Hardness is a popular marketing angle in the ceramic coatings market, with brands claiming their ceramic coating has a “9H” hardness (the highest level on the pencil hardness scale) in an effort to sell customers on their scratch resistance. But hard coatings are actually more scratch prone....
In the article “Cyberbullying: Is There Anything Schools Can Do?” Taylor first mentions how 15 years ago schools had to take a good look at hazing because of the increasingly innovating brutalities that children were inflicting on each other. Schools decided to put in place policies addressing...
“2020 is a massive year for gender equality,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women. “And the benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world that leaves no one behind.” She explains ho...
The Dolphins, apparently, have permitted bullying (carefully coded as "hazing") to be allowed both in the locker room and on the field - in other words, in the players' workplace, because the football field is just as much a "workplace" as your office or manufacturing floor might be. ...
Mark Duplass is BRILLIANT! I thought he was great in the first movie but he knocked this one out of the park from the opening scene to the very end. I’m officially on board with this series and yes, a third will apparently be made which makes this an actual series. I can not wait...
So when I noticed this one I wasn’t quite sure how to react. I swear the first thought that came to mind was ‘somebody’s going to hang themselves on that thing!’ Is that crazy? Probably not. More like in keeping with the times. Sad but true. I did have the presence of mind...
Peter then does something that should both inspire and shame all of us: He steps out on the water and walks towards Jesus. That is faith. That is complete trust in Jesus. I am moved and my spirit is piqued when I read that. Peter knew the sea, it was his life and livelihood. He...
We present a first attempt at the compilation of the Game Description Language (GDL) using a bottom-up strategy. GDL is transformed into a normal form in which rules contain at most two predicates. The rules are then inverted to allow forward chaining and each predicate will turn into a fun...
2. Just because the Marines do 6-7 month tours, it does not in any way make them less of a man. The whole mission of the USMC is to win battles, create a breach in the enemy lines, clear a beach head for landing craft. We are a small branch and it is not our role to stay...
Obama, you won the fucking election. Everyone despises Bush and his administration — they spent 8 years spitting on international law, good sense, and common decency.Fucking prosecute them.God damnit. [tags]george bush, barack obama, what kind of country is america, torture, what is torture...