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Marf invents a new tool.
A Star Wars spoof with a Star Trek and Doctor Who reference in one episode? Win.
Something, something, tachyons. Something, subspace, something. I always loved when the Star Trek v. Star Wars debaters tried to focus on how "realistic" the science was in their respective pet property... The debate itself can be worthwhile, but that particular side of it is just silly.
It's like arguing whose imaginary friend is taller.
get your head out of the clouds man you cant have something that makes matter out of thin air ROFL!
There's an idea here, somewhere.
Nah, probably won't catch on.
The moment they said "Magic tool that's good for anything", I immediately thought, "Sonic screwdriver."
They delivered on my expectations.
this was actually really funny, i didn't like the first short as much but this was just right
You mean some sort of... "replicator?" What a preposterous idea!
Yes these can be rather funny. Though one thing that stands out for me in favour of Star Trek is that it seems like the creators actually put some thought and maybe a bit of scientific knowledge into their stuff, where Star Wars on the other hand George Lucas was obviously just pulling stuff out of his ass which left it up to others afterwards to try to quantify the specs. And the funny part here is that for the people that did this it almost seems like the intent was entirely focused on making their imaginary ladder for Star Wars that much taller than Star Trek' imaginary ladder.
As for the episode I sort of expected this. For how much they cram into a single episode in terms of scenes, locations, characters, post effects, I didn't think they'd be able to stick to a weekly schedule. So we'll get the real show every two weeks, with small intermission episodes spaced in between.
I'm waiting for Mass Effect references (haven't heard any so far) although Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who makes win! ;)
That was a bit weak. I guess they were too short on time to make anything other than a "lol, Star Trek is unrealistic" gag. Though I guess any reference to Dr Who will let them get away with it. No one should depend on lampshading alone to carry a sketch.
Kiiiiiiiinda what I meant. What does it really matter how scientific the information is behind it? Except to the theoretical physicists in the audience, people aren't spending most of the show puzzling over how the spaceship "goes."
"Hyperspace" is a jargony term Star Wars uses to indicate "going really fast." How does it work? You go really fast. It requires calculations so you don't hit stuff, which is why you can't just do it whenever you want. To the casual audience (ie, most of the viewers), "Warp Speed" means exactly the same thing. There is absolutely no difference between the two: it's sci-fi speak for "go really fast, because the plot demands it."
Both properties "pull stuff out of their ass." Both of them use real words, but in fictional ways. And both of them boil down to, "The gadget does the thing because it must."
I will say, however, that "less scientific" explanations allow for better storytelling. Instead of spending 15 minutes of each episode introducing some new gadget or particle (like Pokemon for physicists), you can focus on creating authentic characters and engaging storylines.
(Something I really loved about Firefly, too. You hear stuff like, "Gotta adjust the port pin lock, or the secondary grav boot's gonna fly right through the catalyzer," and you know what you know? Everything you need to. Something technical is broken and must be fixed.)
References! To other sci-fi shows! Those have got to be funny on their own, right?
What I mean is, lets use starship phaser/laser power as an example. It seems like Star Trek they took there best guesstimate and came up with... I really don't know this stuff but lets say 15,000 KJ of energy or something, the power behind the USS Enterprises phasor beams. Star Wars when deciding how powerful a Star Destroyers main cannons were, looked at the Star Trek numbers and said 'oh yeah well we'll be 100x stronger than them!!!' and set the spec sheets at 150,000,000 KJ of energy.
Or at least the one time I took a peak into a USS Enterprise vs Star Destroyer argument there were these 'official' numbers that the Star Wars guys were pulling out that sounded exactly like my above example.
This referenced things I know.
I love these Deck Crew episodes! More please :D
Stop it! Sonic screwdrivers make sense :(
Hi, do you by perchance happen to write/comment on a lot of reviews on TVTropes?
Earl Grey.
Oh look, it appeared.
What? No, I don't have a replicator.
I call it my fiancee.
Makes about as much sense as using a lightsaber for everything except what it was designed for.
I'm a nerd, I found the references amusing. I laughed.
I'm certainly enjoying these. I hope it continues.
That's basically the same thing. Right?
To be fair, Star Trek replicators require a special fuel to provide particles for rearranging. They don't make things out of thin air.
These are not the crew members I was looking for.....still decent though.
A little anti climatic. I was kind of expecting someone to burst in and show off exactly what Marf(?) just described. And then both their minds would blow.
You need longer episodes! Also I love this.
got the references but nah it wasn't that funny to me, sorry
Sarah Hiller is a great actress. Already a great performance in Bounty Hunter, but if she keeps this up, Walmsley might become SJ's breakout character.
Any chance these guys will show up in the main show sometimes?
Let me put on my "comedian who's been booed of stage" hat.
Their sonic screwdriver is just like the future real life sonic screwdriver. It tightens screws & bolts, picks mechanical locks, and is used for surgery.
Sure it is slightly more useful than a standard screwdriver, but it is not a one tool for everything piece of technology. Notice the toolbox sitting on the floor, and the comment "which one" when asked for a screwdriver. Although, why they would need to cary multiple screwdrivers when they have a sonic screwdriver is beyond me.
Plants make matter out of air. It's not impossible.
That wasn't what I was expecting, or funny.
Yes, those certainly are sci-fi references
This reminds me of an invention I was thinking of before. Instead of landing on planets and stuff, we should invent some sort of, like, magical beam sort of thing that just, you know, transports people from one place to another. But I guess that's what the TARDIS is for.
Reading that was almost better than watching the vid!
Not unless she reproduces through mitosis. She doesn't, right?
You are awesome! :-)
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Rupert Murdoch considers splitting News Corp. in two.
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Rielle Hunter and John Edwards have broken up.
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Turkey vows to retaliate after Syria shoots down their fighter jet.
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This country was founded under the idea that church and state shall remain separate; let's hold American government to its promise. That promise is that American values should be left to the individual citizens rather than having laws or government define them for us.
The fabric of this country is made up of vastly different values from household to household. We are a country rich in diversity in our backgrounds, religious beliefs, and values. Since the values are so different, we should avoid having the state reconcile any differences in the varying definitions that we may have. When the state gets involved in defining moral conduct, it then becomes a decisive stance on which value will be honored.
The obvious example is the debate about same sex marriage. Same sex marriage debate trickles down to the conversation of adoption, health care, and so much more.
For example, only 18 states allow same-sex couples to adopt children. Even though many conservatives oppose laws such as these, Romney has stated with regard to gay adoption that "[i]n [his] view that's something that people have the right to do, but to call that marriage is, in [his] view, a departure of the real meaning of that word. Obama is also a supporter gay adoption and recently made history when he stated that gay marriage was something he supported. Even though we have both nominees for president supporting gay adoption, many states still have laws in place that prevent the adoption.
By keeping state and church separate, we can have confidence that our constitutional rights will not be infringed upon. Allowing American values to be decided amongst individuals honors and respects the individual beliefs of the diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures of all Americans.
This post is part of a weekly conversation with our Moms Matter 2012 political bloggers. To see the original question and what the other writers have to say, see "How Do We Best Sustain American Values?"
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The Supreme Court today said it will decide on whether Bharti Telecom and its Chairman Sunil Mittal should be prosecuted or not on the allocation of additional spectrum during NDA regime, irrespective of opinions given by government law officers.
"We are monitoring the case so the final opinion will be of this court," a bench of justices G S Singhvi and K S Radhakrishnan said when the CBI contended that the case has been referred to Attorney General after differences cropping up between the investigating and prosecution wing of the agency on the issue.
The bench further queried under what provision the matter has been referred to the AG and whether it should not have been referred to the Special Public Prosecutor(SPP) appointed by it. Senior advocate U U Lalit was appointed as the SPP.
The bench however, asked the government to get the opinion of AG and adjourned the hearing.
"Let the government contact the AG to know what is his opinion," the bench said when the senior advocate K K Venugopal said that matter has been referred the AG on October 23.
The bench posted the case for further hearing on November 29.
The CBI in its status report into the probe of spectrum allocation during former Telecom Minister Pramod Mahajan's tenure stated that after Director (Prosecution) in the CBI disagreed with the investigators on filing the charge sheet against the accused named in the FIR, the matter was referred to the AG for his opinion.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who was appearing for NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), said while the entire hierarchy in the CBI was in favour of filing charge sheet against former telecom secretary Shymal Ghosh, J R Gupta, Deputy Director General (DDG) (value added services) etc, the Director Prosecution in the agency was in disagreement with them.
