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If horses could speak, there are at least 16 who would thank ASPCA responder Bryan Hayes for his patience and compassion.
Bryan was one of nearly a dozen responders with the ASPCA's Field Investigations and Response (FIR) team assisting Spokane County Regional Animal Protective Services (SCRAPS) in Washington State with the sheltering and daily care of 63 horses seized during an animal cruelty investigation. Discovered on an abandoned property in November 2013, many of the horses were severely emaciated and dehydrated, with no access to water.
When Bryan arrived at the Spokane County fairgrounds, temperatures hovered between 13 and 18 degrees. The majority of the horses had been placed in outdoor paddocks; others were in nearby stalls. Eleven, in critical condition, were taken to a local veterinarian for immediate medical attention. There were 16 yearling colts who refused to be touched.
"They were flighty and would run from you," Bryan says. "Our task was to get halters on those horses and inventory them—give them numbers and take their photos."
That's where Bryan's expertise came in.
He and other ASPCA staff and responders worked with one horse at a time. After each horse was in its own paddock, Bryan used a broom as an extension of his arm to slowly pet each horse.
"They would stand for that," he says. "Then I would replace the broom with my hand. All the horses seemed to calm down."
In addition to haltering many of the Spokane herd, Bryan trimmed hooves, some that were splitting, including those of an emaciated mare who had to be sedated. Because so many horses were close to starvation, Bryan speculates more would have died were it not for the intervention of SCRAPS and the ASPCA.
The majority (47) horses were placed with adopters, foster families or rescue groups, and boarding facilities, and the ASPCA continues to provide support for boarding costs and re-homing the last remaining horses.
Local authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of property owner Janice Hickerson on charges of animal cruelty. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Bryan, a farrier by trade, also handled logistics at the temporary shelter in Florida where more than 200 dogs seized in a multi-state dog fighting raid in August 2013 are being housed and cared for by ASPCA responders. Over the past three years, Bryan has also assisted the ASPCA as a consultant in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, among other natural disasters and animal cruelty cases.
Bryan has experience working with various types of animals, but horses have always been part of his life. Bryan cared for his first pony for more than 20 years, and is now the guardian of two dogs and a 9-year-old American saddlebred named Captain.
The ASPCA is grateful for all of Bryan's assistance in many of our crucial rescue efforts. To learn more about the ASPCA's work to end equine cruelty, visit our Fight Cruelty section.
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What a calm and peaceful man this must be. The world is so fortunate to have an angel in disguise like this. It is good that all people are not like the greedy, money hungry politicians who only want to give the OK for slaughter houses. Bravo to the horse whisperer!
GOd bless Bryan. I wish he was in our area to help us. We have fifty horses and donkeys that were saved from a terrible ending and we fight the bullet every month to survive. May God give back to all like Bryan that works to save these beautiful animals that we, as humas, have been blessed with from GOd. May the day of animal suffering at human hands stop soon. God Bless all who work so diigently to save these animals from suffering and to find a new and loving home. I love you all.
Thank you Bryan Hays for all that you are and all that you do for the horses. You certainly have a way with all the animals. Thanks to you these horses have a chance at life.
My love for all creatures great and small started @ a young age. Not all humans are capable of having compassion for God's creatures so that's why he gave us the ASPCA, to fill in that unfortunate gap. It is people like Byran that make a difference everyday in the lives of these precious creatures. Thank You!


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"We're finding a couple a day," she said. "Unfortunately, we have very few volunteers who can go down to
A reward approaching $10,000 offered by the N.C. Wildlife Federation has done nothing to help solve the unfolding whodunit.
Intentionally causing harm to a brown pelican is a state and federal offense. Each conviction of killing a protected brown pelican carries a hefty fine and the penalty can include loss of property and jail time.
"What's been done to these birds is so sad," O'Neil said. "We can't even show most of the photographs we have because they are too graphic."
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Rescuers haven't been able to save any of the recently found pelicans, said Megan Tetreau, a staff volunteer at Possumwood.
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Difference between Stack and Heap memory in Java
9 comments :
- Javin @ Garbage collection in Java said...
Good question Keul. I think Garbage collector only collect Heap memory. Since object is only created in heap and stack mostly contains local variable which gets wiped off once they lost scope.
- January 23, 2013 at 4:51 AM
- nlotz said...
The stack contains only values for integral types and references to objects, which are always stored in the heap. Since it doesn't contain any objects itself, there would be nothing to garbage-collect.
- January 25, 2013 at 11:23 AM
- Erwin Müller said...
