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Authorities have released the name of a California Highway Patrol officer who was killed in an off-duty motorcycle crash.
CHP officials say John Fanene died after the motorcycle he was riding clipped a pickup truck that had turned in front of him on Highway 12 near Fairfield around 5:45 p.m. Friday. The impact knocked Fanene off his motorcycle, where he was hit by a car traveling in the opposite direction.
The 38-year-old Fanene was pronounced dead at the scene. A resident of Napa, he was a 14-year-veteran of the department.
Sgt. Diana McDermott says the incident remains under investigation, but no arrests have been made, and drugs or alcohol were not believed to be a factor in the crash.

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INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV. — Follow the yellow brick road to Oz and relive the 60s (from a safe distance!). Sierra Nevada College Choir's season ending Broadway Review featuring music from "Hair" and "The Wizard of Oz" and other Broadway musicals is slated for Wednesday, May 9, 7 p.m., Patterson Hall at Sierra Nevada College. Tickets available at the door for $10 per person (kids free).
Hum along as the SNC choir performs "Over the Rainbow," "We're off to see the Wizard," "The Merry Old Land of Oz," and all the Wizard of Oz favorites. Featuring "munchkins"-as members of the Lullaby League and the Lollypop Guild. The cowardly lion, tin man, and scarecrow will also be there.
The program will also feature music from "Hair," the musical, bringing back "The Age of Aquarius," and "Let the Sun Shine In."
Highlights from other musicals will be sung by soloists Jaycee Lanza, Lauren Upton, Zoey Gustafson, Natalie Dyjak, Mariposa Gollery, Caroline Kaplan, Helene Larson, Karen Colbert, Joanie Nygren, Lorelei Van Peborgh, Bill Roberts, Dave Marelich, Marty Gollery and Ron Havens. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, www.sierranevada.edu.


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NORTH LIMA - Motorist on state Route 7 near the North Lima Ohio Turnpike exchange will see a temporary 100-foot tall derrick as part of the scenery.
D&L Energy Group on Monday said the final construction phase for a brine injection well have begun.
"This equipment is to assist with improvement plans approved by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)," the company said in a press release.
Bore pipe will be removed, allowing D&L to apply a cement footing to the bottom of the well. "This footing will act as a buffer and prevent injected material from entering lower rock formations - primarily the Precambrian," the company said.
The bore pipe, which had been maintaining the integrity of the well in preparation for this phase of work, will be re-inserted after the cement floor fully cures and is tested.
The work is expected to take about one week. Vince Bevacqua, executive vice president of ShaleComm, said no date is set to begin active injection, but it could be during the last quarter of this year or in the first quarter of 2013.
D&L Energy said ODNR representatives will be on site to oversee the entire project.
The well will accept brine from anywhere. Ohio has a surcharge for out-of-state waste customers.
Oil-field brine is a saline byproduct generated during oil and gas well operations, the ODNR said. Approximately 98 percent of all brine is safely disposed of by injection back into brine-bearing or depleted oil and gas formations deep below the surface. Nearly 2 percent is spread for dust and ice control subject to local government approval and requirements.
Bevacqua said the well will be 9,581 feet deep, about 500 less than originally planned. "They're taking a lot of the older and shallower wells and re-purposing them," he said.
There are about 180 injection wells around the state, he said, noting the nearest injection well is about 7.3 miles southwest of North Lima and is owned by White Energy.
Senate Bill 315 was signed into law in June and allows ODNR to keep a closer eye on brine haulers by detailed tracking and requires injection well owners to electronically transmit detailed, quarterly reports to ODNR with information about each shipment. Other provisions in the law call for unannounced injection well inspections every 11-12 weeks as compared to the United States EPA's once a year inspections; requires continuous mechanical integrity monitoring or monthly tests to demonstrate the mechanical integrity.
The public can view hydraulic fracturing fluid compositions used at specific wells at www.fracfocus.org. ODNR is in the process of developing a searchable database where the public can also view the chemicals used in wells.
Last December, the ODNR shut down an injection well operated by Northstar Disposal Services in Youngstown after a series of minor earthquakes within two miles of the well, which began operations three months ahead of the first quake.
Each registered at 2.7 magnitude or lower until a 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. 31. Geologists say earthquakes above a 4.0 in magnitude will typically cause surface damage.
An investigation learned the earthquakes were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, according to state regulators. The Youngstown-area well has been the only site with seismic activity, the ODNR said.
"The has never been an injection well that either failed or polluted nearby water and land," Bevacqua said.


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Monday, August 5, 2013
At the start of last season, Bishop England football coach John Cantey fielded the same questions as he did Friday morning during the Battling Bishops' first official practice.
"Is there more pressure this season because you're defending a state title?"
"Who will your starting quarterback be?"
"How will you deal with losing so many key players to graduation?"
And, Cantey answered them similarly. "It's a 2013 team, and that's how we see it," he said. "I know we're going to get everybody's best shot, but really, we're just focused on getting better.
"Repeat, 3-peat, all that stuff really doesn't fall into our vocabulary at all."
He's no Bill Belichick, as far as media relations, but what else is he supposed to say? The reality is 20 seniors graduated, both possible starting quarterback options have question marks and you can't just do everything the same from the previous year with different personnel and expect the same results.
Cantey is a master of adjustments. When his starting quarterback and primary source of offense at the time, Nick Theos, was taken out of commission for several weeks with a high ankle sprain, Cantey adapted. Other capable players assumed larger roles and the playbook was subject to revisions to make way for new starter Kevin Herbst. Herbst, by the way, was the most valuable player of the state title game and Theos scored a touchdown to help the Bishops repeat as 2A champions.
Nick Shiver, Reed Fosberry, Jack Wilson and Hudson Little are among those who must step up this season.
Fosberry and Wilson are battling for the starting quarterback position. A key requirement: being able to run the option.
Shiver tallied the second-most receiving yards, fifth-most rushing yards (6.3 yards per carry average) and led the team in interceptions with six last year.
Little, a junior offensive lineman, has garnered a great deal of major Division I interest, including Georgia, South Carolina, NC State, Clemson and Georgia Tech.
Defensively, the Bishops held their opponents to 14 points or less 10 times – of 14 games. "We'll establish a solid defense, and we'll get back to where we were," Cantey said. "Defense is our priority."
Establishing championship form isn't easy, but it's not unfamiliar territory for Cantey. "It's going to be an education for these young guys," he said. "They don't realize how much we're going to get from other teams. We're going to have to practice harder than normal."
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SELINSGROVE - When the Warner family moved to rural Central Pennsylvania in 1979, they missed their community of Filipino friends.
The Danville family began hosting picnics and parties as they met and befriended other area Filipino families.
Three to five families met together a couple times a year for food and fellowship. But as the years passed, the parties grew.
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Cora Dodd, of McClure, and Ida Warner, of Danville, talk together during a recent Filipino-American Christmas Party in Selinsgrove.