Bhushan, on the last hearing, had claimed that during the investigation, the Investigating Officer found a loss of Rs 508.22 crore to the Government with active role allegedly played by Mittal of Bharti Airtel in connivance with Mahajan, the then Telecom Minister and Ghosh.


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John Convey , Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies fellow and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, and Leonard DeFiore , Brother Patrick Ellis Professor of Education, were quoted in an April 30 Times-Picayune article about a study they led of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. See the article below.
New Orleans Area Catholic Elementary Schools Could See Sweeping Changes
From: Times-Picayune Date: April 30, 2012 Author: Bruce Nolan Planners trying to stabilize the finances of Catholic elementary schools around the region are proposing sweeping changes that include asking all Catholics to substantially increase giving in the pews; raising tuition; and creating a financial aid process to help families who can't afford the increased cost. The recommendations represent a substantial redesign of financing for 54 Catholic elementary schools around metro New Orleans that enroll about 22,000 students.
The recommendations, by consultants John Convey and Leonard DeFiore of Catholic University of America, so far are only that.
They are being digested by a committee of 18 local pastors, educators and laypeople, which in June will send the plan, along with their recommendations, to Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who will make the final decisions.
The new financing proposals are part of a study Aymond commissioned on the future of elementary schools in light of steady enrollment declines. While high schools are affected by parts of the study, which, for instance, recommends that elementary schools stop at seventh grade, the study makes no recommendations about high school tuition or finances.
The enrollment decline is due in part to depopulation after Hurricane Katrina, neighborhood demographic changes, and in New Orleans, improvements to public education introduced through the charter school movement. Since 2000, enrollment in area Catholic schools from pre-K through eighth grade has fallen 23 percent, according to archdiocesan figures.
And that has imposed increasing financial stress on the remaining families who are forced to bear schools' fixed costs, leading additional families to drop out.
The financing proposals were unveiled during the past month in a series of six town meetings, where they met significant skepticism from parents -- especially the idea of increasing tuition and buffering that with subsidies.
"I find it interesting that (in studies done by focus groups) one of the main concerns from parents is the cost of tuition, and the first solution you present is to raise tuition," Tab Shepherd, a mother of two Catholic school students, said at a meeting in Covington last month.
What effect that popular resistance will have remains to be seen.
The 18-member committee must weigh the package of ideas before making its recommendation to Aymond. Generally, however, "The last thing the archdiocese wants to do is say there's resistance to this, but we're going to do it anyway," DeFiore said.
Still, there is little doubt that elementary school finances "have to be made more affordable for any family that wants a Catholic education," said Superintendent Jan Lancaster.
To soften the effect of the tuition increases, the consultants are recommending that the archdiocese ask all Catholics in its 109 parishes to increase their personal giving in the pews by 25 percent over three years, creating a new subsidy pool to aid Catholic school parents.
Church-going Americans generally give about 2.4 percent of their income to their churches, according to empty tomb inc., a non-profit that tracks church giving. Another study called the U.S. Congregational Life Survey recently found that Catholics give the least among major denominations.
Parishes with schools and $300,000 in annual income -- 60 percent meet that wealth requirement -- would pay 20 percent of their collection plate income in school subsidies. Across the archdiocese that figure now averages about 19 percent, but there is a wide variance among parishes. Some give as little as 6 percent while others bear nearly 50 percent, Convey said.
Parishes without schools would be asked for the first time to pay 10 percent of their income to the proposed subsidy pool, the consultants said. Currently, those parishes pay $300 each to subsidize individual children from their parishes at other schools. But they pay no general school tax into the system.
The consultants also recommend that over three to five years, tuition be raised to a level that nearly matches actual costs. Local schools are free to determine their own budgets on a parish-by-parish basis, using market forces, not archdiocesan schedules, to set tuition, teacher salaries and other matters, they said.
Generally, however, Catholic elementary school tuition averages about $4,200 for a first child in school, against an education cost of about $5,000, according to archdiocesan figures.
To soften the blow of higher tuitions, the plan recommends distributing subsidies out of the pool formed by increased collections. Parents would apply to an independent company which would vet families' finances and determine how much they could afford to pay, and how much subsidy they would qualify for.
The system, new to the elementary school scene, is similar to that used by many private schools and all colleges and universities.
Although there are no numbers with which to run detailed analyses, DeFiore estimated that "about a third" of families would be required to pay the full cost of their own pockets.
"Your wealthiest people would be asked not to take a subsidy, pay the full freight and the school would have that available to provide to needy families who want to come, but now can't," DeFiore said.
Convey said the rest would qualify for some subsidy coming out of the pockets of all Catholic church-goers "so that the actual tuition they pay will be less than the tuition sticker price, and in some cases, less than they are paying now."


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The Goodguys 3rd Spring Nationals
Scottsdale, Arizona
After a dozen years of running a successful outdoor car show (the Southwest Nationals) at the Westworld facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, Goodguys decided to expand their schedule of events by having two events per year at the venue and, three years into the new format, it looks like the Spring Nationals is a winner.
Loads of pre-'72 cars crowded onto the grassy 19-acre Polo field over the three days, and with Goodguys opening up their events to all makes and models of American-powered vehicles for their Super Sunday Get-Together, the grounds were full of some great cars to check out.
Those getting to the event on Thursday, which is the first show of the Goodguys' season, could partake in a hot rod tour that visited local rod shops and, on Friday, a TGIF party was held at Squeeg's Kustom Hot Rod Shop in Chandler. Host Doug Jerger provided food for the attendees, and spectators were eligible for free giveaways as well as be treated to a mini cackle fest between a front-engine dragster and a former Funny Car.
At the Westworld facility, all three days saw action over at the Autocross track where competitors raced against a clock on a closed-loop course, and the owners of all sorts of vehicles, from race-prepped roadsters to the family truck, were all pushing their driving skills to the limit.
Elsewhere at the event Goodguys exercised their usual level of expertise in producing a show that included special parking for trucks and Deuces, muscle cars and homebuilts, and one area for those who had driven more than 300 miles to get to the show (the Ya Gotta Drive 'Em group). The Spring Nationals was also one of the 10 stops in STREET RODDER's Top 100 program for 2012, and 10 worthy cars were picked off the grounds to compete for the magazine's Street Rod of the Year honors.
The Southwest has always been a great place to find old metal to build a hot rod from, and the swap meet at this event was pretty good, too. Dozens of cars for sale and used parts to build 'em were available for some really good prices. Of course if you wanted to go "new," row after row of aftermarket parts manufacturers were lined up, enticing rodders with their wares.
Any way you cut it, the Goodguys' Scottsdale event, with its great location and spectacular Arizona springtime weather, will most assuredly grow into a major show for the organizers. And with the expansion of their show schedule, you now have two times a year to experience it.
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EFI MAP Sensor
If you have a manifold atmospheric pressure sensor (MAP) with a hose attached from the manifold, be sure it has not weakened and collapsed, which will cause a rich fuel mixture to occur and driveability issues.


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On that day British military forces departed and Admiral Sir John Hamilton GBE, Commander in Chief of the Eastern Mediterranean fleet, lowered the Union Flag for the last time. The Maltese then raised the Maltese flag over the Freedom Monument in Vittoriosa, to the sound of the first playing of Malta's national anthem. Malta adopted a policy of neutrality in 1980 and was a member of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries until 2004. In 1989, Malta was the venue of a summit between US President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, their first face-to-face encounter, which signaled the end of the Cold War.
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WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2010 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly individuals who had fallen and then taken part in an intensive program to prevent falls were much less likely to fall again, a new study shows.
But proving something works is often a far cry from actually seeing it implemented, one expert noted.
"People have been proposing intervention programs like this for a long time," said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health and senior research scientist at the Center on Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "We know that they work. The question is how much all of this costs," he added.
"The bottom line is it's sort of an elite intervention program that's likely to be very expensive," Olshansky said. "The entire older population is at risk for falls, so how would you implement a program like this? Having said that, it is very interesting they suggested it also improved activities of daily living, which is a good sign. Other normal functioning of these individuals improved as a result of the intervention."
