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It's a rare thing for me to be really mad. The beyond-reasoning-with-me kind of rage that makes a person say things like, "I'm going to tear your fuc*#&$ head off" . In this case, it's actually a nasty, un-neutered cat in my neighborhood whose head I'm after.
It's been at least a year now that I've put up with this bully knocking around my cat. As my sweet kitty, Buddy hides in the far corner of the closet recovering from a day at the vet, I sit here contemplating how best to handle this situation. It's high time to talk to whom I suspect is the cat's owner and tell him what's been going on. It's a longer story with sordid details I don't need to drone on about here, but the rub for today is...NO MORE!!!!
Does anyone ever get to see me when I'm this person of flat-out, fuming anger? Rarely. I do my best to contain my frustrations and speak with eloquence when I'm upset. I hope my neighbor will be open to hearing what I have to say and will do something about his cat otherwise he could very well see a crazed woman (like the one we see in today's SP) standing on his front porch.
Mrs. Flores' 5th grade class tried their hand at Breakout. Mrs. Payleitner, Media Specialist at Frederick created three sets of locked boxes that contained clues, puzzles, and mysteries that had to be solved in order to unlock the main box that housed the treasure. Teams had to work together to decipher codes, find clues, and use logic to unlock each aspect of the game. Clues were based on the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Team Blue was the first to open all of the locks and claim their treasure - a Frederick Feather.
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Thoughts tumble, feelings twirl, my mind is in turmoil as I walk at pace and talk out loud to myself like a mumbling buffoon. It's early morning, seven o'clock and fortunately there are few people around to deem me crazy, other than a handful of lycra clad joggers with asses like two small children fighting in a potato sack, and a guy being walked by his Rottweiller against the backdrop of the dramatic shoreline.
It's crazy to think this way, though think it I do, as I stride with purpose, reasoning and cogitating her ever word, spoken from behind those luscious red painted lips that are so adept at seducing me to the very knees of my heart. I should be stronger than this, I should resist and retreat, lick my wounds and count my blessings but I cannot get the thought of her out of my stupid mind. The way that she holds her cigarette until the burning embers await the inevitability of their free-fall towards the ground and oblivion, a moment that plays out like a scene from a classic black and white film in my mind as I dote on her every word, fawn with the best of them, fall victim to her womanly ways and prey to the addiction she creates within my soul.
I come to a standstill beneath the rotting metal struts and ageing wooden rafters of the old nineteenth century pier, and if ever there were a metaphor for my worthless carcass, then I've surely stumbled upon it this morning by chance or circumstance. The reflection in the mill pond water shouts 'old man' and 'fool', as my grey hairs scream like florescent beacons in the early morning light. What the hell am I doing? She's no more than a child, less than half my age, why, I could be her father for God's sake! .
Common sense, a touch of dignity, a little rationalization wouldn't come a miss right now. Away from her I can be sensible, adult, think this mess through and compose myself. A man of my age, a wife and two children, a mortgage and two dogs, my life settled and ordered, happiness and love. But fuck, she's so beautiful! A word, a glance, a flutter of those eyelids and I am putty in her hands as she smiles at my weakness, laughs at my inadequacies and foibles, mocks my animal instinct. Hate me, for I deserve it, slap me, for I'm not worthy, in my heart of heart I know I'm wrong, but God damn it, I'm flesh and blood, I'm a red blooded man, there is a fire burning within that has so seldom been stoked these past years of monotonous fatherhood, tiresome marriage. It's a release, a shedding of my skin, a final rebellion, a testament to the lion within this cowering pussy cat.
The shoreline mocks me with tidal surges that kiss my shoes and have me running like a fool to dryer patches. The pier, like me, has seen better days, as my eyes are drawn to the corridor covered by a thin veil of see mist on the horizon where the metal and wood blends as one, and part of me wishes that an ancient and beautiful queen would rise from the water, gracefully floating on a cushion of air towards me as she imparts her words of wisdom on this foolish man's ears. Pull yourself together man,this is Southend on Sea at seven in the morning, not a scene from a David Cronenberg film! I have the desire to walk into the water, follow the light, walk that corridor and see where fate takes me. My life is a mess, my memories candy floss and my hormones sent back in a time machine to my youth in the mid seventies when love was free and responsibility a word not yet fully formed in my personal vocabulary. I walk the beach alone and afraid of myself, uncertain of my future, afraid of what I might become, what I might already have turned into. A monster, a pervert, a leach. Hated, vilified, loathed and despised, I have the power to destroy all and sundry, to crush the beauty of what is mine for life, to wreck and wreak havoc in equal amounts.
And yet I have no power at all. One look, one glance, the crossing of those legs, the suggestion of intimacy, the allure. I am undone, exposed, weak and pathetic. I am man.
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Written October 10th 2010
Photograph taken on October 10th 2010 underneath thebeautiful pier in Southend on Sea, Essex, England.
Nikon D700 55mm 1000s f/16.0 iso200
Nikkor AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4-5.6D. Manfrotto 055XPro carbon fibre tripod with Manfrotto 804RC three way head and Nimon ML-3 infra red remote shutter release.
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These 13 images show the insect infestation enjoying the disintegrating San Pedro cactus. For a close up of the jolly chompers please see image linked below.
