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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) – Problem? Solution! Irrelevant?!
It is time that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) went to the BJP for some lessons in ideology.
Complete or incomplete, let this 1st step of anti-rape law by Parliament be welcomed. Most important is, men's attitude 2 women shud change—
Ram Madhav (@rammadhavrss) March 20, 2013
have no idea what kind of people Ram Madhav is hanging around with!
Me and the people I hang around with, seem to have no problems with women – and women who know us and deal with us don't seem to be having a problem.
Who are the men that Ram Madhav thinks, who need to change that he is talking about?
So is Ram Madhav talking about?
- His set of people – of whom I know nothing
- My set of people – who are not a problem
- All Indians – in India, which has a low rape percentage by any world standards.
- Rapists – who are a small minority; and unlikely to affected by such silly statements or silly laws made by Lok Sabha.
Why fault an entire society or a gender for the actions by a few deviants?
Regular 2ndlookers will recall earlier cases of such obscurantism from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
We had Mohan Bhagwat the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief comparing and promoting the British Raj a little over a year ago.
Soon after an ex-editor of Tarun Bharat, the RSS publication, MG Vaidya was pushing Nitin Gadkari as the BJP chief. Why? Because Nitin Gadkari is a Maharashtrian – and MG Vaidya suspected non-Maharashtrians to be anti-Maharashtrian.
Over the last 3 decades we have had the BJP build an enviable rightist narrative for India – at variance with the rather steamy Congress propaganda – overdone now for 60 years too long.
A Past Dead & Gone
RSS with the Western chuddies, (copied from Nizamshahi police uniform), their pseudo-martial Western marching music, hand half-raised, open-palm salute are all dated and irrelevant.
It is time that RSS went to the BJP for some lessons in building ideology.
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March 26, 2013 at 4:27 pm | #1
The rapist mostly don't even know which country they live in :). Now the main task is to setup nukkad nataks based on Ally Mcbeal to educate them zillions laws we have against "gender-crimes". Oh wait we already killed such nataks as Raam-leela which beautifully portrayed satitatv of Sita and prevented and not punished such things. Quite an analogy to ayurveda vs western medicine as well.
March 26, 2013 at 4:43 pm | #2
RSS – Problem? Solution! Irrelevant?!: RSS with the Western chuddies, their pseudo-martial Western marching… goo.gl/Iqefs—
St. PT Barnum (@StPTBarnum) March 26, 2013 -
March 26, 2013 at 4:48 pm | #3
.@StPTBarnum @centerofright RSS- Their attire might be outdated/irrelevant but how is their ideology irrelevant?—
Ketan (@rationalketan) March 26, 2013Agree on attire. On ideology, read the post @rationalketan @centerofright wp.me/pl2xA-4Ft—
St. PT Barnum (@StPTBarnum) March 26, 2013@StPTBarnum your blog forgets countless libtards said the same thing 'attitude needs to change'. 1/2—
Anon. To Escape GoI (@octotus) March 26, 2013@StPTBarnum if the intention was to ridicule RSS uniform, you achieved it. Otherwise no substance in the article. 2/2—
Anon. To Escape GoI (@octotus) March 26, 2013@StPTBarnum @centerofright Ideology doesn't mean thoughts of a few individuals. What is the dichotomy between BJP-RSS ideologies?—
Ketan (@rationalketan) March 26, 2013In this case if three top RSS pracharaks do not represent RSS who does? Not me! Do you? wp.me/pl2xA-4Ft @rationalketan @centerofright—
St. PT Barnum (@StPTBarnum) March 26, 2013@StPTBarnum Agreed, they have avoided evolving for a long, long time. They can't afford to do that anymore.—
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April 11, 2013 at 5:02 am | #6
First :- Their is not need to go to BJP to learn ideology.
Second:- Sangh people are intellectual and better than anyone else on any parameter. When we put our ass and keep on saying anything that reflect our intellectual bankruptcy and i name them such intellectual people as "Tea Time Intellectual".
@Sanghi Sir <> They compared it with Congress led government not promoted the same. Even my father people around my area some time say British Raj is Good(Don't know why?) But their reason seems to be apt. What British did is same as Congress doing over years. But at that time Invaders looting us and not Indian.
Third thing:- Sangh fighting against many issue which are eating our society like Caste system.
Final Sangh ko Samjhan hai toh Sangh ke pass aooo dekhooo kam check karoo apni aankhon se Media kya bolti hai us par dhayan na do. Aur ase comments se that we are inttelctualy bankrupt Sakha mein jane wala 10 saal ka bacha <> jaison ki band baja sakata hai intellectual discourse mein. We believe in ground work and we are doing and keep on doing the same. So keep your ass away.


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Here is one of my favorite Buddhist statues, the Kokuzoo Bosatsu (or the Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva, 虚空蔵菩薩) seated next to the big buddha in Nara. I love how grand and ostentatious these statues are, especially for such a humble and peaceful religion.
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There's been some positive news in the last year (and the last few) for American cellphone customers: certainly there's more visible competition for their business among the largest players in the market. Nonetheless, the Wall Street Journal reports that while more competition may translate into some more attractive service bundles, flexibility in phone options, or smoother customer service, it doesn't actually mean that the customers are on average reaping one of the benefits that competition might be expected to provide: lower price. Instead, the bills for customers on the major wireless providers have actually gone up, if not dramatically, in recent months — which means U.S. cell service remains much more expensive than it is in many other countries. The article could stand a sidebar on MVNOs and other low-cost options, though -- I switched to one of these from AT&T, and now pay just under $40 for one version of the new normal of unlimited talk and text, plus quite limited (1GB) data, but still using AT&T towers. Has your own cost to talk gone up or down?
