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Local residents burning calories on a mile-long loop street built for research facilities may finally have a safer option.
Dr. Ron Cossman has reported to Starkville's Transportation Committee that a two-lane pedestrian path around Research Boulevard in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park for cyclists and those on foot would cost the City of Starkville about $30,000.
Dr. Cossman, who wrote a state grant for the Lynn Lane bike path and championed the Safe Routes to School project, called for a public hearing for tenants of the park, which consists of about 1,500 workers, to take place next month.
Members of Starkville in Motion list the Research Park on its list of 10 streets most in need of sidewalks.
Members of the Transportation Committee gave their support for what they called a volunteer effort to make the loop safer for walkers and people who use alternative modes of transportation.
"I think the need for it is there," said Joseph Fratesi, who serves on the committee. "It's being used as an exercise facility."
Committee chair Jim Gafford said that the park's four-lane road is somewhat dangerous as it is, because it has nothing to tell the pedestrians without sidewalks where to walk.
If officials approve Cossman's proposal, the path could later connect to Mississippi State University's entrance from Highway 182, he said.
The City of Starkville, however, may have to bear the cost as MSU has yet to volunteer sharing the load.
Cossman presented two options that would cut the cost in half: A lane for pedestrians only on the inside and outside of the road or letting cyclists continue sharing the road with vehicles.
When the park was built 20 years ago, developers did not see the need for sidewalks and envisioned greater density with buildings six stories high, Cossman explained.
Since then, MSU students, faculty and local residents have driven out to the park to walk, run, ride bicycles and push strollers along each side of the road, while members of the Transportation Committee worry when the first accident will occur.
Ordinance language on variances change
After yet another public debate on the need for sidewalks throughout the city, the committee agreed to change language in the city's sidewalk ordinance to provide a bit more lenience for property owners.
The current ordinance mandates sidewalks with new development and major renovations in hopes of a safer more connected city for pedestrians.
One of the proposed resolutions to the problem of high costs of building sidewalks as a result of topographical conditions was to grant variances if the cost per linear foot totals more than three times the average value per linear foot.
"I think in the spirit of compromise, we should lower that," Dr. Bethany Stich said.
The committee agreed to lower that cost variable to two times the average value.
Addressing concerns brought to the committee by Robert J. Allen about more specifically defining "development," Gafford said that the city's code of ordinance already specifies the meaning of that word for consistency's sake.
"Everything that's in the ordinance has been vetted by the city," Gafford explained. "We don't come up with new definitions."
Still, those siding with Rudy Johnson, executive director of the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District, on his argument that his proposed Senior Enrichment Center should be exempt from the ordinance contend that the committee should rescind the document and write an entirely new one.
"Seniors are not against sidewalks," said Georgia Murphy, who volunteers at the enrichment center currently housed at the GTPDD. "But, you just can't say, 'Abracadabra, let's have sidewalks everywhere,' and have that happen," she added, referring to the idea that the newly built center would have an unconnected sidewalk.
David Hoffman, vice president of Starkville in Motion, encouraged committee members to hold steady with the ordinance's objectivity despite tests from private interests.
"I understand they might threaten you by taking away their capital, but I say good riddance," he said.
Jeremy Murdock, who serves on the Planning and Zoning Commission said developers already comply with building codes and parking space requirements that are more costly altogether than sidewalk development.
Murdock also argued that regulations such as sidewalk ordinances do not repel new development and industry.
"If lack of regulations attracted development, we'd have a lot more development in the county," he said, adding that the City of Hernando enforces strict design guidelines and is one of the fastest growing cities in the state.
Cossman brought to the committee nearly 30 letters collected by members of Starkville in Motion defending the ordinance.
"It is only fair that we accommodate people without vehicles," wrote Jackie Hudson.
"We need developers to help us in getting from here to there," wrote Megan Bean.
The Transportation Committee will meet again on Dec. 9.


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Chrome OS & Chromebook - explained and detailed
You may have read about the first Google Chromebooks and their arrival. You may also have wondered why all the fuss over some fairly low spec looking laptops. Chances are that's because you're not really sure what Chrome OS is all about and, luckily, you're in precisely the right place.
To be fair to you, the responsibility for the confusion has to lie at the feet of Google itself. The company has a web browser product called Chrome, an OS called Chrome and, just so that everyone's really clear, an open source web browser project called Chromium, the latter of which, fortunately, has absolutely nothing to do with what you're going to learn about today. No, this Chromebook is all about laptops specially built to run Google's Chrome OS which is itself heavily based around the Google Chrome browser. Here's how it all works.
The idea
Home computers are, on the whole, pretty slow or certainly slower than they ought to be. The reason for that is largely that operating systems like Windows and Mac OS leave a pretty heavy footprint or at least they do once combined with all the other bits of software that install themselves on your hard drive with or without your permission. The idea behind Chrome OS and the Chromebooks is to get rid of all that. A lightweight, speedy to boot, portable experience is what Google is promising.
The Chrome Browser
Central to the way that Chrome OS operates is the Google Chrome web browser - the same as the one that you may or may not be using on your PC or Mac as we speak. All of the bits of software that you might normally use on your computer - e-mail client, office suite, video editing, etc - will not be stored and run from your machine but will instead live as web apps up in the cloud, all of which you'll access through the Chrome browser. As well as the software, the cloud will also play host to all of your data be that normal text files, images, music or whatever you happen to own.
Because none of it is stored on your machine, they won't bog its operations down and, what's more, you'll be able to access all of your data and apps on other computers elsewhere too. Rather a tidy concept but it does have its downsides as well.
With speed one of the headline draws, Google has been keen to impress, and its claims of an eight second boot time and instant resume from sleep, hibernation, unconsciousness, or whatever you like to call it when your machine is taking a break, are rather alluring. So, exactly how the hell do the Chromebooks and Chrome manage it?
Well, it's largely to do with the way the system's built with a little help from the hardware spec of the laptops too. Chrome OS has no BIOS - boot firmware who's job it is to load and start your main OS. It's the part that you see chugging through the operations in black and white before the blue/green of Windows gets going. Within all that, there are a host of other processes that Chrome completely ditches including hardware detection, separate start and load kernels and boot loaders to go with them, and all sorts of bits and pieces that no one really needs to know about.
Add onto that the removal of a nice big splash screen, to let you know who really owns your computer; all those invisible start up applications, that take an age to settle themselves while you stare blankly at a desktop you can't use; and even the need for anti-virus software (fingers crossed). Essentially, Chrome OS strips out the lot and replaces your HDD with a solid state drive just to give it an extra boost. We'll get the stopwatch on it when we have the Chromebooks in for review but it certainly sounds feasible, and what Google claims is that your computer will get even faster as time goes on, but more about that in a moment.
All of the desktop software that you're used to on your PC or Mac will not work nor exist on Chrome OS. Anything that you want to use will be in the form of a web app which you can "install" on your profile. We say "install" because it's not really an installation onto your machine but more an association with your cloud persona.
All of these apps can be found in the Chrome Web Store which you can actually access and try out for yourself already via your Chrome browser. In there you'll find games, tools, utilities, social networking connectors and all the productivity and communications bits and pieces that you'd need in your normal computing life with some of it free and some paid for. Along with the apps, there's also extensions for the browser itself and themes that you can download to make your desktop a bit prettier too.
Everything you "install" remains associated with your cloud profile and will be accessible as an app grid of sorts the moment you open the Chrome browser, and the beauty of the cloud system is that it'll be the same software and data no matter which machine you've opened it on.
Naturally, the major issue about having your applications hosted online is that you need an internet connection to be able to use them. Fortunately, with HTML5, that's not always the case and some of the bigger and more important ones should allow you to use them even when offline.
Profiles & syncing
No one expects you to have a series of Chromebooks spread about your life but the Chrome browser will still automatically sync everything in the way of apps, extensions and bookmarks that you choose to add and install wherever it is that you next open it - work, internet cafe, someone else's machine. By the same token, your Chromebook also leaves space to allow different people to use it as well.
