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OH! I just had the most disturbing thought. Was there ANYTHING around Phoebe that was found that she could have possibly stood on to tie the scarf and then jump off of? There has to be or...
Is Ashley's dad named Roger? According to this link he is posting! Ashley's mom is a druggie.
yep pretty much. I'm 23 and haven't lived at home in 3 years so it was kind of humiliating having my mom come in and make a fuss at college, ha. but a mum's a mum whether you're 1 or 100 and I had reached the point where I gave up so she took over.
I can only imagine being in high school and having that reputation to protect. Plus add to the fact that Phoebe was still the new girl from Ireland with an accent and "different" ways, she was a freshman while these girls were 2-3 years older than her, these girls were apparently popular and on sports teams, plus relationships with boys were also involved. I can definitely understand her not wanting to bring it up and as I believe Darby O'Brien said when it came out she had tried to get help, she must have been terribly desperate at that point.
The school should have seen and known what was going on and taken actions whether or not Phoebe stood up for herself or not. I always thought my high school was a huge piece of crap but I know if ANY faculty ever witnessed one student yelling at another in the middle of a lunchroom or any of the other things they did to Phoebe it would have been handled immediately. It wouldn't matter what kind of student it was, the one yelling would be taken to the vice principal's office or where ever and the student getting yelled at likely would have been asked if he/she wanted to talk to a counselor or something along those lines. There were just too many instances where this behavior occurred for a teacher or someone in charge to not have seen it and the lack of action taken is just despicable.
The girl reading at the rally, today...Betty C...well, she made a comment on this fb posting defending the bullies....this whole FB group was created, from my understanding, to take pressure OFF the bullies...now, SHE and Shae, a FB fan of Sean Mulveyhill, are prominent figures in this rally today? Okay...
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Betty C. also was sent as a representative of the school to a bullying conference. Anyone think SHHS would send someone who didn't spout the party line to a media event?
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I joined the masslive forums!! hehe
Just trying to figure out what this rally was about...we know Shae was listed as an organizer, and Betty C. also had a prominent role...
Betty C., the one who read at the rally today, her facebook page says she's "married" to Chris L.
He is all over FB telling people to shut up and the media to go away...
This is post #560 from waddupyo, posted yesterday...
So...he never knew her. But look at this comment from February 2, 2010 from Betty C.'s boyfriend, Chris..."WHOA! Someone was friends with the person who lived below her!
Chris Lukasik: I never knew her and honestly, I never heard anyone talk bad about her. But that's because when I'm in the hallways I kinda am in my own world and I don't pay attention to what people say in the hallways. But I have never met her or seen her. I knew her as the upstairs neighbor to my best friend. But I never knew people disliked her so much.
Phoebe is looking down on us now in Heaven and she forgives us, everyone that hurt her, everyone that did know what was going on, everyone that didn't know, she's safe now and she forgives us."
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...d=451005535575Chris Lukasik you people REALLY need to get a grip. do you even live in this town? I bet money that you don't live here. Because if so you wouldn't be saying that because you would know that we are actually a very fine educational facility with a working administration. Please stop bashing my school, the only people that are allowed to say ANYTHING bad about my school are the students that are attending the school CURRENTLY. Please stop calling these girls trash, please, for God's sake, stop pointing fingers until you actually know EVERY SINGLE STRAND of this story, NOT what WWLP, The Boston Globe, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, CNN, Good Morning America, or any other media source that has flooded our quiet little town, that has provided you with this tragic story
And notice Molly O'C. agrees with Chris. To those who have heard of Molly O'C. ...that will mean something...
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good old Molly she really is a compassionate creature... Their ego's amaze me , that's what it boils down to, they can't stand the thought of anybody "dissing" their town, even though they do it themselves, they seem to have been really enjoying that rally today and they seem to have forgotten that a young girl is dead her family are living in hell because of it . It beggars belief the selfishness of these people that they would put their own feelings first. To top it all off, if they were more willing to speak compassionately about Phoebe then maybe the whole world wouldn't feel the need to stand up for her IMO
This town has so many village idiots. Kids are so stupid. Sorry to say that. I have 2 and both are young. Actually let me rephrase. Teenagers that think they are sly are stupid. Deleting stuff from social sites doesn't delete totally. The stuff is still there. and it's been screen capped by numerous folks. Teens are so full of themselves. Especially this little group. I'd like to put tapatio in their sodas.
Critics we're essentially DRAGGED OUT BY POLICE...SOUTH HADLEY (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Critics spoke out for the resignation of school officials at South Hadley High school at a crowded and heated school committee meeting on Wednesday night.
Two speakers who went before the committee calling for the resignation of Superintendent Gus A. Sayer and Principal Daniel T. Smith were cut off by School Committee Chairman Edward J. Boisselle and then escorted out by police.
People also spoke in support of the superintendent and principal, saying "South Hadley needs to heal."
Where did we hear today that South Hadley needs to "heal"? OH, Yes! at that staged rally!!
http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/s...ze-peace-rally"We wanted to have this rally to support ourselves, support our community, everybody, and just make a positive experience out of it all and make everybody heal from this."
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm really tired of this "once you hear the whole story" crap because that's all it is, crap. I kind of touched on this the other day but basically I don't give a crap if Phoebe slept with every guy on the football team. I don't care if she got drunk and did drugs every night. I don't care if she got smart with or argued with some of these bullies at one point or another. I don't care if SM and AR were supposed to be committed to these other girls while they were doing whatever with Phoebe. I also don't care if Phoebe had a history of depression or had previously seen a therapist. I also don't care about anything else negative these people have to say about Phoebe. and honestly NOBODY should care. This is not about that.
