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Watch your backs, professional origamists: researchers are working on a sheet of material that can fold itself. The sheets of material, called "programmable matter" by their inventors, use electric pulses to stimulate themselves into various folded shapes.
So far, one sheet can fold itself into a little boat or an airplane, but the creators envision wide-ranging applications for their programmable matter, from shelving to measuring utensils to a modern Swiss Army knife.
The programmable matter actually works much like origami, and the researchers have integrated some origami folding into its development. One of the first steps in the creation of their folding algorithms is to record a step-by-step unfolding of a real origami object, which they can then reverse and apply to the programmable matter sheets.
The half-millimeter thick sheets used in the experiment are squares made up of 32 triangles joined by flexible silicon seams. Each triangle has an actuator wired to it which, when stimulated, can force the triangle to fold at an angle to the surrounding triangles.
The "programmable matter" that forms a boat or plane
The folding instructions are stored in stickers that users can place on the surface of the sheet. Once a current is supplied, the sheet executes the folding algorithm in the sticker, following the steps until it reaches its final shape.
Of course, one sheet can't turn into an infinite amount of things without being programmed to do so first. To make one sheet that can become multiple different objects, the sheet must be designed with folding joints to accommodate all the sets of folding steps.
For example, the sheet discussed in the paper was designed only to take instructions for a boat shape and an airplane shape; any other model might require folds the design can't accommodate, unless the folding steps are reverse-engineered to accommodate the sheet.
Presumably, the more diverse the shapes that a sheet needs to take, the more complicated its design will be. Still, researchers imagine that larger sheets with more folding points could lead to items like a Swiss Army knife-style sheet that could fold into a tripod, a wrench, or an antenna.
PNAS, 2010. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914069107 (About DOIs).


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basically the game will be like one that everybody has seen basically you have a fort / house / building and your are a carecter trying to defend it from waves of attackers by shooting them. exept mine has a n roll playing aspect to it allowing for the real meat of the game to be in the pre/ post battles where you can explor a town, buy stuff from a smithy meet people and buy things to help you aswell as hire people to help fend off the attackers , i would only like a maximum of 20 people that you can hire and i will get more in depth but hte thing that i really need the most help with is the part where your carechter would make a shooting motion when you click on the screen during waves and the audio that follows
i also need to make the enemies and allow them to be clicked and them to register damage aswell as a way formula to decide the # of attackers and what set and ratio of them that there are...
i plan for this program to be finished by the start of next school year and i understand if it goes longer than that but basically i would like help on where to start.
the images are not going ot be too big of a problem, what will be the problem is the user interface and the audio and ANIMATIONS.
i have no idea how to do these let alone how to overlap them in what would look like layers.
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class damage { int damage = 10 * damage_multiply ; int damage_multiply ; if ( M14 = equipped) damage_multiply = 2.4 ; if ( M16 = equipped) damage_multiply = 2.6 ; if ( M4 = equipped) damage_multiply = 3.2 ; // you get the idea also i would have things that would make it so that if it's a head shot than that would mean // that the damage has another multiply added to it // also there would be in time adleast a way to make it so that there would be "grazes " or things that cut the damage multiplyer in half. }
i would also make it so that the story line is very interactive making it so that at the biggining of the game starts out with a vary cliche biggining where the main carecter is woken up and is asked questions like..
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and those would be things that would affect your game later.
there would be more things like this throughout the game making the occasional loop or allowing yo uto have a completly different game experence than many other people.
this is the base but there would be many other things that would be added to it afterwares
if anybody would like to help me develop this than i would be gratfull for somboyd who knows what they're doing.
this is going to be a learning experence for me so that i can use it to program better things in the future. i would just like help about how i would go abou this not so much as the game timeline / story but more with the coding
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Date: Monday, April 23, 2012
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The private sector champions were identified by UN Women through a series of consultations. They are: Avon, Actavis, Banca Intesa, B92 Media, Carlsberg, Coca Cola Hellenic Group Serbia, Deloitte, Erste Bank, IBM, Serbia Post, Transnafta and VIP Mobile. Many had already begun to implement a range of programmes to empower women, such as those to develop and track the leadership potential of female employees.
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Thursday, Sep 26, 2013, 6:31 pm
California Domestic Workers Win Long-Sought Bill of Rights
Governor Jerry Brown signed The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights (AB241) today, making California the third state in the nation, after New York and Hawaii, to pass such a bill.
Domestic workers from across the state have battled for a Bill of Rights for more than seven years. The bill will provide domestic workers with some of the most basic workplace protections – protections that have been denied them for decades.
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act excluded domestic workers from the most basic protections enjoyed by almost all working people, including rest and meal breaks, and overtime. California employers took full advantage of the exemption: In "Home Truths," a survey of 631 domestic workers in 14 California cities, 91 percent reported that overtime provisions were not included in their agreement. The bill rights this historic wrong, guaranteeing overtime pay for domestic workers who work more than nine hours in a shift or more than 45 hours in one week.
The bill will benefit the estimated 200,000 domestic workers in California, nearly three-quarters of whom are immigrants and 67 percent of whom are Latina.
"Domestic workers are primarily women of color, many of them immigrants, and their work has not been respected in the past," said the bill's author, San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, in a press statement today. "Now, they will be entitled to overtime, like just about every other California working person. I've been pushing domestic worker legislation for three years, and have watched as domestic worker rights have grown into a movement. I'm proud that my bill is another important step in the movement to get these workers all the labor protections they have earned and deserve."
However, it is not all roses. Assembly Bill 241 is a diluted version of Ammiano's original proposal for a Domestic Workers Bill of Right, which passed the Assembly only to be vetoed by Brown last year. The new version was amended to exclude daily meal and rest break provisions, and to exempt occasional babysitters from overtime requirements. It also includes a three-year sunset provision, which means the governor will set up a committee to review the success of the bill, and lawmakers will have three years to make it permanent.
And ironically, some of the law's stipulations are now redundant, after a federal rule change last week required minimum wage and overtime for home healthcare workers. But the California bill will extend protections to in-home child care workers, who are not included in the federal ruling. The bill also allows live-in domestic workers eight hours of uninterrupted sleep.
Still, workers are celebrating despite their disappointment over the meal and rest break exclusions.
