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Up and away! Oops... Crew escape unscathed as balloon crashes into house
Last updated at 12:18 AM on 14th August 2011
This is the moment a hot-air balloon crashed into a family home after hitting telephone lines and clipping two other houses.
Incredibly, the two-man crew escaped unscathed.
The blue-and-yellow balloon – which was taking part in Bristol's International Balloon Fiesta – had lost height after the father-and-son crew swapped over the gas cylinders that power the burner and hit a chimney pot.
Collision: The out-of-control balloon crashes into home of sleeping family
Running out of air: The hot-air balloon lost height after the father-and-son crew swapped over the gas cylinders and hit a chimney pot
'It sounded like a bomb raid': Residents were woken at about 8.40am on Friday by the falling balloon when it crashed on to rooftops
Homeowner Leanne Scott, who lives in Bristol's Victoria Park, was woken around 8.40am on Friday when the balloon collided with her chimney, about an hour after the Fleur de Lis balloon took off. She said: 'It woke me up. It sounded like a bomb raid.'
The basket then smashed into a chimney on the house next door before hitting the home of Bernadine Nolan and her son Paul in nearby Alsop Street.
Paul said: 'The bang woke me and I saw the flame-thrower outside the window before it flew off.' His mother, Bernadine, added: 'I saw it hitting the telephone lines and then the roof. I thought it was going to come through the bedroom window.' More than 30 tiles were torn from her roof by the impact.
Uplifting: The annual Bristol International Balloon Fiesta got under way on Friday, August 12
Uprising: More than 60 balloons were launched in the Somerset city. The event attracts 500,000 people
Pilot Martin Read managed to steer the balloon away and landed around five miles away at Goose Green in the city.
An experienced pilot, Mr Read was flying with his stepson Terry Wetters. He said: 'Once you make contact with a structure it becomes more of a problem and chances are you will hit something else.'
The Civil Aviation Authority will carry out an investigation into the incident.
The damage is expected to be covered by insurance.
Taking off: The international four-day event first started in 1978 and now attracts balloon teams from as far as the United States
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025795/Bristol-International-Balloon-Fiesta-Crew-escape-unscathed-balloon-crashes-house.html#ixzz1V0hgdETn


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Remember this day, because your emoji dreams have finally come true. Today is the day when your face can become an emoji. Better yet, an emoji GIF. Nope, not kidding.
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Johnny Lin, a self-professed selfie connoisseur and former Apple engineer has gone about making this a reality, having developed the Memoji Keyboard. The app creates a unique set of photographs and GIFs of your own face imitating various familiar icons including the sunglasses emoji, the smiling emoji, and the one-eye-shut-tongue-out emoji.
It's hard enough for people to communicate using actual words these days, and we have a feeling Memoji is only going to take that to the next level.
Still, it's pretty cool, and we can't wait to try this for ourselves, like, immediately.

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It's not hard to imagine international tensions bubbling over as the planet heats up, and defence planners have begun to pay more attention to the risk of climate-related conflicts.
One landmark assessment prepared for the Pentagon in 2003 considered a specific scenario for abrupt climate change in which conflicts over land and water use grow through the century. If the planet's ability to support its growing population were to drop abruptly, "humanity would revert to its norm of constant battles for diminishing resources", the report warned. The message was underscored in 2007 with another report in which a group of retired generals and admirals concluded that "projected climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security".
However, the issues are very complex. Scholars have long tussled over the question of how the environment intersects with social factors to breed war. Drought, in particular, is a perennial marker of conflict but the connection isn't a simple one. The horrific violence in Darfur, Sudan, for example, followed decades of strained relations between nomadic herders and farmers, coinciding with a sustained drop in rainfall from the 1970s onward. However, the dramatic onset of warfare in 2003 doesn't appear to be directly linked to short-term dryness.
As the world's subtropics heat up and dry out, many important regions – including parts of the southwest US and northern Mexico, and the nations ringing the Mediterranean – will see an intensifying risk of major drought, which may feed other sources of societal stress and international conflict. These same parts of the world could also be well suited for hosting mammoth solar farms to send energy across international lines – another potential wrinkle in the geopolitics of tomorrow.
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DescriptionAn American football coaching simulation, Mac Pro Football's object is to put you down on the grass, pacing the side-line, banging your clipboard and shouting. It's a playoff game, maybe the championship; you get to choose the teams. Want to play the Packers against the Bears in 1980? Or the 1972 Dolphins against the 1985 Dolphins? Or maybe just the last quarter of Super Bowl X? The teams are all here, each team and key player rated with a single number, though you can build more detailed stats from your own games. Choose from nine or ten strategies at each play, out-thinking either a hot-seat opponent or three levels of computerized coaches. You can even draw out the pass pattern using the Mac's new point-and-click interface.
The display is split four ways: (1) a play diagram exactly like your clipboard shows the line-up you've selected, and the motion as it plays out; (2) a gauge of the ball's position on the field; (3) a scoreboard with the details of the last play; and (4) a summary of play statistics to put numbers behind your gut instincts. A real-time play clock adds pressure to the simulation: you can change your mind, but it takes time to lay out the play again. Penalties are rare, and cannot be declined.
Created over the course of four years by a former college player, the simulation evinces a love of the history of the professional game. You can replay the first twenty Super Bowls, guided by a technical reference typical of Avalon Hill's war simulations from the same era. Weather is detailed, for you to select, or the computer to generate, unless the home team has a dome. Uniquely, you can change the parameters mid-game, not just the weather, but even the score, time, down, and ball position. The focus is to challenge you as a coach to make the right decision, even if it's a guess.
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Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, indeed a "great day for the Irish," but a feast as well for all of us in the archdiocese of New York, for he is our patron saint, so obvious in the grand cathedral that bears his name. (more…)
Today on "Conversation with Cardinal Dolan," Father Dave Dwyer and I discuss retreats, Lent, and Saint Patrick's Day.
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Friday, 13 August 2010 08:12 AM
Teen pop star Justin Bieber is proving he's not the only one in his world.
He brought his My World tour to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena Wednesday and donated a portion of every ticket sale to Middle Tennessee flood relief. Concert promoter AEG Live matched the donation.
Together with proceeds from last month's show featuring Miranda Cosgrove and Kris Allen at a smaller venue, Bieber presented a check for nearly $33,000 to The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
Bieber says, "Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and you know Nashville, there's so much music history here."
Record flooding in May killed 22 people statewide and caused more than $2 billion in damage in Nashville alone.
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Scott Speedman is set to star opposite Patricia Clarkson in Ruba Nadda's "October Gale". Speedman plays a mysterious man who, during a violent October storm, washes up on a remote island cottage, unconscious and bleeding from a gunshot wound.
Clarkson plays a recently widowed doctor who takes him in, only to find that the shooter is coming back to finish the job, and that the storm has cut them off from the mainland. [Source: Deadline]
Goosebumps: The Movie
Ryan Lee ("Super 8") has joined the cast of the film adaptation of R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" book series at Sony Pictures.
Dylan Minnette plays a young man who must team with a horror author (Jack Black) and his niece (Amy Rush) to stop the demons of the author's mind which have been set free by a demonic ventriloquist's dummy. [Source: Variety]
A Monster Calls
Felicity Jones ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2," "Rosaline") has joined the cast of Juan Antonio Bayona's adaptation of the Patrick Ness children's fantasy novel "A Monster Calls".
The story follows a young boy who attempts to deal with the illness of his mother (Jones) and the bullying of classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales. [Source: Deadline]
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Randall Miller's "Midnight Rider" has lost its main star. William Hurt has dropped out of the role of Gregg Allman in the film which went on hiatus following the on-set death of camera assistant Sarah Jones in February due to a train accident.
If it does resume production, it could face union pressure, litigation and protests from sectors of the film community, while if other actors don't return some major recasting may be in order. [Source: THR]
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Zooey Deschanel, Anton Yelchin, John Hawkes, Ciaran Hinds and Alia Shawkat have all joined Zachary Sluser's dark comedy "The Driftless Area" at Unified Pictures and Bron Studios. Filming begins May 14th in Vancouver.
Based on Tom Drury's novel, Yelchin plays a bartender who returns to his hometown after the death of his parents. He falls in love with an enigmatic woman (Deschanel), and finds himself the target of a volatile criminal (Hawkes). [Source: Variety]