Closer 3 - too close yet - www.flickr.com/photos/phhsykes/6949711435/
San Pedro is the Spanish language form of Saint Peter or Simon Peter. By many he is regarded as the first Pope of the Catholic Church. Peter is said to have been crucified in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero with the cross set in an upside down position. He supposedly requested the inverted pose as he felt unworthy to be martyred in a similar fashion to Jesus Christ. Tradition holds that Saint Peter was entombed close by the site of his martyrdom and that his underground tomb the Confessio is the foundation on which St. Peter's Basilica has risen. Icons of St. Peter often depict him holding the keys of heaven and his role as Pope is seen by some as signifying him to be the gatekeeper to some versions of Christian heaven. Some observe that St. Peter's Basilica is roughly key-shaped and it can be seen that the services around this sigil enact the rites symbolised by the keys supposedly entrusted to St. Peter.
The San Pedro cactus is the name given to the species of the genus Trichocereus (T. pachanoi, T. peruvianus and T. Terscheckii) which comprises in total of about thirty species. San Pedro Cactus is a large columnar cactus that grows in the Andes and has been used for shamanic healing in Peru and Ecuador for centuries. It is said that the innate ‘wisdom’ within San Pedro Cactus can activate the healer within by showing the patient/healer visions giving deep insight into their own lives. The plant is marvellous to gaze upon and gives a strange sense otherworldliness as if it is the key to another realm. This maybe the reasoning behind the link between this cactus and the sainted gatekeeper.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity
depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if
you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be
born again.”
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You
can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. “For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans
6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.
“ . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place.
“ . . . He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without
shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22).
“ . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our
place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, “God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of
mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they
said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God
resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is
received as Savior.
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on His name” (John 1:12).
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner.
I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and
resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift
of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no
lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your
place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you
receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe
on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand
it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very
moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no
temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1
Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved,
there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
Pray -- you talk to God.
Read your Bible -- God talks to you.
Witness -- you talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and
then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8)
“Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which
is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).
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“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.”
~Bhagavad Gita
Was single crewed thought these were crew of 3? Anyone know reasoning? Are two taken off to ride the alp if prl is required as well? Is it still on the run to act as check to see if genuine call?
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 21, 2014) -- Four Soldiers are testing their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills April 21 to 24 as they vie for Noncommissioned Officer of the Year honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
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I believe this is Aarmühlerstrasse in Interlaken, viewed from a room in the now demolished Hotel Bahnhof.
If so, the two visible buildings are also demolished and it's hard to confirm if my reasoning is correct or not.
A five-dimensional space is a space with five dimensions. If interpreted physically, that is one more than the usual three spatial dimensions and the fourth dimension of time used in relativistic physics.[1] It is an abstraction which occurs frequently in mathematics, where it is a legitimate construct. In physics and mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can be understood to represent a location in an N-dimensional space. Whether or not the universe is five-dimensional is a topic of debate.
Physics[edit]
Much of the early work on five-dimensional space was in an attempt to develop a theory that unifies the four fundamental interactions in nature: strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetism. German mathematician Theodor Kaluza and Swedish physicist Oskar Klein independently developed the Kaluza–Klein theory in 1921, which used the fifth dimension to unify gravity with electromagnetic force. Although their approaches were later found to be at least partially inaccurate, the concept provided a basis for further research over the past century.[1]
To explain why this dimension would not be directly observable, Klein suggested that the fifth dimension would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10-33 centimeters.[1] Under his reasoning, he envisioned light as a disturbance caused by rippling in the higher dimension just beyond human perception, similar to how fish in a pond can only see shadows of ripples across the surface of the water caused by raindrops.[2] While not detectable, it would indirectly imply a connection between seemingly unrelated forces. The Kaluza–Klein theory experienced a revival in the 1970s due to the emergence of superstring theory and supergravity: the concept that reality is composed of vibrating strands of energy, a postulate only mathematically viable in ten dimensions or more. Superstring theory then evolved into a more generalized approach known as M-theory. M-theory suggested a potentially observable extra dimension in addition to the ten essential dimensions which would allow for the existence of superstrings. The other 10 dimensions are compacted, or "rolled up", to a size below the subatomic level.[1][2] The Kaluza–Klein theory today is seen as essentially a gauge theory, with the gauge being the circle group.[citation needed]
The fifth dimension is difficult to directly observe, though the Large Hadron Collider provides an opportunity to record indirect evidence of its existence.[1] Physicists theorize that collisions of subatomic particles in turn produce new particles as a result of the collision, including a graviton that escapes from the fourth dimension, or brane, leaking off into a five-dimensional bulk.[3] M-theory would explain the weakness of gravity relative to the other fundamental forces of nature, as can be seen, for example, when using a magnet to lift a pin off a table — the magnet is able to overcome the gravitational pull of the entire earth with ease.[1]
Mathematical approaches were developed in the early 20th century that viewed the fifth dimension as a theoretical construct. These theories make reference to Hilbert space, a concept that postulates an infinite number of mathematical dimensions to allow for a limitless number of quantum states. Einstein, Bergmann and Bargmann later tried to extend the four-dimensional spacetime of general relativity into an extra physical dimension to incorporate electromagnetism, though they were unsuccessful.[1] In their 1938 paper, Einstein and Bergmann were among the first to introduce the modern viewpoint that a four-dimensional theory, which coincides with Einstein-Maxwell theory at long distances, is derived from a five-dimensional theory with complete symmetry in all five dimensions. They suggested that electromagnetism resulted from a gravitational field that is “polarized” in the fifth dimension.[4]
The main novelty of Einstein and Bergmann was to seriously consider the fifth dimension as a physical entity, rather than an excuse to combine the metric tensor and electromagnetic potential. But they then reneged, modifying the theory to break its five-dimensional symmetry. Their reasoning, as suggested by Edward Witten, was that the more symmetric version of the theory predicted the existence of a new long range field, one that was both massless and scalar, which would have required a fundamental modification to Einstein's theory of general relativity.[5] Minkowski space and Maxwell's equations in vacuum can be embedded in a five-dimensional Riemann curvature tensor.[citation needed]
In 1993, the physicist Gerard 't Hooft put forward the holographic principle, which explains that the information about an extra dimension is visible as a curvature in a spacetime with one fewer dimension. For example, holograms are three-dimensional pictures placed on a two-dimensional surface, which gives the image a curvature when the observer moves. Similarly, in general relativity, the fourth dimension is manifested in observable three dimensions as the curvature path of a moving infinitesimal (test) particle. 'T Hooft has speculated that the fifth dimension is really the spacetime fabric.[citation needed]
Five-dimensional geometry[edit]
According to Klein’s definition, "a geometry is the study of the invariant properties of a spacetime, under transformations within itself." Therefore, the geometry of the 5th dimension studies the invariant properties of such space-time, as we move within it, expressed in formal equations.[6]
Polytopes[edit]
Main article: 5-polytope
In five or more dimensions, only three regular polytopes exist. In five dimensions, they are:
The 5-simplex of the simplex family, {3,3,3,3}, with 6 vertices, 15 edges, 20 faces (each an equilateral triangle), 15 cells (each a regular tetrahedron), and 6 hypercells (each a 5-cell).