These girls harassed Phoebe to the breaking point. They called her derogatory names, pushed books out of her hand, shoved her into lockers, followed her into bathrooms, yelled at her in class and in the cafeteria, told her to go kill herself, and at least on one final occasion threw a beverage can at her. I've also read that they would make fun of her for wearing scarves (???) and would grab on to them while she was walking, but I don't think I've seen an official report of that. They continued their harassment online and through text messaging. Who knows what else happened that we don't know about.
So basically, enough of this "whole story" crap. If Phoebe did every one of the things I listed in the first paragraph, she would be not be very different at all from many 14-15 year old girls. A young girl lost her life too soon and none of this "whole story" stuff is going to change my opinion that the actions of these girls are what caused Phoebe to lose her will to live.
end rant.
Strange thing I realized a few days ago. I realized that I remember the afternoon of January 14th very clearly. I had left work early as I had a class for the first time that night and wanted to read a bit of my book before class. I got home and had a ton of interruptions and kept getting really annoyed. I gave up on trying to read so I went on my computer for a bit then had some dinner and went to class.
I realize now that as I was getting home, Phoebe was likely taking her last walk home from school, getting a beverage can thrown at her as well as several insults. I realize as I was trying unsuccessfully to sit on my couch and read a chapter out of my textbook for class, Phoebe was likely sending and receiving her last text messages. As I was giving up on actually getting the reading done, Phoebe was ending her life. As I was driving to school, her little sister arrived home to find her big sister had taken her life. As I was sitting waiting for class to start, wondering whether my teacher would be nice or not but she looked nice, Phoebes mother was finding out her daughter was dead.
Sorry this is kind of morose and off topic. I know theres a lot of discussion going on tonight with the committee meeting and all. Its just something I realized a few days ago when it clicked that Jan 14th was a Thursday and thus was the first day of one of my classes and a memorable one at that because I remember how annoyed I was getting by everything that afternoon. I keep going back to that day and realizing what was happening about 6 hours north of me at the same time and its just been kind of haunting. It feels like it could have just been yesterday. Its been going around in my head for a few days and since its been three months today I figured Id share and hopefully some of you wont mind.
I can't stand this. I can't stand how those people in SH are. I can't stand how the school covers everything and the police do nothing. I can't stand it. I'm so upset I'm crying right now. Poor Phoebe. Poor Phoebe's friends. Poor other students getting picked on.
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MAYOR ANNOUNCES ENHANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM(Mon., July 19, 2010)—Mayor Mufi Hannemann today announced the initial implementation of new enterprise-wide software solutions based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). "These new software applications will improve public safety and allow city projects to be handled more efficiently, and with more accountability," Hannemann said. For example, application upgrades to the city's wireless 911 emergency response system will now enable first responders to view high resolution, variable perspective imagery to help pinpoint the location of the mobile 911 caller. And a linked Property Assets Management system will help better manage the city's real property, such as buildings and land. GIS information will help locate and track maintenance needs, and will be integrated with triggers and tools to facilitate contracting. One of the adopters of the new system will be the Department of Facilities Maintenance (DFM), which will initially automate work management for street resurfacing and sidewalk maintenance. The system can eventually be expanded to deal with more than 50 other public works functions serviced by DFM, such as graffiti removal. "We will be able to track the status of various jobs around the island, coordinate better with city inspectors and 'batch' jobs in the same area under one work order," Hannemann said. "This will save both time and money and get things done more effectively." Property assessors will also be able to compare actual imagery of properties to match with city records so as to provide the most updated and accurate property information. The system can also be used by to match building permit records at the Department of Planning and Permitting. Department of Information Technology Director Gordon Bruce envisions city-wide adoption of GIS technology. "Many city departments have similar 'paper-based' work order systems that lack the ability to track projects this precisely and provide valuable new information that allows for more overall efficiency," Bruce said. "We are looking at Parks and Recreation, Transportation Services and other departments eventually adopting the system too." |


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take it across the riverSubmitted by Mr. Joe T (not verified) on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 4:05am.
it is okay to knock off the back end of an historic building to put up a car garage but when I come to Nutt Street, we have a problem. Is this the same hotel that was supposed to be built 2 years ago along with the convention center? I find it incredulous that a firm plan was not already in place with approved designs, easements, parking, access, utility connections and an impact study. And now an envisioned ballpark is already in the works and funds are being expended on that project as well? With the same leadership at the helm and straying from shoulder to shoulder of the path to success, I believe we need to get some fresh blood into the leadership positions that are creating Wilmington's own version of the National Debt. I have a solution; start building across the river from downtown and plan it all out; your ballpark, this hotel, parking garages and any other controversial developments that are going to impact the historic downtown. Remember; one must stand outside the forest to see the trees!!!!!! »
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If this wasn't part of a series I'd have to name this post, "My New Favorite Place to Eat".
I've been meaning to go to One World Spokane since it's opening late last year. For some reason or other I just never seemed to get around to it. Tell you what, I've been missing out.
One World Spokane is located in the funky groove section of East Sprague near Napa. This area used to be rife with prostitution, drug dealing and other nefarious activities. Community, police and business involvement has really turned the area around and it's now a rather cool place on a main drag.
Let's talk toast. One World Spokane is based upon community involvement, local sourcing, getting as much or as little as you want and paying as much or as little as you believe it's worth.
The food is mostly (completely?) vegetarian and prepared fresh. And WOW! Is it good. I had a sampler plate that consisted of a little of everything and was very impressed with the freshness and flavor of it all. The menu changes daily so it's always a shot in the dark as to what you'll get but it would seem to me that there's almost always something for every taste.
