[OOC] A Summer at Lake Kentforth

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Can you pretty please keep a reservation while I work on the character?

broken-wings

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If there aren't any guys that join soon, I'll make a guy too if that's okay.

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kkpigs

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I'm interested in this, is it alright if I make a Stoner?

This is where I would put a damn---> ______
IF I GAVE ONE!!!

Also ?-1 2? ? ? and it was delicious.

Irondude1994

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Got my character in, but I didn't realise there were so many girls.

Regardless, I made her a lesbian (I dunno if that changes any sort of balance you had in mind) and it's not hard to imagine her as a guy anyway :v

EDIT: Also, I just realised I left some stuff in from a different character (I copied and pasted the appearance description).

Off to edit that I go :v

The Painkiller

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Hi everyone!
Thanks for joining! I'll go right ahead and respond to your responses

Painkiller~
I completely don't mind at all. The only reason I asked for girls and guys to balance out was so that everyone would have a chance to pursue romance in the rp if they wanted to. Your character's great by the way :P

Irondude~
Yes, schools aren't full of one type of person. Create whatever kind of character you want.

Kkpigs~
That's cool. I think I will too soon. :D

Thanks again everyone for joining!

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Stanford archives offer window into Apple origins

PALO ALTO, Calf. (AP) - In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history?how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago.

"I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, `I've got a name: Apple Computer.' We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn't think of anything better."

Adds Jobs: "And also remember that I worked at Atari, and it got us ahead of Atari in the phonebook."

The interview, recorded for an in-house video for company employees in the mid-1980s, was among a storehouse of materials Apple had been collecting for a company museum. But in 1997, soon after Jobs returned to the company, Apple officials contacted Stanford University and offered to donate the collection to the school's Silicon Valley Archives.

Within a few days, Stanford curators were at Apple headquarters in nearby Cupertino, packing two moving trucks full of documents, books, software, videotapes and marketing materials that now make up the core of Stanford's Apple Collection.

The collection, the largest assembly of Apple historical materials, can help historians, entrepreneurs and policymakers understand how a startup launched in a Silicon Valley garage became a global technology giant.

"Through this one collection you can trace out the evolution of the personal computer," said Stanford historian Leslie Berlin. "These sorts of documents are as close as you get to the unmediated story of what really happened."

The collection is stored in hundreds of boxes taking up more than 600 feet of shelf space at the Stanford's off-campus storage facility. The Associated Press visited the climate-controlled warehouse on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay area, but agreed not to disclose its location.

Interest in Apple and its founder has grown dramatically since Jobs died in October at age 56, just weeks after he stepped down as CEO and handed the reins to Tim Cook. Jobs' death sparked an international outpouring and marked the end of an era for Apple and Silicon Valley.

"Apple as a company is in a very, very select group," said Stanford curator Henry Lowood. "It survived through multiple generations of technology. To the credit of Steve Jobs, it meant reinventing the company at several points."

Apple scrapped its own plans for a corporate museum after Jobs returned as CEO and began restructuring the financially struggling firm, Lowood said.

Job's return, more than a decade after he was forced out of the company he co-founded, marked the beginning of one of the great comebacks in business history. It led to a long string of blockbuster products?including the iPod, iPhone and iPad?that have made Apple one of the world's most profitable brands.

After Stanford received the Apple donation, former company executives, early employees, business partners and Mac enthusiasts have come forward and added their own items to the archives.

The collection includes early photos of young Jobs and Wozniak, blueprints for the first Apple computer, user manuals, magazine ads, TV commercials, company t-shirts and drafts of Jobs' speeches.

In one company video, Wozniak talks about how he had always wanted his own computer, but couldn't get his hands on one at a time when few computers were found outside corporations or government agencies.

"All of a sudden I realized, `Hey microprocessors all of a sudden are affordable. I can actually build my own,'" Wozniak says. "And Steve went a little further. He saw it as a product you could actually deliver, sell and someone else could use."

The pair also talk about the company's first product, the Apple I computer, which went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66.

"Remember an Apple I was not particularly useable for too much, but it was so incredible to have your own computer," Jobs says. "It was kind of an embarkation point from the way computers had been going in these big steel boxes with switches and lights."

