Oleg Zabluda's blog: November 21, 2011

Oleg Zabluda's blog

Monday, November 21, 2011

"Complete the sentences" multiple choice game.
"Complete the sentences" multiple choice game. Answers are here http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJuZLiY-UkLSIJWIQgfQ1Ues_gNg?docId=1e6b74ad5cb2493a8aba7322c3ecbc96 (no peeking)

Headline:

1. "Police: Fake doc injected fake cement in woman's rear"
2. "Police: Real doc injected fake cement in woman's rear"
3. "Police: Fake doc injected real cement in woman's rear"
4. "Police: Real doc injected real cement in woman's rear"
MIAMI (AP) -- A woman who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a curvier body. Police say what she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and _____

1. concrete sealant
2. roof sealant
3. dental sealant
4. rectal sealant
5. asphalt sealant
6. flat-tire sealant
7. engine sealant
8. paint

The suspect - who police say was born a ______

1. man
2. woman
3. goat
4. swarm of bees
5. all of the above

and identifies as a ______

1. man
2. woman
3. goat
4. swarm of bees
5. all of the above

apparently performed the surgery on ______

1. himself
2. herself
3. itself
4. themselves
5. all of the above

and investigators say ______

1. he
2. she
3. it
4. they
5. all of the above

may have victimized others. Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested Friday after a year on the lam and has been charged with ____

1. violating building code
2. violating plumbing code
3. violating electric code
4. violating vehicle emission code
5. violating ADA code
6. violating Morse code
7. practicing medicine without a license

with serious bodily injury. Police photos show Morris as a small-framed woman with __

1. bee-stung pouty lips,
2. goat-bitten concave butt

arched eyebrows, oversized hoop earrings - and a ______

1. large backside
2. small backside

Morris injected some type of __

1. lube
2. tube
3. cube
4. tetrahedron

in several sites around her bottom, pumping it full of a toxic concoction. Morris __

1. reassured
2. mocked
3. egged on
4. challenged on a dare

the woman when the pain became too intense, police said. Bamford said Morris told the woman, ____

1. "Oh don't worry, you'll be fine. We just keep injecting you with the stuff and it all works itself out."
2. "Be afraid, be very afraid"
3. "Two bee oar knot too Bey-once"
4. "Bamford, I am your father/mother/queen/all of the above"
5. All of the above and more

Her mother eventually took her to a hospital on Florida's west coast, where alarmed doctors pressed her for information. They alerted the _______

1. DOT
2. Architectural Review Commission
3. Department of Homeland Security
4. Department of Health
5. FDA
6. FCC
7. USDA (Office of Beekeeping)
8. Nobel prize in medicine committee
9. Nobel prize in chemistry committee
10. Freemasons
11. All of the above

"The doctors knew no licensed

1. mason
2. plumber
3. physician
4. beekeeper
5. HAM radio operator
6. architect
7. engineer
8. electrician
9. geometer
10. None of the above

in his right mind would ever do this," Bamford said. The victim is still recovering from the surgery and says it's too painful to work. She also has racked up numerous ___

1. leaves
2. servers
3. electrical bills
4. medical bills
5. FCC fines
6. nobel prizes

Authorities believe there are other victims who may be too embarrassed to come forward. "(Morris) was readily introduced to our victim as someone who could help improve her shape, so we believe (she's) done this to other people," Bamford said.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJuZLiY-UkLSIJWIQgfQ1Ues_gNg?docId=1e6b74ad5cb2493a8aba7322c3ecbc96

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Southernmost beach diet: lose weight on eating all the chocolate you can carry and drag
Southernmost beach diet: lose weight on eating all the chocolate you can carry and drag

Breakfast: oats with sugar, powdered milk and a generous knob of butter
Lunch: 500g of salted peanuts, chip sticks, peanut butter cups, coconut chocolate bars, white chocolate maltesers, marzipan, jelly sweets, toblerone, twix and milk chocolate
Dinner: carbohydrate and protein drinks, coffee, hot chocolate drink,

all while 1000 mi relaxing solo Antarctica traverse. Her biggest risk is breaking a tooth on frozen solid chocolate.
http://www.kasperskyonetransantarcticexpedition.com/

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"Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?" By Andrew Chaikin, Air & Space magazine, January 2012
"Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?" By Andrew Chaikin, Air & Space magazine, January 2012

http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?urlID=464931307&action=cpt&partnerID=285367

"""
Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million, which works out to less than $2,500 per pound to orbit. That’s significantly less than what other U.S. launch companies typically charge, and even the manufacturer of China’s low-cost Long March rocket (which the U.S. has banned importing) says it cannot beat SpaceX’s pricing. By 2014, the company’s next rocket, the Falcon Heavy, aims to lower the cost to $1,000 per pound. And Musk insists that’s just the beginning.

To cut the cost of getting to orbit to just $100 per pound, Musk says, “you need to be able to launch multiple times a day, just like an airplane. And it’s got to be complete, so you can’t be throwing away a million dollars of expendable hardware every flight either.” Musk has targeted reusability from the start. Merlin engines, for example, are designed to fly tens of missions—provided you can get them back. [...] A test program called Grasshopper is already in the works at SpaceX’s Texas facility. No one can predict how many years it might take to achieve full and rapid reusability, but Musk says, “it’s absolutely crucial. It’s fundamental. I would consider SpaceX to have failed if we do not succeed in that.”

The insistence on reusability “drives the engineers insane,” says Vozoff. “We could’ve had Falcon 1 in orbit two years earlier than we did if Elon had just given up on first stage reusability. The qualification for the Merlin engine was far outside of what was necessary, unless you plan to recover it and reuse it. And so the engineers are frustrated because this isn’t the quickest means to the end. But Elon has this bigger picture in mind. And he forces them to do what’s hard. And I admire that about him.”"""

For comparision, the cheapest Russian launcher - Dnepr is $1000-$1300/lb

References:
Expendable Launch Vehicles (some have prices)
http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/elvs.shtml

"The myth of $10,000 per pound"
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=301
http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Visionary-Launchers-Employees.html

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Wozniak received a Galaxy Nexus and an Ice Cream Sandwich T-shirt, and he's ready to defend them with a short right...
Wozniak received a Galaxy Nexus and an Ice Cream Sandwich T-shirt, and he's ready to defend them with a short right hook to the chin if need be.

http://www.androidcentral.com/woz-gets-his-galaxy-nexus-and-t-shirt-bit-early-google
https://plus.google.com/108761828584265913206/posts/ikwYSjMsMmp

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