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why get a job when you can get hit by cars and sue the drivers
And then you get injured and possibility die? I don't think so.
get rich or die tryin dont you know the fuckin motto
does anyone have like ten thousand dollars they don't want
do you mean to tell me that dr. seuss and dr. dre weren't colleagues
if i was jay z and beyonce i'd send blue ivy into the ghetto till she was like 11 and then be like surprise you're a millionaire
Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
"Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed 'The Artist Is Present' as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened."
"En los años 70, Marina Abramovic mantuvo una intensa historia de amor con Ulay. Pasaron 5 años viviendo en una furgoneta realizando toda clase de performances. En 1988, cuando su relación ya no daba para más, decidieron recorrer la Gran Muralla China, empezando cada uno de un lado, para encontrarse en el medio, abrazarse y no volver a verse nunca más. En 2010 el MoMa de Nueva York dedicó una retrospectiva a su obra. Dentro de la misma, Marina compartía un minuto en silencio con cada extraño que se sentaba frente a ella. Ulay llegó sin que ella lo supiera, y esto fue lo que pasó"
I think the coolest thing ever is when my opinion is completely opposite of someone else's but we can have a discussion about the two without it getting hateful or trying to push something down each other's throats
There is nothing wrong with me
*gets down on one knee* will you go away
You know how people do that no shoes for 100 days to try and understand 3rd world countries well I'm doing something pretty much the same but with homework to protest 3rd world children not getting a good education
Where does celery grow I've never seen celery grow before
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EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö With a series of recent incidents at East Greenwich High School and several arrests, town and school officials are hoping the return of a police presence can help ease a potential crisis.
Although the regular resource officerŌĆÖs position at the school has become a victim of budget cuts, Police Chief Thomas Coyle is hoping the return of one, albeit on a limited basis, will head off further troubles at the school.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆō Sometimes, Rocky Hill School is on various TVs or web-streamed onto computers. On Saturday, various TVs and computers were on Rocky Hill School.
Tons of televisions ŌĆō literally ŌĆō copiers, old computers, scanners, fridges and anything electronic and out of use were left by hundreds of area residents, part of the first-ever, and an extremely successful, E-Waste Recycling Day fundraiser held in the schoolŌĆÖs rear parking lot off Chinook Road.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö With statutory and regulatory criteria for receiving state benefits being tightened up, state Sen. Dawson T. Hodgson (R-Dist. 35, North Kingstown, East Greenwich) is targeting the fraud side of the equation in a bill he recently submitted to the General Assembly.
EAST GREENWICH - Thomas Mears had just put his one-year-old daughter back to bed at about 3:50 a.m. Sunday morning, and was about to fall back asleep himself when he heard the horrible noise not far from his home at Shippeetown Road.
ŌĆ£If you put your head against a board and somebody hit a baseball bat across it, that's what it sounded like,ŌĆØ said Mears, East Greenwich Fire District captain. ŌĆ£I just started getting dressed and ran out. I knew it was going to be bad.ŌĆØ
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö The cost of building a new East Greenwich Fire District Station 1 may still be too rich for some residents, but the price of land for its new home seemed right for most of them.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö Think knocking down a brush fire or dousing a burning structure in East Greenwich is a challenge?
Try maneuvering the firefighting apparatus out of Station 1 downtown on Main Street, where East Greenwich Fire District personnel have to contend with not only pedestrians and sometimes speeding traffic, but the structure of the 98-year-old building as well.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö While the current state of the economy may be a drain on local food banks, local volunteers and a supermarket chain are attempting to keep a local bank replenished.
The East Greenwich Interfaith Food Bank, based at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, received a $4,280 donation from Stop & Shop's Frenchtown Road branch, which has been active in several local food bank initiatives.
On the night of Feb. 20, 2003, East GreenwichŌĆÖs Tracy King was working as a bouncer at the Station Nightclub for the Great White concert, escorting around WPRI-TV cameraman Brian Butler for him to get video of the show.
In the nine years since the tragic fire that claimed Tracy, 38, and 99 others at the Station, Evelyn King ŌĆō TracyŌĆÖs wife ŌĆō and her children have been taking things one step at a time and one day at a time to try and progress through life without him, with some days being naturally better than others.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö Seldom does a French lesson get students out of their seats and dancing.
But that's what happened last week in the East Greenwich High School Auditorium, with some help from Grand Derangement, a band from the Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia, whose diverse music ties in with the history element of French language classes.
About 850 French language students from around the state, in two shifts, were bused to the school for the concert, an annual event sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French Rhode Island.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö The Town Council took a step closer Monday night toward finalizing a memorandum of understanding with the East Greenwich School District regarding the upkeep and cost of maintaining athletic fields used by the schools.
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The WIP Morning Show asked, "Which Phillie should be traded first before the deadline" on the Audio Roadshow app this morning.
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Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good. Each day you have is a blessing from God. Enjoy life.
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This is the design that won the College Football Playoff logo contest. Any thoughts out there?
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Chris Webber in the building!
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Trey Burke puts Michigan on his back with a 30-foot three pointer to force OT. This kid is unbelievable.
Fort Myers is now Dunk City, USA, and FGCU is captivating the country.
This is what March Madness is all about. Great piece by SB Nation, profiling Florida Golf Coast University.
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March 19th 1960 saw the Ohio State Buckeyes win the school's first NCAA Championship with a 75-55 victory over the California Golden Bears. Forward/center Jerry Lucas was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
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Please note: These prerequisites only apply to the 10-week Professional Brewers Certificate Program and the 18-week Master Brewers Program.
Success on the Institute of Brewing & Distilling Diploma in Brewing Examination (IBD DBE) requires a sound background in biology, microbiology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering topics. Though a college degree in one of these areas is preferred, it is not necessary for admission to the program. Nevertheless, some relevant college-level work is required in the areas mentioned below for you to have a reasonable chance of passing the IBD DBE. The breadth of topics covered in the program and the examination is wide, and few candidates will be adequately prepared in all areas. All minimum prerequisites must be completed in advance of applying. Incomplete applications will not be considered for admission. You should have (a) adequate preparation in mathematics (precalculus) and (b) relevant preparation in at least two other areas listed below.
- Biological sciences (e.g., biochemistry, cell (plant) biology/physiology or microbiology)
- Chemistry (e.g., inorganic, organic or analytical)
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- Engineering (topics in mechanical and/or chemical engineering)
Practical brewing experience is not required for entrance into the program and will not substitute for adequate preparation in science.
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Mathematics — The brewery engineering program does not require calculus for success, but competent and confident algebra skills are necessary. These skills are best described as "pre-calculus," meaning the most advanced mathematics course before a calculus course may be taken. The engineering program and the practice questions from the IBD DBE provide a great deal of opportunity for computation in class and homework, and you should not be intimidated by this.
Biological sciences — These courses, along with chemistry, are the foundation of our brewing science studies, which is about two-thirds of the total effort. You should have completed courses that are general in approach, including cell structure and function, the chemistry and biology organelles and the cell components (e.g., proteins) and the biochemical pathways that drive the life of cells. Many general courses in this field are oriented towards health sciences or towards environmental issues, ecosystems and wildlife. These are not suitable preparation for this program.