The study authors, from the University of Nottingham in England, noted that this type of intervention is already provided in many places in the United Kingdom.
"The cost implications of our research are speculative as we have not yet completed an economic evaluation . . . but we would hope that a reduction in falls could lead to maintenance of independence in activities of daily living, and therefore people not needing extra home care costs," said study author Philippa Logan, postdoctoral researcher and occupational therapist at the School of Community Health Sciences at Nottingham. "We need to complete a larger study to see if there is an effect on the numbers of fractures, so we cannot say at this time that the intervention will reduce hospital days or surgery time."
"It would be wonderful if we could implement this, but I'm afraid in the U.S. we spend a lot of money on things so if someone falls and calls an ambulance, the person goes to the emergency room, [and] the emergency room charges the government for the fee," said Dr. Bernard Roos, director of geriatric research at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Miami VA Hospital. "Nobody in the emergency room sends a person to evaluate the risk of falling so the patient keeps coming back. This is a wonderful model for what we should be doing."
"Studies like this support the need for evidence-based education classes for community-dwelling seniors," said Matthew Lee Smith, an assistant professor with Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health in College Station, Texas.
According to background information in the study, which was published online May 12 in BMJ, 25 percent of people aged 70 and over and 50 percent of those aged 80 and over fall every year. And these people will frequently fall again, leading to life-threatening injuries.
Although ambulances are often called, many individuals who have fallen aren't actually taken to a hospital, the study authors stated.
For this study, 204 adults who were over 60 and who had called an ambulance after a fall but had not been taken to the hospital were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
The first group had access to specialists who helped them build strength and balance, and who offered suggestions for making their homes safer.
The second group of people "were advised by letter to use existing social and medical services as usual," the authors wrote.
According to diaries kept by the participants and follow-up contact over one year, "the incidence rates of falls per year were 3.46 in the intervention group and 7.68 in the control group," the study authors reported.
This amounted to a 55 percent decline in the rate of falls in the support group, a larger effect than seen in previous research, the authors stated.
People receiving the extra care and support also improved on measures of daily living (such as bathing, dressing and eating) and were less anxious about falling again.
Not surprisingly, people who fell less often were also less likely to call an ambulance and less likely to suffer fractures.
One question not addressed by the study authors was the extremely high mortality rate in both groups -- about 15 percent, Olshansky pointed out.
The probability of an average 80-year-old dying in the United Kingdom is about 5.5 percent for a single year, said Olshansky, citing data from a national life table for the United Kingdom. For an average 70-year-old, it is about 1.9 percent.
"Why are at least three times more people dying than expected? That's very odd," he said.
More information
For advice on preventing falls, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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On June 20, 2012 BAFTA Los Angeles hosted its annual Student Film Awards to honor the next generation of filmmakers.
Entrants to the 2012 Student Film Awards came from AFI, USC, UCLA, LMU, Chapman, LA Film School, CSUN, CalArts, Loyola Marymount, Occidental, Columbia Hollywood, LA City College, Santa Monica College and Inner-City Filmmakers.
UCLA Student Julio Ramos won this year's prize for his film 'Una Carrerita, Doctor!', with finalists Kyle Soehngen ("Come Back to Me," AFI), John Dion ("Cupid," USC), Janine Sides ("Jody's Bra," USC), Vanessa Knutsen ("The Promised Land," UCLA), Jacob Braafladt ("Shadowplay," LMU) and Ryan Latchmansingh ("Where the Sun Sets," LMU).


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About BCCS
Founded in 1973, the Bucks County Choral Society is an auditioned volunteer choir based in Doylestown, PA, near Philadelphia. Under the direction of Artistic Director Thomas Lloyd, the 100 voice choir performs in venues throughout Bucks County, and is widely recognized as the area's premiere large choral ensemble. BCCS performs an extensive repertoire of music, ranging from classical to contemporary, including pieces by local composers as well as works specially commissioned for the group. The Chamber Choir of the Bucks County Choral Society is comprised of a selected group of singers from within the Choral Society. The Chamber Choir performs additional music, often a cappella, at many BCCS concerts.
In addition to its annual four-concert subscription series, BCCS serves the community through scholarship programs and solo performance opportunities for young singers, as well as through its acclaimed "Singing for Seniors" program, which involves hundreds of local seniors in choral singing under the leadership of Thomas Lloyd and the renowned children's choir director Helen Kemp. The choir has also made a number of international tours.
A complete history of the Bucks County Choral Society can be found on our Choir History page.


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Word came Thursday: The entire federal appeals bench in Chicago will not consider whether ex-Gov. George Ryan should get another trial on racketeering charges. The politician's six-month trial at the Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse concluded in April 2006 with Ryan's conviction; three appeals judges affirmed the verdicts in August.
Reaction abounded. Among those who offered an opinion was Ryan's successor, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose own administration has undergone the scrutiny of federal investigators.
"At the end of the day, it's whether you did things right or wrong," Blagojevich said. "Clearly Gov. Ryan did things wrong. A jury of his peers found that he did wrongdoing, and now the sad reality is that he is facing the consequences of that wrongdoing."
Next up, Ryan's legal team is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court as the retiree faces his prison term.
Taxes on the menu. Diners may have gotten indigestion Wednesday as Cook County Board President Todd Stroger outlined his tax-increase plans during a luncheon sponsored by the City Club of Chicago. The much-maligned Stroger may not have helped his cause when he stumbled badly over two words in his speech – "obstetrical" and "effectuate" – and mispronounced the word "desert," as in wasteland.
Stroger warned that poor areas of the city could become a health care "dessert" – as in the after-dinner course – without additional county revenue. He corrected himself amid a few chuckles from the audience.
Rookery sold. The Rookery Building on LaSalle Avenue in Chicago's Loop has been sold to a European interest for $73 million, published reports say. The 12-story building – built in the late-1800s and resembling a castle or a rook chess piece – was designed by legendary architects Daniel Burnham and John Root. Today, it's a National Historic Landmark and enjoys a high occupancy rate.
What's new. You can get to Russia from Chicago, but not on a direct flight. That will change next June, when American Airlines offers a straight 10-hour shot to Russia. Airline and Chicago officials recently trumpeted the new service; prices weren't announced.
Mike Ramsey can be reached at (312) 857-2323 or email@example.com .


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Originally sold as a kit lens for Nikon's D70 D-SLR, the Nikkor 18-70mm has a near-silent autofocus system, which was very speedy in operation.
Handling is a joy, with fully internal focusing and a non-rotating front element, plus manual focus override in Autofocus mode. The zoom ring is smooth, if a little cramped at the wide-angle end.
In most shooting conditions, the 18-70mm provides sharp images with excellent levels of contrast and fine detail. Towards the wide-angle settings, vignetting is quite bad unless you drop down a couple of stops, and barrel distortion is noticeable but no worse than average for this class.
The only other problem we experienced with this lens is that it tended to be a little soft when shooting subjects that were within two metres of the camera.


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99 questions/Solutions/21
From HaskellWiki
< 99 questions | Solutions
Insert an element at a given position into a list.
insertAt :: a -> [a] -> Int -> [a]
insertAt x xs (n+1) = let (ys,zs) = split xs n in ys++x:zs
insertAt :: a -> [a] -> Int -> [a]
insertAt x ys 1 = x:ys
insertAt x (y:ys) n = y:insertAt x ys (n-1)
There are two possible simple solutions. First we can use
split from problem 17 (or even
splitAt from the Prelude) to split the list and insert the element. Second we can define a recursive solution on our own.
As a note to the above solution - this presumes that the inserted argument will be a singleton type a inserted into a list [a]. The lisp example does not infer this intent. As a result, presuming the data to be inserted is likewise of type [a] (which we are tacitly inferring here to be String into String insertion), a solution is:
insertAt x xs n = take (n-1) xs ++ x ++ drop (n-1) xs
This solution, like many others in this quiz presumes counting element positions starts at 1, perhaps causing needless confusion.


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Follow Friday - 24 Jun 2011
Since I missed last week, I'm including two suggestions, this week.
We've all heard this, but still hard to believe - great set of answers by Lew Drew on the Family History with the LineageKeeper blog:
All of my Ancestors Have Been Found!
