The MAiZE: Brett Herbst Creates Incredibly Elaborate Corn Mazes ...

Spotted over at Wired Design, Brett Herbst might just be the King of Corn. He made his first corn maze in 1996, and since then he?s created over 2,000 spectacularly elaborate labyrinths as the founder of the company MAiZE. Using computer software, GPS technology, and a heck of a lot of imagination, Herbst has reinvented the traditional, autumn pastime into a work of art. As the one-time holder of the Guinness World Record for largest corn maize and the mastermind behind hundreds of sites across the country, Herbst has proven that he is head and shoulders above the rest of his field.

As a Master of Maize, Brett Herbst puts an incredible amount of thought into each of his amazing pieces. Beginning with GPS coordinates and CorelDRAW design software, he marks out fields on a grid system that ranges in size from anywhere between 8-60 acres. Once marked out with flags, he spray-paints dots on the ground to indicate where the cuts in the corn crop should be made. Herbst?s crew then carves out the pathways with rototillers and riding lawn mowers. As if gigantic vegetable portraits of President Obama or Star Wars scenes were not enough to impress, Herbst also features words in the overall design of his mazes. He sometimes even uses ?reverse cuts? in which the cornstalks themselves form blocked letters, creating positive space in the overall image.

While the designs look complicated, Herbst makes sure that they are simple enough to navigate. ?You don?t want people to be lost for three hours.? he told Wired Magazine. Mazes sometimes incorporate bridges to lead visitors in the right direction, although they may guide patrons back to the entrance for another go-round. In some of the more difficult layouts, the correct pathway could appear as an unassuming trail next to larger thoroughfares, and dead ends transport wanderers across the field. QR codes attached to posts can be scanned with a smartphone to offer clues on how to solve the maize.

To find one of Herbst?s maize mazes near you, visit his website to view a work in your state.

+ The MAiZE

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'Tattoo Nightmares': Erika Got Inked By A Guy On Drugs She Met In ...

Getting a tattoo is a big decision because of its permanence. One of the scariest things about getting one can be making sure the artist knows what they're doing. As many beautiful and impressive works of tattoo art there are out there, there are many, many disasters as well. They just aren't seen as often because their owners don't show them. "Tattoo Nightmares" offers those people a way to cover the tattoo up by making it right.

Erika brought in a tattoo that she regretted even while it was being put on. She envisioned an image of the Los Angeles skyline, but what she got was an almost unrecognizable mess that looked like it had been drawn by a child. Erika admitted she'd agreed to get tatted on a whim by a guy she met at the liquor store.

As he was working, she realized his pupils were enormous. He was inking her while on drugs. "I knew I just made the biggest mistake of my life," she lamented.

Big Gus worked on her cover-up for several hours, but in the end she had that LA skyline she'd envisioned. Erika was beyond thrilled, calling his work "amazing."

"Tattoo Nightmares" tries to help people "turn their disasterpieces into masterpieces every" Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET on Spike.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

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How society should behave and how a race should react (Forum - Nus

The Straits Times

12 October 2012

There are two pertinent points related to the episode involving sacked NTUC executive Amy Cheong?s racially negative remarks about Malays (?Firing exec was difficult but necessary: NTUC chief?; Wednesday).

First, many Singaporeans have yet to fully internalise the meaning of a multicultural society.

While many have little difficulty in declaring?support?for the more valuable credo of multiculturalism, some have failed to distinguish it from multiracialism.

Ms Cheong?s vitriol against the Malays? peculiar wedding celebration suggests that she is in this wrong category; she does not understand what it means to live in a multicultural society.

The difference between multiracialism and multiculturalism is more than nuanced.

While multiracialism regards differences and peculiarities in a plural society as negative liabilities in nation-building, multiculturalism views such a heterogeneity as an asset that should be tolerated, if not accommodated.

So, if we wish to buttress our commitment towards multiculturalism, building an inclusive society whereby ethno-religious differences are welcomed, not ridiculed, is the way to go.

Second, because we have committed to live by this pluralistic and diverse multicultural society, extremism of any form and by anyone should be disallowed.

It is here that while Malays/Muslims have all the right to be angry and have acted so, they too, like all others, must accept that a multicultural society has no place for excessive reactions, and put this into practice, however painful it is for them to swallow.

Thus far, their responses have been measured and reasonable ? and this is to be commended.

This episode should also tell us that not only do race and religious issues remain sensitive in common spaces, more must be done by all stakeholders to foster a multicultural society.