Chemistry — Inorganic chemistry covering the nature of matter (e.g., atoms, chemical bonds, gases, liquids and solids, solutions, colloids and change of state) and the elements is a necessary start in this field. A similar introductory course in organic chemistry is also desirable as almost all of the molecules relevant in brewing are organic. You should understand nomenclature, structure, bonding/bonds and isomerism of organic molecules, the properties of functional groups on alcohols, esters, organic acids, aldehydes and ketones (including sugars) and aromatic compounds.
Physics — Physics is a fully acceptable substitute for engineering courses, and candidates without engineering course experience should complete some physics coursework. Physics courses on heat(temperature and thermal properties of matter and heat transfer) and mechanics (mechanical properties of matter, motion, work/energy, momentum, gas laws) are useful. Those on electricity, magnetism and light are not as useful. Process control courses are not a substitute for physics courses, but have their own value for parts of the curriculum.
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Recipe: Marcela Hazan's Essentials of Italian Cooking and "Tomato Sauce with Butter and Onions" from Smitten Kitchen.
Rating: Great. The recipe can be doubled if you want more sauce.
Status: Made several times.
This recipe was extremely quick and easy to prepare. The sauce is simple, and fulfilling. If you use San Marzano tomatoes, then the sauce will taste sweet. Real, certified San Marzano tomatoes are marked with D.O.P. on the label and are grown in Italy; however it is okay to use whichever canned tomatoes taste best to you, even if they are not true San Marzanos (though I think these producers should be more transparent about what their products actually are). San Marzano tomatoes are great tomatoes, but the sauce also works with any other good quality whole peeled tomatoes.
All you need to do is peel and cut an onion in half, and add it to a pan with the contents of the tomato jar and some butter, simmer the sauce, and then salt the sauce. Even though the recipe says that it only needs to be simmered for 45 minutes, my sauce usually needs to simmer for an hour to an hour and half before the butterfat separates from the tomatoes.
This recipe is especially great with meatballs, for example in a meatball sandwich. If you cook meatballs or sausage (or both) in the sauce, then the sauce will become richer from the flavorings and fat that it absorbs. Very tasty.
The pictures below show a double batch (made for a large batch of meatballs). The tomato cans may have salt in them so you should salt to taste. A guideline is, I usually use about 1 to 1.5 tsp of Diamond Crystal kosher salt per can of tomatoes.
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I think that Sheamus will beat Big Show, they aren't going to spend all this time building Sheamus up to have him beaten by Big Show at HIAC. I do think that Sheamus will perform white noise on Big Show and the Brouge kick. Infact, I think Sheamus will perform White Noise on Big Show and will then attempt a brouge kick but Big Show will hit him with WMD and Sheamus will kick out. After a bit of a beating Sheamus will hit Big Show with a Brouge Kick and will retain the WHC.
While Sheamus is KO'd by WMD Ziggler will come out and will cash his MITB in. Big Show will be walking slowly and sluggish like up the ramp backstage while he hears the ref count 1,2... and then Sheamus will kick out. Big Show and Ziggler will have a look of disbelief on their face and then Big Show will turn back and walk towards the ring, as he tries to get in Sheamus will clothesline him out of the ring and will turn and Brouge Kick Ziggy and retain the title again.
I do think that Sheamus will beat Big Show because it will give Sheamus credibility and if he performs white noise on him it will be even more a bonus for him.
Personally, I would like to see Sheamus lose the WHC title to someone because I don't think he is ready. TBH, I started watching WWE again because of Sheamus. If he dosen't lose it at HIAC, he will lose it to Barrett and after a feud he will then go for the WWE title when he is actually ready.
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By Tichaona Sibanda
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06 January 2014
Teachers could strike after schools open next week in a dispute over pay that has been raging for months, a union leader has warned.
Takavafira Zhou, the President of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said the ZANU PF government must honour its electoral promise to increase salaries for civil servants.
In the run up to and after the July 31st polls President Robert Mugabe promised to improve the welfare of government employees, a pledge that has not yet been fulfilled.
Just before the Christmas break in December last year, civil servants' representatives met in Harare with government officials, in their first joint negotiating meeting in two and a half years.
The union representatives said that meeting was "very inconclusive" and there was hope government would reconvene a meeting in January to start the salary negotiations.
Zhou said there is a general consensus among teachers that the meeting should happen before schools open next week, warning of dire consequences if the government ignores them.
"The meeting over salaries should be held this week and the latest date for such a meeting is Friday," said Zhou, who accused government of being "evasive, illusive and prevaricating" over the pay dispute.
"If talks fail, there are several options that may happen and industrial action is one method of negotiating to induce government to meet workers," added Zhou.
Teachers in Zimbabwe earn a basic salary of between $300 and $480 per month, but the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe says a food basket for an average family of five now costs $540 a month.
Let`s stop talking about the pay rise and concentrate on our leader`s health . nhambo dzinongosiyenda.
Let us stop talking about pay rise please cause mukuru havasi kunzwa mushe.
Let us stop talking about pay this time . Mudhara arikugomera.
Let us stop this money issue , mudhara ari kugomera noutenda veduwe
I am likely to support the statement if it were, "Let's stop talking about the pay rise and concentrate on getting his clique out, nhambo dzinongosiyenda".


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At just 16 years old, Elle Fanning has become the youngest recipient of the Mill Valley award in the festival's 37-year history. Earning her the honor was her heartbreaking performance in Low Down, the feature debut of director Jeff Preiss in which she plays Amy-Jo Albany, the real life daughter of critically lauded, woefully drug-addicted jazz pianist Joe Read More
Life of Crime
A particularly muted Elmore Leonard adaptation, Daniel Schechter's Life of Crime has real value in its cast and their skillful performances, but the remaining elements of the film, while not disastrous, lack focus and flair, eliciting half-hearted shrugs and soft laughs. It's like a Diet Coke version of a classic Leonard romp: While Out of Sight and Jackie Brown crackled and popped, Life Read More
Giveaway: Win The Sessions on Blu-ray
If you haven't had a chance to see the Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated film The Sessions, which stars John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, now is your chance. Way Too Indie is giving away one copy of The Sessions on Blu-ray to one of our readers. Read More
2013 Independent Spirit Award Winners
The 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards were filled as many laughs from the host Andy Samberg as there were shocks from some of the voting. Silver Linings Playbook walked away with four major awards but surprisingly only one of them was from the acting category. Jennifer Lawrence was awarded Best Female Lead for her role Read More
The Sessions
Ben Lewin's The Sessions collected attention at various film festivals throughout the year, under the film's original name of The Surrogate. Because the film is based on a true story about a man who struggles in life because of his condition; the film had a good chance of either being a contriving work of Oscar-bait Read More
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a haunting psychological thriller from first time filmmaker Sean Durkin, about a young woman trying to recover from her years of being part of a cult. Escaping her past is nearly impossible for her to do as one cannot simply forget about the things she was put through. The film Read More
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Winter's Bone will likely be the film most people never heard of that is up for the 2011 Best Picture Award. In terms of the other nine films up for Best Picture, it did not generate nearly the amount of hype in Hollywood. The story is a little different in indie-land as it did receive Read More
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The frightening failure of Obama's nuclear weapons deal with the Islamic Republic.