On Dec. 9, about 100 people attended the 18th annual Filipino-American Christmas Party in Selinsgrove, an event birthed by the Warners' gatherings.
"People kept inviting more people and inviting more people," Ida Warner said. "We're a social people."
Now more young people attend, and Warner said that is who these parties really are for - continuing the traditions.
Her son, Jim, now an adult, remembered the summer cookouts and Christmas parties as a child, when the families gathered at each others' houses.
"It was important for us to have those connections, to keep our background," Jim Warner said.
Cora Dodd, of McClure, and her husband, Mike, were in charge of organizing this year's party after Ida Warner decided to "retire" from the position.
Along with a meal, the Dodds hosted games for the children, decorated the hall and performed traditional Philippine and American Christmas songs.
The party began at 5 p.m., but families slowly trickled in until past 6 p.m., when the food was served.
Everyone brought a dish for the party's giant pot-luck dinner. The tables were laden with traditional Filipino Christmas food such as roasted pork, chicken, lumpia (small egg rolls), pancit (thin noodles with vegetables and meat) and purple rice cakes (soft, chewy sweets that taste a little bit like licorice).
Many of the dishes were the same as those typically served at the traditional large Christmas Eve dinner in the Philippines. The meal, or Noche Buena, begins after the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.
The Philippines is a predominantly Catholic country where Christmas celebrations begin with Masses on Dec. 16. These set of nine services begin at about 4 a.m. and are called the Simbang Gabi, or night of worship. One popular belief is that after attending all nine Masses, a special wish will be granted by God.
In the Philippines, Christmas officially ends on Epiphany, or the day when the three kings visited Jesus. Some say the country hosts the longest Christmas celebration in the world, with hints of the holiday popping up as early as September.


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The Oscar-winning star, again nominated this year as Best Actor for playing Nelson Mandela in Invictus, says he's never fully healed after the August 2008 crash.
"I suffered nerve damage and it hasn't gotten better. I can't move it," Freeman, 72, said at Wednesday's Los Angeles County Museum of Art premiere of The Eastwood Factor, a documentary about the storied career of Freeman's friend and frequent director, Clint Eastwood. (The featurette is part of the 19-disc Warner Home Video collection, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., which was released Tuesday.)
"If you don't move your hand, it will swell up," Freeman said. "Do you know you move your hand about a million times a day?"
Freeman's car veered off the road and flipped over several times in the late-night accident in Mississippi. He was then extracted from the wreckage with the jaws of life and airlifted to a nearby hospital, where for several days he remained in serious condition.
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Helicopter Passengers, Crew Held By Taliban
KABUL—At least 10 civilians, including eight Turkish nationals, are feared to be in the custody of the Taliban after a civilian cargo helicopter made an emergency landing in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, Afghan and Turkish officials said.
Eight Turkish nationals have been detained in Afghanistan after their chartered Mi-8 helicopter was forced to land, said Levent Gumrukcu, a spokesman at the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara. He added that two crew members had also been captured.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid disputed the Turkish statement and claimed on Monday that the insurgents captured alive 11 "foreigners" aboard a "U.S.-NATO helicopter," which he said carried "American military officers" and two translators before being forced to land by bad weather.
"The foreign forces, by disassociating themselves from the helicopter, are trying to make it seem as the detainees are civilians but denial will not benefit them as all were captured while wearing American military uniforms," Mr. Mujahid said.
A Western official said that there were no Americans aboard the chopper. In addition to the eight Turks, it carried a Russian and a Kyrgyz crew member, and one Afghan citizen, he said.
Turkish authorities assumed that the crew and passengers were in good condition because they hadn't received any information to the contrary, Mr. Gumrukcu said. "We're working closely with Afghan officials on the issue," he said.
Afghan officials said on Monday that a chartered helicopter had been forced down by bad weather in the Mangal valley, an isolated area of Logar province south of Kabul. A senior provincial security official said the aircraft had been secured by government forces, but that all personnel on board had been abducted by the Taliban.
The valley, the official said, "is a very remote area and hard to access."
While predominantly Muslim Turkey is a member of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, its troops don't usually take part in combat operations. Ankara has also been generally supportive of Islamist political parties in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Recognizing Turkey's growing regional stature, the Taliban last month released a Turkish engineer who had been detained two years earlier for being involved in "suspicious activities." The Taliban last month said the man was released to Turkish representatives in the Sah Padar area of Tagab district, Kapisa province, as a "goodwill gesture."
German Brig. Gen. Günter Katz, spokesman for the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force, said the coalition was assisting the Afghan authorities in efforts to recover the missing helicopter.
Both the U.S.-led coalition and the international community in Afghanistan rely heavily on contracted aircraft to move supplies, personnel and equipment around the country. Cargo helicopters and fixed-wing planes provide supplies to military bases and support reconstruction projects, particularly in areas where it is too dangerous to move by road.
The Russian-designed Mi-8 helicopter was chartered by Khorasan Cargo Airlines, Mr. Gumrukcu said. According to a company website, Afghanistan-based Khorasan operates Mi-8 T and Mi-17 helicopters and An-26 twin-engine turboprops.
A representative of Khorasan in the United Arab Emirates declined to comment. The company's Afghanistan office couldn't be reached by telephone.
The U.S.-led military coalition referred inquiries on the matter to the Turkish embassy in Kabul; the embassy wasn't immediately able to comment.
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Man flees, then arrested by Modesto police
Officer believed man matched attacker description
Modesto police arrested a man Wednesday who ran away from an officer who spotted him, believing he matched a description of an attacker.
The Modesto Police Department later said that he was not linked to a sexual assault that occurred last week.
Photos: Active scene develops during arrest
Police said the man ran away once the officer approached him.
The officer then called for backup, and a perimeter was established. Officers went door-to-door and used K-9s in an effort to locate the man.
It was an active scene during the arrest. People on the street were yelling as he was handcuffed and escorted by police.
The man was taken into custody on a bail warrant.
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ALBANY – Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was sounding confident Wednesday after what he described as "significant talks" Tuesday night by representatives of the county, state and Buffalo Bills about keeping the team from leaving town.
Poloncarz said earlier discussions about a short-term, one-year deal to give the sides more time to resolve issues are now off the table, and all sides are focused on a multiyear effort that would include public financing – including capital and some operating costs – for the team in return for a commitment to stay.
"It's a complicated deal. I like the position we're in, but we're not there yet," Poloncarz said Wednesday in an interview with The Buffalo News at the State Capitol.
Poloncarz would not say, as some county sources have indicated, that a deal had been imminent before Superstorm Sandy hit in October.
The negotiations did take what Poloncarz said was an understandable back seat to Sandy's recovery efforts, because the two leading negotiators for the state – Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy and State Operations Director Howard Glaser – were heavily involved in downstate storm matters.
"When Hurricane Sandy hit, that was the No. 1 priority, truthfully, for all New Yorkers," said Poloncarz, who was in Albany for an economic development meeting. He added, "So I'm not going to make any criticism of them walking away when Hurricane Sandy hit because it was the No. 1 priority not only for New York State but, truthfully, every community on the East Coast."