Support from civil rights, labor, feminist and interfaith leaders, workers and their families, allied employers, and community organizations helped fuel the long-awaited win. Rosa Sanchez, a caregiver from Los Angeles, said in a statement: "We have been fighting for basic protections like overtime for years in this state. This vote shows that we are not alone and that our voices are being heard."
This bill is part of a broader movement to gain dignity and respect among some of the nations hardest and often most abused workers.
New York state passed a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010; Hawaii passed one in July; and workers are organizing to pass similar bills in Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and Connecticut.
"This movement is taking place all over the country and won't be over until domestic workers rights are spelled out in every state," said Ammiano in his statement today.
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UH Manoa Academy for Creative Media hosts video game scholarUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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"Stories in Video Games: Toward a New Art Form" will be presented Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Kuykendall Hall, Room 410. Gee will explore how narrative works in games as a key to understanding the potential of games as a new art form.
"Video games can be a foundation for an innovative digital media and intellectual property economy for the state," said ACM Director Chris Lee. "ACM can help make that foundation real through producing game designers grounded in story-telling and critical thinking. Professor Gee is a true beacon for us."
Gee's most recent books deal with video games and learning. "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" (2003) offers 36 reasons why good video games produce better learning conditions than many of today's schools. "Situated Language and Learning" (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help people to better understand deep human learning and lead people in thinking about the reform of schools. His new book, "Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul," shows how good video games marry pleasure and learning and have the capacity to empower people.
"We are honored to sponsor this event," said Mark Loughridge of Aloha Island, Inc., "and we are pleased to contribute to the already strong bonds the Academy for Creative Media has forged with the video gaming industry. Please continue to graduate those dedicated video game developers!"
Aloha Island, Inc. creates original games for education and entertainment. It is owned in part by Foundation 9 Entertainment, the largest independent video game developer in the world. Loughridge, a member of Aloha Island, Inc.'s management, is a founder and former co-chairman of Foundation 9 Entertainment
Gee's UH Mānoa presentation is co-sponsored by the Departments of English, Art, Information and Computer Sciences, Political Science, Speech, Educational Foundations and the International Cultural Studies Program.
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Wednesday 30th July
Thursday, will be the one week mark for me at Thermia Palace and I'll have 12 days left before my experience here comes to an end. I do feel that I have grown stronger this past week and that the pinched nerve in my back is becoming less and less of a problem with each Elector session, heat treatment and massages. My Achilles tendon is not as easily agitated by my movements and walking around. (Knock On Wood!)
Today is the last day for the remaining 4 Egyptian ladies, I have had the pleasure of meeting. There company is always enlightening as well as full of amusing conversation. When they leave, I will be the remaining Egyptian here. It will be my duty to represent not only Egypt well but the other counties that I am patriotic to, too.
Going from session to session reminds me of high school. Schedule in hand along with the necessary items I'll need for the treatments and I have to make my way from one place to the other and be on time, break for lunch and then go to the next session. Attendance isn't taken but the instructors or those providing the treatments, sign your schedule to indicate you attended. I'm just grateful I don't have reading or written assignments that I have to turn in at the end of the 20 days.
I checked my list of treatments for the day and found I had two new treatments, that I've never had before. Dry Carbon Bath and Mud Pool. How does one have a dry carbon bath, I thought to myself? The other sessions were familiar and I knew what to expect, or so I thought!
I found my way to the floor and corridor where this new kind of bath is given. It was in a place I had never been to before and I wasn't quite sure what I should do. One of the employees came out of one of the rows of identical doors, looked at my schedule and said to wait one moment, while she called her colleague to come. Moments later a short red-haired, stout woman came bounding down the hall way towards me, with quite a bit of make up and lead me to the last door in the corridor where a big CO2 sign was. I went in and there was no bath tub!?!?! I was confused? How do you have a bath without a tub? Instead of a tub there was a medical table/bed and a sheet on it. The woman went to a small cupboard and pulled out a long white plastic bag and placed it on the bed. She then turns to me and says; "Madame, Please take off clothes and get in bag", then leave the room to let me prepare. (PREPARE FOR WHAT?!? IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!!)
I can't begin to tell you all of the thoughts and phrases that were whizzing around in my head! Some of them are just too vulgar, that I won't dare write it out, because my mother reads my blog! One thought was 'I wish I'd written my will and final testament, if Id' known I was going to voluntarily get in a body bag!"
I do as I'm told (I'm so obedient), I get undressed, climb into the bag and wait for further instructions. The woman returns shortly after, I've got myself in the bag. She comes over and helps me get further in the bag and tells me, my arms have to be inside too, (OH! #$%^ me!, I think to myself). A towel is wrapped around my neck and the bag is pulled up towards my neck and then an elasticated clip is put in place, so, I look as thought I have a Victorian collar. I am then made to lie down and a pipe is then stuck into the bag through the neck piece and the gas is turned on. The bag slowly fills up with carbon gas and when I look like a human sized helium balloon or a super giant-sized bag of Kernels Pop corn. I am left to lie in 'dry carbon gas' for 20 minutes. (Well, now I know what it is, I thought to myself. How does this benefit me in any way?) I lay there, thinking and listening to the light relaxing music and at some point in time I drifted off to sleep. I woke up with a jolt when I felt myself teetering off the edge of the bed, (PHEW!!! that was close!). The woman came in and sat me up, not long after I saved myself from a carbon tumble and released the gas from the back of the bag. I was then told the session was over and that I could dress and leave. (I later found that it benefits the skin, and gives it more elasticity)
I make my way across the next building for my healthy back session. I was sincerely hoping that it was going to be like Pilates or yoga, but it was more like a Jane Fonda workout and again it was with the Trunchbull! Seeing this woman at the head of the class each time puts fear in me but also reassurance. I fear I may never walk again and reassurance that my ass will get whipped into shape in her class! Some of the routines I used to do when I was much younger with the greatest of ease, especially having been double jointed in the hips. After letting myself go, I find some of them strenuous, but I don't let it deter me. I keep pushing myself… I will not give up and I will not be defeated I repeat to myself! By the end of the class, I have worked up a sweat and without a moment of rest, I make my way back to the main spa to experience the mud pool.