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Friday, August 19, 2011
Door County Vacation 2011, Cave Point
Thomas and I discovered a lovely park in Door County called Cave Point. After hiking along the water's edge for over a mile under the canopy of a great number of trees, we found a few other explorers willing to take our picture. Breathing in the fresh air, tasting wild strawberries, and noticing pretty columbine were a few highlights of this trip.
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FRANK JAGER: Reluctant candidate
Eureka City Councilman Frank Jager is looking to abandon his elected post halfway through a four-year term in hopes of becoming the city's next mayor.
Multiple sources say some Jager supporters who worked to elect him in 2008 are upset by the move which would give up a voting position on the council for a largely ceremonial one.
Jager himself is rumored to be reluctant about playing musical chairs but felt pressured by local king-maker Matthew Owen, who successfully worked to elect Jager in 2008 and Harbor Commissioner Richard Marks in 2009. Owen's wife, current mayor Virginia Bass, pulled a strong showing in June's primary race for Humboldt County Supervisor.
The 2008 campaign put its money on Jager's valuable name recognition to win him that election. Perhaps Jager's 2010 team, including Owen, are placing similar bets on the former cop and coroner to beat out one-time Mayor Peter LaVallee, who lost in 2006 in a squeaker to Bass.
Local candidates running in November's election were out greeting voters in the center of Old Town during Arts Alive Saturday evening but Jager was not among them. Popularity has its perks — no need for handshakes and baby kissing when you have a well-known name.
Or maybe he's embarrassed about his broken promises to protect public safety.
September 5, 2010 at 6:01 am
All kneel down before the King.
September 5, 2010 at 7:08 am
Or maybe Jager chose to skip this Arts Alive as it traditionally has the smallest turnout of the year…being Labor Day and all.
September 5, 2010 at 7:50 am
If Jager is elected to mayor, doesn't that give him
the choice of naming the person that will represent
his ward? That is exactly what Virginia did. He
would be the tie breaker and would vote the way Owen
and group tell him.
September 5, 2010 at 8:27 am
I get the feeling that Jager isn't really in to campaigning this year.
September 5, 2010 at 8:39 am
Jager has six years experience (I believe) as a councilman. He also has great experience as former cop, DA investigator & finally as the county Coroner. He has demonstrated his commitment to the community by his decades long volunteer experience as a scout leader. His leadership experience and personality will bring dignity to the Mayor's job.
He will make a great Mayor.
September 5, 2010 at 9:05 am
Jager broke his promise to EPD only if you take EPD at its word. The reality is, EPD is perfectly healthy with regard to its ability to provide public safety services. Some fat has been cut, and it will only make EPD stronger.
September 5, 2010 at 9:24 am
After cutting funding to our police dept, Jager could campaign 23/7, he will not get my vote!
Even before the cut, our police service per capita is less than the national average. Yet, our crime rate is much higher than the national average. Anyone doing the math could see we have a problem. The FBI stats. reveal that our crime rate is up there with Oakland & Richmond! As a retired police officer, Jager let the citizens of this city down!
September 5, 2010 at 9:26 am
opps! it should have been 24/7. I guess everyone needs a hour of personal time.
September 5, 2010 at 9:35 am
I figured you meant Jager would need an hour a day to get his daily briefing from Arkley & Co.
September 5, 2010 at 9:50 am
Even before the cut, our police service per capita is less than the national average. Yet, our crime rate is much higher than the national average. Anyone doing the math could see we have a problem. The FBI stats. reveal that our crime rate is up there with Oakland & Richmond! As a retired police officer, Jager let the citizens of this city down!
That's bullshit. Eureka has a much higher rate of rape and child molestation than comparable cities but not even close to a high level of theft. If you are a woman or a child Eureka might be a dangerous place but if you are a television or a car it is all good.
September 5, 2010 at 10:41 am
Arts Alive last night had a huge crowd. The weather was great and there was a crowd around the candidate's tables all night long. It was a fun evening.
September 5, 2010 at 10:58 am
PJ is pathetic with all her hate.
September 5, 2010 at 11:20 am
10:58 If you can read "hate" in PJ's last post, it says worlds about where you're at!
September 5, 2010 at 11:28 am
Um, lets see here, PJ, had to assume it was 23 hours because of needing an hour a day for a briefing from Arkley. Not just hateful, but pathetic, and illogical. Jager must be super human, needing no sleep, eating, council meetings, or a job. Just a lame response, and a lamer defender. Nope, must have something to do with Arkley.
September 5, 2010 at 11:40 am
No, I think it was a 'funny' using the typo from the earlier post. You guys are amazing!!!
Meanwhile, to be properly cruel, I would point out that Frank is following in Virginia's footsteps as a quitter. Both gave up useful voting seats for a position of relatively little responsibility. Neither has put forward any kind of creative or even useful ideas for fixing the city's problems. I know Frank has done good work with his Boy Scouts and he was a pretty good coroner, but neither one of these things matters at all when you quit even trying to do the job you were elected to do.
It's time for some council members that take the job seriously instead of using it as a mere status symbol.
And Frank could not appoint his replacement without the approval of the council. So what does he gain? Nothing! Sorry Frank. It's a bad move.
September 5, 2010 at 11:43 am
People who take an obvious joke so seriously may want to check on their own motives.
September 5, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Perhaps the next city council should adopt some sort of ordinance that requires an elected official to serve a complete 4 years of service,not allowing them to break a contract in which they where elected to fulfill.
September 5, 2010 at 12:07 pm
That's a stupid idea and illegal also.
September 5, 2010 at 12:26 pm
"Multiple sources say some Jager supporters who worked to elect him in 2008 are upset by the move which would give up a voting position on the council for a largely ceremonial one."
Can you name at least ONE of these supporters. If not it's just you shitin'
September 5, 2010 at 12:38 pm
September 5, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Nice pix. How'd you get Frank to hold still for them?
September 5, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Somehow I have a suspicion a mediocre councilperson would be much the same as mayor.
But there is no reason to be mean spirited. This isn't a beauty contest.
September 5, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Who made a beauty comment? You did, not me. I only posted what I think is a striking resemblence, once of those separated-at-birth comparisons.
September 5, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Let's cut out the mocking of Frank Jager, can we please?
I think Eureka is fortunate to have Mr. Jager on the City Council and I look forward to Frank working with Peter LaVallee when Peter is mayor.
September 5, 2010 at 3:54 pm
maybe his "extracurricular" activities are too exhausting. Those late night on third and at the dunes can make a guy pretty tired. Setting good example for those scouts.
September 5, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I'd call his expression "hound dog"
September 5, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Aw, Frank's an OK guy but if you can't poke a little fun, what use is politics?
September 5, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Wow, PJ, a bit paranoid now? Does everyone have a motive? That so called joke, is more like kicking a dead horse. Both that, and your joke involved no humor.
I think your joke equates to those who would be described as sharp as a marble.
September 5, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I think its rude to call Jager a dead horse and extremely overly defensive to call my silly joke a kick. All that bile must make you feel horrible. Out of pity I won't bother to respond to posts which appear to be yours in the future. Poking a monkey through the bars isn't my idea of a good time.
September 5, 2010 at 9:45 pm
BS PJ, you do it all the time with kicking dead horses. It was like a real look in to your mind, what party you chose to insult. You probably impaled flies on sticks, and burnt ants with a magnifying glass didn't you? It must make you feel real good, and high an mighty doing so, doesn't it?
September 6, 2010 at 8:16 am
Matthew Owen really wields some power to get Frank to give up a voting position for a figure head one, but I guess it's important to fill those commissions with good Ole boys.
September 6, 2010 at 9:02 am
How many bogeymen do you guys have? RA, Home Depot, WalMart & now Mathew Owens?
September 6, 2010 at 9:48 am
Matthew, who suffers from the all too common small-man complex, wants to be a big fish in a little pond and is going to use whoever he can along the way. It's smart that he isn't running for something himself, though.
September 6, 2010 at 10:37 am
Owen is indeed a bogeyman, hiding in your closet or under your bed. It's time to get real. Owen is running for Supervisior. Wake up HiFi.
September 6, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Frank Jaeger, first and foremost is all about public safety – let there be no doubt about that.
His run for Mayor is more about a desire to be a peace maker than it is Matt Owen the "king maker".
September 6, 2010 at 12:19 pm
@ HiFi-our bogeymen are just as sacred as your hatred for pierson, salzman, glass, and neely and anybody else who can commit an act of abstract reasoning or intellectual honesty.
September 6, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Pitchfork & Tired, need to get a life & stop the hate speech. Anon at 9.48am is close to being right.
September 7, 2010 at 7:52 am
Frank gave up his claim as a big supporter of Public Safety when he voted to seriously cut the Police and Fire budgets. Looks he wasn't as serious about his 'support' as he claimed.
September 7, 2010 at 9:07 am
Mouse ignores the laws of arithmetic.
70% or more of the city's budget is Police & Fire. That fact alone mandates that when we have cuts necessary to the magnitude the city did, they have no choice but to cut those departments as well.
You fell for the dishonest pandering that Glass/Atkins did before the media. Frank was honest & did not insult the intelligence of Eurekans by pretending we could balance with no Public Safety cuts.
September 7, 2010 at 9:35 am
Just want to clarify that the "Julie" who posted at 12:04 is NOT me. If I were a Eureka voter my vote would go to LaVallee. Thanks.
September 7, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Thank god that's cleared up.
September 7, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Frankly I thought the first Julie was great!