You can use Guest Mode if there's someone who wants to use your machine while you're with them. It blocks all access to your personal e-mail and data and it will also erase all the browsing history of whatever they've been looking at when they're done and you sign back in. The other option is if there's someone in your life who more regularly uses your Chromebook. For them you can assign a separate profile of their own which will load up through the Chrome browser when they use it.
Giving over all of your data to store up in Google's cloud space is something of an all your eggs in someone else's basket kind of risk. The first thing to note is that all of it is encrypted, so even if the Big G's system is hacked, heaven forbid, it should be hard to decipher anything that's in there. You're just going to have to trust them with that.
At your end of things, Chrome OS is built from the ground-up to keep malware and viruses at bay - the first to do so say Google. The company has taken a "defence in depth" approach with multiple layers of protection; the idea being that if some malicious code gets through one level, there'll still be plenty of other layers standing in its way.
Sandboxing is another technique Chrome employs to keep threats at bay. Each application, web page and browser tab works in isolation within its own environment. What that means is that if you do happen to land on a web page stacked full of nasty business, it's not free to get through to the rest of your computer, and, in the event of a tab or app crashing, it won't take the whole browser down with it.
Finally, there's also something which Google calls Verified Boot. Verified Boot is a system which automatically scans your machine every time you start up looking for corrupted files or anything that's been tampered with at all. If, for whatever reason, malware has managed to infect your machine, then Verified Boot should be able to detect it and then repair itself from a known back up or download one if not available. And just in case you're worried about the data that's stored on your machine in terms of cookies, downloads and cache files, that's all encrypted as well in apparently tamper-proof form.
If all else fails, there is a hardware recovery mode button which should take you through an emergency restore process. With your data all "safe" in the cloud, that should mean no lost photos, e-mails and the like as well.
Google's promise that your Chromebook will get faster with age is all about how Chrome OS updates itself every time it boots. It won't prompt you to download or install these updates, it'll just check and do it itself in the background. Naturally, all of your web apps will automatically update themselves in the cloud as well. The theory behind all of this is that while Chrome OS develops, it should get smoother and quicker. However, chances are that laptop will become knackered or obsolete eventually and its own hardware will become the limiting factor, but there you go.
Speaking of the hardware, to begin with, it'll be Samsung and Acer launching the first Chromebooks available across US, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Italy from June with other countries to follow. The spec is very much of large screen, high powered netbooks with dual-core Atom processors and 16GB of SSD storage.
You get USB and SD card ports as well as a 3G option to go with the Wi-Fi that will come as standard. The final key ingredient is "all day battery life" which is as low as 6.5 hours on the Acer model, so worth paying attention to Google's definition of a day.
You will be able to use peripherals with the Chromebooks but not everything. Those will include USB storage, mice, keyboards, external monitors, projectors, headsets, headphones and microphones. There is an issue, however, around printing.
Chrome OS won't recognise a hard wired printer but will instead work with Google's Cloud Print service which sends your request to print over the Internet instead. If you have a Cloud Print ready ePrinter, then you're in luck. Otherwise you'll have to rely on sending the message through to a printer that's attached to an internet-connected Mac or PC in your location. Not ideal.
The Chromebooks will retail from around £300-400 depending on the options you choose.
The Google Chrome OS and Chromebook system is all very well and good in theory but there's also plenty of problems with it as well. Despite the security set up, there's quite a lot of trust required on the part of the user. What with Sony's recent transgression, it's a highly topical and sensitive issue and giving up all you own to one large cloud service is a lot to ask.
If you can get yourself over that, what might stand in the way is not being able to use all the normal desktop apps that you're used to. Instead, it's a matter of having to choose what the developers manage to fill the Chrome Web Store with. Doubtless, that will grow soon and you're bound to be able to find an equivalent for just about everything but, even if you do, there's still the connectivity issue to get around and the fact that you'll need other machines to run your high-powered games.
3G is far from ubiquitous in any country and terrible when you're on the move. Sure HTML5 might be able to solve the problems for some of the bigger apps but not all the developers will have it sussed out and it will be a pain when you can't access your data and you software when you want to.
Finally, there's the problem of peripheral support. It's going to take a while for your hardware to come as Chrome-ready and some of it might never be at all, especially if you consider devices like cameras that might come with their own software they want to install. You'll have to hope it gets sorted in the web apps instead.
All that aside, though, Chrome OS and the Chromebooks are certainly an intriguing prospect. Time will tell how willing people are to switch over to it. Are you?

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There is a distinction between a beauty salon and a hair salon and although many small businesses do offer both sets of treatments, beauty Salons are based more around face and body treatments.
There are also specailied salons that are experts in varoious areas such as Theory for hair - Artistic Cutting & Colour Correction Specialists, Human Hair Extensions, GHD Styling & In-Salon rituals
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Manicure is a treatment for nailcare, incorporating the cuticle.
Pedicure is a treatment for the feet, incorporating the toe-nails.
Beauty salons offer treatments such as waxing and threading for hair removal. Beauty Salons may include also all services, such as : Hair, nail, aesthetics, massage, solarium, etc.
A hair salon (also called 'Hairdresser' and 'Hair Parlour')is a place where one goes to get their hair cut, as well as styled, highlighted or coloured.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — "Hey Govt. Go Furlough Yourself."
That was one sentiment expressed on signs held by five people who showed up at Congressman Jeff Miller's office in Fort Walton Beach on Thursday to voice their displeasure at being furloughed.
The protesters said they were union leaders representing 4,000 members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1897 at Eglin Air Force Base and at Hurlburt Field.
"We're trying to raise public awareness and put a face on the faceless employees arbitrarily put out of work," said Alan Cooper, a union vice president.
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The group hoped to find a way to make contact with Miller, who, Cooper said, had been given an opportunity but failed to address how he would vote if the Affordable Care Act became a bargaining chip in budget negotiations.
"The record will show he voted along party lines and neglected his own constituency," Cooper said.
Cooper said he and his fellow protesters were "all going on about 10 days without pay as a result of initial furloughs and now the shut down."
He said Eglin managers had "picked and chosen who would be furloughed" and often chose union representatives.
"Effectively, we've got no representation for those working. They furloughed their representatives," he said. "It wasn't an accident."
Matt Bowser, a 28-year-old father of three, works as a generator mechanic. The sign he held Thursday read "Stop the Lockout I Have Kids to Feed."
He found his furlough status ironic with Tropical Storm Karen swirling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bowser said the government lockdown, which began Tuesday, is not just hitting him in the wallet. The disabled veteran stands to lose his vocational rehabilitation counselor to a furlough Friday.
"They're telling people veterans aren't going to be affected. It's just not true," he said. "This is hurting my education benefits."
Barbara Grimes and B.J. Guzman are single mothers furloughed from their commissary jobs. Guzman held a sign that read "Furlough = Hardship."
"It doesn't seem right. A lot of people don't want to work. We want to work," she said.
The protestors eventually took their beef from U.S. Highway 98 into Miller's office.
"We're here to find out what his position is," said Alex Goodwin, who found it odd "they want to look at a whole myriad of issues when they should only be thinking about balancing the budget."
A Miller representative offered water to the group and took written comments from those who chose to fill out cards. She did notify Miller that visitors were present, including a member of the media.
Thaddeus Wallace, the president of Local 1897, said he was pleased with Thursday's turnout and promised to be back at Miller's office Friday and again next week after Tropical Storm Karen has passed.
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- Manyika Sakambuki
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Mention one scientific theory you think needs adjustment. Why do you think that way?
Our assumptions fashion how we see and make decisions. in the past, astronomy was defined as the study of how heavenly bodies move around the earth because it was believed that the earth was the center of the solar system. that was until a Polish Astronomer- Nicolai Copernicus changed our thinking. same as when the atom was thought to be the smallest particle until electrons, neutrinos, etc. were discovered. bring forth your ideas!