Before going into the Mud pool, I have to spend 10 minutes in the mirror pool, once the time's up. I make my way downstairs to where the pool is. I thought the mirror pool was warm… HA! the mud beats it when it comes to heat. The pool itself is of an interesting design and shape. The water is dark and not very inviting. I made my way into the pool slowly so as not to slip and because my very active imagination made me believe that there was a possibility a swamp monster my inhabit it. The temperature of the water was ok, but once my feet touched the bud, it was I would imagine walking on hot coals would feel like. It was very warm that I couldn't stand in one place for a long period of time. I had to keep lifting my feet up and moving around. I also had to keep my upper body out of the water to keep cool. "10 minutes in this?" I thought to myself. "I might melt in this before the time is up!" While I was in the pool one of the attendees came to me and asked if I'd mind bringing my next exercise session forward, because I was the only one taking it. I didn't mind at all, it meant I wouldn't have a two-hour gap between this and my slim class.
After a very long and slow passing 10 minutes, i showered myself off and went to one of the resting cubicles. I was wrapped up like caterpillar in a cocoon and I was sweating like crazy. Eventually the warmth got to be and I dozed off for a while. I woke up about 30 minutes later. I threw off the sheets and covers, put on my robe and went to the changing room to get dressed in to my exercise attire.
At the exercise class I expected it to be similar to the last two sessions, either on a ball or in a standing position. No, this time, I was going to do pretty much the same workout I did earlier in the healthy back session on an elevated massage table. Not only did I get my butt kicked but I was terrified that with one false move I would end up on the floor! In all honesty, the thought of moving afterwards made my muscles ache. I was done for the day!
For the rest of the day, I went into town and did a bit of shopping, blogged and then went down for dinner. At dinner time, I was messaging a friend of mine back in Cairo, keeping him informed of how may day and sessions are going, while in the garden enjoying the rare nice weather. On my way back, I saw the Egyptian ladies dining in the restaurant and went over to talk with them and to wish them safe travels before I turned in for the night. That didn't happen, they insisted I sit and stay with them and join them in the bar afterwards. They are so charming that I couldn't refuse. I joined them in the hotel lounge, I listened to them tell stories of their youth as the pianist played old hits in the background, which then led into a mini sing along when it was a song that they remembered the lyrics to.
They may be a few decades older than me, I thought, but their spirit is still young and their minds are sharp. I hope I'll still have that spark and sense of joie de vivre at their age.
Thursday, July 31st
I wasn't fortunate enough to see all the ladies again before they left. I did bump in to Mona after my second session one of the morning. We said our final farewells and hoped to meet up in Cairo once we were all back and settled in to our daily lives.
My routine today wasn't too packed and wasn't too strenuous. I attended all my sessions and once I was done, I dashed back to my room to change, have a quick lunch before I went on a short excursion to the capital city, Bratislava with a tour guide. I was the first to be picked up, so the guide was kind enough to give me a summary of the history of Piestany and a brief rundown of the the sights we would stop and see. I was the only English speaker on the bus, so I had to rely on my language decoding skills to pick up tid bits of information in German, because there was no way I could do it in Russian. As we drove, I dozed off a few times. I have trained myself to do that on long car journeys, to prevent myself from getting car sick, especially when the A/C isn't strong and I couldn't open a window. After what seemed to be ages, we reached the Bratislava, it wasn't as bustling as I had expected it to be for a work day. It was quite calm and quiet, which was a pleasant surprise. We drove by the Presidential Residence, it looked like a miniature one story version of the White House in DC. From there we drove to the top of a hill to where a reconstructed castle stood. If the original hadn't been destroyed in a fire a century or so ago, I think I would have been really impressed with the architecture and air about it, but because it looked 'new', I wasn't that interested. I was mainly focused on the gateway, which had four armored white soldier busts at the top of them and the panoramic view of the city.
Our next stop was the old city of Bratislava. The bus dropped us off and we made the rest of the way on foot because it was a pedestrian zone. We walked down cobbled alley ways and I was in heaven, snapping away capturing unique architecture, statues, a clock tower and few other scenes with my camera as we walked a long. The area reminded me of two places O'Connell street in Dublin and downtown Beirut. It felt familiar and I enjoyed listening to the different languages being spoken. It was more cosmopolitan than Piestany. After we had been shown the highlights, we were given some free time to wonder and were told to meet at a certain place at 5:50, to head back to our hotels. Well, without hesitation I was off, there was an Irish pub I had spotted along our walk and I wasn't going to leave without getting a Guinness fix. The last time I had one was in March and as everyone knows it's rich in iron and has fewer calories than beer! I went straight up to the bar and ordered a half pint, so I wouldn't be too full for the ride back and to make sure I had time to get some souvenir shopping done too.
Once I had happily consumed my favorite black drink, I went and found a souvenir shop close to the meeting point. Inside I picked up three magnets, a post card and some Slovakian mead. I've recently started a collection of magnets of places I have visited to put on my fridge. They are easy to carry and don't take much room in the case or in the house, I also by two other magnets to put on my sisters fridge and my parents, because they can never have too many magnets! While I was at the cashier, I was stood next to a young lady whom was speaking to the cashier and my ear picked up on not only her accent, but the slang phrases she used. So, I turned to her and asked if she was Irish. She said she was and I then told her that I was half Irish. The young lady then asked where about my family was from and when I told her they were from County Tyrone in the North, she had an astonished look on her face, 'That's where I'm from', she replied. Jokingly, I looked at her inquisitively and asked her if she was from the McSorley family. She giggled and said no, but her sister was married to one!! WHAT WERE THE CHANCES!?!? Of all the souvenir shops in the old city, I happened to be in that one standing next to an Irish lass from my grandfather's county!! The world and the powers that be never cease to amaze me!
When I got back to the hotel the first thing I did was message my mother and she was just and amused by the encounter as I was.
Friday 1st August (2 weeks left)
I have officially completed by first wee. I am feeling the benefits of the treatments and I have to say the thing that I am enjoying the most are the simple freedoms people take for granted, like being able to wear what they want without being taunted by harassers, going on long walks or riding a bicycle while breathing in clean air and being surrounded by nature. There are days when I just want to crawl back into bed and sleep, but I force myself out, because, I know if I don't, I will come to regret it once I'm back in Cairo and taking a stroll is enough to raise your blood pressure.
First thing this morning, Elena, who is the lovely women who has been giving me electro treatment everyday since my arrival said that she would be going on vacation and that today is her last day and that she wished me well and all the best and gave me a hug. I was very touched by her genuine well wishes and couldn't help but like her more than I already did. I couldn't help but wondered who her replacement would be and if she/they would be as efficient.