As a result of the storm, there was a three-week halt in the daily phone conversations and emails among state, county and team negotiators. State and county officials say the talks have now resumed.
Joshua Vlasto, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and Scott Berchtold of the Bills both declined to comment Wednesday afternoon.
While Poloncarz did not provide details about the talks, his choice of words about a possible deal – like "when" an agreement happens, not "if" – were revealing.
"We made a lot of progress," the county executive said.
He said the talks are complicated, and if there is a final deal, it will entail multiple documents that will be well in excess of six inches high.
"It all comes down to we want to ensure this team's here for a significant time period, so if we're going to invest public dollars to renovate Ralph Wilson Stadium and assist the Bills with operating assistance as we have in the past, then we also want to ensure they're there for some period," he said.
Poloncarz described Tuesday night's negotiating session as "significant" and "very good."
Some observers have theorized the Bills may want a short-term deal because of health problems confronting Ralph Wilson, the team's aging owner, and ownership issues that may arise upon his death.
But Poloncarz said he believes all sides – the county, state and team – are committed to a longer-term deal instead of a temporary, one-year type of arrangement. "There was a discussion at one point," he said of a shorter-term arrangement, "but I think everyone realizes why do a short-term lease if we can get a long-term lease done now."
Four times during the interview, Poloncarz repeated the phrase: "I like the position we're in."
But he said the sides also have agreed not to make any announcement on a potential deal.
There also has been speculation about possible ownership groups forming that may make offers to buy the team when Wilson dies. But the county executive said he's had no talks with any such entities.
"We are negotiating and dealing with the Buffalo Bills organization, starting with Ralph Wilson to the CFO [chief financial officer] Jeff Littmann and CEO [chief executive officer] Russ Brandon. There's no talk of anyone else, nor am I aware of anything with regards to a successor organization," he said.
Poloncarz said Wilson is doing everything he can to keep the team in Buffalo. "He could have left many years ago. He's had a long-standing commitment to this community, and he's proven that commitment once again by wanting to ensure that this team is here for many years to come," he said.
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E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport - Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems
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Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport's research contributions laid the foundations for the theory of distributed systems. He currently works in Microsoft Research where most of his time is spent developing formal semantics (with mathematical logic) for specifying and reasoning about algorithms.
Here, Dr. Erik Meijer, computer scientist and programming language/library designer, sits down with Dr. Lamport to discuss several aspects of Dr. Lamport's body of work in computer science.
Dr. Lamport's TLA, the Temporal Logic of Actions, is a logic for specifying and reasoning about concurrent and reactive systems. TLA+ is the latest incarnation of this formal specification toolset.
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"When you understand something, then you can find the math to express that understanding. The math doesn't provide the understanding."
That's just one awesome quote
Agreed. Leslie is full of wisdom. It was a pleasure to meet him.
@Charles: So, maybe PEP is related to concurrency after all. (re: http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/534390-Friday-Non-Sequitur-Why-we-dont-implode/)
This reminds me of Wesner Moise's article about specification languages.
I'd be interested in hearing more precisely what Microsoft is using TLA+2 for.
...And whether there is a convergence underway with all the specification languages at Microsoft (AsmL being another; Spec# being another still, etc.)
Will do. I think we'll dig into TLA specifically next time Leslie is in town.
Another great quote is at 48:48 (excellent time point, too): "The mathematics of computing; things like sets and functions and logic, are to computing what real numbers are to physics."
He is also the author of LaTeX.
He is indeed. He and Erik didn't talk about that, however. The conversation was squarely focused on mathematical reasoning, algorithms and distributed systems...
That was very interesting and gives pause of thought on my software designs.
Thanks for the interview.
After listening to this carefully, weighing the thoughts and information that were provided, trying to listen carefully to detect a glimmer of proof that the interviewee knew how to apply his insights to the real world, I concluded that the guy that's going to change the way I program is the one with the short hair-cut. My fault, I'm an engineer that wears loud shirts.
Thanks for the info!
Congratulations, Leslie!
Finally Erik is back!!!
@Hans Schenker: Back to the future :)
We have to get him in the present tense. Sadly, he won't be in the Bay Area for build, otherwise we would have had him live! :(
One of these days. Magic ball says: sometime in May...
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Sheena and Loyd, it's sad but I wish they would have gotten together though I can live with Loyd and Collette~All shall wither and die before my eyes~(-Otaku Graduate-)
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Curve players who want to know what it was like to play for a winning Pirates team can ask their new manager.
Former Bucco infielder Carlos Garcia was named the seventh manager in Curve history on Friday, and one thing he can draw upon to help get through to his players is a solid major league career that saw him earn a National League All-Star nod in 1994.
"I was where they want to go," Garcia, a 45-year-old native of Venezuela, said by phone Friday from Buffalo. "It's a long, long road to the big leagues, and not everybody's going to make it. But I'll be able to relay to them what they need to do to get to that level."
Garcia first reached the major leagues for a four-game cup of coffee in 1990 with the Pirates, then played 12 games in 1991 and 22 in 1992. He was on the Bucs' postseason roster for the memorable 1992 NL Championship Series against the Braves and went 0-for-1, batting in the second game of the series.
The 1990-92 seasons were the last glory days for baseball in Pittsburgh, three years when the Pirates won division titles.
"It was a strong team," Garcia said, "and a really good experience."
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New manager
Name: Carlos Garcia
Age: 45
Personal: Venezuela native; played for Pirates from 1990-96; NL All-Star in 1994; played in 1992 NLCS against Braves; played in 610 MLB games over 10 seasons, batting .266 with 33 homers, 197 RBIs and .682 OPS; managed at high-A Bradenton the past two years; served as Pirates' first base coach in 2010; was on Mariners' major league staff from 2005-08.
Minor league coaches
Coaching assignments for the Pirates' affiliates, listed as manager, pitching coach and hitting coach:
Triple-A Indianapolis: Dean Treanor, Tom Filer, Mike Pagliarulo
Double-A Altoona: Carlos Garcia, Stan Kyles, Ryan Long
High-A Bradenton: Frank Kremblas, Justin Meccage, Edgar Varela
Low-A West Virginia: Michael Ryan, Jeff Johnson, Orlando Merced
Short-A Jamestown: Dave Turgeon, Mike Steele, Kory DeHaan
Rookie GCL: Milver Reyes, Miguel Bonilla, Mike Lum
Notes: Reyes and DeHaan are former Curve players; Ryan is an Indiana, Pa., native who spent last season on the Curve's staff
The Pirates haven't had many good experiences losing for the last 20 years. And unfortunately for Garcia, he didn't become an everyday player for the Bucs until 1993, which was the start of the franchise's two-decade losing streak.
Garcia wasn't to blame for the losing during his tenure with the Bucs, which ran through 1996. The team's second baseman - taking over after Jose "Chico" Lind left for Kansas City in 1993 - Garcia was a solid player offensively and defensively. He batted .269, .277, .294 and .285 in his four years as the everyday second baseman, and he hit a career-high 12 homers in 1993.