For me it would be interesting to know where variables are stored that are references to objects. For example: I create a new Object:
foo = new Object()
The object itself is stored on the heap. But what about the reference to the object?
Like in C, you have the memory of the object and the pointer or reference to that memory:
foo = malloc(sizeof(Struc));
It wouldn't make much sense to store the reference on the heap, if the reference is a local variable or a parameter.
- January 27, 2013 at 3:49 AM
- Keul said...
@nlotz i think not only integral type but all predefined data type or we can say primitive types and all method calls are stored in Stack..
- January 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
"No matter, where object is created in code e.g. as member variable, local variable or class variable, they are always created inside heap space in Java."
This is inaccurate. Escape analysis was introduced in 6u14 and enabled by default in 6u23.
"The -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis option directs HotSpot to look for objects that are created and referenced by a single thread within the scope of a method compilation. Allocation is omitted for such non-escaping objects, and their fields are treated as local variables, often residing in machine registers. Synchronization on non-escaping objects is also elided."
"Escape analysis is supported and enabled by default in Java SE 6u23 and later."
- February 3, 2013 at 7:45 AM
- Vivek Hingorani said...
Great Article.. Your blog is full of useful information
- April 24, 2013 at 9:37 AM
- Pavan S said...
Very informative and as someone said above it is good refresher.. thanks for sharing information.
- August 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM
- pranathichennuru said...
Very informative ....thank u :) I have one doubt regarding stack. How Runtime stacks (stack created by each thread) share same memory?
- July 8, 2014 at 8:27 PM
- TARUN said...
Very good and answered my question about difference bw stack and heap. Keep up the good work...
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MOREHEAD CITY – It was a tough outing for West Carteret on Friday night as the Patriots had to battle the wet elements as well as a potent Jacksonville rushing attack.
The final result: a 35-14 Coastal 3-A Conference victory for the Cardinals.
"The offensive line did a great job making holes," Jacksonville coach Beau Williams said. "The running backs were able to make the right reads. They got up field and picked up positive yards."
The win improved the Cardinals to 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the league entering their open date next week before they play host to West Craven the following week. West Carteret fell to 5-3, 1-2 and will play host to Swansboro next week.
West Carteret coach Todd Nelson said the game was a tough one for his squad because JV quarterback Randall Graves made his first appearance under the Friday night lights. He replaced injured starter Rodney Mitchell.
"When you lose your starting quarterback and you're playing your JV quarterback, you can tell we weren't going to click right away," Nelson said.
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The Cardinals missed the PAT, but made up for it after another keeper from Sniders went in for six. They converted on a two-point attempt with a little over one minute left in the half to go up 14-0.
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Jacksonville 0 14 21 0 — 35
W. Carteret 0 0 0 14 — 14
Second Quarter
JHS – Sider 14 run (PAT No good), 6:14
JHS – Sider 7 run (two-point conversion by Linton good), 1:14
Third Quarter
JHS – Linton 1 run (Washington kick), 8:08
JHS – Adams 5 run (Washington kick), 7:26
JHS – Clark 10 pass from Adams (Washington kick), 5:24
Fourth Quarter
WC – Godette 14 run (Corbett kick), 7:56
WC – Patterson 11 fumble recovery (Corbett kick), :41
First downs 14 5
Rushes-yards 50-227 33-107
Passing 89 -1
Comp-Att-Int 6-8-0 1-7-0
Punts-Avg. 3-36.3 6-31.2
Fumbles-Lost 5-3 5-3
Penalties-Yards 5-41 1-5
RUSHING—JHS: Linton 15-99, Siders 9-43, Williams 5-26, Graham 4-32, Clark 5-24, Duncan 1-2, Allen 4-(-15), Adams, 3-14, Turner 1-5, Washington, 1-17, Jordan 2-13. WC: Freeman 5-62, Meadows 9-28, Godette 8-26, Johnson 6-18, Cox 2-0, Graves 3-(-27).
PASSING—JHS: Siders 4-6-0 72, Adams 2-2-0 17. WC: Graves 1-7-0 -1.
RECEIVING—JHS: Ellis 2-36, Linton 1-9, Clark 2-37, Dennis 1-7. WC: Johnson, 2-(1).


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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." — George Bernard Shaw
I've never spent much time researching my family tree. Once while slapping a genealogy project together for a school assignment, I did a little digging and found one interesting tidbit.
Apparently, a few generations back, a relative of mine in England — last name "Bonham" — took revenge on someone who wronged his family by sealing the guy up in a barrel and rolling it off the end of a pier.