Kathy Reed on the Family Matters blog shares some interesting and useful information on DNA results - along with some neat graphics:
Anticipataing DNA Results
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(CNN/Nine News Australia) - A dog in Australia adopted a baby possum after losing her litter of puppies.
Molly,a beagle, lost her puppies at birth, but just a few days later, welcomed a new baby to mother.
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Poss - as the aptly named critter is called - was abandoned by her mother.
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Molly even waits under the tree where poss sleeps during the day to keep a watchful eye on her new baby.
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So, like everyone else and their dog, there are some things about 3.5e D&D that don't quite satisfy me. When I sat down to create a campaign setting, I found myself making a set of houserules to make the game system more compatible with how I envisioned the game world working. And, well, things got a little out of hand.
To add to the craziness, this was about the same time that 4e was announced. Having been pleased, on the whole, by the 2e --> 3e transition back in the day, I was optimistic ... and then largely disappointed, as 4e, for all its virtues, turned out not to be all that similar to how I would have dreamed the game would evolve. This led me to be more reckless about how big and far-reaching I was willing to make my houserules.
Being something of a perfectionist, I don't know where to stop, and my creation has kept evolving until it hardly looks like 3.5e D&D anymore ...
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- Compared to something like The Burning Wheel or Risus, I'm still aiming for something pretty similar to D&D. Relatively rules-heavy, relatively "gamist" rather than "narrativist," relatively combat-focused, and so forth.
- Still intended for heroic fantasy settings (though I'll be interested to see, eventually, if it can be adapted to e.g. horror fantasy). I still have a particular campaign setting in mind that I want to base on this ruleset, but as long as I'm doing all this work, I hope it can eventually be played in a variety of settings. A medium amount of magic -- not low-magic, but a little bit less than 3.5e -- is assumed.
- Better balance of power between mechanical options.
- Streamlined, faster play. Easier for newcomers to learn. Less bookkeeping for experienced players.
- More able to simulate fantasy literature (other than literature that was specifically intended to be D&D-themed).
- Better game design principles in general; for example, avoid encouraging "the 15-Minute Workday."
- I was open to using a different die-rolling system than The Core d20 Mechanic; however, I haven't found an alternative that seems any more intuitive, flexible, or fast-paced, and at this point I don't think it's likely that I'll want to make a switch.


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Danica Patrick switching teams?
- Report says Danica Patrick will move to Turner Motorsports for 2013 Nationwide slate
- Turner Motorsports won't confirm Patrick or replacement sponsor
- Kasey Kahne, Brad Sweet will split time in No. 5 for JR Motorsports
Turner Motorsports is losing a sponsor but apparently could be gaining a driver who should attract plenty of interest from the companies that help fuel NASCAR team budgets.
ESPNW.com reported Wednesday morning that Danica Patrick will drive 10 Nationwide Series races for Turner in 2013, starting with the Feb. 23 season opener at Daytona International Speedway. In the Daytona 500 the following day, Patrick will begin her first full-time season in the Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 10 Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing.
An official close to Patrick with direct knowledge of the talks told USA TODAY Sports a deal was expected to be completed pending sponsorship. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because a deal with Turner wasn't yet finalized.
Patrick left the Izod IndyCar Series last year for a full-time move into NASCAR, finishing 10th in the Nationwide standings with JR Motorsports.
The team co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced Wednesday that Great Clips signed as a 28-race primary sponsor, mostly backing drivers Kasey Kahne and Brad Sweet.
Great Clips had sponsored the No. 38 Chevrolet of Turner Motorsports the past two seasons. The team said it soon would be announcing plans for 2013 but didn't confirm Patrick nor a replacement sponsor.
With the addition of Great Clips, JRM is closer to its goal of running two full-time teams this year.
It will field Regan Smith for the championship in the No. 7 Chevrolet and is working on finding sponsorship for six races on the No. 5 shared by Kahne and Sweet, who will drive a Great Clips-sponsored car in 27 of 33 races. Great Clips will sponsor one race with Earnhardt, who will drive a partial Nationwide schedule of at least four events starting with Daytona.
"The last three months have been critical for the direction of JR Motorsports and the commitment we've made, and this partnership with Great Clips is a major step in the right direction," JRM general manager Kelley Earnhardt Miller said. "To sign a 28-race sponsor while adding Kasey Kahne and Brad Sweet to our line-up is quite extraordinary. Our goal is still to run two full-time teams, and this helps us greatly to achieve that."
Kahne, who is Earnhardt's Hendrick Motorsports teammate, has driven select Nationwide races since 2009 for Great Clips, which also has supported the driver's charity events and his Kasey Kahne Racing sprint car teams.
JRM hasn't determined the Nationwide schedule for Kahne and Sweet, as well as Earnhardt's slate. NASCAR's most popular driver currently is confirmed to run Daytona and the March 9 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in a TaxSlayer.com-sponsored Chevrolet.


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I am not entirely convinced that the C4S would be better (AWD will help for sure) but the front clearance is not much better than the M3.
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I have the RSS bypass on mine, and full RSS race suspension. Well, let's be kind and just say I had tried more comfortable cars on broken roads. Still I am going for the Akrapovic Evo race exhaust, mainly for weight reduction.
And yes, it is an attention getter car. Removing the stickers helps a little bit.
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Hey Guys-
I recently made the switch from an E92 6MT to a 991S PDK so I figured I'd share some thoughts.
First of all - I LOVE the E92 M3. I have a decent history with BMWs, starting with a 2000 Z3M Coupe that I somehow managed not to kill myself in. I've lusted after various incarnations of the M3 and the 911 since I was a teenager and have only recently been able to experience living with both.
First, some comments on practicality:
I'm lucky enough to work from home, so my car tends to be 85% for enjoyment and 15% for family use. I have a daughter going on 2 years old, who I pick up from daycare most days, and the E92 was the perfect blend of usability with a rear-facing car seat, and performance when I had the car to myself.
I didn't mind at all taking the seat out, strapping her in, and then sliding it back into place. The front seat was still usable with her in the back.
(Insert obligatory comments on trunk space, ride quality for the wife, and ease of changing the character with the M button - all good stuff.)
When I test drove the 991, I expected the car seat not to fit. That's certainly true in the 997. To my surprise, it actually did - albeit with the front passenger's head almost pinned to the windshield. But remember my primary use case - I pick my daughter up from daycare, and don't really need to have a front passenger. Plus, she's transitioning to a forward-facing seat now, and that fits great, with normal positioning for the front passenger.
With the rear-facing seat, I didn't take it out anymore, I just slid her in between the roof and the seat - like loading an Apollo astronaut. She laughs, it's easier than the M3, and her riding position is so far forward, I can turn my head and talk to her. She loves riding with me in the 991 and, it has actually become a little bonding experience for us.
OK, enough parent stuff.
Let's get to performance:
So the M3...
I won't go into a full review of the car's dynamics. I just want to recount what the car meant to me, and why it put the big smiles on my face.
I've driven many performance cars on the road, (my wife and I love to rent exotics when we're on vacation - great way to experience cars and have fun drives) and I've done some karting training (which I highly recommend for learning car dynamics). So I've had many memorable car moments over the years. None of them stick in my head as much as the first time I broke the back end loose on my M3 for the first time.
I have never felt so in control of a car that was over the edge. You know that feeling in your stomach when you break traction in a car? The "holy shit, did I just screw myself" feeling? That never happened. M-dynamic mode was on, the tail was out, I was in complete control, and both my wife and I were laughing our asses off. (BTW, my wife is awesome).
I spent a year never turning off DSC completely. M-dynamic mode was programmed into my M button, and I used it on a set of empty roads I called "my Chris Harris training ground". I'm no Chris Harris, and to prove it, I even let a friend with much less performance experience drive those corners and get the back end around a bit. (He was laughing his ass off too). So I realized that the car and the software make you feel like a superhero.
When I finally turned all the nannies off, it was a different story. I ended up facing the other way many times while trying to pull off the same moves. But I was careful, practiced and got halfway decent doing some small drifts. With a baby seat (and no baby) in the back The car, even without electronic assistance, is so rewarding and communicative at the limits and beyond. It's a special thing.
Then I test drove a 991S
I haven't owned an automatic box since my first car in high school. I love stick. I love revving it to break traction. I love heel-toeing. I love the involvement. I love engine braking. Note, I have never driven an M3 DCT either.