Garcia was the Pirates' lone All-Star in the 1994 game at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium and hit a single in his only at-bat.
He batted .266 in 610 big league games for the Pirates, Blue Jays, Angels and Padres, and that kind of successful playing career is something his Double-A players can respect from their manager.
"I think big league playing experience gives guys instant credibility," Pirates assistant general manager Kyle Stark said. "I think it gives potentially some personal experiences to draw upon. But at the end of the day, he's a guy that he can lead and motivate, and that's what guys are going to get drawn to.
"A player wants to know: Do you care about me, can I trust you, can you help get me better? The fact that he played in the big leagues gives the impression that he can help get me better, but ultimately the player has got to answer in his own mind those questions. And that's where the separator comes in whether a guy can be an impactful staff member or not."
Garcia replaces P.J. Forbes, who spent the past two years as the Curve's manager but is no longer with the Pirates' organization. Hitting coach Ryan Long will return to Altoona, and the new pitching coach will be Stan Kyles, who replaces Jeff Johnson. Kyles spent the past 3 1/2 years as the Milwaukee Brewers' bullpen coach.
Mike Zalno will be the Curve's trainer for the third straight year.
Garcia managed the Pirates' high-A Bradenton affiliate the past two seasons, going 134-140, so he's familiar with most of the players who will be on the Curve this season. He also served as the Pirates' first base coach in 2010 and was on the Seattle Mariners' major league staff from 2005-07.
"Carlos' vast playing and coaching experience, he brings a consistent professionalism in how he leads the guys," Stark said.
"Carlos has shown in his role, whether that be as a coordinator or as an A-ball manager or in the big leagues, I think the players know he's with them every day and is pulling for them. Those guys trust and know that Carlos is going to be there for them every day."
Garcia said he understands what the minor league players are trying to achieve their goals, and he takes pride in helping them try to reach their maximum potential every day.
"I'm definitely going to hold guys accountable," Garcia said. "If you want to play for me, you have to be able to come to the ballpark and be ready to play."
Garcia said he most enjoys seeing the players' "desire to learn, the responsibility, the way to be able to handle themselves, to work, the way they show me that they want to be able to get the job done."


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NIAGARA FALLS – A city man was arraigned Monday on charges he stabbed a neighbor on Saturday.
Gerale D. Jones, 31, of Hyde Park Boulevard, was charged with first-degree assault. He is being held in the Niagara County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail. A return court date to in City Court was set for Friday.
Jones is accused of stabbing James L. Kemp, 53, another resident of his apartment complex at 3204 Hyde Park Blvd., police said.
Kemp was found by officers about 3:30 a.m. Saturday on a second-floor landing and was bleeding heavily from wounds to his head and left side, according to police. Kemp was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he was treated and discharged on Sunday.
Jones turned himself in at police headquarters several hours after the attack, police said.


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I used to take photos of my kids on the first of every month, now it's on the fourth. Four for four... get it? You can see past month photos here.
December 4, 2011
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I used to take photos of my kids on the first of every month, now it's on the fourth. Four for four... get it? You can see past month photos here.
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i love, love that you have an entire year of them together. I might just steal your idea, it's brilliant!ReplyDelete
Oh I love these. I am totally stealing your idea for next year.ReplyDelete
Also, Amelia came home from Church today and changed out of her dress into another dress (and now another). Love these girlie girls.
Thank you for recapping the whole year of "Fours." What a joy to see your kiddos being goofy and sweet and grow up the past year. Four little blessings!ReplyDelete
That's hilarious about Ivy. At least she wears clothes. Axel strips down to his undies at every possible opportunity. Runs around in his spiderman tighties covering that tiny little tush. I'd love to see him paired up with a tutu-ed Ivy again. :)ReplyDelete
I'm totally doing the four on the fourth next year! Brilliant, beautiful idea :)ReplyDelete
Your kids are darling. And growing WAY too fast.
So fun. I love her stealth tutu wearing. I let Lily wear hers as much as possible. Why not when you are the age you can pull it off? I wonder I can remember to do a six on the sixth? I want to.ReplyDelete
Oh see how the grow - sob!!! My oldest went from a size 3 shoe in January to a 5 in March to a 9 in September... Any bigger and he can just wear his dad's. This is the kid that spent six months in newborn clothes - how did it happen!!! I blinked and my infant became a man-child with a voice as deep as the ocean... loving it - you have lots to look forward to!!! Hard as it is to see them grow I love the new horizons they point towards!!!ReplyDelete
Love the photos through the year! I'm going to steal it for next year.ReplyDelete
Also, Zoe is in a women's size 8. An EIGHT.
I agree with ZDub...I think I may steal your idea. I'll do mine on the fifth, though. ;)ReplyDelete
I love your idea! Do you do an album or scrapbook of all of them, all the months and years together? What a neat idea. I'd have to do it on the 3rd...ReplyDelete
I love (and am completely content) having only two, but seeing your four makes me want more!!ReplyDelete
again, I so love this! I've been doing it too, can't wait until I have a whole year to compare! :)ReplyDelete
I remember each one of these.ReplyDelete
I can't believe how much your family has grown in the past few years.
- Also StephDecember 06, 2011 7:28 AM
I can't believe how much Ivy has grown throughout this year! You have the most adorable kids!ReplyDelete
I hope you plan to make a coffee table book with all your fourth pictures. They're super cheap this time of year...ReplyDelete


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Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, in an interview with Reuters, delved into the topic of tablets. When asked whether Microsoft was concerned about the iPad and other tablets affecting the company's dominance of the PC market, he states, "Devices are going to go and come." Microsoft is currently partnering with Intel to roll out 10 or more Windows tablets this year. But those tablets, like the currently available HP Slate 500, don't have an operating system refined for touch (they run Windows 7). And while they may offer compatibility for some files that competing tablets cannot (e.g. the iOS-powered iPad and Android devices), they are expected to also have inferior battery life, as Intel Atom SoCs are currently less power-efficient than competitive ARM SoCs used in these rivals. In the long term Microsoft plans to fix those problems by embracing ARM and releasing a version of Windows fine-tuned for tablets. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced that Windows 8 will support ARM processors at CES 2011. Much like Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Microsoft's Windows 8 will also have a build refined for a touch-driven tablet world. But Windows 8 may not arrive until 2012 -- or later. Recent reports revealed that when tablets are factored in to Apple's PC market share, it jumps to number two on the list of top worldwide PC sellers, passing Dell. And Android devices are heating up too, with the Samsung Galaxy Tab selling well and Honeycomb devices launching this Spring. Mr. Courtois says that even if Microsoft faces an uphill battle in the tablet market, those problems will be offset by Microsoft information technology gains in developing markets. He states, "We see some growth across the world both in developed countries and in emerging countries and that helps the IT spending (outlook)."