On World Everybody Eats Spokane
1804 E Sprague Ave
Spokane, WA 99202
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E-readers are quickly replacing ink and paper.
The mad dash to e-readers has convinced a major publisher has decided to go all-digital.
It's yet another example of how e-reading has so quickly turned the literary industry on its head.
For Dorchester Publishing, one of the country's oldest at paperback publishers, the writing on the wall was "digital".
"It's a marketplace decision," says Dorchester's Tim DeYoung. "Over the past few years there's been a tremendous loss of space to do mass market paperbacks."
There's an abundance of space for those paperbacks, though, in the digital world.
After a 25-percent drop in sales at retailers like Walmart last year, Dorchester's decision to go digital with its romance, mystery, and action books was an easy and profitable one.
"We've taken a couple of authors from a couple of hundred, 300 hundred copies a week, to over 15,000 copies in a couple week span of e-books sold," DeYoung says.
Dorchester is among the first to go all-digital in publishing, but there are others opting for on-screen rather than hands-on reading including travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.
Even the publishers behind the tried, true and traditional Oxford Dictionary, which has been in publication for 126 years are said to be mulling a move to an online-only version.


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Patrol officer tells how to avoid tickets
Flashing lights in the rear-view mirror are one of the last things custom harvesters and their crews want to see when they're rushing to get clients' crops harvested. Getting pulled over by a law enforcement official costs time and money.
"Many times, if we're pulling over a custom operator, it's because we received a complaint from the general public or a local official," says Michael Klingenberg, a sergeant with the Wisconsin State Patrol.
Operators can ensure safe, legal harvesting, he says, if they follow several steps.
First, they should make sure their loads are secure before exiting fields, he says.
"We get a lot of calls about haylage and corn silage blowing off trucks or trailers as they're going down the road," says Klingenberg. "Harvesters can be ticketed for this. But most of the time, if it's their first contact with us, they'll be given a warning and told to get it taken care of before they can go any farther."
Before exiting fields, custom harvesters must yield to oncoming traffic or risk getting tickets or warnings, he says. "This is a big problem. Custom operators don't have the right of way just because they're driving big equipment."
Enforcement officers also watch for harvesters who exceed weight limits or lack proper registrations, permits and licenses needed for each state they're working in.
"Laws and exemptions can vary from one state to another, and it's the responsibility of the operators and their employees to know exactly what those are."
No matter what reason drivers are pulled over, Klingenberg says it's important for them to realize that the officer is in charge of the situation.
"The driver should remain calm, be cooperative and answer the officer's questions," he advises. "If tempers are raised on the roadside, it isn't going to take care of any problems. That's just going to make the situation worse."
If you believe an officer has misinterpreted the law, ask to speak to his or her supervisor. And if you'd like to see a law changed, talk to your state government representative.
"One custom operator can get a state law changed or get a new one established. It's not a difficult thing to do," says Klingenberg. "I've seen it happen."
Harvesters might want to put up signs and orange cones near field exits and entrances, he recommends. "But first they'll need to discuss that with the local town chairman or highway commissioner. They often have no objection to that because it's warning people that heavy equipment is in the area; however, certain standards need to be followed."
Finally, he advises operators to keep their equipment in good running order and to clean all lights and turn signals at the start of each day.
To learn more, visit the federal motor carrier Web site at www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ or attend custom-operator meetings or seminars organized by private companies. The U.S. Custom Harvesters' Web site, www.uschi.com, lists contact information for department of transportation offices in several states.


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Stop Dow's GMO Agent Orange Soy!
Take Action Before the September 11th Deadline!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun to fast-track the approval of genetically modified crops under a new policy aimed at cutting the time it takes on reviews from an average of 3 years down to 13 to 16 months.
To jump-start the process, they've opened a 60-day comment period on nine new GMOs. This list includes a new Dow Chemical soybean that tolerates three herbicides, including 2,4-D. 2,4-D is the herbicide that was half the formula of the infamous chemical weapon Agent Orange, used to decimate Vietnamese agriculture during the U.S. war on Vietnam.
As Tom Philpott points out in his recent article, "USDA Prepares to Green-Light Gnarliest GMO Soy Yet," USDA approval of Agent Orange Soy will expose us to a much heavier dose of this toxic pesticide through our food, drinking water and the environment.
2,4-D is already the third-most-used US herbicide, after glyphosate and atrazine, and as a leading source of dioxin pollution, it's one of the most deadly. As of yet, however, it's hardly used on soy at all. Just 3 percent of total US soybean acres were treated with 2,4-D in 2006. Not only will this percentage skyrocket once Agent Orange Soy hits the market, the amount used per acre may triple according to the USDA.
Please take action before the September 11th deadline to stop Agent Orange Soy!


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In light of the Swiss company Shawish Jewelry creating the world's first ring carved from a diamond (worth $70 million), here is a look at celeb-famous and their record-breaking jewels.
The All Diamond Ring | $70 Million
World's first all-diamond, 150-carat ring created by Swiss jeweler Shawish Jewelry.
Lopez/Affleck Engagement Pink Diamond Ring | $1.2 Million
Actor Ben Affleck and his fiance actress/singer Jennifer Lopez arrive at the premiere of "Daredevil" at the Village Theatre on February 9, 2003 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
The Hublot $5 Million Watch | $5 Million
A Hublot employee shows the new "5 Million Dollar Diamond Watch" during a news conference at Baselworld fair in Basel, March 7, 2012. The world's leading watch and jewellery show Baselworld is to be held in Basel from March 8 to March 15, 2012. Reuters/Christian Hartmann.