Then I drove the PDK... and hated it. It was flat-footed, seeked high gear all the time, and felt like... like an Audi with a slushbox.
But then I switched it to Sport+ / Manual and my life changed.
To sum up the experience - the feeling of driving a 991 aggressively is that of accurate, technical, capable, speed, versus the M3, which encourages you to play and hoon. As you can read above, I've been hooning for a while - and when I put that 991 in Sport+/Manual, my entire focus turned to "look for apex, clip, get on the throttle, track out, don't fuck up". The road felt like a track, and I switched to karting mode, and my brain was all about being precise, fast (but don't get arrested), and being technically correct in my driving.
It was intoxicating - and in that situation, I never wanted my hands off the wheel. Shifting went from a fun challenge to a necessity that you have to integrate into your lines.
Technically, the PDK shifts like a monster in Sport+. Under load you get a kick in your ass. As some noted in this thread, under load, there is a delay, and to be honest, it gets a little annoying when you're playing with redline (nothing like a rev limiter to remind you that you suck). But once you learn the technique and anticipate delay, the shifts are rewarding and lightning fast.
Suffice it to say, my current routine when I get in the car is to hit Sport+ and knock the gear lever over to Manual. Only when my wife is in the car do I soften it, and I never drive in auto. My MPG is 13.9 because I never let the auto seek 7th gear. I love the noise, I love the feeling of control, and I love downshifting and engine braking at lights.
But what about dropping the clutch at lights? Could I be as happy with Launch Control? My god yes. After a 500 mile break-in where it was suggested I didn't use LC, I was at a light at about 11:30pm. No one else around. My wife in the passenger seat, baby safely at my mom's house. I put my left foot on the brake, right foot on the gas, the tach bounced against redline with this amazing sound, feathering on and off max RPM. Light turned green, I lifted my left foot, our heads snapped back, and it felt like we were just dropped off a building. Stomach in our throats, eyes pushed back in their sockets. We laughed harder than the first time I got the rear end loose on the M3. It's that awesome. Plus it's so easy to do, it's almost an afterthought alone at a light, or if someone wants to have a go at you. Just amazing.
When I drove the 991 off the lot (I took one on the lot same day - I was that blown away), the buyer's remorse set in. 'What did I do!?" This car is not for drifting on my favorite empty road. It's rear-engined, and again, I'm no Chris Harris. To be honest, I had that feeling for a month after. I had to make a very personal decision to change what type of driving rewarded me, and what techniques I wanted to improve by driving this way.
And that's hard to find in a car that is more capable than anything you can do legally on a public road. So I changed my whole mentality. I started using iRacing online with a force feedback wheel to practice my techniques on a track (I'm not lucky to live near enough to a track to do this regularly with the 991). On the road, I map out corners as I'd see them in the game, and negotiate lines and traffic while staying safe and legal. Yeah - seems boring, but it's actually a lot of fun. My improvement comes in my online practice, not on the road. The 991 on the road became a visceral, enjoyable way to feel like I'm on the track all the time. You just snap into that mode when you get behind the wheel, and it makes an everyday drive feel like a track day.
Let's talk about chassis dynamics. I drove (and bought) a car with PDCC, which uses an active system to dampen roll in corners, and PTV, which is brake-based torque vectoring. At first, corners feel artificial with these things plus the electric-assist steering. It's a huge change, and my initial thoughts were
When I reconciled all of these new sensations after a month of driving, they started feeling "right", and I could feel what the car was telling me about the road more and more. Short story, I could take corners at speeds 20MPH or so higher than I felt comfortable doing in my M3.
If you want a more natural feel, and a bit less tendency to understeer, skip the PDCC. But you might have some more surprises with the back end stepping out in the wet. The PTV is a pretty odd sensation, but if you want to hit every apex, every time, check the box. I know it's working because my favorite corner is a right hander, and I see more brake dust on my right rear wheel than my left. Regardless, the car is naturally really well behaved - much more than the 997 and before - but these electronic assists make it feel even more neutral and accurate, and add a bit of a safety margin in when you get ham-fisted.
So, a few months in, where is my head at?
I wish I could afford both cars. But given the option, right now, I'm very very happy I chose the 991.
I had to change my whole reward mentality with driving, but I made the transition, and I have smiles every time I drive. Maybe it's me getting older, maybe it's just that the 911 offers the most driving fun with the absolute maximum limit of what I could trade off in practicality.
A big test on how much I love a car is when I bring the car in for a service that lasts a week (the 991 had 4 warranty campaigns to be done!), how happy I am to pick it back up. I'd say picking up the 991 was better than initial delivery. I was so nervous driving it home that first day, it was actually more stressful than fun. But now it was like picking up an old friend, and I barreled out of that dealership and back home with an ear to ear grin.
Do I miss the stick? Yes. Would I choose the PDK again? Yes - probably. I never got the chance to test a 991 with stick - it's probably amazing. But the type of technical driving the 991 excels at lends itself to a PDK. If I bought another M3, I'd probably go right back to the stick. It feels right in that car.
Another weird tip. I'm a coupe guy - I don't put the top down on cars, and I don't want the extra weight. On the M3, there was no way I'd sacrifice the carbon fiber roof for a sunroof. But on the 911, I'm glad I took that option. It does have buffeting at speed with the windows down and the sunroof closed. So the sunroof being open is basically a requirement. It lets the air and the awesome awesome sound of the engine enter the cabin more.
Well, I hope this was helpful to at least some of you. Again, I love both cars - maybe one day I can have both in the garage. (Note to self: get a bigger garage first)
2015 F82 M4 DCT (current) / 2012 991 C2S PDK / 2011 E92 M3 6MT / 2009 Cayman 6MT / 2007 E92 335i 6MT / 2004 E46 325xi 6MT / 2000 E36 Z3 M Coupe 5MT
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" I could take corners at speeds 20MPH or so higher than I felt comfortable doing in my M3." Sums up just how much more capable this car is, even in the hands of a non-pro driver over the M3.
Enjoy the new car!
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I find it interesting that some of you have picked the 991 over the 997.2. I had a budget of 125k and drove the 991S and the 997.2 Carrera GTS and loved the GTS much more than the 991S. I really do like the 991S interior more. It doesn't feel as cheap and looks so much more modern. But I do like that the 997.2 has a handbrake, hydraulic steering, the shorter wheelbase that gives you that go kart feeling, and I love that I have the widebody with 2wd and centerlock wheels.
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Thx for your post. I'm coming around to considering the 991 CS2 as my next fun car. I know I'll miss the V8 so not ready yet. If I had to choose *one* car then given my needs the M3 is likely still it - but I also have a 335d for a DD.
So, as a pure fun car the 991 CS2 seems perfect. But also on price not apples-to-apples, you get what you pay for.
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Whether you're fan of Apple products or not, there is no denying the influence Steve Jobs had on the world. Simon Lau — a freelance Web, iPhone and iPad developer — built a tribute to Mr. Jobs using Facebook's Timeline feature. Facebook's Timeline replaces a user's traditional profile page with life events, check-ins, new friends additions, photos and more, all listed in chronological order. Lau's Timeline of Jobs, which was promptly removed by Facebook only to later be restored, features an array of photos and life events that highlight the Apple co-founder's time on Earth. Hit the break for a video showcasing Steve Jobs's Timeline.
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Buffaloes were local Unionists engaged in guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics during the Civil War, especially in eastern North Carolina. Similar to "bushwhackers" in the western part of the state, in portions of Appalachia, and on the war's western frontier, buffaloes consisted of Confederate deserters, draft resisters, escaped prisoners, and lawless white men and boys. They formed bands (which were compared with "herds of buffaloes") that hid out in swamps and forests and, often in league with fugitive slaves, gathered arms and raided local communities and plantations, harassing civilians and stealing or destroying their property and foodstuffs.
Wingfield plantation, on the Chowan River north of Edenton, became a fortified encampment that served as the base of buffalo operations and provided a refuge for deserters, fugitive slaves, and Union sympathizers throughout the northeastern corner of the state. Local Confederates assaulted it in a series of attacks in the winter of 1862-63. By the third strike, although the fort itself was destroyed, most buffaloes had escaped by Federal gunboat.