To paraphrase Mark Frost, was this a case of vigilante justice or just clean country living? Aside from the fact I might be related to a famous English drummer, it gave me chills to realize I share some DNA with someone who killed a guy via Tupperware.
The funniest bit of family lore to come my way in a while involves one of my great uncles. Many of my great uncles have nicknames such as Duck or Pomp, but this story isn't about either of them. Seeing as this guy had an animal nickname, for our purposes, he will be referred to as "Uncle Squirrel."
Whenever the family killed hogs, Squirrel would be given some meat in exchange for helping out. Curiously, whenever Squirrel would go out to his smokehouse to select some meat to have with supper, he always chose the absolute highest quality specimen he could find. Most people would use the good meat for an average meal and save the great meat for a special occasion — but not Uncle Squirrel.
After a time, someone finally asked Uncle Squirrel why he always started with the best meat he had.
"I want to know I'm always eatin' the best I've got," was his reply to more than one relative. Uncle Squirrel always knew how to straddle that fine line between Zen and psychotic.
The most epic dose of Uncle Squirrel came when he decided to take his family to the Grand Ole Opry. At the time, it was a big deal to leave the county, so a trip to Nashville might as well have been a trip to the moon.
Having never been in a hotel before, Uncle Squirrel's family took to the then-new Holiday Inn like ducks to water. Being a hardworking family with a rural background, the air conditioning and swimming pool were considered true luxuries. It took the hotel manager 20 minutes to convince Uncle Squirrel's wife that she didn't have to clean the room herself.
The biggest revelation, however, was this thing called "room service." For people who grew up having to raise, plant, pick and kill whatever they ate, the idea of simply calling someone and having prepared food delivered to your room was astonishing. Not since he found out "Gunsmoke" wasn't a documentary had Uncle Squirrel been at such a loss for words.
For starters, Uncle Squirrel ordered a bowl of butter-pecan ice cream. A few minutes later, Aunt Squirrel ordered a tuna salad sandwich and a Pepsi. It got so good to them that eventually the kids ended up ordering one of everything on the menu just to see what everything looked like.
After seeing Loretta Lynn and Roy Acuff perform duets of "Hello Darlin', " "Louisiana Woman," "Mississippi Man" and "Cold Sweat" at the Grand Ole Opry, Uncle Squirrel and his family packed up the car and prepared to make the long trip back to Kinston. Uncle Squirrel turned in the key at the front desk and turned to go, only to be called back by the hotel manager.
"We need to settle on your bill," the manager said.
"No, I paid for the room in advance, you see," Squirrel said.
"Yes sir, you paid for the room in advance, but there's the matter of the $348 room service bill," the manager said.
When Squirrel came to, the manager explained that room service wasn't included in the cost of the room. Faced with a bill he couldn't pay and a family he needed to get back home, Squirrel knew what he had to to. He sold the car to pay off the room service bill and bought bus tickets to get his family back home.
For years, a cloud of mystery hung over the events that took place during that weekend in Nashville. Squirrel told everyone back home his car had been stolen. That story stuck until one of his children let slip at a Christmas gathering why her father always threw any trash that was in his truck into the local Holiday Inn parking lot, or why he insisted on stopping in to take advantage of their free continental breakfast even though he wasn't staying at the hotel.
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Under the special theory of relativity, a particle (that has mass) with subluminal velocity needs infinite energy to accelerate to the speed of light, although special relativity does not forbid the existence of particles that travel faster than light at all times (tachyons).
On the other hand, what some physicists refer to as "apparent" or "effective" FTL is the hypothesis that unusually distorted regions of spacetime might permit matter to reach distant locations faster than what it would take light in the "normal" route (though still moving subluminally through the distorted region).
Apparent FTL is not excluded by general relativity. Examples of apparent FTL proposals are the Alcubierre drive and the traversable wormhole, although the physical plausibility of these solutions is uncertain.
Outside of mainstream physics, others (often without traditional physics training) have speculated on mechanisms that might allow FTL travel to be achieved, often relying on new conjectures of physics of their own invention, but their ideas have not gained significant acceptance in the physics research community. Fictional depictions of superluminal travel and the mechanisms of achieving it are also a staple of the science fiction genre.
Neither of these phenomena violates special relativity or creates problems with causality, and thus neither qualifies as FTL as described here.
Albert Einstein elaborated that faster-than-light travel is impossible. Taking for granted the causality principle (causes happen before their consequences) this impossibility stems from the physical assumption that all physical phenomena satisfy, at any scale, the symmetries of the restricted Poincaré Group. This assumption has stood the test of time and has confirmed its efficiency with a high level of precision and reliability according to any presently known physics experiment.