The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond Ring | $8.8 Million
Last Sept. 1, 2011, "The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond," a 33.19 carat a gift to the actress from Richard Burton at Christie's, in New York. The 33.19-carat diamond ring given to Elizabeth Taylor by actor Richard Burton sold for over $8.8 million at auction in New York Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality
A revised and improved version of this essay is in my book Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! – hardback, paperback, PDF
I loathe the Harry Potter books – or at least I loathed the first four, eight years ago, when a friend sent me .txt files of the first four books. I read through them in one day, and found them unimaginative, morally repugnant, barely literate, patronising crap. I haven't looked at them since, so it may be that my judgement of them as someone in my early twenties was very different from what my judgement would be now, in my early thirties. But I doubt it.
I have very ambivalent feelings about Eliezer Yudkowsky, the founder of the LessWrong group blog. He seems the brightest of the various Singularity advocates, but that makes it all the more annoying when at times he falls into what look like incredibly basic faults in his reasoning. I also find the way he collects zealous followers more than a little worrying – the computer scientist Ben Goertzel has recently reported getting death threats from people who believe (following Yudkowsky's rhetoric) that Goertzel's investigations into AI have the potential to destroy the universe. (Note that Yudkowsky has emphatically not made such threatts – he is apparently friendly with Goertzel, in fact – but that his inflammatory rhetoric has the effect of encouraging that kind of behaviour even if it's not his *intended* effect).
While I've committed fanfic in the past, and recognise that it can be a valid art-form in the right hands, I think that it rarely *is* in the right hands – Sturgeon's Law probably needs to be adapted for fanfic so that it reads "99% of everything is crap – and 99% of the 1% that's left isn't up to much either".
So why am I up to my third reading of a(n as yet incomplete) Harry Potter fanfic novel by Eliezer Yudkowsky, which already weighs in at longer than most completed novels?
Put simply, it's one of the funniest, cleverest things I've read in a long, long time. While Yudkowsky originally intended this as primarily a didactic tool, it's a rather brilliant satirical novel as well. The basic idea is that Harry Potter's mother's sister, instead of marrying an abusive slob, married a professor of biochemistry at Oxford University, so when he gets adopted after his biological parents, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres is brought up in a very loving family, surrounded by books on science and SF novels, and becomes a child prodigy in science before ever learning about magic. As a result, he sets about actually *analysing* how magic works, applying the scientific method to figuring out what's *really* going on.
The results of someone able to actually *think* walking through this world that has no real logic to it and pulling at the loose ends lead to some remarkably funny moments, like when Harry makes the Sorting Hat become unexpectedly sapient by wondering about it, or his total destruction of the rules of Quidditch, but what makes the book work is the fact that it gets this humour from *actually taking the world in which it's set, and its consequences, seriously* – and as a result it really does feel like the stakes in the story are high.
What helps as well is that the characterisation is so spot on. By this I don't mean that the characters fit Rowling's originals – they seem more-or-less as I remember them, other than Potter, but I've not read the books in nearly a decade. Rather they seem like real people. The most rounded characters are the child prodigies, Harry and Hermione, and I found some parts of the book almost painful to read having been a child prodigy myself, as Yudkowsky appears also to have been:
Aside from helping people with their homework, or anything else they needed, she really didn't know how to meet people. She didn't feel like she was a shy person. She thought of herself as a take-charge sort of girl. And yet, somehow, if there wasn't some request along the lines of "I can't remember how to do long division" then it was just too awkward to go up to someone and say… what? She'd never been able to figure out what. And there didn't seem to be a standard information sheet, which was ridiculous. The whole business of meeting people had never seemed sensible to her. Why did she have to take all the responsibility herself when there were two people involved? Why didn't adults ever help? She wished some other girl would just walk up to her and say, "Hermione, the teacher told me to be friends with you."
But let it be quite clear that Hermione Granger, sitting alone on the first day of school in one of the few cabins that had been empty, in the last car of the train, with the cabin door left open just in case anyone for any reason wanted to talk to her, was not sad, lonely, gloomy, depressed, despairing, or obsessing about her problems. She was, rather, rereading Hogwarts: A History for the third time and quite enjoying it, with only a faint tinge of annoyance in the back of her mind at the general unreasonableness of the world.
There are a couple of minor flaws with the book, both tiny moments when Potter's characterisation feels off, and it seems like Yudkowsky is putting his own thoughts in – a point where Potter attributes the success of a Jewish character to his being Jewish (Yudkowsky seems to believe intelligence to be more down to hereditable than environmental factors, and is himself ethnically Jewish), and a point where Potter dismissively writes off the minor character Ron Weasley, which almost made me stop reading – at that point the author appears to have fallen foul of the all-too-common current tendency to conflate intelligence and cruelty. Thankfully, this is the *only* point where this happens, and in general both book and protagonist show a far more enlightened moral attitude than the frankly medieval morality of the original books.
Which is not to say that this Harry Potter is a paragon – far from it. He's a very, *very* well-drawn nuanced character, with elements clearly taken from real life (his 26-hour sleep cycle sounds very, *VERY* familiar to me, and I suspect it's something Yudkowsky has also suffered from) but without being an author-insert character. He's fundamentally decent and thoughtful, but a decent and thoughtful eleven-year-old with few social skills.
The other major problem in the book is more forgivable, and is just that quite a few Americanisms show up – not just in language, but in assuming that British society is like USian society in ways that it isn't (little things like having pancakes for breakfast, as an obvious example). Those won't affect American readers at all, and will only affect those British readers who, like me, find it more implausible that British people would naturally take the word 'pie' to mean a sweet rather than a savoury dish than that it's possible to defeat soul-sucking monsters with chocolate.