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Rehabilitating the Lame
I think it's possible to rehabilitate the nineties-era whipping boy and poster child of lame superheroes, Darkhawk.
No, really. It could work.
For those unfamiliar with the character, here's the rundown, courtesy of the Wikipedia:
While spying on his father at an abandoned amusement park, teenager Chris Powell discovered a mysterious amulet that, with concentration, transformed him into a powerful android. Suspicious that his father, a policeman, was accepting bribes from a crime boss, Chris vowed to use the amulet as "an edge against crime."
Darkhawk's powers include "darkforce blasts" which emanate from the amulet on his chest, a small energy shield from the same source, a grappling claw on one arm, retractable gliding wings and night vision. Darkhawk's face, covered by a helmet, is intensely ugly or terrifying, a feature that can be used to stun enemies. When the android body was damaged, Chris could heal it almost instantly by transforming into his human form, and then back into his android form again (injuries to Chris' human form could not be healed this way). Darkhawk originally glided through the air, but later gained the power of flight…
Chris discovered that the source of his powers was a living vessel in deep space, where his and other Darkhawk bodies were stored and repaired. When Chris was Darkhawk, his human body was stored in the ship in the android's place
If'n you search online, you'll see that a lot of comic fans regard Darkhawk as a symbol of bad nineties comics. I read the series back in yonder days, and I agree it wasn't great.
He has a lot of weird junk in his story, but what's the essence? What's the core of the character?
Darkhawk is a fusion of Captain Marvel ("Shazam!") and Batman. That's it. Darkhawk's core appeal is "being a powerless teenage kid who can transform into a scary-ass killer robot superhero is cool."
I think it could work, though striking the right tone would be a bear. Play up the powerlessness and confusion of Chris Powell with the terrifying appearance and kickassitude of his mysterious alter-ego. Chris goes from being scared to scaring, from being the powerless victim to the powerful avenger of wrongs.
It's a very straightforward power/revenge fantasy, with the advantage of the main character remaining a kid. Batman required fifteen years of incredible training, a Nobel Laureate's brain, and a fabulous fortune to get his revenge. Darkhawk required a "magic amulet." That could be a plus for reader identification.
Imagine the ad for Darkhawk: The Movie. Chris Powell is the son of a dirty cop. His family is falling apart. His school life sucks and involves frequent beatings. Crime is rampant in his neighborhood. Then one day his father disappears and Chris finds a strange amulet. Smash cut to a scary vigilante with razor-edged wings flying around and kicking ass. Revenge on crooks! Revenge on bullying schoolmates! Muh-ha-ha-haaaa!!!
Not Proust, I grant you, but I think it could work. Teenage nerd and perennial victim can become a killer robot badass whenever he wants? You've got Big Action ("The Menacing Man-Mollusk is attacking downtown!"), Big Drama ("Dad's a dirty cop and he's missing! The family's falling apart! Stacey won't talk to me!"), and, if desired, Big Komedy Laffs (as a nerdy teenage boy trying to act tough could be hilarious).
I think Darkhawk could be transformed from a punchline to a good character, consarn it.
To throw the topic open to the world: are there lamewad characters you think have promising woo-giving traits?
Who has the stuff to be big but never was, and why?


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Day 2 was about my bedtime reading ritual.
Day 3 was about blogger BFFs.
Today I'm posting Day 13, which is actually very hard for me because I'm supposed to recommend one under-appreciated book that everyone should read. Just one. I had to go check out my Goodreads "read" list for this challenge.
It won't come as much of a surprise to most people that I picked Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan. I have some sort of crazy love affair going on for this book because if you told me I would pick a contemporary read with a character I hate half the time and that is so extremely messed up with lots of swearing and drugs, I wouldn't believe you. I'm a PNR/fantasy/thriller girl. However, this book was just the bomb because I read it and enjoyed every second of it. It made me think a lot, I loved the writing, and the plot was engrossing. I'm a long and rambly writer- this was a long and rambly story.
Why It's Under-appreciated
This is from Goodreads. As you can see, 88% of people that read this book liked it with 37% giving it 5 stars. More than half the readers of Crash and Burn gave it 4 or more stars. The people that have read this book enjoy it. It disappoints me to see that there are only 267 ratings and 89 reviews. That's almost nothing. This is one of the best books I've ever read and it seems other people generally enjoy it too. I'd recommend this book if you want to completely immerse yourself in the life of a kid that's kind of an asshole, with some awful family, that fantasizes about girls and drugs a lot, but is also trying to figure out what to do with life. The writing seems light, but there is such depth to the story that I adore this book.
I'm not sure what else to say. This book was one of the best books I've ever read, and it was totally the type of contemporary I like. It may not be for everyone, but it deserves a lot more recognition.