The experimental determination has been made in vacuum. However, the vacuum we know is not the only possible vacuum which can exist. The vacuum has energy associated with it, called the vacuum energy. This vacuum energy can perhaps be changed in certain cases. When vacuum energy is lowered, light itself has been predicted to go faster than the standard value 'c'. This is known as the Scharnhorst effect. Such a vacuum can be produced by bringing two perfectly smooth metal plates together at near atomic diameter spacing. It is called a Casimir vacuum. Calculations imply that light will go faster in such a vacuum by a minuscule amount: a photon travelling between two plates that are 1 micrometer apart would increase the photon's speed by only about one part in 1036. Accordingly there has as yet been no experimental verification of the prediction. A recent analysis argued out that the Scharnhorst effect cannot be used to send information backwards in time with a single set of plates since the plates' rest frame would define a "preferred frame" for FTL signalling. However, with multiple pairs of plates in motion relative to one another the authors noted that they had no arguments that could "guarantee the total absence of causality violations", and invoked Hawking's speculative chronology protection conjecture which suggests that feedback loops of virtual particles would create "uncontrollable singularities in the renormalized quantum stress-energy" on the boundary of any potential time machine, and thus would require a theory of quantum gravity to fully analyze (with the hope that such a theory would guarantee the impossibility of a true time machine ever forming). Other authors argue that Scharnhorst's original analysis which seemed to show the possibility of faster-than-c signals involved approximations which may be incorrect, so that it is not clear whether this effect could actually increase signal speed at all.
The physicists Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, claim to have violated relativity experimentally by transmitting photons faster than the speed of light. They say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - relatively low energy packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3 ft apart, using a phenomenon known as quantum tunnelling. Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of." However, other physicists say that this phenomenon does not allow information to be transmitted faster than light. Aephraim Steinberg, a quantum optics expert at the University of Toronto, Canada, uses the analogy of a train traveling from Chicago to New York, but dropping off train cars at each station along the way, so that the center of the train moves forward at each stop; in this way, the center of the train exceeds the speed of any of the individual cars.
An important point to note is that in general relativity it is possible for objects to be moving apart faster than light because of the expansion of the universe, in some reasonable choice of cosmological coordinates. This is understood to be due to the expansion of the space between the objects, and general relativity still reduces to special relativity in a "local" sense, meaning that two objects passing each other in a small local region of spacetime cannot have a relative velocity greater than c, and will move more slowly than a light beam passing through the region. (See Option F below)
There are speculative theories that claim inertia is produced by the combined mass of the universe (e.g., Mach's principle), which implies that the rest frame of the universe might be preferred by conventional measurements of natural law. If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would (by definition) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine (much less construct) experiments to test this hypothesis.
This method of faster-than-light travel does not correspond to anything seriously proposed by mainstream science.
Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor University, and Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize that by manipulating the extra spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an extremely large amount of energy, it would create a "bubble" that could cause the ship to travel faster than the speed of light. To create this bubble, the physicists believe manipulating the 10th spatial dimension would alter the dark energy in three large spatial dimensions: height, width and length. Cleaver said positive dark energy is currently responsible for speeding up the expansion rate of our universe as time moves on, just like it did after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded much faster than the speed of light for a very brief time.
This is precisely what happens towards the center of a black hole; the incoming light becomes blue shifted past the planck length as it approaches the region of discontinuity within our universe. The argument is: if a black hole with finite mass can create such a discontinuity in the fabric of space and time, why would people be unable to do the same thing using a finite amount of energy and acceleration? (According to general relativity, the space-time distortions caused by gravity are fundamentally identical to space-time distortions caused simply by accelerating your reference frame).
General relativity also agrees that any technique for faster-than-light travel could also be used for time travel. This raises problems with causality. Many physicists believe that the above phenomena are in fact impossible, and that future theories of gravity will prohibit them. One theory states that stable wormholes are possible, but that any attempt to use a network of wormholes to violate causality would result in their decay. In string theory Eric Gimon and Petr Hořava have argued that in a supersymmetric five-dimensional Gödel universe quantum corrections to general relativity effectively cut off regions of spacetimes with causality-violating closed timelike curves. In particular, in the quantum theory a smeared supertube is present that cuts the spacetime in such a way that, although in the full spacetime a closed timelike curve passed through every point, no complete curves exist on the interior region bounded by the tube.
