...NEW YORK: What if the touchscreen of your smartphone or tablet could touch you back? It does happen, researchers report. In a study of people drawing their fingers over a flat surface that has two "virtual bumps", the team from Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon University found that, under certain circumstances, the subjects feel only one bump when there really are two. Forces felt by the fingers as they travel along a flat surface can lead to the illusion that the surface actually contains bumps. This so-called "virtual bump illusion" is well known in the haptics field. Touch is so important in our real world, but it is neglected in the digital world. "We want to create something that will make touch a reality for people interacting with their screens, and this work is a step in that direction," said J Edward Colgate, an expert in touch-based (haptic) systems from Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. The team's experiment presented two "virtual bumps" to subjects participating in the study. When bump and finger spacing were identical, subjects reported feeling two bumps as one. In this case, the brain thinks it is too coincidental that there should be two bumps at the same time so it registers the bumps as one. The new model could one day lead to flat-screen displays featuring active touch-back technology such as making your touchscreen's keyboard actually feel like a keyboard. Tactile information also could benefit...
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...Coming of age is a life-long process all humans inevitably go through. This process of maturity can often be examined from fictional characters, such as Scout and Jem from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsb by Scott Fitzgerald. Each of these characters encounters different processes of coming of age. When these characters process of maturation and coming of age are compared, the most relevant coming of age best exhibited by Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, following with Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird and Mr. Gatsby from The Great Gatsby; however, differences in coming of age are apparent in the different time periods of each novel setting, practicality, and present social issues. Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the...
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...AESOP'S FABLES (84 Fables) From The PaperLess Readers Club, Houston (713) 977-9505 (BBS) Voice/Fax (713) 977-1719 1-21 22-42 The Cock and the Pearl The Frog and the Ox The Wolf and the Lamb Androcles The Dog and the Shadow The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts The Lion's Share The Hart and the Hunter The Wolf and the Crane The Serpent and the File The Man and the Serpent The Man and the Wood The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Dog and the Wolf The Fox and the Crow The Belly and the Members The Sick Lion The Hart in the Ox-Stall The Ass and the Lapdog The Fox and the Grapes The Lion and the Mouse The Horse, Hunter, and Stag The Swallow and the Other Birds The Peacock and Juno The Frogs Desiring a King The Fox and the Lion The Mountains in Labour The Lion and the Statue The Hares and the Frogs The Ant and the Grasshopper The Wolf and the Kid The Tree and the Reed The Woodman and the Serpent The Fox and the Cat The Bald Man and the Fly The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Fox and the Stork The Dog in the Manger The Fox and the Mask The Man...
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...bound to come back.” Ok Jack I trust you” said Rose. Just then Jack thought of an idea. He said “Rose, stay here I’ll be right back,” and he started swimming to dead bodies, and every time he got to a dead body he took the life jacket from them. He also took an oar that someone had abandoned. Pretty soon Jack had five life jackets and an oar and he swam back to Rose. He gave Rose the oar and said, “Okay Rose, “I have some life jackets, I’m going to put them under the door so we can both get on but I’m going to need a part of your dress.” Okay, Jack,” said Rose, and she tore off a piece of her dress and gave it to Jack. He took the dress and started to tie the life jackets together. He put them underneath the door and secured them to the handles of the door. He said, “Rose, the door should be stable. I need you to hang on to the door while I get on.” “Okay,” said Rose.” Rose grabbed the handles on both sides of the door and Jack got on. Jack started to push the door with the oar. He saw a dead man and took his life jacket. He put the life jacket on and started to push the door away from the wreckage to try to get to a boat. “Rose,” he exclaimed! “I see two boats; they are coming back!” He started to yell trying to call the boats over. Someone in the boat shouted “Survivors, on that door!” Rose had fainted, so Jack rigorously shook her to try and wake her, but it was no use. He took off his coat and put it around her. The boats finally arrived and the person in charge of the...