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Ok thanks! Turns out that all theories which have no direct application to the physical world wont hang around for long. Most likely, they'll stay as just ideas of the 'geniuses' which have no proof but only serve to quench our thirst for understanding certain things that seem hard to understand e.g. black holes, perpetuity of life, being able to control infinitesimally small stuff(nano techs), death... and we can go on and on. This has been a useful conversation.
Mar 18 2013: Another scientific wrong is that we must stop calling the phenomenon we have been calling a "black hole" a black hole. If it's spherical, it's not a hole. Just because it does not emit or reflect light does not make it "black". It appears we have stuck ourselves to the most primitive characterization of one of the most "compelling" phenomena in the known universe. Whatever this is, it is not a black hole. So when is it time to venture at least some summation of what these phenomena are which at least addresses it's dimensionality and light properties which we continue to prejudice incorrectly. Is it a big deal? Yes it is. It's a measure of what we accept of ourselves. Are we the type that stops learning how to use a computer when we finally get the one task we need done? Or are we they type that feels a sort of new birth when we discover the first of a myriad of new ways to do things? Black holes are for the former.
Mar 19 2013: Many years ago I remember going on the Gravitron (centrifugal style amusement park ride). Brilliant experience - being pinned against the inside wall, hardly able to lift an arm or leg. If the operator had walked away and left it running, there would have been no escape (not even light could have escaped!). So if they ever change the name 'black hole' I vote they change it to 'gravitron'.
Mar 19 2013: That's a start--perhaps a perfect one. But it occurs to me that if it is spherical and occupies space as is not a black hole in space, as it has been long mischaracterized, it is made of something that exists in this universe which can be an element but not on our standard periodic table of elements. Perhaps it is made up of a single element too powerful in its properties to ever hold in the human hand or even bring near the planet. Or perhaps it's an element which even a small bit of is at the center of every spherical orb which causes gravity to be equal on the surface from pole to pole. After all there are different sized "back holes", whose to say some of them aren't tiny and attract so much matter that it ceases being crushed and becomes the bulk of a planet, moon or star. and the reason it takes its spherical shape? Nothing about the universe should be accepted without cause and effect and simply saying gravity is what makes orbs like the earth, moon and sun round has always seemed an unacceptable answer. Something starts that enormous process, not just the close proximity of bigger pieces of space junk. That might cause a comet to congeal but there is something much stronger defining a planet et al. What elemental units compose a so-called black hole? And since there are more than one black hole and at differing sizes does that not imply that smaller and smaller parcels of this element.exist as a dynamic force in shaping all the large round spheres in the visible universe--with the motion of space junk like asteroids affected by varying gravitational influences of these larger concentrations of this un-named element either in a true black hole state or the smaller parcels hypothesized to be at the core of the orbs we take for granted as being round for pretty flimsy reasons?
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Mar 18 2013: CERN's recent confirmation of the existence of the Higgs Bosson particle has re-ignited my inner quest to rationalize the fundamental construct of our Universe, including the concept of particles and their interactions we measure.
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What if what we view as a particle is in fact merely a sliver of a larger multidimensional super particle, some areas of which tend to exist in hyper dimensional space, others which happen to occupy our space (namely in the form of the 12 particles we know). See, we are limited (dimensionally speaking) to measure objects and events, being constrained to x, y, z, and t.
This certainly opens the possibility of demystifying the wave/particle conundrum. In the double slit experiment, though electrons were fired individually, they still created an interference pattern, suggesting the behavior of waves despite the look of particles. This was rationalized by concluding the electron likely occupies all spaces and probabilities along it's path to the target detector.
If we re-define our understanding of why we see a particle as a particle (an intersection of a hyper dimensional object in our 3 and 4 dimensional space), then to us it's in fact a particle behaving like a wave, because to us and our system of measurement it manifests as a particle, but to observe it from a higher dimensional perspective we see that it is in fact connected "behind the curtain" thus able to interfere with itself unbeknownst to 3rd dimensional observers.
As for dark matter, the extra mass detectable by the inter-dimensional transmission of gravity, might just belong to the hyper dimensional super particle we simply can't detect from our limited perspective of 3 and 4 dimensional space.
I oft wonder if quantum entangled paired electrons are actually the same electron viewed from the "front" and "back" simultaneously as if their "waistline" exists in hyperdimensional space. Food for thought.Mar 16 2013: i put a bet on quantum mechanics not surviving another 50 years.
Mar 16 2013: I'll take that bet and say modern physic wont survive
Mar 17 2013: the bet is on. general theory of relativity will prove itself.
Mar 17 2013: I am downMar 17 2013: I agree that quantum mechanics in its present form is incomplete. But to say that it will not survive the next 50 years I find highly unlikely. It is a theory that has proven itself time after time. As a whole we haven't understood it properly, but that is not an argument for discarding it.
What is it about QM that makes you think that it is inadequate to describe our reality? And what other theories do you think will replace it?
Mar 17 2013: two reasons.
1. all other theories have a very "simple" mathematics that capture the essence of what's going on. they are quite minimal yet effective. aerodynamic, so to speak. on the other hand, i feel, after watching some material on youtube, for example leonard susskind's lecture series on the subject, that the math of quantum mechanics is "bloated". it is so large, yet we used it to describe something fundamentally simpler. so, as some 6th sense, i feel that the observed phenomenon must have a mathematically more "fitting" description.
2. the arthur fine argument. since bell, we know that any good models of the world has to be probabilistic, because nature is in fact probabilistic. arthur fine argues that it is still not decided yet, and we do have a simple explanation for the actual experiments that seem to break the bell inequalities.
so i expect another theory, deterministic, local and markovian, and smaller in scale what we have today. my prediction is that at higher energies and with better detection technology, we will see deviances from quantum theory, which will continued to be patched but eventually abandoned.Mar 17 2013: ps. what i know as the "arthur fine" argument is actually known as "loopholes in bell test experiments", and suggested by many authors. seems that he only advocates it, not the originator.
Mar 18 2013: Hi Krisztián
Regardless of how you feel about QM it does actually work and describe the world we live in. I don't understand why you think that the math that describes how matter in the universe behaves is too complex. You have no way of extrapolating the nature of these laws from your macroscopic experiences.
Do you really believe that the world is deterministic? If I had all the information about you down to a microscopic level would I be able to predict your behaviour?
Do you believe that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle would be violated once we have better measuring equipment?
Regarding the Bell inequalities it is a shame that an experiment hasn't been conducted to settle this once and for all. I am quite confident that it will be in favour of QM.
Doesn't Susskind teach string theory? That would definitely explain the bloated math.Mar 18 2013: i was talking about that lecture actually. string theory is like super bloated, and they are still inflating it, because it refuses to describe reality entirely. now we have 20 dimensional strings, complex states, plus branes of whatever dimension that strings are locked onto. all this to explain like cross sections, which pretty much seems to a combinatorial problem. just the very idea that we use a string freely vibrating in 20 dimension space, which can do so many things, to describe quantum states that can be described by some simple integers. that does not feel good.
compare it to the local formulation of newtonian mechanics. we have phi, gravitational potential, we have rho, density, and we have a beautiful differential equation describing how the density causes the field: div grad phi = rho, constants omitted. or consider general relativity, which is basically the same thing, except we have stress-energy tensor in place of the density, and the einstein tensor in place of the gravitational potential, and it is elegant.
or just look at the initial assumption of those fields. general relativity follows from a simple assumption of c being constant, and acceleration being the same as gravity. add our ordinary knowledge about classical mechanics as special case, and voila, you get the theory. in contrast, the assumptions made in quantum theory are so numerous, i can't even list.
yes, i think the physics we are looking for is deterministic, local and markovian. i don't believe in probabilistic theories. nor non-local theories. and especially not in superdeterminism nonsense.