As reported by the Washington Post, Edward Snowden denies in no uncertain terms the idea that he failed to go through proper channels to expose what he thought were troubling privacy violations being committed by the NSA, and that he observed as a contractor employed by the agency. The article begins: "[Snowden] said he repeatedly tried to go through official channels to raise concerns about government snooping programs but that his warnings fell on the deaf ears. In testimony to the European Parliament released Friday morning, Snowden wrote that he reported policy or legal issues related to spying programs to more than 10 officials, but as a contractor he had no legal avenue to pursue further whistleblowing." Further, "Elsewhere in his testimony, Snowden described the reaction he received when relating his concerns to co-workers and superiors. The responses, he said, fell into two camps. 'The first were well-meaning but hushed warnings not to "rock the boat," for fear of the sort of retaliation that befell former NSA whistleblowers like Wiebe, Binney, and Drake.' All three of those men, he notes, were subject to intense scrutiny and the threat of criminal prosecution."
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The Chicago Tribune reports that Yik Yak, a mobile app that can (among other things) be used for anonymous communications, has drawn complaints from several local schools, who are unhappy that students can use it to bully or pester others. "'The problem, as you might imagine, is that the anonymity is empowering certain individuals to post comments about others that are hurtful, harassing and sometimes quite disturbing,' Joseph Ruggiero, head of the Upper School at Francis W. Parker School in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, wrote in an email to parents last week. ... In light of the controversy, Yik Yak's co-founder said the company was disabling the app in the Chicago area and will attempt to specifically prevent it from being used on high school or middle school grounds."
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An anonymous reader writes "Google is facing investigation by the Competition Commission of India and potentially faces fines up to 10% of its three-year average turnover. While Google has settled anti-trust cases in the U.S. and the European Union, India's competition regime does not have provisions for settlement process." From the Times of India article linked: "The complaint against Google, also one of the world's most valued company, was first filed by advocacy group CUTS International way back in late 2011. Later, matrimonial website matrimony.com also filed a complaint. Referring to Google's settlement with the European Commission, matrimony.com counsel Ferida Satarawala said: 'Google's unfair use of trademarks as well as its retaliatory conduct are not specifically addressed in the European settlement and are distinct theories of harm being pursued by the CCI. Therefore, this settlement is unlikely to address CCI's concerns in our case.'"
An anonymous reader writes to this article about a series of visualizations built from London bike rental data. "My favourite is the second map, it shows the main routes that exist between rental areas, coloured according to the local communities that exist in the network. So you can see the major flows of bike traffic within the city, which are mostly between major railway stations and work destinations. You can also see how the different local networks relate to each other — Hyde Park is its own little world, for example, while the networks around Kings Cross, Waterloo, and Liverpool Street are far more interconnected." (Several more just-as-interesting maps here, too. Wish every city had an interface to this kind of data, would make interesting reading for visitors as well as for locals.)
First time accepted submitter DTentilhao writes "On Friday, Glenn Greenwald's new website The Intercept published a number of internal NSA documents that didn't necessarily reveal any great state secrets, but instead cast some light on the NSA's office culture. Those documents, leaked by former security contractor Edward Snowden, were actually from an advice column series, written by a 20-year veteran of NSA management under the pen name 'Zelda.'" Here's the Intercept report.
theodp writes "Android is free and open," reiterated Google Android Chief Andy Rubin in 2010 as Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7. Rubin added, 'Competition is good for the consumer and if somebody has an idea for a feature or a piece of functionality in their platform and Android doesn't do it, great. I think it's good to have the benefit of choice, but in the end I don't think the world needs another platform.' But now, CNET and Digitimes report that Google is holding up the Asus Transformer Book Duet TD300 (specs), a laptop-tablet hybrid that can instantly switch between Android and Windows 8.1. A source familiar with the Asus Duet told CNET that Google is the one that has not favored the idea, while Microsoft has not, to date, been actively opposed to the idea. 'If true,' reports Apple Insider, 'it may not be the first time Google has helped to quash such a product.' South Korean electronics giant Samsung quietly canceled plans for its hybrid Ativ Q tablet last year, and Digitimes notes that Asus may not be the only company to bow to Google's wishes."
First time accepted submitter paddysteed writes "I go to secondary school in the UK. I went digging around the computers there and found that on the schools machines, there was a root CA from the school. I then suspected that the software they instruct windows users to install on their own hardware to gain access to the BYOD network installed the same certificate. I created a windows virtual machine and connected to the network the way that was recommended. Immediately afterwards I checked the list of root CA's, and found my school's. I thought the story posted a few days ago was bad, but what my school has done is install their certificate on people's own machines — which I think is far worse. This basically allows them to intercept and modify any HTTPS traffic on their network. Considering this is a boarding school, and our only method of communicating to the outside world is over their network, I feel this is particularly bad. We were not told about this policy and we have not signed anything which would excuse it. I confronted the IT department and they initially denied everything. I left and within five minutes, the WiFi network was down then as quickly as it had gone down, it was back up. I went back and they confirmed that there was a mistake and they had 'fixed' it. They also told me that the risk was very low and the head of networks told me he was willing to bet his job on it. I asked them to instruct people to remove the bad certificate from their own machines, but they claimed this was unnecessary due to the very low risk. I want to take this further but to get the school's management interested I will need to explain what has happened and why it is bad to non-technical people and provide evidence that what has been done is potentially illegal."