Among the other items in the Apple Collection:

_ Thousands of photos by photographer Douglas Menuez, who documented Jobs' years at NeXT Computer, which he founded in 1985 after he was pushed out of Apple.

_ A company video spoofing the 1984 movie "Ghost Busters," with Jobs and other executives playing "Blue Busters," a reference to rival IBM.

_ Handwritten financial records showing early sales of Apple II, one of the first mass-market computers.

_ An April 1976 agreement for a $5,000 loan to Apple Computer and its three co-founders: Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, who pulled out of the company less than two weeks after its founding.

_ A 1976 letter written by a printer who had just met Jobs and Wozniak and warns his colleagues about the young entrepreneurs: "This joker (Jobs) is going to be calling you ... They are two guys, they build kits, operate out of a garage."

The archive shows the Apple founders were far ahead of their time, Lowood said.

"What they were doing was spectacularly new," he said. "The idea of building computers out of your garage and marketing them and thereby creating a successful business?it just didn't compute for a lot of people."

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Scholars want help identifying slaves' origins (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All they share is a name. But that is exactly the commonality that Emory University researchers hope to build upon as they delve into the origins of Africans who were taken up and sold.

They have built an online database around those names, and welcome input from people who may share a name that's in the database, or have such names as part of their family lore.

"The whole point of the project is to ask the African diaspora, people with any African background, to help us identify the names because the names are so ethno-linguistically specific, we can actually locate the region in Africa to which the individual belonged on the basis of the name," said David Eltis, an Emory University history professor who heads the database research team.

So far, two men named Obama sit among some 9,500 captured Africans whose names were written on line after line in the registries of obscure, 19th century slave trafficking courts. The courts processed the human chattel freed from ships that were intercepted and detoured to Havana, Cuba or Freetown, Sierra Leone. Most of the millions of Africans enslaved before 1807 were known only by numbers, said James Walvin, an expert on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Once bought by slave owners, the Africans' names were lost. Africans captured by the Portuguese were baptized and given "Christian" names aboard the ships that were taking them into slavery.

But original African names ? surnames were uncommon for Africans in the 19th century ? are rich with information. Some reveal the day of the week an individual was born or whether that individual was the oldest, youngest or middle child or a twin. They can also reveal ethnic or linguistic groups.

The president's father was from Kenya, on the eastern coast of Africa, and Eltis said it was rare for captives to hail from areas far from the port where their ships set sail. The unidentified Obamas on the slave ships sailed from west Africa. Walvin, author of "The Zong," a book about the slave trade, said there were Africans who had been brought great distances before they were forced onto ships.

"Often their enslavement had begun much earlier, deep in the African interior, most of them captured through acts of violence, warfare or kidnap, or for criminal activity ..." Walvin said in his book, which chronicles the true story of a captain who ordered a third of the slaves aboard his ship thrown overboard due to a shortage of drinking water.

Obama's ancestors, a nomadic people known as the River Lake Nilotes, migrated from Bahr-el-Ghazal Province in Sudan toward Uganda and into Western Kenya, according to Sally Jacobs, author of "The Other Barack", a book about the president's father. They were part of several clans and subclans that eventually became the Luo people of Kenya, Jacobs writes.

The president's great-grandfather's name was Obama. Obama is derived from the word "bam", meaning crooked or indirect, she said in her book.

But it's also possible that Obama was a name used by other cultural groups in Africa and for whom the name had a different meaning.

The slaves found aboard intercepted ships provided their names, age and sometimes where they were from, through translators, to English and Spanish speaking court registrars who wrote their names as they sounded to them.

Body scars or identifying marks also were recorded. The details were logged in an attempt to prevent the Africans from being enslaved again, which didn't always work.

Emory's researchers are including audio clips of the names as they would likely be pronounced in Africa.

"These people enslaved were not just a nebulous group of people with no place and no name," said Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, one of the researchers, who has found variations of his name, his brother's and his children's names in the database. He is originally from Ghana. "That's how lot of us view slavery. We don't have names faces to go with it ... It makes them that much more removed from us."