Today was one of those days where, I had to keep dressing and undressing. I can't tell you how many times I had to go from being fully clothed, to half-dressed, to stark naked. I felt like I was becoming talented enough to have my very own, Las Vegas, Quick Change show! It will be very strange once I leave to be wearing the same thing all day long, without having to change into gym clothes, swim suite, rob or something suitable for dinner.
During the Healthy Back exercise class with the Trunchbull, there was some Saudi entertainment for the class participants,
(I say this with tongue in cheek and a lot of sarcasm)
An older Saudi Woman came into the class with her Sri Lankan maid. It is hard to estimate how old the Saudi woman was, because some women look far older than they are and her weight added years to her face too. She enters the class and is somewhat confused and caught off guard. The instructor tells her to come in and grab a mat but she doesn't understand. I translated for her so that the class won't be held up any longer. "But I'm not in sports clothes" she frets and says almost objection-ally. "It's up to you" I inform her on behalf of the instructor. The Saudi woman then orders her lady in waiting to place an exercise mat on the floor for her, and tells her to remember next time she'll need a blouse and pants for this. She then hands her, her black head scarf and Abaya (the long black cloak they wear) to the Sri Lankan woman, who then leaves to wait outside till the end of the session. The lady gets down on to the exercise mat make making a lot of grunting sound effects and 'OW'ing and 'AAH'ing noises, while the rest of the class watched her in complete bewildered puzzlement. I can't begin to imagine the what thoughts were going through their heads. As the class goes on the grunting and complaints of pain grow less and less. At one point there's no sound at all and I look up to see if the woman is still alive. Over the participants bodies and across the room, I see a pair of legs up in the air as she is lying on her back, following the instructor. Her galabeya (dress) is hitched to her knees, revealing what appears to be leg warms (that may be used to conceal her ankles from men) or medical socks with the bottoms cut off and her face is beetroot red. I have to prevent myself from laughing out.loud at the vision I saw.
When the class came to an end, she remained sat on the mat and watched everyone step around her so that the can put the mat away and make their way to their next appointment. She beckons for her maid to come, who is through the doors within seconds with a wheelchair and Abaya. I leave shaking my head in sadness and disbelief.
I make my way to my next session, which is the mud pack. I arrive a few minutes before my slot. When my time comes, I'm lead into my chamber for the session to undress and walk into the adjoining room, where I lay and get wrapped up in mud for twenty minutes. There are usually two people who are responsible for this, but only one of the ladies is on duty today. Once i'm settled and wrapped up tightly like a shawerma she moves on to the next client, whom happened to be another Saudi woman. From the conversation, it sounded as though she had never experienced this before because when she heard what she had to do, she put up a little protest 'Laa, Laa, Laa, Aida, yimkin hathi ghalat', which translates to 'no, no, no Aida, maybe this is wrong/mistake'. The maid asked the attendee if it's possible the doctor made and error. The Slovakian women in her broken English answered 'Doctor, no make mistake, lie down, on back please." The Saudi woman grumbles and mutters words that are inaudible for me to hear as she does as she's told. The moment her flesh touches the heated mud the sounds of disgust fill the air and I chuckle quietly to myself. You are usually given a choice of 15-20 minutes, but the old woman wasn't given a choice, the timer was set for 20 minutes, the lights were switched off to allow her to relax and the sound of the door shut behind her.
After these two incidents, I couldn't help but wonder, if the girls from Asia whom are employed by families from the Arabian Gulf, ever get satisfaction from watching their employers in these situations. The thought then reminded me of two films that had been made 'The Nanny' with Scarlet Johansen and 'The Help' with Emma Stone. I wonder if these girls felt the same way as those characters did in the movie.
I finished my treatments at around one o'clock and went back to my room to change, answer messages, chat with my parents and tell them of the entertaining events that happened today. Which they found to be quite humorous that my mother laughed till she was red in the face. Once I had lunch, I went and rented a bicycle to ride around to burn off lunch. Well, that was my plan, but the weather had different plans altogether. I hadn't been riding 10 minutes when Zeus threw his lightning bolt across the sky and a thunderstorm filled the sky. I rode as fast as I could peddle to my hotel, jumped off the bike and tried to lock it to a pole, but the damn lock wasn't cooperating. The rain was beating down faster and harder and I was getting wetter by the second! I finally got it to lock and ran inside where I waited it out for the next 3 hours! Just when it sounded as though the storm was subsiding, I would think, maybe now I could go out and ride, it would start-up again. I went down for dinner, defeated. It looked as though I wouldn't be riding the bike and would have to return the bicycle tomorrow, so I asked the receptionist to kindly inform the hotel I had rented it from that I would pay the extra amount. When I had finished dinner the sky was clear, the rain had stopped and I didn't waste the opportunity, I got paper towels tried off the seat, unlocked the bike and rode! The sky was a palette of sunsets, the air was so clean and fresh my lungs couldn't inhale enough of it. The hours I had to wait to ride, were worth it! If only it were like this in Cairo, I thought wishfully to myself!
I have come to one conclusion, Slovakian weather doesn't like me riding a bicycle!
Part VI is coming up!
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At 53 words (1.15% of the total words in The Constitution), The Preamble to The Constitution of The United States is, not counting any of the Amendments, the shortest section of The Constitution after Article VII (Ratification). It has never, to my knowledge, ever been used as a basis for any constitutional court case, or for any decision (majority, dissenting, or separate) made by The Supreme Court. The Preamble is essentially considered to be the 'pretty words' before the 'actual' Constitution. That is kind of like seeing it as a short, light poetry reading for entertainment purposes before the start of the 'real business' part of the program. I think that such a view is a tragic mistake.
First of all, The Preamble is fully a part of The Constitution, written with it and subjected to the same ratification process as every other part of The Constitution was. It is a shame, at best, and short-sighted, at worst to not give it the same respect and standing as every other part of The Constitution. For example, for the hawks and for those in the Bush administration, it provides the best justification in the entirety of The Constitution for their aggressive military views and focus on defense issues ("We the People of the United States, in Order to…, provide for the common defence). In my view, the 'Commander-in-Chief" clause (which I will talk about in my part of this article which will deal with Article II – The Executive Branch) does NOT give the Executive Branch the power or authority that it wants to claim under that clause. Their best arguments can be made using the relevant words in The Preamble.