For example, two fast-moving particles approaching each other from opposite sides of a particle accelerator will appear to be moving at slightly less than twice the speed of light, relative to each other, from the point of view of an observer standing at rest relative to the accelerator. This correctly reflects the rate at which the distance between the two particles is decreasing, from the observer's point of view and is called the closing speed. However, it is not the same as the velocity of one of the particles as would be measured by a hypothetical fast-moving observer travelling alongside the other particle. To obtain this, the calculation must be done according to the principle of special relativity. If the two particles are moving at velocities v and -v, or expressed in units of c, and , where
The uncertainty principle implies that individual photons may travel for short distances at speeds somewhat faster (or slower) than c, even in a vacuum; this possibility must be taken into account when enumerating Feynman diagrams for a particle interaction. To quote Richard Feynman:
However, macroscopically these fluctuations average out, so that photons do travel in straight lines over long (i.e. non-quantum) distances, and they do travel at the speed of light on average. Therefore, this does not imply the possibility of superluminal information transmission.
There have been various reports in the popular press of experiments on faster-than-light transmission in optics — most often in the context of a kind of quantum tunneling phenomenon. Usually, such reports deal with a phase velocity or group velocity faster than the vacuum velocity of light. But, recall from above, that a superluminal phase velocity cannot be used for faster-than-light transmission of information. There has sometimes been confusion concerning the latter point.
Quantum teleportation transmits quantum information at whatever speed is used to transmit the same amount of classical information, likely the speed of light. This quantum information may theoretically be used in ways that classical information can not, such as in quantum computations involving quantum information only available to the recipient. In science fiction, quantum teleportation is either used as a basis for teleportation of physical objects at the speed of light, presumably preserving some important aspect of the entanglement between the particles of the object, or else is misrepresented as allowing faster-than-light communication.
The Hartman effect is the tunnelling effect through a barrier where the tunnelling time tends to a constant for large barriers. This was first described by Thomas Hartman in 1962. This could, for instance, be the gap between two prisms. When the prisms are in contact, the light passes straight through, but when there is a gap, the light is refracted. There is a finite probability that the photon will tunnel across the gap rather than follow the refracted path. For large gaps between the prisms the tunnelling time approaches a constant and thus the photons appear to have crossed with a superluminal speed.
However, an analysis by Herbert Winful from the University of Michigan suggests that the Hartman effect cannot actually be used to violate relativity by transmitting signals faster than c, because the tunnelling time "should not be linked to a velocity since evanescent waves do not propagate". Winful means by this that the photons crossing the barrier are virtual photons only existing in the interaction and could not be propagated into the outside world.
In physics, the Casimir effect or Casimir-Polder force is a physical force exerted between separate objects due to resonance of vacuum energy in the intervening space between the objects. This is sometimes described in terms of virtual particles interacting with the objects, due to the mathematical form of one possible way of calculating the strength of the effect. Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small. Energy appears suddenly as if it came from the vacuum. See Option B above for a discussion of whether or not this effect could actually be used to send signals faster than c or violate causality.
We can also quote the spectacular case of the thought experiment of Einstein, Podolski and Rosen (EPR paradox) which could be realized in experiments for the first time by Alain Aspect in 1981 and 1982. In this case, the measurement of the state on one of the quantum systems of an entangled pair forces the other system to be measured in the complementary state. Thus functions quantum teleportation.
An experiment performed in 1997 by Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva has demonstrated nonlocal quantum correlations between particles separated by over 10 kilometers. But as noted earlier, the nonlocal correlations seen in entanglement cannot actually be used to transmit classical information faster than light, so that relativistic causality is preserved; see no-communication theorem for further information.
Delayed choice quantum eraser (The experiment of Marlan Scully) is an alternative of the EPR paradox in which the observation or not of interference after the passage of a photon through a double slit experiment depends on the conditions of observation of a second photon entangled with the first. The characteristic of this experiment is that the observation of the second photon can take place at a later time than the observation of the first photon, which may give the impression that the measurement of the later photons "retroactively" determines whether the earlier photons show interference or not, although the interference pattern can only be seen by correlating the measurements of both members of every pair and so it can't be observed until both photons have been measured, ensuring that an experimenter watching only the photons going through the slit does not obtain information about the other photons in an FTL or backwards-in-time manner (see the delayed choice quantum eraser article for further information).
In conventional physics, the speed of light in a vacuum is assumed to be a constant. There exist theories which postulate that the speed of light is not a constant. The interpretation of this statement is as follows.