Eltis and his researchers acknowledge the database may not help African Americans with genealogical research because records on the Africans once they were freed from the ships are harder to find, if they exist at all.

However, the project provides another piece in a major jigsaw, and helps put together a bigger picture on slavery, Walvin said.

Before this project, Eltis and others assembled a database of 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages responsible for the flow of more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.

Together, the two databases provide some details on the horrific voyages of the Africans, including the Obamas.

The Xerxes, which carried one of the unidentified Obamas, was a 138-foot schooner that began its voyage in Havana with a crew of 44. Five guns were mounted aboard when the ship left on a slave purchasing trip to Bonny on Feb. 10, 1828.

Sailing under the Spanish flag, the ship's captain Felipe Rebel purchased 429 slaves, nearly one third of them children, before setting out on a return trip to the Americas. But on June 26, 1828, the Xerxes was intercepted and forced to dock at an unknown Cuban port. By then, 26 slaves had died.

The other unidentified Obama, 6-foot-3-inches tall, was one of 562 Africans shackled in the belly of the Midas. The vessel was a Brig, a fast, maneuverable ship with two square-rigged masts. It was equipped with eight guns.

Midas' captain J. Martinez and a crew of 53 left Cuba on an unknown date. It left Bonny with 562 slaves but was intercepted. It docked in Cuba July 8, 1829 minus 162 slaves who had died during the voyage.

Some slaves freed from seized ships were returned to Africa, but not always to their original homelands. Some were sent to Liberia or were allowed to remain free in the cities where the courts were located. Some may have been re-enslaved and some died on ships that were returning them to Africa.

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On the Net: African Origins: http://www.african-origins.org/

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Voyages: http://www.slavevoyages.org

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Suzanne Gamboa can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/APsgamboa

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Soyuz straight back into service

28 December 2011 Last updated at 14:26 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Five days after a failed launch, the Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service.

The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar.

The Soyuz lifted away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1709 GMT, ejecting the last of the six Globalstar platforms an hour and 40 minutes later.

Last Friday, a Soyuz malfunctioned soon after launching from the Plesetsk spaceport in northern Russia.

Parts were reported to have crashed back down into the Novosibirsk region of central Siberia.

Last week's Soyuz was a type 2.1b, compared with the 2.1a version used for the Globalstar mission.

The two variants share many design features but use different engines in their third segment, or stage - the part of the Soyuz said to have been responsible for the failure five days ago.

Pressing concern

Wednesday's successful outing will come as a huge relief for Globalstar.

The company is the first of the major sat-phone concerns to start upgrading its systems. The six latest satellites follow 12 others launched in July this year and October last year.

The upgrade is a pressing concern for the company because its existing constellation is failing.

Rolled out in the late 1990s, many of these original satellites have suffered suspected radiation damage to their S-band transmitter equipment, which has limited their ability to handle two-way communications.

Globalstar is pinning its future on its second-generation constellation. It plans to put in orbit at least another six satellites to boost service reach and quality.

Following Wednesday's flight, Tony Navarra, Globalstar's president of global operations, was quick to thank the Soyuz team and Arianespace, the French company that markets commercial Soyuz launches through its Starsem subsidiary.

"These satellites were flawlessly placed exactly where we needed them so that our ground stations could find them on the very first pass," he said. "It's amazing that we can find six satellites within 30 minutes of them being placed into space."

Investigations continue into the cause of last Friday's launch malfunction, which resulted in the loss of a Russian Meridian telecommunications satellite.

It was the latest in a recent run of flight failures for the national rocket industry.

In August, a Soyuz failure on an unmanned mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.

On 18 August, the week before the loss of the space station mission, a Proton rocket failed to put a communications satellite in its proper orbit.

Back on 1 February, a Rokot launcher also underperformed with a similar outcome.

And on 5 December last year, a Proton carrying three navigation spacecraft fell into the Pacific Ocean. This particular failure is widely believed to have contributed to the decision of the Russian government to replace the then space agency chief, Anatoly Perminov.

Vladimir Popovkin took over as the head of Roscosmos in April.