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...family members and friends or whether it is at work toward our Boss and other co-workers. Through a cleverly concocted story the author explains how we are either “Inside the Box” or “Outside the Box” and how to stay out of the box once we enter it. The story starts out telling us of a man named Ted who is impressed with a company called Zagrum and he would love to work for them and after multiple interviews and weeks of waiting he finally hears back and finds out that he gets the job. One of Teds first major meetings is with his soon to be boss Bud who asks him to meet him for a meeting that is seemingly so secret that nobody talks to him about it or gives any hints to what it is even about. Everyone seems to know what is going on except Ted. With much anticipation and waiting Ted is led to Buds office and waits nervously for his arrival. When Bud finally gets there he then informs Ted that “He has a problem” and while Ted wonders what that is Bud will soon enthusiastically explain the meaning of his problem and go into more specifics and detail that I’m sure Ted would care for or even expect. As Bud and Ted talk Bud is asking all sorts of seemingly strange and at times rather difficult questions which Ted doesn’t think are leading anywhere. Through the questioning Ted is caught off guard many times and much that Bud is asking and is at a lost for words and doesn’t know how to respond throws him off. Ted is forced to look back at his old work life such as employees, bosses and...
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...little pigs grew so big that their mother said to them, "You are too big to live here any longer. You must go and build houses for yourselves. But take care that the wolf does not catch you." The three little pigs set off. "We will take care that the wolf does not catch us," they said. Soon they met a man who was carrying some straw. "Please will you give me some straw?" asked the first little pig. "I want to build a house for myself." "Sure," said the man, and he gave the first little pig some straw. The first little pig built himself a house out of it. He was very pleased with his house. He said, "Now the wolf won't catch me and eat me!" The second little pig and the third little pig went on along the road. Soon they met a man who was carrying some sticks. "Please will you give me some sticks?" asked the second little pig. "I want to build a house for myself." "Sure," said the man, and he gave the second little pig some sticks. Then the second little pig built himself a house of sticks. It was stronger than the house of straw. The second little pig was very pleased with his house. He said, "Now the wolf won't catch me and eat me!" The third little pig walked along the road by himself. Soon he met a man carrying some bricks. "Please will you give me some bricks?" asked the third little pig. "I want to build a house for myself." "Sure," said the man, and he gave the third little pig some bricks. Then the third little pig built himself a house of bricks. It took him a long...
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...7-10pm. R: oh, you can still come, it’s a midnight event. Please! Pretty please! >.< L: I’ll try. Ahm, its not something illegal? Is it? R: ahm, I know my father is a syndicate but its not that illegal. Ahm, we can just call it an underground party, beside Emily and ai-chan will come, it would be boring if one of us isn’t there. L: ok, ok. You got me there. I’ll come. R: love you lially :* oh, here’s my ride <*limousine*> see you later, take care in your way home. L: sure, sure. You too, take care While Rain was a limousine as a service ride, Lially rides a taxi coz she doesn’t want to have any fancy service but her parents insist her to have one for her safety. Arriving to her mansion. Lially: I’m home mom! Is dad coming? Joan<*lially’s mom*> : your dad has some business outside the country, lets eat we have to attend the fashion show. I’m the quest of honor there and I’m planning to introduce you to my colleages. L: mom, we spoke about this. I don’t have any plans to enter your business.. >.< J: I’m just joking, I respect your decision to have a private life. btw, how was school today? L: I just want to see the new collection of your friend’s fashion house. My classmate told me that they have a nice collection. Ahm, school? The same as usual as the president of the student body, lots of meeting with the class representatives for the upcoming angel festival. J: that’s my girl. <*so proud*> hurry up and change your clothes. We’re gonna...