Mar 19 2013: Gravity and acceleration are only approximately equivalent. If I am a giant 100 miles tall in a spaceship, gravity affects me in ways that acceleration doesn't. If my feet are closer to the center of gravity, they are pulled more than my head so I know that I am in a spaceship. Acceleration in a spaceship should not show this effect.
In addition we speak of a "center of gravity". We do not refer to a center of acceleration.
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Mar 15 2013: The Theory of Evolution seems cast in stone for some reason. However it seems to rely on the opinions of scientists rather than on empirical evidence.
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Mar 15 2013: Please tell me how birth of a child is not evolution?
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Mar 16 2013: Hi Casey.
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Never heard that one. Normally we are told that evolution happens so slowly that we can't see it happening. A new child is created by the mixing of genes from two different extremely complex biological machines to produce a new extremely complex biological machine. As far as I know the baby will not have any attributes that were not in the parents; save a couple of hundred mutations which we hope wont cause harm. Never been a case of a non-human baby from human parents as far as I know. Why do you think this is evolution ?
Mar 16 2013: Because if it wasn't evolution we would grow to giant sperm (maybe sperm whale) or into a giant egg (or earth)
If it wasn't evolution it would have to be growth and that does't fit. Evolution makes sense.
And Idea is created a thought is evolvedMar 17 2013: So how is it not evolution?
Andrew Breen
Mar 18 2013: Evolution is a process, it's not an overnight express delivery. It's the cumulative effect of minute changes over time, changes which occur randomly. In many a case, the minute changes incur a deficit thus that being fails to thrive, it's genes rarely making it to the next generation.
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Occasionally, a random mutation will incur a net benefit which serves to increase likelihood for survival, often beyond the norm, readily inserting itself into nearly all future generations until the arena of survival changes and that gene is no longer a benefit, another more beneficial trait displacing it.
As for it being opinions over facts, true scientists don't function on opinion, rather they ask questions about the World in which they are immersed, develop a working hypothesis (not to be confused with an opinion), and go about trying to disprove that hypothesis in an attempt to find flaws. Failure to find fallacy forges a scientific principle and eventual law (though I think the term "law" is antiquated since even those seem to need modification more and more as we learn to dive deeper and deeper into the inner workings of our Universe).
Evolution is steeped in facts, in fact it is buried in a mountain of evidence, not a pile of opinions.Mar 19 2013: 'A non human baby from human parents.'
This is not what evolution proposes. Just another creationist straw man, or genuine misunderstanding.
My understanding is change of gene frequencies in a population over time.
So a child will be able to reproduce with contemporary peers. But go back far enough and it would not be able to reproduce with distant ancestors.Mar 16 2013: I understand that some scientists reject string theory because it cannot be tested. From a college class called Philosophy of Science we were instructed that an accurate theory is an explanation that can be restated as an hypothesis which accurately predicts the outcome of an experiment. So, should we refer to "the presumption of evolution?"
Mar 16 2013: Presumption of Evolution sounds spot-on Betsy, that is what happens anyway in most circles. It would be nice to have some solid experimental evidence for the presumption though.
:-)Mar 19 2013: You can make predictions based on evolutionary theory and test them.Mar 16 2013: for the same reason as any other old theory: because it is proven.
Mar 16 2013: What do you consider proof of evolution?
Mar 16 2013: you can fill books of it, but you can start here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descentMar 17 2013: I have read most of the rhetoric ? What I need is the best repeatable / falsifiable / scientific experiment which would indicate simple to complex evolution has taken place; ever. I am asking for the one which you find most persuasive personally.
Mar 17 2013: just gave you a link with like a dozen of them. none of them are the best. not a single evidence alone can support a scientific theory. only a plethora of evidence can support. and plethora we have.Mar 17 2013: You'd make a good politician Krisztian. :-))
Mar 17 2013: i'm sorry you don't understand how science works. i tried to fix it. takes two.
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Mar 19 2013: I now need to look up "coyote physics," Krisztian. I have never heard the term, but then I had somehow missed until recently knowing of the widespread enthusiasm for and investment in what I now understand is called "quantum mysticism" or "mystical physics."Mar 17 2013: Hi Peter
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If humans haven't evolved from other species, which scientific idea that accounts for life on this planet do you subscribe to?
Mar 18 2013: Hi Faisel.
I believe the evidence points to design & build by someone who understood what he was doing. On this particular thread I am trying; without success ; to elicit some scientific evidence in favour of the theory of evolution. All the evidence seems to require a prior belief in the theory in order to reach the appropriate conclusion.
Faisel Butt
Mar 18 2013: From what I understand you are a creationist claiming that the theory of evolution requires a prior belief. The irony...Mar 19 2013: As an engineer, I see no mechanism to produce the magnificent nano technology.
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Feel free to illuminate me, surely there is one empirical scientific fact behind all the rhetoric, apart of course from my lack of understanding, which is legion.
Mar 19 2013: and as we all know, what you don't see, does not existMar 19 2013: I am wide open Krisztian, if you have evidence, please give me it. I understand random mutation and natural selection. I guess this is where you put your faith. Natural selection only gets to select once we have a viable trait; arm, flipper, heart etc. So we rely on mutation coming up with the goods in the first place. This is a long shot, not least because most mutations are non-beneficial.
Anyway to return to the original question; I think evolution needs to take a long hard look at itself , that's all I'm saying.
Mar 19 2013: i think you need to take a long hard look on evolution. because your knowledge is ... lacking, to be polite. i already gave you material, you did not look. what you have described here, does not even resemble the theory of evolution. try telling to any biologist that evolution works like mutation causes an arm or a flipper or a heart to develop, and then selection checks if it is good. try telling that, and watch their face. you will see shock, disappointment, pain, confusion and finally heavy feeling of hopelessness. it is as close to actual evolutionary biology as coyote-physics to real physics. you have no excuse. this material is out there, targeted at age group 6 to adult, long, short, with or without pictures. if you don't understand, you can only blame yourself.
edward long
Mar 19 2013: Mr. Butt, if you are arguing from evidence based upon the Scientific Method, I beg you to share the actual evidence supporting cross-species reproduction. No, I am not a scientist but, please, share the information so I can muddle through it in my own amateurish, uninitiated way. My understanding right now is that there is no such evidence consistent with scientific methodology. If this is not the case please share what you have learned about the idea of every member of the Animal Kingdom coming from a single, common ancestor.
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Mar 19 2013: We are all DNA based life forms.
We share traits and basic biological features with other animals.
4 limbs. Skeletons. Lungs. 2 eyes. 2 ears. Sexual reproduction. Our biological similarities are consistent with evolution.
Transitional species in the fossil record, which yec attack because they think the world is < 10 k old.
We understand the mechanism.
You can see the tree of life, DNA similarities to less similar.
Don't you think mammals have a lot in common?
Also, with vertibrates.
I find it very easy to grasp the evolution of multicellular organisms into different species and the facts of what we see are consistent with the theory.
The tricky bits for me are from single cell to complex multicellular life, and the origin of life itself, which is perhaps outside of evolution. But even simple life forms and plants are dna based.
I understand why some may speculate outside agency to get life started. I don't really understand how people can reject the idea we share common descent with other primates, mammals, vertibrates etc.
Jim Ryan
Mar 20 2013: Mr. Long, If I were a scientist, I'd have my ducks in a row before tangling with you. Something tells me your muddling is better than most scientists best work. I'll be seeing ya.Mar 20 2013: Domesticated dogs are an excellent example of evolution. Dogs (like the kind you would keep as a pet) evolved from wolves under the directed influence of humans. When humans began domesticating wolves a long time ago, they began choosing to breed only those wolves with certain traits. These traits may have been fluffy hair, big eyes, or floppy ears for example. And now many years later we have dogs like the chihuahua or the poodle, which certainly do not exist anywhere in nature outside of human breeding.
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Here's a nice documentary on the history and relationship between dogs and humans
Mar 21 2013: But they are all dogs; there is no dispute over variation; we need a case of something 'evolving' into something else.