Iran Answers Appeasement with Warships
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Iran's Bomb in the Basement
Caroline Glick is the Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project and the Senior Contributing Editor of The Jerusalem Post. For more information on Ms. Glick's work, visit carolineglick.com.
The Iranian Threat & Obama's Deception
Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer and the author of Global Deception: The UN's Stealth Assault on America's Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, the United Nations & Radical Islam.
Iran vs. Israel at Davos
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Elie Wiesel: Stop Iran from Going Nuclear
What Churchill Would Make of Obama's Iran Appeasement
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A Hollow Victory
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The Dangerously Irrational Iranian Regime
Ben Shapiro is a Senior Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org. He is the author of the new book "The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration" (Threshold Editions).
Third Round of Nuclear Talks: Ignoring the Threats
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Culture matters. Check out these client case studies that demonstrate the strong link between a healthy culture and business performance.
Read the latest blogs on culture shaping by Senn Delaney Chairman Dr. Larry Senn on Cultureuniversity.com. His latest article examines why culture transformation only comes through personal transformation.
Enjoy Senn Delaney's latest newsletter featuring our latest CEO view from the top video with Tom Voss, chairman, president and CEO of Ameren. Voss shares insights on why he purposefully reshaped the utility's culture to restore it to top-tier performance and create a 'will to win' high-performance culture.
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Kim Kardashian Grants First Post-Divorce Interview, Defends Motives for Marriageby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Immediately after filing for divorce from Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian jetted down to Australia to promote her family's collection of handbags. Naturally.
But, even thousands of miles away, this large-breasted reality star couldn't escape questions about her 72-day marriage, which Kim swears was based on love, not ratings.
"I think I'm trying to do the best I can, and it's actually a bit of an escape to come here," Kim said, personality-less as ever, in radio interview on the Kyle and Jackie O show, excerpted here:
Adding that she really isn't ready to discuss details of what led to the split - not for free, come on, Australian hosts! - Kardashian reiterated:
"I do want to make clear that I would never marry for a TV show, for money, for anything like that. I think that's really ridiculous that I have to even defend that," and then added: "I guess, you know, that comes along with when you film your wedding for a reality show."
THANK YOU, KIM! That is all we can reasonably ask for here. Even if you want us to buy your story of love and heartbreak, it's ridiculous and insulting to not at least acknowledge why some might think otherwise.
Why do you think Kim Kardashian got married?
whats goes around cames around
Kim who?
She wanted to "honor her work commitment" to the handbag line?
What about honoring her commitment she made to her HUSBAND???????
This woman has issues.
Sounds like West Coast Wall Street to me!
I personally think the whole Kardashian thing is over rated I think that all these reality shows are over rated. Once you start watching and feeding into this crap is when you know that you do not have a life. believe me I was one of you. You people out there pick up New York times or a good book. That's what I do now a days. A little self education about what is going on around us never hurt anyone!
Plain and simple,who do you all think you are to judge ayone,like to put you life in spot light.Kim good luck no matter what comes nexxxxxt and same goes for Kris..
None of your business mommyof7. It is Kim's life and not yours so why not just go look after your kids and stay out of issues that don't concern you?
So is it normal for celebs to divorce 10 times in their life..run around without underwear..sleep around...use foul language? We keep them in pedestals and admire them....but why? If this is entertainment watching so-called famous humanbeings degrade themselves...then our world is in serious need of help.
You people need to leave Kim and her family alone just like one blogger said who are you to judge anyone, even if she got married and stayed for one day that is her business, don't you all know by now celebrities do not stay married until death do them part anyway, so why should she be any differnt that anyone else in their world. So what ever she did it is her business and no one else, her mistate was having it televised, I don't hear anyone talking about Brittney Spears one day marriage and there have been others they last days and no one is talking about those celebrities. If you don't like their show don't watch it, it is entertainment and nothing else. so people wake up and smell the roses mind your business. There is an old says it takes 6 months to attend to your business and 6 months to attend to others and by that time the years gone. so now go take on the day with a smile and leave my cousins alone.
I agree with Ana, if we would stop looking at E! and reading and buying the magazines they would disappear like Paris Hilton. Kim remember Paris Hilton?


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A housekeeper who once described seeing Wade Robson in the shower with Michael Jackson may be the key to the former's claims of molestation.
Robson, 30, recently accused Jackson of sexual abuse in a claim against his estate, then defended himself on Today, calling Michael a pedophile.
Blanca Francia's testimony during Jackson's 2005 child molestation trial included a graphic account of MJ showering naked with a young Wade Robson.
Francia described seeing Michael's underwear on the floor outside the Neverland Ranch shower, as well as Wade's child-sized neon green underwear.
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Where will the people of God learn theology if not in the church? Theology is a word that means "The Study of God". Within the study of God, there are a multitude of other areas that encompass the knowledge of God. We are going back to an older method used by churches for hundreds of years - we will be using a catechism as a means of teaching these theological truths. A Baptist Catechism by Dr. William Downing will be our guide, so pick one up in the bookstore and we'll see you on Sunday!


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Side Note: This guy is talking right out of his ass. Transhumanism as a prerequisite requires a super-State not to mention it creates an all new class system where these human/machine hybrids are somewhere near the top. There is no relationship between these two ideas; they appose each other on the most fundamental levels.
…oh, and if you think governments composed up of people is bad, this guy proposes how "ideal" our future will be when human Governments are replaced with computer Governments. With Anarchism, "no rulers" would also include the non-human variety - whether it be a God, gods or a computer system.
A short and simple overview of how anarchism relates to transhumanism.
Libertarian socialism The first anarchist journal to use the term "libertarian" was La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque."The next recorded use of the term was in Europe, when "libertarian communism" was used at a French regional anarchist Congress at Le Havre (16–22 November 1880). January the following year saw a French manifesto issued on "Libertarian or Anarchist Communism." Finally, 1895 saw leading anarchists Sébastien Faure and Louise Michel publish La Libertaire in France."
The word stems from the French word libertaire, and was used to evade the French ban on anarchist publications. In this tradition, the term "libertarianism" in "libertarian socialism" is generally used as a synonym for anarchism, which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence "libertarian socialism" is equivalent to "socialist anarchism" to these scholars. In the context of the European socialist movement, libertarian has conventionally been used to describe those who opposed state socialism, such as Mikhail Bakunin. (Who I am not a big fan of) The association of socialism with libertarianism predates that of capitalism, and many anti-authoritarians still decry what they see as a mistaken association of capitalism with libertarianism in the United States. As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian "must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer."
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which endorses syndicalism. Syndicalism is an alternative co-operative economic system. Adherents view it as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by workers. Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery, and state or private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labour movement.