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...me I had a brand new toy and I wanted everybody to know it. That’s when it all started…. One day during school my mom text me that she needed to use the car because she had a couple errands to run and that I am to come straight home after class. Well, being the person that I was at the time, “hard headed, mischievous, and basically thought I was grown,” I had my own priorities I wanted to handle before going home. So immediately after class I called up one of my buddies and asked him if he wanted to go joy-riding and pick up a couple females. He replied yes and that’s all the motivation I needed to say forget what my mom said, I’m going to enjoy myself today….BECAUSE IT’S FRIDAY AND I DIDN’T HAVE TO WORK…What! So I picked my buddy up as soon as class was over. We called some females and told them we would stop by to see them once we finish with our first plans. Now comes the fun part….. Led up: Tickets and accidents During this whole ordeal, even though I was told to come straight home, I totally disobeyed my mom. She call my phone numerous times but I neglected to answer. Due to the event that transpired, have you ever heard of karma….Well as for me she became a real pain in the butt. My buddy and I stopped at a package store and grabbed some alcohol so we could have a couple drinks with the ladies. While we were there we ran into another one of my close friends who I also invited to ride along....
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...Jose Espinoza Takedown As I come off the bus, the frost on the ground glistened from the delicate light coming from the moon. This was a mental reminder that the winter was coming to an end, and also meant the wrestling season was boiling down to the end were all the sweat, pain, sacrifice, and determination was about to be rewarded in the final tournament. I enter the small town’s local high school Doniphan-Trumbull to soon be surrounded by an engulfing ever so teasing scent of scrambled eggs with toasted crisp bread with smoothly spread jelly, accompanied by ham and mash potatoes bathed in gravy. As the restless temptation to consume the delicious breakfast self-control begins to take over. The school varsity wrestlers escort me along with my teammates where all the other wrestlers were in a small gymnasium with a mat in the middle with lights beating on the ring. I anxiously wait for the referees to begin weigh-ins; I talk to my teammate about my chances at this tournament. My teammate’s inputs were all very similar some said “it all depends on how you do”, “you could get lucky” but the one remark which was from Sabien which Rallied me up on the inside was “You’re not coming out of here with more than one win”. Weigh-ins begins as my head is filled with doubt I weigh in at the 152 lbs. class. I walk to the main gym were the Lighter weights along with mine were going to be called I eat to ease the nerves. After breakfast Coach Edmo was called to a coaches...
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...field after Mickey had just gotten out of juvie. The older boy had dismissed the idea of them looking for shooting stars while spread out on a blanket. While they weren’t looking for shooting stars, they were still lying on the blanket Mickey had found in the car they had stolen. His phone buzzed, interrupting his reminiscing and out of the corner of his eye, he could see Mickey look at him with a brow raised as if asking, “you gonna check that?” Ian rolled his eyes and took his phone out of his pocket, knowing it was probably Trevor again wondering where he was. He had been ignoring his texts and calls, this time would be no different. He would deal with it later. Ian jolted up when he read the text. It wasn’t Trevor. Mickey followed soon after, his face full of concern. “What’s wrong?” “My mom died,” he answered, rereading the text again. “Fuck,” Mickey muttered under his breath. “You okay?” He asked, putting a comforting hand on Ian’s upper arm. “I have to call Fiona,” Ian said as he got up and walked a few feet away so he could get the details from his sister. After a couple of minutes, Ian returned back to his spot next to Mickey and sat in silence. Even in the dark, Mickey could tell that his eyes were filled with tears. Bringing a hand up to the redheaded boy’s hair, he softly scratched his scalp as he waited for Ian to talk. “They don’t even care,” Ian finally spoke again after what felt like hours when really it had only been ten minutes. “How fucked up is that...
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...manufacturer, I will gather all the research information of the Volvo YCC. Then, doing an anonymous questionnaire research to public including male and female car user about the enhancement stated in Volvo YCC. After that, I will gather the feedback of the public and come out with the statistic. Next, I will having few meeting with the designer expert and engineer expert in my company to discuss about the outcome of the questionnaire. The meeting is to find out which enhancement can bring most profit and less cost. Besides, we will also discuss about which enhancement is most reasonable to apply. After meeting, proposal will send to management level to apply the enhancement to improve existing car's product quality or to apply the enhancement to coming soon car product as its highlight. Last but not least, I will come out a proposal to company to come out a new product series in future that target female...