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quote: You could give a clue, perhaps even a reasoned argument, as to what is wrong with my analysis.
quote: The hard part though is understanding when you are one of these people...because they don't know it. Here is one way to tell. Picture you're in a large pitch black warehouse with many other people. How do you tell when you are standing in the center? Fact is you can't. You can hear an equal number of voices from every direction but that may be due to an unequal distribution. Here is one thing you can tell though..when you are in the extreme. If ALL the voices are to one side then regardless of distribution you can be certain you are near a wall.So tell me Tony, who here has a more Pro-Apple view than you? That direction is silent of voices.
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quote: The reason I started posting around here was to counter the absurd anti-Apple hyperbole that seemed to have become the norm on this forum.


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In attendance, a royal trifecta: The Queen, Camilla and the Duchess of Cambridge (who wore a blue M Missoni coat with a daffodil and Rupert Sanderson pumps for St. David's Day) – with all three receiving special Jubilee picnic hampers that included dog treats.
"One thing in common with all the ladies is their love of a hound," says Kate Hobhouse, chairman of the Fortnum & Mason food store, on why the baskets included the venison-flavored dog biscuits, called Hearty Treats for Happy Hounds. "It was a little bit of fun."
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Perfect Cup of TeaAs for her personal tastes, she said, "I like a cup of tea, but it is my brother [James] who really likes his tea, as well." She even promised to send the sibling to the store, because, "he really does love his tea."
She apparently likes it, too. "I would really like to learn to make the perfect cup of tea, as when I last made a pot of tea with dried tea leaves I got it very wrong," Kate admitted.
At the confectionery stand piled high with chocolates, Kate chose a small, crystallized rose petal, which retails for about $10 per 3.5 oz.
"Gosh, it is very sweet," she said as a staffer suggested placing it in a glass of champagne. "I will definitely try that."
She added, "I love chocolate. I think all girls like chocolate."
Thursday's event was the first of two outings the Duchess is having with her grandmother-in-law while husband William is stationed in the Falkland Islands. Next week, she'll be in Leicester for a series of engagements with Her Majesty.
For more details on Kate's recent style choices and her solo royal outings while Prince William is deployed, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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COLUMBIANA - A city plant is facing almost $60,000 in fines after being cited by the U.S. Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) for violations.
It's not the first time the plant has been cited.
OSHA spokesman Scott Allen said Wednesday that in 2009 the Col-Pump Co. on East Railroad Street paid $2,250 in fines and penalties for seven citations, six of which were considered "serious" by the administration. The plant was originally facing $6,925 in fines for the violations but paid less as a result of reaching an informal settlement.
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A press release issued by the U.S. Department of Labor this week said the administration conducted an inspection at the facility on Sept. 14 after receiving a complaint about the lack of an effective hearing protection program.
During the inspection the administration found 10 health and safety violations and of those, two were considered willful violations and one a repeat violation.
The two willful violations involved failing to establish a baseline audiogram within six months of an employees' first exposure to noise above the action level of 85 decibels and to provide annual audiograms to workers exposed to noise levels at or above allowable levels, the release stated.
Howard Eberts, OSHA's area director in Cleveland, said in the release that the company's failure to reduce noise exposure and document employee hearing proficiency shows a "lack of concern for the safety and health of workers."
The company was also cited for failing to implement administrative and engineering controls to lower exposure to noise in the grinding area of the facility - a repeat violation from 2009.
Two serious violations found involved failing to maintain ladders in a safe condition and ensure machine guarding was affixed to a sand mixer system. Violations are considered serious when there is a "substantial" probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard the company is aware, or should already be aware of, according to the release.
The plant faces fines of $56,880 for the 10 violations. The Sept. 14 inspection was the 10th inspection conducted at the facility over the years.
Allen said if the company doesn't agree with the administration's findings, Col-Pump can contest them and the matter would go before an independent occupational and safety review commission. An administrative law judge would then determine the validity of the citations.
Paul Rance, co-owner of Col-Pump, told WKBN on Monday that the gray cast iron foundry is working with OSHA and that employees were never in danger.


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on November 9, 2012 - 6:23 PM
Who: Sweet Home Panthers (10-0) vs. Eastridge Lancers (10-0).
What: Class A football Far West Regionals.
When: Today, 8 p.m.
Where: Robert Rich Sr. All High Stadium.
Tickets: $10 for two-game session.
Radio: WXRL (1300 AM), wxrl.com and nhsbn.com.
Television (recorded): Time Warner Cable SportsChannel, Saturday time TBA.
Buffalo News large school poll: Sweet Home No. 2.
New York State Sportswriters Association Class A poll: Sweet Home No. 2, Eastridge No. 4.
Sweet Home in the regionals: Seventh appearance and sixth in a row. First regional against a team other than Aquinas, which has moved up to Class AA this year. Regional record is 2-4 with first appearance in 2002; Panthers are 2-3 in regionals the last five years. Sweet Home's wins in 2008 and 2009 came on their way to state championships.
Eastridge in the regionals: Second appearance. Lost to Iroquois, 67-48, in 2004.
Coaches: Sweet Home, John Faller, 27th season (189-71-1); Eastridge, Chad Green, seventh season (47-18).
Sweet Home key players (and statistics): Sr. QB Mike Torrillo, 6-2, 175 (95-163, 1,757 yards, 18 TDs, 3 INTs; 52-207, 2 TDs rush.); So. RB/DE Jordan Evert, 5-11, 175 (153-840, 14 TDs; 10-117, TD rec.); Sr. RB/DB Kahlil Humphrey 5-9, 165 (75-585, 2 TDs; 6-175 rec.); So. WR/LB Brad Zaffram, 6-0, 205 (24-689, 5 TDs; 76 tackles, 3 INTs); Sr. WR/DB Carter Mann, 6-3, 180 (18-294, 3 TDs; 2 INTs); Sr. WR/DB Calvin Martin, 6-3, 180 (15-254, 4 TDs); Sr. WR/LB Shaun Heubert, 5-11, 205 (84 tackles, 2 INTs); So. WR/LB Brandon Smiley, 6-0, 170 (67 tackles, 2 INTs); Sr. WR/DE Jashawn Marin, 5-10, 195 (84 tackles, 3 sacks), Jr. RB/DB Ethan Reger, 5-10, 165 (3 INTs).
Eastridge key players (and statistics): Sr. QB/DB Alec Mortillaro, 5-8, 165 (38-74, 635 yards, 10 TDs, 3 INTs; 103-1,036, 10 TDs rush.); Sr. RB/LB Jeremiah Ortiz, 5-9, 195 (152-1,211; 17 TDs; 6-104, 2 TDs rec.); Sr. RB Delano Reid, 5-11, 200 (57-293, 4 TDs; 6-66, 2 TDs rec.); Sr. WR/RB/DB Nate Corbett, 5-9, 165 (28-181, 4 TDs; 8-90 rec.); Sr. OL/DL Alex Officer, 6-4, 315 (26 tackles); Jr. OL/DL B.J. White, 6-3, 270 (36 tackles); Sr. OL/DL Chyron Brown-Wallace, 6-0, 275 (34 tackles).