Farther down the coast, burning and pillaging by black and white guerrillas was sufficiently aggravating that Confederate commander George E. Pickett (reassigned to the New Bern area after the Battle of Gettysburg) resorted to extreme measures. In February 1864 Pickett captured 22 deserters engaged in guerrilla activity, all of them dressed as Union soldiers. After a court-martial for desertion from the Confederate army, Pickett marched the prisoners west to Kinston, where most of them had lived. There he ordered them hanged in front of their wives, children, and other family members, an action that put Pickett in the midst of yet another major military controversy.
John G. Barrett, The Civil War in North Carolina (1963).
W. Scott Boyce, Economic and Social History of Chowan County, North Carolina (1917).
Wayne K. Durrill, War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion (1990).
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5 of the world's best kebab joints
Kebabs: the food of ancient Ottoman emperors, Persian courts and, in recent times, inebriated persons.
In much of the Western world, particularly Europe, the kebab has become the must-have meal for all variety of people falling out of pubs and clubs between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
This couldn't be further from the situation in the Middle East. Here, grilled meat served with salad and flatbread or rice is a meal for all the family.
Here's where to find some of the world's best kebabs.
1. Barbar in Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut is a cosmopolitan city where food standards are high.
When it comes to kebabs, Barbar is a Beirut institution. It's a snack bar with branches throughout the city, but its flagship store is in trendy Hamra, where it takes up a whole block and overflows with customers night and day.
You can eat almost anything at Barbar and be happy, but the chicken shawarma is the tastiest pint-sized snack.
Marinated in spices including cardamom and cinnamon, the chicken is sliced off the rotating shawarma, laid in a piece of warm, fresh Lebanese bread with a smear of garlic paste and a pickle.
Barbar, Hamra, between Hamra main road and Emile Edde (leon) Street, Hamra, Beirut; +961 (0)1 747 721
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2. Öz Asmaalti Kebap & Döner Salon in Adana, Turkey
Looking for a town that's crazy about kebabs? Adana, in southern Turkey might be what you're craving.
Adana is famous for its spicy minced lamb kebab cooked on an iron skewer over an oak wood barbecue.
The kebab is brought to your table on flatbread that's been collecting meat juices as it's cooked. Charred tomato and pepper come alongside, as well as a tasty salad of onion, parsley and sumac.
To enjoy it like a local, you'll need to crush the tomato and pepper with your fork, smear it onto some bread, add a little kebab, then top it with onion salad, roll it up and munch.
Öz Asmaalti Kebap & Döner Salon is the place for authentic Adana action.
Öz Asmaalti Kebap & Döner Salon, Kocavezir Mah, Pazarlar Cad. No:11, Kuruköprü, Seyhan, Adana; +90 (0)322 351 40 28
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3. Nagí in Abu Ghosh, Israel
In Israel, the kebab joint is one place where Jews and Arabs can agree on something: kebabs are good.
In the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, where residents became famous for their "hummus wars" with Lebanon, you're guaranteed a plate of memorable meat.
At Nagí, chefs mix minced beef thigh with onion, parsley, pine nuts and a little fat before threading it onto an iron skewer.
It's cooked on a barbecue and served with rice or salad, a little pink on the inside.
Nagí, 4 Mahmoud Rashid St., Abu Ghosh; +972 (0)57 943 8242
4. Santorini and Kolonaki, Greece
The Greek island of Santorini is a place where all kinds of dreams come true -- especially kebab dreams. All across the island you can pick up snack-sized gyros for bargain prices.
Pork gyros is a favorite early lunch. The crispy outer layer of the gyros is shaved onto a warm pita, topped with tomato, a little onion and some creamy, sharp tzatziki. It's presented with paprika-sprinkled fries sticking out the top.
The Souvlaki Stop on the Kamari Beach Promenade makes particularly good pork gyros.
The same goes for the souvlaki at Kalamaki Kolonaki in Athens. Halfway up the hill toward Mount Lycabettus, this charming little taverna has mastered the art of making street food look smart.
It's the kind of place where you can order a few chicken souvlaki and a potato salad and wait for everything good about Greece to come to you on a plate.
Kalamaki Kolonaki, Patriarchou Ioakim and Ploutarcho 32, Kolonaki, Athens; +30 (0)210 7218800
5. Salva Restaurant in Bijar, Iran
If you've been to Iran, you've likely eaten kebabs. In fact, that may be all you've eaten, such is the ubiquity of kababis, or kebab houses.
But never say you're tired of Iranian food until you've been to Bijar, a town famed throughout the country for its succulent kebabs.
Kabab-e koobideh is minced lamb or beef, marinated in onion juices, spices and saffron. The meat is molded onto flat iron skewers, cooked over a fiery charcoal barbecue and served on top a mass of rice with a dollop of butter.
The side dishes make it magic. Raw onion, charred tomato, beetroot and even kiwi fruit must be eaten with the kebab to balance the meal, according to ancient Persian philosophy.
Being Iran, there's every possibility that a stranger in the street might invite you to their home for dinner, in which case, you should say yes. Failing that, try Salva Restaurant.
Salva Restaurant, Shohada Street, Bijar; +98 (0)872 423 7331
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2) Freehand a fish shape with some tailor's chalk or a fabric marker.
6) Either hand sew the turning gap, or topstitch around the entire fish as close to the edge as possible, closing the turning gap in the process.
Set your camera on its fastest shutter speed then snap your kitty as she snaps at the fish.
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By JIM LANE, Editor, Biofuels Digest
MOSCOW — It was the evening of the day in 1990 that Saddam Hussein rolled his tanks into Kuwait, igniting the First Gulf War. I was camped out in the cafeteria at the Cosmos Hotel, north of Moscow's center, watching the one working television and waiting for Gorbachev to make a statement on the invasion.
He never showed. A far bigger crisis had befallen the Communists, although I didn't understand it then and was irritated by it. Instead of Gorbachev and the great drama of the Gulf War, we got a pleading Agriculture minister, asking the young people of the Soviet Union to drop what they were doing, rush south towards the grain belt, and help out with the harvest.
Glasnost, or "openness," seemed to be working well enough in the USSR — after all, here was the minister openly talking about the harvest problems right on state television. But perestroika, or "restructuring" — seemed to be getting nowhere.
So, the minister made his appeal. Response was tepid, and the harvest failed. It was one more nail in the coffin of the Soviet system, which finally collapsed the following year.
This past week in Rotterdam, I ran into algae biofuels' very own "Dr. No", John Benemann — known for his succinct and characteristic analysis of new ventures aimed at making renewable fuels from algae: "It won't be affordable.".
We got to taking about the role that algae played in the last days of the USSR. I began to see the events of that terrible period in the Soviet Union, so many years ago, in a new light.
The Soviet microbiology programs
"In the Soviet Union, after World War Two," Dr. Benemann told me, "the industrialization of agriculture, and particularly commodity animal feed production, along the lines of other central command and control industries, was a vexing problem. A major, semi-secret effort was started in the 1950s to develop an industrial process based on the conversion of oil into feeds, by bacterial and yeast fermentations (the so-called single-cell protein, SCP, approach, also tried in the West, in particular by BP, using methanotrophic organisms grown on natural gas, one can note).
"Over the following decades enormous production systems were set up all over the Soviet Union producing millions of tons of animal feed, a great success in fulfilling the five year plan goals. Unfortunately consumption, by the animals (they refused it) was not as successful, and problems of contamination with residual hydrocarbons were a problem. Failure of the Soviet system to produce sufficient feed was a significant contributory reason for its collapse."
Those darn little one-celled freedom fighters. Making themselves unpalatable to cattle — is it really possible that they brought down the old regime and ended the Cold War?
Food and the fall of the Soviets
Looking back at 1990, it makes sense. The whole country seemed to be in a state of food siege. It was time for the grain harvest and there weren't enough hands and machines to bring it in. Much of the food that was being produced was being held in the countryside, we were being told — trucks that headed north towards Moscow were getting hijacked, so went the rumor going around.
The protein program was seen as a way out of the mess. A new protein source for livestock meant less land used up growing fodder. Meaning that more land could be used to grow grains for human consumption, or other crops. Or that resource could be freed up for industrialization. Or that the USSR would be less exposed in years of poor harvests. When the program failed — those hopes faded.
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa once said that every society "is always nine meals away from a revolution." That does as good a job as anything of explaining why, about nine meals later in this crisis week of 1990, the council up in Leningrad voted to change the city's name back to St. Petersburg. At the time, everyone I knew assumed that the Leningrad council was making an empty gesture of defiance and protest. But the name change stuck.