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Sunday, January 30, 2011
And you thought you'd had enough
Well, more absurdity is here. Episode 4 of Danger! Relax, Please! has arrived. Dare I say, this is the best one yet.
Fortunately for you and the rest of the internet, this will be the last episode for some time to come...I'm leaving on February 1st to France for six months. There I will be writing, reading, and also drawing a weekly comic for a web publication of which I am a part - Public Organ.
Au revoir!
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
You're in Danger of not Relaxing again
It's a big, angry family! Episode 3 of Danger! Relax, Please!, my so-called "web series" (called so by me, reluctantly, at a loss for an appropriate term for web shorts celebrating narrative anarchy) is now online! This one features Cornelius the muppet, Angry J's twin brother. WARNING: not for anyone who hates or likes postal humor.
Episode 4 is forthcoming, much sooner than you might think...
In other news, I'm going to be moving to France for six months, starting in February. While this will put a halt to any actual productions I'm currently working on, it will allow me to set aside distractions (see above) and begin writing in earnest. This page will become more about the process of writing for the duration of the spring, until I'm back Stateside, at which time I will begin work on my first feature film.
Happy 2011!
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Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs. WATCH THE VIDEO READ THE POST.. THEN SHARE TO INSPIRE. WE THE SHEEPDOGS ARE AMONG YOU ALL TOO!! STAND WITH US! REVOLUTION IS COMING!
Which one are you?
Years ago I heard a lecture given by retired U.S. Army LTC Dave Grossman, (author of "On Killing)," about wolves, sheep and sheepdogs.
This article may cause people who live in denial to be angry. Many will find a way to dismiss the point of this article. They will rationalize and convince themselves that the issues discussed here do not apply to them, applicable perhaps to others but not to them. They will continue to ignore the truth because it frightens them and they are the sheep. Reality to sheep is so frightening that some may be afraid to finish reading this article.
Who are the wolves?
The Federal Government at this time, the criminals and the terrorists in our world are the wolves. They prey upon the sheep. The wolves commit nightmarish crimes for reasons which are perfectly justified in their twisted minds. These wolves do not kill, rape and torture to survive. They do these things because they are truly evil or they have a purpose which is to terrify the sheep into submission.
The wolves in our society will commit horrible crimes against the sheep every single day and night. We all know this. If we are not prepared to confront these predators then we are simply plodding through life, hoping that the wolf will select someone else this time.
Our citizenry has largely become a flock of sheep who cower when the wolf comes, secretly relieved when some other sheep is selected by the wolf.
We lock our doors and we watch our children because of wolves. We form neighborhood watch groups and pay taxes to support a police department because we know that wolves are real. We put up with airport security procedures and police check points because we have seen the carnage caused by wolves. We support an Army to fight wolves all around the world. We educate our children regarding the danger of wolves and how to avoid them. Our lives are affected by the threat of wolves every single day.
The economic cost of incarcerating wolves is staggering. The wars we are waging against wolves have drained our nation's blood and treasure. Wolves are the things of which nightmares are made. There are such things as monsters. We see them on the news every evening and some of us will see them up close and having done so, we may never be the same.
Who are the sheep?
Most people are sheep. They accept no responsibility for the safety and protection of themselves, their families or their flock. When sheep live their lives hoping that they will not be taken by the wolf and yet knowing that the wolf is going to take someone, the sheep are in effect hoping that the wolf will take their neighbor. Is hoping that the wolf will take someone else a strategy? Is it moral? Is it Christian? Is it American? How did Americans come to this deplorable state of deciding to be sheep? Sheep foolishly pretend that someone else will always be there to protect them. Many Americans complain constantly about the "Nanny State," where the government attempts to provide everything for everyone, while taking our freedoms in the process. Yet these same people expect the government to provide them with personal protection which is not even physically possible.
Most sheep which are attacked by the wolf go to their graves or the hospital, wishing for help and thinking, "this is not fair, I do not deserve this." Deserve has nothing to do with it. Fairness has nothing to do with it. Fairness is a childish notion. If life were fair, babies would not be born with horrible illnesses. Adults need to get over the idea that life is going to be fair and that the wolf will choose another sheep. Sheep often believe that they will not be chosen by the wolf because, "I am a good sheep and I will be spared." THIS IS COWARDLY BULLSHIT....To this type of thinking we can only say, grow up! Bad things happen to good people every day.
Who are the Sheepdogs?
Finally, there are the sheepdogs. They guard the flock. They are the protectors of our society. They are the Patriots, the 111%ers, the soldiers, the police officers and yes ....the armed citizens who have accepted the responsibility for protecting themselves and others by the use of deadly force if necessary.
The sheep are not always comfortable with the sheepdog because the sheepdog looks a lot like the wolf. The sheepdog is armed. He has fangs (guns). This frightens the sheep. The sheepdogs run toward danger. The sheep find this confusing because they only run away from danger. Often the sheep do not like the sheepdog until the wolf comes. Then the sheep try to hide behind the sheepdog, begging for his protection.
Sheepdogs do not live life hoping that the wolf will select someone else. Sheepdogs are prepared to stop the wolf and have accepted their responsibility for confronting evil in our society. If the wolf attacks the sheepdog then there will likely be one less wolf. On occasion the best prepared sheepdog will lose, but he will go down fighting, killed on the spot doing his duty. He will not be dragged off and tortured to death. There are things worse than death and those who surrender to the wolf often learn what those things are.
When the sheepdog hears of yet another horrible crime committed by the wolf he does not feel relief because the wolf chose another for his victim. He does not hide his head and try to pretend that such a fate could never befall his family. Instead he is reminded to remain alert and re-evaluate his own preparations to contend with such an occurrence.
One difference between real sheep and human sheep is the fact that real sheep are born sheep. Human sheep have decided to be sheep and can change into sheepdogs if they elect to do so. Human sheep can change from cowering victims to sheepdogs by being armed, well trained and mentally prepared to use force in the defense of life. Sheepdogs can make their families expectation of protection a reality. Sheepdogs are living up to the ideals of being an American.
Do not assume that you are a sheepdog because you own a gun. Owning a firearm that you could not reach in the first two to three seconds of a crime does not qualify you as a sheepdog. Owning a firearm with which you have had little relevant defensive training does not make you a sheepdog. A sheep who has not cultivated the Combat Mindset required to react properly and quickly when facing the wolf is not a sheepdog. A true sheepdog is armed and has the skill and the combat mindset to fend off a wolf attack, the outcome of which will normally be decided in the first few seconds.
Duty to Family.
Allow us to explain something that you may not have considered. Self defense is not simply a right, it is a responsibility. We do not have a right to protect members of our family, we have a duty. Our families believe that we can keep them safe from evil events. In most cases this is nothing more than a fairy tale, a false promise.
If armed home invasion robbers force their way into your home today or tonight what will you do? What could you do? Resistance without the means, the mental preparation and the skill is courageous but the end result is likely to be the same. The wolf wins.
"That could never happen to my family." And why is that? Why your neighbor and not you? It is my opinion that the Doctor in Connecticut who lost his entire family to home invasion robbers when his wife, 17 and 11 year old daughters were tortured, raped, doused in gasoline and then burned alive, never imagined that such a thing could ever happen to them. Can we even comprehend having to relive that nightmare every moment for the rest of your life? Can we possibly imagine the last memories on this earth of those young girls and their mother? We are aware of countless horrible crimes where a sheepdog could have stopped the carnage but all those present had chosen to be sheep.
Duty to Community and Country.
When a sheep fails to stop a wolf from torturing, robbing and assaulting him because he has no means to stop the wolf, the sheep bears some responsibility for the next victim. Had the sheep been a sheepdog prepared to stop the wolf, all of the future victims of that wolf would have been spared. The wolf is the culprit but every victim has the potential opportunity and the duty to save the next victim by defending himself.
Defending ourselves is a duty that we have to our society as well as our loved ones. When we fail to stop a criminal from victimizing us because we have not assumed the responsibility for protecting ourselves, our families, our community and our nation we have failed to live up to the ideals of being an American. Real Americans do not expect others to do all of their fighting for them. Living our lives knowing that wolves will attack someone every single day and hoping that the wolf will not attack us, is in a sense, to hope that the wolf will attack someone else because we know that he is a wolf and that is what he does.
At one time most Americans were Sheepdogs. Now, unfortunately, most Americans have decided to be sheep. If more sheep would again become sheepdogs we could all sleep more safely in our beds. A small percentage of our society are wolves, responsible for the attacks on the sheep. If more wolves were stopped by more sheepdogs, the frequency of attacks would soon diminish. Attacking the sheep would be so dangerous for the wolf that such attacks would become far less frequent. We would each have more peace of mind knowing that we were no longer at the mercy of the wolf which has no mercy.
If Not You, Who?
The Police will keep us safe, right? Did you know that courts have ruled that the police have no duty to protect anyone? Did you ever consider that the police protect you after the crime by trying to apprehend the wolves who tortured and murdered you and your family? Do you understand that the only one who can protect you during the crime is you? Do you not watch the news and see that evil occurs everywhere, in every neighborhood to all age groups, all economic groups, and both genders?
The wolf is afraid of the sheepdog and well he should be. Who among us will now elect to continue through life as a sheep, cowering from the wolf and hoping that the wolf will take someone else? Who will choose instead to become a sheepdog that can and will protect himself and his flock?
Those who expect the government to protect them during a crime are thinking like a child.
The sheep need to accept the fact that no one can protect them or their flock except the sheepdogs. The sheep must stop hoping that the wolf will continue to attack others. The sheep must choose to become sheepdogs and assume the responsibility for the protection of their families. The sheep must stop wishing for reality to change and become some fictitious ideal which has never and will never exist, for there will always be evil in this world.
A brilliant man once said that evil is the absence of God. If that is true our increasingly secular society is likely to get a lot more evil in the future, not less. The wolves may well run rampant in the streets. If this comes about, a great many sheepdogs will be required to save the flock.
We are each responsible for our own protection and the protection of our families. This has always been true and it always will be true. The sheep need to start living in the real world, not the one they wish existed but the one that does exist. The sheep need to accept their responsibilities as fathers, mothers, husbands and wives. They need to act like Americans and fulfill their obligations. They need to decide to stop being sheep and start being sheepdogs.
The fact that statistically there is a fair chance we might live our lives never becoming the victim of a violent crime will be no consolation to us should we suffer the horror of a such an attack. For those who do survive a violent attack the physical and emotional scars will be with them as long as they live. Even worse, how will we cope if a family member is victimized and we are unable to help, all the time knowing that we could have prevented the attack if we had been prepared?
What could possibly be more important than the safety of your family? Ask yourself, what have I chosen to be? Have I allowed a left leaning pacifist society to mold me into a sheep? Is that my heritage as an American, to expect someone from the government to protect my family? Am I so gullible that I believe it is even possible for someone else to protect us during a crime?
The wolf is out there looking for his next victim. Somewhere right now a wolf is preparing to meet you and defeat you. What are you going to do about it? When the wolves roam the streets it will be too late to prepare. When opportunity (necessity) coincides with preparation, success occurs. Will success be yours or theirs? Do not wait too long to decide, lest the wolf decide for you.