The science in the book is more-or-less correct, and if you don't already know the basics of Bayesian statistics, game theory, the scientific method and various other elements of what might be called "the study of how we know what we know", you'll come away with a very decent gut-level understanding of the basic concepts. But you should read it because it combines that with imagination, a decent moral sense, a rare level of intelligence and some genuine writing ability.
I think, to be honest, Yudkowsky has missed his calling. His propagandising for the SIAI seems to be putting off many people who should sympathise with his ideas (such as, but not limited to, myself), while attracting a few who shouldn't (the death threat people mentioned above). Were he to become a full-time Science Fiction or Fantasy writer he would probably have much more success both in putting his ideas across and in not putting off his natural allies. Either way, though, if you can bear to lower your status enough to read a 700+page Harry Potter fanfic, this is the one you should read…
Do Something Nice…
The charity Reprieve, which works to help prisoners on death row, has posted an Amazon wishlist for Linda Carty, a British grandmother on death row, who reads a lot to help her cope. There were only five books on it to start with (and only one now), but I'm sure more will be added at some point, assuming Ms Carty lives that long…
The Grandfather Paradox: Experimentally Resolved?
A revised and improved version of this essay is in my book Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! – hardback, paperback, PDF Kindle (US), Kindle (UK), all other ebook formats
I am utterly astounded that I'd never seen this before today – an experiment that may have more profound implications for our worldview than… maybe any experiment since the Michelson-Morley experiment?
I'm going to assume here that everyone knows about the Grandfather Paradox. This is just the simple question "What happens if you have a time machine, and go back and kill your granddad so you can never be born?", the staple of many TV science fiction shows.
Now the normal answer to that question is "You can't, so don't be daft". But for physicists, that's not good enough – apart from anything else, General Relativity allows for the existence of 'closed timelike curves'. These are paths through space-time that act much like paths through space – you can go in at one end and pop out the other – except that the other end is somewhere else in time as well as space. So it's theoretically possible that you *could* do that, and we'd quite like to know what would happen if you did before everyone's granddad starts retroactively never-having-existed.
Now, the main hypothesis in physics up to now has been, in effect, that it doesn't matter. David Deutsch, a quantum computing expert at Oxford University, demonstrated that in quantum-mechanical terms you could have an outcome that makes sense so long as you accepted the many-worlds version of reality. Essentially, the probability that you were ever born, and the probability that you killed your grandfather, would both be 1/2 – or in other words the 'you' in a universe where you were born would travel to a universe where you were never born, kill your grandfather there, then come back to one where you'd never killed your grandfather. Nice and simple.
However, Seth Lloyd, a quantum physicist at MIT, never liked the many-worlds hypothesis (for reasons which, I have to say, make no sense at all to me), and he and a team of colleagues came up with another, simpler, idea, which is just that if you go back in time and try to shoot your grandfather, something will stop you. Maybe the gun will misfire, maybe you'll be arrested, maybe your grandma was having an affair with the milkman and you're his biological grandchild – something will just make sure that you can't do that, because it would be cheating.
Now, there are huge, huge, MASSIVE problems with this – it gets rid of causality, it allows information to come from nowhere, and it just seems like a gigantic handwave. It makes no sense at all, and just seems like a desperate attempt to try to get out of the obvious, blatant, truth that the Many-Worlds interpretation is the only one consistent with the experiments and maths. When I first read about it, I thought it was just a neat way of avoiding the truth.
Unfortunately, it appears to be true. What I hadn't realised was that they'd *actually done the experiment*!
Lloyd and his colleagues came up with an ingenious experiment, which I'm not entirely sure I'm capable of explaining, as it's not really sunk in yet. This will be a GROSS oversimplification, and is just designed to get the idea across – please don't kill me for inaccuracies. The full description is in the linked PDF. This is what Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen call lies-to-adults – the story is right, but each individual fact is wrong.
Essentially, photons (light particles) can be polarised a couple of ways, and they'll only go through stuff that's polarised the same way. That's why Polaroid sun-glasses work – they block all the photons that are polarised the wrong way, so only let some light through.
Now, until something detects it, a photon isn't in any particular polarisation – it's in all of the possible polarisations at once. But once something has detected what kind of polarisation a photon is in, it's always been that way – quantum causality works both ways in time. So you can set up an experiment that only detects photons of one polarisation, and that way you can send a message back to the past, to the photon emitter (light source) saying "Only send photons of this type". If you do this the right way, you can send a photon back in time (but you can't look at the photon that's been sent back in time until it's come back to the time you sent it from, or the experiment can't work). That might sound mad, but it's the way things are – accept it for now.
Now, by doing this, you can set up a kind of quantum 'gun' – set it up so that the photon going back in time tries to cancel out itself coming forward in time – all you do is put something in the middle that tries to change the polarisation of the backwards-in-time photon to the opposite of the forwards-in-time one. Changing polarisation is easy, and works about 96% of the time.
It never worked on the backwards-in-time photons.
This means that if you went back in time and tried to kill your grandfather, the gun really *would* misfire! Every time.
Now, assuming their experimental design wasn't flawed and their maths works – and it looks OK to me, but I'm not a quantum physicist – then that means a lot of things:
Firstly, it means the universe is completely deterministic. There's no such thing as chance.
Secondly, it's strong evidence *against* the many-worlds hypothesis – the first such evidence I've ever heard of. It almost certainly means there's a single universe.