This is the only solution to ensure the continuing stability and prosperity of our young nation.

The continuing concerns by Singaporeans about immigration and population policies make it even more important for us to?exercise greater care and understanding when dealing with these issues.

A/P Hussin Mutalib
Department of Political Science

Source: http://blog.nus.edu.sg/fassnews/2012/10/15/how-society-should-behave-and-how-a-race-should-react-forum-page-a37/

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Sally Ride's Death 'Fits a Consistent Pattern Suggesting That ...

When Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died of pancreatic cancer in July, her obituary revealed that she was a lesbian who had been in a committed relationship for the last 27 years.

This revelation prompted the anti-gay "scientists" over at the Family Research Institute to wonder if Ride's sexual orientation may have played in role in her death:

Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut, died this year at 61 of pancreatic cancer. Most women live until their 80s. Something strange afoot?

Ride was married to a fellow astronaut from 1982 to 1987. But it was just revealed she had a ?long time lesbian relationship? of 27 years. Do the math: her 27 year relationship with a professor of school psychology (and co-founder of Sally Ride?s company) means that she got into that relationship in 1985, smack in the middle of her marriage. It would appear that her childhood friend broke up her marriage.

And Sally may have paid with some of her lifespan. Our latest research into recent homosexual obituaries from San Francisco indicates that lesbians are dying on average around 60ish. Ride fits the pattern of lesbian deaths, but not that of married women?s deaths, which usually extend into the early-to-mid 80s.

Is this proof that homosexual activity leads to an early death? No, of course not. Had she stayed married, Sally Ride might have died at the same age and of the same malady. But, on average, her death fits a consistent pattern suggesting that homosexuality is associated with an early demise.?

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Hundreds attend contentious forum on San Onofre's future

The troubles at the San Onofre nuclear power plant brought out hundreds of people Tuesday night for a forum held by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Plant workers and anti-nuclear activists formed warring cheering sections in a ballroom at the St. Regis Monarch Beach hotel in Dana Point as a panel of regulators, ratepayer advocates and residents of nearby communities fielded questions and debated the merits of restarting one of the plant's reactors.

San Onofre, which once supplied power to about 1.4 million homes in Southern California, has been out of commission since Jan. 31, when a steam generator tube carrying radioactive water sprang a leak, releasing a minuscule amount of radioactive steam.

The leak prompted the shutdown of the plant and kicked off months of investigations by plant operator Southern California Edison, steam generator manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the NRC. The investigations found that hundreds of tubes in the newly replaced steam generators were showing a highly unusual type of wear caused by rubbing against adjacent tubes, and many more showed a more common type of wear due to rubbing against support structures.

Last week, Edison submitted a proposal to the NRC to restart the plant's Unit 2 reactor ? which showed less wear, Edison said, because of slight differences in the fabrication of support structures. Edison wants to run Unit 2 at 70% power for five months to see if operating at the lower level would alleviate the overly-high-velocity steam flow that caused the tubes to vibrate and knock against each other.

The more heavily damaged Unit 3 will remain offline indefinitely.

NRC officials said that reviewing the proposal will take months while the agency's staff completes an "independent technical analysis."

Some panelists and attendees at Tuesday night's meeting pushed the NRC to hold a courtroom-like evidentiary hearing before making a decision on the restart. Environmental group Friends of the Earth has filed a petition calling for such a process. No decision on the plant's fate was to be made during the hearing.

Panelist Donald Mosier, a professor at Scripps Research Institute and a Del Mar City Council member, said of Edison's restart plan: "That seems to me a dangerous experiment to perform for all of us who live close to San Onofre when you already have the precedent that one of the identically designed steam generators has failed."

Others expressed confidence in Edison's analysis and called for a swift review and restart of the reactor.

"We need to get this power plant back online as quickly as we can," said panelist Richard McPherson, a Laguna Niguel resident who said he had worked in the nuclear industry since 1963. "It's a technical problem, the people involved know how to fix it. We need to get on with fixing it and get our electricity back."

Proponents and opponents of restarting the plant have been jockeying to persuade the NRC and the public of their respective positions. Nuclear watchdog groups and unions representing plant workers both rallied their unions to attend the meeting. Edison shuttled employees to and from the event.

At some points, the meeting became chaotic.

Audience members yelled "Shut up!" while others cheered as one women asked: "Is there a safe level of radiation?" When a union representative got up to speak on behalf of employees, crowd members shouted "What's your question?!"