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...Prologue-Fifteen years ago Resisting the temptation to look back at their beloved home burning up in flames, a couple ran as fast as they could, away from their pursuers behind them. With tears falling uncontrollably from her eyes, the woman clutch the screaming infant in her arms tighter against her chest, all the while whispering sweet nothings into the infant's ear, trying to calm her down. While at her side, her husband kept murmuring to himself, "We will get through this. We will pay them back for what they did to us and take back what was belong to us." After running for a while, they managed to get rid of their pursuers and rest at an inn nearby. They put their belongings down and were horrified to find out their daughter was running a high fever! "Ryuuki! Kagome is burning up! Come quick!" Haruka called to her husband. "I knew it! Her power is much too strong, it is killing her! Oh....What should we do? We can't call the doctor! They'd find us!" cried Haruka, panicking for her dear child. Ryuuki gently put a hand on her shoulder and said, "There is only one thing that we can do for her now...... And we must do it fast, we only have a few days before they caught our scent" Startled, Haruka snapped her head up in realisation. Tears falls as she slowly nodded. They had to seal her powers up, turning her into a normal human. However, this means that they cannot see each other again until the time is ripe. That is the curse of having to seal someone's power up as it...
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...approached the front office, my father did not look so happy, then he said, “Look at your report card and tell me what you see. “Before I could get a word out i was grounded just like that. A few days had gone by and my weekend was dead. The night before school I called my friends to set up a meeting at lunch. It was 12:45pm that is the time for lunch. My friends and I were walking to the table that we sit at every day .They knew that something was wrong with me because I did not talk or eat my food. As lunch was about to be over I had spoken like a ghost coming out of nowhere I said,” I have something very important to tell you and if you don’t like it than we can no longer be friends.” All of them gathered around me like a pack of dogs eating food. I said, “The grades that I have now is not acceptable, so in that case I will not be going out to the movies or the mall any time soon, so I’m saying this in a nice way if you cannot support in my decisions than are friendship is over.” From that day on I realized that I had amazing friends that have my back and they will support me in...
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...a town in Persia, there lived two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Their father left them no great property; though as he had divided it equally between them, their fortune should have been equal; but it was otherwise. Cassim married a widow, who, soon after their marriage, became heiress to a large estate, and a good shop and warehouse full of rich merchandize; so that all at once he became one of the richest merchants, and lived at his ease. Ali Baba, on the other hand, who married a woman as poor as himself, lived in a very mean dwelling, and had no other means of maintaining his wife and children than his daily labour in cutting wood in a forest near the town, and bringing it upon three asses to town to sell. One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, and had just cut wood enough to load his asses, he saw at a distance a great cloud of dust, which seemed to approach towards him: he observed it very attentively, and distinguished a large body of horse coming briskly on; and though they did not fear robbers in that country, Ali Baba began to think that they might prove such, and, without considering what might become of his asses, he resolved to save himself. He climbed up a large tree, whose branches, at a little distance from the ground, divided in a circular form so close to one another that there was but little space between them. He placed himself in the middle, from whence he could see all that passed without being seen. This tree stood at the bottom of...
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...still very small, I am only about 1/4 of an inch! So many changes are happening to me! I am starting to grow hands and feet! Wow! 2nd semester: Wow! I can see! Smaller finger looking things are starting to grow on my hands and feet! This is so cool! Hey! I can move now! not very much, but wow! This has been a great month! I can remember things too now because my brain is starting to form. Wow! all my bones forming! Woah! It's dark in here! What are these thin string looking things growing on top of my new head? Well, whatever it is, it looks pretty cool! Wow, I better keep moving, I weigh 8 ounces! 3rd semester: Wow! Looks like everything is starting to come together in here! From what I can hear, it sounds like I will be coming out soon! Maybe if I kick and punch I will come out faster! Well... that didn't work, but I can't wait to come out. It has been so much fun in here! Look how strong I've gotten! Wow! I need to lose some weight if I want to fit all the clothes that I keep on hearing you talk about. I'm 8 pounds! Looks like I am ready to come out! With all this excercise i'm doing in here, I think I need a bigger place to...
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