:-)Mar 14 2013: The thing we call "sleep" which all animals including us do for a large portion of life is far more important than popular notion and is most likely the home of evolutionary processes. During a critically important phase of sleep which produces "delta waves", natural growth hormone is released. In humans we call it HGH but it happens in all mammals so the first letter of the abbreviation should just be altered. While it has long been assumed that sleep is for "rest" and the release of HGH is for repair or growth, it is also for growth of neurology in the mind which accommodates each individual's intellectual challenges. To make a long story short, I am certain that the day must come when no psychiatric diagnosis wil be considered valid or complete unless and until a person's sleep life is strongly considered. It is known that just two days of sleep deprivation can bring on symptoms of schizophrenia--auditory and visual hallucinations that have something to do with the right hemisphere and left hemisphere becoming out of synch. Dolphins swim with one hemisphere asleep and one awake and then they switch hemisphere. If children are not getting the proper levels of sleep and proper releases of HGH, it is wrong to ignore those factors and try to hammer their symptoms into submission by regimens of expensive medications. This is a billion dollar issue and one of the direction of human development going forward. The truth must be ascertained and medicine as well as public perception adjusted.
Mar 15 2013: They question is a worthy one. Specialists and experts can have great insights but there is always the risk of missing something important because it is from a different area of expertise.
The link between sleep deprivation and auditory and visual hallucinations is one that comes to mind.
Working with digital video and audio processing I find hallucinations after prolonged periods of activity not that surprising, assuming there is some analogy between the way our brains and our devices process these signals.
At a simple level devices processing digital signals have to recreate audio and video from compressed inputs, and keep the two in synchronization. Every now and then the system fails and, for example, you will get a big blocks rather than picture detail on your screen. They clear quickly, like a blink, as error correction software deals with them. Over longer periods the system may need to store the corrections it has made to keep the signal functioning. This accommodation for cumulative errors has limits. So we sometimes see apparent signal failure or the device freezing and needing to be restarted.
If this simplified analogy between our vision and digital video is correct it seems logical that our vision systems may need to be shut down to clear cumulative errors. Failure to shut down—sleep—is likely to result in our vision system introducing errors in the regenerated images which form part of our consciousness.
So sleep deprivation is a case where insights from a different field, digital video processing, might be worth studying.
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Mar 20 2013: Hello Faisel, People are scared of death because there isn't enough evidence to describe what happens when one is dying or when one dies. People beliefs make the process less scary, but not totally embraced. Fear of death need to be addressed, yet it is one thing that all have to face. I would love scientific experiment that could explain and theorize the so called "soul" and "spirit".
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The reason beliefs don't provide truth is because some believe in heaven/hell, other in reincarnation, others in end of someone when death occur and such. If only science can come in and attest to the truth of ceaseless life. Life change form but never end.Mar 19 2013: Theory of Everything . This theory tries to explain all the world. But I think it's too soon form humans to come up this kind of theory that even starts to explain the whole world around us.
Mar 19 2013: Did a teacher teach you that?
Mar 20 2013: No, it's just a theory that I read , why?
Mar 20 2013: Yea, the theory of everything. I was born at night, just not last night.Mar 19 2013: Please show us how many new thoughts you have brought to science. Ok, just one. People that can bring new thinking, usually do so on a fairly constant basis. I know most of the censorship by heart. It is why I try to find new places, because debate is rare for me to find.
Some try to hide behind a veil, thinking they are smart, but they simply hate what they will never be. You never once challenged.
Mar 20 2013: I'm sorry, Did I sounded like "anti" of this theory?
I didn't mean that, I just simply think this is a huge step in science and maybe for the future not now.
I'm not oppose research and theories and etc.
Mar 20 2013: Ok, So what was your first post about?Mar 19 2013: i think you can relax, because we don't have anything like that yet. it is pop science.
Mar 19 2013: What does that even mean. Lol
Jim Ryan
Mar 15 2013: From all I read, science as a whole is controlled and answered by a tiny few and lay people are not allowed to question the presenters, because they know they would be embarrassed if they had to defend the ignorance they choose.
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Mar 17 2013: Hi Jim
I agree that the scientific community can be rather closed from outsiders, but what ignorance is it that scientists choose?
Which scientific theories do you believe to be wrong and do you have better explanations?
Barry Palmer
Mar 14 2013: I am strictly a lay person, and I do not know of any scientific theory that is considered, by all scientists in the field, as being comprehensive and complete, with no need for any adjustments. (If a scientist thought that way, I would expect that he/she would change to a different field.) I read somewhere that the theories concerned with fluid flow are probably the most comprehensive and reliable.
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I have read and heard a number of times that the Theory of Relativity breaks down when applied to black holes. One example was that of a space ship falling into a black hole. If the math is done from the point of view of an outside observer the forces will pull the ship apart into pieces and destroy it. If the math is done from the point of view of a person inside the space ship, that does not occur. To me, that seems like a clear paradox and indicates the need for an adjustment.
Grace Greene
Mar 14 2013: The assumption by nearly half of all quantum physicists that the universe is mechanical rather than organic needs to be more widely discussed. Why do I think this way? Because I was forced to change my opinion after studying the evidence.
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Mar 14 2013: The internet article that reports on what various proportions of quantum physicists believe about such matters has been mentionned here before but no one has responded to requests for a link that allows anyone to read it for themselves. Is this the paper you are interpreting in this way and that seems to be the basis for a couple of recent internet news articles: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069v1.pdf? By the way, for anyone interested, this is readable by anyone. It is from an informal poll of 33 physicists, philosophers, and mathematicians who attended a conference in 2011 and were permitted to vote multiple times or to abstain. The authors say upfront that "our poll cannot claim to be representative of the community at large." It is very much not a representative sample- in fact the people's names are in the appendix. 9 of 33 are from a single institution specializing in optics in Austria. Further, the poll does not distinguish how the quantum scientists voted as opposed to the scientists who were not quantum scientists, the philosophers, or the mathematicians. Still, only 6%, or two of those assembled (or one voting twice) believe that the observer plays a physical role (for example in inducing physical results through consciousness). There is nothing in the survey that actually speaks to the issue of whether even this tiny and non-representative assembly believes the universe is mechanical or "organic."Mar 15 2013: Physicists are not biologists. If you want to argue the semantics of "organic", you should have addressed biologists. Perhaps you should choose a different word, since physicists will openly admit that Carbon exists elsewhere in the universe. Most also believe that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Why would you assume otherwise?
Mar 15 2013: Indeed it is simple enough to find scientific report of complex organic matter in the universe. And I smiled to read your writing that physicists "openly admit" carbon exists in the universe. It is possible that some people (though not quantum physicists!) are confusing this finding with the idea that ALL material in the universe is organic.
I think the idea of all matter being sentient may be part of Deepak Chopra's teachings along with the idea that the multiverse theory in quantum mechanics means people can choose their own reality.
Those who make claims here about what all, most, or various percentages of quantum physicists believe seem reluctant to share their sources for these claims.Mar 15 2013: Grace, could you give your definition of the word 'organic' in this context? You do not appear to be using it in a way I am familiar with.Mar 20 2013: If a black hole is a sphere, does this sphere have a casing?Mar 20 2013: Theory of Body shutting down i.e. dying. Science seem not to grasp the holistic reality of what happens when the body shut down.
Mar 20 2013: What is the holistic reality of dying?Mar 20 2013: Agreed. This entire topic can best be successful via a propoganda campaign based on no science.
What disease states and damage the cholesterol controlling drugs cause is so profound, it could be linked to many disease manifestations today.
If the drugs damage the liver, and inhibit the healing process by blocking the proper production of cholesterol.
What does Cholesterol do? It is an integral part of the healing process and responds to healing crisis.
If you stop the production artificially, what happens? Use your imagination.