The speed of light is a dimensionful quantity and so, as has been emphasized in this context by João Magueijo, it cannot be measured. Measurable quantities in physics are, without exception, dimensionless, although they are often constructed as ratios of dimensional quantities. For example, when you measure the height of a mountain you really measure the ratio of its height to the length of a meterstick. The conventional SI system of units is based on seven basic dimensional quantities, namely distance, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity. These units are defined to be independent and so cannot be described in terms of each other. As an alternative to using a particular system of units, one can reduce all measurements to dimensionless quantities expressed in terms of ratios between the quantities being measured and various fundamental constants such as Newton's constant, the speed of light and Planck's constant; physicists can define at least 26 dimensionless constants which can be expressed in terms of these sorts of ratios and which are currently thought to be independent of one another. By manipulating the basic dimensional constants one can also construct the Planck time, Planck length and Planck energy which make a good system of units for expressing dimensional measurements, known as Planck units.
Magueijo's proposal used a different set of units, a choice which he justifies with the claim that some equations will be simpler in these new units. In the new units he fixes the fine structure constant, a quantity which some people, using units in which the speed of light is fixed, have claimed is time dependent. Thus in the system of units in which the fine structure constant is fixed, the observational claim is that the speed of light is time-dependent.
While it may be mathematically possible to construct such a system, it is not clear what additional explanatory power or physical insight such a system would provide, assuming that it does indeed accord with existing empirical data.


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Beau Williams doesn't seem too interested in it.
But while
"Last year I thought we played real well defensively, but offensively we didn't play as good," Williams said. "We got a big interception we returned for a touchdown last year. Our defense just played real well. The first year we beat them, we got lucky with a blocked PAT in the last minute."
Southwest coach Phil Padgett said it was the little things that doomed the Stallions against JHS. Southwest's loss to the Cardinals last year was its only blemish in a season in which they won the NCHSAA 1-AA title.
"First of all, it was poor coaching by coach Padgett," Padgett said. "After that, we had a couple of big fumbles, and two years ago we had a fake punt that nobody called. You just can't do things like that.
Padgett is expecting another tough effort from
However, both teams might not be at full strength. Southwest senior running back DaMonta Winbush sprained his right ankle last week during a scrimmage while
Both coaches have been hesitant to divulge much detail about their standouts' injuries other than that they were day-to-day.
"We will just see," Padgett said. "He (Winbush) gives us toughness and we will have to find someone else to step up to the plate."
And as for Siders?
"We just don't know yet," Williams said.
Still, Padgett knows the Cardinals are good no matter who plays quarterback.
"This is the best
Williams said the Cardinals "look forward" to playing the Stallions, who moved back up to 2-A following statewide realignment.
"Coach Padgett does a great job with his program. He always has and always will, and they are always going to be tough," Williams said. "If we are lucky enough to get them, I think it would be a good win. We want to find out what we can do."
Padgett and Williams have done their homework. They understand on paper what can make the other team dangerous.
The Cardinals' line is anchored by senior left tackle Nathan McConnell, who recently committed to Elon, although he can back out of it if a better offer comes his way.
Conversely, Williams is impressed with the Stallions' skill players, highlighted by senior receiver J'Veon Walker, who is being recruited by several NCAA Division I programs.
"They got real good skill players who are real quick," Williams said. "We have got to keep them under control as much as we can. You miss a tackle with one of those guys, they are going to take it to the house. We have to make sure we tackle well. It will be a wait-and-see thing on what Southwest does."
And when gametime comes, both coaches hope their teams are ready. They both know starting the season off with a victory is important as they prepare for their difficult conferences. JHS is in the Coastal 3-A Conference, which features two-time defending state 3-A champion
"It's very important for us because everybody wants to start off 1-0," Williams said. "That's the biggest thing we are trying to do."
Meanwhile, Southwest looks to prepare for play in the East Central 2-A Conference, which includes Northside and
"Honestly, my goal in the nonconference season this year, and this is the truth, is getting us prepared for 2-A foes," Padgett said. "
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But, Sam Harris is careful to distinguish between what is almost certain (that our personal consciousness is a manifestation of brain function and doesn't survive bodily death), and what is a remote possibility that cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand (conscious properties may not be completely reducible to physical forces).
I, for one, think Sam's synapses are misfiring. Hope he's still oriented to person, time and place. I've heard Wiccans call thought and imagination magical for the same reason as described in his excerpt (was that wave of the hand or wave of the wand?). Scientists are studying how genes may pass on certain propensities for specific behaviors which may or may not manifest themselves, but that is not thought or consciousness. He should stick to the areas of Perception, Memory and the Physical Structure of the Brain. One electron a thought does not make, ask any advanced Alzeimer's patient.