NeverVotedBush writes with news reported by CNN that a passenger manifest for the flight that went missing on its way from Malaysia to China indicates that "Twenty of the passengers aboard the flight work with Freescale Semiconductor, a company based in Austin, Texas. The company said that 12 of the employees are from Malaysia and eight are from China," and writes "Apparently, at least two passengers used stolen passports to board."
kc123 writes "Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its "Introduction to Linux" course free and open to all. The Linux Foundation has long offered a wide variety of training courses through its website, but those can generally cost upwards of $2,000. This introductory class, which usually costs $2,400, will be the first from the Linux Foundation to run as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)."
An anonymous reader writes "Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen were [part of a] wide-ranging session at SXSW today and they revealed that Google's data is now safely protected from the prying eyes of government organizations. In the last few days Google upgraded its security measure following revelations that Britain's GCHQ had intercepted data being transmitted between Google datacenters, Schmidt said that his company's upgrades following the incident left him 'pretty sure that information within Google is now safe from any government's prying eyes.'"
theodp writes "Bring it on, suggests the video for The Amplify Tablet, an Intel device (specs) developed for Rupert Murdoch's Amplify Education, which shows kids wrestling with, dropping, and even splashing the device. So is a ruggedized 10.1" device, which appears to be Amplify's answer to earlier fragility problems, the future of high-tech education? Or is go-big-or-go-home with a 27" touch screen the way to go, perhaps in some kind of next-gen-flip-top-school-desk? Or — cost be damned — are separate classroom and home devices what are really needed?"
joe5 writes "Well, leave it the golden state. The Kings Canyon (near Squaw Valley) Unified School District recently launched the first all-electric school bus in the United States. The bus is a modified SST Trans Tech model based on a Ford E-Series van chassis — and Motiv Power Systems created the electric drive train. (The project was a collaboration between those two companies plus the California Air Resources Board.) The electric bus can carry 25 students with an estimated range of 80 to 100 miles— and while it costs more than a standard combustion engine version, is expected to save about 16 gallons of fuel per day. Thanks to a federal highway program, three more electric buses are on their way to the Kings Canyon district and similar programs are in the works in both Chicago and New York."
McGruber writes "Austin ranks number one in the nation when it comes to offering the largest tech salaries that have been adjusted for cost of living expenses, such as housing, groceries, utilities and other necessities. This is according to a study by TriNet, a company I had never heard off, that provides (buzzword alert!) cloud-based human resources services. The seven major tech hubs, ranked by cost of living adjusted average salaries: 1. Austin: $105,000; 2. Atlanta: $103,000; 3. Denver-Boulder: $98,000; 4. Boston: $79,000; 5. Silicon Valley: $78,000; 6. Los Angeles: $70,000; 7. New York: $56,000." It's true that Austin has cheaper real estate than Silicon Valley, or London, but what this kind of analysis can't capture well is the worth for an individual of living in a particular place. Some jobs are easier to do from Texas (or Timbuktu) than others, and opinions vary wildly about the importance of climate, culture, alternative job options, and other factors. New York living is expensive, Yes, but it comes with a free bonus if New York is where you want to be. Some people even like Los Angeles. Is there a place you'd rather be but forgo because of the cost of living, or a place you'd consider simply because it would amplify your salary?
Just a day after a Massachusetts court said that current state law didn't specifically address "upskirt" snapshots (and so left taking them legal in itself, however annoying or invasive), an alert Massachusetts legislature has crafted and passed a bill to fix the glitch, and gotten it signed by the governor as well. As reported by the BBC, "The bill states that anyone who 'photographs, videotapes or electronically surveils' a person's sexual or intimate parts without consent should face a misdemeanor charge. The crime becomes a felony - punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine - if the accused secretly takes indecent photographs of anyone under the age of 18." The New York Daily News points out this bill became a law without so much as a public hearing.
jfruh writes "What went wrong to produce the spectacular implosion of bitcoin repository Mt. Gox? Well, according to some preliminary investigation from the IDG News Service, pretty much everything. There was a lack of management oversight and 'culture,' the code running the sight was a mess, and the CEO seemed more concerned about his plans for a 'Bitcoin cafe' than he was about his Japanese bank closing the company's account."
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[JURIST] William Haynes [official profile], the Pentagon general counsel nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website], struggled to defend defense policies Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing [committee materials], drawing bipartisan questions relating to coercive interrogation techniques employed by the military in questioning terrorism suspects. Haynes helped draft the Defense Department's detention and interrogation policies in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and defended those policies by saying "the armed services operate with a tradition of restraint," but also portrayed himself as a military lawyer kept outside of policy decisions. A group of twenty retired military officers sent a letter [PDF text; JURIST report] to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] expressing "deep concern" about Haynes' fitness to sit on the federal bench. The retired officers said that Haynes "compromised military values" and "ignored federal and international law" by approving coercive interrogation techniques, including the use of dogs to scare detainees. The letter was quoted by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official website], ranking member of the Senate committee, in his opening statement [text]. Leahy also said he has
concerns whether Mr. Haynes would recuse himself if issues and policies on which he worked at the Department of Defense were to come before him as a judge.... My suspicion is that a motivation of the President for making this nomination is to have another sure vote on the Fourth Circuit to uphold his actions. The Fourth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit have emerged as the courts to which the Administration directs issues on which the President asserts unitary executive power and wants to be sustained.