Elmo Collins, NRC regional administrator, promised a thorough review and more public meetings before a decision is made on the restart plan. But he said it would be up to the NRC to decide whether to hold a full evidentiary hearing process.

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It?s inevitable: When, why, and how Facebook will take on Google in search

Facebook and Google have been on a collision course for years, and their competitiveness has only increased with the release of Google+ just 14 months ago. As the service becomes more and more popular, one has to wonder how Facebook feels about the search giant encroaching on its turf. More importantly, one also has to wonder if Facebook has plans to hit Google back where it hurts.

Yet we already know that Facebook is going to be doing just that. In fact, the social networking giant has already started. Three months ago, Facebook updated the grey text on its search bar from just the word ?Search? to ?Search for people, places and things.?

Two months ago, Facebook added sponsored ads to its search results. While this is by no means as effective as sponsored results on Google, it?s certainly a start. Companies now have yet another way they can spend their ad dollars on Facebook.

This past week, Facebook added searches to its Activity Log. It?s the only type of activity in there that is being added before it can even be shared. Facebook is all about adding social layers to everything on the Internet, and the move suggests the social networking giant may one day let you share your searches with your friends.

Furthermore, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer denying the company?s interest in search. At TechCrunch?s Disrupt conference, he was asked about many things, and search was one that he didn?t make an effort to deflect. Here?s my transcription of his answer regarding search:

You know, search is interesting. We do on the order of a billion queries a day already, and we?re basically not even trying. Right, so I mean today the vast majority of search is people trying to find people but there are also a meaningful portion of queries trying to find Pages, Brand Pages, other Business Pages, and apps. There?s a bunch of it that actually does kinda link to commercial behavior. I think there is a big opportunity there and at some point we just need to just go do that.

But you know search is interesting. It?s going in this interesting direction. The legacy around search is you get these search engines like Google and Bing and what Yahoo was doing before. You basically type in keywords and the search engine runs some magic to tell you what it thinks the answer is that matches your keyword. But I think search engines are really evolving towards giving you a set of answers. It?s not just like ?here, type in something and show me some relevant stuff.? It?s ?I have a specific question, answer this question for me.?

When you think about it from that perspective, Facebook is pretty uniquely positioned to answer a lot of the questions people have. What sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York in the past six months and Liked? Which of my friends, or friends of friends, work at a company that I?m interested in working at because I want to talk to them about what it?s going to be like to work there.

These are queries that you could potentially do at Facebook if we built out this system that you just couldn?t do anywhere else. And at some point we?ll do it. I do think that?s one kinda obvious thing that would be interesting for us to do in the future if we got to a state where we were excited about it.

As you can see, Zuckerberg says multiple times that search is on his bucket list. He covers the who, the what, and of course the where. Now let?s look at the when, the why, and the how.

When?

I doubt we?ll see anything major show up this year. In fact, I wouldn?t be surprised if there?s no huge search launch next year either.

Zuckerberg is in for the long-haul, and while search is definitely something he?s interested in, I think there are many other areas he wants to tackle first. Getting multiple solid revenue streams down is of course important, but as he has said many times, mobile is his number one priority. That?s why we?re seeing the new schedule for updating apps.

Search is definitely coming. Yet there?s no specific answer to the when question, and here?s why (and how).

Why?

It?s the future. Aside from the ?If Google is going to attack us in social, then we?ll attack it in search? argument, I have to agree with Zuckerberg in that social search is where search is headed.

Of course I doubt search engines will ever be replaced by social networks, but the latter will certainly eat into the former. As Zuckerberg muses, the whole point of search engines is to give you answers, and there are many questions that your friends can respond to better than an algorithm.

Therefore, if you can get an algorithm to answer questions based on what your friends say, share, and Like, then you?ll create something worthwhile. If you can create something worthwhile, chances are there?s a way to monetize it.

How?

I think Facebook will be tackling search in many, many stages. There will be days when there are larger announcements than others, but so far it looks like the company will be adding features as they see fit, testing them to see how they?re used, tweaking them accordingly, possibly killing those that don?t work, and then repeating the cycle with the next search feature. This is just how Facebook operates, and I don?t think it will be changing that for search.

There won?t ever be a FacebookSearch.com that you?ll be required to go to. There will just be more and more search functionality added to Facebook.com, as well as features that have nothing to do with search, but that result in you no longer having to search for something.