The 5-cube of the hypercube family, {4,3,3,3}, with 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 faces (each a square), 40 cells (each a cube), and 10 hypercells (each a tesseract).
The 5-orthoplex of the cross polytope family, {3,3,3,4}, with 10 vertices, 40 edges, 80 faces (each a triangle), 80 cells (each a tetrahedron), and 32 hypercells (each a 5-cell).
An important uniform 5-polytope is the 5-demicube, h{4,3,3,3} has half the vertices of the 5-cube (16), bounded by alternating 5-cell and 16-cell hypercells. The expanded or stericated 5-simplex is the vertex figure of the A5 lattice, CDel node 1.pngCDel split1.pngCDel nodes.pngCDel 3ab.pngCDel nodes.pngCDel split2.pngCDel node.png. It and has a doubled symmetry from its symmetric Coxeter diagram. The kissing number of the lattice, 30, is represented in its vertices.[7] The rectified 5-orthoplex is the vertex figure of the D5 lattice, CDel nodes 10ru.pngCDel split2.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel split1.pngCDel nodes.png. Its 40 vertices represent the kissing number of the lattice and the highest for dimension 5.[8]
Regular and semiregular polytopes in five dimensions
(Displayed as orthogonal projections in each Coxeter plane of symmetry)
A5Aut(A5)B5D5
altN=5-simplex
5-simplex
CDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.png
{3,3,3,3}5-simplex t04 A4.svg
Stericated 5-simplex
CDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngaltN=5-cube
5-cube
CDel node 1.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.png
{4,3,3,3}altN=5-orthoplex
5-orthoplex
CDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
{3,3,3,4}altN=rectigied 5-orthoplex
Rectified 5-orthoplex
CDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
r{3,3,3,4}5-demicube t0 D5.svg
5-demicube
CDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.png
h{4,3,3,3}
Hypersphere[edit]
A hypersphere in 5-space (also called a 4-sphere due to its surface being 4-dimensional) consists of the set of all points in 5-space at a fixed distance r from a central point P. The hypervolume enclosed by this hypersurface is:
V
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8
π
2
r
5
15
V=\frac{8\pi ^2r^5}{15}
See also[edit]
5-manifold
Gravity
Hypersphere
List of regular 5-polytopes
An ad-hoc memorial which appears to lampoon some of Justice Scalia's arguments while on the Court was placed at the foot of the grand staircase at the US Supreme Court Building this morning.
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In the case of the jars of applesauce you see flanking both sides, I found this article from The Atlantic ( goo.gl/5vT5gd ), in this excerpt:
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In The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman notes that Scalia “has the feel of an ambitious Scrabble player trying too hard to prove that a triple word score really does exist.” But the stakes in his game, argle-bargle and jiggery-pokery and fortune cookiery notwithstanding, are high. Words, in the Court, are—or, at least, they can be—proxies for Constitutional interpretation. Justices can see them either as living, breathing, contextual things, or as things that are inscribed to their original coinage. There cannot, Scalia insists, be two sides to this argument. Elena Kagan, in a back-and-forth opinion-battle with Scalia last year, declared that “we must (as usual) interpret the relevant words not in a vacuum,” but instead with regard to their “structure, history, and purpose.”
A notion to which, in a flourish fitting of his great philosophical frustration, Scalia has now replied: “Pure applesauce.”
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In the case of the head of broccoli, I found this Washington Post article ( goo.gl/qlnM9 ) in arguments regarding The Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), in this excerpt":
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Scalia challenged the health care law’s individual mandate which calls for virtually all Americans to have health insurance.
The conservative-leaning justice asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli why the administration was defining the health care market so broadly and then correlated it with being forced to buy a certain food at the supermarket.
“Could you define the market — everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market; therefore, you can make people buy broccoli,” Scalia said.
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Regarding the bag of fortune cookies, I found this Time Magazine article ( goo.gl/IpwXfs ), in this excerpt:
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From his opinion on Gay Marriage:
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag.
The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”
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Bibel provided a puzzled and amusing account of how it is he is the recipient of this prestigeous award, concluding that it must be for his potential and not anything he has accomplished.