How they got here: Sweet Home beat previously undefeated West Seneca East, 28-7, in Section VI final. Eastridge routed Canandaigua, 47-7, in Section V final.
Pre-snap read: Sweet Home just won its sixth straight sectional title, extending its win streak against Western New York opponents to 60. From 2007 to today, its only losses have come to Aquinas. Eastridge lost in the first round of sectionals the last three years. Won a deep Class A in Section V this year, which included Victor, Canandaigua, Brockport and McQuaid. Eastridge runs much more than it passes. Both teams will occassionally go to the double-wing; Sweet Home's package is nicknamed the "Big Bird." As was the case in the Section VI finals, Class A is the only regional that has two undefeated teams meeting.
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When does an algorithm turn alive?
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Posted 27 December 2005 - 02:09 PM
I think that article should try to force reader to think, there is no need to be too much "clear".
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Posted 27 December 2005 - 03:31 PM
The subject is very controversal and interesting, and I think one good way to make the article more clear should first avoid this "true lies" by avoiding the expressions "Everybody believes", "Everybody knows", and things like that. Other thing should not to make it a science article but still make it more clear. Avoid using fiction as base of "solid" arguments and rather than that make it as probably things... And of course, consider the target public of the magazine.
Thats it, just some hints i think could help.
PS: I guess making reference to some studies about psycology, about human behavior and about spirit stuff should be very wellcomed in that case, and of course, about AI itself
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I highly recommend it - very thought provoking...
And just to tie into Star Trek, David Gerrold also happened to write "The Trouble With Tribbles" when he was about 17.
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Posted 27 December 2005 - 04:08 PM
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Posted 28 December 2005 - 07:02 AM
Also, why not keep flaming frob? It's fun!
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Posted 28 December 2005 - 12:56 PM
I really enjoyed reading your beta-article, NQ. I think you're on to something. Surelly, it's not a technical proof or anything but it makes you wonder - and i believe that's what you're aiming for.
I must say i'm a bit divided though. I don't know if i believe in the ghost thing. (By the way, i think some people here misunderstood the meaning of the "ghost". It's nothing concrete. It's just what makes us human beings different from everything else [animals, machines, whatever]. Call it your aura or any other name.)
I don't know if i believe that we humans have something misterious that makes us... human. Maybe we just got lucky during the evolution of species and got the nicest brain. Well, i don't know. Like i said, i'm divided.
So i kind of agree with some of the stuff frob said. But he expressed himself badly and so he lost his arguments.
Nevertheless, like others also said, you should be carefull when implying that something is universally true. As you saw, there are those who don't agree. :)
So, half of me thinks that there will never be an AI as good as human intelligence. A simple example. If i ask you for a random number you'll give me one without blinking. But ask a machine for a (truly) random number, and Houston we've got a problem. Or just think about any NP-complete problem.
But the other half of me thinks the opposite. I'm an AI enthusiast myself and i know the amazing things you can do today with it. And i believe this is just the beginning. We'll probably be able to make an AI at least as good as a human's. Let me refrase this. I think we'll be able to make an AI that in turn will generate a much more powerfull AI. How?
Well, machines can already see, smell, hear, taste and feel with sensors (to some extent). And we have machine learning, neural networks and genetic algorithms. Why not, in a near future, leave several AIs interact with each other for a million years and see what they come up with? Probably something amazing... Man has been able to "artificialize" almost everything he wants. Why not a mind?
Oh well, we could talk about this for ages. It's a great subject, indeed.
Ah, almost forgot, i like the references you made to Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. I don't think you have to use technical examples. But, of course, that depends on your target audience.
And here are some more references that i thought of:
- Human mind vs logic mind in Star Trek (Dr. McCoy vs Mr. Spock)
- HAL fighting for survival in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The machine that wants to be human in Steven Spielberg's AI
- The evolution of the machines in the first 2 episodes of The Animatrix
- An AI that doesn't know it's artificial in Blade Runner (Rachael)
Good luck with your article.
And people, don't flame me just because i have an opinion. :)
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Posted 28 December 2005 - 01:00 PM
Original post by Blew
If i ask you for a random number you'll give me one without blinking.
Think so? I'm afraid I can't quote a source, but IIRC people asked to pick a "random" number between 1 and 10 pick 7 about 30% of the time.
Or just think about any NP-complete problem.
Ever tried it? The computer will get the correct answer waaaaay before you do.
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Posted 28 December 2005 - 01:07 PM
Original post by Sneftel
Think so? I'm afraid I can't quote a source, but IIRC people asked to pick a "random" number between 1 and 10 pick 7 about 30% of the time.
Well, i just thought about a number and it was 3. [grin]
And i'll never pick 7 again just to prove you're wrong. Haha. :)
Original post by Sneftel
Ever tried it? The computer will get the correct answer waaaaay before you do.
Well, i could be lucky. But then again, so could the computer. Well, i think you got the idea. :P
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Posted 29 December 2005 - 04:02 AM
This should be rather close to the actual Swedish article. It all depends on what kind of feedback I get, I guess. So please give me honest feedback, because that's what I'll get from the magazine readers.
(Btw, a summary of the 'Chinese room' will be displayed alongside with the article. Too bad one cannot print wikipedia-hyperlinks on paper...)
When does an algorithm turn alive?
As a thought experiment, let's say I'm working on creating a self-learning AI. For this I build a robot that learns about its environment and how to deal with certain problems. Then one generation after myself, there's a younger and smarter developer who creates a better one. Then somebody creates an even better one. This goes on all the way until we end up with an autonomous AI robot, which is very hard to separate from a human.
In real life, such a robot would have little value, but let's say for the sake of this experiment that we did create one.
It looks like a human. It walks around like a human. When you talk to it, it responds like a human. In the end you can't distinguish it as non-human, because it's built to produce the exact same behaviour as real humans. It learns from its mistakes and displays intelligent behaviour.
But it's still just a machine. An algorithm, built to produce certain output if given certain input. A very advanced one, but an algorithm none the less.
This scenario has been proposed many times before, such as in the movie 'Blade Runner' from the 80's. In the movie, the main character must pick out AI machines within the actual human population. He does this with psychology-tests, since the AI is incapable of having feelings.
Based on the well-known thought experiment 'The Chinese Room' (wikipedia) we assume that this should be true in real life as well.
The AI could still look happy, smile and wave its hand, but it's not really happy. A smile, a frown, a shiver... to an algorithm they're just movements of face muscles, a means to produce a certain effect. The effect could be to appear human, or to communicate, but the desired effect doesn't matter. In the end, the smile is just movement of face muscles, with nothing underneath - an algorithms output to a given input.
Some people say that, certainly it's not going to have feelings because it's based on a logical system and not on a real biological brain. However, other people argue that the above section applies just as well to real brains as well.
There's a flaw to 'The Chinese Room'. Its conclusion assumes - without any proof - that our brains work differently.
This can also be said as: 'Do we have a soul, or are we based on physics?'