Most interestingly, it means we can say goodbye to cause-and-effect. Effects can cause their own cause. For science-fiction fans, we're living in the universe of Bill & Ted, the Doctor Who story Blink, and By His Bootstraps, (EDIT or of this rather nice short-short story by Simon Bucher-Jones) rather than Back To The Future or Pyramids Of Mars.
This of course means that access to a closed timelike curve (something that has never been observed in the real universe, but is theoretically possible), gives you essentially godlike powers. Got a closed timelike curve and want a million quid? Just put two pence in the bank and say "tomorrow, if my account has two milion pounds or less in it, I'll take half of the money out and bring it back today and stick it in the account." So if tomorrow you've still got 2p, you'd go back and put an extra penny in, which means that actually tomorrow you've got 3p in, which means… and the only stable way that can work out (other than you dying or something over the next day) is for the million pounds just to appear in your bank account.
Want to write a bestselling novel? Decide to print out five hundred pages just covered with the letter "A" and send it to a publisher. If they publish it and it becomes a bestseller, you send that back to yourself. If they don't, you print out all the letter "A" apart from one "B" at the end and send that back to yourself to try that, and repeat – the only stable outcome is that you have a novel arrive that you never actually wrote but that will be an instant bestseller. And so on.
The possibility of time-travel in a *single, consistent universe* has never been one that's really been taken seriously before, because it was just so absurd. I'm still 90% sure that there must be a mistake somewhere – the many-worlds hypothesis, as odd as it may sound, is far, FAR less ridiculous than this. But this is one of those things where either in a few months we'll have a very quiet paper by Lloyd saying "Oops, I was totally wrong about everything because I forgot to carry the one" or in a hundred years' time we'll have a totally new understanding of physics based around this paper. I really can't see a middle ground here…
Doctor Who Live
There have been several attempts to bring Doctor Who to the stage, some more successful than others, but all very typical of the time in which they were made. Curse Of The Daleks was a gripping base-under-siege story by Terry Nation and David Whittaker, with Daleks but no Doctor, from the 1960s. In the 1970s, on the other hand, we had Seven Keys To Doomsday, by Terrance Dicks,where the Doctor has to collect MacGuffins before the Daleks do. And in the 1980s there was The Ultimate Adventure, a ludicrous pantomime by a past-it Dicks, a lot of fun but making no sense whatsoever.
And in 2010 we have Doctor Who Live, an arena show full of explosions and spectacle, with almost no dialogue, little plot, and tons of special effects, but with a flying Dalek and a Dalek-vs-Cybermen fight, and lasers…
That sounds a little cruel, and it really shouldn't. Doctor Who Live isn't aimed at me, and nor should it be. It's a circus by any other name, with people in costumes, music, silly jokes, and a light show and fireworks, and it's aimed at very small children, who were there in droves. My own favourite Doctor Who stories are things like Genesis Of The Daleks, The Aztecs, The Keeper Of Traken or The Massacre – small-scale, character-driven, dialogue-heavy stories about ideas. Doctor Who Live was never going to be any of those things.
What it is – and all it is – is pure spectacle. There's an attempt to give it a plot (a sequel to the 1973 Robert Holmes story Carnival Of Monsters), but really it's just an excuse for as many monsters (all from the post-2005 series, obviously, and with a heavy weighting towards Stephen Moffat's stories) to come through the audience and scare the children, for pyrotechnics, for loud rock music (Murray Gold's music for the new series, rearranged very effectively by Ben Foster for a 16-piece band and choir, improved immensely from Gold's original overblown arrangements).
That's not to say there's nothing to recommend it to adults- Nigel Planer gives as wonderful a performance as you would expect as the showman Vorgenson, and Nicholas Briggs does a rather magnificent Churchill, and Planer's live interaction with Matt Smith on film has a real Doctor Who feel to it (reading a recent DWM interview with Smith where he mentioned that Peter Sellers is the actor he most admires unlocked something about Smith's performance for me, and this is the first time I've seen any of his work since reading that, and I'm a lot more impressed now) – but it's really best suited for adults who have brought their children along with them.
It's very hard for me to judge the show, because what I want from art or entertainment is very different from what it was offering. In the comments to a recent post, various of us have been talking about how much of modern entertainment is geared towards the facile and childish, and how the highbrow is being devalued in favour of the trivial. This show would not have been something I'd have chosen to do by myself (a gang of friends were going) and it's about as trivial and childish as you can get, with absolutely no intellectual content whatsoever.
But at the same time, while there's probably something wrong with someone in their thirties or forties who lives off Flumps and Curly-Wurlies, there is nothing wrong with having those things *on occasion*, and this show is the equivalent of eating a Sherbet fountain – not something you would want to do every day, and something you might feel a bit embarrassed about doing at all, but as a little bit of a nostalgic treat it's fine on occasion.
The show is much better put-together, with much higher production values, than it needed to be to satisfy its target audience of children. There were a number of points where I was genuinely highly impressed by the craft and thought that had been put into the performance. But there's a bit in one of the About Time guidebooks where Wood and Miles talk about how Doctor Who toys would have been missing the point, because the best bits in Doctor Who weren't spaceship races or light-sabre battles but elderly character actors being frightfully clever at each other, so you couldn't recreate them with toys, you had to recreate them by reading the books. This show, on the other hand, is almost designed for action-figure recreation, while the script probably barely fit onto five sides of A4.
I am not so totally grown-up that I can fail to appreciate the show – so many of my formative years were spent thinking about Daleks and Cybermen that seeing Real Live Ones!!!, even if they look different from the ones I liked as a kid, is enough to put a grin on my face – but I'm adult enough that, while this is an extraordinarily well put-together, charming, spectacular show, I wouldn't recommend it to any adult who doesn't have a deep-seated, irrational love of Doctor Who.