Mar 20 2013: statins reduce the production of cholesterol, do not stop it. as an effect, the person has exactly as much cholesterol in the bloodstream as any other person does. tell me how can having the same amount of cholesterol hurt.
by the same token, we should not regulate fever, because the body should be warm, so cooling it obviously has adverse effects. seriously, people. use your heads!
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"Municipal dissolution" means the termination of the existence of a city or borough government. Before making a decision to begin work on dissolution, a lot of thought should be given to researching and planning the process and what will happen afterward regarding assets, liabilities, and services. The dissolution process is a set chain of events, which must be followed in order to ensure a successful dissolution.
There are a number of ways that a municipal dissolution could occur, including the following:
This discussion focuses on dissolution of city government through a means other than merger, consolidation, annexation, or unification. Scenarios involving dissolution as a result of merger, consolidation, annexation or unification are addressed in their respective LOGON sections. The scenario involving dissolution of an organized borough that leaves no successor regional municipal government in place is virtually unimaginable. There has never been a dissolution of a borough under such circumstances.
A city government may be dissolved if it meets the standards established in law (AS 29.06.470, AS 29.06.500, 3 AAC 110.280-.300, and 3 AAC 110.900-.980.)
Among the standards is the requirement to demonstrate that the city is free of debt or that its creditors have agreed to a repayment plan. Also essential is a well-conceived transition plan (where another municipal government or some other local entity will take responsibility for assets, obligations, and functions of the former city). It must also be demonstrated that the proposed dissolution will serve the broad public interest.
That limitation reflects the fact that local government principles in Alaska's constitution view a borough with no city governments as the ideal structure for delivery of local services. The drafters of the Local Government Article of Alaska's Constitution "viewed the long-term relationships between the borough and the city as a gradual evolution to unified government." (Final Report on Borough Government, p. 17, Alaska Legislative Council and the Local Affairs Agency.)
The express purpose of the Local Government Article is to "provide for maximum local self-government with a minimum of local government units, and to prevent duplication of tax-levying jurisdictions." (Alaska Constitution, Article X, Section 1.) The Alaska Supreme Court held with respect to combining city and borough governments through unification that:
Unification is consistent with the purpose expressed in article X, section 1 of minimizing the number of local government units.
It is noteworthy that the Task Force on Governmental Roles, established by the 1991 Legislature under SCS CS HCR 17 to examine state policies regarding local government concluded as follows:
Unification of borough and city administrations should be encouraged wherever possible to provide for more efficient and cost-effective service delivery.
Alaskans have embraced the constitutional principles encouraging the combination of city and borough governments. Consider, for example, that in 1970, about half of the people who lived within an organized borough also lived within a city government. Today, the figure is about 18% -- the number of Alaskans within both a city and borough declined by approximately two-thirds since 1970.
What are the financial consequences of city dissolution?
Depending upon the particular circumstances, there can be significant financial effects on a community as a result of dissolution. These may include:
What if the city has debts, can they be dissolved?
Only if all creditors of the city have indicated in writing that they are satisfied with a plan for payment of the debts (see AS 29.06.470.)
Who becomes the successor of the city government?
The issue of what organization will succeed to the assets, rights, powers, and obligations of a city proposed for dissolution is a critical aspect of any dissolution proposal. Details regarding such matters must be included in the transition plan required by 3 AAC 110.900.
Another municipal government (if its corporate boundaries encompass the dissolved city) may (but is not obligated to) succeed to all rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities of the dissolved city. Otherwise, the State of Alaska becomes the successor to those rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities.
It has been the policy of the Local Boundary Commission that the State of Alaska should avoid the assumption of responsibilities of former city governments. Consequently, it has been the practice of the Commission to permit incorporation of a city only if some stable local entity is prepared to serve as successor. In such case, the Commission would stipulate that the state would enter into a contract for the performance of duties or powers in the area of the dissolved municipality. However, a contract with an organization for the performance of duties or powers entered into under this section does not constitute recognition by the state of governmental powers of that organization.
Who can initiate a petition to dissolve?
A petition to dissolve a municipal government may be initiated by:
a) a city,
b) a borough,
c) a regional educational attendance area,
d) a coastal resource service area,
e) a number of resident registered voters of the city equal to at least 25% of the number of votes cast in the last regular election in the city proposed for dissolution,
f) the state legislature,
g) the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (Commerce),
h) a party designated by the Local Boundary Commission.
a) a city,
b) a borough,
c) a regional educational attendance area,
d) a coastal resource service area,
e) a number of resident registered voters of the city equal to at least 25% of the number of votes cast in the last regular election in the city proposed for dissolution,
f) the state legislature,
g) the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (Commerce),
h) a party designated by the Local Boundary Commission.
Are there criteria that guide the development of a petition for dissolution of a city?
Yes, the criteria are found in AS 29.06.470, AS 29.06.500, 3 AAC 110.280-.300, and 3 AAC 110.900-.980. These criteria should be carefully reviewed when deciding whether to dissolve a government. If the prospective petitioner decides to propose dissolution, the criteria should also be used to guide the development of the petition. The Local Boundary Commission will use these same criteria to judge the merits of the petition.
Does the state provide technical assistance to a petitioner who wishes to propose dissolution of a city?
Yes, the staff of the Local Boundary Commission provides certain assistance to prospective petitioners. Such assistance includes providing petition forms and sample successful proposals, consultation regarding policy issues, guidance regarding technical matters, and direction concerning sources of information needed to complete a petition. While the state can provide some assistance, the burden of preparing a proper petition remains with the petitioner.
If a group opposes dissolution, does the state assist it as well?
Yes. LBC staff will also provide assistance to any individual or organization that wishes to express views concerning a dissolution proposal. Assistance to opponents might include providing sample responsive briefs filed in opposition to prior petitions, consultation regarding policy issues, guidance regarding technical matters, and direction where fundamental information needed to complete a responsive brief in opposition to a proposal can be obtained.
Can a dissolution petition be amended after it is filed?
The petition may be amended by the petitioner. The LBC can also amend or impose conditions on a dissolution proposal following a public hearing. Ideally, however, with careful planning and proper consultation before filing a petition, amendments can be avoided. Amending a petition may, under certain circumstances, cause delays in the consideration of the petition.
How long does it take to dissolve?
It typically takes several months to prepare a proper petition. A prospective petitioner is encouraged to work closely with the LBC staff in developing a petition. Once a petition is completed, it is filed with the LBC. The process for action on the proposal by the LBC typically takes one year or longer.
Sample documents:
The Alaska Constitution, Article X
Alaska Statutes
Alaska Administrative Code
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In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, PBS will broadcast a series of specials from PBS NEWSHOUR, FRONTLINE, WASHINGTON WEEK, NOVA, NEED TO KNOW and more, that continue the public conversation on gun laws, mental illness and school security.
The "After Newtown" programming airs on New Mexico PBS Ch.5.1 and on PBS stations nationwide February 18-23. All shows listed below are NEW and will air on Ch. 5.1 unless otherwise noted. Explore more at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/after-newtown/
Monday – Friday, Feb. 18-22 at 6:00 pm
Each newscast will include a segment dedicated to exploring the issues surrounding the Newtown tragedy.
Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 8:00 pm
Trace the evolution of guns in America, their link to violence and competing visions of national identity. — AFTER NEWTOWN: GUNS IN AMERICA is an unprecedented exploration of America's enduring relationship with firearms. From the first European settlements in the New World, to frontier justice; from 19th-century immigrant riots, to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to civil rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative. Americans have relied on guns to sustain communities, challenge authority and keep the peace. Efforts to curtail their distribution and ownership have triggered epic political battles. This program traces the evolution of guns in America, their frequent link to violence and the clash of cultures that reflect competing visions of our national identity.
FRONTLINE "Raising Adam Lanza"
Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 9:00 pm
Examine the life of Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, and the battle over gun laws and gun culture. — In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza's motives, and his life, remain largely a mystery. With The Hartford Courant, FRONTLINE looks for answers to the central — and so far elusive — question: Who was Adam Lanza? Also this hour: In the aftermath of the tragedy, President Obama called for a national conversation about guns. Nowhere is that conversation more intense than in Newtown, where FRONTLINE finds a town divided and explores how those closest to the tragedy are wrestling with our nation's gun culture and laws.