Unfortunately, for those same hawks and those conservatives who are against progressive social policies, if they want to use the 'common defence' wording of The Preamble upon which to build a case, they must also concede equal standing to all of the other provisions of The Preamble. To me, The Preamble is an active part of The Constitution which establishes objectives which our government under The Constitution is obligated to strive to try to achieve. I will discuss this idea in more detail in the part of the article which will deal with Article I (The Legislative Branch) but, briefly goals and objectives are the same as strategies and tactics. Objectives / tactics are the broad, general, rather nebulous overarching purpose of something which cannot be quantifiably measured or ever be truly achieved… we will make the world a better place, we will create a more perfect union, we will explore space, we will end sickness and disease, etc.… these are all objectives. You cannot measure them, you cannot quantify them, you can ONLY work towards them. What helps you work towards achieving your objectives / tactics are your goals / strategies. Goals / strategies are the specific, quantifiable and measurable and specifically achievable progress points which are established as as ways to help us achieve our objectives / strategies … we will reach the moon by the end of the decade, we will give the vote to eighteen year-olds, we will defeat Hitler, we will wipe out smallpox, etc…. these are all goals.
For my section on the Legislature, I will advocate, and give my rationale for making goals and objectives a specific part of the legislative process. For this section on The Preamble, I will simply say that it is where I see the founders listing the objectives which they wanted us to work towards. To me, this makes The Preamble one of the, if not the, single most important parts of the entire Constitution. All that WE need to do is pay attention to it and give it the same respect and standing that we give to any and every other part of The Constitution.
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|0.7 cm [0.3 in]
|Product Length
|22 mm [0.9 in]
|Product Width
|15 mm [0.6 in]
|Weight of Product
|1 g [0 oz]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|33 mm [1.3 in]
|Package Length
|17.2 cm [6.8 in]
|Package Quantity
|Package Width
|14.2 cm [5.6 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|75 g [2.6 oz]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - USB to Bluetooth Adapter
|1 - Driver CD
|1 - Instruction Manual
Windows Server® 2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016
Mac OS® 10.6 - 10.9
Product Support
- [CSR BC0401PC08] Windows USB Bluetooth Adapter.zip Version: 7.0.496.9
Data Sheets
Frequently Asked Questions
Before You Buy
Bluetooth Class
Bluetooth classes define a Bluetooth device's maximum power output; the higher a device's output power, the longer the maximum range. The below table outlines the average power output and range of the four Bluetooth classes:
Average power
Average range
100 mW
2.5 mW
~10 m
1 mW
~1 m
0.5 mW
~0.5 m
A device's maximum range can also depend on environmental factors, such as physical obstructions between the two Bluetooth devices.
In order to achieve the maximum range defined by a Bluetooth class, both devices must support the same class. For example, if you wish to communicate at a 100m range, both Bluetooth devices will need to be class 1 devices. If one of the devices is class 2, both devices will operate at the range of class 2.
Bluetooth Profile
Bluetooth profiles are additional protocols that that more clearly define the Bluetooth standard for very specific uses. Profiles define exactly how Bluetooth technology is used in specific situations.
Some examples of Bluetooth profiles are Serial Port Profile (SPP), Human Interface Device (HID), Hands-Free Profile (HFP), and Headset Profile (HSP).
To pair a Bluetooth device to your computer, complete the following:
Note: These instructions require that your Bluetooth device's drivers are already installed, that the Bluetooth interface is enabled, and it is in Discovery mode. For instructions on how to do so, refer to your Bluetooth device's manual.
- Right-click the Start menu.
- Click Control Panel.
- Select Hardware and Sound.
- Click Devices and Printers.
- Click Add a device.
- Select your device from the list.
- Click Next.
Note: A pairing code may be required for your Bluetooth device. If this is the case, a pairing code request may appear on the screen. Make sure that this code matches the code on your device and click Yes. You may also need to confirm this code on your device.
Your device should now be paired to the computer.
Mac OS X
- Click the Apple logo.
- Click System Preferences….
- Click Bluetooth.
- Select your device from the list.
- Click Pair.
Note: A pairing code may be required for your Bluetooth device. If this is the case, a pairing code request may appear on the screen. Make sure that this code matches the code on your device and click Yes. You may also need to confirm this code on your device.
Your device should now be paired to the computer.
Before you install drivers and software for the device, make sure that your operating system is current (for example, the most recent service pack is installed).
- Download the latest drivers and software from the StarTech.com website at www.startech.com/Support. The part number and product ID are on the product packaging.
Note: Windows usually saves the files to the Downloads folder that is associated with your user account (for example, C:\Users\your_name\Downloads).
- After the download is complete, right-click the zip folder that you downloaded, click Extract All, and complete the instructions.
- In the list of extracted files, right-click the driver or software setup.exe file and select Run as Administrator.
Note: If the Run as Administrator option is not available, you might be attempting to run the installer from within the zipped file. Extract the files using the instructions in Step 2.
- Follow the on-screen prompts to install the device drivers and software and restart the computer when prompted.
- Your computer will automatically complete the installation and your device should be ready to use.
The drivers for this device are native to Windows® 8.1 and 10. Connect your Bluetooth device to your computer and Windows will automatically install the drivers.
If the drivers do not automatically install, or your device does not function as it should, you can install the latest drivers from StarTech.com. To do so, refer to the following FAQ: www.startech.com/faq/bluetooth-adapters-install-windows-78.
How to
To confirm that Windows detects your USB device, complete the following:
- Press the Windows key+R, type devmgmt.msc, and press Enter.
- In Device Manager, under the appropriate heading, confirm that your expansion card is listed and that there isn't an exclamation mark next to it. For example, a USB controller card would be under Universal Serial Bus controllers.
Your USB device is listed according to the name of the chipset. To determine the name of the chipset of your USB device, navigate to www.StarTech.com and look on the Technical Specifications tab for your product.
If the USB device does not work after your computer has been in extended hibernation, it is likely that Windows has automatically turned off the USB Root hub to save power.
The steps below outline how to configure the USB root hub to stay on during hibernation, to prevent this from happening.
Windows 10 / 8
- On your keyboard, press the Windows key + X and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows 7 / Vista
- Click the Start button and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows XP
- On your desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
- Click the Device Manager tab.
- Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers by clicking the arrow to the left of it.
- Right-click the first USB Root Hub device and select Properties.
- Click the Power Management tab.