At the end, he made a respectful plea that the life of Gottlob Frege not be assessed narrowly and one-dimensionally as one might from the account of Frege's diary and other associations recounted in Martin Davis's "Engines of Logic." I read that chapter when I returned home that night. I have nothing to offer beyond reporting that Bibel's gracious appeal had me look at the way prejudicial judgments and inflammatory thoughts arise in my own mind from origins of which I lack all recollection.
New tank, 20 gallons, with 2 fantails, 5 danios. If you ask people about mixing goldfish and tropical fish, you'll get a mixed response. Part of my reasoning had to do with the temperament (all fish keep to themselves), but mostly, the goldfish were in a room that had high temps, and they never seemed any worse off (very active, very happy). Same with the zebrafish. I do not use a heater and the tank is a constant 72 degrees, a bit cool for the danios, a bit warm for the goldfish, but I think it's a happy medium. I pay close attention to ammonia levels.
Incidentally, those are all real plants and there are bulbs planted in the faux-beachsand part to the left side. That's not sand and it's not flourite, just regular ol' white gravel.
All of these guys were in a 12 gallon, which was too small, and 20 is pushing it. In theory, fantails should have 10 gallons per fish, but everyone keeps to themselves.
Feel free to ask questions below.
The question has been asked so many times, it needs to be answered. Are all Muslims terrorists? Let’s reason this out together.
-Are there nominal Americans? The answer is yes.
-Are there nominal Christians? The answer is yes.
-Are there nominal Muslims? The answer is yes.
-Are there any nominal Christian Muslims or Muslim Christians? The answer is no there are not.
That sounds like circular reasoning, but the real purpose of saying those things is understanding that, while there may be nominal Christians and nominal Muslims, there is no such thing as nominal Christianity, nor is there a nominal Islam.
Christianity and Islam are belief systems. Christianity follows Christ. Islam follows Mohammed. Christianity follows the one true and living God. No belief system can be nominal. It is what it is.
Only followers can be nominal, in terms of being what they are in name only. JPT wants you to understand that we do not condemn any people with a broad brush. But we do stand as watchmen on the wall, first of all in protection of the nation of Israel, but also to expose the errors and deceptions of false teaching – especially anti-Christian and anti-Israel teachings.
The issue is not really whether or not there are nominal Muslims. It is whether or not there is nominal Islam. Because the answer is no, we must all understand that Muslims in high places are not nominal. They are Islamic leaders because they embrace Islam and promote its agenda of one world at peace through Islamic rule. They believe in conquering by jihad, whether it is a silent jihad through deception and assimilation or it is the open jihad of rabble-rousing and saber-rattling – or outright terror.
When we speak of the danger of Islam, this is what we are talking about. We are talking about the blood-thirsty lust of Islamic leaders that has Israel and the United States in its crosshairs. We are talking about their goal of an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. We are talking about their commitment to lie and deceive if it will contribute to their cause. We are talking about their plans to eliminate everyone who will not swear allegiance to Allah. We are talking about the phenomenon of the spread of Islam that is eating away at the world like termites in a toothpick factory.
Islam is dangerous. It is oppressive. It is no friend to freedom, no friend to Christianity, no friend to America, and, most certainly, no friend to Israel. Islam is a gathering storm around the nation of Israel and within the nation of the United States of America. We need to be using the power that we have to talk to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. We need to plead for His compassion for His chosen people. We need to pray for His protection of them (Psalm 122:6) and for His peace to be upon them. He will hear our cry, and He will answer our prayers.
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CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
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About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
Unfortunately, no explanation of the reasoning behind the signs for the interstates that run through Cincinnati (with I-71 right outside Great American Ball Park).
Wall text: Donning these shoes for the final game of 2018, Votto walked for the 108th time, securing his .417 on-base percentage and leading the NL in OBP for the seventh time in his career.
CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
___________
About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
Rachel Cohen, lead singer of The Reasoning - a rock band from Cardiff on the heavy sde of prog that certainly woke up the Sunday lunchtime crowd at High Voltage
The act of reading brings together so much thinking and processing from our memories to combine with our ability to think on the spot.
"What in the world is “Blue Beanie Day”? It is a great idea dreamed up
by Douglas Vos of Detroit, Michigan to show support for web standards
and accessibility."
FROM:
Blue Beanie Day 2009:
www.glendathegood.com/blog/?p=494
Blue Beanie Day started in 2007. I don't know the reasoning behind the
choice of the blue beanie as a symbol, but I imagine that
1) the beanie is because beanie are associated with geeks, and geeks
are the ones who most need to know about and support web
accessibility; and
2) blue because blue beanies are really easy to find, and probably
geekier than most of the other colors. Geek camouflage, if you will.
And besides, rainbow beanies are the province of the autism spectrum
disorder support community.
Now, I could very easily be wrong (since I was making up all of the
reasoning) so hopefully Doug or Jeffrey or someone will come by and
correct me. Here is Jeffrey Zeldman's official announcement of Blue
Beanie Day this year.
Don't Forget Blue Beanie Day 2010:
www.zeldman.com/2010/11/28/dont-forget-blue-beanie-day/
In addition to a Twitter stream, a Facebook page, and a Flickr group,
did you notice they are having a web accessibility haiku contest with
actual prizes? Here is my #BBD4 haiku.
Blue-eyed boy chortles,
changing the colors he sees
all by himself. "Yeah!"
twitter.com/pfanderson/status/9780506426085377
I was thinking of the year my son was first diagnosed with Asperger's
and all his sensory issues. We (the school and me) got him his first
computer and taught him the accessibility commands so he could makes
things easy for HIM to read! What a world of difference it made. We
did still have the occasional website where the accessibility commands
he used couldn't change things the way he needed, which really
irritated him, but luckily they were few.