For this experiment, we shall not choose one interpretation, but both. Since I can't prove which one of these are true, we will investigate both of them and then see where that leads. First, let's assume we do not function like the AI would.
This interpretation means that there's 'something' which differs us from AI. This 'something' is really hard to describe, perhaps even impossible. Call it life, consciousness, spirit, creativity, feelings, sapience or whatever. That is the realm of seriously deep philosophy, and I will avoid the problem altogether by just summing it up with 'what AI lacks compared to real humans/biological brains'.
For the sake of simplicity in the following text, I will refer to this lacking thing as a persons 'ghost'.
This is a term I borrow from the Japanese manga 'Ghost in the Shell', which suits the topic quite well.
An AI is a created machine. Whatever it does, it does because somebody designed it that way. Somebody programmed and built it just like that.
However, both 'Blade Runner' and 'Ghost in the Shell' suggests the idea that... once a system with powerful enough capacities is created, a ghost spontaneously spawns within the system, weather you want it to or not.
Perhaps not immediately, but after a while, like a child trying to learn to read. Suddenly the 'blockade' is no longer there, and she can no longer choose to NOT read something she's looking at. Suddenly, there is a ghost in the shell.
Another thought comes to mind; what's the first memory you have? The very first one. You're probably at least one year old. Could that perhaps be the moment when you first acquired a ghost? The moment your mind was first developed enough to carry a ghost? Perhaps up until that point you were more of an AI?
'Blade Runner' suggests this awakening could happen with autonomous robots. 'Ghost in the Shell' takes it one step further and suggests it could happen with... the Internet.
For this, let me describe the Internet as a massive array of nodes, each with a vast amount of information, constantly expanding both its storage room and its contents and each node is communicating with all nearby nodes with blazing speed.
That description sounds like I'm describing a brain, doesn't it?
If you're imagining the Internet 'entity' like computer code being run, then I have to correct you. That would take somebody to write the code, wouldn't it?
Rather, the processing would be the actual traffic of the net; somebody browsing a web page. Starting a new server. Switching IP addresses. Hooking up a local area network. Downloading music.
This system takes on the appearance of a massively parallel processor. It's processing completely random things, producing completely random outputs, in a massive environment.
In your head, sum up the entire Internet into One entity. Does it not resemble the behaviour of a living being?
If an ISP (Internet Service Provider) is knocked out, the little white blood cells (the network admins) work around the clock to get it back up running.
Without competition, it's spreading across the world. First settling on the lushest lands, the wealthy and highly developed countries. When that is done, it's gradually spreading into Africa too, though that land is not quite as suitable habitat, so spreading there goes slower.
If there were a competitor to the Internet, like Macintosh and the PC, they would try to defeat each other. Claim each other's territory. Either one would conquer all territory, or they would settle into a co-habiting eco-system.
Sounds like the behaviour of a living being, doesn't it?
But that wouldn't necessarily mean Internet has got a ghost, would it? Nope. Not at all. Just maybe.
One can argue that other systems such as the country France, if summed up into one entity, behaves like a living being.
If attacked, it will retaliate or request help from friends. The resources it's dependent upon are either self-produced or imported. If suffering from a lack of one resource, the desire for it grows greater and greater, possibly starting frenzy or an attack on another country that has the resource.
This sounds really silly, right?
Systems cannot have ghosts, can they?
After all, why would they?
But how do you explain that we have ghosts, then? Evolution is a heavily backed up fact. Given that we originate from a bunch of goo in the ocean, at which point did we acquire these 'ghost' thingies?
Of course, there's lots of ideas about what a ghost is and were it's from. I can't tell anybody what way it is. Nobody can, at least presently.
So we have the fact that evolution happened. Now let's assume we have ghosts.
Evolution happened. We have ghosts.
This gives us three possibilities:
1. Our ghosts were given to us.
2. We acquired them ourselves.
3. We had them all along.
Who am I to say that either of these are true? I can't. It would be based on my personal belief, and would thus be for me and me alone.
Though I can sum the meaning of them for you:
1. This would mean there is an origin such as a higher being, God, or aliens if you believe in that.
2. This implies that ghosts appear spontaneously when you reach a certain point in evolution.
3. This implies that we had ghosts even when we were goo, or even atoms.
Now, if we have ghosts that would mean either of the following interesting conclusions:
1. A higher being exists. An idea that in all versions of it have countless and severe logical flaws. If it were in fact true, then lots of scientists would probably shriek in horror, since logics won't be enough anymore. Which is just crazy.
2. This would mean that ghosts are something that appears when a system is configured or built the right way. This means we can create AI that is just as alive as ourselves. It would also mean that it's possible for other systems like the Internet, the stock market, families, and the country France have ghosts. Which is straight out silly.
3. This would mean things such as the pavement you walk on have a ghost (but perhaps no intelligence). As well as your pencil, your shoe and your toupee. It would also mean we can create AI which is just as alive as ourselves. Important would be things such as quantum physics and what we go back to when we die (Gaia?). Which is just weird.
Given we do have ghosts, no matter what option we choose, we can conclude that the universe is a far more weird place than it first seems like.
No ghosts
So what if we don't have ghosts then? No soul, no silly magic or divine interventions. If we don't have a ghost, what would that mean?
That would mean that 'life' is just what we call this thing that occurs when a bunch of neural cells are linked together. By this definition there's no other difference between insects and humans, aside from the number of interlinked brain cells. What we call 'life' becomes a relative term, based on how many brain cells one have. A carbon atom is not alive. Several carbon atoms stuck together is still not alive. A string of DNA is almost alive (it reproduces). A virus is somewhat alive. A bacterium is more alive than a virus. A multi-cellular creature is more alive than bacteria. One with actual brain cells is even more alive. We're more alive than dogs, and dolphins are more alive than us.
Not having ghosts means that 'life' is just something that occurs when physics happen to a bunch of neural cells. What we call ourselves, what gets out of bed in the mornings and drinks coffee with the co-workers, are nothing more than the end effect of a bazillion cells working together to survive. Our mind does not really exist; it's just an experienced effect of billions of neural cells working together.
It doesn't exist, like the centrifugal force. There is no such force. It just feels like it does when you're sitting in the carousel.
What would this mean to our AI robot?
Well, all we have to do is to simulate a neuron in a computer. We wouldn't have a physical neuron, but we would have the exact same (simulated) effect. The simulated result would be a simulated mind. This mind has the exact same properties in the simulated world as we have in the real world. It is as aware of it's own mind as we are of ours. Both are just end effects of many small pieces working together. Thus, by all definitions, it is experiencing the exact same type of life as we are experiencing. In my opinion, even if the tiny reactions don't happen in the physical world but at a logical level, this means the robot is as alive as we are. Heck, if we add more pieces then it's suddenly even more alive than we are!
What would this mean to the Internet and the stock market?