This isn't about thoughts, it's a question of whether there are fundamental properties of consciousness that cannot be reduced to materialistic explanations such as emergence. Sam Harris is taking the proper approach that the question cannot be answered one way or the other at the present time, and dogmatic physicalists such as Daniel Dennett, dismiss questions of property dualism without any consideration. Dennett answers David Chalmers's question of whether a zombie could imitate true sentience by offering up that the zombie is impossible and would have to possess subjective experiences before having the appearance of consciousness.
I beg to differ, consciousness is about thoughts. Awareness involves thoughts (eg, orientation to person, time and place). There are levels of thought or awareness. Some are readily available (full consciousness). There are some thoughts that are subconscious (just below the surface of consciousness that are not as readily accessible, but are availble for recall. And there is unconscious awareness, buried deeper and not so easily accessible which may come to the surface by any number of stimuli such as trauma, sensory perception stimuli such as smells, colors, etc. From a laypersons perspective, it would seem that this capacity for awareness would still utilize the same mechanisms of the brain, perception and memory, and the physical processes (eg, human body, brain tissue, blood, oxygen, neurotransmitters, and all the other stuff that lets stimuli in, sends impulses through certain neuro pathways, and stimulates specific functioning parts of the brain. Thus IMO, perception and memory are , besides the physical aspects of how the human brain works, two of the main contributers to consciousness. I'm not sure what you mean by emergence in this sense, nor the concept of property dualism.
So, instead of suggesting that examples of feeling someone is about to call which they do, are due to some mystical energy ( superconsciousness, telepathy) that performs without the neccessary physical structures in place, is like arriving to the conclusion that everything is so complex that it must be by intelligent design. The physical world is complex ... only to humans, only because we're aware of it (ie, thinking of it, discovering it and labeling it). The feeling of someone calling could be triggered by any number of rational things, such as unconscious stimuli: you heard something, saw something, smelled something that unconsciously reminded you of the person, including time span between contacts. Also, irrational thinkers are too quick to dismiss the idea of chance and coincidence.
Dennett's position is based on personal belief formed by his approach to understanding the world, just as much as Chalmers's belief that qualia cannot be reduced to physical explanations, is formed around a fundamental personal belief that there must be something more to consciousness. Right now, Harris's more modest approach of leaving the question open until consciousness can be better understood, is a better approach to take.
I think this would be good place to give a shout-out for one of my favourite podcasts: The Brain Science Podcast by Dr. Ginger Campbell. Episode 43 features an interview with Neurologist Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not. Burton presents a good case that our beliefs and feelings of certainty are mental sensations, and not a higher level rationalization process to confirm evidence or knowledge. Burton's approach would advise taking a more modest approach to when we feel that we have the right answers and everyone else is wrong. Some people, even those who think they are 100% rational and capable of evaluating the truth, have too high an opinion of their own wisdom.
This is nothing profound or new. Even eastern philosophies recognize that there is a dangerous phase (of arrogance)following a mystical experience whereby the inflation of and identity with the virtues of omniscience and omnipotence must be realized as a subtle form of self-delusion. An anorexic is convinced she is right that she is obese when she is emaciated. So Burton's case of feelings of certainty not being a higher level rationalization process may be only correct in certain instances, or case by case.
I am all for investigating consciousness. But has his approach found evidence to suggest that consciousness (thought, awareness) is supernatural (continues beyond death)?
What exactly has been discovered that allows for the remotest chance that consciousness is not reduced to materialism, keeping in mind that even brainwaves are materialistic? Also, we read general media reports on science in the paper, and I've seen periodic panels on the Charlie Rose show of leading scientists involved in the most current and advanced investigation into the workings of the brain, not one has mentioned this as an area of serious interest.


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NBA commissioner Adam Silver made history Tuesday by banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life from any association with the team or the NBA.
Silver's landmark move was punishment for racist remarks made by Sterling and caught on tape by his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, last weekend. Sterling also was fined $2.5 million by the NBA for his comments.
The swift justice brought to Sterling wasn't the first time a professional sports figure has been forced to step away for life. Just two years ago, decorated cyclist Lance Armstrong was banned for life from his sport by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for his illegal use of performance-enhancing drugs.
In the wake of Sterling's ban, we look back at the five most notable lifetime bans in pro sports.