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The key thing to understand about hashCodes is that they need not be unique, just as close to unique as practically possible.
The default hashCode just uses the address of the Object and the default equals method just compares addresses. If you override one of these two methods, you must override the other to match. The rules are:
So if you had a Fruit Object with a flavour and colour field, and you decided that any two Objects with the same flavour were for all intents and purposes equal, you would define your equals and hashCode methods like this:
As a rule of thumb, any time you use an Object as a key in a Map or Set (e.g. Hashtable, HashMap, HashSet, TreeMap etc.) you must redefine both equals and hashCode in such a way both incorporate that same and all the fields of the logical key. Fields in the key Object irrelevant to lookup should not be included in either method.
XOR has the following nice properties:
// object1 has o1.string1 = "apple"; o1.string2 = "orange"; // and object2 has o2.string1 = "orange"; o2.string2 = "apple";It works like this to combine hash codes of the fields in your object:
Here is how to write a hashCode to combine fields:
Here is roughly how String.hashCode works
Here is a fast hash algorithm you can apply to bytes, short, chars, ints, arrays etc. I used an assembler version of
Here is a straight-forward xor hash of all the bytes. The disadvantage is the result is only 8-bits.
Consider using an CRC-32 or an Adlerian digest for your hashCode when you can reduce the key part of your Object to a long string of bytes. This give a nice even spread over the range of possible integers.If you know the key values in advance, it is possible to construct a hashCode function that has no collisions.
In contrast, with HashMap you have more freedom. Your Objects don't have to implement a useful hashCode/equals, but any keys you use do. Since you can define different hashCode/equals for different types of key, you can have multiple HashMaps on the same group of Objects looking up by different keys.
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Trick Daddy returns with his remix to 2 Chainz' "Riot." The Miami rapper takes the young'ns to task and threatens to knock someone's tooth out. "Real ni**as do real things, so ya'll ain't never been like us," he raps on his violent verse.
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Ohh he's still alive?
_iamjones Reply:June 3rd, 2012 at 8:06 am
@MinajRules2012, oh you still stupid
MinajRules2012 Reply:June 3rd, 2012 at 8:11 am
@_iamjones, Yes, along with your mother.
it's me letters Reply:June 4th, 2012 at 3:00 am
@MinajRules2012, iamjones got you on this one.. sorry. the "along with your mother" bit didn't hit as hard as his "oh you still stupid"
He's an OG in this game…wonder why Rap-Up don't give 'em more coverage like they do these YMCMBrats and these friggin' POP STARS!
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Virtual Reality is becoming acceptable physics...Consciousness is the Computer – Tom Campbell
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Meet the Man Who Transforms Corpses into Diamonds
February 13, 2014
I loved the idea of dead people becoming something you can touch and enjoy the sight of.
From Motherboard.Vice.com. By Gian Volpicelli
Rinaldo Willy's job is to transform dead people into precious stones.
Willy, 33, is the founder and CEO of Algordanza, a peculiar funeral home based in the lovely town of Domat/Ems in western Switzerland. Algordanza—which in the local Romansch language means "remembrance"—is one of the leaders in the production of so called "memorial diamonds." If you fancy a blinged-out eternal sleep, Algordanza will put the latest technologies at your service to convert your ashes into a synthetic diamond.
The price for this transfiguration ranges between 4,500 and 20,000 Swiss francs ($5,000-$22,000), depending on how big a diamond you want to become. That includes the packaging of your shiny remains into what the firm's website describes as a "noble wooden box." But it will then be up to your loved ones to decide whether to leave you in your noble box or put you on a ring or pendant so they can carry you around with them.
Every year, 850 former-people enter Algordanza's laboratory to emerge some years later as a precious gem. While shortage of land and increasing population are calling the traditional cemetery model into question, perhaps the future of corpse management could lie in this unusual blend of mortuary science and jewelry.
To further investigate, I caught up with the man himself, Rinaldo Willy.
Motherboard: So, can you tell us how you got the idea of making diamonds from corpses?
The idea first struck me ten years ago, when I was a student of economics. One of my teachers gave me an article by a Russian scientist to read; it was about the production of synthetic diamonds to be used in the semiconductor industry. The article explained how such diamonds could be made from ashes, and I misinterpreted it, thinking it was referring to human ashes–while in fact it was talking about vegetable ashes.
I liked the idea, and I asked my teacher for more information on that process of transforming human ashes into diamonds. He quickly told me that I had got the whole thing wrong. But he found that my mistake was quite intriguing, so he got in touch with the author of the article, who just happened to have some diamond-making machines here in Switzerland. Together, we started to set up what would become Algordanza.
What was so compelling about turning human ashes into diamonds?
Diamonds are precious, pure, clean. They couldn't be more different from today's cemeteries, which are places crammed with too many graves, very often neglected, and where you can't have a real relationship with the dead. I loved the idea of dead people becoming something you can touch and enjoy the sight of. I also like the fact that a diamond remains, can be kept and passed down from generation to generation. It's not something that you just scatter away at some point, like sometimes happens with ashes from cremation.
In other words, you think that "diamonds are forever."
I don't want to use that term, since "forever" recalls the concept of eternity, which belongs to the Church's terminology. We prefer the word "unzerbrechlich," which in German means "indestructible." Our diamonds are indestructible tools of remembrance, but, at the end of the day, it depends on a person's loved ones to keep their memory alive.