- Clear the box next to Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
- Repeat steps 4-7 for any remaining devices in the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section with "Root Hub" in the name.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
When you troubleshoot issues with a Bluetooth adapter, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following are not the source of the issue:
- Operating system
- Up to date drivers
- Range
It's important to make sure that the operating system that is being used with the Bluetooth adapter is supported by the device. You can be check which operating systems a device supports on the StarTech.com product page, under the Technical Specifications tab for the device.
The most up-to-date drivers and software should be used with the Bluetooth adapter. These are found on the StarTech.com website on the product page, under the Support tab.
It is important to be aware of the range of the Bluetooth adapter, and the distance to the Bluetooth device that pairing is being attempted with. The range of the adapter can also be viewed under the Technical Specifications tab for the device.
If the source of the issue has still not been found, these can be investigated:
- Detection on system
- Bluetooth device
- USB port
- Computer system
- Bluetooth adapter
If the Bluetooth adapter is not being detected by the computer while connected to your computer, refer to the following FAQs, based on your operating system:
- For Windows: www.startech.com/faq/usb-cannot-detect-windows.
- For Mac OS: www.startech.com/faq/usb-cannot-detect-mac-os.
If you encounter issues pairing with a Bluetooth device, another device should be tested (if possible).
If the adapter is not functional in the first USB port on the first computer system that is used, additional ports and an additional computer system should be tried.
If you have a second Bluetooth adapter, you should test with it as well.
Compliance and Safety
Compliance Letters
Safety Measures
- If product has an exposed circuit board, do not touch the product under power.
- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
* Product appearance and specifications are subject to change without notice.


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But even icons have their shortcomings—tourist traps and mall brands to name a few. Some San Francisco classics live up to the hype—Alcatraz and its spectacular island setting, Chez Panisse's cutting-edge interpretations of culinary trends, the Fillmore's rock scene. But other big names, like Fisherman's Wharf, don't quite measure up. To help you avoid the common pitfalls most first-timers make in San Francisco (for starters, don't call it Frisco), here's our short list of must-nots.
The old adage holds true: The better the view, the worse the food. Oh, you'll spot plenty of enticing-looking raw bars, with beefy-armed men in white aprons cracking open freshly boiled crabs, but no self-respecting San Francisco food-lover would dream of eating at any of Fisherman's Wharf tourist traps. We thought parsley-sprig and orange-wedge garnishes disappeared with the disco years, but apparently we were mistaken. It's not that the seafood isn't fresh, but in the hands of the assembly-line chefs, it's generally overcooked, badly sauced, and overpriced.
_Instead: _Eat at Swan Oyster Depot. For fresh-off-the-boat shellfish, queue up beside the locals at Swan Oyster Depot, a century-old landmark with just 20 stools lining a marble counter. With the exception of a creamy New England-style chowder, the entire menu is cold—oysters on the half shell, cracked crab, smoked fish and shrimp salad tossed in Louie dressing (a sort of Thousand Island without pickles). It's perfect picnic food to take to nearby Sterling Park, atop Russian Hill, where you can gaze out at the glittering blue bay as you lunch. But get there early: Once the lunch rush ends and the fish runs out, Swan Oyster Depot closes up shop. For a special-occasion white-tablecloth seafood feast, you won't find better than Aqua. On a par with New York's famed Le Bernardin, Aqua expertly blends French technique with New American sensibilities, using fresh-off-the-boat ingredients in such signature dishes as Moroccan-spiced tuna tartare and Alaskan halibut with licorice jus. Unlike at the Wharf, you won't soon forget what you ate.
San Francisco's high-rent retail district, Union Square is by far the easiest place in town to max out your credit cards, with big names like Neiman Marcus, Marc Jacobs and Gucci. But let's face it, you can find those stores almost anywhere. Did you really fly all the way across the continent only to shop the chains?
_Instead: _Browse the boutiques in Hayes Valley. Get hip to the indie-designer scene in Hayes Valley, one of San Francisco's most happening neighborhoods, where inventive boutiques line a three-block stretch around Hayes Street, just west of Symphony Hall. Among our favorites: RAG Co-op rents rack space to 70 up-and-coming designers hawking denim skinnies, screen-printed tees, and the occasional vintage item. The look is very San Francisco—youthful, sporty, smart. Or take home something a bit more grown-up with a custom-made piece from Lemon Twist—choose the fabric and design, and they'll tailor it to hug your every curve. Best of all, chances are slim-to-none you'll spot someone else sporting the same frock.
Sourdough has a long history in San Francisco, thanks in large part to Boudin, which has been kneading bread since 1849. The place is an institution, and tourists line up to scoop chowder from the bakery's hollowed-out bread bowls. Trouble is, the bread just isn't that great. Not only could you break a filling on the tough-as-linoleum crust, but the dough is way over-soured and lacks any subtlety. Simply put, Boudin rests on its laurels and just hasn't kept pace with the city's cutting-edge food scene.
Instead: Head to Tartine. Weekend lines wrap around the block at this Mission District bakery, but they're made up of locals, not tourists. And with good reason: To find better pastry and bread, you'd have to fly to Paris. Don't believe us? Ask the James Beard Foundation, which named co-owners Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson as Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2008. The semi-sour, lightly yeasted sourdough bread comes out of the oven at 5pm Wednesday through Sunday afternoons, and it sells out in as little as an hour. If you're counting carbs and can't justify an entire loaf, come during the day and sample a dense, chewy slice of the country-style bread in one of the bakery's signature croques-monsieurs.
In case you hadn't noticed, nobody has worn flowers in their hair since the 1970s—even on Haight Street, where packs of 16-year-olds in their Jim Morrison phase shop for tie-dye, and drug-addled former hippies crouch in doorways begging for spare change. The 'hood has become a parody of itself, a sort of '60s theme park with too many head shops and frat-boy bars, not to mention a Ben & Jerry's franchise occupying the storied corner of Haight and Ashbury streets. It's not all bad—there's great thrifting and shoe shopping, but you'll have to overcome the stink of patchouli to do it.
_Instead: _Explore the Mission District. For the real San Francisco-now experience, explore the gritty Mission District. Before the dot-com boom, the Mission was the last ungentrified central San Francisco neighborhood, historically the heart of the city's Latino community and the stomping ground of underground artists. Today weekend hipsters with day jobs in biotech have moved in, but the vibe remains decidedly experimental. Explore the Mission's famous murals in Clarion Alley with Precita Eyes Mural Tours, fuel up on $4 tacos, and then wander down Valencia Street (from 24th to 16th Sts) and pop into only-in-S.F. boutiques. At Paxton Gate you can peruse housewares like glass terraria and vintage taxidermy; Good Vibrations is ground zero for the latest in sex toys. Make love not war: That's the real way to channel the hippie Haight spirit.
