its not San Milkshakes.
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The world is still not safe for democracy.
The budget impasse tonight pivoted on one point – abortion, a miniscule fraction of the total. Yet Obama and Reid and a plethora of screaming feminists were literally frothing at the mouth over the suggestion abortion funding might be curtailed. They tried tirelessly to justify the "A" word, but God wasn't listening
David writes: "… thou hast covered me in my mother's womb…. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Psalms 139:13-16).
The words of Jeremiah: "Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).
"And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; And entered into the house of Zacharias… And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb" (Luke 1:39 -41).
Tonight, as the cause of the innocent among us went again unheard, we all remain complicit in that euphemism called "a woman's right to choose." For a less sanitized rendition, go to Google, click Images, and enter the word "abortion."
In that Day Obama and Reid and a plethora of feminists (unless there is repentance) will stand before the Lord in silence.
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged… according to their works…. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life…" (Revelation 20:11-15).
So the net is 10 days worth of interest on our debt-big whoop. And look what it took to get that. Buy gold.
The constitution requires the separation of church and state. As C Smith rightly recognizes, restricting abortion reflects religious conviction. A woman's right to choose is protected by the constitution, and may not prescribed by imposing some religious conviction on the nation's women.
Barry is a lying limp-wristed blowhard.
What a total and complete FRAUD Obama and the Congressional Democrats are. Maybe if they hadn't extended the Bush tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, there wouldn't be a need to cut spending.
Send Obama and the Congressional Democrats to LIARS PRISON, where they should stay for LIFE.
So, once again, we're sacrificing the poor and middle class for the short-term political gain of "cutting spending." These cuts are meaningless to the overall deficit. What is $38 billion when the deficit is almost 2 trillion dollars, or when the Bush tax cuts for the rich that were just extended are costing us nearly one trillion? Obama gets a win because he looks like the only responsible figure in this mess, getting in at the last second and making a deal, bad as it may be. Boehner wins simply by not shutting down the government and by getting enough drastic cuts to appease the teabaggers. The American people are the only losers…
I have a new nickname for Mr. Boehner – the 'cave' man.
Harry Reid and Planned Parenthood thank you, Mr. Speaker. They couldn't have done it without you.
"We will cut $78.5 billion below the President's 2011 budget proposal."
Well F-U!
Those RINO sons of…
The president's budget was fantasy – a fantasy based upon a disaster! That's why when the Dems controlled both Houses of Congress last year no budget was passed; indeed none was even written and brought to the floor for a vote!
Obama, Reid and Pelosi were and are liars.
But Boehner…? He's perhaps the worst of them all. Why? Because he knows better… because he supposedly cares for this country.
Republicans promised us… PROMISED us… that if we elected them they'd cut the federal budget by $100 billion.
One elected this $100 billion became $61 billion – supposedly the functional equivalent of $100 billion. (since Republicans only had 9 out of 12 months of budget responsibility).
And now they try to spin this "deal" as keeping their promises, as sticking to their guns, as standing firm…?!?!
F-U, Boehner! F-U!
We have had to suffer bad Kabuki over less than $100 billion, when the solution that will improve our prospect is in the $ trillions.
ONLY after the WSJ told the Tea Party that they were going to DIE IN A LOW STAKES BATTLE did the kooks finally back-off.
The TP did LOSE, and in a big way.
They have lost the mantle of patriotism when they advocated NOT PAYING OUR MILITARY AND THEIR FAMILIES.
They are country hating kooks.
Morons always destroy themselves.
Moderates everywhere now use the word Tea Party as a pejorative.
The next election is coming, and those right wingers are going to get the reality check every idiot gets eventually.
Rove is right. This budget deal HURT the Republican Party.
I am not fan of the Democrats, but for the sake of sanity, can moderates have a Republican candidate who is NOT A NUTJOB?
Moderates = strong on defense, strong on our borders, stingy on entitlement programs, and social welfare, and public education.
Leave the RELIGION OUT.
BUDGET FIGHT: Harry Reid Calling Republicans "Kettles" ??
What a wonderful time for unity. We've started our third "war" to secure oil to satisfy our needs. We've tried to spend our way out of recession and have created rampant inflation outside the core. Our greatest City-States lie in a cesspool of unfunded future promises. And the Country itself has become the largest debtor nation in the world, living from hand to mouth on debt secured by Oil Rich and Trade Advantaged Countries. What a wonderful time for our Congress to come together, working harmoniously, without invective, without recrimination, dutifully balancing the Nation's Check Book, as mandated in Elections only five months old. Instead, we had one of the grandest media hosted slugfests of all time. Thank heavens that we were so fortunate to have Harry Reid step down from Washington D.C.'s Mount Vesuvius to share with us the true reasons for the difficulties and last minute maneuverings to save 100′s of Thousands of Federal, and presumably twice that number of dependent private industry jobs. It was the evil "low road" Republicans for sure.
Poor overworked John Boehner, who had to meet, all by himself, with the President, the Vice President, and Harry Reid, appeared stressed and flushed. Why, he hardly had time between negotiations to do much more than say that "things are moving towards an agreement" or "the remaining issue is about spending". If left to this banal accounting, we might have died of emotionless puzzlement at the contra indicating beehive of activity that the Capital had become in just days before Easter Holidays. Fortunately, Harry Reid was able to set the Record straight. It was the Democrats who were offering to include more reductions, and the Republicans who were holding up the process with divisive argument. The Democrats had negotiated cuts down from the original planned (mandated) $100B to $75B then $61B and finally $33B. Without Harry's openness, we never would have known that Democrats "sacrificed" to give the unruly Republicans $5.5B more to bring the total to $38.5B as a show of Democratic willingness to compromise and work with Republicans. Then there were the divisive issues that Harry told us about. Those evil Republicans were going to take the money out of innocent Women's mouths and away from Families and Family Planning so they could continue to fight war and cuddle up with evil moguls on wall street. Meanwhile, poor John Boehner, failing strangely to cast rebutting words of derision, carried the load of Republican evil between the doors of the House and the doors of the White House, with little more than "We're working hard, we're closer, it's just a matter of spending".