Let's get a bit technical. What is the procedure to transform human ashes into a synthetic diamond?
The whole process takes place here in Switzerland. After a person is cremated, we receive their ashes; according to the legislation of the country the dead person is from, we either receive the ashes in a single urn or in two urns shipped at two different times to avoid the situation where, in case of accident, all the ashes are lost.
We treat the ashes with particular chemical agents to extract all the carbon from them. Next, carbon is heated to high temperatures and converted into graphite. Finally, we place the graphite in a machine that essentially reproduces the conditions that are given in the depths of the Earth, where natural diamonds form over thousands of years: extremely high pressure and temperatures around 1500 degrees Celsius. After some weeks, or months, we obtain the diamond.
How big are the diamonds that you can create in your laboratory?
Usually they are four carats when they are rough and 1 carat after they've been cut. There have been diamonds as big as 1.6 or 1.8 carats, but they were exceptional cases.
Why do some people become bigger diamonds than others?
In general, the dimension of the diamond depends on how long you keep the graphite in the machine: the longer the process, the bigger the diamond. But it also depends on the quality of the ashes. For example, if a person used to wear dentures, or a prosthesis, or they used to take certain medicines, their ashes would be less pure and the quality of the diamond would be inferior.
Such things can also influence the color of the stone. For example, people who have been treated with chemotherapy usually wind up being diamonds of lighter colors. But we still don't know what determines the color of the gem: our diamonds are usually blue because of the presence of boron traces in human body, but every person changes into a different and unique diamond, ranging from crystal-clear to almost black.
What's the difference between one of your diamonds and a real diamond?
Our diamonds are real diamonds. They have all the physical and chemical properties of diamonds. Obviously, synthetic diamonds are less valuable than natural ones, since they're man-made. But you can't tell our diamonds from natural ones with the naked eye. Not even a jeweler could. The only one way to distinguish between them is a chemical screening – a gemologist may help you with that –which will find out that the stone was made artificially.
...Is it possible to make more than one diamond from the same person, in order to avoid a scenario in which you lose the diamond, thereby losing your dead relative forever?
Yes, it is possible, since just two grams of carbon are sufficient to produce a diamond. In fact, some of our customers, especially in Japan, ask to make many memorial diamonds from the same ashes, one for each member of the family. Theoretically, and depending on the quantity and quality of the ashes, we could churn out up to 50 diamonds for every person; practically, the best we've done so far is nine diamonds.
How big are you in Japan?
We are huge in Japan. It accounts for 25 percent of our sales. I think that it's mainly for two reasons: in the first place, they have a much stronger cult of ancestors than we have in Europe; they have a very close relationship with their dead. Secondly, it's a question of numbers: more than 99 percent of Japanese people are cremated after death. That means that there are many more ashes to be transformed into diamonds.
In general, why do people resorting to your services decide to be transformed into diamonds?
In many cases they don't decide, since it's their relatives—usually their mothers or wives—who come to us. The reason given by the relatives is typically that they want to keep the deceased always with them. But there are also people who choose to become diamonds while they are still alive. Often they are people who are aware that they'll die soon, like for example someone with a terminal illness.
One of the reasons they give us is economic—they want to avoid the costs of burial in a cemetery. In other cases, they're people living alone and very far from the place where they were born, who are afraid that nobody would properly care for their grave if they were buried.
Are you going to become a diamond, too?
I don't know. Hopefully it will be up to my relatives, to my wife and children, to decide whether I will. They're the ones who will have to choose the best way to cope with the grief and loss.
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Mind Over Matter: Princeton & Russian Scientist Reveal The Secrets of Human Aura & Intentions
February 08, 2014
A Russian scientist has been studying the human energy field and is claiming that people can change the world simply by using their own energy.
From TheMindUnleashed.org:
While this idea is not new, not too many have taken the time to scientifically go about proving such ideas—although the field of quantum physics has shed some powerful light on the topic over the years. Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, professor of physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University, states that when we think positive and negative thoughts, each have a different impact on our surrounding environment.
"We are developing the idea that our consciousness is part of the material world and that with our consciousness we can directly influence our world," said Dr. Konstantin Korotkov.
We cannot see energy very easily with the human eye and thus the world of unseen energy can be difficult for the mind to grasp without scientific measurements to verify what is taking place. Perhaps this is why the study of consciousness affecting our reality has been virtually untouched for so long. To help create a bridge between our physical and unseen world, scientific experiments using a technique called bioelectrophotography are being carried out. In these experiments, an assumption must be made that states the human body and consciousness is constantly emitting energy. Following this assumption, Bioelectrophotography aims to capture these energy fields seen as a light around the body. In the metaphysical world this energy emission is known as a person's aura, while in the scientific field, it is often refereed to as our energy field.
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Dr. Korotkov is not the only one studying the affects of the human mind, thoughts and energy on our surrounding environment. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory has also been trying to wrap their heads around the subject and have concluded that the mind does in fact have a subtle capacity to influence the output of devices known as Random Event Generators (REGs).
A project that initially started when a student was curious to study the effects of the human mind and intention on the surrounding environment, turned into a rigorous testing lab where Dr. Robert Jahn and his lab assistant spent many hours experimenting to determine whether or not the mind has an affect on our physical world. Jahn and his assistant were able to determine that the human minds interactions with the machines demonstrated a relationship that was not physical in nature. The mind was able to affect and change outcomes of the machine in ways that were beyond explainable. In essence, consciousness was having an affect over the physical world.