NOVA "Mind of a Rampage Killer"
Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 8:00 pm (and Saturday, Feb. 23 at 6:00 pm on Ch. 9.1)
Learn how much science can tell us about a brain at risk for violence. — What makes a person walk into a theater or church or classroom and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? As the nation tries to comprehend the tragic events in Newtown, NOVA correspondent Miles O'Brien investigates theories into what drives rampage killers. Could suicide — and the desire to go out in a media-fueled blaze of glory — be their main motivation? How much can science tell us about a brain at risk for violence? Most important, can we recognize dangerous minds in time to stop the next Newtown?
Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 9:00 pm (and Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7:00 pm on Ch. 9.1)
Learn what can be done to detect problem behavior and prevent violent attacks. —- Psychologists, working with law enforcement officers, have devised tools to prevent violent attacks. THE PATH TO VIOLENCE details a powerfully effective Secret Service program — the Safe School Initiative — that's helped schools detect problem behavior. However, shooters like Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner and allegedly James Holmes all executed their attacks after they'd left school. Can the gains made by psychologists and law enforcement be extended to encompass parents — terrified of their own children and inadequately helped by mental health and legal systems — and families of violent individuals? Is the country ready for a national conversation about the balance between school safety and civil liberties that interventions, including gun control, require?
Friday, Feb. 22 at 8:00 pm
Explore the ripple effects of a single fatal shooting incident. Twenty years ago, an 18-year-old freshman and his professor were shot dead at a small Massachusetts college. The killer was apprehended, convicted and sent to prison, but the events that day continue to reverberate all these years later.
Friday, Feb. 22 at 8:30 pm
Moderator and Managing Editor Gwen Ifill will feature a segment discussing how Washington lawmakers are addressing the issue of gun control.


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Hmm, didn't you drive another tuned Toyota GT 86 recently?
No, that was a Subaru BRZ. Totally different. It was supercharged for one thing and this one's turbocharged.
But surely as they're so similar, you could fit either set of mods to the other?
You are, of course, absolutely right. The supercharger kit that Litchfield fitted to the BRZ we drove and Fensport's turbocharger set-up are entirely interchangeable - it all comes down to personal preference.


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Makes you wonder how Ryback ever got over.
Makes you wonder how Ryback ever got over.
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Academic ceremonies are steeped in tradition. The academic dress and the many colors that adorn regalia, the symbols of office and music witnessed throughout academic ceremonies are highly symbolic and important to the university tradition.
Select from the links on the left-hand menu to find out more about academic traditions and ceremonial practices at Kent State University.


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Dana White doesn't know why Fedor Emelianenko's manager attended UFC on FUEL TV 9 - MMA Fighting
The Fedor Emelianenko to UFC rumors just won't go away.
Two months after talk surfaced that Emelianenko's long-time manager Vadim Finkelstein attended UFC on FUEL TV 7 in London, Finkelstein was spotted in the crowd during the UFC on FUEL TV 9 broadcast on Saturday night in Stockholm, Sweden.
Finkelstein's unlikely cameo came when the cameras showed heavyweight Stefan Struve sitting cageside. The Russian manager, who UFC president famously nicknamed "Vadummy," was on camera for several seconds.
The appearance was newsworthy because of his seemingly rocky relationship with White over the years, and because White admitted in January that he was close to finally signing Emelianenko to a UFC deal last year before the heavyweight decided to retire once and for all following the death of his father.
However, despite Finkelstein's cageside seats, which are typically reserved for VIP guests, White said at the post-fight press conference that he didn't know Finkelstein attended the show or why he was there.
"I think he's stalking me," White joked. "I don't know why he was here.
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Far away on our favorite island continent, there are rumors of a C3 Corvette so fierce that Australian citizens dare not utter its name. "It has the roar of a monster," some said. "Untameable," others cried. Our curiosity was piqued-we had to learn more of this petroleum-breathing Myliobatiforme (that's a stingray for you non-marine biologists). We contacted Matt James, a Transport Manager in Mount Pleasant, New South Wales, to learn of its origins. "Yes, the Yellow Tale Stingray exists," he tells VETTE, "and I alone have known its true history...until now."
James tells us that an inconspicuous '68 Stingray immigrated to Australia in 2000 after being sold by its owner, a female hairdresser in Las Vegas. "She had always wanted a red Corvette," he says. "And that's the way it arrived in Australia. But there are way too many red Corvettes in Oz. I decided this one needed to break tradition. It would become famous because of how different it looked. I chose yellow because all I could think about was how yellow looked best on a Corvette."
Like the car's previous owner, James had always wanted a Vette. "A friend of my family had just purchased a '68 big-block. I was at the traffic light when I heard this thing rumbling up towards me and flying straight past me," he says. "From that day forward, I knew I had to have a Corvette."
The resolute Aussie also knew exactly how he wanted his future sports car to look, and fate eventually brought a suitable candidate his way. "A couple of years ago, I was introduced to a group of Vette owners in my town," James says. "The fire in my belly for a Corvette got stronger and stronger. It was time to find one. After a few months of hopeless searching, I came across this '68 Stingray. It was in a horrible state of disrepair, but that didn't bother me, as I wanted to build a Vette the way I wanted one to look."
To prepare the Stingray for restoration, James took on the disassembly duties himself. He stripped the Vette's body to bare fiberglass and was taken aback when he found LeMans Blue was the first color sprayed over the original primer. "I had no idea it was a factory blue car," James reveals. "But when I checked the cowl tag, my suspicion was confirmed. My Corvette left the factory with Code 976 LeMans Blue paint and Code 411 Dark Blue vinyl interior. How it ended up in Australia [in] red with a black interior, I'll never know."
James then set his sights on the interior. "Because the cockpit was shabby, too, I stripped it with the mission of replacing every panel inside. After all, the only point in having a great paint job is if the interior can match it," he says.
Next on this weekend restorer's to-do list was the engine. "It didn't look any better than the shabby body, and that meant it had to go," James recalls. "When we pulled the motor out, we discovered two things: It had seen better days, and it was not the original motor. I saw no point spending money on it, or keeping it."
With his part of the project completed, James turned his Corvette over to Jason Cavenagh of Classic Fabrications in Wollongong, New South Wales, and asked him to create a custom work of art. Cavenagh found the fiberglass body a challenge. He had to focus special attention on the fitment of the fenders and doors, and he took many hours bullying the body panels until they lined up even better than they had on the assembly line. Then he worked the body with filler primer until it was laser straight, following with epoxy primer and a three-stage custom yellow paint produced by DeBeers. Finally, he made one modification to the original body. At James' request he painted and installed an L88 "Stinger" hood.


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poohcarrot wrote:Jan Van Quirm wrote:The life-timer is a 'tracking' type device for Lu -Tse only, as he's a mortal depite being able to postpone his own death.
Now - something that's been niggling at me - Wen's servant (guess what - forgotten his name already ). Does he remind anyone else of Lu Tse?
First paragraph; He can postpone his own death even longer now because of the decapitation trick. When he dies, he will be sent back in time to when he had his head chopped off, so won't make the same mistake again, so not die.
Second paragraph; No, because he's stupid.
You think so? Woot! *rolls up sleeves*
Is he stupid? Weren't we all stupid when we were much, much younger and before we knew better? It was more the attitude I meant. Parts of it just seemed to fit in with all the sending up that Lu-Tse does about just being a sweeper and never doing the mainstream History Monk things in a properly inscrutable and reverent fashion.


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On a special edition of the This is Awesome Wrestling Show, Glenn Moore is joined by the new TNA World Champion Ethan Carter III.