Praise the lord! Within minutes of the bewitching hour when all would be lost, Congress articulates the deal, breaks out the sideline issues so they didn't muddy the water but would capture the innocent and the guilty, and quickly voted. A strange thing happened. When all the dust settled, and all the votes counted, both Democrats and Republicans had voted very much alike. And resoundingly, not just marginally, they all had voted for "it", whatever "it" is. Disruptive portions were defeated, resoundingly, by both sides, and the budget, no matter how diluted from initial promise or intent, was confirmed, whether by Democrat or Republican. Oh to be sure, there were similar small quantities of die hards on either side to say "Nay", as there always are. But strangely enough, by a vast majority, whether Democrat or Republican, both voted alike.
Now but a day later, various politicians are on the road, eager to take credit for saving the day. Thank heavens that Harry Reid created the "terminology" to properly describe the effort, and the "framework" around which his fellow Democrats might properly cast their story. You see, to hear them retell Harry's timely accounting, the Democrats took the high road, while the Republicans took the low. Democrats willingly compromised on the total amount of the cuts, while Republicans fought tooth and nail for measly little 333M savings which were intentionally socially and vote killing events, like lemmings too dumb to count the effect on their own electorates. It wasn't the President who slammed down his fist and said "Shut it Down", it was really those subversive "Middle of the Road" swing voters the "Tea Party" who said it. And to be sure, John wasn't "gang banged" in the Oval Office, he was "counseled". Thank heavens for Harry Reid, and all his fellow companions who've come out after the fray, to set us straight.
Thank Heavens that we had Harry Reid to call the Republicans "Kettles". Can you imagine that if those evil Tea Party People had won the Senate too, then we would never have known of the perfidy these evil "Kettles" performed. We might have wrongly concluded that all were to blame…and as such…all had a job to do…perhaps even better than a job only partially done. Oh well, that's Congressional Staff Work for sure. Thank you, oh thank you, Harry the Pure.
Obama declares " leaders in both parties reached an agreement that will allow our small businesses to get the loans they need, our families to get the mortgages they applied for…" Since when did was it a good thing to depend on the government to get a loan or mortgage, Mr President? Please stay out of our lives.
Let's at least thank the boys for adverting a government shut-down for now!!!
Shut down? More would be open than on any federal holiday, any Saturday or Sunday. "Shut Down" fear mongers use it as an excuse for lack of leadership and principle.
Notice how the (Republican-favoring) Wall Street Journal opened its coverage after the deal was announced. The "Republican won…." while the "Democrats managed to…." Keep an eye out between now and November, 2012 for that sort of linguistic bias until Mr. Murdoch is assured his friends are back in control of this once-great nation.
Hey PhysicisKing – I'm a former lifelong Dem who is a Tea Partier, so I don't quite fit your narrative of the religious right!
The Tea Party is more popular than Congress and we are used to critcs. Karl Rove is no Tea Partier – he is a RINO progressive who's Bush service help make this mess.
If this really is the most cuts that Congress has done in history, we are in big trouble!
Get the damn religious zealots out of our party. I don't like abortion and think it's murder, but holding the whole d@mn country up over it isn't the answer. Even the hippy-socialist-loving-libtards aren't throwing this big of a hissy fit over the deaths in the middle east.
How about using birth control, which I will admit is also provided by Planned Parenthood. I'd rather give a welfare queen free birth control than up the amount of her welfare check for every fatherless child she pops out.
I hate the idea of our government taxing us to poverty, and I'm sure as heck not a fan of Barry-from-Kenya or the rest of the socialist dumbocrats, but even Ronald Regan stood up to GE and their tax dodging ilk. Companies like this are not acting responsible or paying for the U.S. services they utilize.
What happened to the $60 Billion in cuts for FY 2011 budget?
The Tea Party members of the House need to desert Mr. Boehner and this sham agreement en masse and vote against it next week.
If Tea Party members don't take a stand and support their voters, their voters won't continue to support them.
Here's a new sing-along that EVERYONE should know but apparently do not, (yet):
To the tune of "I'm being swallowed by a boa-constrictor" (A favorite child's song of mine, and quite an apt associated concept.)
A tril lion is — a thou sand billions.
A tril-lion is — a thou sand billions.
A tril lion is — a thou sand billions.
And I don't like it ve ry much.
It seems that many posters here have forgotten that our government works best when there are negotiations and compromise. They can't be blamed after the way that the Dems ignored the legislative process for so long, but let's get real: the opening position was $0 cuts by Dems vs. $60 million cuts for Repubs; the agreement position was $38 million in cuts – and don't forget the cuts from previous extensions – $10.5 million; grand total $48.5 million in just three months. It ain't $60 million, but it ain't peanuts either. If Boehner and his crew continue in this way the 2012 budget will truly be "historic".
Oh thank goodness the Washington Monument will not close.
I always say the heck with future generations. Lets just SPEND SPEND SPEND full speed ahead driven by the high-RPM, low-IQ members of our beloved Government. Why not spend many times more than take in? What could go wrong?
I am just thankful it is back to the old. I would be really upset if the Washington Monument were to be closed and I could only gaze upon Washington's phallus, instead of getting a guided tour by someone making 6 figures and getting a million $ pension fund.
Thank you DC.
Again, people, am I alone in noticing that the politicians and media – including, unfortunately, the WSJ – are simpatico regarding making this "deal" as hard to comprehend and follow as it's possible to make it?