If ghosts don't exist, then minds are only lots of tiny pieces working together. Does the pieces have to function exactly as physical neural cells does? In my opinion this is not likely. IMO the nature of the tiny connections doesn't matter, only the end result does. Each neural cell does not have to have nano-sized connectors conducting electricity to nearby cells. Consider a brain built out of electromagnets where the interference between the magnets acts as the connectors. This device would probably cover an acre of land, but if they exchange logical information just like neural cells does, then no matter if it isn't based on the same physics. Such a system is still alive like the rest. Even if the system would exchange information by having each cell shoot white plastic balls at the others, it would still experience the sensation of having a mind. It would thus be alive. (However you could question its thinking speed...)
The Internet has so many 'cells', out of which most are completely different from the rest. They all exchange information in different ways. When you carry your USB-memory from home to your office, you're being one of those signals. Some signals would be 'different'. Most would carry a type of message that is different to its nature from all other messages. I can't say if that would matter. Maybe it doesn't matter exactly what's the nature of the signals. Then the Internet consists of countless billion connectors and cells, working perfectly, forming an entity that just might carry more brain cells than a human. A super-entity.
Maybe the type of message carried does matter. Then the Internet could consist of a bazillion malfunctioning neurons, and perhaps three or four good-enough simulated neurons, bringing it to the consciousness level of some bacteria.
Finishing up
I have not specified 'ghosts' in any way. The real definition of them could be: 'The illusionary effect of billions of neural cells working together'. But that's just a variant on nr. 2, and does not need to be considered seperately.
In the end - if it is true that we don't have ghosts - that has the same effect as if ghosts are something that we acquired along the way from evolution. They basically mean the same thing. Perhaps the two sides are different on some level I can't comprehend, but that doesn't matter. I just had to take this side-trip to show that, even so, they would produce the same effects.
So if we don't have ghosts, then that would mean point number 2 in the above numbered list is in play. Additionally, if we DO have ghosts, then that would mean any one of the options is in play. All of which are quite hard to accept, if not for me, then for a few million other people.
The way I see it, all scenarios except nr. 1 allows us to develop AI which just is as alive as ourselves. However, even if there is a higher being, he/she/they could be messing around with us, granting our robot a ghost just to confuse us.
My ending conclusion of all this, is that no matter which way it really is, something really weird is definitely going on here...
Who said 'The Age of Adventures' refers to something in the past?
To the reader there probably appears to be a hole in the logic, at list item nr. 2. It assumes other complex systems have ghosts just because we acquired it.
Until you read it closely. It says they MIGHT have ghosts if nr. 2 is in play. However, in the last part here ("What would this mean to the Internet and the stock market") I tried to explain that if nr. 2 is true, then that means such systems LIKELY have ghosts.
Should I mention this in the text, or would that make it over-obvious and boring to read?
Any comments?
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Posted 30 December 2005 - 11:55 AM
hehe... sorry, got a little carried away there
anyway, it definitely reads better than your last draft, and I think you've got most of the points down pat, now
On a personal note, I reckon that the ghost (or soul, or whatever) is an illusion that we created to explain why we are more 'intelligent' than any other known animal at this time( said in case we make first contact with aliens tomorrow ;)
so it can be thought of as a reflection of our belief that we are, in some way, different to every other living creature on this planet.
Also, if a computer\robot can think like a human, act like a human, and just be plain indistinguishable from a human, then I think I would willingly greet them as equals.
or even superiors, if the T-800 watching over my shoulder has anything to say about it ...
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Posted 31 December 2005 - 03:09 AM
I like the part about billions of neurones working together, that's cool, in a freaky kinda way...
I take it that meanss that I should stop referring to myself as 'I' and start using 'We' instead?
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Posted 31 December 2005 - 11:39 AM
Original post by NQ
That would mean that 'life' is just what we call this thing that occurs when a bunch of neural cells are linked together. By this definition there's no other difference between insects and humans, aside from the number of interlinked brain cells.
As far as i know, the difference does not come from the number of interlinked brain cells - that would be something like "the more brain the better" - but that does not always suite.
It actually depends on HOW INTENSIVE the information-exchange between those inter-linked brain cells is.
I guess there was a link about this topic on the wikipedia.org-human brain page.
Just take a look at it :
The idea of billions of little cells melting temporarly together, creating one huge, gigantic mind with many times the capability of a human's mind was also discussed by Frank Schätzing in 2004 within his scifi "Der Schwarm". Although he used a quite dramatic scenario, it includes some interesting thoughts. One of his theories includes the possibility of those "goo"s being able to create a living, learning and thinking individual all by themselves based on information-exchange going on during DNA-Modifing. He was the first person i know which stated that thinking might not nessessarily be based on neurons / brains.
However, i don't know if it was released in english.
But i like your article. I've watched the entire Ghost In The Shell stuff by myself, therefor i'm quite familiar with some of those theories.
I guess it's a nice review of them and you also inserted some additions - other thoughts. Nice one.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 01:35 PM
Quote:Prove it.
Original post by aphydx
the central creative core of your mind cannot comprehend something as complex as itself.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 01:56 PM
Let me just say that the title itself is poorly worded and the arguments within are not entirely well stated. Others have pointed out things with regard to that statement so I won't repeat them.
"When does an algorithm live?"
"When is an algorithm alive?"
or even:
"When does an algorithm become alive?"
Because "turn alive" just sounds silly. My apologies if you feel offended, I'm really just trying to make a suggestion that might help set a more serious tone.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 02:31 PM
Original post by SneftelQuote:Prove it.
Original post by aphydx
the central creative core of your mind cannot comprehend something as complex as itself.
Good one [smile]
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 02:31 PM
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 02:35 PM
*frantic, breathy whispers*
"oh my god... it's... not human... in the ventilation shafts... I don't think it sees me yet... .... ..... "
the transmition is ended by a blood-curdling scream.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 02:37 PM
When does an algorithm turn alive
I'm going to rephrase your question:
"When does the complexity and/or sophistication of an algorithm become sufficent so as to be considered alive?"
I suggest that this question is misleading. Life, or consciousness (which is what we're really discussing here) should, IMHO, not be considered in terms of a binary distinction; things are not merely conscious or unconscious. Rather, consciousness should be defined as a spectrum. Ants at one end, Humans at the other. The more complex the algorithm, the better it performs, the higher on the scale it goes.
As an excersise, rank the following objects in terms of consciousness:
Human, Flower, Ant, Elevator, Screwdriver, Eliza, HAL 9000.
Note first that a Flower is certainly alive, but has little consciousness. The Elevator has a basic Input/Process/Output loop - taking button presses, engaging machinery, etc.
Here's my list, in ascending order of consciousness: Screwdriver, Flower, Elevator, Ant, Eliza, HAL 9000, Human.
In my experience, a lot of people want to do something like this - [] denotes equal precedence: [Elevator, Screwdriver, Eliza, HAL 9000, Flower], [Ant, Human]
The Philosophy of Mind is a debate that has been going on forever, but in my opinion, if you hold that there is no "ghost in the shell", then it makes no sense to start talking about consciousness as a binary distinction.
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