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Figure of a Bound Foreign Prisoner
The ancient Egyptians thought of their country as the center of the ordered universe and frequently viewed everything and everyone outside it as part of the threatening eternal chaos within which the universe was created. Because of the importance of images and their manipulation in Egyptian magic, the Egyptians believed that representations of bound foreigners (here a Nubian) could be ritually "tortured" or buried to aid in the magical subjugation of potential malign forces.
- Culture: Egyptian
- Medium: Limestone
- Possible Place Made: Thebes, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1979-1801 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XII Dynasty (possibly)
- Period: Middle Kingdom (possibly)
- Dimensions: 4 7/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (11.3 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
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- Accession Number: 73.23
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Egyptian. Figure of a Bound Foreign Prisoner, ca. 1979-1801 B.C.E. Limestone, 4 7/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (11.3 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 73.23. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: One figure of a bound Nubian prisoner worked in very soft limestone. Kneeling with arms pulled behind back. Wearing a short wig. An ear plug (?) in right ear worked in the stone, gone from left ear. Features worn. Torse very long. Traces of dark red-brown over all flesh areas most of which remains on back. Traces of black on hair. Condition: Most paint gone. Surface abrasions and worn areas, nose and mouth very worn.
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Martinez was expected to speak about small business issues and discuss economic priorities for the 2013 legislative session
140 pairs of underwear stolen from store hit by 4 bra heists
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — First they took the bras. Now they've come back for the panties. Police say 140 pairs of underwear have been stolen from a northeast Pennsylvania store that's been struck by four bra heists since February. Full Story
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America welcomes July 4 with hot dogs, cool music, cold beer
As the nation gears up to celebrate America's birthday, here are some Fourth of July highlights from around the country: ——— IN AMERICA'S BIRTHPLACE: CONCERTS, A PARADE AND BEER Philadelphia started its Fourth of July celebration a little early. Full Story
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Lindsey Vonn reportedly caught golfer with his competitor's ex-wife, which is likely why they aren't dating anymore.


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I'm the son of an immigrant. My dad and his family had very little when they came to North America, but the navigated the system and became American citizens...more importantly than that he AND my grandparents became American.
What kind of twilight zone did we enter where it was controversial to criminalize illegal immigration?
Thats what Arizona just did, and you would think if you listen to liberals that the state just turned into some kind of conservative San Francisco. Requiring strangers in this land to identify themselves (this doesn't mean they are not welcome...to the contrary) used to be part of the American way.
Now media like CNN are trying to claim the state is now polarized as if some racist fringe thrust this on the population like it was ObamaCare. Meanwhile Rassmussen finds 70% of likely voters favor the bill.
If Republicans controlled 70% of congress right now...they would repeal Obamacare, watch Obama use his veto pen for something other than sketching new ways he can work his logo to the most innocuous of wrds...and then they would vaporize his veto.
But at CNN 70% favorability of opposing illegal immigration is "polarizing." This can only mean that Nobel prize winning mathematicians work at CNN.
Compare the Tea Party to the people protesting Arizona's AB 1070. Arizona has needed riot police and have been making arrests against protesters who being hailed as "mostly peaceful".
This of course is contrasted with the the totally peaceful Tea Party, who don't even lay a finger on Nancy Pelosi while she rubs the impending passage of ObamaCare in their faces, and yet earn the title of Timothy McVeigh Jr. from the likes of Bill Clinton
A lot has been said about the Tea Party taking similar tones, and just about none of it is provable. However, we do know that liberals via websites like crashtheparty.org have set out to pose as Tea Party members holding misspelled signs and engaging in bad behavior to make them look like the thugs in Arizona.
I've been witnessing these kind of shenanigans since I started paying attention to politics as a teenager, yet the audacity with which the liberal leaning news media tries to just flat out rewrite reality never ceases to amaze me.


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Utah may not be fully reimbursed for reopening national parks
10/22/2013 7:51amThere's no guarantee the state will get back all of the $1.7 million paid to the federal government to reopen Utah's national parks during the shutdown, a deputy chief of staff to Gov. Gary Herbert said Monday.
Utah auditor wants changes for taxpayer-funded vehicles
10/22/2013 9:14amIt doesn't look like Utah lawmakers will do much about taxpayer funded cars for top state officials, though one elected official wants to change the policy.
Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags
10/22/2013 6:43pmCrammed into conference rooms with pizza for dinner, some programmers building the Obama administration's showcase health insurance website were growing increasingly stressed. Some worked past 10 p.m., energy drinks in hand. Others rewrote computer code over and over to meet what they considered last-minute requests for changes from the government or other contractors.
'We've got to unify' says Sen. Hatch of GOP after gov't shutdown
10/22/2013 7:39pmUtah Senator Orrin Hatch said the recent government shutdown hurt the Republican Party, but that they have a plan to bounce back from the bad image.
Columnist George Will goes 'One on One' on state of the Republican Party
10/22/2013 10:45pmOne of the most outspoken conservative journalists in America was in Utah Tuesday. George Will, a Fox News Channel contributor and columnist for the Washington Post, addressed BYU students and then sat down for a "One on One" interview with KSL's Dave McCann.
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huh ? guess it's funny if you're drunk and 13. or something.
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You must be 13 if you didn't understand what the man is writing there and is trying to say. I guess you are not old enough to know because you probably were born after Seagal became famous so you don't know the story behind it. It's OK.
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Humour is a very...individual thing. What you may find hilarious may be deathly boring for others. Don't be offended, nor flame users should your particular brand of humour differ.
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I laughed. But to be fair it was just cause the article itself didn't get anything out of me, but I then scrolled back up and saw the site slogan on their banner.
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The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower is the Coachella Valley's premier provider for videoconferencing services. The conference center's state-of-the-art technology can be used to convene groups of any size from multiple locations around the globe. Whether organizations need to convene a large group meeting, set up a deposition, or just facilitate a long-distance, oneon- one conversation, Annenberg's technology can accommodate them.
"Videoconferencing offers a multitude of business benefits, including increased productivity, cost savings, faster decision making, improved access to talent, and employee convenience, so it is widely used by both large and small firms, as well as non-profits," says Phil Dombrowski, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences. "But securing the right technology can be expensive. At Annenberg, we can offer organizations all the advantages of videoconferencing while saving them the capital investment."
The videoconference center at Annenberg delivers "telepresence" quality, high definition video and audio, which allows users to achieve a real meeting experience. This can be as simple as a point-to-point conversation between two people to several sites (multi-point) with more groups of people involved. The technology at Annenberg uses advanced fiber optics, which allows for clear, real-time visuals and crisp, true sound. Presentations, documents and multimedia can be shared with all participants, enabling everyone to collaborate more effectively. The overall experience simulates a face-to-face meeting as closely as possible, without the cost and time lost to travel.
The teleconference system is set up in an executive board style conference room that seats up to 20 participants comfortably. The room is equipped with two 52-inch HD (high definition) LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors, two HD video cameras, a comprehensive sound system, and multiple data ports for computer connections. The system was installed by GBH Communications, whose other clients include, among others: The Walt Disney Company, Expedia, Inc.®, FedEx®, American Express®, the State of Washington and Yahoo!®.
According to Dombrowski, the videoconference center is seeing a wide variety of uses. "Our medical staff can use the center to set up a virtual classroom for physicians," shares Dombrowski. "Local attorneys have used it to take depositions, several companies have staged multi-site meetings, and the Annenberg Board used the system to interview a potential board member." Dombrowski says physicians can also use videoconferencing to consult with experts from other medical institutions, or to "virtually" attend medical meetings or conferences.


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ChristianBecker wrote:jaznbonnie wrote:Also the book "Where's My Cow" and sent it to my daughter so she can raise my up coming grandchild properly.
That's very considerate of you. What would your daughter do without you?
Dunno Christian. Probably register her Baby Shower gifts with Amazon.
Catsup, when I was in Jr. High, I used steam rollers every morning. Left them in while I got everything else done and then brushed the curls into place. Of course my hair was stick straight again by noon.