The rocket failures come on top of the loss of Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades. It became stuck in Earth orbit after its launch in November and will probably fall back to Earth next month.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-16349793

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Lyn Mikel Brown: #Liberate LEGO!

When LEGO announced that after four years of marketing research, the best they could come up with was a thinner, pinker version of their product, I admit, I laughed out loud. My first reaction wasn't outrage, but incredulity. A billion dollars of marketing research bought you... LEGO Barbie? After marketers have carpet-bombed a pink, appearance-obsessed consumer version of girl power via every conceivable media outlet for the past decade, did you really expect to hear little girls express a desire for anything else?

Turns out I wasn't the only one with a strong reaction to the new Ladyfig LEGOs. ("Ladyfigs"? Really, ask for your money back.) SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action Resistance Knowledge) movement girl blogger, Stephanie Cole wrote, "the part of me that still fondly remembers epic LEGO vs. Playmobile battles with my sister and cousin, is pretty royally pissed off." The new Ladyfigs, she notes, "are taller, skinnier and they have boobs. They will be marketed to girls five and up. Why?"

We know why. In truth, LEGO may very well get a larger market share if they have two separate lines of products. "Unisex" and "gender neutral" are blasphemy to a large percentage of parents, who are quick to point out that girls and boys play differently. But as neuroscientist Lise Eliot explains, "boy-girl differences are not as 'hard-wired' as many parents today, imbued with the Mars/Venus philosophy, believe." The human brain is "fantastically plastic" and the best thing we can do for our children is to give them a full range of opportunities and experiences, especially in the early years. We don't know at five how little Tierra's or Tommy's passions and talents will surface, so why pay good money to limit their options to the pink and blue aisles of toy stores?

SPARKTeam blogger, Bailey, promoting Stephanie's post on Twitter, soon began an exchange with LEGO: "They thanked me...and respectfully disagreed, stating that four years of research had told them," in so many words, "that the mini-skirt-wearing, hot-tub-bathing, beauty-shop-running LEGO ladies are what girls want now." As if Bailey didn't know the difference between market research, the goal of which is to figure out the best way to target and sell to children, and unbiased scientific research, the goal of which is to know what's good or bad for developing children. Of course, the unbiased research finds that the path LEGO has chosen, narrowing girls' options to a stereotypical version of femininity, is bad for girls.

LEGO, of course, already has a perfect product for girls. It's called LEGO, and all they need to do is invite girls to play. That's actually pretty easy. Add more female characters to the existing products and include girls in the existing marketing campaigns. The brilliance of LEGO is the opportunity for creative play and all young children will grab that opportunity if it's offered with enthusiasm. The problem, as Stephanie explains, is that marketers and ad execs insist that girls are not interested in their products unless they're pink and cute, even though they've already stacked the deck. "Who populates commercials for LEGOs?" Stephanie asks? "Boys! Where in the toy store can you find them? 'The boy's aisle.' So no wonder girls won't buy your products!"

Once upon a time LEGO also had a wonderful marketing strategy directed at girls. A 1981 LEGO ad featured a little girl proudly showing off her multi-colored LEGO creation, with the caption "What it is is beautiful." When SPARK partner organization, PBG (Powered By Girl), posted on LEGO's Facebook page a challenge to "bring back beautiful," within hours hundreds of posts from parents flooded LEGO's page, the challenge popped up on Twitter as #Liberatelego, and over 1500 signed PBG/SPARK's Change.org petition.

How is it that four years of research and a billion dollars didn't buy LEGO a little reconnaissance into the desires of parents and girls sick and tired of pinkified toys that invite girls to dream of shopping malls, beauty salons, and hot tubs? Wouldn't that kind of money buy a fresh, bold vision, one that solidifies the brand? Did anyone consider saving a few bucks and going retro? LEGO once invited girls to play in a way that didn't appeal to this lowest common denominator version of girlhood, but gave them credit for being creative, smart, and imaginative. This has always been LEGO's brilliance. It's why they've been parents' go-to toy. It's not too late to keep it real, LEGO. Bring back beautiful and give the rest of us a reason to buy.