Here… let me try it this way:
According to census.gov total federal spending for fiscal year 2010 was $3.72 trillion.
O.K.? Is that clear? (Feel free to backstop me, folks; heritage gives a figure of "only" $3.69 trillion.)
So… what's this supposedly "agreed to compromise" set to spend for 2011?
Either it's more or less… right?
If it's more than there's NO cut being made. If it's more than the politicians AND the media are trying to "fool" us.
If it's less… (*SIGH*)… then how much less? $100 billion less? $78 billion less? $61 billion less? $38.5 billion less?
Jeezus Christ, here, folks, whatever your position… whatever your party, ideology, or policy position regarding this year's budget… don't you care about getting the truth…?
Am I the only reader of the WSJ concerned with knowing the truth?
Is there no shame in Washington, D.C.? Why cannot our public officials exhibit any shred of responsibility or integrity?
How can everyone paint a happy picture of their "accomplishments" to avert a government shut-down? This budget compromise is merely a "slow-down" in the rate of deficit-spending. By definition, if our government is spending funds it does not possess, that is a horrible, deceitful, and destructive fiscal practice that harms every American, whether they realize it or not. Obviously, if we're deficit-spending, we're spending too much and it bring us closer to the fiscal abyss of a financial crisis.
Those that want to spend more than the available government's revenues should be ashamed. Those that allowed such spending to occur should also be ashamed.
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The government is shutting down.
2012 Obama.
The world is going to end.
amazed by the # of idiots commenting on this blog. glad to see the left-wing fools and the right-wing nut jobs get their b*ners by being bombastic
Both political parties are corrupt and nothing short of a revolution will change anything!
I would not be proud of this agreement. I would not be thankful. In the two weeks of the negotiations they borrowed more money than they cut. if I was the president I would be ashamed. Ashamed of the american people stealing from their neighbors for hand outs. Ashamed that the need for cowboy poetry is so great that we borrow from the chinese to afford it. After this pathetic offering shame is all I would feel. Dismal economy, home lose, schools still being held hostage by unions and incompetance. There should not be so many government workers period. 700,00 non esential? How about cutting that force by 2/3.
End this failure of a drug war…… marijuana regulation can generate billions per state in sales tax alone, not even counting the amount we will save on arrest and impriosionment……..
AMERICA – I know I am dreaming and drinking Koo-laid BUT! What if "We the American Voters" contact and ask President Obama and our Senators and Congressmen from our state who represent us, to give up their PAY CHECK until the 2012 Budget is passed and signed into Law by President Obama. I wonder how long it would take the GOP and DEMOCRATS to pass the budget. "We the People" have to live within our budgets so………….why not the US Government? I know — I know I am dreaming BUT we could ask [NO DEMAND!]
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Questions about your baby's sleep needs can really keep a new parent up at night. Should you wake baby for feedings? How can you help your baby start sleeping through the night? Is co-sleeping safe?
To find the answers to these questions, WebMD went to Jennifer Shu, MD, an Atlanta pediatrician, medical editor of HealthyChildren.org, and co-author of Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality. She shared her thoughts on these and other top concerns parents have about their new baby's sleep needs.
When should my baby start sleeping through the night?
Some babies sleep through the night within a week or two of being born. But most have their days and nights backward at first, sleeping more in the day and less at night.
Most babies will start sleeping at night at about four months of age. You won't get an uninterrupted stretch of the baby sleeping 10-12 hours, but you will get about five hours and then another good uninterrupted stretch after a night feeding.
Don't worry if your baby is four months old and still isn't sleeping that long. You can help her along by letting her sleep at night, not waking her to feed, and by keeping things dark and quiet. Save the exciting, fun things until daytime.
How much nap time does my baby need?
Normally when babies are first born, everything is eat, sleep, eat, sleep, so you don't really count any of that sleeping as naps. But somewhere between one and six months of age, babies tend to settle into a three-naps-a-day pattern, where each nap can last an hour or two, before going to a one-nap-a-day pattern after their first birthday. Most kids lose their need for naps by about 5 years of age.
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Overall, I suggest not waking babies at night so they can find their own sleep schedule. And you generally don't have to wake them in the day either, because most will wake on their own. If you notice that the baby is sleeping for longer stretches during the day, then I wouldstart waking them in the day, so they don't get night and day mixed up.


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Chapter 60 Reviews
Sphere ships are chasing down the Saint Nazaire, and Cortes, Dahlia and Mahad are still stuck inside the complex.
"What?" Wayan checked his console. Sure enough, patrollers had appeared from nowhere, and more were coming out of the complex.
They each lined themselves up around the Saint Nazaire, forming a perimeter between them and the open sky.
"They've got us surrounded... I don't' think we can get out," Cheng added.
Wayan looked at his console again, then back at the complex in front of him. "Not on my watch..."
He powered up the engines and swung the Saint Nazaire up from the edge of the dock.
"Wayan... I don't think we can get out..."
"Saint Nazaire. You are surrounded. Surrender, or we will open fire," the radio buzzed.
"Wayan..." Lena added.
"We're not going out..." Wayan finally answered as he levelled the Saint Nazaire and steadied his hand on the throttle. "... we're going in." He pushed the throttle forward and the Saint Nazaire dove through the open dock and into the complex. Sphere weapons fire strafed the side of the building where the Saint Nazaire had been, but the ship was already inside and protected by the metal walls.
Some of the Sphere patrollers peeled off from the perimeter and followed the Saint Nazaire inside.
"Um... are we going to be able to fit through here?" Lena asked.
"Cheng?" Wayan asked.
"Ah... our sensors still aren't penetrating very far ahead. I can tell you if you need to stop, but as for giving directions..." he trailed off.
"Okay..." Wayan slowed the Saint Nazaire slightly as he came to a corner, swung around it, and then pulled the ship out into a more open area. He increased the speed and dodged towards another tunnel.