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Thuringia is one of the centres of European cultural and intellectual history, closely associated with the work of great and clever minds. Bach, Goethe, Schiller, Liszt, Cranach, Dix, Feininger, Gropius, Fröbel, Nietzsche, Zeiss and many others have left their mark here and lend the state its distinctive character up to the present day. There are also numerous monasteries and churches which bear authentic witness to Martin Luther, the Great Reformer, and his work. He studied and lived as a monk in Erfurt, preached i.e. in Schmalkalden and last but not least translated the New Testament into German at Wartburg Castle Eisenach. Thuringia will be a central venue for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
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American actor Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957). (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images)
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American singer and folk musician Woody Guthrie (1912 - 1967).
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BEULAVILLE — East Duplin got the late score it wanted and then got the last-second defensive stop it needed to defeat Clinton on Friday night.
The Panthers got a 3-yard touchdown run with 2:41 left from Dijon Poole, and East Duplin denied the Dark Horses near the goal line in the waning seconds in a 21-14 victory over Clinton.
The Panthers have not lost to the Dark Horses since a 27-21 overtime decision in 2005. The latest victory over Clinton kept East Duplin (8-1, 5-0 East Central 2-A Conference) in a first-place tie with Northside in the conference heading into next week's home game with Swansboro.
"This means a lot because most people didn't expect us to be very good," said East Duplin senior linebacker Blake Tanner, who had a key sack on Clinton's final drive.
The Dark Horses (4-5, 2-3), meanwhile, fell just short in their upset bid, and now will prepare for next week's game at undefeated Northside. Clinton lost 44-20 to East Duplin last year.
"I'll be honest with you, we haven't played an easy game all year," East Duplin coach Battle Holley said.
It sure wasn't easy for the Panthers, but they found a way, thanks to its late defensive stand and Poole's game-winning touchdown.
After Poole scored to give East Duplin a 21-14 lead, Clinton took the ball from its own 42-yard line and reached the Panthers' 4 with 38 seconds left.
However, Tanner sacked Clinton quarterback Greg Smith for a loss of five yards on third down and goal.
"We had a blitz called and I just saw him (Smith) there," Tanner said. "We put pressure and I got to him."
The Dark Horses rushed back to the line without any timeouts. On fourth down, Smith rolled to his right and threw an incomplete pass in the end zone.
The Panthers kneeled down to end the game.
"They (East Duplin's defense) stepped up there when they had to," Holley said. "It was bend, but don't break."
Holley was certainly happy his team denied Clinton from scoring a touchdown, given he knew what was going to happen next.
"I knew if they score they would go for two," he said.
But the Dark Horses didn't, meaning Poole's 3-yard touchdown run with 2:41 left proved the difference. Poole found the end zone on first and goal after taking the handoff and darting toward the right side.
"It (the play) was '128 speed,'" Poole said. "We had been getting yards on it all night. So coach thought it was a good play to run."
This score capped a 42-yard, 7-play drive that took 3:01 off the clock and followed a Clinton punt. Poole, a senior, had three carries for 23 yards while junior Monquel Baker added 19 yards on four runs on the drive.
"I got in the huddle and I told them (teammates) that we would score," Poole said. "We just did what we had to do to get in the end zone. We were nervous, but we had confidence in ourselves."
Prior to the game-winning touchdown, Baker gave the Panthers a first down on a 3-yard run to the Clinton 3. Baker finished with 98 yards rushing and a touchdown on 25 carries.
"Monquel is starting to turn it on a little bit and start running like he did last year when we called him up from the JV," Holley said. "That's going to be a plus for us. We want him to be that bruiser back and get those tough yards."
Poole ended with 160 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns on 19 carries. He gave the Panthers a 14-7 lead in the second quarter on a 78-yard touchdown run.
Yet the Dark Horses tied the game with 40 seconds left in the second quarter when Smith threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Shian Bradshaw.
While East Duplin's defense struggled at times defending the pass — Smith completed 12 of 25 passes for 158 yards and 2 touchdowns — the Panthers held back Clinton in the fourth quarter.
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East Duplin 7 7 0 7 — 21
First Quarter
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Rushes-yards 31-30 53-275
Passing 158 58
Comp-Att-Int 12-25-0 2-5-1
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1
Penalties-Yards 7-50 4-40
Punts 5-35.0 2-36
RUSHING—C: Jacobs 4-0, Stevens 12-43, Smith 5-(-22), Bryant 8-(-2), Graham 2-11. E: Mo. Baker 25-98, Poole 19-160, Huffin 2-18, Ma. Baker 3-(-18), Laporte 2-16, Stallings 1-3, TEAM 1-(-2).
PASSING—C: Smith 12-25-0-158. E: Ma. Baker 2-5-1-58.
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French coach Marc Lievremont named the same 22 that played England in the quarter-final, 20 of whom played a role in the 37-17 defeat against the All Blacks.
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