If I can get in touch with a company via Facebook, then why would I ever need to Google their website? If I can learn everything that I need to know about Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, then why would I bother to Google him? If I can find a great restaurant to eat at, based on my Facebook friend recommendations, then why would I bother to Google for one?

Image Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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Suarez helps Liverpool get 1st win of season

Associated Press Sports

updated 12:18 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2012

NORWICH, England (AP) -Luis Suarez scored a hat trick Saturday as Liverpool earned its first win of the Premier League season with a 5-2 drubbing at Norwich to ease some of the pressure on new manager Brendan Rodgers.

Suarez gave Liverpool a perfect start by sending a shot through the legs of goalkeeper John Ruddy in the second minute, and then added his second in the 38th. Midfielder Nuri Sahin made it 3-0 shortly after the break and Suarez then completed his hat trick in the 57th as Liverpool finally managed to convert its advantage in possession into goals.

Steve Morison pulled one back for the hosts four minutes later, but Steven Gerrard added the fifth for Liverpool in the 68th.

Grant Holt scored another consolation goal for Norwich in the 87th.

Liverpool had just two points from five games going into this weekend but climbed out of the relegation zone with the victory.

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Healthy Optimism and A Positive Attitude - The Self Improvement Blog

By Dr. Robert Henry Schwenk -

Healthy Optimism Will Get You Far

If you want to fly unaided, using only your hands and arms, no amount of positive thinking will allow you to do that flying. As a matter of fact, of course, if you stand on the top corner of a high building and spread your arms and hands and expect to fly when you jump off that building you will kill yourself.

On the other hand, healthy optimism will get you farther down the road of life than pessimism. Health and wealth are just two of the possibilities that may come your way when you hold a consistently positive attitude.

Studies have shown that people who are consistently affirmative in their attitude toward everything and everybody enjoy better health than those who do not. A whole craze has grown up around casting positive vibrations upon the Universe, expecting positive return on thoughts and feelings from the Universe.

Neither Too Hot Nor Too Cold

Healthy optimism, in my opinion, is somewhere between fatalistic pessimism and irresponsible optimism, sometimes called Pollyanna-ism. Fatalistic pessimism might be defined as believing that everything, all the time, will turn out poorly or badly. Irresponsible optimism might be defined as the attitude that everything all the time will turn out well or good. That one can fly unaided would be irresponsible optimism; that one can never fly in any way might be fatalistic pessimism.

Healthy optimism has got to be somewhere in between.

You Can Fly

Of course, you can fly ? in a plane or a giant kite or in the newer para-suits where you look like a flying squirrel. The person who set out to learn to fly, by holding a positive attitude, kept working and inventing until human flight become possible. Enter the Wright brothers and their flying machine.

So positive thought long held will produce results. Those results can be, literally, in any walk of life, through any occupation or avocation. Your life can be improved through healthy optimism.

How Do I Get One?

Simply said, you develop a positive attitude by developing a positive attitude. Yes, I know the former sentence sounds redundant. But is it really redundant? If your attitude is negative at this time, you?ve got to turn things around by turning your mental posture in a different direction.

You?ve got to see the virtuous and benevolent in everything and everybody. Yes, I know that is not easy in every case. Sometimes it is downright difficult when it comes to some people or some disasters.

Your atrocious boss may try to browbeat you into submission with his impossible demands and deadlines. The tornado that destroyed your home and took all your possessions is not easy to see as presenting opportunities to find the good in it.

A Foundation Is Necessary

To develop and keep healthy optimism you need a foundation upon which to build. You need a place where you may position your confidence that things will turn out, if not for the best, than better than first might meet the eye.

You find such a foundation in the meaning of life, which, I believe, is to be happy. You find that happiness by developing a genuine relationship with The All There Is. You develop that relationship by being in constant touch with The All There Is through such activities as the many forms of meditation.

In that relationship you will find total and complete acceptance from The All There Is. In that absolute acceptance you will find happiness that weathers every and all conditions. There is no greater feeling of well-being than to be perfectly accepted just as you are right now. A supreme feeling of well-being is happiness. Said another way, happiness is a feeling of constant well-being.

Develop That Base

Use one of the forms of meditation and begin today to develop healthy optimism that your life be positive. You can turn your life around in this moment by deciding you will develop the foundation and the relationship that leads to the ability to maintain positivity.

Get to it.

I invite you to be Happier In Five Minutes http://www.createspace.com/3724772 and for the Rest of Your Life This book will give a great start on being happy. Buy it now.

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