It\u27s Never One-Sided

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Every time Gordon exits that dingy little pornography theater, he extinguishes his scorpion-red cigarette with the butt of his left palm. \u27Remember that pain the next time you want to give into sin,\u27 Gordon usually mumbles in an effort to reproach his spontaneous and fleeting immorality. interestingly he feels no guilt when he enters it, but instead relishes in anticipation of the flesh-indulging sin screen. It\u27s like being back in the tenth grade all over again when Gordon and Tommy Baker would sneak into the high school basement to peer through a hole the size of a pen tip, partially blocked by a soap tray, into the girl\u27s shower; the only difference being that Tommy and Gordon never saw but a few callused hammer toes and, if they really put their heads to the dusty floor bottom, a couple of bruised knees

Comparing the Risk Attitudes of U.S. and German Farmers

Risk and Uncertainty,

Shooting the Shit

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. I know I could have her any time that I want and I know that she wants me even more. Don\u27t mistake my certainty for over-confidence or a cocky sort of attitude \u27cause I ain\u27t about all that. Fact is, I can tell just by looking at a girl\u27s eyes whether she want to bed me or not. Anyway, as if I needed to explain myself to you in the first place. You should be so lucky that I tell you anything at all. I mean, this is my life that you\u27re reading about isn\u27t it? I never really could figure out why people sit down with their pen and paper thinking that their words mean something. \u27Cause as soon as idiot knuckle heads like you get a hold of the stuff it\u27s as worthless as Christianity in Ethiopia everyone anticipates this great exchange, when all it ever amounts to is all take and no give. But like I was saying, this girl needs me real bad, right? And she\u27s been sending the eye through this here crowded room all night long. You know, one of those sorry-ass stuffy inner-city houses that have College-Dormers-Living-Off-Campus-For-The-Semester\u27\u27 written all over them. And, as if the requisite dart board and too-cheesy-for-me portable bar with neon lights isn\u27t bad enough they\u27ve seen to it to invite every beer-suckin, titty-twistin, exam-flunking dork on campus. And so I\u27m wondering (don\u27t bother me, okay): Self, would you bother moving off campus and endure extra commutes just so that you could not-quite-afford to drag everyone else off of campus to come to your house? But my self can\u27t answer that question right now because the girl with the moist panties is staring me in the eye again. Well, like I said, she wants my sex something fierce. I almost never have to ask for it. Actually, I don\u27t ever have to. Only sometimes I do it to humor the other person. Can you believe it? She\u27s actually coming over here to me right now. I hate to say it, but I told you ... wait a minute, I don\u27t have to say it because you\u27ve probably read it somewhere before. Anyway I got to go right now to take care of business if you know what I mean, but I\u27ll be back right away

Skeletal Rigidity of Phylogenetic Trees

Motivated by geometric origami and the straight skeleton construction, we outline a map between spaces of phylogenetic trees and spaces of planar polygons. The limitations of this map is studied through explicit examples, culminating in proving a structural rigidity result.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure

Optical characterization of LDEF contaminant film

Dark brown molecular film deposits were found at numerous locations on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and have been documented in great detail by several investigators. The exact deposition mechanism for these deposits is as yet unknown, although direct and scattered atomic oxygen, and solar radiation interacting with materials outgassing products have all been implicated in the formation process. Specimens of the brown molecular film were taken from below the flange of the experimental tray located at position D10 on the LDEF. The tray was one of two, comprising the same experiment, the other being located on the wake facing side of the LDEF satellite at position B4. Having access to both trays, we were able to directly compare the effect that orientation with respect to the atomic oxygen flux vector had on the formation of the brown molecular film deposits. The film is thickest on surfaces facing toward the exterior, i.e. the tray corner, as can be seen by comparing the lee and wake aspects of the rivets. The patterns appear to be aligned not with the velocity vector but with the corner of the tray suggesting that flux to the surface is due to scattered atomic oxygen rather than direct ram impingement. The role of scattered flux is further supported by more faint plume patterns on the sides of the tray. The angle of these plumes is strongly aligned with the ram direction but the outline of the deposit implies that incident atoms are scattered by collisions with the edges of the opening resulting in a directed, but diffuse, flux of atomic oxygen to the surface. Spectral reflectance measurements in the 2 to 10 micron (4000 to 1000 wavenumbers) spectral range are presented for the film in the 'as deposited' condition and for the free standing film. The material was analyzed by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) microspectroscopy using gold as the reference standard. The 'as deposited' specimen was on an aluminum rivet taken from beneath the tray flange while the free film was obtained by chipping some of the material from the rivet. The transmission spectrum over the 2 to 10 micron range for the free film is presented. This spectrum appears to be essentially the same as that presented by Crutcher et.al. for films formed at vent sites which faced into the ram direction and suggested to originate from urethanes and silicones used on the LDEF. Banks et. al. state that silicones, when exposed to atomic oxygen, release polymeric scission fragments which deposit on surfaces and form a glassy, dark contaminant layer upon further atomic oxygen exposure and solar irradiation