"Sphere ships are following us..." said Cheng. "They're more manoeuvrable in here too, they're catching up."
"I could use my powers to pull some of these tunnels in behind us..." suggested Lena.
"How long can you keep that up?" Wayan asked.
"I'm not sure..."
"Use the rear gun turret instead. Think you can shoot down a few ships?"
"Yeah, I'll try."
Dahlia peered out the window, and then ducked back down to the floor. "Diwan's there with more Brigs!"
"There were only three before. I think she's got Cortes cornered."
"Are we actually going to be able to get out of here?" Mahad asked.
"... let me think. We might be able to slip out of here... but I'm not sure after that. We're going to have to help Cortes."
Mahad pushed himself up and onto the back seats. "I'm sorry I got you into this..."
"It's not your fault... right now we've got to try and find a way out of here."
Mahad looked out the window from where he was sitting. "What about that?"
"What?" Dahlia asked, coming and sitting next to him so she could see what he was looking at.
"That..." Mahad pointed. "It's some sort of transport vehicle... they must've used it to move stuff around this place."
"It's worth a try, if it still works... we still have to get out of this without Diwan or the Brigs seeing us. Think you can get out without falling over anything?"
"Yeah... you might have to hold my hand but..." A slight grin played at the corners of Mahad's mouth.
Dahlia opened her mouth, but then realised he was probably right at any rate. He would just enjoy it. "Okay... okay, let's just get out of here." She helped Mahad up and made sure Diwan wasn't looking before popping open the hatch. "Don't make any noise..." she whispered.
Diwan and the Brigs still had their attention on Cortes.
Cortes saw the Hyperion simulator's hatch pop up out of the corner of his eye. He didn't look at it. Whatever Dahlia was doing, she was taking a risk.
"Why do you need Lena so badly anyway, Diwan? You've got plenty of kids in your Guardian School," he growled out the last two words.
"What, don't you approve of our Guardian School?"
"No, not really."
"If I'm not mistaken... you've got Lena on the pirate ship of yours. Or does she not count as a child when you can put her powers to good use?"
"I actually have two children on that ship. There's a reason I left them there."
"Yes... on the ship my patrollers are about to destroy. Quite protective of you, Cortes."
"They're part of the reason you won't get away with this."
"As are the children in our Guardian School. Even if I don't defeat you here, I think they'll make sure your pathetic rebellion never succeeds. Face it; you had your time twelve years ago. You were defeated. Now you only continue getting weaker, even as we get stronger."
Cortes tightened his hands into fists, but couldn't think of a response.
Diwan's radio buzzed. "What!?" She listened for a moment. "Then deal with it!" she shouted and shut it off. She turned back to Cortes. "Okay Cortes, I'll give you one last chance. It seems your crew are not being so cooperative in handing over your ship. Tell you what, get them to come quietly and we'll let you all go. Once we have Lena, of course." She tossed her radio at Cortes. It floated the rest of the way under the direction of her Seijin powers, and then stopped in front of him. "Contact them. /Now/." She nodded to the Brigs and they trained their weapons on him. "Trust me. This is in your best interests."
Cortes snatched the radio from the air.
"I got one!" Lena exclaimed.
A Sphere patroller spun out of control from the blast, and tumbled into a wall with a burst of flame.
The other patrollers dodged around it and kept coming.
"Good, keep it up," said Wayan. He pulled the Saint Nazaire into a dive. The ship plummeted down a wide shaft and then levelled out and sped away. The patrollers kept up easily
The radio buzzed. "Wayan, come in."
"Cortes? Where are you? We're in a bit of trouble here!"
"Don't worry, I know."
Cortes sounded calm, but Wayan could hear the anger underlying his voice. "What's going on?"
"It seems we've run into a well planned trap. Looks like there's only one way out."
"Wayan... don't let those bastards catch you, alright?" The connection cut out.
"There are more Sphere ships coming. Dead ahead!" said Cheng.
Wayan dodged down another tunnel, avoiding the Sphere ships ahead of him. The ships ahead and those behind folded in together, and kept following the Saint Nazaire.
"Wayan, we can't loose them in here..." said Cheng, "we're too big!"
"I know, I know... Lena, how're you going shooting them down?"
"I've got a few, and I think I'm getting better. But more just keep on coming."
"You said before you could pull in the tunnels behind us," said Cheng. "Maybe, instead of shooting the ships, take a shot at the walls. If we can find some structures in here that are loose or ready to break then they should be easy to shoot down."
"Let's find something we can shoot then..." said Wayan, and pulled the Saint Nazaire into a more run down part of the complex. "How's this?"
Lena took a couple shots with the gun. One of the walls shuddered as the blasts impacted it, and then fell across the tunnel behind them, effectively cutting its size in half.
Two Sphere patrollers smashed directly into the fallen piece of metal, and three more overcorrected and crashed into the walls.
"Alright!" shouted Cheng. "Let's find some more stuff to shoot down!"
"Big mistake!" Diwan growled, glaring at Cortes. "Brigs, destroy him!"
"One last thing!" Cortes shouted.
Diwan raised a hand for the Brigs to stop. "What?! I'm losing patience..."
"Look behind you."
Diwan frowned. Cortes couldn't be stupid or desperate enough to try such a ridiculous trick. But then she noticed the light that glared up on Cortes and the wall behind him, followed by the growl of an engine.
"Take that!" Dahlia stamped her foot on the gas and the small transport vehicle swerved out into the open.
Seconds later the Brigs Dahlia had been aiming for scattered like skittles, propelled by the rubber bumper bar on the front of the vehicle. It was most likely designed to save damage in tight cargo holds, but now it served the purpose of causing damage much better.
The vehicle braked to a stop right beside Cortes. "Need a lift?" Dahlia asked.