Anarcho-syndicalists regard the state as a profoundly anti-worker institution. They view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property and therefore of economic, social and political privilege, even when such defence denies its citizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it. In contrast to other bodies of thought (Marxism–Leninism being a prime example), anarcho-syndicalists deny that there can be any kind of workers' state, or a state which acts in the interests of workers, as opposed to those of the powerful. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism holds to the idea that power corrupts.(1)(2)
Technology: Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The word technology comes from Greek τεχνολογία (technología); from τέχνη (téchnē), meaning "art, skill, craft", and -λογία (-logía), meaning "study of-" (3)
Noam Chomsky on Technology: "technology can be compared to a hammer. "It doesn't care if you use it to build a house or crush someone's skull. The Web is valuable if you know what you're looking for, if you have a framework of understanding. But you always have to be willing to question whether your framework is the right one." He compared simply browsing the web for information to pointing a student at the library knowing they had no idea what they were looking for. "Exploring the internet can just be picking up random factoids that don't mean anything", he said. "The person who won the Nobel prize in biology isn't the person who read the most journals. It was the person who knew what to look for,""(4)
Transhumanism: is a intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. The movement regards aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death as unnecessary and undesirable. Transhumanists look to biotechnologies and other Emerging technologies for these purposes. Dangers, as well as benefits, are of concern to the transhumanist movement. (5)
Reality of the Production of Technologies Under Current Capitalism: "On the surface, companies like Jabil [HP, IBM, Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Motorola, Wal-Mart, Foxconn, Apple ] look clean and high tech. It seems well-run. But people looking in from the outside do not realize that the workers at Jabil are not treated like human beings. The workers must obey all demands from the factory and have absolutely no right to express disagreement. The workers are seen as components of a machine. During the entirety of their 12-hour shift, they are stripped of their humanity. They are not allowed to have their own personalities, feelings, desires or needs-even using the bathroom. For every second of every minute, they are controlled and ruled over by a prison-like management system."(5)(6)(7)(8)
Capitalism and Working During the Human Condition: "To move beyond Marx and Anarchism in our current paradigm of the human condition may be an actual fallacy, an over criticizing of theory by intellectuals [including transhumanists] or Anarchists which have, out of awareness, a desire to move on past Marx and anarchism out of [the knowledge] of the dangers of simplifying the way people are supposed to be. Progress seems to come out of paradigmatic crisis, and this intuition may lead some to the point of over analyzing, yearning to either create crisis or move beyond crisis to a new paradigm because of authentic intuitive feelings of the yearning for progress and egalitarianism which many intellectuals experience and write about through out their lives." (10)
"Though capitalism is meant to be based on competition, those at the top of the food chain have also shown themselves to be capable of inclusiveness and solidarity. The great Western Capitalists have done business with fascists, socialists, despots and military dictators. They can adapt and constantly innovate. They are capable of quick thinking and immense tactical cunning.But despite having successfully powered through economic reforms, despite having waged wars and militarily occupied countries in order to put in place free market "democracies", Capitalism is going through a crisis whose gravity has not revealed itself completely yet." (11)
Long story short: For all you republican, libertarian, and liberal capitalists out there that want to see a transhumanist future, the evidence is clear: you will have to abide by a broken system under the human condition. This includes capitalist free trade, unnecessary war, and wage slavery – are you really prepared to see transhumanist gadgets be set in stone within the history books as a time like that of apartheid or European and American slavery of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries?
Is your wealth, or dedication to the government and corporations that lead the way towards a transhumanist future really what you are all about? Transhumanists know that the future will include technologies that will replace government – worldwide. Transhumanists also know that democracy and/or singularity like computer intelligence will dictate our existential, utilitarian, and categorical imperative future. We will be networked together to feel and think as one via brain to computer interfaces. Whatever the means for higher critical thinking may be, rather morality drugs, nano-blood-bots, brain to computer interfaces, gene therapy, etc, the outcome will be socialized anarchism. Critical thinking does not lead the mentally "enhanced" individual or super-computer to be selfish, indeed just the opposite. Let's take what we have so far as examples of critical thinkers who have come to the same conclusion but under the human condition. The list is long, but a few major examples are Marx, Einstein, Hawking, Chomsky, Russell, Arundhati Roy, most philosophers, anthropologists, and sociologists.
If we base human intelligence, logic and critical thinking on examples like these we are left with one conclusion: The mentally enhanced will be socialist anarchists, regardless of what kind of technology they may be – for universal health care, anti-war, anti-authoritarian, anti-discrimination, pro-democracy, pro-choice, anti-racism, and even anti-speciesism will be regarded as the highest value system ever pondered by the brain/mind.
Scientific inquiry, the scientific method, and scientific revolutions will bring the enhanced mind together. Scientific discoveries and theories, in my opinion will bring brain/mind together like that of the social theory of Anarcho-syndicalism. Science however does not need a State, government, or leaders to be accepted as the truth – the scientific method speaks for itself.
In conclusion, we have several things going on here: Transhumanism being State and corporate funded under a "race to the bottom" wage slavery economic system. But, we also have the claim that transhumanism will increase intellectual thought and compassion towards brain/mind. I personally would rather see the compassion come before transhumanism so that history doesn't reflect that of our ancestors. Anarchism also allows the free-thinker some time to ponder what is right and wrong without an authority figure proposing and in some cases forcing concepts and theories on them. The scientific method, revolutionary liberal universities, colleges, and peer-reviewed journals will be of the utmost valued way of learning what is true and real - morally, ethically, and scientifically.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
(4) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/25/noam-chomsky-at-learning-without-frontiers
(5) http://ieet.org/index.php/tpwiki/Transhumanism/
(6) http://www.globallabourrights.org/reports?id=0602
(7) http://www.globallabourrights.org/
(8) http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2012/03/27/addressing-abuses-at-apple-facilities-in-china/
(9) http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1886043/nlc_usowned_hitech_jabil_factory_in_china_run_ like_minimum/
(10) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/notaro20101114
(11) http://www.zcommunications.org/capitalism-a-ghost-story-by-arundhati-roy
Side Note: I find this to be extremely funny. CHINA IS PWNING THE US MILITARY!
…it would be in their 'National Interests' of course, so therefore it is JUSTIFIABLE.
Oh… wait, that argument NEVER works when its the other way around, huh?
A microchip used by the US military and manufactured in China contains a secret "backdoor" that means it can be shut off or reprogrammed without the user knowing, according to researchers at Cambridge University's Computing Laboratory.
The unnamed chip, which the researchers claim is widely used in military and industrial applications, is "wide open to intellectual property theft, fraud and reverse engineering of the design to allow the introduction of a backdoor or Trojan", they said.
The discovery was made during testing of a new technique to extract the encryption key from chips, developed by Cambridge spin-off Quo Vadis Labs.
The "bug" is in the actual chip itself, rather than the firmware installed on the devices that use it. This means there is no way to fix it than to replace the chip altogether.