To determine the affects of the minds intention on the physical world, they built several machines called a random number generator. The machine would essentially mimic a coin flip and record the results over time. The machine performed 200 flips per second and produced an average mean of 100 as one would expect. Left unattended, the machine would continue to produce results that suggested a 50/50 chance of producing either heads or tales. The interesting results came when human intention started to interact with the machine. What was once a random 50/50 chance of producing heads or tales began to deviate from expectation as the observer began to intend for the numbers to be higher or lower. While the affects of the mind over the the machines was not large, it was enough that contemporary physics is unable to explain what exactly is happening. Perhaps this is where the quantum world can shed light?
The implications this research could have on humanity is quite fascinating given it could reach into the realms of creating a world of peace, healthy living and joy. If intentions and thoughts can impact something the way it has been demonstrated above, why not explore the boundaries of how far this can go? It is my belief that we create our realities with our thoughts and intentions, I feel science is starting to confirm this and in time we will realize the true power of our minds and intentions.
The video below is a very brief synopsis of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory of Princeton University, whose research into mind-matter interaction forms the foundation of Psyleron Technology.
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February 02, 2014
Have you had precognitive dreams and successful intuitive hunches? Test your psi functioning online.
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Out of Body Experiences Validated by Scientific Study
January 26, 2014
A study [Dr. Charles Tart] published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research may be the most infamous OBE study ever done.
According to Robert Monroe, it was Charles Tart who urged Bob to publish his OBE journal writings, which eventually became Journeys Out of the Body.
From SpiritScienceAndMetaphysics.com.
Are out-of-body experiences valid? Dr. Crookall at the University of Aberdeen has written 9 books on out-of-body cases due to the overwhelming amount of evidence in their favour. A survey of 380 Oxford students showed that 34% had an OBE. A separate survey of 902 adults revealed that 8% have had an OBE. In a study of 44 non-Western societies, only 3 did not hold a belief in OBEs. Another study showed that out of 488 world societies, 89% had at least some tradition regarding OBEs. So this phenomenon is familiar and lots of people claimed to have experienced it before, but is there any scientific credibility to this phenomenon?
A fascinating experiment was done by Dr. Charles Tart, who was a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California. He had also served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia. A study he published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research may be the most infamous OBE study ever done.
He documented the out-of-body experience of a young woman who was one of his research subjects. She was in a room with nothing but a bed, a shelf, a clock, and an observation window where Dr. Tart observed from another room. She also had electrical devices hooked up to her head to detect brain wave activities, which can be seen in the diagram below.
What makes this particular out-of-body experience remarkable is that she was able to leave her physical body as Dr. Tart watched from the other room and read a 5-digit number of 25132 off of a piece of paper that was on a shelf in the corner of the room. The number was at a significant distance above the bed so that she would not be able to read the number even if she was standing, and she reported seeing the correct number him upon return to her physical body which remained attached to the bed as she was being watched. EEGs, REMs, and galvanic skin response were all recorded before and during her OBE which indicated a significant alteration in the readings during the time she left her body. Her OBE is a good example of "veridical perception" which is where verified events are observed while in an out-of-body state.
As Dr. Tart concluded: "While the physiological data are limited by dependence on her retrospective report in correlating physiological pattern with the experience, it seems as if her out-of-body experiences occurred in conjunction with a non-dreaming, non-awake brain wave stage characterized by predominant slowed alpha activity from her brain and no activation of the autonomic nervous system. Two incidents occurring in the laboratory provide suggestive evidence that the out of-the-body experiences had parapsychological concomitants. In summary, this brief study found a fairly clear-cut correlation between several of Miss Z's reported OOB experiences and a physiological pattern characterized by a flattened EEG with prominent alphoid activity, no REM or skin resistance activity, and normal heart rate"
This is huge, because not only does it show that the experience of leaving your body is correlated with abnormal changes in brain-body activities, the test subject was also able to go and read a 5 digit number. She also reported the correct positioning of the piece of paper that had the number on it, which as flat on the shelf as opposed to leaning against the wall which is what she was expecting. By the way, the odds of guessing a 5 digit number first try are less than 1 in 59000, so to claim that she just so happened to guess it right on her first try is out of the question....
From NearDeath.com:
Dr. Charles Tart...is a transpersonal psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. He earned his Ph. D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. His first books, Altered States of Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychologies, became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology. Dr. Tart has been involved with research and theory in the fields of hypnosis, psychology, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, consciousness and mindfulness since 1963. He has authored over a dozen books, two of which became widely-used textbooks; he has had more than 250 articles published in professional journals and books, including lead articles in such prestigious scientific journals as Science and Nature, and provides regular public speaking appearances.
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Parallel Worlds Exist and Will Soon Be Testable, Expert Says
January 20, 2014
...we are but one of many universes and at least one of these other worlds lies close to ours, maybe only a millimeter away. We can't see this world, because it exists in a type of space different from the four dimensions of our everyday reality.
From Institute for Emerging Ethics & Technologies. By Dick Pelletier.
Is there another you reading this article at this exact moment in a parallel universe? Dr. Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, believes that this freakish quirk of nature may exist...
A growing number of cosmologists agree with Greene that we are but one of many universes and at least one of these other worlds lies close to ours, maybe only a millimeter away. We can't see this world, because it exists in a type of space different from the four dimensions of our everyday reality.