Here is more information about all the activities for Blue Beanie Day.
Blue Beanie Day 2010:
aneventapart.com/news/2010/11/29/blue-beanie-day-2010/
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153180248051749
Flickr:
www.flickr.com/groups/bluebeanieday2010/
Twitter:
Heck! There is even an app to make yourself an icon!
Face Sticker:
Here is mine:
face-sticker.quodis.com/share-db5848a85e882b37c76c2854a3f...
Now part of showing support was putting pics in the Flickr group. We
put a shout out to the local geek community, but it was really short
notice and many had conflicts or didn't feel well or didn't want to
battle the cold and rain to get to the location. Here is what we ended
up with.
Blue Beanie Day - Our University of Michigan Crew:
www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/5222761740/
Better luck next year!
¿ nee-KOH-tay-bah ? -- anagram of the epithet betonica; could not find reasoning
bet-OH-nee-kuh -- variant of vettonica, a Spanish native plant ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: leafy bract justicia, paper plume, rose-spotted white-flowered Justice wort, squirrel's tail, white shrimp plant • Bengali: পাটল বাসক patela basak • Gujarati: ગુલાબી અરડુસી gulabi aradusi • Hindi: हाड़पात hadpat, मोकंदर mokander, प्रमेहःहराती pramehaharati • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಕನಕಾಂಬರ kaadu kanakaambara, ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ sanna adusoge • Konkani: धवो पोक्षो dhavo pokso • Malayalam: വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunji • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा gulabi adulasa • Odia: ମାଟି ଶାଗ mati saga • Rajasthani: गुलाबी अडूसा gulabi adusa • Sanskrit: श्वेत सहचरः sveta-sahacarah • Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱟᱨ tayar • Tamil: வேலிமூங்கில் veli-munkil • Telugu: తెల్ల రంతు tellarantu
botanical names: Nicoteba betonica (L.) Lindau ... homotypic synonyms: Adhatoda betonica (L.) Nees • Ecbolium betonica (L.) Kuntze • Justicia betonica L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Gendarussa betonica Nees ex Steud., not validly publ. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 27 June 2025
Albert Camus says, or atleast my interpretation of a rough translation, what keeps humans from reasoning all the way to the obvious --suicide, is that we are absurd.
What allows us to peer deep into that, what some would call, black abyss and continue on is hope. Reason doesn't really allow much room for hope. Thus absurdity is keeping us going. Some of us anyhow.
I like this thought of The Absurd, the irrational being our savior. Some look into this black abyss and go into an almost state of denial, then carry on their life as if they forgot the whole thing. Some hide behind something, generally something dogmatic. Some might even might make a joke. I know I have told a joke into the black abyss on more than one occasion. And people who tell the abyss a joke seem not to ever forget the abyss, nor their joke. They carry on their lives with the weight of the abyss on their shoulders. The only thing lightening their load is humor.
If you need a lesson from this: Laugh or the abyss will get you. It is the monster under you bed, in your closet, and in dark corners. If you take it too serious it will kill you. Imagine that, something that isn't even real killing you because you took it too serious.
That'd never happen --oh yeah, I momentarily forgot about all of the human history in which we had consciousness. Yay myth!
[Ever see a Purtitan's Joke Book? Maybe that old manuscript called 'Gaffs and Bloopers of the Salem Witch Trials'? Jihadist One Liners? The Crusaders Big Book of Funny? Hitler's HandBook of HaHa's? ...Neither have I, neither have I. ]
Christopher L. Barrett, Executive Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute/Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Dr. Barrett’s talk entitled “Massively Interactive Systems: Thinking and Deciding in the Age of Big Data"
Abstract: This talk discusses advanced computationally assisted reasoning about large interaction-dominated systems. Current questions in science, from the biochemical foundations of life to the scale of the world economy, involve details of huge numbers and levels of intricate interactions. Subtle indirect causal connections and vastly extended definitions of system boundaries dominate the immediate future of scientific research. Beyond sheer numbers of details and interactions, the systems are variously layered and structured in ways perhaps best described as networks. Interactions include, and often co-create, these morphological and dynamical features, which can interact in their own right. Such “massively interacting” systems are characterized by, among other things, large amounts of data and branching behaviors. Although the amount of associated data is large, the systems do not even begin to explore their entire phase spaces. Their study is characterized by advanced computational methods. Major methodological revisions seem to be indicated.
Heretofore unavailable and rapidly growing basic source data and increasingly powerful computing resources drive complex system science toward unprecedented detail and scale. There is no obvious reason for this direction in science to change. The cost of acquiring data has historically dominated scientific costs and shaped the research environment in terms of approaches and even questions. In the several years, as the costs of social data, biological data and physical data have plummeted on a per-unit basis and as the volume of data is growing exponentially, the cost drivers for scientific research have clearly shifted from data generation to storage and analytical computation-based methods. The research environment is rapidly being reshaped by this change and, in particular, the social and bio–sciences are revolutionized by it. Moreover, the study of socially– and biologically–coupled systems (e.g., societal infrastructures and infectious disease public health policy analysis) is in flux as computation-based methods begin to greatly expand the scope of traditional problems in revolutionary ways.
How does this situation serve to guide the development of “information portal technology” for complex system science and for decision support? An example of an approach to detailed computational analysis of social and behavioral interaction with physical and infrastructure effects in the immediate aftermath of a devastating disaster will be described in this context.