Lines snake around the cable car terminus at Powell and Market streets, the beginning of the two major cable-car lines (Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason), which carry tourists to Fisherman's Wharf. While you wait—sometimes as long as an hour—you're held hostage by D-grade accordion players, panhandlers, and evangelists threatening hellfire. All this hassle for a ride on a toy train?
_Instead: _Take the California Street line. Take the cable car line tourists don't know about: the California Street line. There's rarely a queue for this lightly traveled route because visitors don't know what to do at the end of the line, Van Ness Avenue. But we do: Grab a picnic lunch of succulent Cowgirl Creamery cheese and crusty French bread near the beginning of the route at the Ferry Building Marketplace and hop on the cable car at the foot of California Street. Then, from the terminus at Van Ness Avenue, walk to Lafayette Square, in swanky Pacific Heights, for a hilltop picnic in the shadow of stately townhouses. Afterward, window-shop Upper Fillmore St alongside the city's skirt-and-sweater matrons. (Tip: For a great photo on the cable car, shoot east downhill as you approach Stockton Street; the Bay Bridge tower is briefly framed just right between downtown skyscrapers.)
Unless you have an insatiable refrigerator-magnet fetish, don't rub fanny packs with the hordes thronging Pier 39. Little more than an outdoor strip mall built to revitalize the once decrepit northern waterfront, Pier 39 overflows with tourists clutching bags of tatty souvenirs destined for future garage sales. The only smart reason to come is to ooh and aah at the sea lions lazing off the pier's northwestern side, but you can do this in the evening, once the shops have closed and the pier has emptied out.
_Instead: _Explore Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Get picture-postcard vistas of the bay's glittering waters from the waterfront promenades of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Wander west of Van Ness Avenue from Pier 39 along the wooded trails leading to Fort Mason, a former shipyard now home to experimental theaters and art workshops. Further west, Marina Green draws kite-fliers and sunbathers to a giant sweep of grass in view of bobbing masts of sailboats. But the big payoff is Crissy Field, a restored bay-front wetlands with raised boardwalks over the dunes, stellar bird-watching, and jaw-dropping views of the 70-story-high Golden Gate Bridge. If you've got good walking shoes on, keep going all the way to Fort Point, directly beneath the bridge, to see where Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart dove into the water in Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo (required viewing for all San Francisco visitors). And if the fog rolls in, fret not: Aim for Crissy Field's Warming Hut, where you'll find hot cocoa and National Park rangers to help you find your way home.
No tour of San Francisco would be complete without a loop through Chinatown, the largest Chinese enclave this side of the Pacific. All those green-tile roofs, dragon lanterns, and Art Deco-Chinoiserie make for some damn good pictures, but don't miss out, as most tourists do, by sticking to Grant Avenue. If you do that, you'll walk right through Chinatown and miss the real thing, seeing only tchotchke shops and overpriced electronics stores.
_Instead: _Explore Chinatown's alleyways. Once you've snapped the obligatory shots of the Chinatown Gate and its green-tile portals topped with wriggling dragons, ignore the call of the pagoda-style roofs lining Grant Avenue and find your way to the real Chinatown in the side alleys. Listen for the clacking of mah-jongg tiles on Spofford Alley. Follow the scent of incense wafting from temples on Waverly Place. Dig the lushly colored murals on Ross Alley (which you may recognize from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). For locals, the real thoroughfare is not Grant Avenue, but parallel-running Stockton Street, where Chinese women stock up on fish heads and porcelain, and nary a hawker entices you to empty your wallet on cheap electronics and miniature cable cars. For dim sum, stick with the standby City View (415-398-2838; 662 Commercial St; lunch only); most other Chinatown options are lackluster. Or hop a cab and head to Ton Kiang in the Richmond District—the upwardly mobile new Chinatown—where you'll gorge on a stream of impeccably fresh dim sum served up in soft translucent wrappers.
Nothing beats the view of San Francisco from the water, especially right after the fog breaks and the downtown skyline and the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge emerge beneath a peerless blue sky. Short of chartering a sailboat, the best way to see it is aboard a ferry boat. Sausalito used to be the prime destination, but the little bayside artist colony has been overrun by tourists who clog the pretty streets, pack the assembly-line seafood restaurants, and zap all the fun of discovery for would-be explorers. Talk about a buzz kill.
Instead: Take the ferry to Tiburon. Ride the ferry to Tiburon, a village in Marin County with a picturesque main street straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. You'll get the same amazing shots as you sail past Alcatraz and Angel Island, and once you arrive in port, you'll have room to roam away from the herd. Poke your head into cute boutiques, snag a table for the obligatory dockside lunch at Sam's Grill (beware the seagulls swooping down on your fish and chips), and you've pretty much done Tiburon. But that's part of the charm. For full immersion in the kick-back Marin County lifestyle, snag a bay-view room at the Waters Edge Hotel and sip cocktails as the sun slips into the Pacific beyond the Golden Gate Bridge.
A giant rainbow flag flies over the intersection of Market and Castro streets, marking the gayest spot in the entire world. Trouble is, it's tired. Blame it on gay marriage, blame it on the Internet, but hardly anybody cruises Castro Street anymore. The bars have become decidedly mixed, with trashy suburban girls puking on their Payless pumps outside the bars, killing the cruise-y vibe. Don't get us wrong, the Castro is fun, but it's just not sexy anymore—unless your idea of hot is a rainbow-ring necklace.
Instead: seek out the locals scene. The gay scene is a moving target, and you're going to have to do your homework once you get here. Chat up local boys catching rays at the southwest corner of Dolores Park (near Church and 20th streets) on any sunny weekend afternoon, spring through fall. If you're here on a rare, hot beach day, you've got one choice: Marshall's Beach (aka Marcia's Beach), the nude strip under the Golden Gate. As of this writing, the hottest neighborhood bar is Blackbird, a former Market Street gin joint, now a slick spot for mixology and guys in tight tees. (Check out the decoupage murals made from gruesome and lurid newspaper headlines.) On Sundays, get started early with the afternoon beer bust at the Eagle Tavern; later, join the art school hotties bumping and grinding to queer DJ collective Honey Soundsystem, which spins everything from b-side disco to obscure German techno at Paradise Lounge. For classic drag, you can't go wrong on a Friday or Saturday night at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, when Gina La Divina (aka the $65,000 Silicone Wonder) and Vicki Marlane (aka the World's Oldest Living Drag Queen) host the Hot Boxxx Girls.