MIT's Max Tegmark believes this multiverse model of 'many universes' is grounded in modern physics and will eventually be testable, predictive and disprovable. "This is not sci-fi," he says, "its real science."
As research at the CERN Large Hadron Collider progresses, scientists are talking increasingly of a "new physics" on the horizon, which promises to help researchers understand more of the unknowns about our universe. This new approach includes developing a better understanding of dark energy, a mystery force that some forward thinkers believe indicates that a 'sister' universe lurks in our neighborhood.
Strange happenings have been observed by cosmologists such as the Andromeda galaxy, 2.2 million light-years away speeding towards the Milky Way at 200,000 mph. This phenomenon makes sense logically if gravity leaking from an invisible universe were pulling the two galaxies together.
Imagine visiting another Earth where an alternate you is living a more rewarding life than yours, and you could trade places if you both agreed....
Researchers at the WMAP space telescope recently discovered a force 10,000 times larger than the Milky Way, which they believe offers powerful evidence that a parallel universe may be in the area.
In another attempt to search for parallel worlds, NASA installed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 at the ISS to record data that may prove the existence of other universes, some of which might even be made of anti-matter. Unraveling this cosmic mystery has attracted worldwide interest. The project draws support from most EU nations; plus Taiwan, China, Russia, and the U.S.
...Another universe may exist close by, but in order for us to observe or communicate with it; we must first understand its different dimensions. We might envision them as "new kinds of sideways."
...Greene adds that some universes may be almost indistinguishable from ours; others may contain variations of all of us, where we exist but with different families, careers, and life stories. In still others, reality may be so radically different from ours as to be unrecognizable.
Experts predict that as the coming decades unwind, with intelligence advancing exponentially, this 'over-the-top' concept will one day become a proven fact. Imagine visiting another Earth where an alternate you is living a more rewarding life than yours, and you could trade places if you both agreed....
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Bergan Mercy Medical Center has relied heavily on temporary emergency room physicians this year after breaking with its longtime ER group in February.
The physicians cost more for the hospital's parent company, Alegent Creighton Health, but officials there say they have absorbed those expenses without adding to patients' bills. Furthermore, the officials say, patient surveys indicate that the quality of care has improved compared with last year.
The temporary physicians are working in place of a group called Critical Care Associates, which existed to staff Bergan's ER and is now defunct.
Bringing in for temporary service a physician known as a locum tenens (Latin for a temporary substitute) isn't rare for hospitals. Emergency departments bring in temporary physician help when a doctor is ill or on maternity leave, or when a contract changes hands and there are staff vacancies.
Nevertheless, Bergan faced a special challenge when it had to replace its entire group of seven or eight emergency room physicians. Some locum tenens physicians were brought in from out of state and have stayed for weeks or months in temporary housing.
"It just takes time," Marie Knedler, Bergan's chief operating officer, said last month of finding a new, permanent staff. "I would say we've been very methodical about it and very timely."
Locum tenens physicians tend to be expensive. Dr. David Romano, chief medical officer for Premier Physician Services, said they cost at least 25 percent more than Premier's permanent, local ER physicians.
Knedler said 25 percent was high but declined to be more specific. "That's not my experience," she said. "I can't speak to that person's experience."
The relationship between Critical Care and the hospital's parent firm, Alegent Health (now Alegent Creighton Health), was uneasy as far back as 2003. That's when Alegent proposed that Premier Physician Services of Ohio oversee the Bergan emergency room.
Bergan's medical executive committee rebelled against the notion, and ultimately Critical Care remained in place. Premier currently provides permanent, locally based ER physicians at Alegent Creighton's Lakeside Hospital, Midlands Hospital in Papillion and Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs.
A year ago, it was the leaders of Bergan Mercy's medical staff, a group of about 20 physicians, who moved to terminate Critical Care's contract, said Dr. John Ferry, chief of Bergan's staff.
Ferry declined to say why the decision was made. "It's over and done."
Dr. Kenneth Colaric, who headed the Critical Care group, said Alegent had concerns about one emergency room doctor's interaction with staffers, but he said that was being addressed. Ultimately, he said, some or all of the Critical Care doctors were offered employment with Alegent, and none consented to that. Critical Care and its physicians left Bergan in February.
Colaric now heads an emergency department in Blue Springs, Mo.
"It was business," he said of the divorce from Bergan Mercy. "I wouldn't say it surprised me, but it disappoints me."
He said he believed Alegent Creighton didn't care for Critical Care's independence. "I don't think this was a malicious attack on a single physician or even a group of physicians," he said. "It boils down to being in control."
Knedler said Bergan hired a new emergency room director, Dr. Nate Brackett, four months ago from a Milwaukee hospital.
Four emergency room physicians had signed on as of late November, Knedler said, and are to begin work in January. Alegent Creighton spokesman Steve Pacholski said the hospital since then had achieved its goal of signing a full staff of eight ER physicians.
No decision has been made about whether the new group will be independent or Alegent-employed, Knedler said. Besides her role at Bergan, she oversees emergency services for Alegent Creighton.
Dr. Joseph McCaslin, director of Methodist Hospital's emergency room for the past 10 years, said he has never had to bring in temporary physicians. McCaslin said he worried that he would have to use some when Methodist Women's Hospital opened two years ago, but he was able to hire a full permanent staff in time for the opening.
Knedler said any additional cost from using the temporary physicians has been borne by Alegent Creighton's budget and not by increasing patient fees, and she added that temporary ER physicians have provided excellent care and service. Patient satisfaction scores are high and better than they were last year, she said.