"Reasoning makes you human. Reasoning and laughter make you more human. Reasoning, laughter and a tail make you a gecko." - Socrates
....Whaaaat? That means eating bugs and being cat food around my place. :-)
I used flash.... I do hope that means no damage to the gecko's vision. Please tell me this is true.
CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
___________
About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
CHIBITRONICS CIRCUIT ART + OZOBOTS ROBOTIC PROGRAMMING
One of the STEAM Camp’s key missions is to create innovative ways to play, learn and socially interact in an expanding digital world. Students using Ozobots are learning sequential thinking, logical reasoning and coding concepts. These critical life skills enable students from all walks of life to succeed in the future digital age. Our students learn how to channel their ideas into reality, creating private games, secret codes and their very own robotic equations, putting them at the forefront of learning without even realizing it. When playing digital apps with a physical toy, it bridges the gap between the physical and digital realm - creating a whole new world of educational play. Such activities help us present an innovative way to teach subjects like programming, math and science in classrooms. Kids become engaged and inspired lifelong learners when topics come alive.
___________
About STEAM Camp
STEAM Camp introduces participants to potential careers within Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Mathematics. Campers will learn about educational decisions that will prepare them for these careers. STEAM Camp also focuses on how these careers often require similar, overlapping skills. This is a connected educational approach designed to share a well-rounded experience. Middle school students presented by the Urban League of Greater Madison, Girl Scouts of Badgerland Wisconsin and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County. This will be a constructive and collaborative experience. Campers will discover together how to explore these exciting careers.
Reasoning that since my part of central Phoenix did not get any rain and yet there was such a storm last night, I got up at 4:30 am and waited to see if the still-overcast sky would show a beautiful sunrise. Yippee, for 5:15 am was most glorious! This splendid light lasted but minutes.
I've got about 6 images I am happy with, what with being handheld and all. I ran down the street in my neighborhood with my nightshirt and camera, looking for a view with the least intrusive of the urban structures. There are a few more coming along in my stream, and these images are in my set called "What's Up in Arizona".
Reasoning: Triangle on pointing finger 'cos triangles are pointy and action focused. Circle on Ring Finger because that's about romance and commitment. Box on middle finger, cause middle is the safe bet, Squiggle on the little finger because everyone else thinks they can do without us, but lose it and you'll find out why we're important!!! Rectangle on the thumb because the opposable thumb (ie. flexible) is what makes the hand work.
Fatima Koli ’17, Lab Coordinator for the Empirical Reasoning Center. Photography by Asiya Khaki '09.
Satanism
The article "A Study of Satanism" is a comprehensive explanation of modern satanism but somewhat longish. For me, these are the central parts:
"Satanism is a lifestyle that supports being yourself, instead of being who society expects you to be. Although Satanism is often thought poorly of by other faiths, it has its own sound reasoning and qualities that appeal to some people and repel others, as all religions do.
The general stereotype awarded to Satanism is the image created by the Christian church centuries ago. During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church, in an attempt to eliminate all opposing religions, labeled all non-Christian faiths as Devil-worshippers. This created a widespread notion of people who promised their soul to the Devil in exchange for demonic magical powers, dedicating their lives to evil actions in his name (Robinson). That image has remained even centuries later, leading to the persecution and murder of millions, possibly billions, of pagans and other non-Christian persons throughout the years.
To the average Modern Satanist, Satan is a symbol, and nothing more. He symbolizes indulgence, wisdom, kindness and respect to those deserving of it, vengeance, responsibility, and the so-called “sins” as outlined by the Christian Church, including pride, greed, gluttony, wrath, envy, lust, and sloth. In Satanism, those are viewed as healthy needs that lead to physical, mental, and emotional health and satisfaction (Modernsatanism.com). For Satanists, such things are only a sin when a person becomes consumed by that desire. Indulgence is encouraged; compulsion and addictions are considered weak and disgraceful.
One of the key beliefs of Modern Satanism is that you, and you alone, are responsible for yourself, your actions, and their consequences. Rather than Satan being their god, a Satanist is his or her own god. They believe in taking care of yourself rather than letting a god look after you. They promote pride and dignity; YOU worked hard to earn your place, so YOU should get the credit (Modernsatanism.com). Satanists have a sort of elitist mindset – another key belief is that one should constantly work towards bettering themselves. Confidence and self-esteem are essential to this lifestyle. Often Satanists prefer to practice solo rather than in groups, theorizing that something so intensely personal should be kept more private. They encourage individuality and creativity above all else, followed closely by respect. All people should be given general politeness, but those who earn it are given true respect.
Satanists, despite assumptions, have morals and do in fact greatly value life. The Satanic Rules are, for the most part, centered on respect. Satanists greatly value manners, but also individuality and honesty, not only to others, but also to oneself. The Nine Satanic Sins are based around all three of these concepts as well.