"The discovery of a backdoor in a military grade chip raises some serious questions about hardware assurance in the semiconductor industry," wrote Cambridge University researcher Sergei Skorobogatov and Quo Vadis Labs research Christopher Woods in a draft paper.
"It also raises some searching questions about the integrity of manufacturers making claims about [the] security of their products without independent testing."
Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls
IF THE computers we stare at all day could read our faces, they would probably know us better than anyone.
That vision may not be so far off. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people. The software could lead to empathetic devices and is being used to evaluate and develop better adverts.
But the commercial uses are just "the low-hanging fruit", says Rana el Kaliouby, a member of the Media Lab's Affective Computing group. The software is getting so good and so easy to use that it could collate millions of peoples' reactions to an event as they sit watching it at home, potentially replacing opinion polls, influencing elections and perhaps fuelling revolutions.
"I feel like this technology can enable us to give everybody a non-verbal voice, leverage the power of the crowd," el Kaliouby says. She and her colleagues have developed a program called MindReader that can interpret expressions on the basis of a few seconds of video. The software tracks 22 points around the mouth, eyes and nose, and notes the texture, colour, shape and movement of facial features. The researchers used machine-learning techniques to train the software to tell the difference between happiness and sadness, boredom and interest, disgust and contempt. In tests to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the software proved to be better than humans at telling joyful smiles from frustrated smiles. A commercial version of the system, called Affdex, is now being used to test adverts (see "Like what you see?").
Collecting emotional reactions in real time from millions of people could profoundly affect public polling. El Kaliouby, who is originally from Egypt, was in Cairo during the uprising against then-president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. She was startled that Mubarak seemed to think people liked his presidency, despite clear evidence to the contrary.
"She thought maybe Mubarak didn't think a million people was a big enough response to believe that people are upset," lab director Rosalind Picard said at the lab's spring meeting on 25 April. "There are 80 million people in Egypt, and most of them were not there. If we could allow them the opportunity to safely and anonymously opt in and give their non-verbal feedback and join that conversation, that would be very powerful."
Pollsters could even collect facial reactions on the streets, or analyse the reaction of an audience listening to a politician's speech. Picard's group recently ran an MIT-wide experiment called Mood Meter, placing cameras all over campus to gauge the general mood. To preserve privacy, the cameras didn't store any video or record faces - they just counted the number of people in the frame, and how many were smiling.
Frank Newport, editor in chief of political polling firm Gallup, headquartered in Washington DC, says such software could be useful. "There's no question that emotions and instincts have an impact in politics," he says. "We're certainly open to looking at anything along those lines." But he'd want to know how well facial responses predict actual votes.
Picard worries that the technology might have a dark side. "My fear is that some of these dictators would want to blow away the village that doesn't like them," she says. It would be important to protect the identities and IP addresses of viewers, she says.
The ability to teleport photons through 100 kilometres of free space opens the way for satellite-based quantum communications, say researchers
Teleportation is the extraordinary ability to transfer objects from one location to another without travelling through the intervening space.
The idea is not that the physical object is teleported but the information that describes it. This can then be applied to a similar object in a new location which effectively takes on the new identity.
And it is by no means science fiction. Physicists have been teleporting photons since 1997 and the technique is now standard in optics laboratories all over the world.
The phenomenon that makes this possible is known as quantum entanglement, the deep and mysterious link that occurs when two quantum objects share the same existence and yet are separated in space.
Teleportation turns out to be extremely useful. Because teleported information does not travel through the intervening space, it cannot be secretly accessed by an eavesdropper.
For that reason, teleportation is the enabling technology behind quantum cryptography, a way of sending information with close-to-perfect secrecy.
Unfortunately, entangled photons are fragile objects. They cannot travel further than a kilometre or so down optical fibres because the photons end up interacting with the glass breaking the entanglement. That severely limits quantum cryptography's usefulness.
However, physicists have had more success teleporting photons through the atmosphere. In 2010, a Chinese team announced that it had teleported single photons over a distance of 16 kilometres. Handy but not exactly Earth-shattering.
Now the same team says it has smashed this record. Juan Yin at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai, and a bunch of mates say they have teleported entangled photons over a distance of 97 kilometres across a lake in China.
That's an impressive feat for several reasons. The trick these guys have perfected is to find a way to use a 1.3 Watt laser and some fancy optics to beam the light and receive it.
Inevitably photons get lost and entanglement is destroyed in such a process. Imperfections in the optics and air turbulence account for some of these losses but the biggest problem is beam widening (they did the experiment at an altitude of about 4000 metres). Since the beam spreads out as it travels, many of the photons simply miss the target altogether.
So the most important advance these guys have made is to develop a steering mechanism using a guide laser that keeps the beam precisely on target. As a result, they were able to teleport more than 1100 photons in 4 hours over a distance of 97 kilometres.
That's interesting because it's the same channel attenuation that you'd have to cope with when beaming photons to a satellite with, say, 20 centimetre optics orbiting at about 500 kilometres. "The successful quantum teleportation over such channel losses in combination with our high-frequency and high-accuracy [aiming] technique show the feasibility of satellite-based ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation," say Juan and co.
So these guys clearly have their eye on the possibility of satellite-based quantum cryptography which would provide ultra secure communications around the world. That's in stark contrast to the few kilometres that are possible with commercial quantum cryptography gear.
Of course, data rates are likely to be slow and the rapidly emerging technology of quantum repeaters will extend the reach of ground-based quantum cryptography so that it could reach around the world, in principle at least.
But a perfect, satellite-based security system might be a useful piece of kit to have on the roof of an embassy or distributed among the armed forces.
Something for western security experts to think about.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1205.2024: Teleporting Independent Qubits Through A 97 Km Free-Space Channel
"The promise of a world of connected devices,in which machines of all types and sizes can autonomously communicate with each other, has long been imagined. GM's OnStar business, which provides a growing range of in-vehicle services, has been around for some 17 years. But the past year has seen a surge of interest around the core enabling technology of the connected world: machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Much of this interest stems from mobile operators, who are eagerly awaiting the possibility of connecting cars, homes,equipment, heart sensors and all manner of other devices to their networks to find new revenue sources.
Another reason for the surge in interest is that costs for the industry's underlying technologies – especially the sensors, processors and wireless connectivity that form the core of any M2M system – have fallen past a crucial milestone, into the single digits of euros or dollars. This is only part of the equation, but it has lowered the barriers to entry sufficiently to make the technology interesting to a wide audience. Despite all this, however, deploying an M2M-based application today remains a major undertaking for interested companies, which must battle with still-maturing technologies and partner ecosystems, among other factors.
This report, based on extensive desk research and wide-ranging interviews, examines the business models behind successful M2M applications across sectors, identifies the factors that will drive further take-up, and puts forward action points for businesses and governments to address in order to overcome barriers to widespread adoption. The key findings are as follows."
When we think of computer networks, we think of routers and servers and fiber optic cables and laptops and smartphones — we think of the internet. In actuality, though, the visible internet is just the tip of the iceberg. There are secret military networks, and ad hoc wireless networks, and utility companies have sprawling, cellular networks the track everything from the health of oil pipelines and uranium enrichment machines through to the remaining capacity of septic tanks.