Other ER standards, such as how long it takes an ER patient to receive heart catheterization, have been solid as well, she said. From March through November, 100 percent of those patients received catheterization within 90 minutes, she said, which is a goal. "This is an outstanding place to come for emergency care." Knedler said.
At least two of Critical Care's doctors were certified through the American Board of Physician Specialties, which doesn't require a residency in emergency medicine and is viewed by some ER physicians as less than adequate certification for major ER work. The physician specialties board honors experience in an ER and has some other requirements, including testing.
The American Board of Emergency Medicine requires certified ER doctors to have three or four years of residency training in an emergency room. That certification is viewed by most as the gold standard of ER training.
It's not clear whether certification played any role in Critical Care's removal. Knedler declined to discuss the history with Critical Care or the group's departure.
Some other local hospitals, including Bellevue Medical Center and Immanuel Medical Center, use some ER doctors who don't have ABEM certification.
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My nails could now be weapons. Downside, it takes forever to file them!
- Veggies are much tastier to me now. Veggies used to be bitter to me, but now most of them have at least a sweeter undertone.
- Fats also taste sweet.
- The joint pain I used to have in my hip is gone. Yay for walking normally!
- Found some pictures of myself when I was 16. I looked like I was approaching my thirties, had loose skin on my face, dark bags beneath my eyes, and just incredibly unhealthy by every standard. Jikes! I now look much more my age.. (19 by the way).
- My dreams make more sense and aren't as weird and random.
- No more ooth sensitivity to hot/cold foods or drinks!
- The biggest difference is on my personality, though. I've been very lethargic for my entire life, even my childhood. Eating this way, I've experienced what I thought was close to impossible- some actual energy and subsequent motivation! Yay!
- Helps with my aspergers. Communication actually makes sense.
My nails could now be weapons. Downside, it takes forever to file them!
General resiliencey!
Today was rainy and wet, so as I was coming in the door carrying a large bag of cat food on my shoulder I slipped on the tiled entry way and fell down hard on my butt...however, I simply (swore loudly ;-)) and got right back up. As I was walking into the kitchen my foot started hurting, so I checked it and found that I scraped it on the door. Just a scratch, not even bleeding so I washed it in the bathtub, but the fact that a minor scratch was the most painful part of taking a pretty hard spill was amazing.
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Have read the entire thread... its awesome and I am hoping to benefit from many of the changes that have been mentioned!
Only 6 weeks in here... already lost 12lbs (22lbs total but 12lbs since grain/sugar free)
Noticed an increase in energy, easy to get up in the mornings now.
No longer essential that I get breakfast before I go out... quite often can easily go to lunch time without feeling weak/lightheaded.
Actually want to go out walking etc... and have been trying to find longer ways to get places just to walk more. lol
Tiredness during the day has pretty much gone (hypothyroid so tiredness was a big issue before)
Sex drive has went up greatly lately... which would be great if I wasn't single. lol.
More positive outlook on things, not sure if this is specifically due to the change in diet or if its because I have just finally found something that is allowing me to lose excess weight.
My left knee used to click... no longer seems to.
Lack of nausea - I used to feel sick quite often, I used to carry polo mints and water around with me everywhere because they helped make the feeling go away. Haven't felt this is a good while now.
Both my daughters have been ill in the last few weeks... I didn't get it.
Pretty sure there are many other little things that I just haven't noticed yet too
So glad I found this site/way of eating... it really has given me hope for my future.
For me, the biggest bonus has been fitting into my old clothes, I had tons of stuff that I hadn't worn for years but that I didn't throw away because I really liked them. After a couple of months primal, I fit into most of them, pants that I hadn't worn in 6 years or so. It's the best feeling in the world when you try something on not expecting it to fit but then it does!.
Even though I fell off the exercise wagon, cheated way too much and am only now coming back to PB I always kept up my intake of saturated fats during that time. I credit them - coupled with me quitting the ciggies - for the fact that I NEVER get a cold. I have not had a cold for at least two years. So pleased. Especially as everyone at work is CONSTANTLY ill. My CW-healthy workmate is constantly ill - I mean looks like death when he gets colds. But I have NEVER caught it off him. I credit coconut oil cos I think I must eat it almost daily.
knock on wood, but I rarely get sick anymore and I haven't had a serious sinus cold since starting PB. I used to get knock down, drag out sinus colds 2-3x a year but not any more. I think that the elimination of processed/refined carbs played a huge part...
Wow! I hope the backs of my hands look younger! Fat is nature's Botox. I lost 145 pounds and at 47 your skin isn't going to bounce back much. So any skin improvements are appreciated!
I have been following a Primal/IF schedule (18/6) for about 2 months now. I workout fasted and lift heavy. The obvious benefits have been fat loss and muscle gain so far. I have a lot more energy and I'm sleeping better as well. I would estimate that I am about 80% primal.
One of the major health related issues I have is psoriasis. I am currently taking a very nasty drug called Soriatane for this and it works very well. The drug costs about $1200 a month (Ridiculous...), however I have been getting it free from the drug company through a program since I'm without health insurance at the moment. I am nearing the end of the program and I'm actually excited to see if my new lifestyle has any positive effects. I'm really hoping that it will...I love having clear skin but I hate being dependent on the harsh drugs.


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Welcome to our Clarinda Class of 1969 page. Our website was created for Clarinda Alumni and School Faculty. Register here to reunite with classmates, plan class reunions or to share school information.
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