The first cardinal sin of Satanism is Stupidity. To their mind ignorance can be forgiven, but blindly following orders and teachings is absolutely unacceptable. The next is Pretentiousness. Those who are undeserving of praise or attention should receive none, and should never expect to receive it just because. Solipsism is also a sin; you should never expect other to treat you as you treat them. You will surely be disappointed, so it is unwise to expect mutual respect. Self-deceit, or allowing oneself to conform to other’s expectations, is also considered a Cardinal Sin the same way Stupidity is. In relation to both Stupidity and Self-Deceit, Herd Conformity makes up the fifth Satanic sin. One should only ever follow group expectations if it will benefit them in some way, and should never let themselves get drawn in unwittingly. One should “choose a master wisely instead of being enslaved by the whims of many” (LaVey). Lack of Perspective is despised as well; forgetting how much you can impact society and history because of whom and what you are can lead to some very big mistakes. One should always give credit where it is due, because Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies is the Seventh sin. Only paying attention to the new and ignoring the original “makes for a disposable society,” and makes creation pointless, since it will later be replaced (LaVey). While Pride is a sin according to both Satanists and Christians, Satanists are much more specific. They consider general pride valuable. However, if you make a mistake, then you should not let pride keep you from admitting it and moving on. Thus, Counter-Productive Pride becomes the eighth sin. Lastly is the sin of a Lack of Aesthetics. Satanists promote taking pride in oneself and one’s work. Therefore, you should try to be tasteful and sensually pleasing in your creative endeavors (LaVey). These guidelines for the accepted and rejected ideals of Satanism show a deep focus on personal attentiveness, not allowing anyone else to dictate who you should be. The freedom of expression is a very basic requirement for this lifestyle to stay successful and be mentally and emotionally helpful to it’s followers.
Satanism is a lifestyle and religion that is very self-centered, focusing on improving yourself and becoming the best you can be rather than paying homage to an invisible divine character."
I hate the smell of moron in the morning
Originally written August 14th. 2006
Typically I consider myself a rather mild tempered, fare minded bipedal. I imagine it comes with the territory. There are however certain events that have a habit of transpiring within my daily routine that can quite easily dislodge my docile temperament, and unleash an inert not so savvy side of me, that despite what I’d regard as a voluminous effort of reserve, seems incapable of rational communication what so ever, once awoken. It’s like Debi always says. "You can’t fix stupid."
For example. I do not particularly appreciate some one smoking in one of my bays when my crew is in the middle of washing a tanker loaded heavy with 35,000lbs. of highly volatile gasoline. This rather asinine disregard for life and limb has the repeated result of me not so politely asking he or she to douse said ignited tobacco product in a rapid if not just slightly vigorous manner, taking care to utilize as many intensive verbs as possible, while explaining my reasoning. Like wise I do not find the world around me to be as kosher as it normally is when unauthorized persons decide they are suddenly qualified enough to operate one of my machines, and derail it. A situation like this again is proceeded by many expletive metaphors and monosyllable adverbs that better accent my disdain, while I drag a lift jack, and steel piped, soon to be man powered, levers into the bay. These sorts of things often leave me paraphrasing my latest self thought up proverb. W.W.R.D. "What would Russ do?" Unfortunately I do not have a tazer, nor the persuasion to talk my boss into buying me a cattle prod.
The point is, these sorts of things have a habit of getting under my skin. Not so much in that they happen, because yes, sooner or later they are going to happen. It’s as in evitable as Uwezz suddenly deciding to rip a pair of antenna’s off a rig, or Thelma’s new tick of allowing the top brush to jump a link first thing every morning. It’s not that these things happen, but rather the frequency in which they happen. Regardless, by days end I can usually take these events and stuff them away into the back of my mind, before the drive home has concluded. Usually.
Today, it seemed that I.Q. for some inexplicable reason plummeted. I’m not entirely sure what might have caused it, but it seems as though sometime in the night, some unnatural force crept into the world, and stole a few points from everyone’s I.Q.’s, some more then others. It should equally be noted that in no small part was I an exception to this rather paradoxical I.Q. point thieving phenomenon.
This morning, and the second truck in. The driver barely speaks a lick of English, and it takes more then a small amount of effort on my part just to figure out what the hell it is he wants. When I’d finally gone to work on his rig, I still was not entirely sure if what I was doing was in fact what he wanted done. It should be noted that this is after all an English speaking country, and the rules regarding ones ability to speak and understand the English language in order to obtain a class A drivers licence and operate large equipment is pretty clear. You must. For some reason I continually find myself scratching my head at the realization that the driver I am trying to communicate with can’t seem to understand a single word coming out of my mouth...This can not always be attributed to the language barrier. Some folk just don’t understand common sense. However that was not the case with this particular driver. He didn’t speak English and I don’t speak Russian. The situation ended up with me very strategically relying on his body language to decipher if I was indeed doing what he wanted done. Like wise. Once I had decided that what I was doing was in fact what he wanted done, I had to then try and explain to him that I would be needing the engine of his rig shut off, and as it’s a Volvo, I would also be needing his assistance in popping open the hood, from inside the cab. He seems to understand and returns to the cab of his rig. The hood pops open, and he climbs back out and steps aside...With the engin still running.
Alright. A little annoying, but I figure I can just deal with it. There’s work to be done, and I’m the one needing to do it. We’ll hustle through the truck, get it out, and I can move on with the day. Great plan. That is until the driver walks up, and closes the hood he had just opened....
Can someone tell me what the hell just happened?
Moving right along through the day to the fine gentlemen that turned the last hour of my work day into a fine small ripe slice of hell. He was driving a small box van with a little trailer behind it. Honestly when I saw the combination pull in, the thought of it being a problem had not for a moment crossed my mind. That is until I open the back door, and began re-cataloging every event that had happened through out this fine sunny day. He had pulled his rig up to the door in a way that the trailer is now so cock eyed that he can neither back it up and straiten it out, with out jack knifing it, nor pull into the bay with out tearing the hell of his wheels. Ah, time for me to incorporate some of those fine tuned "skiews" I’ve acquired over the years.
So I thought...