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Rescue teams are working around the clock to help victims of a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand after the natural disaster – measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale – struck at lunchtime yesterday. This is second major tremor to hit the city in six months, as a stronger but less damaging earthquake struck in September 2010.
Rebuilding estimates for damage caused by the previous earthquake were around NZ$4bn however costs are set to spiral out of control following yesterday's attack. At the time of going to press, estimations for the death toll were hovering between 80-100, although many residents are still thought to be trapped under piles of collapsed rubble.
Reports from the city have also suggested that 'liquified' sub-strata beneath the buildings will have a dramatic effect on long-term rebuilding efforts. Numerous structures have been reduced to rubble, including two large office towers – the Pyne Gould Building and Canterbury Television Headquarters – while the ornate spire of Christchurch Cathedral toppled to the ground in a cloud of dust. Local police have referred to the destroyed Canterbury Television Headquarters as 'unsurvivable'.
Christchurch City Council had been considering a proposal which dictates that all landlords are to ensure that older buildings are fully earthquake-resistant within the next 30yrs, however this has been met by outrage from heritage groups who have suggested that operations could total NZ$500m. Current building practice states that all new structures must be designed to withstand powerful earthquakes.
Christchurch Superintendent Russell Gibson referenced the extent of human casualties in an interview with Radio New Zealand: "We've been pulling 20 or 30 people out of [the office] buildings right throughout the night. They are trapped in cars, crushed under rubble and, where they are clearly deceased, our focus unfortunately at this time has turned to the living. We are getting texts and tapping sounds from some of these buildings, and that's where our focus is at the moment."
WAN asked seismic expert Ziggy Lubkowski from Arup for his opinion on the structural damage following the earthquake.


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Air Pressure Testing Equipments
The UNIK Air Pressure Leak Tester is an equipment which will ensure that batteries with even minor leaks are detected. The equipment is a programmable micro processor based unit with various time settings that can be programmed through the keypads on the front of the controller. These timings are:
1. Fill Time during which the test pressure is filled in the component.
2. Settling Time during which the test pressure is stabilized evenly over the entire volume of the component.
3. Test Time during which the test component is subjected to leak test.
4. Exhaust Time used to exhaust the air from the test component.
The settings of test pressure and permissible leak can be easily programmed with the help of keypads.
The detailed test status and test results are displayed on 16 x 2 character alpha numeric LCD display providing record of the measured leak for each test along with other programmed parameters.
The operating procedure is very simple once the battery under test has been clamped and test started. Once the equipment is started, the pressure fill cycle starts. The set test pressure is filled in the battery. This cycle continues till the set air pressure is filled within the set fill time. After fill time is over the inlet of air into battery is stopped. At this point of time if the pressure is not filled upto the set pressure specified limits the controller gives a Gross leak signal. In case there is no gross leak; settling time starts with the pressure stabilizing evenly in the battery compartment under test. After the settling time is over the test time starts.
At the end of the set test time the reading is checked automatically and a comparison of pressure with preset value is done. If there is a drop in pressure during the test time and if this drop is greater than maximum permitted leak the fault indicator glows. In case the leakage is within acceptable specified limits the OK signal glows.
An audio visual alarm helps in segregation of acceptable and rejected batteries thereby eliminating any possible error due to the operator's subjective judgment.
UNIK BATTERY MACHINES from Unik Automation on Vimeo.


text: Correct and efficient implementation of general real-time applications remains by far an open problem. A key issue is meeting timing constraints whose satisfaction depends on features of the execution platform, in particular its speed. Existing rigorous implementation techniques are applicable to specific classes of systems e.g. with periodic tasks, time deterministic systems. We present a general model-based implementation method for real-time systems based on the use of two models. &bull An abstract model representing the behavior of real-time software as a timed automaton. The latter describes user-defined platform-independent timing constraints. Its transitions are timeless and correspond to the execution of statements of the real-time software. &bull A physical model representing the behavior of the real-time software running on a given platform. It is obtained by assigning execution times to the transitions of the abstract model. A necessary condition for implementability is time-safety, that is, any (timed) execution sequence of the physical model is also an execution sequence of the abstract model. Time-safety simply means that the platform is fast enough to meet the timing requirements. As execution times of actions are not known exactly, time-safety is checked for worst-case execution times of actions by making an assumption of time-robustness: time-safety is preserved when speed of the execution platform increases. We show that as a rule, physical models are not time-robust and show that time-determinism is a sufficient condition for time-robustness. For given real-time software and execution platform corresponding to a time-robust model, we define an Execution Engine that coordinates the execution of the application software so as to meet its timing constraints. Furthermore, in case of non-robustness, the Execution Engine can detect violations of time-safety and stop execution.