Emergency services have their own closed networks, public transport ticketing machines are all networked together, and of course traffic signals and cameras are all networked up. Meteorological agencies havehuge networks of weather beacons. Most large buildings (and cities) have sprawling networks of CCTV cameras. And, in the case of large retailers, even individual stock items are networked using NFC (RFID).
At the moment, almost all of these networks are completely disconnected — but what if we connected them all to the internet? What if we extended the internet so that it wasn't only populated by humans? What if we made an internet of things?
Imagine if everything in the world was connected up to the same network? Every computer, every loaf of bread, every car, every traffic signal, every human. Imagine the possibilities of combining and correlating that data. Before you set off in the morning, you could see the exact, real-time traffic on your smartphone — and you would know what the weather (and air quality) is like at your office/campus. From home, you would know the exact stock levels of your nearest supermarket and the price of gas.
In short, our efficiency would improve dramatically. Instead of having to drive somewhere or phone someone up, every piece of data has already been collected, transmitted at the speed of light, and stored in a massive database that can be accessed from anywhere.
The internet of things wouldn't only be used by humans, either — things could communicate with each other. For example, your car could communicate with other cars and traffic signals, so that the light always turns green just as you arrive — or, really, with fully autonomous and networked cars, you wouldn't need signals at all; cars would just automagically avoid each other by braking and accelerating at the right time. Fridges could communicate with supermarkets and arrange food deliveries; ditto natural gas and oil and septic tanks. With an internet of things, we could tack the word "smart" onto almost everything; smart cars, smart homes, smart supermarkets, and even smart cities.
Of course, creating the network that would underpin these smart devices and cities would be a monumental undertaking, but — perhaps unsurprisingly — companies like IBM and Cisco are already working on such systems.
A high-technology company announced a risky and monstrously expensive project hoping to use space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids that routinely whiz by Earth. (April 24)
GENEVA — A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported.
A paralysed man at a hospital in the town of Sion demonstrated the device, sending a mental command to a computer in his room, which transmitted it to another computer that moved a small robot 60 kilometres (37 miles) away in Lausanne.
The system was developed by Jose Millan, a professor at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne who specialises in non-invasive interfaces between machines and the brain.
The same technology can be used to drive a wheelchair, Millan said.
"Once the movement has begun, the brain can relax, otherwise the person would soon be exhausted," he said.
But the technology has its limits, he added. The brain signals can be scrambled if too many people are gathered around a wheelchair, for example.
Besides making paraplegics mobile, neuroprosthetics could be used to help patients recover lost senses, researchers said.
Professor Stephanie Lacour and her team are working on an "electric skin" for amputees, a glove fitted with tiny sensors that would send information directly to the user's nervous system.
Eventually, researchers say they hope to create mechanised prosthetics that are as mobile and sensitive as a natural hand, Lacour said.
Other researchers at Lausanne are working on enabling paraplegics to walk again with electrodes implanted in their spinal cords.
"The goal is that after a year of training with a robotic aide, the patient will be able to walk without a robot. The electrodes would stay implanted for life," said Professor Gregoire Courtine.
He said he is currently setting up clinical trials and hopes to run tests at Zurich's university hospital within a year.
Location services company Navizonhas a new system, called Navizon I.T.S., that could allow tracking of visitors in malls, museums, offices, factories, secured areas and just about any other indoor space. It could be used to examine patterns of foot traffic in retail spaces, assure that a museum is empty of visitors at closing time, or even to pinpoint the location of any individual registered with the system. But let's set all that aside for a minute while we freak out about the privacy implications.
Most of us leave Wi-Fi on by default, in part because our phones chastise us when we don't. (Triangulation by Wi-Fi hotspots is important for making location services more accurate.) But you probably didn't realize that, using proprietary new "nodes" from Navizon, any device with an active Wi-Fi radio can be seen by a system like Navizon's.
To demonstrate the technology, here's Navizon CEO and founder Cyril Houri hunting for one of his colleagues at a trade show using a kind of first person shooter-esque radar.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality - meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.
Schmidt said the introduction of books available online, Internet translation of languages and voice recognition for computers all happened much faster than anyone envisioned and that technological research into even more previously unheard of advances is progressing at a fast clip.
"People who predict that holograms and self-driving cars will become reality soon are absolutely right," Schmidt told thousands of attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet's largest cell phone trade show.
Schmidt stepped down as Google's chief executive last year but has remained the company's chief representative in the public eye. As CEO, he rarely ventured into long-term visions like those he articulated in Barcelona. He didn't outline how Google, which makes its money from online advertising, would profit from his visions.
Schmidt said research under way will lead to situations where people can put themselves at events like a rock concerts so they can see, hear and even feel the event. And turn down the volume, if it's too loud.
One attendee said she was scared that the possibility could be dehumanizing, but Schmidt replied by holding up his cell phone into the air.
"It has an off button and it is here on the right," Schmidt said. "My point is it is all about your control. If you don't like my version of a rock concert, I'm not forcing you to go."
Small robots could be used so busy people can send them to events for video and voice transmissions when their presence isn't required, Schmidt said.
"In the future you'll be able to dispatch a robot to each event," he said.
Google has been testing driverless cars for years, and Schmidt noted that several U.S. states are already drawing up regulations so they can be used on the road. The technology took a big step forward earlier this month when Nevada became the first state to spell out requirements for the testing of driverless cars on state roads.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval even took a test ride in a self-driving Toyota Prius in July. The car being developed by Google uses radar, sensors that allow the vehicle to "see" the road, other vehicles and people. Human drivers can override the autopilot function.
Google's self-driving cars have logged more than 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers), Schmidt said.
Underlying it all is the explosion of data and devices that consumers will be able to use without even caring if they are logging onto the Internet, Schmidt said.
"The web will be everything, but it will be nothing," he said. "It will be like electricity, it is just there."
People will eventually be able to use virtual reality go to places like Marrakech in Morocco or to North Korea "whenever it has an election," Schmidt said.
Schmidt compared the new connectivity to a "digital watering hole" where everyone will be able to gather, though he acknowledged it will take much longer for people in developing nations with poor connectivity to take part.
"It will redefine the relationship these people have in the world. In times of war and suffering, it will be impossible to ignore the cries of people calling out for help," Schmidt said. "In this new world there will be far fewer places for dictators."
That already happened during the Arab Spring that saw governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya fall, with more turmoil still under way in places like Syria.
"With information comes power and with power comes choice, and smarter resourceful citizens are going to demand a better deal for their communities," Schmidt said.
April 18, 2012 - A paradigm shift is coming that will change everything about the way people work, learn, and interact - it will be the beginning of a new age and the shape that age takes depends greatly on the number of informed people that take part in it and where they decide to steer it. Already, the top minds across a variety of industries are converging and preparing for the shift. One such group, an educational institute called "Singularity University" comprises of innovators, teachers, scientists, and engineers from both the private and public sector. Some could be considered elitists interested in consolidating power, others are truly forward thinking and interested in a better world for all of mankind.