"Thanks." Cortes swung himself into the back, scooping up the rifle he'd dropped on the way. "Now get us out of here."
"Yes, sir." Dahlia floored it again and the vehicle sped away.
Diwan pulled herself up from where she'd jumped to avoid being hit, and fired a blast after them. It missed. "Grr! Quit laying around!" she shouted at the Brigs, kicking the one nearest to her.
The few that were still functioning pulled themselves up.
"Bring me my ship! I'll catch them myself if I have to!"
Cortes checked behind them to make sure they weren't being immediately followed, before turning back to the front of the vehicle.
"Mahad, are you alright?"
"Yeah... Thanks for coming back."
"We weren't planning on leaving you behind."
"I hate to interrupt..." said Dahlia, "but where's the Saint Nazaire?" She brought their vehicle to a halt at the empty dock where the Saint Nazaire had landed.
"Diwan was trying to capture the ship. Wayan would've had to move." Cortes pulled out his radio. "Wayan, come in." It simply buzzed with static.
"Um... guys... Sphere!" Mahad pointed out the open dock. Two Sphere patrollers had just drifted into view. They seemed to see them suddenly, and spun around to face them.
"Woah!" Dahlia hit reverse and spun the vehicle around in a tight circle, taking out some empty energy cylinders stacked along the wall, before speeding back into the complex.
"You should've let me drive!" said Mahad.
"You said you didn't feel up to it!"
"Mahad!" shouted Cortes before they could continue, "Make yourself useful. Try contacting the Saint Nazaire." He tossed the radio. With his hands now free he stood up and turned around, balancing with his back against the rollbar of the vehicle. He powered up his rifle. Unfortunately, it wasn't really designed to take down a ship. It would have to suffice.
"I got some more down!" Lena exclaimed. Behind the ship metal crashed in, only a few Sphere ships managing to dodge the debris.
"Good," said Wayan. They were doing damage. But they still had to escape, and find Cortes, Mahad and Dahlia. Right now they were only being successful in running, and they had no idea how many Sphere ships were in the complex.
Then the radio came alive again.
"Hello... can anyone hear me?"
"Mahad!" exclaimed Lena. She left the gun and ran down next to Cheng.
"Mahad? Where are you?" Wayan asked.
"Ah... some corridor... running for our lives..."
"We're close enough to pick up the radio signal," said Cheng. "I'll be able to track it and give you their location... well... close to it anyway."
"Mahad? Are you alright? I heard you calling for help..." Lena said into the radio.
"Ah... you don't have to worry about me, Lena. I'm just fine."
"I've got them!" said Cheng. "Wayan, I think you need to take the next left. Then maybe go down a bit."
"Where are they, Cheng?" Wayan asked, having followed his directions.
"I can't pinpoint them exactly. The signal's a bit fuzzy. But I'm sure they're close."
"Wayan's coming with the Saint Nazaire!" Mahad shouted back to Cortes.
"Let's hope he hurries..." Cortes fired a few more shots at the patroller behind them. It shuddered slightly, but the blasts seemed to just be absorbed by the hull. It drew closer. Cortes could see the gun turrets under its nose lining up with their vehicle. He took aim and blasted them.
The patroller didn't fire. Its gun simply sparked and then hung limply from its control system.
"At least I can take out your teeth..."
Dahlia angled the vehicle around another corner.
"Go down there!" Mahad pointed to a smaller corridor that had just come into view.
Dahlia shot down it, almost running up the wall. A burst of weapons fire impacted the entrance behind them, a desperate shot from the undamaged patroller. It was unable to follow them.
"I think we lost them..." said Dahlia.
Their vehicle shot from the corridor and back into a wider area. There were no Sphere ships in sight.
Cortes leaned forward and took the radio off Mahad. "Wayan? Now would be a good time to pick us up."
"Hang on... we're nearly on your position; seems it's a bit hard to figure out exactly where you are. I think we're almost there."
Suddenly what looked like a mass of metal dropped from a shaft in the ceiling ahead of them. It slowed its descent meters from the floor, and then picked up speed, moving away from them. Cortes cringed at the tight manoeuvrer, before shouting back into the radio. "Wayan, we're behind you!"
"What? ...right, I'll turn around ahead."
The Saint Nazaire pulled ahead then came to a stop where the corridor split both left and right, up and down. It started turning around carefully, the ramp dropping.
A blast of weapons fire impacted the wall near the Saint Nazaire.
Cortes whirled around. Diwan's modified S-22 had just dropped into the corridor behind them. It had a clear shot at them all the way between where they were and the Saint Nazaire. But her shot had missed. Cortes realised that probably had something to do with the fact that the Saint Nazaire would leave if it had no one to rescue.
It would also leave if he ordered Wayan to.
"That was a warning shot. I suggest you stop, the next one isn't missing." The message boomed out down the corridor. A loudspeaker was probably useful on the patroller, Cortes could imagine it being used to tell the residents of a block they were about to be obliterated for falling behind in water tax.
"Dahlia, stop..."
The vehicle skidded to a stop, spinning slightly from the sudden dampening of its speed.
"Cortes! We're sitting ducks!" exclaimed Mahad.
Dahlia glanced back at the ship. "We are anyway..."
Cortes ignored Mahad and pulled out his radio again. "Wayan, I think you'd better get out of here..."
The radio fizzled. "But..."
"That's an order!" He snapped the radio off.
The Saint Nazaire began to drop down the shaft it hovered above.
Diwan's S-22 shot after it, passing their vehicle, and fired at the Saint Nazaire. She was avoiding hitting anything critical.
"Wayan's going down... we can still get on board!" said Mahad. "Dahlia, let me drive!"
Mahad didn't wait for her to agree, and just pulled the steering column towards himself.
"Mahad!" Cortes growled.