This seems like a deeply ambivalent review, and it is. I thoroughly enjoyed myself while I was there – and I really did – but where I can fit most other things I enjoy into an aesthetic or intellectual framework, this had about as much for the rational part of my mind (by far the biggest part) to latch on to as a fireworks display would. And seen *as* a fireworks display – as a bunch of pretty images, flashing lights and loud bangs – it's as good as any I've seen. But whereas the TV show at its best could appeal to children while still having some genuinely intelligent writing worth repeat viewing as an adult (and while I'm not one of those who thinks Doctor Who is the best TV programme ever made, I would certainly say that at its best, in stories like City Of Death or An Unearthly Child or Vengeance On Varos it was in the top rank of TV of its time), tonight's show was a spectacular for the kiddies.
That I can't wholeheartedly recommend it to the readers of this blog (who, I flatter myself, like something with a little more intellectual roughage most of the time, rather than just sweets) merely says that we're not its intended audience. That I still managed to have an enjoyable evening (and that despite having a migraine, meaning I was doped up to the eyeballs on painkillers) shows how well it does what it does. Nicholas Briggs in particular is to be commended – as well as his Churchill, he also provides all the Dalek, Cyberman and Judoon voices (at least some of them apparently live) and this show demonstrates what a fine voice actor he actually is. And Nigel Planer, who for most of the show is the only live-action performer on stage with any lines, carries off what is almost a one-man show at times superbly. I didn't come out thinking I'd wasted my time and my money, which I was seriously worried I would do ahead of time.
But the people who enjoyed it most were the thousands of tiny children in their cardboard cyberman masks.


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Smoke opened for business on April 9, 1999. Co-owners Paul Stache and Frank Christopher are carrying on a three-decade tradition of jazz at this location formerly known as Augie's Jazz Bar. When Augie's closed in 1998, Paul and Frank pooled their resources to reopen the club but were unable to keep the name. Part of the Augie's legend was that frequent patron and author Paul Auster based his Augie character in the screenplay for "Smoke" on the real life Augie. In tribute to his legacy, Paul and Frank renamed the club Smoke.
The room has seating for just over fifty, which ensures that every listener is close to the action. During Smoke's renovation, the primary focus was on creating an unparalleled room for music…and it shows. The acoustics are some of the best anywhere. Pianist David Hazeltine remarked, "I love playing this room. It's rare that the piano can be heard as clearly as it is in this club." Harold Mabern added, "It's the best jazz club in the world." In the decade since its opening, jazz has continued to thrive at 106th and Broadway and adding a few new chapters to that old Augie's legend.
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Easy Paolo Purse
By: Cari Clement
An easy crochet pattern like this one is fun to carry around. The different colors compliment each other nicely and the design is fun and fashionable. Double crochet and single crochet is used.
Purse measures approx. 10"/25.5cm wide x 5 1/2"/14cm high
- Naturally Caron.com Country
- 75% Microdenier Acrylic/25% Merino Wool): 4oz (A); 4oz (B), 4oz (C)
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- #0012 Foliage (B);
- #0014 Purple (C)
- One size US H-8 (5 mm), or size
- to obtain gauge.
- Fabric (for lining)—
- 12 x 12"/30.5 x 30.5cm
- Yarn needle
In pattern stitch, using H-8 (5 mm) hook, 3 pattern repeats and 9 rows = 5"/12.5 cm.
Chain (ch), double crochet (dc), single crochet (sc)
dc3tog: Double crochet 3 together – [Yarn over, insert hook in next stitch and draw up a loop, yarn over and draw through 2 loops on hook] 3 times, yarn over and draw through all 4 loops on hook.
dc6tog: Double crochet 6 together – [Yarn over, insert hook in next stitch and draw up a loop, yarn over and draw through 2 loops on hook] 6 times, yarn over and draw through all 7 loops on hook.
1 Purse is worked width-wise from inside front, around back, and down flap.
2 Change color in last stitch of rows, as follows: Work last stitch of old color to last yarn over, yarn over with new color and draw through all loops on hook to complete stitch. Carry colors not in use loosely up side of piece.
With A, chain 49.
Row 1: With A, [3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc] in 5th ch from hook, skip next 3 ch, sc in next ch, *skip next 3 ch, [3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc] in next ch, skip next 3 ch, sc in next ch; repeat from * across; change to B in last st, turn—6 pattern repeats. Do not fasten off A.
Row 2: With B, ch 3, dc3tog over next 3 dc, ch 7, *skip next ch-1 space, dc6tog over next 6 dc (leaving sc between groups unworked), ch 7; repeat from * ending dc3tog over next 3 dc, dc in turning ch, turn.
Row 3: With B, ch 3, 3 dc in first dc3tog, sc in ch-1 space between dc's 2 rows below (working over next ch-7 space), *[3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc] in next dc6tog, sc in ch-1 space between dc's 2 rows below; repeat from * ending 3 dc in last dc3tog, dc in top of turning ch; change to C in last st, turn. Do not fasten off B.
Row 4: With C, ch 4, skip first dc, dc6tog over next 6 dc (leaving sc between groups unworked), *ch 7, skip next ch-1 space, dc6tog over next 6 dc (leaving sc between groups unworked); repeat from * ending ch 3, sc in top of turning ch, turn.