Oh, and you can have that bit of advice for free.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyn-mikel-brown/legos-for-girls_b_1172876.html

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Once a year, 'Christmas' beats 'porn' ... on Google

By Rosa Golijan

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At the end of each of the last seven years, "Christmas" has won over "porn" for a brief moment. Or at least that's the impression a chart breaking down search trends on Google gives us.

The Atlantic's?Alexis Madrigal came across the chart while researching the strange world of Christmas websites. It's a simple data visualization produced by Google Trends???a clever tool which?shows how often topics have been searched on Google over time ? but it's quite amusing.

What it tells us is that searches for "Christmas" only peak higher than searches for "porn" once each year?? during the holiday season, of course. As Madrigal points out, it also suggests that, quite possibly, interest in Christmas may fall short of interest in porn this year.

But we'll have to wait till New Year's Day to see if that turns out to be true. I, for one, have hope in the holiday spirit triumphing over carnal desires?? even if only for a brief moment.

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Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) comes to GSM / UMTS Nexus S starting today

You heard right -- Google itself has just affirmed on its own social networking branch that Android 4.0 will begin to hit GSM / UMTS (sorry, Sprint users!) Nexus S devices over the coming month, with the luckiest few to get it today. Outside of that, there's no more specific time table to be had, but if you're able to suck it down in the coming hours, definitely sound off on the improvements in comments below.

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Iraq War Was Not Worth the Cost; Don't Repeat the Error (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | The war in Iraq is officially over. Our troops are coming home in vast numbers. The conflict lasted almost nine years and carried tremendous cost. The important question to ask is, "Was it worth it?"

The casualty figures run at 4,487 dead and 32,226 wounded, according to a New York Times report. Assuming those numbers are accurate, it approaches 40,000 combined dead and wounded from the war, and that's just the Americans. CNN reported more than 655,000 Iraqis had been killed in the war -- and that was just by 2006. With hundreds and thousands of dead and wounded there should be some kind of accomplishment, some favorable outcome. But there really isn't.

For starters, none of those dead people is coming back just because the war's over. The wounded that lost limbs and the veterans suffering from PTSD aren't going to magically be cured of their medical issues.

A MarketWatch report estimates the total cost of the war to be $4 trillion dollars of debt. That's trillion with a T. MarketWatch believes it may take 50 years to pay that down.

We killed Saddam Hussein, an awful dictator, but was that worth the cost? No. On top of the cost in human lives and national debt, the government is still not stable in Iraq. We never found a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. We thwarted no planned invasion of American soil.

What we have done is angered most of the Middle Eastern and Muslim worlds. That doesn't seem like an outcome that increases the safety of the American people.

Now there are rumblings of a new war with Iran. A PressTV report describes how Richard Perle, one of the neoconservatives who beat the war drum regarding Iraq, is now repeating the story about Iran: "I am willing to accuse Iran of building nuclear weapons," he says in the report. "I do not think there is any question about it."

That's essentially the same speech we heard about WMDs that led us into most of a decade of war with Iraq.

I urge the American people, Congress, and the president to beware launching another war over the same faulty logic that led us into Iraq. Our nation is war-weary and our economy may not survive it.

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Italy raises $3.95 billion but rates up again (AP)

ROME ? Italy has had to pay euro-era record high borrowing rates to get investors to lend it euro3 billion ($3.95 billion) over five years.

Wednesday's auction from the Bank of Italy show that the debt-riddled country paid an average yield of 6.47 percent.

The yield was up 0.17 percentage point from last time Italy looked to raise money over five-years and was the highest rate since 1997. The euro came into existence in 1999.

Italy has seen its borrowing costs rise markedly over the past few months as investors worry over its massive debts, which total around euro1.9 trillion ($2.5 trillion), or around 120 percent of its GDP. It is considered too big to bail out by its partners in the 17-country eurozone.

The 5-year bond sale was the last of the year.

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The View from the New World Trade Center Is Simply Stunning [Image Cache]

The gorgeous new One World Trade Center (formerly known as the Freedom Tower) is still under construction but it's looking more and more gorgeous everyday. What's more gorgeous: the view of New York City when you're on top of the new giant skyscraper. Wow. More »

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State revenues inching up (Offthekuff)

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