"Trust me!" Mahad replied, and pushed the throttle straight to top speed.
Cortes grabbed the roll bar to prevent himself falling off from the sudden burst of acceleration, and looked ahead. They were still behind Diwan, and she probably couldn't see what they were doing. What it looked like Mahad planned to do was crazy. But knowing Mahad, he'd do it anyway. Cortes pulled out the radio again. "Wayan, if you can, I want you to slow down just a bit. And try and stay in that shaft you just dropped down."
"Sure thing... but why?"
Cortes sighed and gripped the roll bar even tighter. "Because I have a feeling Mahad is about to do something stupid."


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The Bruins seventh player award is given to whoever exceeds expectations the most; this season, Daniel Paille has without a doubt been that player. From the season's start on January 19, Paille has delivered a consistent effort on both ends of the ice. Whether skating five-on-five or playing the PK, Paille has given it his all and then some each and every night.
Recently, the former first round pick of the Buffalo Sabres has developed an offensive rhythm. Amidst a lull in which the team has scored only six goals in the past four games, coach Claude Julien made some needed changes-which included bumping Paille up to the second line, where he'd skate with Bruins forwards Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin.
Paille's effective play this season earned the trust of Julien, who spoke of the move before Monday night's game. "We've always asked guys to play the same way. What he does on that line is he forechecks well, he skates well, he scores goals, he's a straight-line kind of player. Defensively he kills penalties and everything else. We don't expect him to change that because I think that line can use that right now."
With the trade deadline right around the corner, now was the time for Julien to mix things up and see if this problem could be fixed internally, or if outside help was needed. The first test would be a Monday night matchup against the division rival Toronto Maple Leafs.
The first period consisted of minimal chances for each team. Paille looked comfortable skating on the second line, as his speed opened up space and strong forecheck provided extended offensive-zone time for Bergeron and Seguin.
This line had the best chance of the first period for either team when Paille flew down the left side of the ice and put a shot on net, producing a juicy rebound for Bergeron; Bergeron was denied on a nifty save by Leafs goaltender James Reimer.
The Leafs scored the game's first goal on the man-advantage early in the second period. Joffrey Lupul made it 1-0 Toronto when Boston gave up on a play, claiming the puck had gone offside. The mental error proved costly when Lupul slammed the puck into an open net.
Toronto quickly added another goal when the impressive Nazem Kadri sprung Nikolai Kulemin past the Boston defense; Kulemin's wrist shot beat Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask glove-side high extending Toronto's lead to two goals.
Milan Lucic added a goal of his own on an incredible straight-line rush, making it 2-1 Toronto after two periods of play.
Paille did everything asked of him in the second period, providing a strong net-front presence for Bergeron and Seguin to work with, tipping numerous shots from the point and creating a number of chances. His speed makes up for the loss of Brad Marchand on that line, and he showed it handful of times in Monday night's game.
Julien went back to the usual Bruins lines for the third period, perhaps insinuating enough of a spark was already produced.
The juggling worked once again, as Bergeron scored midway through the third period to tie the game at two. Rookie defensemen Dougie Hamilton showed incredible patience behind the Toronto goal, as he waited for Bergeron to get open and fed him the puck.
In the shootout, Seguin and Bergeron each scored for the Bruins who beat Toronto 3-2 on home ice.
After the game, Julien discussed the play of Paille, who had a bigger role than the normal fourth-line responsibility he's accustomed to. "He was very good. I think he had five shots on net. He didn't score, but certainly was a good player for us. Absolutely, I didn't mind his game tonight; he came up big for us. It's nice to see those kind of players step up and play those kind of games, because we have some players right now that are fighting to find there games."
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Cory, mom and I walked around bit until the kids were done, had a stop at the Gelato cafe, met some other friends and then back to the apartment for a rest.. Cory off to Urbino.
... variety of which I am more familiar. I was craving some seafood, so I had to order some white wine as well, which paired nicely with the cold appetizer that I shared with my father (small shrimp, cherry tomatoes, perfectly bitter radicchio and sweet onions in a balsamic vinaigrette glaze -- the contrast of flavours was perfect) and the octopus plate that I ordered for dinner. We followed it up with some absurdly expensive ...
Today my Mum and I caught a shuttle bus into an outlet shopping centre. We went into lots of shops such as Gap, Roxy and lots of other shops.We had lunch at a restaurant .One of my favourites is the lint shop we got ice cream and chocolate then swan in the pool and went to ...


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In a world dominated by magical thinking, superstition and misinformation, give yourself the benefit of doubt. This is one skeptic's view of the Universe; natural wonders and supernatural blunders.
"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed".
-Albert Einstein
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
-Carl Sagan
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.
-Christopher Hitchens
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The state Senate gave final legislative approval Monday night to a bill allowing local governments to erect monuments or displays of the Ten Commandments, along with such other "historically significant documents" as the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence and the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions.
The bill was among 10 that the Senate passed collectively on a single 30-0 vote as part of the "consent calendar" of relatively noncontroversial bills, without debate.
The House had unanimously approved the legislation on March 19.
The bill's preamble says that such documents "are treasures that should be displayed proudly and resolutely in public buildings and on public grounds." The bill says the documents may be displayed in public buildings and on public grounds in the form of "statues, monuments, memorials, tablets, or any other display that respects the dignity and solemnity of such documents."
Unbelievable. Except it is Tennessee, so it isn't…
Appearently, Tennessee wasn't paying attention when Kentucky and Alabama did this a few years ago :/
If they didn't keep pulling this shit, how else are they going to feel persecuted.
Who pays the court costs for this shit when they pull it anyway? I'm willing to bet the taxpayers do, which is funny since it's probably the same people screaming about their precious tax money going to "poor lazy people."