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problems filling pump cartridge
good day all. Been getting tiny air bubbles in insulin cartridge. I use humalog and have at room temp. My husband doesn't have this problem with humilin r insulin in his cartridge. I changed cartridge yesterday and no air bubbles, this morning i had a bunch of tiny bubbles. I know for most, a tiny bubble wouldn't b a problem but for me they would be.
I have followed all the instructions that came with the pump.
Any suggestions?
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I have same problem every now and then and i use humulin R but i did some testing when i fill the reservoir and found it's my fault so here is how I fixed the issue before you connect to bottle you draw back to 100 don" draw back to 150 connect bottle turn upside down slowly push air in you will see stream of bubbles going thru insulin to top of liquid push plunger all the way it will build a little pressure in the bottle release plunger and let it self fill for a few seconds till it stops on its own you will see a bubble in reservoir draw in more insulin slowly another 40 units (now i hold at connector res to bottle i found if you squeeze reservoir or draw to fast it pulls air from around the lower black o-ring seal in reservoir) let it sit for a second hold bottle and lightly flick reservoir you'll see all bubbles go to top then slowly push plunger in till you see no bubbles going thru liquid and no air in reservoir then slowly draw insulin till you hit i think you said you do 100 then hold the blue (mine is blue) connector (reminder this is all done with insulin bottle upside down) and pull off insulin bottle then flip over res and unlock connector then unscrew plunger and the rest is the same as you've been doing since i figured that out i have no more bubbles and alarms
Yep i do all that. My hubby has been filling his reservoirs for over 30+ years and he still gets bubbles in mine. :-)
wow wonder if you just didn't get some defective reservoirs hopefully your next ones won't give you those bubbles
Ben there
What I did was after filling set it upright on the table and let it sit for a min or so then with every thing attached I tap it on the table push out any air and the refill the little bit that came out . It works for me
I'm currently using Humalog in my pump and will occasionally get air bubbles, even when I try to be sure that I've "pushed" them all out. Sometimes, it takes me three or more "pulls" to fill and "pushes" to return the insulin to the vial with the air bubbles) to fill up my reservoir with no air. (I usually only fill it with 60u for a 3-day period). Medtronic had advised that once I've finished filling, to turn the reservoir so that it sits on top of the vial before removing the vial from the reservoir. I've been doing that and seem to have fewer incidents of air bubbles. If/when I do notice a bubble in the tubing, I'll try to follow it and when it get's close to the infusion set, I'll use the "Fill Canula" option to purge the bubble from the tubing so I don't get air instead of insulin. I don't recall what kind of pump you are using and whether it is tubed or not. Hope thins helps some.
Thanks. I fill up 100 for three days. I ammo accu chek combo by roche. I use the rapid d infusion sets with steel needle instead of the ultra flex cannula style. I tried cannula ones and bs not under control. So, with the rapid d, the tubing disconnects from infusion set differently than the ultra flex. The rapid d has the long tubing that connects to a smaller tubing that is attached to the infusion set. If i get bubbles in the small tubing, i have to change the infusion set. I haven't received my first shipment of supplies yet that were shipped on the 23rd and i have one set left to held me thru
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The Taliban leader in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, survived an American drone strike in January and is alive and well, a senior official with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency told the Guardian today.
Mehsud was reported to have died in a CIA drone strike in South Waziristan in January but, although Pakistan's interior minister claimed he had been killed, the death was never confirmed by either US or Pakistani intelligence.
Today the senior intelligence official said he had seen video footage of the missile attack on Mehsud but other intelligence had since confirmed the insurgent leader survived. He declined to elaborate further.
"He is alive," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He had some wounds but he is basically OK."
Mehsud's apparent survival will be a blow to the CIA, which intensified efforts to kill the flamboyant young Taliban leader early this year after he appeared in a video alongside an al-Qaida operative who killed seven American spies at a base in southern Afghanistan in late December.
The failed attack on Mehsud came at the start of an unprecedented onslaught by CIA-controlled unmanned aircraft in the tribal belt. The CIA has carried out 38 attacks so far this year, the official said, compared with 49 in the whole of 2009.
"The US government is under pressure because it is unable to achieve much in Afghanistan. This is one way of hitting their al-Qaida enemies, as they define them," the official said.
Drone strikes are deeply unpopular in Pakistan because of civilian casualties. The New America Foundation recently reported that between January 2009 and March 2010 the drones killed 690 alleged insurgents and 181 innocent villagers. CIA figures put the civilian tally for the same period at 20.
The Pakistani official estimated the civilian toll was "between the two figures" but insisted that targeting had improved. "For the Americans, this is an effective way of doing things from a distance with little collateral damage. I give full credit to the CIA for this."
The Washington Post reported this week that the CIA has started using more compact drones and smaller missiles in an effort to reduce civilian casualties.
The intelligence official denied reports that the Taliban deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, had been captured in Karachi last January "by accident".
US intelligence pinpointed Baradar in a housing estate in a well-to-do part of Karachi, he said, but the raid to capture him was entirely Pakistani. "There was no American around," he said.
Baradar was being jointly interrogated by CIA and ISI agents and had yielded useful information, he said. For example, he claimed to have last met the Taliban leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, two years ago.
He also rejected claims that Pakistan had captured Baradar to scupper nascent Afghan peace talks, saying that Baradar had disdained President Hamid Karzai as "not even a real Pashtun".
In March, Kai Eide, the UN's former special representative to Afghanistan said he believed Pakistan wanted to prevent talks between the UN, the Afghan government and the Taliban, to retain control of the process.
The senior official said the ISI would be "very, very willing" to play a role in negotiations with the Taliban, but only if called upon by both the Afghan and US governments. For now, he said, Pakistan's spies are "sitting on the sidelines, watching".
"There are a number of different efforts and nobody knows what anyone else is doing. It's a very fragmented effort." He added that "if it's meant to confuse the Taliban, it's working".
One stumbling block, he said, was the clashing policies of Britain and the US. "The British are more amenable to negotiations and talking," he said. "The Americans are attempting to create conditions where the Taliban will be forced to come to the table. In my opinion they will never achieve that."
A western diplomat in Islamabad said British officials were more inclined to talks than their US couterparts, but said policy had not been fixed in either country because "otherwise things would be happening".
The ISI official denied his agency retains close ties with Jalaluddin Haqqani, an al-Qaida-linked warlord whom America blames for recent mayhem in Afghanistan, including a suicide attack on the Indian embassy.
He admitted the agency had once been close to Haqqani but insisted that recent US allegations came from people who "lived in the past". He regretted that Pakistan had broken its links with the warlord because "otherwise, resolution of the problems in Afghanistan today would be so much easier for all of us".
The ISI was heavily criticised in a recent United Nations report into the death of Benazir Bhutto in December 2007. The official described the report as a "sub-standard work with a clear agenda".
He said: "In the report, statements are made and inferences drawn on condition of anonymity and hearsay. Who in God's name does that?"
Charmed life
Hakimullah Mehsud's apparent survival represents a second miraculous escape in the career of a youthful, ruthless militant leader.
The Pakistani government previously reported that the flamboyant tribesman, thought to be about 30 years old, was killed during a leadership struggle last August.
Despite his remarkable good fortune, however, Hakimullah's days as a Taliban leader may be numbered. According to a senior ISI official, his Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan organisation has been weakened by a sweeping army assault on its South Waziristan stronghold.
Mehsud's leadership has been challenged by other figures, too, including his rival Wali-ur-Rehman. "He may not be in the leadership position," the intelligence official said. "His rise was accidental. He was mister nobody, people found it difficult to accept him."
Mehsud rose to militant fame on the back of his ambition and showy cruelty. He sprang to prominence in 2007 with the humiliating kidnapping of over 200 Pakistani soldiers in South Waziristan.
A year later, he led dozens of ambushes on Nato supply convoys as they passed through the Khyber Pass; in one instance he invited reporters to film him at the wheel of a looted American Humvee.
Hakimullah became Taliban leader in August after a CIA drone killed the Tehrik-i-Taliban founder, Baitullah Mehsud. He also became known for cruelty. In Orakzai tribal agency, which was under his sway, Taliban fighters preyed on minority Sikhs and carried out bloody sectarian attacks on Shias.
Whatever Mehsud's fate, the Taliban remain a potent force. Yesterday, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing five policemen. In North Waziristan, a clash at a checkpoint left four militants dead and injured one soldier.


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I admit defeat. Restlessness (and the desperate craving for caffeine) has gotten the best of me, and when images of a warm cup of cafe mocha drifts in and out of my peripheral vision, I was swift to get myself change and out of the house and back within an hour. And now, I am happily sipping on a regular cup from SF and had just finished swallowing down a 6-inches of Chicken Pizzola.
I love KL. I love living in KL. I love living within 2 LRT stations away from KLCC. I love the fact that the nearest LRT station to my home is only a 5-minutes walk away. And I love the fact that I can get dress, hop on the LRT, go to KLCC, get myself a Cafe Mocha and a subway and some cookies, and be back within the hour. If I am disciplined enough, I'm pretty sure I can do all those within 30-minutes if you dared me. I think I'm good enough to map out the most efficient route through KLCC and back and still be able to miss the lunch-hour crowd.
Oh. Sorry. What's the purpose of this entry again? Oh yes... me... avoiding studying. Yet again. But at least I've made some progress! I have now opened my notes and my past year exam papers spread all over my study tables in the hopes that if ever my parents (ie. my mum) passes by, they'd believe that I have studied enough to earn myself a running-break to get myself some much needed caffeine.
Oh! And you know what? I think I will take myself on that trip to Laos after all - despite my husband's objections to me travelling solo. Because I figured that I don't want to live my life in regret and grow to despising my husband for not letting me go in the first place. I'm sure he'll come round to it once I've landed safely back at the airport. I know he's not convinced that my safety is secured there but... I want to do this. There is no point in me going back-and-forth anymore when my gut instinct is yelling at me to "GO!".