Nothing amuses locals more than spotting tourists shivering in shorts and sandals as they cling to the open sides of passing cable cars. Unless you want to spend your first afternoon in San Francisco shopping for an ugly sweat suit you'll never wear again, pack long pants and a jacket.
_Instead: _Bring lots of layers. Wear layers and expect three seasons in a day—brisk fall-like mornings, warm summery days, and wintry afternoons. In summer, the weatherman's forecast is like a daily mantra: Fog and low clouds clearing to the coast by midday, with temperatures in the upper 60s and fog returning late in the afternoon. Late spring and early fall tend to be the most temperate times, but don't count on any heat waves. Year-round, the San Francisco uniform for both men and women consists of jeans, cotton tee, Merino sweater, and lightweight jacket (only in December will you need a scarf and gloves). It's a different story altogether once you cross the bay, where inland temperatures soar a whopping 30 degrees warmer in July. But unless you're packing for a side trip to wine country, leave your Bermudas at home. You'll thank us later.


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First it was Big Bird. Then it was "Binders Full of Women." And now, "Horses and Bayonets" has emerged as the leading social media and internet meme after the third presidential debate.
President Obama's delicious reply was to Mitt Romney's canned remarks about the size of the Navy
ROMNEY: Our Navy is old — excuse me, our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We're now at under 285. We're headed down to the low 200s if we go through a sequestration. That's unacceptable to me.
OBAMA: The budget that we are talking about is not reducing our military spending. It is maintaining it. But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works.
You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And so the question is not a game of Battleship, where we're counting slips. It's what are our capabilities.
The reply "took off instantly" across the social media networks, reports the Associated Press.
On Twitter, the hashtag "horsesandbayonets" immediately began trending in the United States and became the top trend in the country and third worldwide, even an hour after the debate ended. On Facebook, users created more than 50 pages named "Horses and Bayonets." The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also pounced, posting a meme declaring "Obama just sank Romney's battleship" that generated more than 84,000 likes and was shared more than 16,000 times in an hour.
There is also a Tumblr but it's not nearly as LOLz or clever as the "Binders" meme. Watch the video clip AFTER THE JUMP ...


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On the other hand (to play my own devil's advocate): I'm a huge T&T geek. The classic Fifth Edition rules are super easy, but the rule book is super long-winded (though enjoyable atmospheric and goes a long way to communicating the vibe of the game). The UK Corgi versions of the solos (two-in-one, in fact) have a wonderfully truncated version of the rules (about 16 digest-sized pages). It actually gives so much that one could actually use said rules for near-campaign-level group adventures, despite that it dispenses with many of the races and has only two character "types": warrior and wizard. That is certainly enough to start. That's absolutely and inarguably archetypal.
So, where might something like leave us?
Fighters and Magic-Users.
Cut down spell list (cut down levels? Five?)
Monster list taken down to the most archetypal and mythological.
Cut adventuring rules (traps, secret doors, travel, dungeon and wilderness distance, etc.) to the barest needed minimum?
Treasure list on a Holmes Basic level presentation.
Something like that.
Though...sheesh...I still worry about even more and more flavors of S&W alone that even it's (S&W) own flavors confuses just as much as each and every retro-clone in general already confuses folks... Heh.


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Money raised by the Public Interest Law Fund will enable nine Penn State Law students to work in nonprofit or government organizations this summer. Placements span as far west as Los Angeles in the United States and as far east as Macedonia abroad.
The 2013 Public Interest Fellows and the organizations for which they will work are:
- Kaitlyn Charette, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague
- Emily Dixon, Governor's Office of Homeland Security, Human Trafficking Division, Harrisburg, Pa.
- Lauren Hartley, Roma Regional Program, Woman's Organization, Macedonia
- William Benjamin Jackson III, Project HEAL, Baltimore, Md.
- Kathleen Klein, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Dallas, Texas
- Teresa Lim, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago, Ill.
- Matt McDonald, Administrative Office for the Pennsylvania Courts, Elder Law Division, Harrisburg, Pa.
- Andrew R. Scott, Disability Rights Legal Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Aiyao Zhou, National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, Philadelphia, Pa.
"The summer fellowship programs provide valuable opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in the public service sector and much needed assistance to the nonprofit organizations in which they work," said Professor Katherene Holtzinger-Conner, who directs public interest programming at the Law School. "The ever-increasing interest in public interest fellowships and externships reflects our growing student commitment to honor and advance the Law School's proud tradition of helping people access legal advice and representation."
"When 5 o'clock hit on the day that the Summer 2013 PILF Fellowship applications were due, I knew that the Selection Committee had their work cut out for them. We received 18 applications from 18 driven and talented law students, all of whom had a demonstrated dedication to the furtherance of public interest work," said Michelle Polato, a Penn State Law senior and PILF fellowship chair. "There were no easy decisions to be made. But the decisions that were made will enable the selected fellows to work in unpaid positions in which they will provide access to justice to traditionally under-served and vulnerable populations. I am confident that this will be a mutually beneficial experience for all of the fellows and sincerely hope that all applicants will have a rich and rewarding future in public interest law."
Established by students in 1990, the Public Interest Law Fund's summer fellowship program enables law students to work in nonpaying areas of public interest law during the summer after their first or second year at Penn State Law.
The Degenstein Foundation Fellowship Program for Public Law and the Cherie M. Millage Public Interest Law Fund Summer Fellowships fund individual students for ten weeks of fulltime summer work. Fellows may work in government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private firms engaged in public interest practice. The fellowship program is named in honor of Cherie M. Millage, who served as the director of Career Services at the Law School. Millage was a source of inspiration and encouragement for law students committed to excellence in the public interest sector. Upon Millage's death, PILF named its summer fellowship program in honor of her memory. In addition, the Degenstein Foundation continues to be a generous contributor to the fellowship program.
To make a gift to support the Law School, visit www.GiveNow.psu.edu. For more information on ways to give, contact Kelly Rimmer, director of development and alumni affairs, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 717-240-5217.