The next few minutes become a delicate ballet of me, guiding the truck forward, backing the truck up, pointing it this way, pointing it that way, back and forth, port to starboard, trying anything I can think of to get the combination strait. As the situation goes from bad to much worse, I discover something I didn’t know about myself. I have been guiding eighty foot long big rig combo’s into my bays for near ten years, and as such, I can just about do it with my eye’s shut. "Skiews". If a rig is sitting at the back door, and the driver has under shot the mark by a few feet, I know exactly where I have to aim the tractor in order to have the trailer fall in line by the time it’s reached the guard rails. But this short van and trailer do not move like an eighty foot combo, and the dumb ass that’s trying to guide him into the bay (that would be me) keeps telling the driver to over steer. After three failed attempts, truck driver dude is sweating bullets. He keeps mashing on the brakes, and wiping the brow of his forehead with his hat. Super truck wash guide guru Static is sweating bullets as well, and neither one of us can figure out why even after combining our mental capabilities together, we still can not seem to find the apex where this trailer is going to fall into line and fly right.
Stress is beginning to build at this point. The muscles in my neck are cramping, and I can feel the heartburn coming on. By now a small group of drivers have congregated at the front door of the bay to watch the spectacle, and they have all started cracking jokes about the drivers skills. This in no small part is making both the driver and myself even more leery.
Now, the easiest way to send me on a fast track to pissed-off-ville is for a driver to ignore my instructions when I am attempting to guide he or she into one of the bays. This will resoult in colorful word selection, at beet red faced like volumes. But this gentlemen has fallowed all of my instructions right down to the last detail. The driver is not the problem, and at this point I’m really not sure what is. Despite the fact that he is clearly not proficient in the skills of operating his equipment, I can’t get angry about that. He has after all, fallowed my instructions. It would seem the drivers at the front of the bay have not taken this small detail into account. What was it Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio said to Todd Graff’s character in the movie "The Abyss". "Hippy, do me a favor. Don’t take my side." The drivers are cracking jokes and making, well, questionable hand gestures towards the driver, and I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to try for a fourth attempt at getting this rig into my bay, and that’s when it hits me...
I’ve been bouncing this rig back and forth for the better part of fifteen minutes, and it seems that no matter how far to either side I aim it, it still isn’t strait...But taking a few steps back I can see now that it is strait. The driver doesn’t have the trailer cock eyed, the trailer is spot on, it's just to wide to fit between the guard rails.
When I say that I hate the smell of morons in the morning, what I have to further emphasize is that it is by far more a sinister acrid stench of stupidity when moron ooze happens to be perspiring from your own pores. At least, that’s what I think.
Static
Vocals/Percussion for The Reasoning with Maria Owen(Vocals/acoustic Guitar) and Jake Bradford-Sharp(Drums)
¿ nee-KOH-tay-bah ? -- anagram of the epithet betonica; could not find reasoning
bet-OH-nee-kuh -- variant of vettonica, a Spanish native plant ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: leafy bract justicia, paper plume, rose-spotted white-flowered Justice wort, squirrel's tail, white shrimp plant • Bengali: পাটল বাসক patela basak • Gujarati: ગુલાબી અરડુસી gulabi aradusi • Hindi: हाड़पात hadpat, मोकंदर mokander, प्रमेहःहराती pramehaharati • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಕನಕಾಂಬರ kaadu kanakaambara, ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ sanna adusoge • Konkani: धवो पोक्षो dhavo pokso • Malayalam: വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunji • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा gulabi adulasa • Odia: ମାଟି ଶାଗ mati saga • Rajasthani: गुलाबी अडूसा gulabi adusa • Sanskrit: श्वेत सहचरः sveta-sahacarah • Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱟᱨ tayar • Tamil: வேலிமூங்கில் veli-munkil • Telugu: తెల్ల రంతు tellarantu
botanical names: Nicoteba betonica (L.) Lindau ... homotypic synonyms: Adhatoda betonica (L.) Nees • Ecbolium betonica (L.) Kuntze • Justicia betonica L. ... heterotypic synonyms: Gendarussa betonica Nees ex Steud., not validly publ. ... and more at POWO, retrieved 27 June 2025
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Four Soldiers will test their physical fitness, endurance, technical aptitude and reasoning skills May 20 to 23 as they vie for honors in the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
On a cloudy, muggy morning, three staff sergeants and one sergeant kicked off the four-day competition for RDECOM Noncommissioned Officer of the Year with the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Twenty Soldiers, led by Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Agueda, gathered at Lauderick Creek Training Site as the four participants began the competition with a land-navigation course through the woods of APG. They had three hours to plot grids and find select points using only a compass, pencil and map.
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While studying historical photographers, I thought it would be interesting to blog about innovative and more recent photographers, such as Erik Johansson. I watched a Ted Talks video of Johansson explaining his reasoning and originality that came from his photography background. What attracted me to his unique work was his technique and use of Photoshop to manipulate his images. I have a passion for photography and digital design; therefor I knew I would love his work. Erik Johansson explains that he believed originally that photography was primarily being “at the right palace at the right time”: luck. He continues to explain that he wanted to take photography to the next level and make the “process start as you press the trigger”, rather than it ending. He aims for a strong level of photo-realism in his work. Johansson takes into consideration lighting, colors, and perspective in order to create the desired illusion and of how we see the world. He experiments with multiple photos having the same type of light, perspective, and photographic defects in order to create a seamless illusion. In this particular image, he explains that this one photo is made up of many different photographs each originally planned out in a sketch. He concludes the presentation by saying, “all the tools are out there and the only thing that limits us is our imagination”. A photograph is able to capture emotions, perspective, expression and more. After watching this video it broadened my perspective on the vast capabilities that photography possesses.