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NEWTON, Iowa (July 9, 2016) – Simon Pagenaud and his No. 22 Team Penske Chevrolet team took another step in their determined march toward the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series (VICS) title by winning the Verizon P1 Award for Sunday's Iowa Corn 300.
Pagenaud, again carrying the bright colors of Menards, bested the field with a total time of 34.6334 seconds/185.855 mph average speed around the .894-mile, variably banked Iowa Speedway oval.
"It is such a gamble for the engineers in this situation," said Pagenaud. "You only get two laps. Conditions from this morning to the afternoon changed. It is fun when you get the car right like this on an oval. This Menards car is beautiful. It has been super close all weekend. I'm super-proud of the No. 22 team. Chevy has been incredible giving us so much power and such a good aero kit. It's been comfortable and a lot more to my driving style."
Starting alongside Pagenaud on the front row will be Josef Newgarden in the No. 21 Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet. Newgarden has finished second in the last two VICS races at Iowa Speedway.
Row two for the 300-lap/268.2-mile race will be Helio Castroneves, No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet; and rookie-of-the-year contender Max Chilton, No. 8 Gallagher Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet.
Chevrolet drivers captured the top-eight positions in the starting field, and 10 of the top-11 in the 22-car field.
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Today's post will be slightly different from all the other ones lately. I've been struggling internally to find a place where I can be content and stay there. It has been a conscious effort to keep positivity and motivation. However, amidst all this effort, I suddenly realized today that I was HAPPY. I didn't need to think about being happy, or make an effort to be happy, or force myself to acknowledge some sort of gratefulness from a conscious mental reminder.
As I stood in the middle of the parking lot with the sun shining over my head, at some random moment during the day, I felt myself smiling, for absolutely no reason.
I just wanted to share this with the world. It was AMAZING.
Smiling just because, for no absolute reason, because we can.
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Angela "Angie" Koch is now a contributing writer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Huffington Post according to a press release issued by PR Newswire. Koch, who is the CEO of U.S. Money Reserve, will blog about leadership and wealth management on the popular media site.
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The Department of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College has developed an innovative approach to global health education for physicians. This model is unique in that it fuses traditional medical mission-style work with grassroots-level programming to effect change in developing nations. Though the training is in anesthesiology, the faculty believe that all physicians have the ability to influence change in the developing world, and as such, they have designed a program that supersedes medical specialty in favor of creating a globally conscious physician with a deep connection to a universal community of patients. This unique project positions faculty to generate collaborative efforts amongst the many clinical divisions at Weill Cornell Medical College to create a unified approach to international health work.


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Wow, that Urban Decay set IS like a dream! But I'm definitely not spending $600 (at least, not in one go :D)ReplyDelete
I really like the kits you talked about in this blogpost! :)
I love all 3, but as much as I would like one of them, I probably will be passing on them, just a little too expensive!!ReplyDelete
I'm obsessed with the advent calendar! My mum still buys me one, and I'm 22! haha!ReplyDelete
That is a dream set :)ReplyDelete
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That Urban Decay set looks so amazing! Everything I could ever want! I do like that Benefit Advent Calender thing though too :)ReplyDelete
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As I sit here writing this post I am thinking about the packing that I need to do for my trip today. This one is a small in getaway to Palm Springs with the Avalon Hotel. Super excited. I actually need a vacation from my trip to Atlanta last week.. so much fun, so little sleep!
With that said, I am very in to the easy dress lately.
Shift dresses, babydoll dresses. Pretty much any dress that is on the shorter side and flows. This little blue number has gotten whole lot of play since it made it's way into my wardrobe. I really do feel that way. Clothes making their way into our wardrobes right when we need or want them to. Super confused? Well allow me to share what I am thinking.
Like so much in life, the things that we want and the things that we need enter our lives at different times. Often times the things we want seem to get put on hold by the universe in order to make room for the things we need. I feel this way about just about everything including the clothes that make their way into our closets. Yes yes, I know that we make the choice to buy the clothes we want. But have you ever gone shopping in search of something you want only to not find it, yet you wind up with something so much better? That's what I mean! Like with so much in our lives, what we need finds it's way to us.
Okay Okay I just got all philosophical on you.. Allow me to swing the topic back to fashion.. Easy dress. Perfect for summer. Found it's way into my wardrobe. I can't get enough of it! BOOM!


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I am honored to tell you that I'm part of the talented team at the Craft Stamper Magazine Inspiration Blog.
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In this post we will partially discuss this paper by Erlebach et. al. The classical MST problem is studied for graphs with edge and vertex uncertainties. In general a problem with uncertainties can be specified as a triple where , the for the problem consists of a set of data points and is a set of where . The function defines the solution for a particular configuration . The input of the problem is just the set of areas . An algorithm can any of the and this determines the value of the data point . The objective is to minimize the number of such updates and still be able to compute . An algorithm is update competitive if it can compute with at most updates where is the minimum number of updates required by any algorithm.
Example: Given a weighted graph the areas can be open intervals such that the edge weight . The function can then be a minimum spanning tree of .
The algorithm in this paper gives a general strategy to solve problems with uncertainties. The algorithm is update competitive where is an upper bound on the size of a witness set . A witness set is a set of areas such that in order to verify the solution at least one element of needs to be updated. The witness algorithm is a kind of template for problems with uncertainties as it does not specify how a witness set is to be computed.
Question : In general is it always possible to compute a witness set in polynomial time?
The problem discussed in this paper is an extension of the concept of MST to graphs with uncertain edge weights. A MST of such a graph is said to be a MST in all possible realizations of edge weights, that satisfy the basic condition of the edge weight belonging to its assigned area. The paper provides an algorithm that is update competitive when the areas are open intervals or singletons. Furthermore it is proved that, there is no update competitive algorithm in this case. When there are no restrictions on the areas at all, it is proved that there is no constant update algorithm for the MST problem. The paper also considers graphs with vertex position uncertainties [where vertices are points in an Euclidean space].
The algorithm looks a lot like Kruskals MST algorithm. The main crux it to find witness sets of size as edges are considered in their special sorted order. For details please refer to the paper.
Some comments and questions:
1) How about approximation algorithms for problems with uncertainties? The goal of an approximation algorithm would be to compute an approximate solution to problems with uncertainties with minimum updates.
2) In this model, there seems to be no restriction on the running time of the algorithm but the only importance seems to be given to the number of updates. Is there a model which combines the two meaningfully?
3) The notion of a MST that applies to all possible realizations of a graph with edge uncertainties seems too restrictive.


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Latest Article: Reiter Engineering Unveils Gallardo GT3 StradaReiter Engineering has just taken the wraps off its road-legal Gallardo GT3 Strada. Reiter's Gallardo is essentially a fully registrable version of the Gallardo GT3 race car campaigned by the factory-backed outfit. Weight reduction is key, wit...
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Here are the Most Popular Dog Names
I believe it was Shakespeare who wrote, "What's in a name? That which we call Fido by any other name would be as lovable." Or something like that. Anyway, here are the most popular dog names of the year.
The NYC Health Department has reported that once again, Bella reigns supreme, and Max takes the top spot for male dogs.
New York isn't much different than the rest of the country; VPI pet insurance reports that Bella, Lucy, and Molly are the top three picks for female dogs, and Bailey, Max, and Charlie are most popular for male dogs.