Row 5: With C, ch 1, skip next ch-3 space, [3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc] in next dc6tog, *sc in ch-1 space between dc's 2 rows below (working over next ch-7 space), [3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc] in next dc6tog; repeat from * ending, skip next 3 ch, sc in last ch; change to A in last st, turn. Do not fasten off C.
Rows 6 and 7: With A, repeat Rows 2 and 3; change to B in last st.
Rows 8 and 9: With B, repeat Rows 4 and 5; change to C in last st.
Rows 10 and 11: With C, repeat Rows 2 and 3; change to A in last st.
Rows 12 and 13: With A, repeat Rows 4 and 5; change to B in last st.
Rows 14–25: Repeat Rows 2–13.
Rows 26–29: Repeat Rows 2–5.
Fasten off.
Block piece to approx 10"/25.5cm wide x 16"/40.5cm long. Mark 5"/12.5 cm up on long side of purse and fold lower section of piece up at the mark. Place piece on lining fabric and cut fabric to fit, allowing 1/2"/1.5 cm of extra fabric all the way around (for seam allowance). Fold top edges of lining fabric down 1/2"/1.5 cm and seam. Fold lining fabric in half and sew 1/2"/1.5 cm side seams. Sew side seams of purse taking care to hide carried strands on wrong side of purse. Tack lining inside purse.
Using yarn needle, weave in all ends.
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I love this pattern! I don't really need a clutch, so I think I'm going to make it longer and do a cowl or something! I just did two colors brown and green. It's just so pretty!
I LOVE this bag, I don't understand this pattern. Is there anyone who can help me? My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you!!!!
I am a beginner in crochet. I tried doing this purse for my mother and it came out very well. Thanks for the pattern. Now my only question is what type of lining fabric can I use?
I've made this clutch for myself and others. It is beautiful. I have made it bigger and just as cute.
This pattern uses the Harlequin stitch. On row 3 when it says "work over the ch-7" you are making a sc in the ch-1 space 2 rows below. When you do this, you are working around or encompassing the ch-7. So the ch-7 is not left loose in the back. I hope this helps! You can additional help on this by looking up or googling "how to do a harlequin stitch."
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I'm having trouble too but it's Row 2! Like the woman before asked what do we do with the chain of 7? It appears that no one is answering our questions - And that's just rude! I would love to crochet this purse too!!
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You won't have the same kind of trouble getting a loan as someone with a 540 score might have, but that doesn't mean it will be easy. You may have to approach a few different lenders to get the amount you need. More importantly, a 600 score will put you in a higher risk category than someone with a 700 score, meaning you'll be paying much higher interest rates.
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Virtually every score can be improved upon. In fact, people with credit scores in the 600 range are in a good position to raise their score. People with 500 credit scores often find their problems insurmountable, and people with 700 credit scores have trouble finding places to improve. The 600 range is perfectly situated, with more flaws than the 700 rated people without being overwhelmed like the 500 range people.
No. The reality is that lending money is a business, and interest rates are set through cold statistical analysis. Interest rates for those with 600 credit scores are higher because the default percentage is higher, meaning more people don't end up paying back their loan. The lender needs to charge higher rates to make up for the money he will lose when people default. He's not making significantly more or less money off the 600s than off the 700s or 800s. He just has more expenses. In fact, while it may seem otherwise, many lenders may prefer not to charge very high interest rates to those with subpar credit, because they know it will make it more difficult for them to pay. However, short of declining the loan, they have no choice in the matter. This is the only way they can safely offer a loan to someone in this category.
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Megan Hawkins is one of the reported shooting victims from the pre-VMAs party that Chris Brown hosted on Aug. 24, and now the young model is recovering after the scary attack. A new Instagram photo shows Megan at the hospital.
Megan Hawkins, 19, is on the mend after reportedly being struck by a bullet in her bum during the pre-VMAS party Chris Brown, 25, hosted in West Hollywood, Calif. on Aug. 24. During the party, Suge Knight, 49, was shot six times and the model was reportedly struck once. Megan actually joked about her scary injury and smiled at the hospital, according to a new report.
Suge Knight Shooting Victim: Model Megan Hawkins Recovering After Club Violence
We previously reported that three partygoers were injured during the Aug. 24 shooting at 1Oak during a party Chris hosted. One of those was Megan, according to TMZ. Despite allegedly taking a bullet that may have been aimed at Chris or Suge, Megan seems to be in good spirits.
A new image posted to Instagram shows the blonde model wearing a hospital gown and yellow socks. She smiles big as she stands with a walker.
The model was shot once in her butt, according to TMZ. Ouch. We are so happy to hear she is recovering and even smiling during this difficult time. The TMZ report also claims that model posted the following online on Aug. 25: "my ass took a 9mm and I'm keeping it as a souvenir." Megan has since deleted the comment.
Megan has a very successful modeling career. The blue-eyed beauty has modeled for Chanel and Yves St Laurent, according to Daily Mail. She was born in California. Since the scary incident, rumors have run wild about what really happened inside the club — and why.
Who Was Really Targeted During Pre-VMA Party Nightclub Shooting?
A source tells HollywoodLife.com that Chris, who hosted the party, had no involvement with the shooting. "He didn't have anything to do with that situation," our source revealed. Death Row records found Suge Knight was reportedly shot during the party, but thankfully he's expected to make a full recovery.
We wish Megan all the best for a speedy and healthy recovery!
– Megan Ross
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One of your titles says "suge knight shootong victim: megan…" definitely makes it sound like you ate saying Suge was the shooter. I get that your naming the story "the suge knight shooting" but it definitely reads like your saying Suge did the shooting. That is piss poor journalism because it seems intentionally confusing. You should really think about fixing that.


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