Video: An introduction as to what "Singularity University" is. It is easy to pick out good and bad people, corporations, and agendas involved in Singularity University, it is much more difficult to determine what its overall agenda is. It may be possible, if average people became informed on a large scale, to steer its agenda toward what benefits humanity as a whole, rather than a handful of corporations.
The battle that will play out depends entirely on the general public becoming informed and active in the coming paradigm shift, guiding it toward a society of solidarity and progress rather than one of disparity between enslavement and superiority. Analyzing Singularity University's website and video productions, the impression is one of a multitude of ideas and directions - not a predetermined agenda, so far.
One concept that is omnipresent throughout Singularity University's activities is cutting edge technology and the possible implications it will have on society. This includes everything from 3D printing, robotics, artificial intelligence, and radical advances in genetics and biotechnology. The implications range from the ability for every individual on Earth to "print" at will any conceivable object they are able to obtain the blueprints for or design, to gene therapies capable of extending human life to centuries.
While the public is distracted with gritty political ploys, wars, and engineered destabilization, it is hoped that these emerging technologies can be meshed into the existing power structures and preserve the power of elites who have reigned over humanity for generations. Sabotaging education, ruining family and culture, and perpetuating the futile "rat race" also plays a role in keeping the vast majority of humanity out of the debate, and thus at a clear disadvantage.
Just like Europeans arriving on the shores of the New World - with vastly superior weapons and institutions to perform a campaign of full spectrum domination over natives that has endured ever since, the global elite of today hope to assume a position of vast superiority enabled by quantum leaps in technology while the rest of us, through ploys such as "environmentalism" and "sustainable living" increasingly disarm ourselves industrially and technologically. Polluting our priorities with political issues instead of pragmatism also widens the rift of disparity between the people and the ruling elite.
[Technology is going to destroy us all. Oh, hey, how's it going skynet?]
Computer vision works much better than it once did, and that could enable a diverse range of machines to see and understand their environments. Such machines could be useful in everything from military scouting to self-driving cars.
That's why the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is doing research into vision in a program known as Mind's Eye. James Donlon (pictured right), program manager for the Mind's Eye project, said at the recentEmbedded Vision Alliance summit in San Jose, Calif., that vision systems being tested now aren't that bad at recognizing patterns such as a person about to be hit by a car that is backing up. But they still make mistakes that are sometimes comical, like mistaking a stationary object for a person or focusing on the wrong thing in a scene.
The Mind's Eye research has been going on for about 18 months and is about half-way complete. After three years, the various vision projects will lead to lab prototypes that can eventually be brought to market. The systems being developed will do things like recognize someone walking, touching an object, or taking other actions. If the research pans out, we could see robots and other machines getting much better at the vision-based tasks that humans are best at.
"The difference between how a machine can describe a scene and how a person would describe that scene is quite vast still," Donlon said. "Solving this is what the Mind's Eye program is about. So far, humans are still best at this."
When Tom Cruise had to break into police headquarters in Minority Report, the futuristic crime thriller, he got past the iris scanners with ease: He just swapped out his eyeballs.
CIA agents may find that just a little beyond the call of duty. But meanwhile, they've got to come up with something else: The increasing deployment of iris scanners and biometric passports at worldwide airports, hotels and business headquarters, designed to catch terrorists and criminals, are playing havoc with operations that require CIA spies to travel under false identities.
Busy spy crossroads such as Dubai, Jordan, India and many E.U. points of entry are employing iris scanners to link eyeballs irrevocably to a particular name. Likewise, the increasing use of biometric passports, which are embedded with microchips containing a person's face, sex, fingerprints, date and place of birth, and other personal data, are increasingly replacing the old paper ones. For a clandestine field operative, flying under a false name could be a one-way ticket to a headquarters desk, since they're irrevocably chained to whatever name and passport they used.
"If you go to one of those countries under an alias, you can't go again under another name," explains a career spook, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he remains an agency consultant. "So it's a one-time thing — one and done. The biometric data on your passport, and maybe your iris, too, has been linked forever to whatever name was on your passport the first time. You can't show up again under a different name with the same data."
The issue is exceedingly sensitive to agency operatives and intelligence officials, past and present. "I think you have finally found a topic I can't talk about," said Charles Faddis, a CIA operations officer who retired in 2008.
"I can't help you with this," added a former intelligence agency chief. "I do think this is a significant issue with great implications for the safety and security of our people, so I recommend you not publish anything on this. You can do a lot of harm and no good."
For data centers, uptime is mandatory, even if the buses and trains aren't running on time. That's an issue on the minds of data center in operators in London, which may see its transit system tested by the huge crowds expected for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The data center team at Interxion has come up with a solution that will ensure that its London tech staff can be on site to keep things running smoothly throughout the Games.
Interxion today unveiled "sleeping pods" at its London data center campus, allowing staff to sleep amongst the racks to ensure that the facility will be fully staffed throughout the Games. allowing engineering staff to stay on site 24/7 should congestion on the travel and road networks become too severe, making it difficult for critical staff to travel to and from the site in a timely fashion.


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|This page lists sturdy, kid-friendly garden trains you can use to get and keep the kids involved. This buyer's guide page is a supplement to the "Garden Train Store" buyer's guide and the article "Getting and Keeping the Kids Involved."
Kid-Friendly Trains - I have raised my children with trains, including toy trains, model trains that were sturdy enough to be handled by children, and "real" model trains. Every year since my kids went off to college, I've had "open railroads," where I ran my "big trains" for the "big people" and set up multiple "kid-friendly" trains for visiting children to run. So I have a pretty good idea what will work and what won't.
Garden-Friendly Trains - These trains can be used indoors or out. Most of them are made by companies that build trains to be used outside in garden railroads. If you don't know what Garden Railroading is, my article "Go Outside and Run Your Trains," on the Family Garden Trains Primer page will give you some idea. That said, these trains also look good indoors (if you can spare the room) or around the Christmas tree.
Update for August, 2013 - So many of the trains I once listed here have become unavailable that I got ridiculously behind on keeping the page updated last year. For that I apologize, but it's a reminder that trains come and go, especially in a volatile economy, and just because I put up a description today doesn't mean you can count on getting them if you wait a month or three.
I have moved the descriptions for some of my favorite discontinued trains to the end of the article in case you come across one and wonder if it's worth bringing home. I've also added some "low end" battery-powered trains that will run on garden railroad track, in case you mostly want something for the kids or grandkids to run when they come over.
But the best news is that Bachmann, probably the world's largest model train manufacturer, has "filled the gap" with a garden train-quality line built just for kids, and a Thomas the Tank(r) line that will delight youngsters.
The big caveat is that some of these trains on this page in short supply already, and as the economy shows signs of improvement, I expect many of these trains to "jump off the shelves" this fall. So if you see a set you want, don't wait too long to order.
Note about Availability and Pricing: Although I try to keep an eye on things and to recommend products that are reasonably available, the model train market does fluctuate, and any product on this page may change price or become unavailable without prior notice. For more detailed information about why model and toy train products come and go so quickly, and why I have stopped listing prices for products, please see my article "About Pricing and Availability."