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Stranger Creek by Susan Rieke
Learning the ways of county roads, driving and winding, lengths
play baffling tricks, three circles and back to the beginning. Road signs
anchor the driver with location, false security. Around and around,
the Kansas way is replicated in its waterways and creeks. Here
in the eastern state, three counties host the spider crawl of Stranger
Creek. A car can drive for miles and miles, and suddenly
a familiar sign, Stranger Creek here and there, round and round, pops
ups, no stranger this Stranger Creek. Spanning three counties, it
might be searching, its origin or is it eternal circle? Angry summers
have pulled it out of its rock-shelf borders to make oceans of fields,
fields of oceans. What does this ubiquitous might find? Is Stranger
Creek and stranger to itself, one year this mass of water, one year
choking on dust? The science men say it's polluted with animal
matter from large farms. Perhaps the creek looks for another time
when it made swimming holes for children too far from towns,
lonely like the creek. Perhaps it smells chemicals now when it once
took the sweet, acrid odor of occasional manure and sent it
farmhouses. Hot by summer day, frozen by winter moons,
this creek has stories to entertain and soothe the soil with its wet,
wet tickle. Stranger Creek, resident of three counties, resides well.
~Susan Rieke
Susan Rieke, S.C.L., Ph.D., is a Professor of English holding the McGilley Chair for Liberal Studies at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas. She has published three books of poetry, Small Indulgences, From the Tower (with Mary Janet McGilley, S.C.L., and Michael Paul Novak), Ireland's Weather (chapbook), and poems in magazines. She does numerous poetry readings in the greater Kansas City area. Through the Kansas Humanities Council, she has given talks on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and led book discussions throughout Kansas.
Stephen Meats, recently retired from teaching and administration at Pittsburg State University, is the author of a mixed genre collection of poems and stories, Dark Dove Descending and Other Parables (Mammoth Publications, 2013) and a collection of poems, Looking for the Pale Eagle (Woodley Press, 1993; expanded edition, Mammoth Publications, 2014). His poems, stories, and scholarly writings have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including more than two dozen articles on Whitman, Faulkner, and other writers in The Literary Encyclopedia. He has been poetry editor of The Midwest Quarterly since 1985. For his guest editorship, in addition to poems with Kansas associations, he asked contributors to submit work dealing with shore birds and water birds, if moved to do so, in recognition of his and his wife Ann's recent move to Florida.


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One of the interesting ideas in my dog books is the concept of neoteny, or the retention of juvenile characteristics, as a common feature of almost all breeds of domesticated dogs (see this article). When you look at dogs in light of this, you really do see the "puppy-like" traits and behaviors.
One of the references used in a couple of the books concerns a 40-year experiment in domesticating Siberian Foxes to simplify their care in (originally) Soviet fur farms. After a just a few generations of selecting for tameness, the foxes underwent a number of seemingly unrelated physical and behavioral changes. They developed shorter snouts and floppy ears-- common to many canid puppies-- and multicolored fur, which undermined their value in the fur trade. They also took to barking, wagging their tails, and whining for joy at seeing a friendly face, which are behaviors unknown in wild foxes. They were just trying to make a less freaky fox, and they reinvented the dog in a person's lifetime.
There's a bit more about the study here.


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A couple updates. To start, an article by Michael Rectenwald has finally been published over at The North Star under the title "What's wrong with identity politics (and intersectionality theory)?" It's yet another response to Mark Fisher's polemic, "Exiting the Vampire Castle," but is addressed equally to his critics. My hope, probably naïve, is that Rectenwald's piece will be seen as the final word on the debate. Of course, anyone who's still itching to pen a rejoinder and join in the fray is invited to do so. The uproar can hardly last forever, though.
Either way, I'd like to draw attention to one passage by Rectenwald in particular, one that I feel makes the connection between intersectionality and identity politics explicit. Now that I think of it, I never got around to spelling out what ties them together. Instead, I left it implicit. Rectenwald fills in this lacuna in two succinct paragraphs:
Fisher never explicitly refers to intersectionality theory, but it lurks just beneath surface of his contempt in "Exiting the Vampire Castle." Developed in the 1970s and 1980s within feminism, intersectionality seeks to understand how power intersects identities along various axes, including those of race, gender, sexuality, or sexual preference, etc. It aims to locate the articulations of power as it traverses various subordinated peoples in different, multiple ways. Suggestive of a radical critique of patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy and other forms of domination, it complicates any sense of gender, sex, class, or race as homogenous wholes. And it problematizes any hierarchy of one categorical determination over others. As such, it appears to serve as a method of analysis for opposing oppressions of all kinds. Intersectionality should, it seems, work to deepen our understanding of the composition of class society, and to add to the means for overcoming it.
But operating under the same schema as a more simplified identity politics, intersectionality theory serves to isolate multiple and seemingly endless identity standpoints, without sufficiently articulating them with each other, or the forms of domination. The upshot in political practice is a static pluralism of reified social categories, each vying for more-subaltern-than-thou status on a field of one-downsmanship. While it may be useful for sociologists attempting to describe groups and their struggles with power, as a political theory, it is useless, or worse. This is because, by ending with the identification and isolation of its various constituencies, it in fact serves to sever the connections that it supposedly sought to understand and strengthen. The practical upshot of intersectionality theory is the perpetual articulation of difference, resulting in fragmentation and the stagnation of political activity that Fisher bemoans.
This explains the kind of "race to the bottom" mentality that tends to accompany intersectionality and identity. In fact, here's a graph I found that illustrates exactly their relationship, with binaries emanating radially from the center in either direction, showing relative degrees of privilege vs. oppression:
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Thurs 10 February 2011
UNISON Scotland says Government moves to dictate how council
budgets are spent is effectively 'handcuffing' local authorities
and sounds the death knell for democracy.
Today, in the Scottish Parliament, MSPs will be debating the
Local Government Finance Order which will determine the budget
allocation for councils in Scotland for the financial year 2011-2012.
In November's draft budget, the Government presented councils
with a Hobson's choice: deliver key SNP policies, such as freezing
the council tax and maintaining police numbers, or face an even
bigger cut in your budget allocation.
The Government claimed that councils who signed up to the 'package'
of Government priorities would face a cut of 2.6 per cent, while
councils who did not would face a cut of 6.4 per cent.
UNISON has branded the move a veiled attempt to turn local
government into the administrative arm of central government
and is urging councils to set a needs-based budget based on
local need, not government dictat.
Trade unionists, community groups and members of the public
will be lobbying council meetings across Scotland today to urge
their elected members to put the needs of their communities
first when setting their budgets.
Mike Kirby, UNISON's Scottish Secretary, said: "To let the
government dictate how council funds are spent is absolute madness
and sounds the death knell for democracy.
"Democracy is the defining difference between public and private
services and it is vital local authorities are able to allocate
funds based on the local needs of their communities, not political
"This move by the Government is an attempt to handcuff our
councils and our elected officials need to stand up for their
communities and set a needs-based budget that protects our public
Notes to editors
· UNISON has consistently challenged the need for cuts which
it says are based on politics, not economics. The union has
also condemned a continued council tax freeze as it prevents
councils from raising vital funds and at the same time provides
a real-terms tax cut to the wealthiest homeowners at the expense
of vital services.
· UNISON has branded the Government's demands to recruit 1,000
extra police officers a "cosmetic political exercise". Giving
priority to maintaining police numbers in a declining police
budget simply means that large numbers of police (civilian)
staffs will be cut. This will mean fewer police on our streets
as they are taken off normal duties to perform administrative
and specialist tasks they are not qualified to do at a greater
financial cost to the public.


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Hatters midfielder Cameron McGeehan believes the club has made a serious statement of intent by signing him permanently from Premier League outfit Norwich City.
Luton confirmed they had shelled out an undisclosed six-figure fee for the 20-year-old's services yesterday afternoon, after two successful loan spells at Kenilworth Road.
With the Canaries retaining a 'significant' sell-on clause too, speaking exclusively to the News/Gazette, McGeehan said: "I think it's a big sign of intent for the club.
"They want to bring young players in, like Pelly Ruddock and progress up the league.
"They want to do it from a solid base too, not just buy loads of old players and get up to League One but maybe have to come down again.
"It's what's football in England lacks as you don't have players getting the chances up the leagues as you're getting all these foreigners in, so it's a great thing for Luton to do, and I'm really happy."
"I think it's a big sign of intent for the club."Cameron McGeehan
It's not just McGeehan who fits the bill either, with Town adding Dan Potts (West Ham) and Jack Marriott (Ipswich) to their ranks, while negotiations are still ongoing for QPR defender Michael Harriman, leaving the incoming midfielder impressed by Luton's summer of recruitment thus far.
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