Turning to microalgae
Dr. Benemann said one time that "if algae looks good, we're in big trouble," — whether that is true or not, the Soviets apparently turned in their desperation, not only to single-celled yeast proteins, but to microalgae.
"In parallel with the fermentation program," John added, "a major effort was also carried out to produce SCP with microalgae, with both closed photobioreactors and open systems developed and deployed on a production scale, in the more favorable locations of the Soviet Union, for example in Tashikistan. It should be noted that the Soviet Union had a microalgae program initiated in the 1950s to support their cosmonauts in space, something the USA then copied, and that the first industrial production of beta-carotene from Dunaliella salina was developed in the Ukraine in the 1960s."
"The Soviets commanded their technology leaders in East Germany and Czechoslovakia," Benemann explained," to help develop their algae feed production effort. The Hydrobiological Institute in Trebon, at that time in Czechoslovakia, developed an open culture system, consisting of very shallow inclined trays. This system was used to produce Scenedesmus, and the Trebon group published many interesting scientific papers, and by the late 1970s, a one hectare production plant was built in Bulgaria."
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it came to a comical end.
"With the end of the Soviets," Benemann recalled, "the Trebon group tried to become a commercial enterprise, but it took them a few years to recognize that the market demanded Chlorella, not Scenedesmus. Eventually they switched over, as did the Bulgaria plant, but nothing much has come of it, commercially. The Trebon group continues to do very good research and has also started a small company to supply research equipment to algae companies. Their cultivation system, has, however, scaling limitations that would prevent its commercial development."
I had a chance to see cultivation limitations for myself.
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, it was nearly impossible to get permission as a journalist to travel on an unrestricted basis in the countryside. Occidental Petroleum CEO Armand Hammer was in the last year of his life, but kindly worked his magic to make me welcome west of Moscow in the Nakhabino forest, where he was developing a resort complex, so long as I traveled unofficially.
It was a tough journey to persuade a driver to undertake — it was illegal to take a foreign journalist that far out of the Moscow ring. I would be welcome in Nakhabino — but it took a wad of hard currency to secure a ride. Upon arrival, my driver fled as soon as I was out of the car, and I never saw him again.
It was a dacha-dotted forest, and a graveyard. Nearly 50 years after the Battle for Moscow, you could still turn up rusted out helmets and spent ammunition from 1941. Foxholes and bomb craters formed shallow depressions here and there.
Everywhere you looked, this part of Russia was covered with silver birch — which loved the acidic soil. To knock it down enough of it to make a building site to erect anything, you needed some equipment and a permit. You couldn't get either. There was some rule, I was told, still on the books in those dying days of the old regime, that you couldn't remove silver birch unless you had a use for it — and it couldn't simply be combustion. Silver birch is too hard a wood to be useful in construction — so you really couldn't find a permitted use for it, then.
By this time, import controls had eased up and you could get Western farm and construction machinery in via Finland, if you worked the system hard enough. But for some reason — at least in this part of Russia — you couldn't import spare parts. Obtaining them in-country required a special permission from the local Nakhabino council. I have no idea why. And you could never get a permit, no matter how hard anyone tried, and I never figured that out, either.
Small wonder that scale-up problems were happening in the exotic world of industrial biotechnology and microbial engineering. They were happening in tree stump removal.
Please tune into the Chemical Equipment Daily for part two of this two-part piece.


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College graduation season is in full bloom, and this year American institutions will confer about 1.8 million bachelor"s degrees. As in the past, many of the best and brightest have, or will land, jobs requiring knowledge, skills and critical thinking — and will be paid good salaries. But increasingly, today"s college graduates face an uncertain future, and many will end up taking jobs historically done by those with high school diplomas or even less — construction workers, taxi drivers, restaurant wait staff, janitors. More than 1 million college graduates are retail salespeople — about twice the number of active-duty U.S. Army personnel.
Is this largely a temporary phenomenon, a function of sluggish job growth in recent years? The financial crisis, the recession and mediocre recent economic growth have certainly aggravated things. But this is a long-term problem: There are simply more college graduates than jobs requiring college degrees.
The problem will probably get much worse in the next decade. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issues 10-year projections of job growth by occupation, including estimates of the "typical education needed for entry." The most recent projections cover 2012 to 2022. During that period, there will be an estimated net increase of 15,628,000 jobs, but only about 27 percent of them (4,230,500) will require a bachelor"s degree or more. More than twice as many of those jobs (8,789,200) are estimated to require no post-secondary education at all. In the 2001-11 decade, about 15 million people received bachelor"s degrees, and the number of college graduates per year has been rising.
To be sure, people retiring, currently unemployed college graduates taking jobs and immigration of college graduates will also impact the number of workers with degrees. But my best guess, based on historical trends, is that the number of college graduates will increase by, conservatively, 17 million over the decade — suggesting that in 2022 only about a quarter of new college graduates will be in the new jobs requiring university training (although some others will also replace existing workers who retire or quit).
None of the 10 occupations with the largest projected job growth require bachelor"s degrees, and only one (registered nurses) requires a two-year associate"s degree. Six of the top 10 jobs require less than a high school diploma (personal care aides, retail salespersons, home health aides, food preparation and serving, janitors and cleaners, and construction laborers). Among the 30 jobs projected to have the greatest growth, only five require at least a bachelor"s degree (general and operations managers, elementary school teachers, accountants and auditors, software developers, and management analysts).
As employers see an influx of college-degree holders, they are raising job educational requirements simply to narrow the applicant pool, assuming on average college graduates are smarter and more dependable than those with high school diplomas. Thus, while the BLS says registered nurses or secretaries and administrative assistants need less than a bachelor"s degree, employers of those workers are increasingly demanding degrees — because they can — causing large-scale credential inflation and increasing unemployment among the lesser educated.
This underemployment problem is not evenly distributed across higher education. Lecturing at Williams College recently, I was struck by how many seniors were getting dream job offers from Silicon Valley or Wall Street. Employers know that a large portion of the best students attend these highly selective schools. The picture is radically different at the relatively non-selective public universities or relatively obscure liberal arts colleges with small endowments.
Solving the problem will be very difficult so long as politicians find it expedient to dole out aid and cheap loans to students who don"t belong in college at all, and whose prospects for both academic and vocational success are small. Of course, the BLS might be wrong. And markets work. As the word spreads that college degrees do not guarantee vocational success, enrollments may fall. If the economy gets out of its recent funk, job creation might become more robust.
Indeed, there are recent, promising signs that publicity about the unemployment problem is leading some to ignore government financial enticements and look to more appropriate non-degree post-secondary training. But as the federal student-loan default rate reaches crisis levels, what we really need to do is radically revise our dysfunctional, inefficient system of federal financing of higher education. Until then, we will have a lot of graduates with low paying jobs, big debts and unfulfilled expectations.
Richard K. Vedder is an economist and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington.


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WATERLOO - Supporters of an inmate serving life in prison for a 1974 murder urged Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Wednesday to commute the sentence so he can be released, while the victim's relatives said they had forgiven him.
The statements, given during an unusual public hearing called by the governor, appeared to add momentum to 66-year-old Rasberry Williams' bid to have his sentence changed to a fixed term so he can be released on parole after 38 years in prison.
The Iowa Board of Parole recommended last month that Branstad commute Williams' sentence, saying he has been a model inmate who has mentored scores of young offenders and students, got an education while behind bars, and once intervened in a hostage situation to save the lives of two prison guards. The judge who presided over his 1975 trial and the prosecutor who convicted him also have supported Williams' commutation application.
Branstad called the hearing to gather input from the community where Williams shot and killed Lester Givhan, his 40-year-old neighbor, outside a pool hall in July 1974. Williams shot Givhan after the two had argued about a $30 gambling debt. Williams claimed self-defense, but jurors convicted him of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole.
Dozens of people, including relatives of Williams and Givhan, packed a conference room at the Black Hawk County Courthouse, where two lawyers from Branstad's office and four parole board members heard comments.
"Rasberry believed in me at a time when I didn't believe in myself," said Ray Brown, who served in prison with Williams for 11 years. "It would be such a blessing, Gov. Branstad, if you were to see fit to let Rasberry come back home to us, live the rest of his life with us. He'll be an asset to so many of the young men here in Waterloo."