Note about Suppliers: While we try to help you get the products you want by recommending suppliers with a good record of customer service, all transactions between you and the supplier you chose to provide your trains or other purchases are governed by the published policies on the supplier's web site. So please print off any order confirmation screens and save copies of invoices, etc., so you can contact the appropriate supplier should any problems occur. (They almost never do, but you want to be on the safe side.)
Kids Trains from BachmannBachmann's "Li'l Big Hauler" line and "Thomas and Friends"(r) line are less detailed and more rugged than their model train lines, as you would expect for kid-friendly trains. They run on any garden train track, with just about any DC model train power supply, so they're a great way to get started in garden railroading, or for giving the kids or grandkids something to run indoors or out. One caveat - these trains sit a little higher than LGB OR Bachmann Big Hauler trains - their coupler heights match Bachmann's top-line (1:20.3) trains. That won't cause most people any problems, since Thomas doesn't really look right pulling scale US-style 40' boxcars anyway.
The Bachmann Thomas and Friends(r) line is a little bigger, and slightly more detailed than the Li'l Big Hauler line, but the two trains are completely compatible. (They have the same coupler heights, run on the same track, use the same power supplies, etc.) So there's no reason not to get one set now and the other one later. Or you could buy Li'l Big Hauler cars to go behind Thomas. Or you could buy one set for each kid if you have multiple children. :-)
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text: «If there is a table at which the best writers of flash fiction should be seated, Marcus Speh deserves a chair – with his name on it. In four short years Speh has gone from obscure internet ego Finnegan Flawnt to nearly a household name, at least among the three thousand or so writers competing for that tight little club listed on Duotrope, championed by small press, and swirling in constant motion among the blogs and posts and coffee house readings out there these days. It's an exciting time, a world without agents, where anyone with the will and imagination can start a literary magazine, but the truth will out, it always does, and someday soon flash fiction will not be so cutting edge, some other blade will be forged, and student's will study and teachers will teach and the old ones will remember when. With the publication of his first collection, "Thank You For Your Sperm", Speh is helping to launch this genre into the main stream. Someday, names will have to named, founders have to be found. I think this collection may be one of those…» [Read full review by Derek Osborne]


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By Kevin Currie, Senior Golf Editor
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The 2012 season had a pair of upstarts win in back-to-back weeks, including one that won his first two tour starts.
That player, Ben Kohles, was part of the overall youth movement on the tour that saw 15 players gain their PGA Tour cards for the first time thanks to finishing in the top 25 on the money list. Four of those 15 are 22 or 23 years old.
Three of those players also had no status on the Nationwide Tour to begin the 2012 campaign. It was an unpredictable year with plenty of comeback wins.
This will also be remembered as the last year in which the top-25 on the money list go right to the PGA Tour. With changes at the PGA Tour level, the top 75 on next year's Web.com Tour money list will join with Nos. 126-200 on the PGA Tour money list to play the Web.com Tour Final, a series of four events that will give 50 players their PGA Tour card for the following season.
Before we cross that bridge, lets take look at some of 2012 standout performers.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Luke Guthrie
Choosing between five players that won twice this year wasn't easy, so we'll take the guy that did it in just 10 starts.
Luke Guthrie turned pro shortly after playing in the NCAA Championship for the University of Illinois. He competed in three PGA Tour events and carded three top-20 finishes.
He then set his sights on the Web.com Tour, where his first start was at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational, an event at which he missed the cut a year earlier.
Guthrie lost to Kohles, who was making his first-ever tour start. A week later Guthrie shared third place, once again behind Kohles. Guthrie followed with two more top-10s before missing his first cut.
He responded from that missed cut in fine fashion. Guthrie won the Boise Open by four strokes and rallied the following week to beat Danny Lee and Cameron Percy by a shot at the WNB Golf Classic.
Guthrie stopped Lee from becoming the first player in tour history to win the same event in back-to-back years. This win also gave Guthrie six top-10s, including four top-4s, in his first seven tour starts.
Guthrie went on to finish second on the tour's money list with only 10 starts.
Kohles, who won his first two tour starts earlier in the year, became the sixth player in tour history to win in back-to-back weeks. Kohles ended eighth on the money list.
Also under consideration: The other two-time winners - Casey Wittenberg, Russell Henley and Shawn Stefani. Wittenberg also topped the tour money list.
Henley came out victorious in the tournament of the year, the Chiquita Classic.
Morgan Hoffmann and Patrick Cantlay both fired 7-under 65s in the final round to get in at 22-under. Henley led by one on the 18th tee, but trouble loomed.
Henley found a bunker off the tee, then flared his second shot well right into the water. He managed to get up and down for bogey to force a 3-way playoff.
In the extra session, Cantlay found sand off the tee and came up short with his second. Hoffmann, from the fairway, attacked the pin with his second, but came up short in the water.
Cantlay chipped on, then 2-putted for bogey. Hoffmann got up and down for bogey after his drop.
That left it all up to Henley. He rolled his 30-foot birdie effort to two feet. He tapped in for par and the win. In 22 previous starts, he notched only three top-10 finishes, but this win propelled Henley to four consecutive top-10s to end the season.
Every so often a player comes from well off the pace in the final round to win a tournament. That was the case at this year's Stadion Classic.
Nine groups before the final twosome, Kevin Foley and Hudson Swafford teed off at the University of Georgia Country Club.
Swafford, a former University of Georgia golfer, tripped to a bogey at the first. He came back with a birdie at two, then poured in three straight birdies from the fifth and again from the 11th.
After birdies at 16 and 17, Swafford dumped his approach in a greenside bunker at the last. Knowing he needed to at worst save par for a possible playoff, Swafford dunked the bunker shot for an improbable birdie to close a round 9- under 62.
That got him in at 17-under. Luke List bogeyed the last to fall one back, then Lee Janzen closed with seven birdies in the last eight holes to join List in second at minus-16.
When no one in the last three groups could catch him, Swafford grabbed the trophy and the first-place paycheck thanks to his perfectly executed bunker shot.
Wittenberg: Two wins and topped the money list. His eight top-10s were second most on tour.
Justin Hicks: Led the tour with 10 top-10 finishes, which helped him finish 11th on the money list.
Joseph Bramlett and Scott Parel: They shared the tour lead in cuts made, 20, but both finished outside the top 25 on the money list, therefore failing to gain their PGA Tour cards for next year. We'll call it good year/bad year for them.
Ryan Armour: He started 26 events, but made just four cuts.
Swafford was one of seven players that won in 2012, but failed to finish in the top-25 on the money list, meaning they'll all be back on the Web.com Tour in 2013 unless they get their PGA Tour card via Q School.
Lee Janzen: The 2-time U.S. Open champion is biding his time on the Web.com Tour before heading to the Champions Tour late in the 2014 campaign. Started 15 tour events, but only made 10 cuts and his share of second at the Stadion Classic was his lone top-10 finish.


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