The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your
husbandpartner or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
~Bertrand Russell
(Source: twentytwowords.com)
Long before Moses people people knew not to do certain things:
No killing
No stealing
No adultery
No lying
It even seems that the Israelites watered down existing morality in order to make room for some monotheistic rules. So instead of, for instance, protecting children, they went with rules like "take no god before me" kinds of things.
The oath of Osiris, that every dead soul was supposed to take before getting access to the afterlife:
I have not reviled the God.
I have not laid violent hands on an orphan.
I have not done what the God abominates …
I have not killed; I have not turned anyone over to a killer.
I have not caused anyone's suffering … I have not copulated (illicitly); I have not been unchaste.
I have not increased nor diminished the measure, I have not diminished the palm; I have not encroached upon the fields.
I have not added to the balance weights; I have not tempered with the plumb bob of the balance.
I have not taken milk from a child's mouth; I have not driven small cattle from their herbage …
I have not stopped (the flow of) water in its seasons; I have not built a dam against flowing water.
I have not quenched a fire in its time …
I have not kept cattle away from the God's property. I have not blocked the God at his processions.
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.


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Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries failed to recoup yesterday's steepest loss in a week after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said he's ready to do more to sustain U.S. economic growth.
Investors should sell 10-year notes because European efforts to recapitalize the region's banks may boost stocks and hurt bonds, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said. Efforts to improve the American and European economies are unwinding bond gains made last month when investors seeking a haven sent yields on U.S. and German debt to record lows while stocks plunged.
"Anything positive from officials gives investors some relief," said Chungkeun Oh, a fixed-income trader in Seoul at Industrial Bank of Korea, South Korea's largest lender to small and medium-sized companies. Bernanke's remarks "gave investors a small amount of confidence and led yields to bounce."
Ten-year yields were little changed today at 1.83 percent as of 7:01 a.m. in London, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 2.125 percent security due in August 2021 changed hands at 102 21/32. The rate increased seven basis points yesterday, the most since Sept. 27.
Benchmark 10-year rates fell to 1.6714 percent in the U.S. and to 1.636 percent in Germany on Sept. 23, both record lows. The MSCI All Country World Index of stocks has lost 7.8 percent in the past month after accounting for reinvested dividends, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Japan's 10-year note yielded 0.975 percent, compared with this year's low of 0.965 percent set Sept. 22.
Fed Pledge
The Fed can give more information about its pledge to keep interest rates low at least through mid-2013, reduce the rate paid on banks' reserve deposits or purchase more securities, Bernanke told U.S. lawmakers yesterday in Washington.
The central bank plans to buy $1 billion to $1.5 billion of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities due from January 2018 to February 2041 today, according to the New York Fed's website, as part of its effort to keep long-term borrowing costs down.
Treasuries dropped yesterday, pushing 30-year bond yields up from the lowest level in more than two years, on expectations European Union officials will coordinate the recapitalization of banks.
Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic affairs, said there is an "increasingly shared view" that the region needs a coordinated approach to halt the sovereign-debt crisis, according to the Financial Times.
'Just Pausing'
"We view policy actions to recapitalize core European banks as the most likely catalyst for a short covering rally in equities and a move higher in Treasury yields," JPMorgan's Terry Belton and Meera Chandan wrote in an e-mailed comment yesterday. The company is one of the 20 primary dealers authorized to trade directly with the Fed.
Europe's problems aren't solved, and that means the Treasury rally can go further, said Takuya Yamamoto, who helps oversee the equivalent of $129.2 billion as a portfolio manager in Tokyo at Diam Co., a unit of Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co., Japan's second-biggest life insurer.
"It's just pausing," he said. "European turmoil isn't over."
Yamamoto said he is considering buying Treasuries if the 10-year yield rises to 2 percent.
Industrial Bank's Oh also said yields can fall further. He bought U.S. government debt in July and August, he said.
Italy had its credit rating reduced three levels to A2 yesterday by Moody's Investors Service. European countries with debt ratings below the top Aaa level will probably have their ratings cut, Moody's said yesterday.
Greek Protest
Hundreds of thousands of Greeks plan to strike today to protest Prime Minister George Papandreou's 6.6 billion euro ($8.8 billion) austerity plan, challenging a government seeking European bailout funds to stave off default.
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said he favors so-called safe sovereign debt of nations that have the ability to increase monetary stimulus as the risk of a recession rises.
Debt of the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Australia, France and Canada are attractive, Gross said yesterday in interviews with Lisa Murphy and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
Growth in U.S. service industries probably slowed in September, showing the recovery is struggling to gain speed, economists said before the Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index today.
Investor demand for long-term debt narrowed the yield difference between two- and 30-year Treasuries to 2.45 percentage points yesterday, the least since January 2009.
Yields are poised to rise through next year, according to a Bloomberg survey of banks and securities companies. Ten-year rates will climb to 3.02 by the end of 2012, based on the responses, with the most recent forecasts given the heaviest weightings.
--With assistance from Cordell Eddings, Lisa Murphy and Adam Johnson in New York. Editors: Rocky Swift, Naoto Hosoda
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- Mark Hurych
- El Centro, CA
- United States
This conversation is closed.
Imagine a scenario this century that is very bleak for agriculture. What do you think we should do to address humanity's thrivability?
Suppose two things:
Suppose that the food producing carrying capacity (the number of people that can be fed from arable land) of the Earth within this century becomes less than one billion due to climate change, what do you think we should do to address thrivability? Suppose that you had all the necessary resources to act. For full credit, apply empathy, logic, and self-integrating system properties. Yes, this might be on the final exam.
Jeremy Rifkin,
Paul Gilding,
Ray Kurzweil,
Michelle Holliday,
Closing Statement from Mark Hurych
Thanks to everyone that participated. I apologize to anyone who might have felt slighted.