Branstad, who has only commuted life sentences of two inmates during 18 years in office, has until early May to decide whether to accept the parole board's recommendation. Doing so would allow Williams to become eligible for parole, which would allow him to eventually be released back into the community.
Brown said Williams' advice helped him stay out of trouble and become a drug treatment counselor. Two former offenders told similar stories, describing how Williams counseled them during walks through the prison courtyard, encouraging them to take personal responsibility for their actions.
Terry Sallis said he served with Williams at the prison in Fort Madison in the 1970s, and Williams berated him when he returned to prison in 1999. He said Williams encouraged him to get an education after his release, and he has become a mental health therapist "primarily due to a lot of conversations Ras and I had."
"None of us are the same that we were 37 years ago," Salas said. "He's made some incredible changes."
Williams' defense lawyer at trial, Wallace Parrish, said his client was guilty but had atoned for his actions by leading an exemplary life behind bars. He said Givhan had taunted and bullied Williams for years.
"It doesn't excuse it, but it does mitigate it," he said.
Givhan's cousin, Ola Belle Reed, said Givhan's character was no worse than Williams' because they both lived a lifestyle that involved gambling in seedy hangouts. She said she had forgiven Williams for killing Givhan, who had been planning to get married before he died. But she also said she did not understand the criminal justice system, and how a life prison term could be transformed into something shorter.
"I have never heard a word from Mr. Rasberry Williams to our family that he is sorry. That is all that I would like to hear. He took our cousin away from us," she said. "But I do forgive him."
Parole Board Chairman Jason Carlstrom later noted Williams had been barred from contacting Givhan's family. Williams' supporters said he had repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions.
Another Givhan cousin, Lee Reed, said he hoped Williams would make a difference in the community if released. He said he hoped any decision to release Williams would be based on evidence that he was rehabilitated and no longer a safety threat, and not to save money housing an aging inmate.
"It did hurt us to lose a loved one as it would anyone sitting here," he said. "But as the Bible tells us, if you want forgiveness, you must forgive. I believe that. And we forgive him. I hope and pray that he has repented."
Mark Osler, a law professor at University of St. Thomas Law School in Minnesota and an expert on commutation, said Wednesday's hearing was "really unusual," something he's never heard of in the nation. He said it was a "brave and appropriate thing to do" that would lend legitimacy to Branstad's ultimate decision.
Osler, who runs a legal clinic that works on commutation petitions, said he was struck by the details of Williams' case, including the agreement from the judge and prosecutor that Williams should get mercy.
"The guy saves some guards, you have the unanimous support of people involved in the case, and you have a public hearing," he said. "I don't know of another case that features that combination of unusual factors."


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Water (H2O) was a chemical substance which was often found in a liquid state at temperatures between 273 and 373 Kelvin, its melting and boiling points, respectively. At standard temperature and pressure, water was found in its liquid state. Water was crucial to the existence of life on Earth and to a certain extent to that of most other carbon-based lifeforms. It had some unique properties, such as an unusually high boiling point of 100° C and high adhesion and cohesion properties because of its polar nature and the existence of hydrogen bonding. Water's other states are solid, in the form of ice or snow and gaseous in the from of water vapor.
Things and beings that lived in or near water were described as aquatic. (TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion", et al.)
As of 2151, the water supply of the Novans at the northern hemisphere on Terra Nova were contaminated by toxic debris from an asteroid impact almost seventy years ago. They agreed to be relocated to the southern hemisphere. (ENT: "Terra Nova")
In 2153, MACO soldier F. Hawkins offered T'Pol some water from a canteen aboard the D'kyr-type starship Seleya. (ENT: "Impulse")
During a scan of Aldean DNA, Doctor Beverly Crusher was able to confirm that a rise in atmospheric H2O was not responsible for the Aldeans' sterility. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")
The microbrain referred to Humans as "Ugly giant bags of mostly water!" a description Lieutenant commander Data considered accurate as Humans were comprised of over 90% water and were surrounded by a flexible container. (TNG: "Home Soil")
Water was a standard part of all Starfleet emergency rations packs. In 2367, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Ensign Wesley Crusher were stranded without water after crash landing on Lambda Paz, a desert-like moon of Pentarus V, since their shuttle pilot Dirgo never found time to pack water in the emergency supplies. (TNG: "Final Mission")
Kataan was experiencing a constant drought towards the end of the planet's lifetime as its sun was rapidly approaching a nova. Water on the planet had to be rationed and it was considered to construct atmospheric condensers that could reclaim evaporating water from the air. (TNG: "The Inner Light")
The pre-industrial society of Barkon IV believed that water was one of the four basic elements of the universe, along with fire, sky and rock. Water was sometimes difficult to find in matter, but it was believed that all objects contained water. (TNG: "Thine Own Self")
In 2369, Commander Benjamin Sisko and Ilon Tandro compared the Trill and their symbionts to salt added to water. (DS9: "Dax")
When Doctor Julian Bashir arrived at the Bajoran village he received a medical emergency call from, he scanned the air, the ground water, and the soil but was not able to find any pollutants. (DS9: "The Storyteller")
In some regions of the Delta Quadrant, water is scarce and a valued commodity, traded amongst species such as the Kazon and Talaxians. In 2371, Captain Kathryn Janeway used water to bribe Kazon maje Jabin for information concerning the Ocampa. Later, when offered a bath by Tuvok, Neelix delightfully accepted, but was astounded by such an abundance of water that it could be used for the purpose of cleaning in such a manner. (VOY: "Caretaker")
After breaking the transwarp threshold in 2372, Lieutenant Tom Paris started going through the process of hyper-evolution and became allergic to water. (VOY: "Threshold")
Drinking water was essential for survival in emergency situations. In 2373, when the crew of the Voyager was stranded on Hanon IV, Captain Kathryn Janeway stated that their top priority was to find drinking water. (VOY: "Basics, Part I")
A proper amount of water was important to the survival of plants, but too much water could be harmful to certain plants. When Julian Bashir tried to help Miles O'Brien care for Keiko's Idran hybrids, he gave them water when he saw that they were "as dry as a bone," unaware that too much water would rot their roots. (DS9: "The Assignment")
In gravitically unstable regions of space (such as the gravitational event horizon of a collapsing planet or star), water can form into long chains of polywater. (TOS: "The Naked Time"; TNG: "The Naked Now")
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Futura 2000 "Expansions" Exhibition at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont – Recap
New York graffiti writer and artist Futura 2000 opened his latest exhibition this week at Galerie Jerome de Noirmont in Paris. At the exhibition, entitled 'Expansions', the artist presents an entirely new series of strong works in his signature style, yet with interesting layering techniques used in most paintings. The exhibition is open until February 29th, 2012, so make sure to pass by.
Futura 2000 'Expansion' Exhibition
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President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington's heated partisan budget battles.
Obama announced Burwell's selection to lead the Office of Management and Budget during a White House ceremony, noting that her appointment comes as government-wide spending cuts are going into effect that he said mean "eventually a lot of people are going to feel some pain." The White House and congressional Republicans were unable to reach a deal to avert the cuts ahead of last Friday's deadline.
If confirmed by the Senate, Burwell would bring more diversity to Obama's second-term Cabinet following criticism that many top jobs were going to white men.
Burwell is a Washington veteran, having served as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and as OMB's deputy director in the Clinton administration, where Obama noted she was on a team that presided over three consecutive budget surpluses. She has been running the Wal-Mart Foundation, the retail giant's philanthropic wing, and previously served as president of the Gates Foundation's Global Development Program, where Obama said she helped the organization "grow into a global force for good."
"Sylvia knows her way around a budget," Obama said. "But as granddaughter of Greek immigrants, she also understands that our goal when we put together a budget is not just to make the numbers add up. Our goal is also to reignite the true engine of economic growth, and that is a strong growing middle class, to offer ladders of opportunity for anybody willing to climb them."
Wal-Mart president Mike Duke called Burwell a strong leader with a "clear vision for making big things happen."
"She understands business and the role that business, government and civil society must play to build a strong economy that provides opportunity and strengthens communities across the country," Duke said in a statement.
Burwell would replace acting OMB director Jeffrey Zients, who has been discussed as a contender for other top administration posts.


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