The answer I got here is that people are on many different islands of being about humanity's current reality. We all have hopes and fears but our paradigms I've found are unexpectedly different. Our perspectives and priorities sometimes don't even seem to have common ground.
I very much want to find that common ground, across cultures, across the globe, across everything that separates and isolates us. One way I plan to address this yearning is by tuning my questions to be more inclusive and collective.
I feel that art does this, pulls us together and gives us common ground, even across language barriers and across time. I want to be good. This sounds so strange but I want to be a good ancestor. I don't see myself as an artist but I would very much like to do something for the greater good the way a composer or an artist might leave behind an inspiring artifact.
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Dec 24 2012: I believe:
To really thrive, we should make clear which the goal of our life is:
(1) To keep our DNA alive?
(2) To make money?
To do (1), we can save about 90% of our resources and energy.
To do (2), we can never be satisfied and will certainly go to SELF-EXTINCTION.
(For SELF-EXTINCTION, see the 1st article, points 1-3, 14, at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
Dec 25 2012: DNA, Mr. W. Ying.
幸福人生 = Happiness in life
There is an idea that this is relatively easy to attain. I feel that this is true and an important insight for individual persons. I mean thriving as the opposite of sickly or frail. "Thrivability" is a newer word, its implications are that "sustainability" is too weak or not really inclusive enough. So when I hear about sustainability I think about babies' health. Somehow just sustaining life doesn't seem adequate.
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I'm teaching a friend CSS. I've went over the basics of HTML and CSS for here and bought a text book for her to use, but I figured it might be fun, useful to share the lessons and tests I'm preparing for her here in a thread - both to log them. I'm not that experienced at teaching, so feedback on that aspect of it is welcome, as is ideas for exercises. For reference, she's an art student with a background in photography.
The first test is draw a centered bull's eye. The target render is attached, the HTML she is working from is as follows:
Code html:
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EXPERT CHALLENGE: Vertically center the bull's eye. This isn't part of her lesson so isn't shown in the target render.


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Student competition tests both brains and brawn
7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
Donahue Cafe, 41 Temple St., Boston
Which is the smarter sex?
Which is the stronger sex?
Which is the better sex?
This is a dynamic game show where everybody plays at the same time. Play to win some cold, hard cash.
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Some taxpayers seeking a quick refund may have to wait longer than usual this year as the Internal Revenue Service tries to stop criminals who steal others' identities and file fraudulent returns.
The agency, which began accepting 2012 returns Wednesday, is making its system more sensitive to signs of potential fraud, meaning some returns will get a closer look. Last year, the IRS prevented $20 billion in fraudulent refunds from being issued, up from $14 billion in 2011.


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WEST HARTFORD ——Grant Woollacott disappeared for a few moments, then returned carrying a fireproof safe that he placed gently on his mother's dining table.
The 18-year-old West Hartford resident unlocked the safe and reached inside for a letter from Germany addressed to him. Woollacott held the letter like a mint baseball card, careful not to smudge the ink or nick the corners, angling it to show a visitor instead of encouraging another set of fingerprints on the paper.
United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
Next, Woollacott took out a black-and-white picture of John Talignani, a 74-year-old retired bartender from Staten Island who also died on Flight 93. In the photo, which Talignani's ex-wife in Florida mailed to Woollacott, Talignani is twentysomething and posing at the beach.
Woollacott, angular and serious, returned the safe to his bedroom with the solemnity of one who has been entrusted with such mementos and memories. They came the hard way: Four years of meticulous research into the 40 victims on the hijacked Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa., during the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Until the research, Woollacott had no connection to the flight. He was a fourth-grader when Islamic extremists struck on 9/11.
Now, Woollacott is both chronicler and participant in a global grief group. The recent Hall High School graduate has crafted written tributes for nearly every passenger and crew member aboard the Newark-to- San Francisco flight that day, and he has read some of these vignettes aloud at public meetings for the impending Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania.
In Greenwich, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Puerto Rico, he has prayed at victims' graves.
Woollacott is determined to print his work about the lives those victims led by next year's 10th anniversary of the attacks, a promise he made to their families. So far, about 25 letters sent to publishers have gone unanswered.
He will self-publish the book if need be, Woollacott said. "It's obviously not just to make a buck."
What began as a curiosity has snowballed into a calling that even he finds hard to explain.
Near-Daily Devotion
"I didn't expect to be doing this," Woollacott said last month from the Robin Road apartment he shares with his mother.
"United 93," a 2006 film about the flight, aired on TV about the time he was entering Hall as a 14-year-old freshman. Before he saw it, his perception of the flight had been sketchy. Five years earlier, he and his fourth-grade classmates at Morley Elementary School in West Hartford had clumsily referred to Flight 93 as "the plane that didn't do anything."
They had seen some fiery images in their kid-friendly Weekly Reader — the destruction after American Airlines Flight 11 plowed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, United Flight 175 into the south tower, American Flight 77 into the Pentagon. With Flight 93, the scene was almost pastoral: a crater in a green, open field.
The four suicide hijackers commandeering the Boeing 757 had failed to reach their target, believed to be the White House or another prominent Washington landmark. Woollacott came to understand that the victims aboard Flight 93 apparently thwarted the terrorists through a counterattack.
"I was just glued to the screen, like, 'Oh my gawwd,' " Woollacott said of the movie in his matter-of-fact, even tenor of a voice. "I was thinking, these are actors and actresses. Who are the real people?"
When the movie ended, he went to his computer and spent about an hour writing down any piece of information he could find about the 40 passengers and crew members, excluding the hijackers. He noted names of loved ones quoted in stories and their hometowns, and looked up addresses in phone books. He mailed letters explaining his intent to research Flight 93, and invited them to contact him.
Many of them did. "A lot of the families are kind of excited that someone's asking," Woollacott said.